Magical Girl Monster Quest
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boo600
Ego sum egredietur tempestas.
- Location
- Texas
- Pronouns
- He/Him/Hungry
One: No comment on the theme song?
Two: While I like the invisitext for the locket, and it really does need a use... I'm not really comfortable with the idea that the Rings sent us with the knowledge of our True Potential/Power. The Locket could be made to control us, for instance.
Maybe clothes- it would fit with the defensive theme, which seems less antagonist-ey. Or the sword, to make it seem like we got our powers unlocked by the item, and also to shore up our defense.
More arguments for any of the items?
- Location
- Pittsburgh PA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Your locket – You decided to try enhancing your locket on a whim. Surely it must serve some purpose, for you to be assigned so random an item. You can safely say you were not expecting the result you got out of it. (Focus: Versatility)
028 - The greatest gift of all
- Location
- [REDACTED]
[X] Locket
Doing things with your power is an exercise in frustration. Whatever you try to force it at, it actively retreats from. You can push it into yourself with relative ease, but surprisingly, that doesn't actually enhance you further – rather, it seems to make you glowier. It likely means that your body has reached its maximum capacity and excess energy is being vented in the form of light. Trying to push it into objects on your person or objects you are familiar with it is like pushing a boulder uphill barehanded. (You would know.) It's frustrating and difficult, requiring constant concentration and significant effort, and the slightest slip sees all your efforts put to naught.
It's very nostalgic. And rather enjoyable, if you do say so yourself.
But for all the enjoyment you derive from this exercise, you make very little progress, much to your disappointment. Oh, you make some important discoveries, to be sure. You figure out how to turn down your glowiness, or, if necessary, to turn it up, so you can either blend in as a king should not, or turn yourself into an improvised flashbang. You find that it's easier to affect items on your person or items that you have associated with for long enough that you identify them as yours. But you simply can't get any novel uses out of it, nor can you force it to conform to your will, as you know it ought. It's remarkably infuriating.
And yet, despite that, you can't help but enjoy yourself. It's been too long since you've been faced with what should, by any reasonable measure be an impossible task. Now, all you have to do is go ahead an accomplish it.
Which, yes, is easier said than done, but you've had worse before. Your completely insane and utterly psychotic madwoman of a teacher-
You pause, and take a quick look around the area to make sure that she's not in the vicinity and so unlikely to have heard you somehow.
Your completely insane and utterly psychotic madwoman of a teacher seems to think that the best way to train you is to shove you into situations where you either adapt or you suffer. Or to shove you into situations where you adapt as you suffer. Or situations where you just suffer. 'Oh, need to train your dexterity? Perfect, I need to practice my marksmanship anyways.' 'Working on your swordsmanship? Hey Wrath, my apprentice wants a duel.' 'Ah, endurance training? Excellent, let's reenact the history of the Circle, starting from the Salem Witch Trials.'
Utterly. Insane.
You sigh and lean back against one of the supporting pillars of the warehouse, reminiscencing. For all that you hate to admit it, you really are fond of her. Most of the Circle you'd happily murder yourself – a natural consequence of all the backstabbing and politicking that happens behind the scene. Your teacher, though, has always dealt with you fairly and honestly, and has done her best to see you able to fulfill your ambitions while still acting in the interests of the Circle and its Master.
When you take over the world, she's either going to be one of your most trusted and competent generals, or you'll be walking over her corpse.
In all honesty, you rather look forward to either eventuality.
You sit back and close your eyes, exhaling softly as you recall all the days you spent under your teacher's tutelage. That woman, for all her faults and flaws, has been one of the best things to happen to you, and you really are, as loathe as you are to admit it, grateful to her. As the sun slides out from behind a cloud, you muse idly on what she's up to now. Probably tormenting someone else, now that-
Wait. Sun? You're indoors.
Your eyes snap open even as you draw on your power to hopefully shield yourself. And then stop.
Because your locket is floating in front of you, a broken chain still dangling from it. And glowing a remarkably familiar shade of gold. And your power is draining out of you at a remarkable rate even as it replenishes itself from some unknown reservoir. You can feel that you could stop your power, but this is the most active it's been in the entire time you've had it. And really, why would you bother? This promises to be entertaining.
As you watch, your locket begins bubbling, and a sphere of gold coalesces around it, before deforming into a humanoid shape, female, somewhat taller than you, with, oddly enough, orange veins marking a pattern along its or her skin. The gold then darkens in color until it once more resembles the metal of your locket. Finally, your former locket opens its eyes, and looks deeply at you.
"Progenitor," it complains in a remarkably melodious voice, "I hunger."
Then it springs forward and launches itself at you. Seeing this, you naturally draw up your Pride, so as to not be eaten, at which point your creation drapes itself all over your supine form like some sort of metallic and oddly shaped blanket, buries its remarkably cold face in your skin, and starts purring like a cat. A fat one.
"Progenitor," it announces in a disturbingly chipper tone, "You are delicious."
What?
"What?" you inquire blankly.
"While I have very little material for comparison, Progenitor," Your creation explains, "I am certain that relative to any other sinner, your Pride is the most appetizing, the most delicious, the most filling!"
"What." You reiterate. "No. Explain."
She tilts her head in bewilderment. "Progenitor, I function by absorbing the energy emitted from human Sin. As your creation, the Sin from which I draw most effectively is Pride, which you possess greatly in both quality and quantity. My other functions include self-enhancement by use of that same energy, as well as projection of that energy in simple shapes."
You frown. "So, I created you, you feed off Sin, you use that Sin to survive and do things, such as boost yourself and make shapes."
"Precisely, Progenitor!" She chirps, her good cheer apparently restored.
"In that case," you muse, "how about a physical demonstration?"
The end results of your examination are simultaneously encouraging and rather depressing. Your creation is tougher and stronger than you. However, you are markedly faster, and it lacks your combat training, which visibly hampers it. You can also imbue it with either your Pride or your golden energy to enhance it. Finally, it can create simple shapes out of that energy, but needs to focus, which it has no time for while fighting. Altogether, while it is a potent combatant, it focuses more on endurance and survival rather than any capacity to eliminate the opponent. Nonetheless, it is a potent asset, and you have once more confirmed your suspicion that yes, your master does indeed give the best gifts.
That said, you do need to figure out what to do with your…golem? Homunculus? Whatever it is. She is.
[] See if you can get her installed as a new student at school and have her follow you.
[] Leave her at home.
[] Have her wander around town searching for something.
-[] What?
[] Tell her to go and do whatever she wants.
[] Write-in
And of course, you can't just keep calling her "Hey, you." What will you name her?
[] Locke
[] Penna
[] Lace
[] Write-in
QM: I'd love to be able to respond to this thread reliably and consistently. Unfortunately, I'm currently visiting family in the middle of literal nowhere, and I get access to the wider world about twice a week.
Doing things with your power is an exercise in frustration. Whatever you try to force it at, it actively retreats from. You can push it into yourself with relative ease, but surprisingly, that doesn't actually enhance you further – rather, it seems to make you glowier. It likely means that your body has reached its maximum capacity and excess energy is being vented in the form of light. Trying to push it into objects on your person or objects you are familiar with it is like pushing a boulder uphill barehanded. (You would know.) It's frustrating and difficult, requiring constant concentration and significant effort, and the slightest slip sees all your efforts put to naught.
It's very nostalgic. And rather enjoyable, if you do say so yourself.
But for all the enjoyment you derive from this exercise, you make very little progress, much to your disappointment. Oh, you make some important discoveries, to be sure. You figure out how to turn down your glowiness, or, if necessary, to turn it up, so you can either blend in as a king should not, or turn yourself into an improvised flashbang. You find that it's easier to affect items on your person or items that you have associated with for long enough that you identify them as yours. But you simply can't get any novel uses out of it, nor can you force it to conform to your will, as you know it ought. It's remarkably infuriating.
And yet, despite that, you can't help but enjoy yourself. It's been too long since you've been faced with what should, by any reasonable measure be an impossible task. Now, all you have to do is go ahead an accomplish it.
Which, yes, is easier said than done, but you've had worse before. Your completely insane and utterly psychotic madwoman of a teacher-
You pause, and take a quick look around the area to make sure that she's not in the vicinity and so unlikely to have heard you somehow.
Your completely insane and utterly psychotic madwoman of a teacher seems to think that the best way to train you is to shove you into situations where you either adapt or you suffer. Or to shove you into situations where you adapt as you suffer. Or situations where you just suffer. 'Oh, need to train your dexterity? Perfect, I need to practice my marksmanship anyways.' 'Working on your swordsmanship? Hey Wrath, my apprentice wants a duel.' 'Ah, endurance training? Excellent, let's reenact the history of the Circle, starting from the Salem Witch Trials.'
Utterly. Insane.
You sigh and lean back against one of the supporting pillars of the warehouse, reminiscencing. For all that you hate to admit it, you really are fond of her. Most of the Circle you'd happily murder yourself – a natural consequence of all the backstabbing and politicking that happens behind the scene. Your teacher, though, has always dealt with you fairly and honestly, and has done her best to see you able to fulfill your ambitions while still acting in the interests of the Circle and its Master.
When you take over the world, she's either going to be one of your most trusted and competent generals, or you'll be walking over her corpse.
In all honesty, you rather look forward to either eventuality.
You sit back and close your eyes, exhaling softly as you recall all the days you spent under your teacher's tutelage. That woman, for all her faults and flaws, has been one of the best things to happen to you, and you really are, as loathe as you are to admit it, grateful to her. As the sun slides out from behind a cloud, you muse idly on what she's up to now. Probably tormenting someone else, now that-
Wait. Sun? You're indoors.
Your eyes snap open even as you draw on your power to hopefully shield yourself. And then stop.
Because your locket is floating in front of you, a broken chain still dangling from it. And glowing a remarkably familiar shade of gold. And your power is draining out of you at a remarkable rate even as it replenishes itself from some unknown reservoir. You can feel that you could stop your power, but this is the most active it's been in the entire time you've had it. And really, why would you bother? This promises to be entertaining.
As you watch, your locket begins bubbling, and a sphere of gold coalesces around it, before deforming into a humanoid shape, female, somewhat taller than you, with, oddly enough, orange veins marking a pattern along its or her skin. The gold then darkens in color until it once more resembles the metal of your locket. Finally, your former locket opens its eyes, and looks deeply at you.
Then it springs forward and launches itself at you. Seeing this, you naturally draw up your Pride, so as to not be eaten, at which point your creation drapes itself all over your supine form like some sort of metallic and oddly shaped blanket, buries its remarkably cold face in your skin, and starts purring like a cat. A fat one.
"Progenitor," it announces in a disturbingly chipper tone, "You are delicious."
What?
"What?" you inquire blankly.
"While I have very little material for comparison, Progenitor," Your creation explains, "I am certain that relative to any other sinner, your Pride is the most appetizing, the most delicious, the most filling!"
"What." You reiterate. "No. Explain."
She tilts her head in bewilderment. "Progenitor, I function by absorbing the energy emitted from human Sin. As your creation, the Sin from which I draw most effectively is Pride, which you possess greatly in both quality and quantity. My other functions include self-enhancement by use of that same energy, as well as projection of that energy in simple shapes."
You frown. "So, I created you, you feed off Sin, you use that Sin to survive and do things, such as boost yourself and make shapes."
"Precisely, Progenitor!" She chirps, her good cheer apparently restored.
"In that case," you muse, "how about a physical demonstration?"
The end results of your examination are simultaneously encouraging and rather depressing. Your creation is tougher and stronger than you. However, you are markedly faster, and it lacks your combat training, which visibly hampers it. You can also imbue it with either your Pride or your golden energy to enhance it. Finally, it can create simple shapes out of that energy, but needs to focus, which it has no time for while fighting. Altogether, while it is a potent combatant, it focuses more on endurance and survival rather than any capacity to eliminate the opponent. Nonetheless, it is a potent asset, and you have once more confirmed your suspicion that yes, your master does indeed give the best gifts.
That said, you do need to figure out what to do with your…golem? Homunculus? Whatever it is. She is.
[] See if you can get her installed as a new student at school and have her follow you.
[] Leave her at home.
[] Have her wander around town searching for something.
-[] What?
[] Tell her to go and do whatever she wants.
[] Write-in
And of course, you can't just keep calling her "Hey, you." What will you name her?
[] Locke
[] Penna
[] Lace
[] Write-in
QM: I'd love to be able to respond to this thread reliably and consistently. Unfortunately, I'm currently visiting family in the middle of literal nowhere, and I get access to the wider world about twice a week.
ABalloonyChaos
Drifts wherever the wind may take me.
- Location
- USA, up in the air.
Hello a little late right now but going put a vote down now. While []See if you can get her installed as a new student at school and have her follow you. would be potently hilarious 
it might be a bit too "on the nose" even for this crazy Japan school. I mean how could we even possibly turn this into making any sort of sense for anyone else (preferably to our benefit too)? The only plausible way I can think of is to go full deadpan and tell the school " hey, over the weekend I just randomly built a robot that is sentient and may be somewhat magical, if the glowing orange stuff is any indication, due to my shear Magnificence. So I was wondering if I could enroll her for education, this is Japan you normally do have robot students every now and then right?"
Things I should point out , if they weren't obvious enough, we do not have a background or reputation were suddenly having a robot is something will appear likely or possible for us. We do have charm and wit but we would need GOD levels of this to smooth every thing out as it stands.
Another thing I would like to bring up is just having a robot? golem? Homunculus? Whatever she is, will most likely attract trouble from whatever groups naturally opposed to Haemonculus ,and may antagonize the faction/whoever is actually using Haemonculus as well. so I think we should keep her close but unseen for now until the benefits out weigh the risks involved. She is still somewhat "newborn and clumsy" given the narrative right now, should be fixed with time. If anyone finds out about her there will be questions, and more questions, and questions that we can't or is dangerous for us to answer.
so vote
[X] Leave her at home.
- [X] Have her guard the apartment while you are away or asleep. Also dose she need to sleep or rest?
- [X] Can she cook and clean too? It would be incredibly useful while also letting her get better at some finer movements in way that won't likely cause property damage.
[X] Locke
Its a play on locket right or different pronunciation ?
it might be a bit too "on the nose" even for this crazy Japan school. I mean how could we even possibly turn this into making any sort of sense for anyone else (preferably to our benefit too)? The only plausible way I can think of is to go full deadpan and tell the school " hey, over the weekend I just randomly built a robot that is sentient and may be somewhat magical, if the glowing orange stuff is any indication, due to my shear Magnificence. So I was wondering if I could enroll her for education, this is Japan you normally do have robot students every now and then right?" Things I should point out , if they weren't obvious enough, we do not have a background or reputation were suddenly having a robot is something will appear likely or possible for us. We do have charm and wit but we would need GOD levels of this to smooth every thing out as it stands.Another thing I would like to bring up is just having a robot? golem? Homunculus? Whatever she is, will most likely attract trouble from whatever groups naturally opposed to Haemonculus ,and may antagonize the faction/whoever is actually using Haemonculus as well. so I think we should keep her close but unseen for now until the benefits out weigh the risks involved. She is still somewhat "newborn and clumsy" given the narrative right now, should be fixed with time. If anyone finds out about her there will be questions, and more questions, and questions that we can't or is dangerous for us to answer.
so vote
[X] Leave her at home.
- [X] Have her guard the apartment while you are away or asleep. Also dose she need to sleep or rest?
- [X] Can she cook and clean too? It would be incredibly useful while also letting her get better at some finer movements in way that won't likely cause property damage.
[X] Locke
Its a play on locket right or different pronunciation ?
[x] Leave her at home
[x] Locke
[x] Locke
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
So it'd work out just fine, you're saying?
[X] See if you can get her installed as a new student at school and have her follow you.
[X] Locke
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
[x] Leave her at home
[x] Locke
[x] Locke
ABalloonyChaos
Drifts wherever the wind may take me.
- Location
- USA, up in the air.
No, a far as actual stats go we rank c~d is for stuff or at peak human level. I take that to mean that we mach or out reason/ seduce most people who are not magically protected ,but it will still be tough/impossible challenge to face the non-human we will likely come across; such as lawyers, bureaucrats, lizard people in disguise, and that really boring math teacher who gone soul has been sucked out from being a boring math teacher too long.
You can fool some people some of time, but you try get something bast a bunch of bureaucrats you
with a lot of red tape. Some guy probably said something like that.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
No, the joke was Pride. We'd be fine because of course we'd be fine, we're just that awesome.No, a far as actual stats go we rank c~d is for stuff or at peak human level. I take that to mean that we mach or out reason/ seduce most people who are not magically protected ,but it will still be tough/impossible challenge to face the non-human we will likely come across; such as lawyers, bureaucrats, lizard people in disguise, and that really boring math teacher who gone soul has been sucked out from being a boring math teacher too long.
You can fool some people some of time, but you try get something bast a bunch of bureaucrats you
ChildishChimera
A umbran summon
- Location
- New York
[x] See if you can get her installed as a new student at school and have her follow you.
[x] Locke
[x] Locke
boo600
Ego sum egredietur tempestas.
- Location
- Texas
- Pronouns
- He/Him/Hungry
"You pause, and take a quick look around the area to make sure that she's not in the vicinity and so unlikely to have heard you somehow."
Either Victor is talking out loud, or his teacher could read minds.
Also, MINION!
[X] Leave her at home.
- [X] Have her guard the apartment while you are away or asleep. Also does she need to sleep or rest?
We need to find this out. Also, more importantly, she "feeds" off of our Pride? How long can she go without feeding? How much more efficient is feeding off of us compared to other Prideful people, or other Sinners? How does not feeding affect her (does she weaken over time, or just go on and eventually stop, like a battery? Does she start losing memories or something? Can she tell if she is about to power down, or how long she has left [or what percentage she is at?]) Could we use her to hunt the Kagemusha? Maybe free up Kaho? Can she become permanently stronger if we feed enough of our Pride (or other Sin) to her at once? Would that increase her need for Pride or standard Sin? Could she gain new abilities? Is there any way possible that we could train her mind-to-mind?
Also, while she isn't as likely to die as the skeleton warriors the teeth could raise, I STILL would have loved to have gotten those. Can she make more of her? Or is she complex, like a robot? Also, could we get HER a gun? Nothing fancy; just a small portable cannon to increase her lethality. If she can make her torso "molten/liquid-metal"-ey, then can she hide it there?
- [X] Can she cook and clean too? It would be incredibly useful while also letting her get better at some finer movements in way that won't likely cause property damage.
She needs basic training.
- [X] Ask questions: "What do you know about your capabilities? What do you remember?" Ask questions about capabilities (as noted above; we can pick and choose once we find out what she knows about her capabilities.)
[X] Locke
Either Victor is talking out loud, or his teacher could read minds.
Also, MINION!
[X] Leave her at home.
- [X] Have her guard the apartment while you are away or asleep. Also does she need to sleep or rest?
We need to find this out. Also, more importantly, she "feeds" off of our Pride? How long can she go without feeding? How much more efficient is feeding off of us compared to other Prideful people, or other Sinners? How does not feeding affect her (does she weaken over time, or just go on and eventually stop, like a battery? Does she start losing memories or something? Can she tell if she is about to power down, or how long she has left [or what percentage she is at?]) Could we use her to hunt the Kagemusha? Maybe free up Kaho? Can she become permanently stronger if we feed enough of our Pride (or other Sin) to her at once? Would that increase her need for Pride or standard Sin? Could she gain new abilities? Is there any way possible that we could train her mind-to-mind?
Also, while she isn't as likely to die as the skeleton warriors the teeth could raise, I STILL would have loved to have gotten those. Can she make more of her? Or is she complex, like a robot? Also, could we get HER a gun? Nothing fancy; just a small portable cannon to increase her lethality. If she can make her torso "molten/liquid-metal"-ey, then can she hide it there?
- [X] Can she cook and clean too? It would be incredibly useful while also letting her get better at some finer movements in way that won't likely cause property damage.
She needs basic training.
- [X] Ask questions: "What do you know about your capabilities? What do you remember?" Ask questions about capabilities (as noted above; we can pick and choose once we find out what she knows about her capabilities.)
[X] Locke
- Location
- [REDACTED]
Locket
Penndant (technically misspelled, yes)
NeckLace
I can't name things.
This is actually remarkably insightful, and not just in a humorous sense. Victor is a very unreliable narrator. Everything he says or does is heavily shaded by his Sin, and has been ever since you picked Pride.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Our superpower is to be so full of ourselves we're not even wrong.
[x] See if you can get her installed as a new student at school and have her follow you.
[x] Locke
[x] Locke
[X] Leave her at home.
- [X] Have her guard the apartment while you are away or asleep. Also dose she need to sleep or rest?
- [X] Can she cook and clean too? It would be incredibly useful while also letting her get better at some finer movements in way that won't likely cause property damage.
[X] Locke
Our School has enough weird Students.
- [X] Have her guard the apartment while you are away or asleep. Also dose she need to sleep or rest?
- [X] Can she cook and clean too? It would be incredibly useful while also letting her get better at some finer movements in way that won't likely cause property damage.
[X] Locke
Our School has enough weird Students.
- Location
- [REDACTED]
Well, I just got back from Africa, which has been an adventure. The update, unfortunately, has been slightly delayed by virtue of me being distracted trying to turn this hodgepodge of theoretically functional nonsense into an actually viable RPG system. The next update will almost certainly be on August 22nd, as submissions for the RPG contest are due August 21st.
In short, cloudy, but sun expected in the future.