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Puella Magi Interficio Antitheus

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RexHeller said:
I'm glad people caught that. I needed away to inform the reader that despite Mami sounding like her usual calm self during the conversation, hearing about the rough life Tatsuya's had until now still had an emotional impact on her. I'm happy that worked out. This sort of analysis of my work makes me happy. HAPPY QMs ARE YOU FRIENDS!
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Well to be fair, your question about whether or not Mami knew the impact of negative emotions on soul gems also kind of gave it away.
 
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You coat, once a ratty, threadbare thing that could barely keep the cold out, is now a black leather coat with a hood that reaches your knees. You shirt seems to be made of silk or something and is bright red, whereas before it was so dirty you didn't know what color it was. You jeans… are still jeans. Very high quality jeans though. And finally your shoes, if you could call some pieces of cloth tied together with a piece of card board as a sole shoes, have been replaced with a solid pair of boots, also black.
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RexHeller said:
You get up and dust yourself off before realizing that your clothes are different. They seem to have been replaced with much nicer versions of what you were wearing before. You coat, once a ratty, threadbare thing that could barely keep the cold out, is now a black leather coat with a hood that reaches your knees. You shirt seems to be made of silk or something and is bright red, whereas before it was so dirty you didn't know what color it was. You jeans… are still jeans. Very high quality jeans though. And finally your shoes, if you could call some pieces of cloth tied together with a piece of card board as a sole shoes, have been replaced with a solid pair of boots, also black.
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So yeah, Tatsyua detransforms and his clothes basically go from "magically great and functional" to "clothes only in the sense that they cover what needs to be covered".

Let's not do that. Or maybe we should, it'd be funny. Either way I suspect Tatsuya's view of the nudity taboo is probably different enough from Mami's to cause ship-teasing awkwardness.

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Krika said:
Either way I suspect Tatsuya's view of the nudity taboo is probably different enough from Mami's to cause ship-teasing awkwardness.
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Based on the description so far:
-Tender bits protected.
-Gloves and boots to handle/walk on hazardous materials
-Minimal absorbent material to retain corrosive/toxic liquids.
-All parts rapidly detachable to deal with grabby things or nasties crawling/trickling into clothing.
-Easily replaced in piecemeal

My conclusion is...lots of leather straps. And probably a metal cup.
 
Vote Tally : Puella Magi Interficio Antitheus | Page 38 | Sufficient Velocity
##### NetTally 1.5.11

[X] A red Kyubey? How did that happen?
[X] Is Ryubey - and Kyubey, for that matter - a personal name or a species description? (OOC: we know the answer is "both", but Tatsuya doesn't know Kyubey is a hive mind.)
[X] What exactly was your motivation in giving me these powers?
[X] Does the present-time Kyubey know that you exist?
[X] Did you travel back in time with me, or did you somehow come back separately?
[X] Is there any significant risk of anyone or anything else travelling back in time from the future we came from? If so, what are our likely enemies?
[X] What do you know about my magical abilities? Any training suggestions?
[X] Do I need grief seeds? If not, why do Magical Girls need them? (OOC: this could lead us in a very interesting direction...)
[X] How long do we have until Doomsday? What can you remember about history leading up to it?
[X] Do you have any idea who the Devil might be, or where I can pick up his/her trail?
No. of Votes: 6

[X] Pinch its cheeks and play with its face.
No. of Votes: 2

[X] A red Kyubey? How did that happen?
[X] What exactly was your motivation in giving me these powers?
[X] Does the present-time Kyubey know that you exist?
[X] Did you travel back in time with me, or did you somehow come back separately?
[X] Is there any significant risk of anyone or anything else travelling back in time from the future we came from? If so, what are our likely enemies?
[X] What do you know about my magical abilities? Any training suggestions?
[X] Do I need grief seeds? If not, why do Magical Girls need them? (OOC: this could lead us in a very interesting direction...)
[X] How long do we have until Doomsday? What can you remember about history leading up to it?
[X] Do you have any idea who the Devil might be, or where I can pick up his/her trail?
No. of Votes: 1

[X] A red Kyubey? How did that happen?
[X] Is Ryubey - and Kyubey, for that matter - a personal name or a species description? (OOC: we know the answer is "both", but Tatsuya doesn't know Kyubey is a hive mind.)
[X] What exactly was your motivation in giving me these powers?
[X] Does the present-time Kyubey know that you exist?
[X] Did you travel back in time with me, or did you somehow come back separately?
[X] Is there any significant risk of anyone or anything else travelling back in time from the future we came from? If so, what are our likely enemies?
[X] What do you know about my magical abilities? Any training suggestions?
[X] Do I need grief seeds? If not, why do Magical Girls need them? (OOC: this could lead us in a very interesting direction...)
[X] How long do we have until Doomsday? What can you remember about history leading up to it?
[X] Do you have any idea who the Devil might be, or where I can pick up his/her trail?
[X] Leave through the window and go around the city, the more you know how this city is now the better.
- [X] Write a note beforehand to Mami, you don't want her to worry.
No. of Votes: 1

[x]applejohn
No. of Votes: 1

[X] All the questions!
No. of Votes: 1

[x] What's a pun?
[x] Why can't I remember things?
[x] Did you come back with me?
[x] Can you bring others back?
[x] ...Do you know how I can change back? I can't figure it out.
[x] Do you know where the devil is? Or how I can find her?
[x] Am I supposed to keep you a secret?
No. of Votes: 1

Total No. of Voters: 13
 
LostDeviljho said:
Vote Tally : Puella Magi Interficio Antitheus | Page 38 | Sufficient Velocity
##### NetTally 1.5.11

[X] A red Kyubey? How did that happen?
[X] Is Ryubey - and Kyubey, for that matter - a personal name or a species description? (OOC: we know the answer is "both", but Tatsuya doesn't know Kyubey is a hive mind.)
[X] What exactly was your motivation in giving me these powers?
[X] Does the present-time Kyubey know that you exist?
[X] Did you travel back in time with me, or did you somehow come back separately?
[X] Is there any significant risk of anyone or anything else travelling back in time from the future we came from? If so, what are our likely enemies?
[X] What do you know about my magical abilities? Any training suggestions?
[X] Do I need grief seeds? If not, why do Magical Girls need them? (OOC: this could lead us in a very interesting direction...)
[X] How long do we have until Doomsday? What can you remember about history leading up to it?
[X] Do you have any idea who the Devil might be, or where I can pick up his/her trail?
No. of Votes: 6

[X] Pinch its cheeks and play with its face.
No. of Votes: 2

[X] A red Kyubey? How did that happen?
[X] What exactly was your motivation in giving me these powers?
[X] Does the present-time Kyubey know that you exist?
[X] Did you travel back in time with me, or did you somehow come back separately?
[X] Is there any significant risk of anyone or anything else travelling back in time from the future we came from? If so, what are our likely enemies?
[X] What do you know about my magical abilities? Any training suggestions?
[X] Do I need grief seeds? If not, why do Magical Girls need them? (OOC: this could lead us in a very interesting direction...)
[X] How long do we have until Doomsday? What can you remember about history leading up to it?
[X] Do you have any idea who the Devil might be, or where I can pick up his/her trail?
No. of Votes: 1

[X] A red Kyubey? How did that happen?
[X] Is Ryubey - and Kyubey, for that matter - a personal name or a species description? (OOC: we know the answer is "both", but Tatsuya doesn't know Kyubey is a hive mind.)
[X] What exactly was your motivation in giving me these powers?
[X] Does the present-time Kyubey know that you exist?
[X] Did you travel back in time with me, or did you somehow come back separately?
[X] Is there any significant risk of anyone or anything else travelling back in time from the future we came from? If so, what are our likely enemies?
[X] What do you know about my magical abilities? Any training suggestions?
[X] Do I need grief seeds? If not, why do Magical Girls need them? (OOC: this could lead us in a very interesting direction...)
[X] How long do we have until Doomsday? What can you remember about history leading up to it?
[X] Do you have any idea who the Devil might be, or where I can pick up his/her trail?
[X] Leave through the window and go around the city, the more you know how this city is now the better.
- [X] Write a note beforehand to Mami, you don't want her to worry.
No. of Votes: 1

[x]applejohn
No. of Votes: 1

[X] All the questions!
No. of Votes: 1

[x] What's a pun?
[x] Why can't I remember things?
[x] Did you come back with me?
[x] Can you bring others back?
[x] ...Do you know how I can change back? I can't figure it out.
[x] Do you know where the devil is? Or how I can find her?
[x] Am I supposed to keep you a secret?
No. of Votes: 1

Total No. of Voters: 13
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Danke.
 
Just noticed this.

RexHeller said:
Mami showed you where you'd be sleeping. "Here's the guest bedroom. I hope you find it to your liking." The room inside has a bed with red blankets, a couple of wooden structures, one with a pair of doors and the other with lots of drawers, and large windows with sheets of cloth in front of them that you presume you can pull shut to prevent people from seeing inside.
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Emphasis by me.

I wonder who's slept in this room before us.....
 
I'd make a comment about sleeping in the same bed and OTPs, but that might actually be a bit creepy...
 
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Ryubey the exposition fairy
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    • You regard Ryubey with caution. You have your doubts about how trustworthy he is but that's par for the course with you. Still, this might be the perfect opportunity for to get some answers. Weren't you just complaining to yourself earlier that you have no idea what you're doing? Also long as you keep your guard up it should be fine to ask a few questions. You blurt out the first that comes to mind. "How come you're red?"

    "Food coloring." Ryubey answers. "Seriously, of all the questions you could ask that's what you open with? But if you're really curious it's to show my individuality. It's like how humans wear different styles of clothing when you could all just wear numbered jumpsuits or something and be done with it. Red's my favourite color so I'm red!" Once past the jokes he speaks with a vehemence that's surprising to you. You don't see the big deal but apparently that he's his favorite color is very important to him.

    While he was talking you came up with your next question. "Is Ryubey your name or your species? What about Kyubey?"

    "Ryubey's my name, didn't I just say that?" Ryubey answers in a tone that makes it clear he thinks you're an idiot. "As for Kyubey, it's sort of both? It's complicated. Kyubey is short for <Incubator>, which means incubator in English. That's as close to a species name as you'll get and all the white Kyubey's are called Kyubey. Does that help?"

    It really doesn't, instead it just raises more questions. You decide to move on. Hopefully if he explains more then it will start making sense. "Why did you give me these powers?"

    Ryubey just stares at you. "I picked an idiot. This is the best I could do? This moron was the best option I had? Why didn't I give him an I.Q. test before I went and picked A FUCKING IDIOT!" He yells at himself before addressing you again. "I gave you that magic so that you could kill the Devil. Y'know that big, evil bitch with the phenomenal comic power? The one that ruined your life? That Devil? Ringing any bells?"

    "Jackass."

    "Hey, you ask a stupid question you get an angry Ryubey. Now are you going to stop wasting my time and ask something important?"

    "Fine. Does Kyubey know you exist?"

    "I don't see how that's relevant." He answers. You tilt you head to the side and look at him, remaining silent. "Alright! Fine! It's complicated okay! Technically he knows I exist but right now he doesn't know that I'm active."

    "Did you travel back in time with me or did you come back separately?"

    Ryubey shrugs. "Eh, it's more like you came back with me."

    "Could someone else come back too? Like the Devil?"

    "FINALLY!" Ryubey cheers. "The boy asks something important! Yes!" He jumps about in joy for a bit before settling again. "Right, quick answer is yes. Long answer is longer. Not only did we come back in time but we also have gone back through two universal resets. That means that the entire universe got changed not only in the present but also retroactively twice, once by the Devil and once by something else that I don't know."

    "What does retroactively mean?"

    Ryubey glares at you. "Don't interrupt me when I'm on a roll! Uhg. Retroactively means that the entirety of history was overwritten. Now time travel is possible with magic, if extremely difficult, but there's no way to go back to a previous universe, not even with a wish. At least not normally but luckily, I cheat." He preens, sounding very impressed with himself.

    "Get to the point." You demand.

    "Right, sorry. So, practical answer. The Devil has her memories of what happened in this universe. If you change things too much before killing her, her memories will change and she'll realize something's up. If that happens she'll probably send her servants back to check out what's up and deal with you. I doubt there's anything that'd make her come back in time to deal with you herself. She's too obsessed with your sister to leave her for even a second."

    You nod. Hopefully you can find the Devil quickly before you she realizes what's happening. Dealing with her servants constantly attacking would make a hard job close to impossible. Time for the next question. "What about my magic? What abilities do I have?"

    "Ummmmmm." Ryubey hums to himself and looks at the ceiling. You guess he's thinking of what to say. "How much did Kyubey explain about the magic system to you?"

    "Not much. 'Make contract, get magic' was about it." You answer.

    "Right well, skipping over the details for now, I've basically rigged the deck in your favor. Not only should you be more powerful then every Magical Girl ever but you also don't have any of the downsides. If you want more details than that feel free to ask but it's sort of complicated. Oh! And you're sort of permanently transformed."

    Well you'd wondered about that last bit. Now you know. "Any suggestion on how to train my magic?"

    "Fuck if I know. The way I work magic and the way you work magic are probably completely different."

    Well that was informative. Next question. "Do I need Grief Seeds? If not, why do Magical Girls need them?"

    "Nah, you don't need Grief Seeds. No Soul Gem. Magical Girls need them to not turn into Witches."

    You're shocked by his nonchalance. "What."

    "Yeah, if a Magical Girl's Soul Gem gets completely filled with Grief it shatters and gives birth to a Witch. It's one of the many things that Kyubey doesn't actually tell the girls he contracts with. "

    "What."

    "Yep! There's lots the little shit doesn't tell them. Like the fact that their Soul Gems are their actual souls. He rips 'em right out of their chests. You'd be surprised how many girls think it's just a metaphor. And the kicker is that he doesn't technically lie. He's actually can't tell a untrue fact, it's literally impossible for him."

    "What." You say a third time. Ryubey starts to talk again but you hold up your hand to stop him. What you've just be told, it's disturbing. You need time to process this but right now isn't the time. You still don't trust Ryubey, hell it might even be lying about everything, so until he leaves you're just going to put the Witch thing aside for now and thing about it later. For now, you'll keep asking questions. "How long do I have to kill the Devil? How long before she becomes all power full? How much do you remember about this time?"

    "Slow down there cowboy! One question at a time!" Ryubey say, laughing. "To answer your last question first, nothing. I wasn't active during this time so I have no personal memories of what's going on here. As for how long you have, I'd say you have about a month before the first cosmic reset. After that, you might be able to kill the Devil or you might not, I have no idea. I have no information about that universe. The second reset is when the Devil takes over so you need to kill her by then at the very latest but you really should find and murder her as quickly as possible."

    A month, huh? You'd like to say that's plenty of time but you have no idea how hard it'll be to find her. Speaking of which, maybe Ryubey has a clue. "Any idea how I can find the Devil?"

    Ryubey's eyes light up with joy and his smarmy smirk grows into a huge grin. "I though you'd never ask. You might want to sit down for this, it's a long story and I'm quite proud of it so you're getting the whole thing. No short version for you."

    "I'll stand."

    "Suit yourself." He shrugs and dives right into his story. "First off, remember how I said I wasn't going to go into detail on how magic works? Forget that, you need to know this to understand how genius I am. The two important things about magic are how much karmic potential you have and that hope and despair have to equal out to zero. Let's start with karmic potential."

    "Karmic potential is how much you'll change the world over the course of your life if magic doesn't get involved. For example, someone who's going to grow up to rule a nation is going to have a ton of potential while someone who's going to grow up to be a homeless ne'er-do-well won't have much at all. Karmic potential determines how much magical power there is available to you. When a Magical Girl makes a wish it's vital that she doesn't wish over her karmic potential otherwise bad things happen as the universe slams them for being greedy."

    "Now about hope and despair balancing out. When a Magical Girl makes a wish that generates a certain amount of hope that depends on their karmic potential as well as exactly what the wish is. After the wish is made the universe is going to keep making them suffer until they've endured an amount of despair equal to the hope generated by the wish. To summarize, the higher your karmic potential the more magic you can use and the more power you get from magic the more you suffer."

    "I don't see what this has to do with finding the Devil." You say, interrupting the impromptu lecture on magical physics.

    "Bear with me here, this is important. Let's switch gears for a bit. Now you already know that the Devil sort of broke physics in the future. Well she also broke magic or at least she loosened the rules a little. After that, all it took was a little creativity and cleverness on my part and I's able to pretty much do what I wanted as long as I was smart. As it turns out, breaking the system is pretty easy if you know what your doing. However just because I was free to fuck around with magic as much as I wanted, that didn't mean I could take on the Devil. She was still in control and I was only able to do what I wanted because she couldn't be bothered to swat me like a bug. If I wanted her dead I'd need someone to do the dirty work. Which brings us to you."

    "To be entirely frank, your karmic potential sucked. I don't know about before the cosmic resets but in the world you grew up in you were never going to be anyone important. If you made a wish the traditional way you likely would have been one of the weakest Magical Girls ever and not just because you're a boy. However, you were still the best candidate in every other respect so I had to do what I do best: cheat."

    You roll your eyes. "Still not seeing what this has to do with finding the Devil."

    "INTERUPT ME AGAIN KIDDO! SEE WHAT HAPPENS!" Ryubey yells at you forcefully. He coughs a small cough and goes right back to lecturing as if that didn't just happen. "As I was saying, your potential sucked. So I stole someone else's. Bettcha can't guess who. C'mon guess!"

    "I don't know, the Devil?" You respond sarcastically.

    "EXACTLY RIGHT! THE DEVIL!" Ryubey yells again, this time in joy instead of anger. "I managed to steal the karmic potential of the girl who could control the entire universe, the single most important person ever! And I used to make you the single most badass magical motherfucker in the world! But wait, there's more! Not only did I steal her potential, but all that suffering you would have gone through to pay for all that magic power? I made sure that the Devil would suffer instead. Of course I had to do it retroactively so that she wouldn't notice and smite the two of us."

    "And that's how you're going to find the Devil. By this point in time most, if not all of the despair she's been suffering through should be done. So all you need to do is find the Magical Girl that's suffered the most and kill her by the end of the month. Simple right?" Ryubey finishes, looking extremely proud of himself.

    [] Ask Ryubey more questions. (Write in)
    [] Tell Ryubey to leave and get some sleep.
    Yeah, that probably raises more even more questions, don't it.
     
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    • RexHeller said:
    "EXACTLY RIGHT! THE DEVIL!" Ryubey yells again, this time in joy instead of anger. "I managed to steal the karmic potential of the girl who could control the entire universe, the single most important person ever! And I used to make you the single most badass magical motherfucker in the world! But wait, there's more! Not only did I steal her potential, but all that suffering you would have gone through to pay for all that magic power? I made sure that the Devil would suffer instead. Of course I had to do it retroactively so that she wouldn't notice and smite the two of us."

    "And that's how you're going to find the Devil. By this point in time most, if not all of the despair she's been suffering through should be done. So all you need to do is find the Magical Girl that's suffered the most and kill her by the end of the month. Simple right?" Ryubey finishes, looking extremely proud of himself.
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    Well that totally won't backfire horribly.
     
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