A plastic bag flies into your face as you sit up.
This… this is not Uminari. It's not that...
This… this is not Uminari. It's not that...
Reflection (Worm/Mage Quest)
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Anondylar
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A plastic bag flies into your face as you sit up.
This… this is not Uminari. It's not that strange place outside reality either. This means that that strange entity didn't send you back home, or at least, somewhere near it.
That means either two things: that it screwed up, or it decided to dick around with you.
The second option is more comforting, so you choose it. When in doubt, believe what is more fluffy - you think you heard that from… someone when you were little. Your sister, probably. You don't think any philosopher or intelligent person would use 'fluffy' to describe anything they boomed officiously and in cryptic sentence structures while scribes scribbled down everything, including when they accidentally coughed.
… and now your thoughts are scattering. It's because of the pain. You rub your cheeks. No, no, that can't do. Even though it's like that time you pulverized your hand (Note: Do not try this at home; it's dangerous) by punching a wall to test how many times you could punch it, only applied to your entire body, it's not an excuse to not be completely focused on the matter at hand.
Or maybe you should start at the beginning? Make sure that you know you're you and not some clone or parallel world version of you or something?
Maybe you should do that.
You name is Juri Wright. You were born about ten years ago, and at the age of six that you had magic, like Gandalf. Though your magic didn't resemble Gandalf's in any way, which was slightly disappointing. In any case, you had tried to follow the teachings of Nasu, but you were largely unsuccessful, due to your magic not being that of the moonlit world. Still, it inspired you a bit.
After that, you'd travelled to Japan for a holiday and met a magical girl of the name Takamachi and a magical ferret of the name- Wait, didn't you go to England and… what did you do?
Wait, wait, weren't you eleven years old and-
You sigh. The theory of you a parallel version of a clone is now looking far more likely, and it is slightly depressing. But you should focus on the matter at hand - that should be more productive than considering your existence being a clone of a parallel version of you.
And that, at this moment, is finding out exactly where you are. First things first, after all.
You tear the plastic bag away from your head and stand up. Hands on your hips, you survey your surroundings for anything that'll tell you where you are.
[] A window to a building to your right shows an astounding sight - a little girl performing surgery.
[] A costumed person climbs up to your roof just as you finish considering your existence. How convenient.
[] In the distance, there's a giant lizard fighting another giant… thingy. Well, the first giant thing isn't exactly a lizard either, but you like lizards. (Wait, when?)
This… this is not Uminari. It's not that strange place outside reality either. This means that that strange entity didn't send you back home, or at least, somewhere near it.
That means either two things: that it screwed up, or it decided to dick around with you.
The second option is more comforting, so you choose it. When in doubt, believe what is more fluffy - you think you heard that from… someone when you were little. Your sister, probably. You don't think any philosopher or intelligent person would use 'fluffy' to describe anything they boomed officiously and in cryptic sentence structures while scribes scribbled down everything, including when they accidentally coughed.
… and now your thoughts are scattering. It's because of the pain. You rub your cheeks. No, no, that can't do. Even though it's like that time you pulverized your hand (Note: Do not try this at home; it's dangerous) by punching a wall to test how many times you could punch it, only applied to your entire body, it's not an excuse to not be completely focused on the matter at hand.
Or maybe you should start at the beginning? Make sure that you know you're you and not some clone or parallel world version of you or something?
Maybe you should do that.
You name is Juri Wright. You were born about ten years ago, and at the age of six that you had magic, like Gandalf. Though your magic didn't resemble Gandalf's in any way, which was slightly disappointing. In any case, you had tried to follow the teachings of Nasu, but you were largely unsuccessful, due to your magic not being that of the moonlit world. Still, it inspired you a bit.
After that, you'd travelled to Japan for a holiday and met a magical girl of the name Takamachi and a magical ferret of the name- Wait, didn't you go to England and… what did you do?
Wait, wait, weren't you eleven years old and-
You sigh. The theory of you a parallel version of a clone is now looking far more likely, and it is slightly depressing. But you should focus on the matter at hand - that should be more productive than considering your existence being a clone of a parallel version of you.
And that, at this moment, is finding out exactly where you are. First things first, after all.
You tear the plastic bag away from your head and stand up. Hands on your hips, you survey your surroundings for anything that'll tell you where you are.
[] A window to a building to your right shows an astounding sight - a little girl performing surgery.
[] A costumed person climbs up to your roof just as you finish considering your existence. How convenient.
[] In the distance, there's a giant lizard fighting another giant… thingy. Well, the first giant thing isn't exactly a lizard either, but you like lizards. (Wait, when?)
OctarineShrike
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[X] A window to a building to your right shows an astounding sight - a little girl performing surgery.
[X] A window to a building to your right shows an astounding sight - a little girl performing surgery.
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[X] A window to a building to your right shows an astounding sight - a little girl performing surgery.
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[X] A window to a building to your right shows an astounding sight - a little girl performing surgery.
[X] In the distance, there's a giant lizard fighting another giant… thingy. Well, the first giant thing isn't exactly a lizard either, but you like lizards. (Wait, when?)
Why do people want to be anywhere near Bonesaw?
Did you forget the part where she'd take us apart to see how we ticked? Then put us back together with 'improvements' and start getting creative?
Why do people want to be anywhere near Bonesaw?
Did you forget the part where she'd take us apart to see how we ticked? Then put us back together with 'improvements' and start getting creative?
PhoenixFTW
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[X] In the distance, there's a giant lizard fighting another giant… thingy. Well, the first giant thing isn't exactly a lizard either, but you like lizards. (Wait, when?)
I'd prefer the costumed person, but I'd be the only vote for that, and I don't want the S9 to win.
I'd prefer the costumed person, but I'd be the only vote for that, and I don't want the S9 to win.
In which case we are in close proximity to the entire Slaughterhouse 9. Not an improvement.
Same here.
EDIT: Actually, holding off on voting for a moment
Why not?
[x] A costumed person climbs up to your roof just as you finish considering your existence. How convenient.
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Concentrated Blast (27) + Fork (21) = 8 magical beams, each more notably powerful then a Divine Buster.
Lighting Bolt (32) + Fork (21) = 8 lighting bolts each capable of blowing up a (small) home.
Juri can basically spam the latter forever and the former for as long as there is sufficient potential difference in her surroundings. Not enough to kill Leviathan but it should at least make her stand out.
Defensively we'd likely throw up Unpredictability and Unexpected while abusing Juri's supersonic flight (540m/s) and ability to teleport up to 540 meters three times a second. If we're willing to burn a some of Juri's (tiny) power supply we could go for Subtle Sky (30) which will let Juri pass through any physical object.
The question is do parahuman powers, or more importantly Leviathan's water, count as magical matter or just regular physical matter?
Since I don't remember you playing Mage Quest here's a link to thread one, since from what I can tell that's where the divergence likely occurred, the stats/abilities/spells/ect listed there should be mostly accurate for the PoD from what I can recall.
I mean it's simpler than that: Leviathan has already destroyed Japan, so unless we're killing Leviathan, the game is over on that count, aside from making Lung feel better. Whereas frying half the S9 to save Riley from becoming Bonesaw is a lot more likely to make a difference.
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Except we have no way of doing that.
We know at the very least the Siberian and Nice Guy are members of the S9 and from what I recall we have no way of dealing with them. Especially Nice Guy.
Have I mentioned Nice Guy? He's such as nice guy isn't he?
Where as fighting Leviathan, even if Japan is basically screwed at this point, would earn Juri a rep as a heavy hitter.
And depending on just how much as changed, since Juri appears to have memories of alternate versions of herself, we might actually be capable of hurting Leviathan.
Juri has a lot of dimensional and conceptual magic with the issue been not enough power to use them. So if either her Focus or Power have gone up from this jaunt well...
She was only about 12 years old when Worm started and she triggered at 8 or 9 IIRC.