Magical Girl Quest - The Fire That Burns

[X] Tell them that Gaia took you.
-[X] get something to write with immedietly. Write down everything you can remember about your vision. Let your boss know.
 
[X] Tell them that Gaia took you.
-[X] get something to write with immedietly. Write down everything you can remember about your vision. Let your boss know.
 
[X] Tell them that Gaia took you.
-[X] You noticed her watching you, and called her a pervert. Then she kidnapped you and cuddled you for a week. You're not sure what to make of this.
 
[X] Tell them that Gaia took you.
-[X] You noticed her watching you, and called her a pervert. Then she kidnapped you and cuddled you for a week. You're not sure what to make of this.
-[X] get something to write with immedietly. Write down everything you can remember about your vision. Let your boss know.


Maybe the best of both worlds?
 
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I've decided to do a simplified translation for y'all.
Eventually, there is a shifting, a crack in your little world. It grows, spreading across everything until it halts, frozen in place.

The gentle humming returns, and the cracks slowly recede, creeping backwards until they are completely gone.

The soft little tune reverberates through everything and nothing, gently coaxing you forwards and nowhere. You follow it and remain still, letting it guide you.

You pass a tiny crack, impossible to see, but still knowing it is there. Your guide draws you around it, the soothing whisper dances, and it is finally gone.
Gaia is fully capable of maintaining and repairing the barrier on her own.
[ANGER?

There is a long silence after your question, until you feel her body vibrate, her humming interrupted by a gentle laugh.

She tenderly runs a hand down your cheek, the gentle rise and fall of her chest rocking you slightly.

[LOVE]

It was everything that could be said, in ways that words could not.
Gaia, at the very least, isn't pissed off at us calling her a pervert. On a side note, Gaia is definitely speaking the conceptual language here, and somehow, despite that, Cerys' mind and soul didn't get slagged. Huh. Though I suppose since Gaia is Cerys patron, it's more that Gaia is talking to herself.
But despite your paradise, something tugged at you, a part of you screaming and roaring quietly in the background.

[SISTER]

It felt wrong, but it felt more and more right the more you sleepily mulled the thought over.

Mother sighs slightly, halting her gentle movements as she gazes down at you.
Gaia ain't happy about what happened to PtV girl, and somehow Cerys picked up on it. Also, I doubt Cerys is actually speaking the conceptual language. I think it's more probably that Gaia is just using her connection to know what Cerys means.

Far in the distance, beyond the sky and in another, you see them. Cracks, dozens of them, slowly spreading across that sky. It was almost covered.

You turn your gaze back to her, a question in your eyes.
Will she repair it? No. Gaia certainly intends for the barrier to fall. Chances are, she may actually have manipulated the Light into starting WW1 to advance Mankind's understanding of war, and propel all of humanity into a new era where they now face enemies we could never have imagined.
She stares into you, looking past and seeing.

You see them then, Demons.

But you see further, Deeper.
I think we saw the primary reason that Gaia turned humanity into her weapon, other divine beings.
She leans down to you, voice softly whispering the first words you have heard from her.

"Be strong and remember, I am always with you."

As her sentence ends, so does the world. Everything slides sideways, falling apart at the seams as your mind falls into the abyss.
Well, she definitely meant that literally, but knowing her, she probably had several reasons she said it. But who am I to question humanity's god.
 
Gaia, at the very least, isn't pissed off at us calling her a pervert. On a side note, Gaia is definitely speaking the conceptual language here, and somehow, despite that, Cerys' mind and soul didn't get slagged. Huh. Though I suppose since Gaia is Cerys patron, it's more that Gaia is talking to herself.
Rather than Cerys not dying from hearing the Conceptual Language, I think the stranger thing here is that nothing magical is happening as a result of her speaking it.

We've been told in crystalwatcher's quest that younger Divine Beings, such as Gaia, use a 'modern dialect' of the Conceptual Language, which is less harmful to mortals but actualizes magic whenever its used.
 
Rather than Cerys not dying from hearing the Conceptual Language, I think the stranger thing here is that nothing magical is happening as a result of her speaking it.

We've been told in crystalwatcher's quest that younger Divine Beings, such as Gaia, use a 'modern dialect' of the Conceptual Language, which is less harmful to mortals but actualizes magic whenever its used.
Hmm-ing Intensifies
 
Rather than Cerys not dying from hearing the Conceptual Language, I think the stranger thing here is that nothing magical is happening as a result of her speaking it.

We've been told in crystalwatcher's quest that younger Divine Beings, such as Gaia, use a 'modern dialect' of the Conceptual Language, which is less harmful to mortals but actualizes magic whenever its used.

She might not be using the 'modern dialect' then in this case?

That or given we were in Gaia's personal world, possibly that could be a condition that can allow use of the modern dialect to not actualize magic?

Or possibly the magic being a tualized simply did not do so within the space where we were with again, and instead actualized elsewhere?
 
[X] Tell them that Gaia took you.
-[X] get something to write with immedietly. Write down everything you can remember about your vision. Let your boss know.
 
Practitioner
-Allows the creation and upgrading of spells.

Finally added to the character sheet because I forgot to do it.
>.>
 
Practitioner
-Allows the creation and upgrading of spells.

Finally added to the character sheet because I forgot to do it.
>.>

Shouldnt Daiyu have it as well? Even if we dont actually control her she should be our equal since she was able to learn the same abilities as Cerys.
 
...Any chance of our window increasing to make up for it?
Your window has already closed.
Any spell creation from now on is either a one day Nat100 or the work of weeks/months.

Shouldnt Daiyu have it as well? Even if we dont actually control her she should be our equal since she was able to learn the same abilities as Cerys.
She learnt them, she didn't create them.
You have a need to be able to create new magic as the DPS, she doesn't.
 
She learnt them, she didn't create them.
You have a need to be able to create new magic as the DPS, she doesn't.

And what about Morgan?


By the way, I think Magical Girls have some leeway in that regard. Nepgear could make a new spell without having Practitioner... so I guess as long as it is something that works with their concept, they can create it anyway.
 
And what about Morgan?


By the way, I think Magical Girls have some leeway in that regard. Nepgear could make a new spell without having Practitioner... so I guess as long as it is something that works with their concept, they can create it anyway.
I should probably specify that technically everyone can create spells, but Practitioners are very good at it.
Which is why they can have 6+ spells compared to a more normal 1-3 that most have.

That was Shop bought, not actually created like you've been doing. (Even though I do add them to the shop, its so they are easier to keep track of.)
 
[X] Tell them that Gaia took you.
-[X] She showed the barrier breaking and the enemy beyond it. Explain that strange cracks in the sky show this.
--[X] Explain that she showed more things to you, but that they may not be relevant to the Clocktower's operations. If they urge you to explain everything that occurred, do so.

This seems like a better idea. Let's keep it short and brief, We tell our superiors what they need to prepare for, instead of explaining everything that they may or may not be able to understand due to the whole divinity thing.

Then again, the Clocktower are always looking to learn more about their mysterious benefactor, so they might want to know more.

From what I've read, Cracks = Barrier breaking. If we see this later, on a small scale, we better prepare.

Really now, we need to somehow improve the construction of the Institute. If it's really a magical researching place, that's going to be beneficial for R&D. Other things that we need to explain to the higher ups is that they need to inform all the governments that don't know about magic and tell them about it. This Is an alien demon invasion here, And we're X-COM. If we don't have everyone funding us, It's a problem. When the barrier breaks, expect a zerg rush followed by small incursions. Us, Daiyu, Incandesent sun, And Sunken Sparrow will have to meet up somewhere and team up, hopefully sooner than later. Later, now that we know the barrier will break, and to follow the X-COM similarity, we're going to need a squad. So, next turn I suggest that we ask our superiors to look for more magical girls out there, so we may squad up.

I mean, it's even more like X-COM that we can miss enemies 3 feet in front of us if we get a bad roll! :V

Now, I do know that politics will interfere. And that's going to be a real barrier here.

basically the whole point is that we need the world to set aside there squabbles for 5 years, See the arrival of a common enemy, and repel the Demon invasion force. But since it's humanity, that might take a lot of convincing to do. A lot of convincing to do.
 
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Really now, we need to somehow improve the construction of the Institute. If it's really a magical researching place, that's going to be beneficial for R&D. Other things that we need to explain to the higher ups is that they need to inform all the governments that don't know about magic and tell them about it. This Is an alien demon invasion here, And we're X-COM. If we don't have everyone funding us, It's a problem. When the barrier breaks, expect a zerg rush followed by small incursions. Us, Daiyu, Incandesent sun, And Sunken Sparrow will have to meet up somewhere and team up, hopefully sooner than later. Later now that we know the barrier will break, and the follow the X-COM similarity, we're going to need a squad. So, next turn I suggest that we ask our superiors to look for more magical girls out there, so we may squad up.

Well... that does sound interesting.
However, Incandescent Sun and Sunken Sparrow have yet to awaken their powers; Rukia just accepted them as canon so far, which means they will show up one day.

Right now, we only have Cerys and Daiyu to work with.
However, the people around them are competent enough to prepare all these things; Karen has all the funds we need... and once the barrier breaks, we will go out there to fight.
In this moment, we should focus on getting in more training and wrapping up loose ends. The Unified Light will likely follow soon after the demons advance, so the brunt of the fighting should not take particularly long.
The problem is that we have little direct influence, even though Cerys is close to becoming a strategic asset (mostly due to Thermal Control and Juggernaut Wave). The best we can do is be in top condition once the barrier falls.
 
Well... that does sound interesting.
However, Incandescent Sun and Sunken Sparrow have yet to awaken their powers; Rukia just accepted them as canon so far, which means they will show up one day.

Right now, we only have Cerys and Daiyu to work with.
However, the people around them are competent enough to prepare all these things; Karen has all the funds we need... and once the barrier breaks, we will go out there to fight.
In this moment, we should focus on getting in more training and wrapping up loose ends. The Unified Light will likely follow soon after the demons advance, so the brunt of the fighting should not take particularly long.
The problem is that we have little direct influence, even though Cerys is close to becoming a strategic asset (mostly due to Thermal Control and Juggernaut Wave). The best we can do is be in top condition once the barrier falls.

That may be true, But even if we have top tier god powers, It doesn't matter if we can't be everywhere at once. That's what I mean with getting an X-COM squad. Cerys deals with one demon incursion with 8 high tier Enforcers (and UN support), Daiyu does the same thing, and the other two when their trained up can do the same thing. I don't expect the aliens (well, they technically are, and it could be a good cover for the public... I mean, it sounds more believable than magical demons from hell, right?) to sit down and launch one attack at a time. Since we're fighting essentially an entire different species here, I expect them to launch quick, fast, terror attacks all across the globe at once. We need to split up to counter this. Because as we saw, once the barrier breaks, the aliens are all coming out at once.

Or... An other, better alternative... Our Benefactor (Gaia) is going to maintain the barrier, but let's out demons here and there. This is more likely, As we just can't deal with a full out demon invasion. There's just to much resistance and way too many of them. Instead of this, expect incursions. Small cracks in the barrier that the aliens/demons sortie from that were either foreseen or unforeseen by our benefactor. This is a little easier to deal with, and therefore more likely. Gaia maintains the barrier, Lets incursions happen, for as we have seen even she can't keep the barrier up forever, instead she just unleashes one Incursion out at a time, and then we deal with them. A war of attrition. We slowly thin out their numbers. If there's more than one incursion, Cerys and Daiyu spilt up with their own enforcer and military fire support and deal with the incursions.

But this requires everyone to know. We need full UN support, or it's all going down hill. A war of attrition of this caliber requires all the resources this planet's combined forces have, even with Divine Gaia's support. The long-term strategy? Simple. The countries that the incursions happen in report the threat to the Demon Combat Unit Clocktower, and in turn we, the 16 High-tier enforcer squad, and military fire/air support, deal with it. If there's more than one, we spilt up. If there's only one, we go together and merge the squads.

If you ask, "Wait, What if there's more than two incursions?" you answered my previous request. Sooner than later, we need to ask Sir Karen and our higher ups to look for other Magical girls. They will get their own Combat Unit with Fire/Air Support and reinforcements. They will sortie with their squads, just like we're doing now to take care of regular monsters, and they will be fine. Of course, since they will probably be coming in late pre-war or early war, They are going to have to grind on regular monsters, not to mention train even harder than we did.

If you think about it, Since we're the most experienced magical girl here (I think, Unless the others than quit their Jobs comeback to aid humanity at a time of great peril) We would be somewhat of a drill sergeant. Trying to see how that would look like....

As for the light, any help is appreciated, but they are a shadow of what they were once before. I expect them to help, but on what regard, (or even on what side) I do not know. For all we know they might have the same power-level as we do, or they can be Clocktower level or less.


@Rukia

Question: Can the Demons utilize regular monsters to carry out their biddings? I expect so, however I am not sure... If this is true, we might have a war on two fronts.
 
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I have the feeling we are talking past each other a little.
Look, the point is that this does not revolve around us in particular. We are the most powerful human entity around, yes, but the regular enforcers can deal with smaller threats just fine.

The point is... if the demons really want us dead, they will come with more than one of their twenty one legions. Which, as canon depicts, means a billion (?) of those guys at once.
Right now, they want to subdue whatever lies on the other side of the barrier, but probably will not expect the kind of powerful response we can throw out with humankind's warmachine. Demons are numerous and far stronger than the average human, but we have a far more developed level of technology to draw from.

One person, even two if we were willing to separate from Daiyu, can not defend all of Earth by themselves.
Plus... the nations are kind of separated. China is in a state of civil war on top of that... and it will take time to bring everyone together.

By the way, Gaia alone can not hold the barrier; that is why it crumbles in the first place.

If you ask, "Wait, What if there's more than two incursions?" you answered my previous request. Sooner than later, we need to ask Sir Karen and our higher ups to look for other Magical girls. They will get their own Combat Unit with Fire/Air Support and reinforcements. They will sortie with their squads, just like we're doing now to take care of regular monsters, and they will be fine. Of course, since they will probably be coming in late pre-war or early war, They are going to have to grind on regular monsters, not to mention train even harder than we did.
Which still runs into the problem of there not being any other Magical Girls. Rukia already stated that it will take a long while before the next batch shows up.



Of course Karen is going to play XCOM, but you seem to assume that we will be the commander. Which is not going to happen.
We will be one of the troopers, who goes out to kill stuff when told to.

So why bother with overall strategy or media coverage when this will probably never come up for us?
 
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Gaia has WTF levels of power. So I rather doubt that the barrier is falling becuase Gaia can't maintain it. I think she's choosing to let it fall.

But why would she do that right now of all times? There is no reason to and she seemed content to just stay out of everything going on on the outside.

Either way, let us just ask the person in the know:
@Rukia, could Gaia keep up the barrier by herself?
 
[X] Tell them that Gaia took you.
-[X] She showed the barrier breaking and the enemy beyond it. Explain that strange cracks in the sky show this.
--[X] Explain that she showed more things to you, but that they may not be relevant to the Clocktower's operations. If they urge you to explain everything that occurred, do so.


The seriously, absurdly broken ability that is 'thermokinesis', yes.

Gods, if we put some work into it, we could probably trigger/set up any kind of weather we want. Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Thunderstorms, Blizzards. Air pressure is a function of air temperature, at least in part, so we might figure out how to throw high-strength winds around, too.

And on a more difficult note, we could probably trigger volcanoes, too. Yikes.

Not easily, and not soon for any of those (I don't think), but it strikes me as a possibility.

I don't think we'll want to actually do any of it, barring some extremely unfortunate cases.
 
The seriously, absurdly broken ability that is 'thermokinesis', yes.

Gods, if we put some work into it, we could probably trigger/set up any kind of weather we want. Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Thunderstorms, Blizzards. Air pressure is a function of air temperature, at least in part, so we might figure out how to throw high-strength winds around, too.

And on a more difficult note, we could probably trigger volcanoes, too. Yikes.

Not easily, and not soon for any of those (I don't think), but it strikes me as a possibility.

I don't think we'll want to actually do any of it, barring some extremely unfortunate cases.

All of that in due time. :drevil:
Thermal Control already grows faster than almost any other Ability, simply because it is something we can use near-constantly.
Although I would rather not go into trying to make storms aside from Blizzards before we hit lv40-50 on that; getting some light snowfall was already difficult enough.
 
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