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Peril's Origin - A Magical Girl Quest [Complete]

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[X] Plan Not Out of the Woods

I had been curious for the foraging option VS small critters option for a while now, let's see what it does.
 
Hmmm... Foraging is boring tho.

[X] Plan Fight Something Mean Already
-[X] Hunt the Biggest and Baddest
-[X] Practice
-[X] Practice
 
Okay. Oh well, I think I will go all "medium sized critters" for real next turn.

[X] Plan Fight Something Mean Already
 
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Well if we are going boss fight, fair warning - I rightly do not care how little of the demolished enemy carcass we are left with in the end. I just care about killing and not getting eaten.

P. S. I find it mildly unsettling that Lich King and Cute Princess are in the same voting bloc.
Adhoc vote count started by Faraway-R on Jan 24, 2020 at 5:46 AM, finished with 16 posts and 8 votes.
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Quick heads-up, the vote is tied between the existing plans. I normally would just decide it myself, but this time one of the options is quite a bit more dangerous than the other, so I feel I should give out a little warning, especially to those who have not yet voted.
 
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3.9 Breakthrough
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    • [] Plan Not Out of the Woods
    -[] Foraging
    -[] Practice
    -[] Practice

    After that patrol coming so close, Lu and you agree on trying to stay under the radar for a while; she disposed of the body by dropping it into some distant pond of Glibbles. They are too far away to be targets for your hunt, so you will not return there.

    The next week, you spend in meditation interspersed with walks through the nearby forest. Lu teaches you which plants are edible, which leads to a haul of various berries and mushrooms and other things; you do not even like mushrooms, but after a diet mostly consisting of two types of meat for the last month, you welcome them for the difference in taste.

    Some of the berries you find are familiar already, seeing that Lu picked some up over the previous weeks; Summer is winding down, so there is plenty to find. You do have to compete with the forest's other critters, though.

    Yet, all which you get is one more angelic patrol flying overhead, their bright aura washing over you during dinnertime. They do not even slow down, which means they have not spotted your shelter.

    . . .
    IDENTIFIED BREAK LINE
    . . .​

    On the fifth day of that week, you finally have your breakthrough. All the pushing and pulling you somehow did with your mind makes something click into place and suddenly, the cipher is gone. You check your powers and find the gibberish turning into proper sensations under your attention.

    "I got it!" you shout out to your friend, who is doing some meditations of her own as she ran out of meat to process. Lu does not seem to hear you, so you make to leave her be for now. Then again... a little fun will not hurt.

    "Hey, is that a bunch of Angels?!" Her eyes snap open and she surges to her feet, only to find you standing with an ear-splitting grin. "Got you."

    Lu relaxes again and gives you an unamused look. "You should take this more seriously. What is it?"

    Your only response is to keep up the grin; you could not stop it even if you wanted to. "I got it! I don't even know how exactly, but I got it. From how it felt, some bits of my magical makeup were out of whack and that caused it to give me no proper sense for it."

    She offers a congratulatory nod and makes a motion toward you. "Very well then. Demonstrate it?"

    That stops you cold and makes a smidgen of embarassment go through you. "Uh... I, uh, still have to take a proper look at it. And I was doing that a lot so I wanted to look over Arcane Slash again next."

    A beat.

    Then Lu just sighs and turns away while you try to stop yourself from fidgeting; maybe you should have thought that through a little longer. Then again, you are giddy to get to work properly... which probably means you should do something else first. Time travel ought to be approached with a cool head, right?

    So while your friend returns to her meditations, you spend the rest of the day working on Arcane Slash's little trick.

    Which, much to your surprise, is actually completed by the time you eat dinner. It already carries your weapon along on a normal strike, which means you only need to bend the echoing property just so in order to replicate whatever weapon you stuck into it as well, instead of just the spell itself. That was done a good while ago, then you only had to practice, practice, practice in order to actually do it quickly enough.

    Up to this point, you had to basically prepare yourself for that bend and do it right as the first echo formed; then you failed to bend the next one in most cases.

    It got better as the days passed, but now you are finally confident. You got used to how it feels to bend the spell in this particular way and your immediate reaction speed allows you to do it from something akin to muscle memory now.

    To ensure it actually worked as intended, you tested the whole thing with all of your weapon modes, then your fist and your foot. The weird feeling of seeing your hand two metres ahead while feeling it right there at the end of your wrist aside, it works as intended. Praise be to Lucifer for also teaching you the basics of close-quarters combat to wind down over the past months, you can actually defend yourself without a weapon.

    A little freaky though, having five punches slam into a tree despite only having thrown one.

    . . .
    IDENTIFIED BREAK LINE
    . . .​

    "I was wondering," Lu starts at the last day of the week. You are preparing everything for your first attempt at using Voyage, but move at a relaxed pace. "Why did you choose the path of the warrior instead of a battlemage? Your spells are powerful and versatile, you certainly could have gone far."

    That is a good point, but you doubt you would have changed your mind even if you had known about Argent Star and Arcane Slash at the time. "I guess that makes sense, but I wanted this."

    "What for, though? Did someone tell you it is forbidden to be a fighter instead of a caster?"

    She actually delivers the question in a mix of deadpan and amusement, making you huff at her. You tap a foot against the stasis-array holding your food to recharge it completely, finishing your preparations; this is followed by a pointed look at your angelic friend. "No. I wasn't magical for long enough to get anything like that."

    The ensuing silence makes you suspect that she waits for you to elaborate; you do not mind telling her, but this is kind of embarassing and makes you hesitate.

    After a few moments you spend looking for a way to start, you decide to go indirectly: "Would you be surprised if I told you I have someone I look up to?"

    "Why would I be? Almost everyone does, in one way or another." She merely looks you up and down, wings folded behind her back. "So that idol of yours is why you chose this path? A master swordsman, perhaps?"

    "Almost." You avert your gaze from Lu and think back to your younger days. "She doesn't use just swords. I never actually met her either, but I heard enough. She is one of the most powerful Magical Girls of my time and unmatched in her skill. I always wanted to be like her when I was little and, heh, now that I had the chance? I took it."

    You find yourself smiling involuntarily, thinking back to all the stories you heard about Magical Girl Goddess Grey.

    "I see."

    Lu eyes you curiously for a little longer, then swishes her winged arm. "Then let us get back to this."

    That gets a nod from you and a hug for Lu. She already expected it and you make sure to keep your arms close to her waist while she holds on. As planned, you will go forward by a short amount of time; if you mess up however, you do not want her to be on her own for long. So she comes with you.

    Five seconds is what you want. Five seconds, no more.

    "Voyage!"

    You can see the portal form in front of you as reality shifts; there is no need to dodge it and no hurry, which allows you to take it in for the moment it takes to engulf you. A timeless moment in the void and next you know, you are right back at your shelter, holding onto Lu.

    Except that the sun is setting.

    "Great, that wasn't five seconds."

    Your friend chuckles as you let go of her, then wanders over to look into your temporary home. "At least there are no animals claiming it." She goes inside, then pokes her head out while you grumble and make to meditate on the issue. "I laid out a berry earlier as a check for how long we are gone. It is still not spoiled, so we went for a few hours or perhaps a day."

    That's a least something, but you still just mutter under your breath and close your eyes.

    It feels as if almost no time passed at all when Lu pulls you out, pointing at the moon up high. "Get some sleep," she tells you. "We need to gather more supplies soon."

    At least you figured out the problem you had. This is something you mull over on your bed of leaves, with Lu spread over her own on the other side of the room.

    Time does not count itself in seconds, or any human-made structure. Its increments are off and weird... not to mention that you can not just make your magic translate seconds into them. Neither can you grasp them easily, as they run through your head in the instant after the portal opens up and before it swallows you, apparently transmitting themselves.

    What the spell can do, you found out, is interpret directions; you thought of a short leap forward, so it went forward; a few hours are basically nothing within all of time after all, so that is technically short.

    You solved the issue of not knowing how it works; now you have to get back to the usual practice in order to get a feeling for Voyage, as well as the way time acts. Once you got a grasp on those increments, you should be able to set your own coordinates more specifically.

    This will be an interesting time... and a boring one.

    Then again, you prefer boring over the alternative.

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    Food: 6
    Completed Practice: 21 / 60


    [] Plan for the week
    -[] Action 1
    -[] Action 2
    -[] Action 3

    [] [BONUS] Write-in what to practice additionally
    (the now-available exploit for Voyage may not be selected)

    Hunt small critters
    (secures food for 3 days, auto-success)

    Foraging
    (secures food for 3 days, auto-success)

    Hunt medium-sized critters
    (secures food for 7 days, may turn into a combat encounter)

    Hunt large beasts
    (secures food for 14 days, combat encounter)

    Hunt the biggest and baddest
    (secures food for 30 days, boss encounter)

    Practice
    (adds between 2 and 3 days to the training counter; 7 days if all actions are this)

    [] EXP-Plan
    -[] Write-in what to buy
    -[] Save it

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    +5xp The Blacksmith
    +15xp Made it Past the Cipher

    EXP gained: 20
    Total EXP: 921

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    (Soft Mechanics for Voyage have been added)

    Unlocked Soft Exploit:
    -have Arcane Slash's Echo carry the weapon attack as well when layering the spell over it [2/2]
     
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    • Let's take the most difficult training action and see how far we come with it them

    [X] [BONUS] Write-in what to practice additionally
    -[X] put more force into Trans Smasher's corrosion; halves damage, but anything of a lesser Existence than Heidi eats a malus to defense: -100% Max Health "Critical Existence Failure" [Arcane Slash] [4 Training Actions]

    I would like to kill something big now that we have seen what the foraging option does. It will probably attract the attention of the angels, but after we can go into hiding for some time after this.
    [X] Plan Take up the challenge
    -[X] Hunt the biggest and baddest
    -[X] Practice
    -[X] Practice
     
    [X] [BONUS] Write-in what to practice additionally
    -[X] put more force into Trans Smasher's corrosion; halves damage, but anything of a lesser Existence than Heidi eats a malus to defense: -100% Max Health "Critical Existence Failure" [Arcane Slash] [4 Training Actions]

    [X] Plan a little moderation yet
    -[X]Hunt large beasts
    -[X] Practice
    -[X] Practice
     
    [X] [BONUS] Write-in what to practice additionally
    -[X] put more force into Trans Smasher's corrosion; halves damage, but anything of a lesser Existence than Heidi eats a malus to defense: -100% Max Health "Critical Existence Failure" [Arcane Slash] [4 Training Actions]

    [X] Plan a little moderation yet
    -[X]Hunt large beasts
    -[X] Practice
    -[X] Practice
     
    [X] [BONUS] Write-in what to practice additionally
    -[X] put more force into Trans Smasher's corrosion; halves damage, but anything of a lesser Existence than Heidi eats a malus to defense: -100% Max Health "Critical Existence Failure" [Arcane Slash] [4 Training Actions]

    [X] Plan a little moderation yet
    -[X]Hunt large beasts
    -[X] Practice
    -[X] Practice
     
    [X] Plan Take up the challenge

    Breather is done with, lets make sure the big lug doesn't decide to look for us as a snack.
     
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