Tam Lin
The Evolution QM
Beatrice pls
Puella Magi Adfligo Systema
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Cannongerbil
I came here to nep at you
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If we end up going loud, we should totally play this song during the battle:
Onmur
Archangel of Nutella.
Guys.
We should make a Team Rocket speech.
"Sabrina!"
"Mami!"
"Team Mitakihara, soaring in at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"
" Kirika! That's right!"
That sounds self-defeatist.
Are we hoping that if we lose, we'll be spared to try again later?
Just saying that we have the duo and the quirky talking minion, and Mami does love a good trope...
Besides, blasting off isn't that bad when you have a handy grief carpet.
Cannongerbil
I came here to nep at you
- Location
- Soviet Lunar Base
Buddy, have you listened to the instrumental team rocket motto? It's practically the imperial march, only less strongly associated to a character. It'd go perfectly with our combat tactic.
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Shouldn't we take the song of a team that actually wins?
That whole empire thing didn't work, after all.
Well they're still around to try for it, aren't they?
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Well they're still around to try for it, aren't they?
The thing is when you become the recurring joke villain on a show you never die, because of plot armor, but you also never win.
Unless it's one of those "team up with the hero to defeat an even greater evil" episodes.
The guy with the awesome music that suddenly swoops in to save the day either days by heroic sacrifice or turns out to have been evil all along.
You want to be the strange kid with the upbeat, spirit lifting theme. Confuse them and be far away when the get it together again.
"We've Got Hostiles" pt. 1
"... Hmm," you say to Mami. "I think we should land, then, and roofhop further in?"
Mami nods. "That's a good idea, Sabrina."
Out of the corner of your eye, you can see Kirika give Mami a narrow little look, and then she looks at you and grins sunnily.
...
Right.
You're already descending for a rooftop below, a particularly tall apartment block. "Thank you for flying Mitakihara Meguca Airlines, we hope to see you again soon," you mutter under your breath as you land.
The carpet dissolves under your feet, whirling into a constellation of marbles that whips around you and pours into your sling bag. A handful of marbles remain hovering in a loose cloud around you, ready for defense or attack. You, Mami, and Kirika drop smoothly to your feet on the rooftop, Mami still sticking close by you.
"OK, Akiko, Rin," you send out telepathically, including Mami and Kirika. "Akiko, we're coming for you first. Where are you... or rather, any landmarks near you?"
"There aren't," frustration bleeds into Rin's tone. "If we had a good landmark, Sakura can teleport there and we'd be out of here!"
Akiko pauses for a moment before responding. "Hiyoriyama park, near the center of the city, it should be quite obvious. It's on a hilltop. We teleported there... I'm somewhere... north of it."
"Good enough," you say. "Rin, how about you?"
"Somewhere there," she says, voice stressed. "We're hiding from a bunch of magical girls who attacked us, so pardon me for not keeping track of where I ran!"
"On our way, then," you reply, looking around at Mami and Kirika, both listening clos-
Well, that'd be a lie. Mami's listening closely, yes, and you catch her eye, giving her a smile which she returns faintly. Kirika... is playing with the little plush bunny that's always hanging off her waist. When she sees you looking, she eeps and hides the plush toy, giving you a sheepish grin.
You shake your head. "Aaaaanyway. Let's go... can't be too hard to find that park, right?"
Mami takes a deep breath. "Yes, let's go end a war," she says, trying for a firm, resolute tone.
"Whoo! Let's go!" Kirika says, and immediately leaps for the next roof with a tremendous cracking noise of shattering concrete underfoot.
You touch Mami lightly on her elbow, and smile at her, trying to put encouragement and gratitude and apology into the simple gesture, before following the berserker. Mami's a step behind.
You spread your senses, magical and mundane alike, as you bound across the roofs, simply observing. This city's different from Mitakihara. Older, not as shiny as Mitakihara. Worn. Even the rooftops you and Kirika are leaving cracks in are more weathered, more tired than the ones back home, and you fancy that you can smell the sea even from here, a faint tang of salt air.
You have the faintest impression that there should have been tsunami damage, but there's none to be seen - it hasn't come through yet, maybe?
The park, indeed, is quite easy to find, a rolling expanse of greenery laid over a small hill. It looks like a nice place, you muse as you veer north of it as Akiko suggested.
One magical presence, on the edge of your senses.
Then two.
Then more.
You suck in a worried breath as you land, taking the landing on your shoulder and bleeding off momentum. Mami halts beside you, her landing far more graceful than yours, and a quick call has Kirika stopping, too. Four magical girls, on the edge of your perception, three in one group, and one alone, bounding along rooftops.
"Akiko-"
"Not now!" she barks back, cutting you off.
Yeah, that's close enough. "Mami, Kirika, they found Akiko, it looks like. I'm going to try and catch their attention."
Kirika grins.
Mami nods. "Are you sure about this?"
You take a breath.
Point of no return.
You nod, and spread your hands, palms up. A torrent of marbles leaps forth from your bag - closing on two thousand of them that settle into a steady orbit around you. And you let them decompress, expanding into a whorling, eddying cloud of deep purple covering the entire rooftop and then some in a slowly turning hurricane cloud that blots out the sun and stains what little sunlight that gets through purple. Mami's face looks strained, and even Kirika looks a little antsy, fingers curling into claws.
You can feel is Ishinomaki group freeze. The lone presence, the one you're guessing to be Akiko, halts for a moment, before resuming her run, now cutting at an angle towards you.
The Ishinomaki group seems to confer for a moment, and then... there's suddenly a fourth presence, beside them, one that bounds towards you while the three resume their chase. The new presence is... weaker. Less present.
"Is that fuckin' you?" Sakura's telepathic voice.
"Yeah," you reply. "Pulling them off Akiko."
"What the fuck," she says eloquently.
"Mami, Kirika, we have one girl coming in," you warn. "Kirika, hold back for now, your antimagic's our trump card, and we don't want them to know about it too early. Go for the disable."
"Aw," Kirika pouts. "Fine." A pair of wickedly sharp, obsidian black claws form on the back of her hands with a shimmer of light.
Mami nods, pressing her hands together and drawing them apart to reveal a musket between them.
For your part, you funnel the cloud down into your wings, midnight black swathes unfurling from your shoulders. The remainder you draw into smaller, drifting clouds that you leave drifting lazily through the air, loose enough to still be sensed, and you pull a warhammer from behind you.
Vwwp.
Your hammer comes up into a guard position, echoed by a click as Mami's rifle snaps up. Kirika snarls, bubbly cheeriness evaporating instantly.
Two very familiar presences materialize in front of you, one in a brown jacket, with a katana out, and the other in heavy, deep green robes, jagged daggers in her hands.
"Wait!" you call in alarm at Mami and Kirika. "I know them!"
"And you are fuckin' nuts," Sakura snaps at you. Rin wobbles faintly as Sakura releases her shoulder, while Mami and Kirika relax slightly.
You'd snap back, but that other girl's still approaching, fast. "Later," you tell her. "Incoming, there." You point.
Sakura nods, her anger fading into a grimace.
The new girl crests the neighbouring building, frilly yellow dress flaring out around her as she leaps. You see shock cross the girl's face.
You all tense again - with five puella magi here, this shouldn't be an issue.
Vwwp.
You hear the crack of shattering bone when Sakura appears behind the girl midair, and slams an overhead, axing kick into the girl's back.
The two begin to fall, and Sakura distorts again, disappearing.
Vwwp.
"What the FUCK!" It's your turn to round on Sakura, swearing, while Mami flinches, shock crossing her face at the sudden demise of the girl in yellow.
"She's a cloner," Sakura answers evenly.
In the distance, you can feel the three Ishinomaki girls halt midstep, conferring, before bounding off in another direction, away from you and Akiko both.
[] Write-in
Here begins chapter 7: "We've Got Hostiles". I didn't do the chapter ending previous post, because, well, that would be telling!
Mami nods. "That's a good idea, Sabrina."
Out of the corner of your eye, you can see Kirika give Mami a narrow little look, and then she looks at you and grins sunnily.
...
Right.
You're already descending for a rooftop below, a particularly tall apartment block. "Thank you for flying Mitakihara Meguca Airlines, we hope to see you again soon," you mutter under your breath as you land.
The carpet dissolves under your feet, whirling into a constellation of marbles that whips around you and pours into your sling bag. A handful of marbles remain hovering in a loose cloud around you, ready for defense or attack. You, Mami, and Kirika drop smoothly to your feet on the rooftop, Mami still sticking close by you.
"OK, Akiko, Rin," you send out telepathically, including Mami and Kirika. "Akiko, we're coming for you first. Where are you... or rather, any landmarks near you?"
"There aren't," frustration bleeds into Rin's tone. "If we had a good landmark, Sakura can teleport there and we'd be out of here!"
Akiko pauses for a moment before responding. "Hiyoriyama park, near the center of the city, it should be quite obvious. It's on a hilltop. We teleported there... I'm somewhere... north of it."
"Good enough," you say. "Rin, how about you?"
"Somewhere there," she says, voice stressed. "We're hiding from a bunch of magical girls who attacked us, so pardon me for not keeping track of where I ran!"
"On our way, then," you reply, looking around at Mami and Kirika, both listening clos-
Well, that'd be a lie. Mami's listening closely, yes, and you catch her eye, giving her a smile which she returns faintly. Kirika... is playing with the little plush bunny that's always hanging off her waist. When she sees you looking, she eeps and hides the plush toy, giving you a sheepish grin.
You shake your head. "Aaaaanyway. Let's go... can't be too hard to find that park, right?"
Mami takes a deep breath. "Yes, let's go end a war," she says, trying for a firm, resolute tone.
"Whoo! Let's go!" Kirika says, and immediately leaps for the next roof with a tremendous cracking noise of shattering concrete underfoot.
You touch Mami lightly on her elbow, and smile at her, trying to put encouragement and gratitude and apology into the simple gesture, before following the berserker. Mami's a step behind.
You spread your senses, magical and mundane alike, as you bound across the roofs, simply observing. This city's different from Mitakihara. Older, not as shiny as Mitakihara. Worn. Even the rooftops you and Kirika are leaving cracks in are more weathered, more tired than the ones back home, and you fancy that you can smell the sea even from here, a faint tang of salt air.
You have the faintest impression that there should have been tsunami damage, but there's none to be seen - it hasn't come through yet, maybe?
The park, indeed, is quite easy to find, a rolling expanse of greenery laid over a small hill. It looks like a nice place, you muse as you veer north of it as Akiko suggested.
One magical presence, on the edge of your senses.
Then two.
Then more.
You suck in a worried breath as you land, taking the landing on your shoulder and bleeding off momentum. Mami halts beside you, her landing far more graceful than yours, and a quick call has Kirika stopping, too. Four magical girls, on the edge of your perception, three in one group, and one alone, bounding along rooftops.
"Akiko-"
"Not now!" she barks back, cutting you off.
Yeah, that's close enough. "Mami, Kirika, they found Akiko, it looks like. I'm going to try and catch their attention."
Kirika grins.
Mami nods. "Are you sure about this?"
You take a breath.
Point of no return.
You nod, and spread your hands, palms up. A torrent of marbles leaps forth from your bag - closing on two thousand of them that settle into a steady orbit around you. And you let them decompress, expanding into a whorling, eddying cloud of deep purple covering the entire rooftop and then some in a slowly turning hurricane cloud that blots out the sun and stains what little sunlight that gets through purple. Mami's face looks strained, and even Kirika looks a little antsy, fingers curling into claws.
You can feel is Ishinomaki group freeze. The lone presence, the one you're guessing to be Akiko, halts for a moment, before resuming her run, now cutting at an angle towards you.
The Ishinomaki group seems to confer for a moment, and then... there's suddenly a fourth presence, beside them, one that bounds towards you while the three resume their chase. The new presence is... weaker. Less present.
"Is that fuckin' you?" Sakura's telepathic voice.
"Yeah," you reply. "Pulling them off Akiko."
"What the fuck," she says eloquently.
"Mami, Kirika, we have one girl coming in," you warn. "Kirika, hold back for now, your antimagic's our trump card, and we don't want them to know about it too early. Go for the disable."
"Aw," Kirika pouts. "Fine." A pair of wickedly sharp, obsidian black claws form on the back of her hands with a shimmer of light.
Mami nods, pressing her hands together and drawing them apart to reveal a musket between them.
For your part, you funnel the cloud down into your wings, midnight black swathes unfurling from your shoulders. The remainder you draw into smaller, drifting clouds that you leave drifting lazily through the air, loose enough to still be sensed, and you pull a warhammer from behind you.
Vwwp.
Your hammer comes up into a guard position, echoed by a click as Mami's rifle snaps up. Kirika snarls, bubbly cheeriness evaporating instantly.
Two very familiar presences materialize in front of you, one in a brown jacket, with a katana out, and the other in heavy, deep green robes, jagged daggers in her hands.
"Wait!" you call in alarm at Mami and Kirika. "I know them!"
"And you are fuckin' nuts," Sakura snaps at you. Rin wobbles faintly as Sakura releases her shoulder, while Mami and Kirika relax slightly.
You'd snap back, but that other girl's still approaching, fast. "Later," you tell her. "Incoming, there." You point.
Sakura nods, her anger fading into a grimace.
The new girl crests the neighbouring building, frilly yellow dress flaring out around her as she leaps. You see shock cross the girl's face.
You all tense again - with five puella magi here, this shouldn't be an issue.
Vwwp.
You hear the crack of shattering bone when Sakura appears behind the girl midair, and slams an overhead, axing kick into the girl's back.
The two begin to fall, and Sakura distorts again, disappearing.
Vwwp.
"What the FUCK!" It's your turn to round on Sakura, swearing, while Mami flinches, shock crossing her face at the sudden demise of the girl in yellow.
"She's a cloner," Sakura answers evenly.
In the distance, you can feel the three Ishinomaki girls halt midstep, conferring, before bounding off in another direction, away from you and Akiko both.
[] Write-in
=====
Here begins chapter 7: "We've Got Hostiles". I didn't do the chapter ending previous post, because, well, that would be telling!
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Holy Crap.
I guess negotiations are a bad idea for the moment.
Thanks to Sakura they probably think we are on the Sendai side. And we kind of seem like a witch outside a barrier with all that grief.
So grab Akiko and hightail it out of there? The Ishinomaki seem to retreat for the moment and stopped hunting Akiko too.
Kirika you crazy, adorable girl.
Edit: The Ishinomaki girls send the clone to check for a witch outside a barrier? I mean the clone was surprised to see us. Would be good to know if the clone can relay information upon death like a kage bunshin or has some kind of shared perception. But since they changed course away from us I guess it can.
I guess negotiations are a bad idea for the moment.
Thanks to Sakura they probably think we are on the Sendai side. And we kind of seem like a witch outside a barrier with all that grief.
So grab Akiko and hightail it out of there? The Ishinomaki seem to retreat for the moment and stopped hunting Akiko too.
Kirika you crazy, adorable girl.
Edit: The Ishinomaki girls send the clone to check for a witch outside a barrier? I mean the clone was surprised to see us. Would be good to know if the clone can relay information upon death like a kage bunshin or has some kind of shared perception. But since they changed course away from us I guess it can.
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Crasian01
Insane Incubator
*sigh*
Well that illusion of neutrality went for much, much shorter than desired. By my analysis, we are, in all ways, shapes, and forms, now committed to the Sendai Faction in this conflict. We can try and "be neutral", but I suspect we'll just be laughed out of the room.
On the plus side, Sakura seems Extremely Competent, which is always a good thing.
Vote Suggestion:
[x] Restrain upsetness. Gain Akiko and fall back to a more secure position.
[x] Be paranoid for a few kilometers. If anything pings your senses, get ready for a fight but do not engage pre-emptively.
[x] Try to find an empty place to hole up, preferably in a relatively out of the way location.
--{x] Map out the exits and how to defend them, as well as best routes in and out of the area.
[x] Questions:
--[x] First of all, DAMMIT SAKURA. We were trying for the diplomatic solution and you've cocked that right the FUCK up.
--[x] Second, what the hell is going on. Why are there so many magical girls coming into this fight?
--[x] Third, who are the leaders in this conflict? What are their personalities and abilities? How do they know each other?
--[x] Finally, what is Sendai's stake in all this bullshit? It's a giant clusterfuck, it doesn't seem like their style to get involved in this sort of thing.
Well that illusion of neutrality went for much, much shorter than desired. By my analysis, we are, in all ways, shapes, and forms, now committed to the Sendai Faction in this conflict. We can try and "be neutral", but I suspect we'll just be laughed out of the room.
On the plus side, Sakura seems Extremely Competent, which is always a good thing.
Vote Suggestion:
[x] Restrain upsetness. Gain Akiko and fall back to a more secure position.
[x] Be paranoid for a few kilometers. If anything pings your senses, get ready for a fight but do not engage pre-emptively.
[x] Try to find an empty place to hole up, preferably in a relatively out of the way location.
--{x] Map out the exits and how to defend them, as well as best routes in and out of the area.
[x] Questions:
--[x] First of all, DAMMIT SAKURA. We were trying for the diplomatic solution and you've cocked that right the FUCK up.
--[x] Second, what the hell is going on. Why are there so many magical girls coming into this fight?
--[x] Third, who are the leaders in this conflict? What are their personalities and abilities? How do they know each other?
--[x] Finally, what is Sendai's stake in all this bullshit? It's a giant clusterfuck, it doesn't seem like their style to get involved in this sort of thing.
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Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
I is confused, what's going on here?
Cannongerbil
I came here to nep at you
- Location
- Soviet Lunar Base
Cras, lets not go into a populated area. Seriously, why would we even chance that?
Sakura teleports to behind the girl and vertically spin kicks her with enough force to shatter her bones, then teleports back.
Sakura teleports to behind the girl and vertically spin kicks her with enough force to shatter her bones, then teleports back.
The 'Vvwp' is the teleporting sound effect. Sakura blink-striked the two clones before teleporting back to us.
Edit: ...Sakura'd by CG.
Crasian01
Insane Incubator
Survival? On the balance of probabilities, I don't think it's probable that a magical girl will risk nuking a large quantity of civilians intentionally. Populated areas also allow more access to resources, like food and water and electricity and (most importantly) the internet. I think this puts us in an advantageous situation and it's not probable that someone will go "lolfuckit" and drop a giant AOE attack on us. The only thing they'll attempt is a precision strike, and we'll have sensed them early enough to GTFO in that case.
Crasian01
Insane Incubator
We're not holding anyone hostage? Unless you're saying that the vote is effectively holding people hostage? I... don't really see that, if so. Could you elaborate?
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Moving the fight into a populated area so that the opponent will be constrained in their tactics and actions is holding civilians hostage.
Well, if being the neutral party is completely out, then our objective would be to mitigate any and all deaths.
Also: OY! OYMURA KYOKO! SOME UPSTART, WANNABE MEGUCA'S STEALING YOUR SCHTICK!
Also: OY! OY
Cannongerbil
I came here to nep at you
- Location
- Soviet Lunar Base
Cras, you are assuming that these girls are rational actors. They aren't. They are teenagers who've been given a shitload of destructive power. If we end up in a running battle with them and can't outrun them for whatever reason, out grief shields would be more than enough to tank any attacks they can throw at us. I really don't feel comfortable with deliberately going into areas filled with civilians and hoping that whoever is pursuing us is both rational enough to think about the possible consequences of their actions and compassionate enough not to just nuke them anyway, not when we can easily tank their attacks with our grief shields.
Crasian01
Insane Incubator
...you know when you put that way, I've just realized that I'm advocating the same plan that Hezbollah uses in the Golan Heights. On that basis alone, I'm going to change the vote.
...this is also a good point.