Shonen Quest: Be the Hero of Your Story
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The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
I'd just like to state, as always, that I ship everything forever.
Jack-o'-Lantern
Local Shitposter
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LOOK OUT A NEW SHIP ON THE HORIZON!
What a wholesome update, I wonder what will go absolutely wrong in the next one
EDIT: A bit sad that my HakaixYoko ship sank before it even started sailing.
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Unlimited Interlude Works!
Gun and Powder
Tax Evader the Arknight Operator
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Sometimes a ship become a submarine... I don't know.
Unfortunately my social engineering skills is similar to a house on fire. But suggests somehow getting Noriko and Yoko to date is a slow burn romance that contain mainly cute and wholesome situations that would be unexpected in a shonen but quite fitting of that of a romance. I might be suggesting this solely on my need for cute shit and needing my fix. But that's my suggestion.
Unfortunately my social engineering skills is similar to a house on fire. But suggests somehow getting Noriko and Yoko to date is a slow burn romance that contain mainly cute and wholesome situations that would be unexpected in a shonen but quite fitting of that of a romance. I might be suggesting this solely on my need for cute shit and needing my fix. But that's my suggestion.
UNKNOWN01
Nobody knows me... I feel lonely!
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- Nowhere
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*sigh*... it's always a sad day when a ship sinks, even more when it's two, but from the darkest deeps of the ocean of relationships a new one has risen, have faith my brothers, by the power of YURI THIS ONE WONT BE SUNK...
welp, better start searching new wai-friends so we can built a new and better ship for our little genius, Hakai.
welp, better start searching new wai-friends so we can built a new and better ship for our little genius, Hakai.
Week 1: New Beginnings Results (Training)
Kaboomatic
Where the Wild Things Are
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The first thing you did after your Monday classes was go down to one of the athletics areas and see if you could book some sort of training area. The receptionist, an athletic man and quite heavily muscled, kindly explained the process for reserving a training room, as well as the various types of training rooms available.
The one that spoke to you the most was the 'army' training room, which allowed one to fight multiple constructs at once. It was basically a mirror to your own Warform/Mythblade combo, and you felt like you had to choose it.
So, you booked the room for 3 hours on Wednesday evening, and, realizing what time it was, practically sprinted over to your Organization meeting.
At 5PM Wednesday evening, you walk into the athletics area, and speak to the receptionist, who shows you to an elevator you didn't notice before. He says that it leads directly to the training area you've booked, so you step inside and wait for it to descend.
Your training room is a futuristic looking thing, a wide open area with the walls, roof, and floor all made up of the same silvery metal, a metal that looks almost alien in form.
As you walk into the training room, a silver pedestal rises up out of the floor, and projects a
holographic blue screen. On the screen are what look like different classifications of enemy, ranging from single to army. Judging by how they're named, you're pretty sure these classifications are the amount of enemies you're going to be facing.
After a few minutes of deliberation, you tap the classification named 'Squadron'. It's probably going to only be 5 to 10 enemies at most, though you're confused as to why a term referring to pilots and planes is appearing in a ground bound enemy selection screen.
As soon as you select a difficulty level, the floor of your training area shifts, seeming to turn into some form of liquid, white, grey, and metallic. After a minute or so of churning, the floor disgorges 10 robotic enemies, before going back to normal.
The robots, each made out of a silvery metal except for the piecing red of their eyes, arrange themselves into a loose formation, seemingly waiting for you to begin to attack. The middle of this formation is made up of five humanoid figures, unarmed but settled into martial arts stances. On the flanks are a total of three canine robots, ready to spring forward. But the real threat is in the back, two giants, large and bulky, each with fists larger than your torso.
Right. You came here for a fight, and it's time to begin. Or'Baz, like always, is on your right arm, and you flex your fingers in just the right way so that its claws extend. That's your Mythblade ready.
Next up is your Warform. With a cry of "RISE UP OUT OF OBSCURITY! ANCIENT MINIONS DRACONIC", a thick shell of dust covers your body, obscuring you from view. As it slowly fades away into nothingness, the pristine robes of your Warform appear, and you are officially in full combat mode.
You look up and see that the robots are already rushing forwards, the dogs racing towards you from both flanks, the humanoids moving towards you at a brisk jog, and the giants menacingly rumbling forward.
You hastily backpedal, nearly falling down as you scramble away, summoning your Draconic minions as you go. Specifically four dragon turtles, each about two feet tall, one on each flank and two in the middle, as well as six drakes.
Your plan was to have your drakes dart in and out of the battle while your dragon turtles held the line, and for a while, it seemed to be working. Your dragon turtles held firm, helped by you resummoning them every time they got injured enough to poof into dust. Your drakes attacked the sides and rear of your enemies, making quick work of the canine robots and even managing to take down the humanoids.
But then the giants came in, and destroyed your minions. They took a while to get to you, being both slow and lumbering, but once they did, they were unstoppable. Your dragon turtles were kicked aside, the giants' size making it impossible to block them. Your drakes fared no better, with neither their teeth or claws managing to actually make an impact against the giants.
Eventually, all of your minions were gone, and before you could summon more, one of the giants was right next to you, fist raised up. It was obvious that it could crush you before you could do anything.
At that moment, the giant let out a loud beep, and you watched as all of the robots, or at least, the injured ones, reassembled themselves, before going back to the same formation they were in at the beginning of your fight.
The entire thing took no more than 15 minutes.
The rest of the three hours you'd booked the training area for went much the same way. You'd pretty easily defeat the canines and the humanoids, but, no matter what formation or strategy or minion variation you tried, the giants easily destroyed them. You might have a lot of minions, but frankly, none of them are strong enough to pose a threat to them, and at a certain point, skill can't compensate for lack of power.
Eventually, late at night, not 20 minutes before you have to cede the training area, something happens, something that allows you to finally win.
After one of your dragon turtles goes down, you summon it again, but this time, it's larger, about three feet tall now, with a shell that seems harder to you. This dragon turtle manages to hold against the giants. As your other minions go down, and you resummon them, the same things happen. The dragon turtles come back larger and with stronger shells, the drakes come back larger and with longer, sharper claws and teeth, and the wyrms come back longer and with thicker bodies. Now, your minions can actually do damage against the giants, and while your dragon turtles hold them back, your drakes bite and claw at the giants' legs until they crash down to the ground.
Panting, exhilarated, you unsummon your minions, and head out. As you walk out of the training area, you turn back, and see the robots melt back into the floor.
A/N: Just to be clear, the power up you guys just got isn't going to be a regular thing. I gave it to you because you hadn't gotten a 'rank-up' from reaching adept level. Also, mildly related, I'm probably going to move this quest's mechanics to a fully narrative type of thing, mainly because I think it makes more sense for shonen. If you've read Number None, the quest that pioneered this system, that's the kind of mechanics I'm going for.
The one that spoke to you the most was the 'army' training room, which allowed one to fight multiple constructs at once. It was basically a mirror to your own Warform/Mythblade combo, and you felt like you had to choose it.
So, you booked the room for 3 hours on Wednesday evening, and, realizing what time it was, practically sprinted over to your Organization meeting.
At 5PM Wednesday evening, you walk into the athletics area, and speak to the receptionist, who shows you to an elevator you didn't notice before. He says that it leads directly to the training area you've booked, so you step inside and wait for it to descend.
Your training room is a futuristic looking thing, a wide open area with the walls, roof, and floor all made up of the same silvery metal, a metal that looks almost alien in form.
As you walk into the training room, a silver pedestal rises up out of the floor, and projects a
holographic blue screen. On the screen are what look like different classifications of enemy, ranging from single to army. Judging by how they're named, you're pretty sure these classifications are the amount of enemies you're going to be facing.
After a few minutes of deliberation, you tap the classification named 'Squadron'. It's probably going to only be 5 to 10 enemies at most, though you're confused as to why a term referring to pilots and planes is appearing in a ground bound enemy selection screen.
As soon as you select a difficulty level, the floor of your training area shifts, seeming to turn into some form of liquid, white, grey, and metallic. After a minute or so of churning, the floor disgorges 10 robotic enemies, before going back to normal.
The robots, each made out of a silvery metal except for the piecing red of their eyes, arrange themselves into a loose formation, seemingly waiting for you to begin to attack. The middle of this formation is made up of five humanoid figures, unarmed but settled into martial arts stances. On the flanks are a total of three canine robots, ready to spring forward. But the real threat is in the back, two giants, large and bulky, each with fists larger than your torso.
Right. You came here for a fight, and it's time to begin. Or'Baz, like always, is on your right arm, and you flex your fingers in just the right way so that its claws extend. That's your Mythblade ready.
Next up is your Warform. With a cry of "RISE UP OUT OF OBSCURITY! ANCIENT MINIONS DRACONIC", a thick shell of dust covers your body, obscuring you from view. As it slowly fades away into nothingness, the pristine robes of your Warform appear, and you are officially in full combat mode.
You look up and see that the robots are already rushing forwards, the dogs racing towards you from both flanks, the humanoids moving towards you at a brisk jog, and the giants menacingly rumbling forward.
You hastily backpedal, nearly falling down as you scramble away, summoning your Draconic minions as you go. Specifically four dragon turtles, each about two feet tall, one on each flank and two in the middle, as well as six drakes.
Your plan was to have your drakes dart in and out of the battle while your dragon turtles held the line, and for a while, it seemed to be working. Your dragon turtles held firm, helped by you resummoning them every time they got injured enough to poof into dust. Your drakes attacked the sides and rear of your enemies, making quick work of the canine robots and even managing to take down the humanoids.
But then the giants came in, and destroyed your minions. They took a while to get to you, being both slow and lumbering, but once they did, they were unstoppable. Your dragon turtles were kicked aside, the giants' size making it impossible to block them. Your drakes fared no better, with neither their teeth or claws managing to actually make an impact against the giants.
Eventually, all of your minions were gone, and before you could summon more, one of the giants was right next to you, fist raised up. It was obvious that it could crush you before you could do anything.
At that moment, the giant let out a loud beep, and you watched as all of the robots, or at least, the injured ones, reassembled themselves, before going back to the same formation they were in at the beginning of your fight.
The entire thing took no more than 15 minutes.
The rest of the three hours you'd booked the training area for went much the same way. You'd pretty easily defeat the canines and the humanoids, but, no matter what formation or strategy or minion variation you tried, the giants easily destroyed them. You might have a lot of minions, but frankly, none of them are strong enough to pose a threat to them, and at a certain point, skill can't compensate for lack of power.
Eventually, late at night, not 20 minutes before you have to cede the training area, something happens, something that allows you to finally win.
After one of your dragon turtles goes down, you summon it again, but this time, it's larger, about three feet tall now, with a shell that seems harder to you. This dragon turtle manages to hold against the giants. As your other minions go down, and you resummon them, the same things happen. The dragon turtles come back larger and with stronger shells, the drakes come back larger and with longer, sharper claws and teeth, and the wyrms come back longer and with thicker bodies. Now, your minions can actually do damage against the giants, and while your dragon turtles hold them back, your drakes bite and claw at the giants' legs until they crash down to the ground.
Panting, exhilarated, you unsummon your minions, and head out. As you walk out of the training area, you turn back, and see the robots melt back into the floor.
A/N: Just to be clear, the power up you guys just got isn't going to be a regular thing. I gave it to you because you hadn't gotten a 'rank-up' from reaching adept level. Also, mildly related, I'm probably going to move this quest's mechanics to a fully narrative type of thing, mainly because I think it makes more sense for shonen. If you've read Number None, the quest that pioneered this system, that's the kind of mechanics I'm going for.
Kaboomatic
Where the Wild Things Are
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That's not exactly how Hakai works as a character
He realizes something happened, goes 'neat', then files it away and keeps on trucking
It's part of the whole rational badass thing that you guys chose for Hakai's personality
Jack-o'-Lantern
Local Shitposter
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- Hell
Most likely we will unlock some sort of single summon of a special creature, kinda like a hero unit. That would be pretty dope imo.
TimEd
Meteor maker
Not even to guess as to its cause to see if it is repeatable?
Honestly, I expect a rational badass to go "Huh, has my summons finally reached adept level as well?" or something like that anyway. Relying on A/N to know the reason why it happened just make it seem like an undeserved buff instead.
I mean, he doesn't really have to do it on the spot, especially since his booked time in the training room is running out.
Also, nice to see first on screen fighting and his powers. We have a baseline for our stuff now, which is good to know.
Kaboomatic
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I will note that nobody in this world actually has the concept of 'power ranking'
the Student->Adept->Skilled->Etc. thing is solely a mechanical thing
All people know is that i you train enough, your Warform and Mythblade get stronger, like exercising a muscle
To put this in context, what happened in the update is similar to somebody realizing that after a lot of practice, they can now run for an extra mile without getting tired
FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
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- Tennessee
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Too bad we can't train blood hunter here.
Unless they have a training room filled with captured monsters, we'll have to wait until we are in a spar with another student or fighting monsters on the wall to train it.
Unless they have a training room filled with captured monsters, we'll have to wait until we are in a spar with another student or fighting monsters on the wall to train it.
It's a shonen anime, so......
How many have concrete and maintained power levels that mean much?
Edit: Almost a staple of the genre
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? Does this means that we won't have our char sheet, that we didn't get xp, or what? I mean, as things currently stand we kinda either need to see how much we are improving in order to have an idea on how much ap we must spend or the training parts must be automatically discounted on the week ap, since i can't see us being able to properly balance otherwise.
Kaboomatic
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No
You still have the progression and all the XP and stuff, you just don't roll dice for combat or anything else and stuff's determined based on skill level and like 15 other factors, with no real randomness involved
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Oh okay, i forgot that this was roll based before. Btw, did we win xp here, will be calculated later, or it was just the lvl up section? Am i bothering you with the questions?
Kaboomatic
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You got XP, at the same rates that you'd get for a training action. My policy going forward is going to be that any gains you get are added at the end of the turn results
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Ooh! Interesting choice mate. Can't wait what you have in store for us next chapter.
Kaboomatic
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Unfortunately, due to IRL stuff, today's update is going to be delayed, either to late tonight, or sometime tomorrow. If the update is delayed till tomorrow, there will be two updates coming out tomorrow, not just the delayed one
Apologies
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