Shards of a Broken Sun [Megaten/Shugo Chara/Exalted]
- Thread starter Baughn
- Start date
- Crossover
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- Laniakea
Quick question - is there just 1 dice roll on the whole plan, or separate rolls for each of the 3 choices made in the plan? Or even multiple rolls for a given choice, depending on the particulars of it?
- Location
- Laniakea
I assume this is what would happen if we rolled a nat 1, no matter what plan got voted for.
Depending on what the as-yet-unrevealed stunting rules looks like, it might turn out to be impossible for a properly-stunted vote to get a natural 1, but that'll have to wait until QM reveals the exact details of what it will be.
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[x] Plan: Damage Control
-[X][Classmates] Lead
-[X][Rift] Make some sort of attempt at fixing it yourself
-[X][Saaya] Take pity
-[X][Classmates] Lead
-[X][Rift] Make some sort of attempt at fixing it yourself
-[X][Saaya] Take pity
DarkN0va
The Multiversal Gamer
- Location
- Duel-Topia
[X] Plan: Saaya This Is Your Fault, But We'll Pretend It's Not
[X] Plan: Saaya This Is Your Fault, Now Help Me Fix It
Edit: removed the extra since that wasn't needed to count for an already made plan vote, and remembered that the planer changing their plan when I have more than the plan name on my vote would confuse the tally system.
[X] Plan: Saaya This Is Your Fault, Now Help Me Fix It
Edit: removed the extra since that wasn't needed to count for an already made plan vote, and remembered that the planer changing their plan when I have more than the plan name on my vote would confuse the tally system.
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You know, thinking about the scenario a bit more, hasn't this problem appeared between us and Saaya? If that is the case, not sure one can actually say anything out of ear shot. Maybe we'll have to go with something that everyone can hear.
- Location
- Laniakea
For now, it's apparently somewhere near the ceiling of their classroom, above the height of anybody's heads.
Obviously, as seen at the end, it grows.
For now.
Obviously, as seen at the end, it grows.
Baughn
Healing-type writer
- Location
- Dublin
Depends on the vote!
This is one of those situations where I'll spend half of Saturday working out the maths of the system.
I... can't think of a single outcome in which that would happen, so no.
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Hey QM. Maybe you should put a word limt on the write-in vote like max 10 word.
I just feel like the write-in are just getting bigger and bigger. They feel like trying to do too many things at once, and going to hard when is not necessary
I just feel like the write-in are just getting bigger and bigger. They feel like trying to do too many things at once, and going to hard when is not necessary
Baughn
Healing-type writer
- Location
- Dublin
Word limit: Not really my thing.
Concept limit: Yes. The write-in can't be so complex that it nails down precisely what Amu will be doing, because you don't know the exact situation she will be doing it in. If a write-in like that wins, then I will absolutely apply a calcinator to it.
In other words, go higher level and prefer generalities please… it's not like I don't read the discussion, I'll factor that into the result anyway.
Concept limit: Yes. The write-in can't be so complex that it nails down precisely what Amu will be doing, because you don't know the exact situation she will be doing it in. If a write-in like that wins, then I will absolutely apply a calcinator to it.
In other words, go higher level and prefer generalities please… it's not like I don't read the discussion, I'll factor that into the result anyway.
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Eternal_0bserver
(Unverified Bookworm)
- Location
- Earth, Northern Europe
[X] Plan Starry Sky + containment.
-[X] [Classmates] Evacuate the classroom, then split up into small groups to try and find Tsukasa.
-[X] [Rift] We spotted something abnormal. Call Lulu and hope she can actually help. Stay with the rift in the meantime to keep an eye on it.
--[X] In case the rift starts to expand, try to use abilities to contain it.
-[X] [Saaya] Take pity.
Is this write-in acceptable? If the situation starts to get worse, it's better to use force, even if the odds aren't entirely in Amu's favour.
-[X] [Classmates] Evacuate the classroom, then split up into small groups to try and find Tsukasa.
-[X] [Rift] We spotted something abnormal. Call Lulu and hope she can actually help. Stay with the rift in the meantime to keep an eye on it.
--[X] In case the rift starts to expand, try to use abilities to contain it.
-[X] [Saaya] Take pity.
Is this write-in acceptable? If the situation starts to get worse, it's better to use force, even if the odds aren't entirely in Amu's favour.
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[X] Plan Starry Sky + containment.
-[X] [Classmates] Evacuate the classroom, then split up into small groups to try and find Tsukasa
-[X] [Rift] We spotted something abnormal. Call Lulu and hope she can actually help. Stay with the rift in the meantime to keep an eye on it.
--[X] In case the rift starts to expand, try to use abilities to contain it.
-[X] [Saaya] Take pity.
This at the least doesn't seem like a bad idea, guess I'll see if I can think of anything further for it.
Don't suppose anyone has an idea on what else the classmates can do beyond evacuating and finding Tsukasa? Would there be any other nearby teachers that might be helpful? Maybe a guardian?
-[X] [Classmates] Evacuate the classroom, then split up into small groups to try and find Tsukasa
-[X] [Rift] We spotted something abnormal. Call Lulu and hope she can actually help. Stay with the rift in the meantime to keep an eye on it.
--[X] In case the rift starts to expand, try to use abilities to contain it.
-[X] [Saaya] Take pity.
This at the least doesn't seem like a bad idea, guess I'll see if I can think of anything further for it.
Don't suppose anyone has an idea on what else the classmates can do beyond evacuating and finding Tsukasa? Would there be any other nearby teachers that might be helpful? Maybe a guardian?
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I think calling others for help beside Tsukasa is a gode idea. We don't know where he is, and how long it would take for him to get here.
The other guardians could help out. Their power may not great, but they are the best we got at hand.
Well lets change it to that then.
[X] Plan Stars in the Sky + containment.
-[X] [Classmates] Evacuate the classroom, then split up into small groups to try and find Tsukasa and anyone else who might be able to help.
-[X] [Rift] We spotted something abnormal. Call Lulu and hope she can actually help. Stay with the rift in the meantime to keep an eye on it.
--[X] In case the rift starts to expand a lot, try to cautiously use abilities to contain it.
-[X] [Saaya] Take pity.
[X] Plan Stars in the Sky + containment.
-[X] [Classmates] Evacuate the classroom, then split up into small groups to try and find Tsukasa and anyone else who might be able to help.
-[X] [Rift] We spotted something abnormal. Call Lulu and hope she can actually help. Stay with the rift in the meantime to keep an eye on it.
--[X] In case the rift starts to expand a lot, try to cautiously use abilities to contain it.
-[X] [Saaya] Take pity.
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[X] Plan Stars in the Sky + containment.
- Location
- Laniakea
As Baughn mentioned before, there's Nikaido who was an ex-Easter Chara researcher turned primary school teacher, but he's all the way in the primary school section of the academy and not in the same zone.
For ex-Guardians, Tadase and Nagihiko are in her year, but in different classes. And I think Rima also graduated with Amu, so she'd be there too. Kukai is one year above. They would be in the same area, unless they're sick or something.
The actual current Guardians are the primary school Student Council. There are nominally 4 of them (Ace, Jack, Queen, King). Kairi and Yaya were the Jack and Ace respectively following Amu's graduation. Since Rikka doesn't exist here and it was mentioned Ami was taking her role, I assume the current Queen would be Ami in this quest, even though she'd only be in first or second-year. The King is probably Hikaru.
As was also pointed out, how much Nikaido would be able to contribute is also debatable. He was a Chara researcher, not an expert in space-time anomalies. But AFAIK, he's also the only adult nearby apart from Tsukasa with a chance of knowing anything.
I also have a strong feeling that trying to use psychic abilities to close the rift would backfire. The thing was caused by Saaya's psychic clash with Amu and I suspect is being widened by whatever excess energy is being released by Saaya in her panic and heightened emotions. Throwing more psychic energy at it could well exacerbate it instead.
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I think this needs to be more specific, because the rift has already started to expand:
Maybe something about the expansion's progress or rate?
Hmmm, I guess I could modify my vote a bit for that as well, might as well incorporate good ideas from others.
Nero200
High Priest of Eito, Part Time Nyar.
I've caught up, and would like to take a moment to try and explain Saaya's take on Amu a bit more, since I'm not entirely sure the right read on it has been taken.
Saaya, out of everyone in the class, seems to have developed some level of resistance to Amu's passive mind control aura.
(Likely due to being hit with every canon type of mental alteration there is, I mentioned this in an earlier write in. she was X-Egged, X-Character'd, Mystery Character'd, and IIRC also hit with Utau's song. Oh, and she's been dealing with Amu's passive mind control hammering her every school day for multiple years at this point.)
This is the aura that ensures Amu is, well. Liked. That maintains the 'cool and spicy' impression everyone has despite her own admittance that she has spent basically zero time socialising within her own class all year.
Saaya remembers that she floated and that that was weird.
She on some level knows about all of Amu's Charas and their abilities from her Mystery Transformation into Himamori Dream, under Lulu's mind fuckery with her Egg.
Which means she knows about Rans physical boosts pushing her to the top of class and far beyond, Miki's 'auto-skill' aspects ensuring she has top marks, and Su's blatant mind control meaning she never has to actually talk to her class to be considered their favourite person.
Things that are terrifying enough to conceptualise someone having while having full knowledge of the Chara system. Saaya only has half remembered ideas of them, and that likely makes it even worse.
Saaya is, from what I can tell, a Sleepwalker of sorts. She's subconsciously aware that Amu doesn't make sense within normal social structure, that she is passively altering the emotions and minds of those around her, but hasn't added it up to anything so specific as psionics.
She just knows, and has known for the last half a year by the sounds of it, that Amu is somehow warping the world and people around her, and that she's the only one that seems to notice.
Reality has been shifting around her for years, and she has enough resistance to psionics to know that something is wrong, yet not enough to actually keep her memories in full and figure out what's going on.
Her latent Psionics, magic, whatever she has, apparently just weaponised in a crude manner to try and fight Amu back.
Saaya just burned all her social capital without caring. She's self sabotaging what she actually values in this attempt to finally push through the aura, both herself, and for the others in the class/school.
This is... pretty much Saaya giving up on reality actually working, that she can use reason against Amu. She's 'giving in' to the madness that she's been trying to solve with a half blinded mind. The blinders are coming off properly, and she's past caring about the consequences this will have on her mind.
If you'll allow the reference.
Grant us eyes, grant us eyes. Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy. The grand lake of mud, hidden now, from sight. The cosmos, of course! Let us sit about, and speak feverishly.
Saaya's found a way to see what's really going on. Reality is suffering the consequences of someone breaking, and reality hasn't been in the best shape recently to start with.
Saaya, out of everyone in the class, seems to have developed some level of resistance to Amu's passive mind control aura.
(Likely due to being hit with every canon type of mental alteration there is, I mentioned this in an earlier write in. she was X-Egged, X-Character'd, Mystery Character'd, and IIRC also hit with Utau's song. Oh, and she's been dealing with Amu's passive mind control hammering her every school day for multiple years at this point.)
This is the aura that ensures Amu is, well. Liked. That maintains the 'cool and spicy' impression everyone has despite her own admittance that she has spent basically zero time socialising within her own class all year.
The aura that lets Amu get away with magical-girl'ing all grade school, that makes her just popular by default.
Saaya remembers that she floated and that that was weird.
She on some level knows about all of Amu's Charas and their abilities from her Mystery Transformation into Himamori Dream, under Lulu's mind fuckery with her Egg.
Which means she knows about Rans physical boosts pushing her to the top of class and far beyond, Miki's 'auto-skill' aspects ensuring she has top marks, and Su's blatant mind control meaning she never has to actually talk to her class to be considered their favourite person.
Things that are terrifying enough to conceptualise someone having while having full knowledge of the Chara system. Saaya only has half remembered ideas of them, and that likely makes it even worse.
Saaya is, from what I can tell, a Sleepwalker of sorts. She's subconsciously aware that Amu doesn't make sense within normal social structure, that she is passively altering the emotions and minds of those around her, but hasn't added it up to anything so specific as psionics.
She just knows, and has known for the last half a year by the sounds of it, that Amu is somehow warping the world and people around her, and that she's the only one that seems to notice.
Reality has been shifting around her for years, and she has enough resistance to psionics to know that something is wrong, yet not enough to actually keep her memories in full and figure out what's going on.
She's finally hit the point of being able to verbalise it, to lock it down enough for her consciousness to actually do something about the unending psionic attack that is Amu's passive.
Her latent Psionics, magic, whatever she has, apparently just weaponised in a crude manner to try and fight Amu back.
Saaya just burned all her social capital without caring. She's self sabotaging what she actually values in this attempt to finally push through the aura, both herself, and for the others in the class/school.
This is... pretty much Saaya giving up on reality actually working, that she can use reason against Amu. She's 'giving in' to the madness that she's been trying to solve with a half blinded mind. The blinders are coming off properly, and she's past caring about the consequences this will have on her mind.
If you'll allow the reference.
Grant us eyes, grant us eyes. Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy. The grand lake of mud, hidden now, from sight. The cosmos, of course! Let us sit about, and speak feverishly.
Saaya's found a way to see what's really going on. Reality is suffering the consequences of someone breaking, and reality hasn't been in the best shape recently to start with.
Baughn
Healing-type writer
- Location
- Dublin
This, of course, isn't how Amu sees it... and there's a lot of subtlety about how much is Amu's fault, how much is her doing, how much is neither, and how much is in fact not the doing of any specific human. The suggested timeline also isn't wholly accurate.
But, largely, yes. We have a winner. I won't be writing tomorrow—need to work out the dice system, including simulators—so you'll have until Saturday for any potential discussion.
But, largely, yes. We have a winner. I won't be writing tomorrow—need to work out the dice system, including simulators—so you'll have until Saturday for any potential discussion.
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Su's... what? It's been over a decade since I read Shugo Chara, and I never finished anyway, so I'm not too familiar with the details.
