AnonymousRabbit
Rabbit Faced
I'm left to wonder what kind of MG this Witch hatched from.... Fem!Shinji?
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Renascence: A Homura Quest
- Thread starter Higure
- Start date
- Crossover Fantasy Mystery
Hyp3rB14d3
Gotta catch 'em all!
Nadia?
Ugh. Yeah, need to figure out how to bypass that if it really has one.
Hyp3rB14d3
Gotta catch 'em all!
It does. It almost certainly does. We're about to unstop time and watch as all those spears Kyouko just launched at it bounce off and do nothing.
[jk] Stick out your hand, "10000 yen for the info."
TheBleachDoctor
Secretly a Cat
- Location
- The Plane of Infinite Kittens
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[x]Explain
-[x]"This is called a witch, and we're in a barrier it controls. It's filling the place with negative energy, so be careful how you use your magic."
-[x]"We can talk more about it later, are you fit to keep fighting?"
[x]Disable time stop. See the result of Kyoko's attack. Strategize and adapt.
-[x]Coordinate with them both and come up with a strategy to fight this witch. Keep an Eye on the Familiars but focus on the witch.
-[x]Look for a weak point in the witch. See how much damage Kyoko´s spears did to each area. Extrapolate from your knowledge of the series. Use short bursts of time stop to pull your allies out of danger or to enable hit and run tactics.
-[x]Stop using Time Stop once Grief exceeds 650.
-[x]"This is called a witch, and we're in a barrier it controls. It's filling the place with negative energy, so be careful how you use your magic."
-[x]"We can talk more about it later, are you fit to keep fighting?"
[x]Disable time stop. See the result of Kyoko's attack. Strategize and adapt.
-[x]Coordinate with them both and come up with a strategy to fight this witch. Keep an Eye on the Familiars but focus on the witch.
-[x]Look for a weak point in the witch. See how much damage Kyoko´s spears did to each area. Extrapolate from your knowledge of the series. Use short bursts of time stop to pull your allies out of danger or to enable hit and run tactics.
-[x]Stop using Time Stop once Grief exceeds 650.
AnonymousRabbit
Rabbit Faced
[x]Explain
-[x]"This is called a witch, and we're in a barrier it controls. It's filling the place with negative energy, so be careful how you use your magic."
-[x]"We can talk more about it later, are you fit to keep fighting?"
[x]Disable time stop. See the result of Kyoko's attack. Strategize and adapt.
-[x]Coordinate with them both and come up with a strategy to fight this witch. Keep an Eye on the Familiars but focus on the witch.
-[x]Look for a weak point in the witch. See how much damage Kyoko´s spears did to each area. Extrapolate from your knowledge of the series. Use short bursts of time stop to pull your allies out of danger or to enable hit and run tactics.
-[x]Stop using Time Stop once Grief exceeds 650.
-[x]"This is called a witch, and we're in a barrier it controls. It's filling the place with negative energy, so be careful how you use your magic."
-[x]"We can talk more about it later, are you fit to keep fighting?"
[x]Disable time stop. See the result of Kyoko's attack. Strategize and adapt.
-[x]Coordinate with them both and come up with a strategy to fight this witch. Keep an Eye on the Familiars but focus on the witch.
-[x]Look for a weak point in the witch. See how much damage Kyoko´s spears did to each area. Extrapolate from your knowledge of the series. Use short bursts of time stop to pull your allies out of danger or to enable hit and run tactics.
-[x]Stop using Time Stop once Grief exceeds 650.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
I think I'll go with Madness of Clocks.
Can't wait to see what the possible bonuses are for the other omake.
[x]Explain
-[x]"This is called a witch, and we're in a barrier it controls. It's filling the place with negative energy such as despair, hopelessness, and misery, so be careful how you use your magic."
-[x]"We can talk more about it later, are you fit to keep fighting?"
[x]Disable time stop. See the result of Kyoko's attack. Strategize and adapt.
-[x]Coordinate with them both and come up with a strategy to fight this witch. Keep an Eye on the Familiars but focus on the witch.
-[x]Look for a weak point in the witch. See how much damage Kyoko´s spears did to each area. Extrapolate from your knowledge of the series. Use short bursts of time stop to pull your allies out of danger or to enable hit and run tactics.
--[X] Maybe aim for the big red glowing thing on its chest?
-[x]Stop using Time Stop once Grief exceeds 650.
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EtchedSteel
*mumble mumble*
- Location
- Lima. Peru
[x] Explain.
-[x] It's a witch, and appears to have taken a form based on a monster from a TV show called Evangelion, so its weak point should be the red orb in the center of its chest. Watch out for spears shooting out of its hands.
-[x] Focus on using your own magic or weapons; don't draw from the environment.
-[x] Watch out for the lesser creatures wandering in, but once the witch itself is dead, this entire barrier should collapse.
-[x] I'll drop the time stop now. We can see how much damage Kyouko's spears did, and go from there. If you need time to prep an attack, let me know.
-[x] It's a witch, and appears to have taken a form based on a monster from a TV show called Evangelion, so its weak point should be the red orb in the center of its chest. Watch out for spears shooting out of its hands.
-[x] Focus on using your own magic or weapons; don't draw from the environment.
-[x] Watch out for the lesser creatures wandering in, but once the witch itself is dead, this entire barrier should collapse.
-[x] I'll drop the time stop now. We can see how much damage Kyouko's spears did, and go from there. If you need time to prep an attack, let me know.
AnonymousRabbit
Rabbit Faced
[x]Chimeraguard
[x]Chimeraguard
Entropy Judge
Recurring Bouts of Misanthropy
Two Rabbits in one quest? Clearly they must do battle.
Crow
Falling is a Pleasure. Regardless of its Fate
Go on then! there can only be one! bring the Highlander pics! only one Incubator can exist at the same time!
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AnonymousRabbit
Rabbit Faced
... I am.... THE CABBIT.
I am the one! Also, that cat is totally a rabbit.
Entropy Judge
Recurring Bouts of Misanthropy
I was imagining something like this. Mainly because my muse is suffering.
...
No, seriously, my muse is suffering right now. I'm trying to write something, but my muse isn't cooperating, so it's kind of tied to an industrial-grade grinding stone.
*sounds of tortured screaming*
... Maybe I should get a different muse?
AnonymousRabbit
Rabbit Faced
Inb4 someone writes an omake about Homu daydreaming about dueling rabbits try to behead one another.
And then Higure gives out bonuses for it....
And then Higure gives out bonuses for it....
Entropy Judge
Recurring Bouts of Misanthropy
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
So, now that the updates done, and we're gonna be facing down the horrible monster soon, what bonuses did the omakes give us?
Omake: Silence
Entropy Judge
Recurring Bouts of Misanthropy
Does anyone know where I can find lots of muses for cheap?
Homura Akemi took a deep breath as she sat in the hospital bed. I can do this. The cameras have blind spots, if you can find them; it's only the people I need to worry about. If this worked, she should have significantly more freedom than she had in previous attempts to save Madoka. If. With one final look around the room that had been hers for so long, Homura rose to unsteady feet, got dressed, made sure her braids and glasses were in place, and took small, wavering steps as she made her way down the hall. There were a few close calls as hospital staff passed her by, but she simply nodded respectfully to them and, since she wasn't dressed as a patient, they nodded back and let her go on her way. The first two corners were unusable, clogged with people as they were. Homura fumed inwardly, but the third blind corner - more of a dog-leg jog in the hallway - was free of observers. Though it required the most effort to actually exit the hospital without being spotted, Homura leapt at the chance, almost hurrying before she remembered to keep her speed down. As she entered the two-second window during which no cameras would be able to observe her, she quickly transformed, bringing her shield into play, and froze time. She quickly checked her position relative to the cameras' location, then grinned and, for the first time in dozens of loops, laughed happily. Quickly regaining her composure, she rushed through the hospital and outside to freedom, glad that she had been able to complete the checkout paperwork in her room.
As far as the world was concerned, the girl known as Homura Akemi vanished completely some time after 1400 on March 16, 2011. This would go unnoticed by anyone until over a week later, when her father noticed that no expenditures had been made on the card issued to her. A formal investigation of the hospital revealed that the last known sighting of her occurred on a security camera at 1409. The hospital was not blamed for her disappearance.
Here I am. Homura stood in the shadows of one of the few remaining buildings on this bank of the river, watching Kyouko and Mami hammer futilely against the apparently-impervious hide. As they fell back from the buildings thrown through the air by the cackling Witch, Homura transformed and stopped time. They will need time to recover, to use Grief Seeds to lower their Corruption. She pulled dozens, then hundreds, of weapons to use against the Witch - RPGs, anti-tank rockets, and short-range anti-air missiles. As the frozen sky above her became cluttered with munitions, Homura resisted the temptation to throw everything she had at the Witch in a single massive salvo; that tactic had never worked before, and what was important now as covering Kyouko and Mami, so sustained fire was imperative. Finally satisfied with her initial volley, the black-haired girl unfroze time, and the varied missiles streaked upwards to detonate against the stage-building Witch. A series of explosions rocked the abomination, distracting it from its initial prey and alerting it to Homura's presence. A flood of familiars flew to her position, and she smiled grimly. Time for the next phase.
Twice more Kyouko and Mami made their attacks; whenever they did so, Homura withdrew, cleansing her own Soul Gem and ensuring her arsenal was still able to keep up the fight. As the two girls pulled back for the third time, however, a high-pitched wail erupted from their position, then a wave of black energy roiled outward. Temporarily abandoning her assault on the great Witch, Homura leapt onto a nearby building to see what had happened - and saw Kyouko frozen in shock as Candeloro, Mami's Witch, bound her with ribbons, then made a single, almost gentle, strike against her Soul Gem. As the familiars of Walpurgisnacht converged on her position, and the Witch itself began to flip over, presenting the gears of its upper body to the town below, Homura closed her eyes and looped again.
As far as the world was concerned, the girl known as Homura Akemi vanished completely some time after 1400 on March 16, 2011. This would go unnoticed by anyone until over a week later, when her father noticed that no expenditures had been made on the card issued to her. A formal investigation of the hospital revealed that the last known sighting of her occurred on a security camera at 1409. The hospital was not blamed for her disappearance.
*
I think I understand why Kyouko does what she does, Homura thought as she sat on a shadowed rooftop, eating a stolen meal as she observed Madoka and Sayaka from her perch. She had, so far, been able to keep Kyubey from introducing himself to Madoka, though his appearances at school had been difficult to disrupt, due to the number of people and Mami's presence. She had considered obtaining a bow or crossbow to take the creature out silently, but had opted instead for extreme vigilance and her Magic Blasts - weak as they were compared to firearms, their near-silence made them the far better option for stealth kills. I imagine Mami is getting rather frazzled by now, as well. Between the brief spurts of magic she must be sensing and the Grief Seeds I leave near her, she must be wondering what is going on, and with Kyubey unable to help explain she can't help but be concerned.*
Days passed, turning to weeks. Kyubey had been successfully kept from Madoka and Sayaka, and Mami and Kyouko had managed to patch together a somewhat creaky relationship after Mami had gone to her former partner to beg her to stop tormenting her. Homura felt bad for the deception, but believed the benefits to outweigh the risks - without Sayaka to blunder into a Grief Spiral, knowledge of the true nature and fate of magical girls could wait until after the critical danger had passed and Mami could be watched to ensure she proved no threat; similarly, Kyouko would have no need to sacrifice herself against Sayaka's Witch; Madoka would not contract so long as Kyubey could not contact her; Mami would not fall into a state of overconfidence and thus hasten her death; and between the three of them, Homura was certain that she, Mami, and Kyouko could bring down Walpurgisnacht without Madoka needing to be involved, even though Kyubey would likely contact her during the battle. She only needed to keep it up for a few more weeks, nineteen more days until the arrival of Walpurgisnacht and the - hopefully - decisive battle.*
"Just three more days~ Just three more days~" Homura softly chanted to herself as she folded another piece of blue paper. She now had a massive origami army, hundreds strong, consisting of skirmishing and flanking Kyoukos, a dense firing line of Mamis, and a protective ring of Sayakas surrounding the huddled Madokas. She giggled softly to herself as she considered the folded figures, admiring the colored ranks arrayed before her. The cats behind her meowed softly, jumping in and out of the several large cardboard boxes Homura had obtained. She looked back quickly to make sure their food and water dishes were still full, then returned to her paper-folding, only to see several wet splotches on the piece she was holding. She furiously crumpled it up and tossed it aside before turning her attention to the roof. "I'm going to find that leak! I keep fixing this stupid roof but it keeps getting leaks!"*
Kyouko and Mami stood at the edge of a rooftop, watching the massive Witch float through the sky toward Mitakihara. Whether Kyubey had told them, they'd simply felt the disruptions and come to deal with it, or they'd learned from some other source, Homura didn't know. She only knew that they were there, standing between Walpurgisnacht and the citizens of Mitakihara, and that was good enough for her. She continued her observation as the Witch drifted into reality, its circus preceding it, that maddening laugh echoing in her ears. The veteran magical girls advanced as the Witch came into view, Kyouko leading the way with her flashing spear, Mami two bounds behind her - close enough to support her easily, but far enough to prevent the two from being caught in the same attack. Kyubey wasn't with them - he was probably in the shelter trying to convince Madoka to form a contract with him. Maybe I should have warned her? But with other people there, she should be fine … there's no reason for her to wander off, and she'll probably dismiss Kyubey as something stress-induced ….. Homura took a deep breath before resuming her watch on the two girls advancing on Walpurgisnacht. Though still quite far from the Witch itself, a cloud of darkness advanced on them, a vast horde of familiars seeking to eliminate them. Homura nodded somberly. Hopefully they would be able to cut through the shadows of magical girls, then continue on toward the Witch while Homura made her way to the location she had selected. This was the most dangerous part of her plan - she hadn't transformed yet, hoping that the lack of a signature would let her close on her enemy without being detected, but if a pack of familiars attacked her she risked death without having the chance to fight back.Here I am. Homura stood in the shadows of one of the few remaining buildings on this bank of the river, watching Kyouko and Mami hammer futilely against the apparently-impervious hide. As they fell back from the buildings thrown through the air by the cackling Witch, Homura transformed and stopped time. They will need time to recover, to use Grief Seeds to lower their Corruption. She pulled dozens, then hundreds, of weapons to use against the Witch - RPGs, anti-tank rockets, and short-range anti-air missiles. As the frozen sky above her became cluttered with munitions, Homura resisted the temptation to throw everything she had at the Witch in a single massive salvo; that tactic had never worked before, and what was important now as covering Kyouko and Mami, so sustained fire was imperative. Finally satisfied with her initial volley, the black-haired girl unfroze time, and the varied missiles streaked upwards to detonate against the stage-building Witch. A series of explosions rocked the abomination, distracting it from its initial prey and alerting it to Homura's presence. A flood of familiars flew to her position, and she smiled grimly. Time for the next phase.
Twice more Kyouko and Mami made their attacks; whenever they did so, Homura withdrew, cleansing her own Soul Gem and ensuring her arsenal was still able to keep up the fight. As the two girls pulled back for the third time, however, a high-pitched wail erupted from their position, then a wave of black energy roiled outward. Temporarily abandoning her assault on the great Witch, Homura leapt onto a nearby building to see what had happened - and saw Kyouko frozen in shock as Candeloro, Mami's Witch, bound her with ribbons, then made a single, almost gentle, strike against her Soul Gem. As the familiars of Walpurgisnacht converged on her position, and the Witch itself began to flip over, presenting the gears of its upper body to the town below, Homura closed her eyes and looped again.
Higure
Witch of Faith
- Location
- The Golden Land
Ah, yes.
For you, Chimeraguard, and your excellent (more or less) Canon Omake, And They Shall Know Fear:
...next is...wait...that's another one. Alright...I guess I'll do Entropy's next.
...oh, poor Homu...yeah, it's Canon (mostly, as a couple details aren't accurate, such as Magic Blast being weaker than guns-it's stronger, but much more costly). Memory is locked down for obvious reasons...
...to be continued with more rewards in a few minutes...
For you, Chimeraguard, and your excellent (more or less) Canon Omake, And They Shall Know Fear:
- Trait: So Very Eldritch (Your magic violates the world around you more violently. It's slightly disturbing to observe, but is more resistant to the influence of others. DC to hijack, disable, or dispel your magic rises by 10.)
- Trait: Not So Eldritch (Your magic doesn't feel noticeably different from other, natural things. Magical weapons and clothing will be easily mistaken for normal ones, and you won't distress those around you. DC to hijack, disable, or dispel your magic falls by 10.)
- Trait: Stronger than a Stick (+5 to rolls to hijack, disable, or dispel the magic of others.)
...next is...wait...that's another one. Alright...I guess I'll do Entropy's next.
...oh, poor Homu...yeah, it's Canon (mostly, as a couple details aren't accurate, such as Magic Blast being weaker than guns-it's stronger, but much more costly). Memory is locked down for obvious reasons...
- Trait: Master of Origami (If it can be made from folded paper, you can find a way, with sufficient time.)
- Trait: Cat Lover (You are good with cats, but they're still not trustworthy.)
- Trait: Never Again (+1 Sanity each hour, as long as you spend it with a friend. Added to normal sanity benefits from relaxing with other people.)
- Too Much Free Time: Five Skill Points. Distribute them as you please among skills which have less than 10 Skill Levels.
...to be continued with more rewards in a few minutes...
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Entropy Judge
Recurring Bouts of Misanthropy
Hmm .... On the one hand, it frees up a lot of "you need this mundane item," because you can make things like keys, weapons, and the like from folded paper (and then enchant it to make it actually useful), but on the other hand it's just not going to be as effective as the real thing. I rather doubt you're going to let us imitate Origami Ito, for example.
Amusingly, the next idea I had is very cat-centric .... I also like this one just for style purposes. Decisions.
Handy, if only because it seems that it's much easier to lower SAN than to raise it, especially if Chimeraguard selects(ed) Madness Enhancement.
On the one hand, it's five free Skill Points, which is nothing to sneeze at. On the other - oh, where would I put them?
Hm. More thinkings required for this.