A Failed Recruitment
- Location
- United States
[X] Invest your will in the cats so you can communicate them from far away. (Learn Invest Will)
[X] Search for another of the unusually powerful people.
-[X] Search for someone else.
[X] Forge something. Choose any combination and however many you want.
-[X] Energy Absorbing Stone: Absorbs energy from any human who touches it. Costs 5 P x4
--[X] See if you can reduce the drain rate to match your most successful stone. If you can perfect a version that can drain without being noticed indefinitely, you're set.
-[X] Sword: Magic sword that's blade never dulls. Costs 10 P
-[X] Mace: A magic mace that will never break and can crush with more force than it would seem. Costs 10 P
Energy Gathering Stones
Necklace: 93; put on, not in hospital, +80 P
Bracelet 1: 27; found and taken off. Not suspected, will be out of hospital soon.
Bracelet 2: 75; person is put in a hospital, +100 P
Ring: 31, person is fine. +30 P
You get up without waking Makoto and sneak outside once again. This time, you are heading toward the cats once more. They have been mostly useless so far, but they will be more useful after you are done with this.
You reach the first group, and use your control over them to make them follow you. You meet in a large alleyway with the second group, having almost a hundred cats in total.
You spread your will towards the cats. Shadows stretch, darkness deepens. A bystander might see a terrible monster standing there, before convincing themselves nothing is there at all and running away in fright. Then it ends, small amounts of the darkness absorbed into each cat and the rest returned to you.
The cats are rather fewer in number and smaller than what you are used to, so it uses little of your energy to invest in them.
Their minds become connected to your soul. You cannot directly talk to them–and even if you could they are cats so could not understand it–but you can send and receive vague orders. You will always know where they are, and they will not abandon you as easily.
The process takes only a few hours, with all 93 cats now under your control. Satisfied, you have them continue searching to find a youma for lack of something else to have them do.
In the morning, you leave to search for another powerful person, Makoto being completely unaware of your nightly excursion.
1-20: Rei
21-40: Minako/Artemis
41-60: Hotaru
61-80: Mamoru
81-100: Great Youma
Rolled 8: Rei
You find another presence at the T*A Girls Academy after quite a few hours of searching. This suggests that she is once again near the same age as the others you have found. That is most certainly not a coincidence… they must be connected somehow.
You only wait a few hours for her to come out of school. You suspicions were correct: she appears to be the same age as the others. You follow her as she goes to her home, looking of a chance to speak to her in private. For some reason, she keeps looking around though. As if she thinks she is being followed.
It seems she lives at the Hikawa Shrine, a place of religion. She talks with her grandfather, another person who is powerful but not quite as much, and you learn she is a shrine maiden. You follow her into her house.
Roll First Impressions: 24, Req 60 = Failure
She is holding a piece of paper in her hands. It seems strangely… hostile to your presence. How peculiar, that a small piece of paper could be hostile. She turns to look directly at you.
"Hello, I am–" you begin to speak, and she looks satisfied as if something she thought was just confirmed.
"Evil Spirit, be exorcised! Rin, Pyo, To, Sha, Kai, Jin, Retsu, Zai, Zen!"
Rei Akuryo Taisan: 11 + 10(Slightly Experienced) = 22
Sauron Dodge: 87
Not completely sure what that paper would do, you dodge it.
"Wait! I am not an evil spirit, just calm down for a moment. Let us talk like civilized people." Not having time to use your powerful voice, you simply resort to shouting at her to stop.
Convince: 64, Req 80 = Failure
"I can feel your evil presence. The fire does not lie! Rin, Pyo, To, Sha, Kai, Jin, Retsu, Zai, Zen!"
Rei Akuryo Taisan: 62 + 10 (Slightly Experienced) = 72
Sauron Dodge: 23 + 20 (Plenty of time) = 43
You have plenty of time to dodge it, but sadly your combat instincts seem to have been left alone too long. You jump too soon and the shrine maiden readjusts her aim, hitting you directly on the forehead.
-20 P
It burns with purifying power. But it is weak, and your inner flame burns it to pieces. She stands back for a moment.
"What?" She says in surprise, then readies another paper to attack once more. She does look exhausted however, and you doubt she could do a few more attacks.
She is clearly not going to accept any peaceful overtures for now. You walk away, preempting her next attack by moving behind a bush. She seems to sigh in relief, but is clearly still wary. Let her be content with thinking she drove you off. You will return when you want to.
You return to the abandoned house. It is time to return to the forge, you think with relish as you shift into a human form once more.
You have noticed that it seems people affected by your energy draining devices might be placed in the hospital. That simply will not do; the attention it may bring to you is horrible. Thus, you start on designing another stone with a smaller energy drain.
You bring one of the four rocks you selected for this to your anvil. You gather your power around it and it heats up.
Clang
You smash into the stone with force that would normally shatter it. But you are using your own power upon it now. It does not shatter, but instead bends. And it shines. You direct the energy absorbing properties of it to absorb less energy, so that it will not greviously harm the holder of it.
But it is not easy to fine-tune the energy collecting vacuum. You end up with a stone that will absorb less than half the amount of energy as your original, but will have no chance of hospitalization. The owner will still feel much more tired than usual, but that is no loss for you.
Soon enough it becomes a beautiful crystal set in a bracelet. You create three more stones like it; an earring–with of the pair side not doing anything–another necklace, and another ring.
With that done with, you turn to making weapons. You search for metal around the house, and notice you have now used up all the metal that is in good enough quality to create objects. If you create anything else that requires metal you will first have to secure a source of it or use your power to transmute it.
You start with a sword. You place the metal on the table and heat it up with your powers. It becomes flattened, and smoothed, and sharpened. You enchant it so the blade will never dull less it come in contact with a magic greater than itself.
The next weapon you create is a mace. You have long favored maces, powerful weapons that can break through armor as easily as paper. You form the metal into a mace, a mace that is impervious to breaking and that will crush anything mundane.
You put both weapons and the jewelry into a closet, still downstairs, then transform back into a cat and return to Makoto's.
You go through a window to get inside, but end up having to go up the stairs to get back to her apartment. You scratch at the door so she lets you in.
"Where were you all day?" The brunette asks curiously.
"I was searching for more of the monsters. I have a feeling they are up to no good." You feel a little ridiculous saying that, but she seems to buy it.
She turns in for the night a few hours later, and you can now act next.
+136 P
Choose 3
[] Sleep without going out this night. If you go too many days without this you may get tired.
[] Forge something. Choose any combination and however many you want. If it requires metal then +20 P to cost.
-[] Morgul-blade: A dagger than when strikes someone, slowly reaches heart even if not lethal wound. Turns victim into a wraith. Costs 10 P
-[] Minor Ring of Power: Increases the wearer's strengths and weaknesses. Costs 50 P
-[] Great Ring of Power: On par with the Nine, greatly increases wearer's strengths and weaknesses. Costs 200 P
-[] Energy Absorbing Stone: Absorbs energy from any human who touches it. Costs 5 P
-[] Weaker Variant Stone: Absorbs less than half of the normal stone's energy. Costs 5 P
-[] Sword: Magic sword that's blade never dulls. Costs 10 P
-[] Bow: Magic bow that's arrows fly true and far. Costs 10 P
-[] Shining Armor: Armor that inspires loyalty and inspiration to all who see it. It is unnaturally strong. Costs 15 P
-[] Terrifying Armor: Powerful and unnaturally strong armor that inspires terror in all who see it. Costs 15 P
-[] Shield: A magic shield that is unnaturally strong. Costs 10 P
-[] Mace: A magic mace that will never break and can crush with more force than it would seem. Costs 10 P
[] Secure another source of metal.
-[] Write-in how.
[] Hand out Energy Absorbing Stones. (Currently have: 4)
-[] How many?
-[] Observe local gift packaging, wrap the stones up as anonymous gifts and deliver them disguised as a taciturn postman.
-[] Write-in how
[] Search for another of the youma.
-[] Optional: Go to the group of cats to see if they found anything.
[] Search for another of the unusually powerful people.
-[] Specifically search for Luna.
-[] Specifically search for Sailor Moon.
-[] Search for someone else.
[] Visit the shrine maiden.
-[] Try to recruit her.
-[] Kill her.
-[] Write-in.
-[] Optional: Go to her grandfather instead, as he also has power.
-[] Optional: Go in your Annatar form.
[] Teach Makoto magic at the abandoned house.
-[] Inspire Fear
-[] Illusion
-[] Lightning (more powerful than fire)
-[] Practice Magic Blast
-[] Practice Fire
-[] Practice Brawling (Involves you shape shifting into a human)
-[] Practice Block
-[] Write-in
[] Teach Ami magic at the abandoned house.
-[] Inspire Fear
-[] Illusion
-[] Fire
-[] Hand-to-hand combat. (Makoto teaches)
-[] Practice Magic Blast
-[] Practice Block
-[] Write-in
[] Invest Will in one of your allies. It will help you control them, but may give them insight into your true being. Will roll to see if they agree to this.
-[] Makoto
-[] Ami
[] Get money.
-[] Rob a bank in cat form.
-[] Sell rocks disguised as gold.
-[] Burgle easily carried valuables from buildings
-[] Write-in
[] Find people to join you in an organization. You will need manpower, just cats won't do.
-[] Optional: Name your organization.
-[] Put up signs advertising for a job working for a new business. You will have them show up to a meeting on a specific day later in the house.
-[] Find the poor and downtrodden, and have them work for you.
-[] Find an influencial/wealthy/powerful person in their twilight years who will be open to serving you, use compelling voice to convince them if neccessary.
-[] Write-in
[] Write-in
[X] Search for another of the unusually powerful people.
-[X] Search for someone else.
[X] Forge something. Choose any combination and however many you want.
-[X] Energy Absorbing Stone: Absorbs energy from any human who touches it. Costs 5 P x4
--[X] See if you can reduce the drain rate to match your most successful stone. If you can perfect a version that can drain without being noticed indefinitely, you're set.
-[X] Sword: Magic sword that's blade never dulls. Costs 10 P
-[X] Mace: A magic mace that will never break and can crush with more force than it would seem. Costs 10 P
Energy Gathering Stones
Necklace: 93; put on, not in hospital, +80 P
Bracelet 1: 27; found and taken off. Not suspected, will be out of hospital soon.
Bracelet 2: 75; person is put in a hospital, +100 P
Ring: 31, person is fine. +30 P
You get up without waking Makoto and sneak outside once again. This time, you are heading toward the cats once more. They have been mostly useless so far, but they will be more useful after you are done with this.
You reach the first group, and use your control over them to make them follow you. You meet in a large alleyway with the second group, having almost a hundred cats in total.
You spread your will towards the cats. Shadows stretch, darkness deepens. A bystander might see a terrible monster standing there, before convincing themselves nothing is there at all and running away in fright. Then it ends, small amounts of the darkness absorbed into each cat and the rest returned to you.
The cats are rather fewer in number and smaller than what you are used to, so it uses little of your energy to invest in them.
Their minds become connected to your soul. You cannot directly talk to them–and even if you could they are cats so could not understand it–but you can send and receive vague orders. You will always know where they are, and they will not abandon you as easily.
The process takes only a few hours, with all 93 cats now under your control. Satisfied, you have them continue searching to find a youma for lack of something else to have them do.
In the morning, you leave to search for another powerful person, Makoto being completely unaware of your nightly excursion.
1-20: Rei
21-40: Minako/Artemis
41-60: Hotaru
61-80: Mamoru
81-100: Great Youma
Rolled 8: Rei
You find another presence at the T*A Girls Academy after quite a few hours of searching. This suggests that she is once again near the same age as the others you have found. That is most certainly not a coincidence… they must be connected somehow.
You only wait a few hours for her to come out of school. You suspicions were correct: she appears to be the same age as the others. You follow her as she goes to her home, looking of a chance to speak to her in private. For some reason, she keeps looking around though. As if she thinks she is being followed.
It seems she lives at the Hikawa Shrine, a place of religion. She talks with her grandfather, another person who is powerful but not quite as much, and you learn she is a shrine maiden. You follow her into her house.
Roll First Impressions: 24, Req 60 = Failure
She is holding a piece of paper in her hands. It seems strangely… hostile to your presence. How peculiar, that a small piece of paper could be hostile. She turns to look directly at you.
"Hello, I am–" you begin to speak, and she looks satisfied as if something she thought was just confirmed.
"Evil Spirit, be exorcised! Rin, Pyo, To, Sha, Kai, Jin, Retsu, Zai, Zen!"
Rei Akuryo Taisan: 11 + 10(Slightly Experienced) = 22
Sauron Dodge: 87
Not completely sure what that paper would do, you dodge it.
"Wait! I am not an evil spirit, just calm down for a moment. Let us talk like civilized people." Not having time to use your powerful voice, you simply resort to shouting at her to stop.
Convince: 64, Req 80 = Failure
"I can feel your evil presence. The fire does not lie! Rin, Pyo, To, Sha, Kai, Jin, Retsu, Zai, Zen!"
Rei Akuryo Taisan: 62 + 10 (Slightly Experienced) = 72
Sauron Dodge: 23 + 20 (Plenty of time) = 43
You have plenty of time to dodge it, but sadly your combat instincts seem to have been left alone too long. You jump too soon and the shrine maiden readjusts her aim, hitting you directly on the forehead.
-20 P
It burns with purifying power. But it is weak, and your inner flame burns it to pieces. She stands back for a moment.
"What?" She says in surprise, then readies another paper to attack once more. She does look exhausted however, and you doubt she could do a few more attacks.
She is clearly not going to accept any peaceful overtures for now. You walk away, preempting her next attack by moving behind a bush. She seems to sigh in relief, but is clearly still wary. Let her be content with thinking she drove you off. You will return when you want to.
You return to the abandoned house. It is time to return to the forge, you think with relish as you shift into a human form once more.
You have noticed that it seems people affected by your energy draining devices might be placed in the hospital. That simply will not do; the attention it may bring to you is horrible. Thus, you start on designing another stone with a smaller energy drain.
You bring one of the four rocks you selected for this to your anvil. You gather your power around it and it heats up.
Clang
You smash into the stone with force that would normally shatter it. But you are using your own power upon it now. It does not shatter, but instead bends. And it shines. You direct the energy absorbing properties of it to absorb less energy, so that it will not greviously harm the holder of it.
But it is not easy to fine-tune the energy collecting vacuum. You end up with a stone that will absorb less than half the amount of energy as your original, but will have no chance of hospitalization. The owner will still feel much more tired than usual, but that is no loss for you.
Soon enough it becomes a beautiful crystal set in a bracelet. You create three more stones like it; an earring–with of the pair side not doing anything–another necklace, and another ring.
With that done with, you turn to making weapons. You search for metal around the house, and notice you have now used up all the metal that is in good enough quality to create objects. If you create anything else that requires metal you will first have to secure a source of it or use your power to transmute it.
You start with a sword. You place the metal on the table and heat it up with your powers. It becomes flattened, and smoothed, and sharpened. You enchant it so the blade will never dull less it come in contact with a magic greater than itself.
The next weapon you create is a mace. You have long favored maces, powerful weapons that can break through armor as easily as paper. You form the metal into a mace, a mace that is impervious to breaking and that will crush anything mundane.
You put both weapons and the jewelry into a closet, still downstairs, then transform back into a cat and return to Makoto's.
You go through a window to get inside, but end up having to go up the stairs to get back to her apartment. You scratch at the door so she lets you in.
"Where were you all day?" The brunette asks curiously.
"I was searching for more of the monsters. I have a feeling they are up to no good." You feel a little ridiculous saying that, but she seems to buy it.
She turns in for the night a few hours later, and you can now act next.
+136 P
Choose 3
[] Sleep without going out this night. If you go too many days without this you may get tired.
[] Forge something. Choose any combination and however many you want. If it requires metal then +20 P to cost.
-[] Morgul-blade: A dagger than when strikes someone, slowly reaches heart even if not lethal wound. Turns victim into a wraith. Costs 10 P
-[] Minor Ring of Power: Increases the wearer's strengths and weaknesses. Costs 50 P
-[] Great Ring of Power: On par with the Nine, greatly increases wearer's strengths and weaknesses. Costs 200 P
-[] Energy Absorbing Stone: Absorbs energy from any human who touches it. Costs 5 P
-[] Weaker Variant Stone: Absorbs less than half of the normal stone's energy. Costs 5 P
-[] Sword: Magic sword that's blade never dulls. Costs 10 P
-[] Bow: Magic bow that's arrows fly true and far. Costs 10 P
-[] Shining Armor: Armor that inspires loyalty and inspiration to all who see it. It is unnaturally strong. Costs 15 P
-[] Terrifying Armor: Powerful and unnaturally strong armor that inspires terror in all who see it. Costs 15 P
-[] Shield: A magic shield that is unnaturally strong. Costs 10 P
-[] Mace: A magic mace that will never break and can crush with more force than it would seem. Costs 10 P
[] Secure another source of metal.
-[] Write-in how.
[] Hand out Energy Absorbing Stones. (Currently have: 4)
-[] How many?
-[] Observe local gift packaging, wrap the stones up as anonymous gifts and deliver them disguised as a taciturn postman.
-[] Write-in how
[] Search for another of the youma.
-[] Optional: Go to the group of cats to see if they found anything.
[] Search for another of the unusually powerful people.
-[] Specifically search for Luna.
-[] Specifically search for Sailor Moon.
-[] Search for someone else.
[] Visit the shrine maiden.
-[] Try to recruit her.
-[] Kill her.
-[] Write-in.
-[] Optional: Go to her grandfather instead, as he also has power.
-[] Optional: Go in your Annatar form.
[] Teach Makoto magic at the abandoned house.
-[] Inspire Fear
-[] Illusion
-[] Lightning (more powerful than fire)
-[] Practice Magic Blast
-[] Practice Fire
-[] Practice Brawling (Involves you shape shifting into a human)
-[] Practice Block
-[] Write-in
[] Teach Ami magic at the abandoned house.
-[] Inspire Fear
-[] Illusion
-[] Fire
-[] Hand-to-hand combat. (Makoto teaches)
-[] Practice Magic Blast
-[] Practice Block
-[] Write-in
[] Invest Will in one of your allies. It will help you control them, but may give them insight into your true being. Will roll to see if they agree to this.
-[] Makoto
-[] Ami
[] Get money.
-[] Rob a bank in cat form.
-[] Sell rocks disguised as gold.
-[] Burgle easily carried valuables from buildings
-[] Write-in
[] Find people to join you in an organization. You will need manpower, just cats won't do.
-[] Optional: Name your organization.
-[] Put up signs advertising for a job working for a new business. You will have them show up to a meeting on a specific day later in the house.
-[] Find the poor and downtrodden, and have them work for you.
-[] Find an influencial/wealthy/powerful person in their twilight years who will be open to serving you, use compelling voice to convince them if neccessary.
-[] Write-in
[] Write-in
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