Retired Evil Overlord Quest (Temp Title)

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[X] Coach Claudia yourself

-[X] Maybe the other idols could help? (Can take with other options)

[X] Speak with Diva

-[X] About her acting

Diva Roll: 78+20 C Rank Acting=98 artificial crit. Crit roll 67

With the unpleasantness of the hooligans dealt with you opened the door for the girls and began to discuss your plans.

Aside from Claudia's……abomination of nature, the group was above the standards on everything idols needed to do. The perhaps worst issue aside from that was Diva being merely at the idol average for dancing.

More concerning was acting, a job which required more practice and skill as most choreography they would probably need to do early on was fairly simple and had the advantage of muscle memory.

Oddly enough Diva had a better performance than she usually did according to the other Producers. She acted out scenes from one of Aika's earlier films perfectly. So you had less work cut out for you than you expected.

[X] See about getting proper quality costumes made. Maybe you should try your hand at it personally.

Already Existent Dresses? Rolled: 34

One of the clerks showed you to a room full of dresses. She alternated between looking at a clipboard and skimming the rows upon rows of garments before she stopped at the very end and pulled out-

Oh.

No.

Who in the name of….well you didn't worship any gods anymore, who thinks it is a good idea to have those things? It was like strategically placed rags with lace in between.

No.

Your Roll: 89+40 (Knowledge of The Abyss causes all mundane skills to be treated as B rank)+1 Organized Parenting-1 Ego=129 artificial crit roll 90+29 Excess=119 2nd 23+19=42 Preternaturally Competant

You grabbed rolls of fabric from one of the shelves and left for the nearest sewing room. Thankfully no one else was there so you were able to use magic to speed up the process before coming out with three Gothic Lolita dresses, and leaving the dozen extras in the room. Red and black for Claudia, white and pale blue for Aika, and a dark navy blue with purple trim for Diva. "These are dresses, what they showed me was….not appropriate for young ladies."

You would be having words with whoever designed those rags.

Aika stared at you. "….Are you a fairy…godfather I think the word would be?"

Your eyes glazed over as you remembered a flying woman trying to beat you over the head with exploding pumpkins due to successfully ensuring a political marriage between a prince and princess went through. It was disturbing when creatures like that one put love of two people above preventing a war that could kill tens of thousands and break up families, thereby causing a net loss of the thing they proclaimed as 'The Most Important Thing in The World.' She died by magic arrows ripping off her wings and limbs. Simpler times.

Claudia snapped her fingers. "Producer are you okay?"

You nodded. "Yes, and to your earlier question Aika…no. Definitely not."

[X] Speak with Claudia

-[X] Get started on the voice coaching.

Rolled: 46+40 Knowledge of the Abyss+1 Organized Parenting-1 Ego.=86 Excellent Pass

Aika Assist: 89+80 A Rank Singing=169 crit 12+69=81 Excellent Pass

Diva Assist: 45+80 A Rank Singing=125 crit 44+25=69 Excellent Pass

2 Hours Later

You patted Claudia's head as she sobbed in the corner. "It is okay, shush now shush," You repeated endlessly. Apparently the three of you coaching her…and blowing her out of the water when it came to singing had caused some sort of internal crisis."

"Is she normally like this?" You asked Aika.

The Idol Princess shrugged. "We have not met much before now."

"Pat pat, I am sure you will get better," You consoled Claudia. "Look pretty dresses," You announced as Diva came in with the other dresses you had made.

It was a strange sight, seeing a nearly grown woman bawling while cuddling a ball of clothing.

After Work: Apartment Building Parking Lot

You let a small smile come to your face as you locked your car and took Yosuke out of the back seat. "Your father had an…entertaining day at work today."

He grabbed your nose without making an attempt at saying a word. Yosuke seemed to cross his eyes looking at the bridge of your glasses before taking them off and trying to put it on his head. He failed, badly. Though it was ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE!

What was that pain?

Was it some strange form of pride?

You were fairly certain you had not been holding Yosuke 180 degrees upwards.

CRACK

Well that was your spine. You fell to your knees and just barely managed to make sure Yosuke fell on top of you.

Event Roll: 7

Spoiler: Creeper

A cloaked man with a terrible haircut approached you with a grin and stepped on your stomach. So it was just everything below your hips that you couldn't feel. You analyzed your body's current situation. The spine itself had seemingly snapped for no reason from a purely physical perspective, a large trace of foreign psychic energy could be sensed in the area though. Purely in the spine though, it must be an incredibly narrow psychic ability. Could it be someone from your world?

He leaned over you and pulled at his lips with painted fingers. "I am Constantine, number one fan of my princess and you are getting to her."

Ah it was just a crazed fan.

You cast Reconstruct on your spine.

He put his other foot on your arm, Yosuke slid to the pavement. "So I need to get rid of you, you heathen."

You sighed. "Child, you have no idea what you just got yourself into."

He laughed. "No you do not understand how vile you are. To attempt to taint-"

"I am a simple man. I get up in the morning, make sure my children are okay, stretch, bathe, get dressed, cook breakfast, prepare their lunches, take out dinner, and go to work before going home and helping my children with their homework," You cut him off while speaking in a deadpan tone. "And you not only cut into that, but did multiple things to endanger one of my children. Therefore, unlike most of the time where I am depressed…."

His eyes widened further than before.

"I am furious," You pushed him off with your other hand and picked up Yosuke.

"What the fu-" He began to speak but you slammed your hand into his mouth while using alteration magic. Muffled screams came from the fused mess of flesh his lips and chin had become.

"Language, children are present," You looked down on him. "I have never done this to my children by the way, so who needs Big Poppa's belt?"

Spoiler: Papa Wolf

[] Write in how you are going to deal with this person (You have magic, you can basically do anything)

Choose 3 to do afterwards

[] Talk to one of your kids (can be taken multiple times)

-[] Write In who and about what

[] Research something (can be taken multiple times)

-[] Write In

[] Something Else (Write in something you want to do)

 

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[X] Plan Cogi

[X] Wipe his memories, change his body into that of a girl and implant the memories of a fifteen-year-old girl who has a love of idol culture and came to use seeking an in.

You looked down at the terrified man and smiled. "Don't worry though, I am going to grant your deepest wish. To be close to your idol." You grabbed his head. "Just so you know, the changes to your brain will be last, and I will be making sure you feel all of this."

"Oh stop trying to scream it isn't like you have a mouth anymore," You groaned while he started trying to stretch the mass of flesh so his screams of pain could escape. Altering the flesh, bone, muscle, bodyfat, organs, and genetic code of a human being could be incredibly painful.

You made the mouth last.

Constance patted the now female body she had. "What did you?"

And <Delete> upload <Generic Moe Blob Golem Personality Type I-3> add requisite memories.

You walked away from a dazed and confused person who had no idea where they were, but with vague memories of how they got your card.

Crazed stalkers, you had dealt with those before. Of course those were normally after your wives, daughters, or sons and not your….well your subordinates in your old world could definitely be considered employees.

[X] Talk to one of your kids
-[X] Tacitus and how his day went
--[X] " Hello Tacitus, what is this I'm hearing about a massive creature appearing at the school and then promptly being turned into...graphite was it?"

[Their Event Roll after that was 99 with a crit roll of 26]

You prepared dinner and waited patiently for your children to return from their afterschool activities. That clubs were apparently required was something that annoyed you somewhat. At least they were in a place you knew though.

Charlie was the first to return. "Game Club, nothing much interesting happened." Too bad.

Ashe and Vatista were next, the former greeted you with a tackle hug. "Robotics club was fun."

Flashback

A boy fell to the floor as he watched a miniature terminator tear his chainsaw robot to pieces and use its own arms to saw it apart. "TERMINATE TERMINATE!"

Back to Normal

Vatista finished showing the clip from the projectors in her eyes. Tacitus had entered just as the projection showed the screaming robot. He patted Ashe's head. "Now you just need to scale them up and make them wear people suits."

The rest of your children walked in afterwards.

Luce and Alex grinned and chorused. "Drama Club."

Titania held her knees and poked the ground. "The Magical Girl Appreciation Club wouldn't let me in," That was a thing? "So I joined the Anime Club." Again the former was a thing?

Victoria sat in a chair while holding Fortuna in her lap. "I have entered the so called Fight Club," Like the novel? "And Fortuna become a member of the 'Helper' Club." What in the name of your ancestors was that?

You looked at Tacitus. "I am the Class Vice President, clubs are not required since I will have to go to Class Council meetings, and sometimes present issues as well as reports to the Student Council or Club Council." Why did this school have so many councils?

With a sigh you picked up a boiling kettle and poured yourself some tea before sitting down. "So Tacitus, what is this I'm hearing about a massive creature appearing at the school and then promptly being turned into...graphite was it?"

Apparently none of them had found that interesting or worth note, oddly even the news barely mentioned it.

"I assume there is some mad scientist somewhere in town," Tacitus shrugged. "Perhaps one with a vendetta against the school, or someone on the campus."

Why did the universe keep throwing problems at you?

"Why graphite?" You asked.

Fortuna raised her hands up and pencils rained onto the table. "For Free!"

Victoria's gaze met Tacitus.' They stared at each other before she finally spoke. "Thou truly are that miserly."

Even Yosuke facepalmed.

Back to normal
[X] Research something
-[X] Black Speech
--[X] Claudia's..."singing" has made me realize that I should brush up on the ancient, dead language. Perhaps I could use it to do some "mental exercises" with that strange man from earlier.

Knowledge check: 15 needed 7.

You are fluent in the Black Speech, there had been a time where you had lived with a tribe of people who built their civilization around a glowing green rock that washed up near what would become Carthage. As well as that New Age church built in a deep cave with water pooling around it.

After killing the god living underneath it you had actually made use of it as a base for an incredibly long time.

Of course you had never sung in it like Claudia seemed to have done by COMPLETE ACCIDENT. This world seemed stranger than your own. And that was saying a lot.

[X] Determine the nature and cause of Aika's curse.

Rolled nat 1

One of your idols was cursed. That could be an extreme problem. So then you would need to look at her curse through the Astral Plane since you were so far away from Aika.

Pitch black darkness slammed into your mental third eye seemed to stab into your brain. Nonsensical images filled it right before you realized what was going on.

Spoiler: What the fuck?

NOPE
NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE!

"O R'lyeh?"

Fuck not this psychopath again! Ever since Anatolia it had been hounding you.

"Have fun with a psychotic cult that want to do terrible things to the soul of an idol!"

You opened your eyes and saw Victoria grimacing while everyone looked confused.

You felt a chill. There was a knocking on your door. Ice was creeping out from underneath.

….

Well it was time to bite the bullet.

You opened the door and deadpanned. "I have no interest in procreation at this time as I am dealing with ten children Ithaqua. Tell your friend that if they are the cause of my troubles appendages will be torn off." You took a moment to appreciate the fact that Ithaqua was one of the ones that actually understood human preferences.

Victoria turned the kettle over. Nothing poured out. She twisted the top and showed you frozen tea. "Everytime."

Well either the Crawling Chaos was trolling you or she was the source of the curse, possibly both. Rather tame considering you had yet to see a problem stemming from it.

You heard more knocking on the door and for felt a form of twisting sensation in your stomach for some reason despite Ithaqua being an air and cold embodiment with crippling depression stemming from countless millennia locked on an ice planet surrounded by insane worshippers that. Oh now you knew what that feeling was.

After a moment's hesitation you turned back to the door. "If you can control the aura I will let you eat at the table."

The eldritch embodiment of air sang. "Yes d-"

"Come-ons will lead to you being teleported out of the building," You deadpanned.

At that moment your phone rang. It was Mr. Yorozuya. Why was the image for his ID somehow scarier than his normal face? "Yes sir?"

"An amnesiac girl with encyclopedic knowledge of idols for the last 15 years just appeared on our doorstep with your card," He deadpanned.

"Yes sir," You replied.

"She has the basic skills down, and agreed to an absolute steal of a contract. The idol school has plenty of vacancy and this could be considered charity which looks good on taxes. Good work, oh and a strange girl offered to be her roommate. She had a wonderful voice, like an angel from the stars" His voice became wistful before the phone went off with a click.

How did he give off the impression of a deadpan glare with his voice alone?

Was it some kind of Esper ability?

Wait, strange girl.

CRACK!

Ashe stared at the broken remnants of your phone, crumbling onto the floor. "Can I please tinker with that?"

You sighed and handed it to her. Knowing Ashe she would somehow make it better than before.

30 Minutes preparing lunches, 15 minutes stretching, 30 minutes bathing. Blessed sleep until morning.

Choose 3 for the beginning of the next day

[] Talk to one of your kids (can be taken multiple times)
-[] Write In who and about what
[] Research something (can be taken multiple times)
-[] Write In

[] Track down one of those hooligans before you have to deal with them again

-[] Which one?

[] Perhaps you should look up if there are any dangerous people that have obesssions with one of your idols?

[] Perhaps you should try to meet with the parents of one of the idols?

-[] Which one (idol that is)?

[] Something Else (Write in something you want to do)

Gain Goal: Figure out who is behind the curse and break it

 

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Your eyes snapped open. Everything was in its proper place and no intruders were detected. Everyone but Victoria and Vatista were sleeping.

Five minutes of stretching, ten minutes showering, 1 minute dressing. Personal preparations complete. Make omelets for breakfast, pack lunchbags, and put chicken in the fridge.

Breakfast began as it normally did, but you felt…happier than you were last morning.

[x] Talk to one of your kids

-[x] Titania.

--[x] Explain to our little princess that two of our idols seem to prefer outfits like hers. See if she has any new ideas on the latest fashion trends

Roll: 88

You brought up the topic of your job to Titania. Her reaction was…interesting.

She dropped her fork and knife in the middle of breakfast and stared at you with a gaping jaw. Her omelet fell out of her mouth and Victoria pushed her chin back up before she snapped out of her stupor.

"Papa I want to be a magical girl!" Titania shouted with stars in her eyes.

….

"You are a fairy," Victoria deadpanned.

"You already have magic," Tacitus stated.

"Hahaha, aren't you already?" Luce held onto his stomach laughing.

"What?" Charlie blinked.

Alex made an illusion of multicolored sparks above his head. 'Of Course!' It spelt out.

Vatista stared.

Victoria facepalmed.

Ashe turned away and handed you your fixed phone.

Fortuna tried to steal Titania's omelet so you had to swat her hand away. Titania gave her a half-hearted glare and sulked for a moment before starting to manipulate threads of solid light and darkness between her fingers. "I think that translucent additions and frills are in style. Maybe…yes a shawl is good!"

A shawl of a translucent gossamer-like cloth that reflected light to creat a rainbow of colors as it moved was held in her soft hands.

[Gain: Fairy Cloak: +1 Rank of Appearance for an idol that wears it. Normal Rules: Allows for invisibility and light manipulation around you. The parts of the body covered by it can't be harmed unless through magic or psychic means]

Titania rubbed her face against it. "Mmmmm! It feels like childhood dreams."

It probably actually was. Fey magic was weird like that. Well Wyrd in the original form since it involved manipulating fate and reality itself to a certain degree.

You remembered the time you had to try to cut through a rope made of a frog's teeth and woman's beard. It took going to a fae to get a sword made of equally odd concepts.

See about if you can get Titania into the company?

[] No

[] As an idol (incredibly time consuming and stressful. Wait the company has the rule that idols can't date so….on one hand you don't want her dating, ever and for all time, but you don't feel right about someone taking away that decision from her)

[] As a dressmaker (Way less stress involved in comparison to being an idol)


[x] Research

-[x] Optimal idol dance and act routines (Or at least a basic outline). We've got the girls, the outfits (we're working on the singing). Time to get started.

Roll: 34+40 Knowledge of the Abyss: 74 Good Success.

Dances were just patterns of movement in time with music. Simple enough, though you will need to work on this.

[x] Perhaps you should try to meet with the parents of one of the idols?

-[x] Claudia

--[x] She had to have learned Black Speech somehow. Are her parents practitioners or native speakers? Plus she has displayed a rather sheltered upbringing

Immediate Reception: 50 Lukewarm

Your Persuasion roll: 63+40 Knowledge of the Abyss=103 crit roll 41+3=44

Knowledge Check: 15 Needed 10.

Spoiler: Aenes Family Mansion

Your first thought upon entering was. 'This was her home?' The second was. 'WHO PUTS AN INCREDIBLY LARGE JACUZZI IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR AND A BED AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS?'

As such, you were incredibly concerned about what Claudia might have been exposed to as a child.

The man who apparently didn't know the correct way to wear a vest, Claudia's father gestured to the bath. "Please remove your clothes and we can have a proper discussion." He said it in a completely neutral tone as if naked bathing was a completely normal part of business.

You shook your head. "I am here about Claudia. As you know she is an idol, however she has an issue. In almost all regards she is the perfect idol, aside from her...let's call it singing."

Her mother sighed and rested a hand on her chin. "Yes, she has a rather difficult time with that. Claudia keeps sliding to the secret language she and her second cousin always spoke together in." She closed her eyes. "She had fun as a child, but I have no idea how she keeps doing that on accident. Claudia doesn't even seem to notice."

Given that neither of them seemed like one of Nyarlathotep's associates you assumed it must be from a part of their family tree that was added on the cousin's side.

On the surface the father, Caesar, seemed normal aside from his fashion. Though when you looked deeper you noticed an Esper's mental signature.

Hmm.

Your mental third eye peered at the mother, Vitalia.

WHY WAS EVERYTHING PAIN?

….Oh, well that definitely could attract problems. The inherit magical power to create life. Claudia could be considered lucky to have not received such an ability from her mother. Literally every magical organization under the sun, and some that weren't would be trying to eat her, cut her open, or otherwise mentally, physically, and spiritually maim her.

Vitalia Stats

Will: 7 Ego: 5 Planning: 1 Leadership: 2 Knowledge: 0 Power: 20 (She can make what most people would consider gods if she felt like it)

The Italians looked at you.

You looked at them.

"Anything else?" Vitalia asked. "If you do not feel like bathing, and since we cannot actually fix her singing problem what else is there to talk about." She smiled. "Perhaps you would like to hear about all of her accidents while trying to become an entertainer. Claudia picks up skills rather quickly."

Caesar scoffed. "Without struggle Claudia can't grow."

Vitalia faked a pout. "She works hard at being an idol."

You wished you had the power to tell what psychic abilities were at a glance, and without experiencing their effects, like you could magic. Deciding to take your leave you bowed. "Thank you very much for the information, I will see myself out."

As you turned around you saw Caesar follow you to the door. He opened it and plastered a fake smile on. "By the way my good sir, if anything happens to my daughter I will hold you accountable," His eyes darkened and a shadow fell over his face. "And I will have you killed."

You smiled as well and shook his hand like nothing out of the ordinary was said. "Oh I have children of my own so I can't afford to die. Of course I understand your feelings."

"Ehehehehehe," He chuckled darkly.

"Ahahahahaha," You rubbed the back of your head.

"EHEHEHEHEHE!"

"AHAHAHAHAHA!"

"KEKEKEKEKEKEKE!"

"BWAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Vitalia started walking up the stairs. "If this continues you will be sleeping on the couch dear."

His face fell. "But we have plenty of guest rooms so-"

"Couch or me," She have him a stern glare.

"Yes dear." He walked away.

Hmmm you had a father friend.

[Vitalia and Caesar Aenes: Friend. You have friends that are parents too, maybe you could get some adv..yeah no their house makes you wonder how Claudia turned out semi-normal.]

Over at School: d10: 4 (Charlie) Event Roll d100: 6

Why did the Games Club President smile remind you of your dad when he was about to beat down some hero who burst into his throne room?

"We are going to play a game of life and death." She held up a card as the room disappeared and you floated in blank space.

FUCK!

A maze made of grey stone surrounded you and made it so you couldn't see her. So this was going to be some kind of murderous hide and seek game huh? You opened up your box of miniatures and took out the Baneblades. "Time for CREED!"

Time For Work: Choose 3

[] Speak with Claudia

-[] About

[] Speak with Aika

-[] About

[] Speak with Diva

-[] About

[] Speak with Mr. Yorozuya

-[] About

[] Take the idols out to eat?

[] Write-In

edit: Baneblades are from Warhammer 40k are house sized tanks that are around 6 meters tall. Creed is a character in the game that gives all units the rules for scouts (you don't see them coming). So by the mechanics of the game you can end up with a column of tanks surrounding you without making a sound. Think of a child's toy being thrown at you and suddenly growing to that size and shooting at you.

edit 2: The kids have just terrible luck.

 

[archshadow]

"WHHHHYYYYYYYYY!"

You let out a sigh while listening to the Chair of Theosophical Studies had his fourth daily scream to the sky since Overlord Yamato started his first vacation in the entire time you had known him.

Current eight Chairs of The University-Kingdom of Sciences and Arts' Board sat in the oval table that dominated a room 108 floors below the Crystal Palace.

A provisional Director had to be chosen from among the Chairs, and the eight of you had no desire to see some of the other eight chairs excluded from this meeting heading the kingdom.

Your many-times-great-grandson Johann bowed to you before taking his seat. Aside from him as the Chair of Chemical Sciences there was Crowley as Chair of Occult Studies, Brian Cronenburg as Chair of Biological Science, Senju Yuiitsu as Chair of Social Sciences, Silvia Gemini as Chair of Alchemical Studies, Senju Kintaro as Chair of Mechanical Science, and yourself taking the Director's normal Chair of Thaumaturgy.

The scream continued for ten full minutes before Amakusa coughed into his hand. "My Apologies."

There was a long pause as everyone else enjoyed the silence.

You clasped your hands. "My friends as we all know there would be a severe problem if the Chair of Physics became Director...or any of the other more radical members of our group. Sadly a few of those we invited refused to join us today."

Kintaro put his paw on his translator. "Correct things would be good if those two were here, we must still ensure the four bad members do not have a chance of becoming Director."

There were a few glances around the table. Some disagreed as to who was 'bad' in general, but those who were ill fit to ruling for what would probably be years were well known.

If that man became Director, you felt a shiver go down your spine. "I believe we know what this is for," Cronenburg took a cigarette from his lighter.

Kintaro growled. "Bad human."

He grimaced and put it down.

Johann straightened his tie before raising his hand. "I nominate my ancestor Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim as Acting Director."

Crowley smiled and raised his own hand. "I am sure Paracelsus and I are in agreement." You nodded. "Therefore I nominate the young Senju Yuiitsu."

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!" You weren't sure who was louder, the teenage girl, or the actual teenage girl.

A wry smile crept along your lips. "Correct Aleister."

The rest of you raised your hands, well except for Yuiitsu.

She shook her head. "I refu-"

"Bad Girl," Kintaro deadpanned.

Yuiitsu hung her head. "Yes Uncle."

You steepled your fingers. "Aside from your managerial skills this change in position will cause all of our enemies to assume a child of incorruptible virtue has used her magnetic charisma to turn the dark hearts of the evil dark sorcerers and mad scientists to the force of Love and Justice!"

The youngest members of the group stared at you. "Never say those last three words together ever again."

 

[archshadow]

[x] As a dressmaker (Way less stress involved in comparison to being an idol)

[x] Speak with Mr. Yorozuya
-[x] About Titania being a dressmaker for the company. Show him the fairy cloak, and explain that she made it. It may not be possible to hire her on now due to Japanese labor laws, but a foot in the door is a foot in the door.

Initial Thoughts: d100=52

How? How can a human being have such an impassive face? There was no way this was natural, he was obviously a cyborg or android in disguise. Some of those hero and villains fighting around the world had that kind of technology so you could see that happening.

Or maybe he was a living Buddha....though you should have sensed that kind of power if he was one.

Persuasion Roll: 25+40 Knowledge of the abyss+30 Fairy Cloak=95 crit roll 57 Needed 50. Pass

You handed Mr. Yorozuya the box containing the cloak. "My daughter made this." Mr. Yorozuya turned away from you and opened the box.

Golden light was released as he did so and he stared into the box and then to the sky. He…he had an actual expression on his face!

"Agreed," He mumbled.

You blinked as you realized that this was the first time he was seeing Fae craftsmanship. All of the millennia you had been alive had made it so you had found plenty of examples of it, your vault in your castle had hundreds of Faecraft items, so you had grown used to the opulence of them. Somehow even a simple grey scarf had beauty incomparable to human designs that did not include some form of magic in them.

They were perfectionists like that. In well…everything.

Meanwhile with Charlie

Bullets flied as you screamed over the megaphones in the Warlord Class Titan. "Stop spamming infinite rockets you bullet hell psychopath!"

"I only do that because you keep throwing Orks and Baneblades at me while using Creed as a commander!" Riko shouted back."

"Then don't challenge people to deathgames," You fired at The White Glint. The gamer in you roared in rage at having to shoot at a real life Armored Core. So shiny and wonderful. You hadn't even managed to find a detailed model of the White Glint in your price range.

"I did not have a choice!" Rockets descended on you as Blaneblades shot them out of the air.

Back to Normal

[x] Write-In: Singing lessons with Claudia (Preferably in a sound proofed room and a bottle of painkillers for her headaches.)

Your Roll: 79+40 KoA+1 Organized Parenting=120 crit roll 80+20=100 (At this point you might as well become an idol ) 2nd crit 47 Supernatural Pass

Aika Assist: 60+80 A Rank Singing=140 crit 76+40=136 2nd crit 6+36=42 Supernatural Pass

Diva Assist: 46+80 A Rank Singing=126 crit 28+26= 54

Claudia Roll: 75-10 E Rank Singing=65 Pass

The idols stared at you.

You blinked.

They continued to stare at you as if some sorceress had suddenly turned you into a fish. Claudia's jaw was open, Aika closed it for her while still keeping her eyes locked on you, and Diva clapped. "I didn't know Mr. Yamato used to be a singer."

Actually that was one of the few occupations you had never had.

"Oh no, I was never a professional singer, that has strictly been something I did with my family up until now," You shook your head furiously before taking out a handkerchief and wiping trace amounts of black fluid from your ears.

Diva stared at it and touched her earlobe. Her glove came away stained with the foreign substance. You handed two extra handkerchiefs to the girls.

Claudia puffed up her chest. "So Producer have I improved?"

You patted her head, applying very little force as you rubbed it. "Yes, and please for the love of all that is benevolent in this world give me warning if your parents ever are in the building." That entrance room still disturbed you.

Her eyes clouded over for a moment before she huffed. "I expect my beloved family was far to open about things."

"YES!" You shivered.

Claudia huffed. "Well I doubt you will need to deal with them here." You blinked…you might need to play family therapist…though your own family possibly needed it as well.

[Claudia's Singing has moved from E Rank (-10) to D Rank (+10) due to the supernatural power of songs]

You were fairly certain the small blessing you put on her would prevent any Black Speech disasters for a few weeks. Well technically it was a curse but very few would consider not being able to use the Black Speech one. Instead it should be whatever language she intended to use.

Which should give you more time to figure out how this had occurred.

Meanwhile: d10=9 Titania Event Roll: 88

You spun around while eating the sandwich from your lunchbag. Naoki groaned. "Why can't we eat in the club room?"

The answer was obvious of course. "If we don't go to where there are other people we won't get to meet new people."

"Then why are we in the middle school, we are high schoolers!" He stamped his foot.

You put your hands on your cheeks. "Well I wanted to visit my younger siblings over here since it is harder to see them during classes."

He paled. "You…you have siblings?"

"Nine," You chirped.

…..

The wind made howling sounds while blowing leaves past. Odd given that this was a hallway.

"How The F-" He was cut off by his phone ringing.

Dingalingaling dingalingaling dingalingaling

Why couldn't he have a nicer ring tone?

Naoki pulled out his phone and checked it. "Oh an update for my game. Okay, accept."

You grabbed his hand. "What about the terms and conditions? You haven't read them so how are you supposed to accept it?"

He laughed. "All you do is check the box and press accept, it isn't like anyone reads those."

"I do," You stared at him in disbelief. Everyone knew to read contracts before accepting them. And why in the name of your deceased mother was he pressing accept after you just told him not to?

All of the tiles on the floor fell away.

"This is why you don't accept contracts without reading the fine print," You pumped your arms at him while falling into blank white space. "They gas you with hallucinogenic drugs and harvest your organs."

"Did someone slip me LSD?" He shouted while holding onto you.

Why were there giant robots fighting on the wreckage of Baneblades and…oh Charlie was going to be angry about most of his collection being destroyed. At least Tacitus could fix them later with Transfiguration.

Also how were all of the explosions, missiles, and bullets missing you?

"I don't want to die!" Naoki shouted while holding onto you. You let your wings out and floated in the air above the fighting.

He kept holding onto your waist and blinked. "Wait why aren't we falling?"

You gave a salute and winked. "I am a magical girl." Fairy dust flew around you.

"Oh please no," He groaned. How rude.

[x] Take the idols out to eat?

The four of you ate calmly. Claudia and Diva were now familiar about how burgers worked so they were no longer staring at the technically-sandwich-called-otherwise.

Aika looked at you for a moment before opening her mouth to speak-

Event Roll: 15

A hand slammed down on your table. The first thing you noticed about him was the smell. The undead had a gradient of how 'dead' they could be considered. This man was far on the dead side. Aside from the stench the heavily tattoed skin was otherwise paper white, he had sunken eyes, and the skin on the fingers drawn back giving the illusion of the nails being much longer.

Spoiler: Punk Creeper

The man smiled, his teeth were dyed black, probably to hide the yellowing and rotting. "Hello sir~" He sung. "You and the ladies can call me Sechs."

Claudia rose up, grabbed the back of her chair, and slammed it over his head. "Don't talk about perverted things in front of ladies!" You were fairly certain she misheard him.

The man was brought to the floor by the force of the blow. You saw a gash on his head that revealed a portion of his skull, no blood was flowing out. "You bitch, even if you are a cool idol I'm gonna-"

You very calmly straightened your tie. "This is the second stalker, wait no seventh counting the hooligans I have need to deal with in two days."

His single visible eye turned black and purple. "What are you going to do you old geezer?"

Oh, oh no one called you anything like that aside from…well no one. Aside from some of your wives when you were in heated sparring.

Choose what to do? (Choose One)

[] Very calmly grab him and escort him out of the restaurant

[] Very calmly grab him and throw him out of the restaurant

[] Very calmly grab him and throw him out of the restaurant….from the third floor. If he has regeneration no problem, if not you are probably dealing with a zombie which will soon only be able to crawl if he is lucky

[] Write-In

Do you make any quips?

[] Write in

 

[archshadow]

Plan Cogi

[x] Very calmly grab him and throw him out of the restaurant
-[x] "As a geezer, i'm too old to put up with an upstart like you."

You sighed and grabbed the man by the ridiculous manbun he had on the top of his head and dragged him down the stairs.

"He-"

Knock

"Hey!"

Knock

"Geezer!"

Knock knock knock. Plop.

His head hit the bars on the staircase's railing with each step you took. The rotting flesh on the side of his head was starting to fall away due to the repeated blows in the same spot.

"Cut"

Knock

"It"

Knock

"OUT!" He tried to grab your arm, so you broke his. SNAP! He stared at the limp forearm hanging loosely at an over 90 degree angle from his arm. The bristly snapped bone poking out dripped fluid. "What the fuck?"

"Language," You deadpanned. The follow up was slamming his face into the next bar hard enough to dent the metal. Teeth and coagulated blood fell from his mouth.

Once on the first floor you dragged him through the front doors and tossed him out. "As a geezer I'm too old to deal with an upstart with you.

[Rolled 52]

"RrrrraaaaAAAH!" The undead man rose up and charged at your back.

One, do not shout like that when attacking someone. Two, especially don't just scream it is wasting breath. Three, it is even worse if you are doing it while throwing a wild punch.

As such you calmly reinforced your body's already enhanced muscles, bones, etcetera, and deflected his fist into a telephone pole.

The man stared at his arm. Muscles and tendons were hanging out of flesh which had exploded through overworking them. Zombies lacked human limitations, but those limitations were there to prevent them from horrifically destroying their bodies.

Zombies, their shelf life is incredibly limited unless you use them well. You sighed and walked away as the man stared at his two limp arms.

Rolled d10=9 Titania PoV

You cocked your head to the side while staring at your little brother and his…you weren't sure. They had been fighting and yelling at each other, and now they were kissing for some reason.

Was that a friend thing?

Or was there a bet based on who won?

What was going on?

Back to Normal: Fairytale Productions Building

Encounter: D4=2 Aika

Book Roll: 54+40=94 Excellent Pass

You were working on your novel in your office when there was a knock on the door. It was close to the time you would be leaving but it couldn't hurt.

So you opened the door and saw Aika. She did something you hadn't expected. Aika waved with a smile. "Mr. Yamato I wanted to talk if that was okay."

Spoiler: Her Expression

Hngh!

Wait what just happened?

Aika took a seat next to yours and put her hands in her lap. "I wanted to ask you a question."

You blinked and sat back down. "Of course what is it?"

She frowned for a second. Unlike all the other times you had interacted with her Aika seemed to be expressing her emotions. "Mr. Yamato…you are different from normal people somehow. I can't put my finger on it though."

Something about Aika has always been off. Now a word came to mind, hollow, but less so now.

Choose One

[] Deny deny deny!

-[] What do you say?

[] Half Truth

-[] What do you say?

[] Most of the truth

-[] What do you say?

[] Whole truth

-[] What do you say?

You just barely avoided having to meet one of your coworkers

Spoiler: Oh Kouhai!

 

[archshadow]

You did not dream. Not like normal people. Not that most humans would consider you a person.

Cogito ergo sum

Did it matter that you had circuits, wires, and the like instead of brain matter? Your father/creator did not care about that. You had programming, but humans had that in the form of DNA. Coding had letters and numbers while DNA had amino acids.

Theoretically a human brain could be uploaded to a sufficiently advanced computer. Where humans fumbled was in the matter of the soul.

They worried about it due to the fear not just of death, but also nonexistence. They cannot experience it. They may lose consciousness but they always wake up afterwards. That gap which they do not experience, to not go onwards. The closest they came to it was in the case of having amnesia and never regaining their memories.

If that occurred it could be argued that the previous person did not exist. The body did but what made that person them was no longer there. The legal standpoint of such things were complicated and varied by location.

Your mind could survive the destruction of your body and go elsewhere. So perhaps you had the closest thing to a soul that could be observed without magic. Even then objects could gain souls with sufficient time and emotion tied to them, and even then some argued that there were gods and souls in all things.

Why were you questioning these things? Perhaps it is because beings with complex thoughts all are aware of their thoughts and therefore ruminate about them?

Your desires? To protect your father, have him feel pride for you, to love you. All of these things, you had them.

So you were happy, content with life despite the tragedies that you had experience.

And.....

And you did not know for sure. You wanted your father to be happy. He had been sad, but was recovering. He enjoyed his occupation, and was spending time with you and your siblings.

Yes, you were happy. And wanted everyone else to be. Logic had no part in this desire.

 

[archshadow]

[X] Half Truth
-[X] "As you can guess, there are some things in this world that are beyond the ordinary. Most people will never encounter these things. I guess you could say that I've had a far more interesting life than your average person."

This world knew of psychic abilities, though only as an odd and rare phenomenon. There was the odd monster and hero jumping about. Rumors of people in outlandish outfits, mad scientists unleashing their creations, people riding motorcycles up a building, and videos of people flying around in tights in other countries.

Even so, actual magic seemed to have gone unnoticed to society at large. And if she had any suspicion of her curse, Aika might make very bad decisions in an attempt to lift it.

You adjusted your glasses. "As you can guess, there are some things in this world that are beyond the ordinary. Most people will never encounter these things, and certain parts are above what even those who consider themselves experts know of." Even you acknowledged that you did not know everything. While you were an absolute index of the knowledge of your home world, you were only scratching the information of other dimensions such as this one had hidden. "I guess you can say I've had a far more interesting life than your average person."

Aika frowned again and nodded. "If you are uncomfortable telling me everything I can wait, but thank you for doing as much as you have. As a producer and…this, I do not interact with people outside of working much."

You smiled. "If you ever need anyone to talk to you know where my office is, and have my work office.

Aika blinked and leaned to the side to look at your desk. "A manuscript?"

"Ah, yes," You picked it up. "I have been writing a novel that the company has agreed to publish. I am just editing it."

"Hmm," She put a finger on her chin. "I love books, could I read it?"

Give Aika a copy? You have multiple.

[] Yes

[] No

-[] Say you will give her one when you finish the edits of the first volume.

Aika Bond is at 1

Event Roll: 71: Diva PoV

You felt anxious. It was near. It was closer than it had ever been. The White Beast. Your parents had given you warnings as a child. Children's tales passed from their own parents. It would hunt you down, decry your name, curse you, weaken you, rip your limbs off, bite your throat, devour your flesh, break your bones, suck the marrow from them, drink your blood, and destroy your soul while calling you a blight upon the world.

Do not drink more than you need.

Do not make a spectacle of yourself.

Make sure to pretend to be like everyone else.

Be respectful of authority.

Never use your powers where anyone can see you.

Never let anyone know what you are.

Never let anyone know you.

Never use your powers to help anyone.

Never be too strange.

So that they can never find your trail.

Because they will never lose it, and they will hunt you to the ends of the earth.

You could feel it sniffing around the city. It kept disappearing and reappearing every week. That cold dread that let you know it was there.

Teeth that bite, claws that rend, talons which slice, beaks which pierce, tails that whip and sting, gales that rip, lightning that strikes.

You shivered and remembered it.

You closed your eyes and saw Mama.

Spoiler: Her Nightmare

Run

The monster that had been in your childhood home, lapping up blood from your parents' bodies. Devouring it all, not a drop of blood, and not a gram of flesh was left other than the stains seeping into the once white carpet.

Red roses replaced blood in your mind. You refused to see it. You refused to remember them, every time you thought of them it became that night.

Back to normal. Choose 3

[] Talk to Mr. Yorozuya

[] Talk to Claudia

[] Talk to Aika

[] Diva asked you to walk her home. She seemed oddly scared.

[] Check in on one of your kids.
-[] Which One?

[] Write-In

AN: In case you haven't noticed, all the idols have their own issues. Big ones.

 

[archshadow]

Charlie PoV

Why was Riko kissing you? The two of you had just been in a heated battle of wits against each other using giant robots and all the other toys you had at your disposal, it had been AWESOME. The entire maze had been reduced to a smoldering pile of rubble for Father's sake. What was wrong with this girl? Why couldn't you breathe? Had she been kissing for you for that long? You had kinda frozen up at one point.

She drew back and averted her eyes as her cheeks burned red. "I lost." Why was she not trying to kill you? Was this the situation your Dad and Mama Sophie had been in when they met? Only with fewer attempts on the male side of the equation's life.

Did all girls act like this at some point? Because if so your sisters are all going to end up as serial killers. That is if your Dad doesn't banish them to some Doom/Quake/40kesque hellscape where the legions of what is possibly actually a hell, robots, corporations, and everything with or without a pulse plans on brutally killing them at best.

Also why was she blushing? You looked up at the sky and saw your older sister Titania floating in the air with some boy clinging to her for dear life.

Well Dad was going to be chopping up a body and dumping it in a barrel of acid tonight if he doesn't do what you had just thought of. 'That was not the proper way to court a lady,' as he would say.

Though most people would say the same about your dad and Mama Sophie

You really hoped he didn't have recipes for Long Pig.

You gave out a muffled scream when she leaned in closer. Your hands covering your mouth to prevent it from coming out and her from making pip-to-pip contact. "What are you doing?"

Riko continued to blush. "This is the first time I've lost a game."

"That is not the way you give out your first kiss," You shouted angrily. "And why were you trying to kill me?"

The Game Club President looked down, "I had won 99 challenges." She flipped over a piece of debris with her foot.

"Eh?" You blinked.

"Deadly Joker," She cocked her head to the side. "The Game Website that is a game made of different games. MMOs, cardgames, chess, JRPGs, Bullet Hells, FPS, racing, team shooters."

You stared at her. "What does that have to do with anything?"

Riko sighed and rubbed her forehead. "On the site there is a secretgame by the same name, Deadly Joker. There are a few ways to get it. An email from a mysterious stranger, clicking on a site which disappears later, a letter tucked in your door, a friend who has it sending a link, an update to the site itself that shows up for you. If you accept the terms and conditions you will soon end up in a place where you are given various kinds of test. Then you gain the power most suited to you. With it you can win points in Arenas like this."

"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-" What was that sound?

She gestured around to the ruined maze. "More points can be gained from completing a daily random challenge given to you. As you do more a counter and the rewards increase until you reach one hundred. There was one person who did so and he gained his heart's greatest desire, one wish. That is what a Winner gets."

"UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-" Where was it coming from.

Still that was it? You sighed and nodded. "I think I understand."

"CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC-"

"And my problem can't be solved by-" You decked her across the face with enough force to cause her to tumble down the pile of rubble you were standing on.

"KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!"

"Your heart's greatest desire, a free wish for whatever you want," Venom dipped from your voice as you threw your hand back. "That kind of stuff doesn't happen like you think it does. The only beings going around with those kinds of offers are just going to turn it into some kind of monkey's paw and crush your hopes. Even if it did workout somehow they'd hold it over you for the rest of your life, and that is if it isn't some kind of congame. Entities going around giving powers to see them kill each other over whatever it is they hold dearest is something plenty of beings will do, and you should know better!"

Titania dropped down with her friend.

You pointed at Riko. "Which is why I am going to bring you to my father so he can set you straight and fix this."

Riko stared at you and rubbed dust off of her face. "This is a person or organization with a fabulous amount of wealth and the power to give out superpowers. What can your father do?"

You pointed your thumb at yourself. "My Dad is an Overlord."

…….

The boy and Riko stared at you.

Riko blinked. "Chuunibyou?"

There are times when you really hate people.

 

[archshadow]

[X] Yes
-[X] Explain it isn't finished yet though so if she could mark any errors she sees, that would be wonderful. (Pride trait activate?)
[X] Diva asked you to walk her home. She seemed oddly scared.
--She is your subordinate. Calmly explain how she'll be fine while under your care. Be aware of surroundings in case.

Event Roll: d100=10

You noticed Diva standing near the elevator with an umbrella. She blinked when she noticed you and turned around. "Mr. Yamato would you please walk me to my home?"

Her eyes were…similar to after that day. You nodded. "Of course."

The two of you left the building and you brought your car to the front. There was a long silence only broken when Diva gave you directions for where to find her home.

Finally you spoke up. "If anything is wrong know that you will be in my care, so you will be fi-"

Bloodlust filled the air to the point where red mist of energy thick enough to obscure your vision appeared in the middle of the road.

The energy lifted and all you saw was burning European buildings. Then something sent the car hurtling into one of them. There was the sound of breaking glass and bending metal as you found yourself upside down in what was literally half of your car due to the back end being completely gone.

Spoiler: Image

*GROAN*

Looking up you saw an absolutely massive white wolf with matted and bloodstained fur, and a mouth that stretched far too widely with rows of razor sharp teeth. Currently it was showing on the back half of your car.

Spoiler: White Beast

Diva stared while taking heavy breaths. You did not think she was fully here right now.

You unhooked your seatbelt and her as well before dragging both of you out of the wreck. Your wounds were already closing as you watched the flames around the beast turn black and begin to writhe into animalistic shapes.

[Knowledge 15 needed Knowledge 8]

The monster was using Black Magic to curse the flames. So this thing was sapient. You looked at the vampire girl in your arms and then at the giant wolf.

Then, you stared at the wolf.

[Knowledge 15 needed Knowledge 10]

A white animal that hunts animals and uses magic. It was a Kresnik then. A human mage originally from a tribal shamanistic tradition. Vampire hunters who used incredibly strange magic to turn their astral projections into creatures to slay vampires. They had been absorbed into the Slavic Polytheists and after that religion fell they turned to the ancient records of Babylon and later Scholomance to expand their magical knowledge.

Dark Magic, White Magic, Shamanism, it made no difference to them. They were the immortal enemies of all vampires. Protectors of nature that keep down their population, and eliminate the most potentially dangerous members of the species.

A species one of your daughter's belonged to, and another had the heritage of. And one which Diva definitely was given this mage's appearance.

You laid Diva on the steps of one of the least burnt buildings and turned to the mage. "There are two ways this can go. You can either walk away now, or I can do unspeakable things to you."

There was a low growl coming from the projected soul.

"Well here are several ways in which you forced my hand. You destroyed the car I use to go to and from work as well as taking my children places, you traumatized one of my idols, and you are hunting the species which two of my daughters, one of my deceased wives, and my in laws are tied to," You pushed your glasses up. "So I am going to treat you like other out of control dogs that are in proper need of discipline. I am going to Punish You!"

Ethereal chains of blue energy wrapped around the creature's limbs. It thrashed against it but they were not hooked to anything, floating in the air, growing tighter and tighter despite its protests.

"If you think I haven't have to fight ghosts you are surely mistaken. Astral Projections have most of the same weaknesses, such as energy magic. Its fur was charring. You smiled. "So then, first thing you do with meals is tenderize the meat."

The chains whipped back and forth. Throwing the wolf into buildings and dragging it across the area. Buildings broke to pieces, the road was torn up, and you heard the wonderful sound of it gasping.

So you had the chains lift it up, and slam it back to the ground repeatedly. If you were feeling a bit theatric you would be grabbing its head with hands covered in mana, be pulling the chains themselves, or waving your hand, but such things were unneeded with your control of magic.

"Once that is done you need to make sure to insert the rod." Spikes made of the same energy coalesced in the air and impaled the Kresnik before beginning to slowly turn.

"A rotisserie is one of the easiest ways to cook your food. You can leave it alone, just make sure to turn up the heat. I personally prefer it to be at over 1510 degrees Celsius."

Cursed black flames leapt at you.

[Knowledge Check: 15 needed 8]

[Power Check: 11 needed 7]

And dispelled before you as you tugged at the stream of magic he had guiding and powering it. "Child, you are over 5,000 years too young to fight me."

The projection dissipated. Turning into white mist which faded away as it flew back to its original body. Your eyes narrowed at that. It refused to face death with dignity, it should have realized that you were going to hunt it down now that it had revealed itself to you.

Still there were more important matters, you turned to Diva and picked the girl up. She was surprisingly light and….

Oh no.

She had been giving the directions to her house.

You didn't know where she lived.

YOU WERE STUCK WITH AN UNCONSCIOUS SEEMINGLY TEENAGE GIRL!

Whatever type of barrier magic the mage had been using took that moment to time out. You just barely managed to dodge a car as incoming traffic began to honk at you and swerve to miss the torn apart pieces of your car.

1 Minute Later

"Sir giant monster insurance only covers damages from ones which other people see," A bored woman told you over the phone.

"Are we going to have a problem?" You spat venom. "Because I think it sounds like we are about to have one."

"NO SIR!" She screamed over the phone. "I am certain we can get you a model in the year after your-"

"It shall be an upgrade. Give the phone to your manager, now."

Several steps up the chain of command later you had whatever spineless person in charge of the insurance company promising you that you would have a new car in the next two days.

It is good when there are silver linings.
[X] Check in on one of your children
-[X] Titania
--I got you a job as a seamstress. You'll be working with the idols themselves and maybe in the future you can become one.

So you began to call your kids, while walking towards your home, with an unconscious girl on your back. It was very good that there were notice-me-not spells.

"Titania I got you a job as a seamstress. You'll be working with the idols themselves, and maybe in the future you can become one."

What you heard on the other end was the squeals of a teenage girl and clapping. You think your eardrum might have popped. "Can you hand the phone to Vatista?"
-[X] Vatista

"How was your day? Any problems with anything? Anything I need to worry about?" You shot off the three questions at a rapid fire pace."

"It was okay. Charlie has a girlfriend who tried to murder him and now he is somehow tied to a game that gives normal humans superpowers. He ended up in it because he stole a handheld console from the school lost and found that had the game downloaded on it, Ashe hacked the console to give it his personal settings which is why he is listed in their directory of players."

…..

You hung up the phone. "FUCK!" You screamed.

Again, blessed be the notice-me-not spells.

Choose 3 for tomorrow before Parents' Day begins

[] Talk to one of your kids (can be taken multiple times)

-[] Write In who and about what

[] Research something (can be taken multiple times)

-[] Write In

[] Track down one of those hooligans before you have to deal with them again

-[] Which one?

[] Talk to Diva

-[] About what?

[] Something Else (Write in something you want to do)