So You've Been Hit By A Truck

[FourthWall]

[TenCo Console initializing...
Initialized.
Zhenzhu Version 3.14
> _
> open wldedit_
PROVIDE PASSWORD _
>k4m!d3r3_
>ACCESS DENIED: USER TSURUOH CURRENT ROLE: CHEAT_SKILL

"Grrrr..."

>open system_mechanics.txt_
>ACCESS DENIED: USER TSURUOH CURRENT ROLE: CHEAT_SKILL

"v(-_-; )v"

>open quest_mechanics.txt
>Zhenzhu Quest System Mechanics: WARNING: MECHANICS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
>STATS: Force - Physical health, strength, and toughness.
ATK_VAL= physical_damage, physical_soak
Grace - Agility, dexterity, reaction speed and precision.
ATK_VAL=physical_accuracy, physical_dodge
Wits - Intelligence, intuition, perception.
ATK_VAL=mental_accuracy, mental_dodge
Spirit - force of personality, willpower, luck.
ATK_VAL=mental_damage, mental_soak
>
>DESTINY: A cheat-like force of fate for luminaries. Gained and held by doing great things or following the narrative strands of your archetype/personality. Fleeting Destiny is gained via certain results and situations: it must be spent in the scene it is gained.
>
>ELEMENTS: Influences the character's innate defenses and affinities for weaponry. All attacks have an element, which must be defended against with the same element. ATK_VAL=soak_add, aff_set, ele_soak_set ELE_SET=Wu_Xing.
>
>ACTIONS: Attack - Directly attempting to harm an opponent or object.
Advantage - A maneuver used to assist you or hinder your enemies that is not a direct attack.
Defense - Protecting yourself from hostile Attacks and Advantages.
Overcome - Discerning and performing against obstacles.
>Most [Combat] actions are Attack/Defense. Most [Non-Combat] actions are Overcome. Advantage actions are used in both [Combat] and [Non-Combat] situations.
>
>RESULTS: Fail - Action unsuccessful without Destiny intervention.
Tie - Action unsuccessful without Destiny intervention, but mote of fleeting Destiny gained.
Success - Action successful
Success with Style - Action successful with added advantage, bonus, or mote of fleeting Destiny.
>_ ]

 

[LucidProp]

[X] Try to figure out the whole kit better (Explosives Understanding Check)
[X] Give the bandits a show so Heiyou and Louise can show up.

Explosives so close sound like they'll blow us up along with the vines. I'm not gonna risk losing an arm.

 

[veekie]

[X] Try to figure out the whole kit better (Explosives Understanding Check)
[X] Give the bandits a show so Heiyou and Louise can show up.

I mean, theres no maiden here for the vines to prey on...

 

[FourthWall]

We have a tie in actions between Play Along and Karne's big fuckoff thing. Normally I'd combine the two at as one action with an small penalty, but Karne's is so big it does that already.

First poster gets to be tiebreaker.

 

[wingstrike96]

[X] Try to figure out the whole kit better (Explosives Understanding Check)
[X] Give the bandits a show so Heiyou and Louise can show up.

 

[kinigget]

edit: where did that new page come from?

 

[FourthWall]

I'm baaaaaaack~

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So You've Been Hit By A Truck:
Winners Don't Use "Trap"

[Reload Game?]
>Yes
No

[Harem Flag Set]

[X] Try to figure out the whole kit better (Explosives Understanding Check)
[X] Give the bandits a show so Heiyou and Louise can show up.

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[Explosives Understanding Tie]

You can't quite figure out the tech behind the kit quite right now, given you're tied up by vine tentacles and all. The way the bamboo tube sloshed in the box makes you think they're more Molotov Cocktail than gunpowder bombs. You could probably tap them open and use the mixture as a general accelerant, but if it's a fuel/air thing you'd just set yourself on fire. Which honestly, you kind of want to do here. You don't trust the bombs or your tags enough to blow your way out of this, but you really don't want to face the alternative.

Your face is getting flushed and you're starting to breathe heavily, so it's not like you have a choice in the matter.

Poison Blossom grins wickedly. "I knew you'd crack eventually." She traces a maincured nail across your cheek. "Such strong eyes, filled with beautiful anguish..."

You grunt in a higher pitch than you'd like. "I'm not losing," you gasp as the last of your qi harmonizes with her vines, "to midboss punks like you!"

"Midboss?" Poison Blossom stammers. "I may not be Esteemed Miss Shih, but I'm a Junior Lieutenant of the Black Flag Fleet! I'm more than a mere midboss!"

"Junior Lieutenants," you say with a shaky voice, "are like literally midbosses."

She tightens the vines with a clenched fist, you squeak as a vine squeezes your inner thigh. The bandits crowd around you, excited to see you make like an ero heroine.

"Know your place, you impertinent little-" Poison Blossom grabs you by the crotch. "Youuuu..." She gives you a little pump.

You choke back a moan. "Youuuu what?" You're uncomfortably used to getting groped like this.

"You'll be my new cabin boy!" She's drooling slightly and breathing heavily, face flushed with the desperation only a ticking biological clock can provide.

The majority of the bandits' faces fall when they hear the word boy. Two girls and a guy stay perky, though.

"Such a sturdy gun you have here, boy. Let me put it to better use..." Poison Blossom's about to move from heavy petting to outright molestation when you hear wood being pulverized.

"NO ONE! USE HONEY'S GUN! BUT HONEY AND HEIYOU!" The bandits still gawking at you get smashed by a pink haired missile. Heiyou grabs one from the pile and throws her into those still standing. Her hair flows wild and her horns glow bright; you can feel her qi fueled body heat from here.

Poison Blossom wheels towards Heiyou, jian at the ready, snapped out of her horny reverie. "What in the Hells?"

Facing Heiyou gives up Poison Blossom's back, allowing Louise to sneak up behind her. "You have something of ours." Louise says, rifle trained on Poison Blossom's spine.

"You dare go against Poison Blossom of the Black Flag Fleet?!" She sounds imperious, but you can see her sweat. "The Blessed Blazing Chief will have your heads for this!"

Something about that name catches you funny. You run the Kanji in your head and a lightbulb goes off. "Blessed Blazing Chief...that's probably Megumi-san." You look to Poison Blossom. "She wouldn't happen to be a woman in her thirties with glasses who smokes like a chimney?"

"She is. Why?" Poison Blossom is surprisingly calm for having a rifle to her back.

"Oh. Me and her go way back."

"I don't believe you."

"She ever talk about a kid named Asuka?"

"All the time."

"You're looking at him." You point to yourself with your free-ish hand. "Take me to her and we can work this out."

"Bullshit, you're just some very pretty stray dog that these hussies-" Louise works the slide action on her rifle and Poison Blossom gulps. "Fine. I'll take you to her. I want to see her reject you personally."

Louise pulls the rifle away from Poison Blossom's back. "Smart choice. Not a moment too soon. Now release the fool."

You look over at Heiyou beating bandits with other bandits and agree with Louise.

Poison Blossom grounds out her qi and the vines fade away, leaving you to fall on your ass. You kip-up, trying to salvage your remaining cool.

Poison Blossom brushes against you. "When the Chief rejects you, you're mine, boy." She licks her lips and walks past you, breaking into a sprint once Heiyou starts swinging one of her men around like nunchaku.

Louise walks up to you, then kicks you in the knee so you're on her level. "Fool. Don't run off like that again." She bops you on the head.

@@@

After a lot of gunpoint diplomacy and unwanted sexual advances, you gained Poison Blossom as an envoy to Crossroads. She sent a telegraph to (who you hope is) Megumi-san telling her to meet you; she's currently on the east coast, so it'll take her a few days to reach you by river.

It'll take you and your party a day to get to Crossroads; what do you do to kill time?

[ ] Talk to Louise about getting Isekai'd
[ ] Learn about the supernatural with Heiyou
[ ] Learn Kung-fu with Poison Blossom
[ ] Study that Explosives Kit some more

 

[Ultramandalore]

[X] Talk to Louise about getting Isekai'd

Glad to see the quest is going to continue.

 

[Karnewarrior]

[X] Talk to Louise about getting Isekai'd

Oh good, this is back.

 

[Hoshu]

[X] Talk to Louise about getting Isekai'd

 

[veekie]

[X] Learn Kung-fu with Poison Blossom

I think we need a bit more options than scream kyaa if we get melee'ed

 

[FourthWall]

Like waitbutwhy, new updates every sometimes

[X] Talk to Louise

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You decide to talk to Louise about getting isekai'd; the Explosives kit felt like a bit of a dead end without more understanding on the materials. You though about learning Kung-fu with Poison Blossom, since your qi harmonized with hers, but you can already tell that would end in tears. Tentacled tears. Heiyou's busy acting as supernatural sniffer to really have a discussion with her, and given her vocabulary, you're not sure any discussion would be fruitful.

Louise has been taking lookout on top of the bandit caravan, her intricate bronze goggles and ludicrously huge gun constant companions. You still wonder how she can shoot that thing without breaking her willowy arms. She never actually seems to sleep, either. You've noticed her take a pill or two from a lacquered case in the early morning, then pull from a canteen smelling of chocolate and expensive coffee.

One day, you decide to sneak up on her during her routine.

Spoiler: Show Calculations: ON

[Camille Grace + Stealth vs Louise Wits + Notice]
Camille Fortune Die: 3
Camille Misfortune Die: 5
Camille Swerve: -2
Camille Skill (Grace + Stealth): 4
Camille Result: 2

Louise Fortune Die: 3
Louise Misfortune Die: 1
Louise Swerve: 2
Louise Skill (Wits + Notice): 4
Louise Result: 6

[Louise Notice Success with Style]

She's enraptured with her coffee as you climb up the caravan's side. With the grace of a cat, you shimmy closer to her. You're about to tickle her when she tilts her rifle into your forehead, right between the eyes.

"Good morning, fool." Louise says, sickly-sweet. "You weren't planning on doing anything stupid there, were you?"

"How'd you notice me?"

She pulls her rifle back, then lets it drop so it bops you. "You didn't hide your intent at all. I could feel it from the moment you climbed the caravan."

You rub your forehead. "That strong, huh?"

"Like a pedophile on a playground."

You make a disgusted noise and sit seiza behind her.

"Oi. Don't sit behind me, fool." She looks back. "I don't trust you with my back."

"Oh? But my intent was so obvious before," you tease.

"Even a fool like you can get a lucky shot. Sit beside me." She pats the spot next to her, away from her gun arm.

You sit beside her. "So. How are you?"

"Fine. And you?"

"Besides feeling like a piece of meat every time Poison Blossom looks at me, can't complain."

Louise snerks. "How tragic."

You blush. "Hey! Objectification is a serious problem!"

"I'm sure," Louise holds back a laugh. "Try being an actual cute girl before you complain about it, fool."

"It's more embarrassing when you're a guy!" Although you have been objectified as a cute magical girl, you don't feel comfortable telling Louise that just yet.

Louise pounces on your weakness with military precision. "You didn't seem very manly in the clutches of those tentacles."

"S-Shut up!" You ball your fists and try manfully not to cry.

Louise puts a hand on your shoulder, wearing the gentlest face you've seen out of her. "It's okay. I fully respect your otokonoko lifestyle."

Your heart falls into the pit of your stomach.

Louise cackles like the witch she is. She laughs so hard she falls over, kicking her little legs with mirth.

There's banging from underneath you. "Keep it down up there! Some of us are trying to sleep!" It's Poison Blossom, groggy and grumpy.

Louise sits up, clutching her stomach and wiping tears from her eyes. "Whew, that was fun."

You glare daggers at her, your qi burning angrily around you.

She puts her hands up, not matching qi with qi. "Sorry, sorry," she snorts, catching her breath. "If it makes you feel any better, I was a man before I got Isaaced."

An awkward moment passes. "...Run that by me again?"

Louise picks up her rifle, then flicks it over to bop you. "Fool. I was a man. Warrant Officer Louis Kawahara, 501st Extraterrestrial Rangers."

"How did you become a girl?" Something else dawns on you. "Wait, Extraterrestrial? Like aliens?"

"Like Issac worlds," Louise says. "JSDF found a big one couple years back, took advantage of the loosened restrictions on armed force and established a beachhead. I was with them." She takes a pull from her coffee canteen. "Got killed by a teenage war goddess with an axe and way too many fuckin' frills."

"She chop you up?"

"She hit me with a truck." Louise rubs the bridge of her nose. "Isuzu model, repurposed as an NSTV."

You sit in silence, the creak of wagon wheels and crunch of gravel filling dead air. Now that you think about it, you were hit by an Isuzu.

"TenCo did the resurrection. Said that Terrans don't normally get the Issac job off world, but my case was special." She snerks. "They've got a fuckin' partnership deal with Isuzu, so since I got hit with one, they had to resurrect me."

You click your tongue. "That's kind of fucked up."

"Yeah." Louise finishes her coffee and looks out into the distance.

"...Did they make you reincarnate as a girl?"

Louise gives you killer's eyes. "I chose to reincarnate as a girl, fool."

You move to say something, but don't. You don't want to get shot.

"...There's a hypothesis that the TenCo fate weaving protocols are most compatible with males age 15-18 and females age 11-14. The latter are more likely to start with great power, the former fall into it."

You lie back, mostly to dodge a bop. "A powergamer, huh?"

"You use the tools you need to survive," Louise says, matter of factly.

"Wouldn't being a teenage boy be better, then? Cultivate more power and fall into it?"

"Rangers are taught to be self-sufficient. If a member is weak, the squad is weak. A weak squad is a dead squad." There's history behind those words. Bloody history. "Weakness is something I can't afford."

More silence passes. Birds make conversation in your place.

"...You just wanted to be a cute kid, didn't you?"

Spoiler

[Camille Wits+Rapport]
Task Difficulty: 2
Camille Fortune Die: 2
Camille Misfortune Die: 6
Camille Swerve: -4
Camille Skill (Wits + Rapport): 2
Camille Result: -2

[Camille Rapport Fail]

Foot, meet mouth.

Bayonet, meet leg.

Louise twists her bayonet until you scream for mercy, then patches you up. The wound is painful, but shallow. It shouldn't get infected or hamper your fighting skills. It'll probably scar, leaving a valuable lesson; do not taunt the child soldier.

Her killer's eyes are filled with tears, they drip on your fresh, milspec bandages. Her tiny fist softly pounds your uninjured leg.

"...You really are a fool."

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You finally make it to Crossroads, a sleepy looking town seemingly only notable for being at a crossroads. It looks like an establishing shot for a Kung-fu flick, the place the protagonist leaves ASAP.

You look to Louise. "Big moves in Crossroads, huh?"

She unslings her rifle from her shoulder, loads it, works the slide and holds it at the ready. You can feel the killing intent in every movement.

You bow to her. "I am so fucking sorry for earlier."

Heiyou gives you puppy dog eyes. "Honey. No give Louise Honey's gun. On caravan? Honey not lolicon. Right?"

"No! God no." You wave your arms. "I just said something really fucking stupid."

Heiyou gives you a broad smile. "Heiyou. Do that lots. Lulu come around." She grabs you by the hand and drags you along. "Honey go shopping! Feel better!"

You're drawing eyes from the peanut gallery, but anything is better than Louise's eyes looking to draw you down for good.

[Where does Heiyou take you?]
[ ] Armory
[ ] Apothecary
[ ] Shrine
[ ] Brothel Inn

 

[kinigget]

[X] Shrine

no particular reason

 

[veekie]

[X] Shrine

 

[Ultramandalore]

[X] Brothel Inn

​

 

[LucidProp]

[X] Apothecary

We need some ointment for the sick burn we gave Louise/got from her.

 

[wingstrike96]

[X] Brothel Inn

 

[Silicon]

[X] Shrine

 

[FourthWall]

Sorry for making this short, been sick lately.

[@] Shrine

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Heiyou starts dragging you into the main drag; you manage to match pace with her enough so she isn't literally dragging you anymore. You've hooked her arm in arm, mostly for balance. She takes this as a sign of affection and starts skipping girlishly.

It'd be adorable, if her sheer musculature wasn't wrenching your arm out of socket.

She starts to skip towards a seedy looking inn. You can't tell what it says in this world, but in Kanji it's Pink Pearl Pleasure House. Given the whispers and looks you're getting as Heiyou pulls you there, you're pretty confident you read it right.

"Heiyou," you tug on her tunic. "I don't think we should go over there."

Heiyou's humming. "Why?"

"Because I don't think it's an inn."

"Why?"

"Because it says Pleasure House, and that usually means brothel."

"Why?"

"Because there's a whole lot of pleasuring going down there."

"Heiyou. Don't get it. Pleasure good, yes?" She tilts her head to you, innocent as anything.

You struggle for words, then remember something she said in the forest. "...They'd want to handle my gun, Heiyou."

It takes a while, but the lightbulb goes off in Heiyou's head. She hisses. "No stranger. Touch Honey's gun." She clutches you tightly.

You squeak unmanfully as the bones in your forearm start to creak. Heiyou eases up when you tap on her arm.

"Honey want go somewhere?" She rubs your injured arm. People around you keep a safe distance, the more timid hiding behind stores, rickshaws, and wagons. You notice there are a lot of ways out for such a small place. Makes sense for a crossroads.

There's an armory to your right, next to an apothecary. From the looks of it, they're joint businesses. You're already ignoring the "Inn" (and the working girls giving you bedroom eyes), so you go straight to the shrine. It's a small, unassuming, Buddhist looking thing. There's a donation box right in front of the door, which strikes you as odd. It must be odd to other people, since it doesn't look like many people have donated to it.

It doesn't look like many people come around this shrine, period; it's not dilapidated, but it looks unpopular. You notice a man wearing a sack on his head raking a rock garden beside the building. Given how shabby his attire looks, he could probably use the money.

[Do you donate? - 5000 HL on you]
[ ] 100 HL
[ ] 500 HL
[ ] 1000 HL
[ ] 10000 HL
[ ] Go in without donating.

 

[Karnewarrior]

[X] 100 HL
We're poor, but it'd be poor form to tread on the gods' Domain without paying our respects. We're not THAT good.

Donating 1000 gold would probably get us something nice, like bless and wizard eye cast at expert level spirit and air magic respectively,​ but again, we're broke fuckers.

 

[veekie]

[X] 100 HL

 

[LucidProp]

[X] 1000 HL

Gimme that blessing!

 

[Ultramandalore]

[X] 100 HL

 

[FeepingCreature]

Foot, meet mouth.

Bayonet, meet leg.

Louise twists her bayonet until you scream for mercy, then patches you up. The wound is painful, but shallow. It shouldn't get infected or hamper your fighting skills. It'll probably scar, leaving a valuable lesson; do not taunt the child soldier.

Click to shrink...

I really like this story. I just want to note that appearances and genre conventions aside, what we have here is, as a matter of fact, a JSDF soldier torturing a civilian.

Edit: I also find it fascinating that regardless of us both being men who look like women, the story immediately matches her to the girl and us to the guy role regarding whether torture is funny or horrific. I suspect it's because we have the inside view on the pc and the outside view on Louise.

 

[wingstrike96]

[X] 500 HL

10% tithe sounds right?