Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
*remembers some requests he made*makes one think about what has been planned that @Naron has deemed it needed.
Rip and Tear motherfuckers. You'll need it.
Peril's Origin - A Magical Girl Quest [Complete]
Rip and Tear motherfuckers. You'll need it.
TheSilenceIsVast
Of the Sun
- Location
- United States
[x] Plan for the week: Buffer
- Location
- Earth
Heidi is the queen of training montages; hers do not even take the time everyone else needs because she has time travel
makes one think about what has been planned that @Naron has deemed it needed.
- Location
- Ekaterinburg, Russia
@Naron, a couple questions
1) Do we need to worry about Heidi's nutritional requirements such as needing to feed her vegetables and berries to give her proper vitamins?
2) Would choosing to hunt smaller animals allow Heidi to practice keeping her Rage Against Fate aura contained - including combat situations?
1) Do we need to worry about Heidi's nutritional requirements such as needing to feed her vegetables and berries to give her proper vitamins?
2) Would choosing to hunt smaller animals allow Heidi to practice keeping her Rage Against Fate aura contained - including combat situations?
- Location
- Earth
1) No, I am just handwaving that; Lu finds some stuff on the side. It is just not really useful for this segment if there were several different foraging options, and far too complicated for what it is supposed to do.
2) Yes, but she practices that anyway no matter what option you pick.
3.6 A Prayer Named Glory
- Location
- Earth
[] Hunt large beasts
[] Practice
[] Practice
[] Practice
[] Practice
Your first day of the next week is mostly spent practicing again. Or rather, poking your magic and hoping it gives you information. So far, the search for some kind of switch to stop getting gibberish has not been successful.
You spend some time on Arcane Slash after each meal to clear your head, though it remains kind of weird. You are still trying to find a consistent approach to replicating your weapon within the attack.
At least it is convenient how many different nutrients are in your food. Lu does not know anything detailed about that, but you do not feel any worse for wear after half a week of eating little else but meat and a few berries or other things your friend keeps finding on the way.
Granted, it is magical alien meat. You are not going to question that any further.
Later that same day however, you and Lu decided to wash up at the river; not an arrangement you are happy with, mainly because you are naked somewhere in the wilderness, but you will live. At least it is better than just staying dirty.
Due to how long your hair is, similarly to your friend's, you both make to wash each other's instead.
While Lu is busy with yours however, she lightly taps your head for attention. "You mentioned a place called Hope a few days ago. Is that on Earth?"
You never really knew much about Hope. Your father took you there once when you were little, but that was it. There were tons of reports from the capital city of Elysium, especially right at the beginning, but it has been years.
Still, you know enough to explain it to Lu while she tends to your hair: "No, it's not. Hope is... was our first colony on another world. You know that dimension right adjacent to Earth, where no one lives for some reason?"
"I do." Your friend shifts her weight and splashes some more water over you as she speaks. "For your information, the area was deemed too close to the death zone Earth is currently in. The dimensional walls between the two are thinner. The Elvin Empire is not going to risk a Hyper Gate sending them there due to an error, though they did lay claim to the dimension. Hell never much cared for it for similar reasons, though there are some skirmishes between them and the Empire from time to time."
"Makes sense, I guess." If it immediately or even just slowly killed you to enter the death zone, you can see why no one would want to be near it.
Lu finished with her explanation, so you continue with a shudder from the wind on your skin; at least the mid-summer sun is warm. "Anyway, we colonised the place a few years after we got magic. It was a really big thing, the biggest in decades I think." Not counting World War Three and the Grand Crusade, at least. But you are thinking more of civilian matters instead of military ones, and the last one might have been the moon landing.
"But Hope fell." It is not even a question; Lu has not forgotten that part and you have not tried to hide it.
"Yes."
You both stay quiet for a little while, the babbling stream and chirping birds your only companions. Some kind of bee buzzes by, its curiousity for you two ended with a flap of Lu's wing, which tears it out of the air for the water to carry away. A fish quickly moves to gobble up the dead insect.
The fish here are weird, all colourful and sparkly. They keep their distance from the both of you though, so you do not mind them.
"Why?"
Of course she had to ask. Recent history is a mess at the best of times and you are no expert. But really, the problem is different here. So you turn back to your friend, pulling silvery strands through her fingers. "I know what happened, but not why. One day, the UD just rolled over Hope and Reluxus with so many soldiers that the troops couldn't see the ground anymore amidst all the corpses. My papa says its because they wanted to break humanity before we could properly integrate into the Unified Light."
You can not say why they did it. You do not know how exactly it happened. All you know is that the golden age of Magical Girls ended the day the Light retreated from Hope, having lasted but a few short years.
"Well, I can see how the fall would follow. If several legions of Hell marched, that would certainly alter the field."
Lu is thoughtful, but you only poke her belly with a shake of your head. She is not getting the big picture yet. "They didn't stomp us into the ground. The Akashic Pillar did the same thing I'd have done in that situation. And the rest of the Unified Light followed."
She looks at you for a moment, then comprehends your words and blinks. "They threw everything at the Darkness?"
"Basically, yes." You have an idea for a comparison to make it more clear to her, too: "Think the fighting going on on Valhalla over the last few thousand years, but squeezed into a few days. With gods on both sides fighting and at least half the champions of Light and Darkness somewhere in the mayhem. They actually discussed adding the Battle of Hope to the bible, one of our religion's holy books that has been unaltered for... at least a thousand years."
It is ridiculous in retrospect, but you can also respect what the Akashic Pillar did in those days. Hope belonged to humanity then, so they fought tooth and nail to keep it.
Lu drops the conversation there and you are quite happy about it. Hope is a sore topic for most people these days; you did not lose anyone there yourself, but many of your friends and acquaintances had loved ones who died in that battle.
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Once you are clean and dry, the latter mainly thanks to the sun, you have another hour of meditation before deciding to play around with Magic Binary. Lu watches curiously as you draw out a simple code segment.
"What is this about?" She carefully eyes the lines without understanding them, which makes sense. For a moment, you consider taking her promise not to tell anyone, but at this point it really does not matter.
"It's Magic Binary. You know how there are Brand Craft and Necromancy that basically everyone can use if they learn it?" She nods, then narrows her eyes at the code while you continue: "This here is a new one that we invented. It's similar to Brand Craft, but it has some neat differences."
You stop and double-check your code, make sure any organisms in its reach are excluded, go over all the characters again, and then begin to draw it out. Now that it is just mindless repetition, you can get back to talking: "Magic Binary is completely focussed on effects covering areas and usually better at them than Brand Craft. You can't really enchant objects with it in turn."
Halfway done, you stop to add a more clear dot over one 'i'; even if your mana should work out with only a barely visible one, you like things to be orderly. "The power requirements actually scale with the effect you want, that includes the area you want to affect. Back home, we warded off many of our older cities against dimensional gateways with it. Too little mana there to power it normally, but they somehow converted their age into power. Don't ask me," you head off the question you know would come, "I don't have the slightest clue how you draw energy from something as conceptual as how old an object is."
You finish the final line and grin cheerfully, a trail of sweat running down your forehead. "But you know what's the best about Magic Binary?"
Lu does not ask, she knows it was a rhetorical question you will answer on your own. Before you do however, you charge the array and immediately feel your surroundings cool down. "It doesn't need any upkeep once it's charged. We can ignore this until we leave and it will still make this place less stuffy."
For that which you made is a bootleg air conditioning. As fun as this little adventure is, living in a place without windows or running water is bothersome in the heat. So you have it cool down the area over several dozen metres in all directions to a pleasant twenty degrees Celsius.
Lu still eyes the contraption before curiously leaning over the code; you could have explained that it is reminiscent of computer code, but she has no reference for what that is. Explaining computers is really not something you want to do right now.
"How do you turn it off then?"
That is a good question, one you asked yourself before when your father started teaching you. Disrupting the array is not the right answer, something which you were taught rather thoroughly to forget you ever thought it was what to do. "You pulse a bit of mana through it again. It's like a switch."
You demonstrate this by pushing some more magic into your array, which immediately dims. "But they take a while to turn off, I think that's by design to prevent sabotage. If you pulse it again before it shuts down entirely," which you do, causing the magical lines to brighten again, "it immediately turns back on without needing another full charge. The larger the array, the longer it takes to shut down."
"Clever." Lu studies your creation before turning back to you. "Can you teach me how to do that?"
Now there is something you did not expect to hear today. For a moment, you want to protest; you are not an expert on this, not even particularly proficient. Household applications and barriers and such, small and easy stuff, that is what you can make reliably. You are not going to even try anything beyond that scope.
But then again, it might be fun to teach your friend the basics. "Sure. Just not right now, it's time for bed soon." As the sun is sinking, that means you should have dinner and catch some sleep.
"Very well, I will get back to you about this." Lu gets up and looks back at your 'freezer', a Brand Craft array to preserve the food surrounded by arrays to wall it off from other creatures. Which you realise you could replace with a single MBinary array. "We will start hunting tomorrow, else I am wasting time I could spend preparing more rations."
Oh. You forgot that; Lu is right, she is done with the preparation of all those Mimic Stalks after all. The carcasses she discarded in the forest have been found by carrion eaters at this point, too.
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"Do you see them?"
"You mean the fish?"
"Those are not fish."
"Ah, those over there."
This would be easier if Lu had not insisted on looking at them from up high. She is flying at least two hundred metres above the ground, which makes seeing your next targets in detail difficult. They are not small dots to your eyes at least, but you still grumble. They look like a cross between a fish and a gorilla, with blue scales instead of fur and long claws as well as spikes on its back.
"In total difference to the Mimic Stalks you fought before," your friend begins to explain, "Glibbles are aggressive to the point of foolishness."
"You named them Glibbles? Really?" You can not help but ask, but Lu ignores your question.
"They charge intruders and assailants at breakneck speed, not letting up until one side is dead. Basically like you but angrier."
"Got it, so like me on my period. Which, coincidentally, I am on." You can not help but quip, the fact your guts are trying to tear you apart from the inside not helping the matter either.
Lu just rolls her eyes, lightly squeezing you with the arm slung around your waist. "Stop whining, you baby." That shuts you up quickly, both out of surprise and sheepishness, but she does not give you time to retort. "Your greatest weapon against them is your mind. Glibbles secrete acidic mucus all over their bodies, getting hit by one is not a nice thing at all. Their jaws are powerful and difficult to break out of, not to mention that their bodies are quite strong in general. You do not even have speed on them, as they are at least peer to you in that. They readily charge creatures many times their own size once they enter their berserking state, which makes most predators avoid them for fear of injury."
Her explanation makes you more and more concerned as you look down at the bunch of four lying in a shallow pool surrounded by empty grassland, no other critters in sight. The Glibbles seem to be munching on some kind of wood. "So this is more practice for being smart?"
"You were always a fast learner." The mocking smile your friend gives you only produces a scowl.
"I hate you too."
Damn her for being right, damn those things for being so difficult, and damn evolution for having invented periods.
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[] Just charge them and win
[] Argent Star is probably still cheating, but fuck them
[] Something else
-[] Write-in what
[] EXP-Plan
-[] Write-in what to buy
-[] Save it
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+10xp Hope Is Lost But Not Forgotten
EXP gained: 10
Total EXP: 471
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- Glibbles
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- Stats
- Weapon
- Spells
- Abilities
- Location
- Earth
Lost may correct me on the first one, but I think that would not negate Mythic Might.
As for the second, yes. The spines may cut through the ribbon, though.
- Location
- Earth
Those things sound aggressive and therefor predictable to a fault.
[] Something else
-[] Activate Conundrum, once the Glibbles is in range to charge flash it in order to blind the Glibbles and sidestep it's attack
-[] Aim to cripple it's offensive (arm) during this opportunity.
-[] Kill the now crippled Glibbles abusing the created vulnerability.
The idea of this plan is to activate Conundrum before the fight start, then get noticed by the mob.
Once it's running out us time the flash of Conundrum so it's blinded when it reaches us and cut of it's arm during this opportunity.
Then abuse the created weakness to finish it off.
[] Something else
-[] Activate Conundrum, once the Glibbles is in range to charge flash it in order to blind the Glibbles and sidestep it's attack
-[] Aim to cripple it's offensive (arm) during this opportunity.
-[] Kill the now crippled Glibbles abusing the created vulnerability.
The idea of this plan is to activate Conundrum before the fight start, then get noticed by the mob.
Once it's running out us time the flash of Conundrum so it's blinded when it reaches us and cut of it's arm during this opportunity.
Then abuse the created weakness to finish it off.
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- Location
- Earth
General behaviour
Not exactly melee, but not high range either.
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
- Location
- Earth
Why would it inflict 10% of the Glibbles' health? It obviously keys off of the attacker.
That aside, it is applied directly.
- Location
- Ekaterinburg, Russia
@LightLan I don't think your plan, as stated, is going to work. There're four of them present, and I doubt they will let us pick them off one by one, not with their high aggressiveness.
I think that sometimes it is smarter to acknowledge one's limits. I do not doubt we can kill one. Killing them all might be trickier.
Consider leaning on Overdrive Seal, on our save-from-death, and plan for preventing being grappled by the enemy.
- Location
- Attached to a wall
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I am assuming that they will blindly charge at us.
@Naron Is it possible to create a moat of some kind by melting the ground with a combination of reapers will and Arcane Slash in order to intercept them as they slide towards us?
- Location
- Earth
Possible yes, but not as a reaction; that Ability is an almost instantaneous charge, it does not give Heidi enough time to make a moat after it starts.
I am also not making any promises as to such a moat's effectiveness.
- Location
- Ekaterinburg, Russia
For the record:
We actually have two different MGs in two different RPs with a similar Ability, it is typically resolved as a flash step or outright teleport and can be soft-exploited to target objects instead of people, or to choose specific position in said object's vicinity.
I'm counting those we have seen use it or have the soft exploits revealed.
We actually have two different MGs in two different RPs with a similar Ability, it is typically resolved as a flash step or outright teleport and can be soft-exploited to target objects instead of people, or to choose specific position in said object's vicinity.
I'm counting those we have seen use it or have the soft exploits revealed.
- Location
- Attached to a wall
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I have the feeling that I'm still half way a decent plan with this.
What I intend is to use our unmatched skill in order to avoid being bitten.
[] plan unmovable
-[] equip Aetheric Tide
-[] Get into their range
--[] If something chooses to charge then negate whatever they are trying do after charging and stab it.
--[] once a foe is impaled switch to Stygian Tempest.
-[] If multiple things charge flash conundrum.
--[] offer up Stardust Striker and try to get the blinded Glibbles to strike each-other. parry their bites reapers will.
What I intend is to use our unmatched skill in order to avoid being bitten.
[] plan unmovable
-[] equip Aetheric Tide
-[] Get into their range
--[] If something chooses to charge then negate whatever they are trying do after charging and stab it.
--[] once a foe is impaled switch to Stygian Tempest.
-[] If multiple things charge flash conundrum.
--[] offer up Stardust Striker and try to get the blinded Glibbles to strike each-other. parry their bites reapers will.
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Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
[x] Kowabunga It Is
-[x] Fly around a bit more with Lucy
-[x] While flying around, charge up our Spirit Bomb to ludicrous levels.
-[x] When we're sure, have Lucy drop us in the middle and blow them all to smithereens.
-[x] Scrape up whats left for food, then haul ass before whatever gets interested by the explosion shows up.
-[x] Michael Jackson Dance on their corpses.
- Location
- Elsewhere
I have many questions.
Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
I have very few answers.
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
Reminder that the spirit bomb cannot actually be fired. You can charge it, but unless you have a way to physically throw them into the ball, it won't work as an attack.