[x] Maxwell Academy - Somehow, for one reason or another, you've managed to get a scholarship to this highly prestigious school for the rich and famous. While you initially had troubles due to your lower class family background, you've become something of a welcome breath of fresh air amongst the students of Maxwell. It helps that you demonstrated your abilities back when you were a freshman when some rich idiot tried to mess with you and your family.
[x] Something made some loud noises behind your apartment building and you went to check it out. All you found were pieces of broken clay surrounding a small glowing crystal shard in the middle. When you touched the crystal, there was a small flash and it disappeared, leaving your body feeling tingly for a little while before fading.
[x] Maxwell Academy - Somehow, for one reason or another, you've managed to get a scholarship to this highly prestigious school for the rich and famous. While you initially had troubles due to your lower class family background, you've become something of a welcome breath of fresh air amongst the students of Maxwell. It helps that you demonstrated your abilities back when you were a freshman when some rich idiot tried to mess with you and your family.
[x] Something made some loud noises behind your apartment building and you went to check it out. All you found were pieces of broken clay surrounding a small glowing crystal shard in the middle. When you touched the crystal, there was a small flash and it disappeared, leaving your body feeling tingly for a little while before fading.
[X] Maxwell Academy - Somehow, for one reason or another, you've managed to get a scholarship to this highly prestigious school for the rich and famous. While you initially had troubles due to your lower class family background, you've become something of a welcome breath of fresh air amongst the students of Maxwell. It helps that you demonstrated your abilities back when you were a freshman when some rich idiot tried to mess with you and your family.
[X] Something made some loud noises behind your apartment building and you went to check it out. All you found were pieces of broken clay surrounding a small glowing crystal shard in the middle. When you touched the crystal, there was a small flash and it disappeared, leaving your body feeling tingly for a little while before fading.
No idea what the first two choices in the second thing are referring to, but I kind of like the sound of this one.
[x] Maxwell Academy - Somehow, for one reason or another, you've managed to get a scholarship to this highly prestigious school for the rich and famous. While you initially had troubles due to your lower class family background, you've become something of a welcome breath of fresh air amongst the students of Maxwell. It helps that you demonstrated your abilities back when you were a freshman when some rich idiot tried to mess with you and your family.
[x] Something made some loud noises behind your apartment building and you went to check it out. All you found were pieces of broken clay surrounding a small glowing crystal shard in the middle. When you touched the crystal, there was a small flash and it disappeared, leaving your body feeling tingly for a little while before fading.
[X] Maxwell Academy - Somehow, for one reason or another, you've managed to get a scholarship to this highly prestigious school for the rich and famous. While you initially had troubles due to your lower class family background, you've become something of a welcome breath of fresh air amongst the students of Maxwell. It helps that you demonstrated your abilities back when you were a freshman when some rich idiot tried to mess with you and your family.
[X] You found a yellow coin with a star symbol in the grass. It was warm to touch. Overhearing a rumour about a vending machine that would grant wishes in exchange for these coins, you decided to investigate. There you met someone that gave you a strange drink that they claimed would grant your desires in exchange for the coin.
This is the first time I've seen Glepnir referenced or even talked about outside of manga sites, so I kind of have to vote for it.
[X] Maxwell Academy - Somehow, for one reason or another, you've managed to get a scholarship to this highly prestigious school for the rich and famous. While you initially had troubles due to your lower class family background, you've become something of a welcome breath of fresh air amongst the students of Maxwell. It helps that you demonstrated your abilities back when you were a freshman when some rich idiot tried to mess with you and your family.
[X] You found what looked like a black and blue pokeball stuck in the drainage pipe on the roof of your building. There was a blinking yellow button on it and when you pressed it out of curiosity, there was a flash and weird creature appeared floating before you. Somehow imprinting on you, it began following you around. Nobody seems to be able to see it though which is good since it likes eating stuff, both organic and inorganic. Gain the ability to fuse with your partner for power. Grows based on what is fed to your partner
We'll have such great stuff to feed our partner at Maxwell!
Pro-tip for anyone who missed it: check for invisi-text on the power choices.
[X] Maxwell Academy - Somehow, for one reason or another, you've managed to get a scholarship to this highly prestigious school for the rich and famous. While you initially had troubles due to your lower class family background, you've become something of a welcome breath of fresh air amongst the students of Maxwell. It helps that you demonstrated your abilities back when you were a freshman when some rich idiot tried to mess with you and your family.
[X] Something made some loud noises behindyour apartment building and you went to check it out. All you found were pieces of broken clay surrounding a small glowing crystal shard in themiddle. When you touched the crystal, there wasa small flash and it disappeared, leaving yourbody feeling tingly for a little while before fading.
[X] Ichiyama High - As a school full of violence and delinquency as well as teachers who aren't afraid to beat the shit out of any student stupid enough to go against them, Ichiyama is surprising a school where you fit right in. You've garnered something of a reputation here at Ichiyama as one of the top dogs though that has only resulted in other students trying to take you down to raise their own rep. Not to mention the constant recruitment attempts from the factions in the school. You hope that you can manage to at least do well academically here even if the teacher is more liable to go on a rampage rather than teach a class though.
[X] Something made some loud noises behind your apartment building and you went to check it out. All you found were pieces of broken clay surrounding a small glowing crystal shard in the middle. When you touched the crystal, there was a small flash and it disappeared, leaving your body feeling tingly for a little while before fading.
[X] Ichiyama High - As a school full of violence and delinquency as well as teachers who aren't afraid to beat the shit out of any student stupid enough to go against them, Ichiyama is surprising a school where you fit right in. You've garnered something of a reputation here at Ichiyama as one of the top dogs though that has only resulted in other students trying to take you down to raise their own rep. Not to mention the constant recruitment attempts from the factions in the school. You hope that you can manage to at least do well academically here even if the teacher is more liable to go on a rampage rather than teach a class though.
[X] Something made some loud noises behind your apartment building and you went to check it out. All you found were pieces of broken clay surrounding a small glowing crystal shard in the middle. When you touched the crystal, there was a small flash and it disappeared, leaving your body feeling tingly for a little while before fading.
[X] North Rizen Public High - It's a public school so your tuition fees aren't too bad plus most of the people you've known since elementary go there as well. It's not the best or the richest or the smartest school around but it's a decent place to learn in. Having a large student population, there are all kinds of interesting characters to be found here. Compared to the other schools, North Rizen seems pretty normal and that's okay with you. It is also the most peaceful school as well.
[X] You found what looked like a black and blue pokeball stuck in the drainage pipe on the roof of your building. There was a blinking yellow button on it and when you pressed it out of curiosity, there was a flash and weird creature appeared floating before you. Somehow imprinting on you, it began following you around. Nobody seems to be able to see it though which is good since it likes eating stuff, both organic and inorganic. Gain the ability to fuse with your partner for power. Grows based on what is fed to your partner
God fucking damn it! Surface 3 died despite having like 12% charge left and I was almost finished with the update. Surface won't turn back until it gets a certain amount of power back.
Hopefully the autosave or recovery function saved my work.
[X] Maxwell Academy - Somehow, for one reason or another, you've managed to get a scholarship to this highly prestigious school for the rich and famous. While you initially had troubles due to your lower-class family background, you've become something of a welcome breath of fresh air amongst the students of Maxwell. It helps that you demonstrated your abilities back when you were a freshman when some rich idiot tried to mess with you and your family.
[X] Something made some loud noises behind your apartment building and you went to check it out. All you found were pieces of broken clay surrounding a small glowing crystal shard in the middle. When you touched the crystal, there was a small flash and it disappeared, leaving your body feeling tingly for a little while before fading.
And so our story can now begin.
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You awaken with a start and grunt as you sit up in bed. You feel like you just had a strange dream just now but any memory of it is fading fast. Seeing as there's nothing you can do about it, you get out from under your sheets and set off to face a new day.
Ever since you started high school, your morning routine has been the same. After waking up, you'd wash your face and brush your teeth. Once you've freshened up, you would head to your room and begin your exercise routine. You start with five-minute stretching routine then you move on to your muscle building exercises. One hundred hanging sit ups followed by one hundred one arm push-ups on each side.
After you're done, you proceed to go out and jog around the area for around an hour. During this time, you usually either zone out and focus solely on the run or if you're feeling particularly moody, you start reflecting on your life and everything that is a part of is.
Putting effort into maintaining and reinforcing your body is of great importance to you. After all, your body is the only thing that you truly own in this world.
Today, you find your mind wandering towards what had happened last night. You were in the middle of finishing up your homework when you heard something crash into the trashcans out behind the apartment building. Whatever it was, it continued to cause a racket before it suddenly died down. Curiosity getting the better of you, you went to investigate.
Something had smashed up the trash can, leaving them damaged and dented completely out of shape. Fortunately, they had been recently emptied so there was very little garbage around. However, a slow glow in the middle of the ruined garbage area caught your eye. Going in closer, you found what looked like the broken pieces of some clay statue surrounding this small crystal the size of a golf ball. When you picked it up, there had been a blinding flash and the crystal was gone with a strange tingle in your hand. With no answers forthcoming on what had happened, you went back home to finish your homework.
However, when you took a quick shower going to bed, you found a strange scar-like mark on the underside of your forearm shaped like a star. While it did concern you a little on where it had come from, you decided not to sweat the small stuff. It obviously had something to do with that glowing crystal but you were fully aware that there was no point in worry about it. You hadn't felt any changes to your body so you felt it was safe to ignore for the time being.
Now that it was the next morning, you couldn't help but wonder what the deal was with that star-shaped scar. However, not wanting to cause your beloved mother any worry, you decided to not say anything about it.
You finish your run of self-reflection around seven and after a quick shower and putting on your school uniform. you get started on food for both you and your mother. Your usual breakfast consists of a large serving of rice, several eggs, your mother's special chicken breast recipe, and other typical breakfast fare. It doesn't take you very long to finish your food and you use the leftovers to make lunch for yourself. By the time you're done, your mother finally wakes up.
"Fuwah~! Mooorning Taka-chan!"
You frown upon seeing your mother exit her bedroom. It looks like she was working late again judging by how dishevelled she looked, not to mention the make-up still on her face.
"Mother, you forgot to remove your make-up again before sleeping." You chide your mother.
"Ah, so~rry. I drank too much late night and I only got home a few hours ago," She explains cheerfully, still haven't quite fully woken up yet. Your mother works at a hostess club and is quite popular among the patrons. You just wish she didn't work so late at night.
"Go back to sleep then, mother. Your food is on the table and there's still last night's leftover still in the fridge."
"O~kay, Taka-chan." Your mother returns to her bedroom to get some more shuteye but not before calling out to you. "Take care at your school, Taka!"
Smiling slightly, you nod. "Will do."
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It takes about half an hour to get to the closest bus stop to Maxwell Academy and ten minutes to walk the rest of the way there. Several students greet you when they see you passing by and you greet them back. However, as it is only a couple of weeks since the start of the school year, you feel the familiar stares and whispers from the freshmen students.
"Who is that big guy? He looks like a thug."
"I think that's Shinzo Takagi!"
"What? That Shinzo Takagi!? As in Devil Takagi!? He's actually a student here!?"
"I know, right? He's supposedly a scholarship student but I heard that he just showed up one day and started attending classes and no-one could force him out so they just let him continue out of fear of being destroyed by him."
"Really!?"
You let out a sigh and do your best to ignore the whispering of your juniors. With everyone else having long acclimated to your presence in the school, it is understandable that these new students would be intimidated by both your physical stature and stoic demeanour and begin spreading rumours about you. They usually die off about a month once they've gotten used to you but it's still somewhat depressing.
No matter what, you can't help but stand out in this school for the rich and famous. Still, you have some fond memories of this school and it's not like you're totally isolated from the rest of the student body. In any case, this was going to be your last year here and you were going to make the best of it.
There's just one thing that you have never gotten used to and that was coming up to the front gates of the Academy. The sheer size and opulence of the entire place is something that you'll probably ever feel comfortable with.
Still, you heard rumours of a new scholarship student in the freshman year that has caught everyone's interest. You hope that you might be able to get along with them.
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It is lunchtime and you are hungry. You head over to one of the more secluded gardens that the school has and get ready to each your lunch. Morning classes went like usual and you made sure to write down notes. A strong body and mind are essential, especially with your status as a scholarship student.
Sitting on a bench beneath one of the cherry trees in this particular garden, you are about to dig into your meal when a familiar face appears.
"Hey Takagi-kun, I was looking all over for you." Greets a fellow senior with shoulder length red hair. Tetsuya Shindo is a friend though you admittedly don't know him all that well outside of school. He'd originally approach you because your names sounded similar and since then he had taken to hanging out with you during lunch break. It was actually quite surprising considering his pedigree but you've learnt to ignore that kind of stuff when you're with Shindo. "Have you heard?"
"Hmm?" Seeing as Shindo was carrying his own lunch with him, you figured that he was going about his rumour mongering again.
"Recently students have been disappearing from the schools in Yorizen, including Maxwell. Nobody knows where they are or whether they're alright and it's got the police in a fit over the whole thing."
"Huh, and why should I care about this?" While you do have some concerns, you know Shindo wouldn't come all this way just to tell you about some missing teenagers.
"The thing is, there have also been all these rumours about monsters being sighted in the woodlands surrounding the city. There's also this one story about a vending machine that grants wishes over by this abandoned motel close to where you live, Takagi-kun. And get this, someone said they spotted one of the missing students checking out this mystery vending machine."
"Is that so?"
"Dude, come on! Aren't you at least a bit curious about this whole business with monsters and wish-granting vending machines?"
"Not particularly." You're honestly more interested in what's the deal with the marking on your arm. "So anything else?"
"Lame. Never mind then. I'll leave you to your lunch then, Takagi-kun." With that Tetsuya got up from the bench and made to leave before saying one last thing. "If you're interested though, I'm gonna be checking out the story about the vending machine. Look me up if you wanna come with. See ya."
And like that, Tetsuya heads off to who knows where. Mulling over what Tetsuya just told you, you remembered that you didn't have much time left for lunch. Quickly devouring your food, you head off to your next class.
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Classes for the day has finally finished. Nothing of particular interest occurred today save for your science teacher going on about the shooting stars that collided with each other about a month ago back during the holidays. You had been awake and outside when that happened and you could still remember seeing the night sky explode into a natural firework display before firing off a small meteor shower in all directions.
Your phone vibrates a few times and you find several messages waiting for an answer.
One was from an old friend from middle school, asking if you wanted to hang out and talk about the past.
Another was from the boss of your part-time job asking if you felt like coming into work today.
The third message was from your mother saying that she'll be going to be back home earlier than usual and that she was going to bring sushi back.
Since you didn't have anything to do today and you would do your homework after dinner, you had to decide what you were going to do with this free time.
What do you do?
[ ] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [ ] It's a girl that you can best describe as a childhood friend of yours. Her message sounded like she was having problems.
- [ ] It's your old sparring partner from middle school. He was the only one that could keep up with you. It's been a while since you had a sparring match with him.
[ ] Go to your part-time job. Every bit of money helps with paying the bills and allows your mother to take things a little easier with her own job.
- [ ] You've got work at MOGHRA, a popular game bar. Something about needing someone to watch the place for a little while.
- [ ] Someone couldn't make it to their shift at the florist near your home so they asked you to cover for them.
- [ ] One of the usual workers came down with a nasty cold so the local daycare centre needs your help.
[ ] You aren't in the mood to hang out or work today so you politely decline. Instead, you go do other stuff.
- [ ] You feel like fishing. There's a prime fishing spot over at Yohana River. Go fish and maybe catch something for dinner.
- [ ] You've heard that the arcade has a new fighting game. Time to see if your skills haven't gone rusty.
- [ ] You feel like studying. As a scholarship student, you need to keep your grades up at all times or else you'll be forced to leave the academy. Head to your favourite diner and study there.
- [ ] There's nowhere in particular you'd like to go, so you just end up wandering the city with no set course in mind.
Adhoc vote count started by shibosho on Apr 25, 2017 at 5:50 AM, finished with 46 posts and 9 votes.
[x] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [x] It's a girl that you can best describe as a childhood friend of yours. Her message sounded like she was having problems.
[X] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [X] It's your old sparring partner from middle school. He was the only one that could keep up with you. It's been a while since you had a sparring match with him.
[X] You aren't in the mood to hang out or work today so you politely decline. Instead, you go do other stuff.
- [X] You feel like studying. As a scholarship student, you need to keep your grades up at all times or else you'll be forced to leave the academy. Head to your favourite diner and study there.
[X] Go to your part-time job. Every bit of money helps with paying the bills and allows your mother to take things a little easier with her own job.
- [X] Someone couldn't make it to their shift at the florist near your home so they asked you to cover for them.
Adhoc vote count started by shibosho on Apr 25, 2017 at 11:14 AM, finished with 53 posts and 14 votes.
[x] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [x] It's a girl that you can best describe as a childhood friend of yours. Her message sounded like she was having problems.
[X] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [X] It's your old sparring partner from middle school. He was the only one that could keep up with you. It's been a while since you had a sparring match with him.
[X] You aren't in the mood to hang out or work today so you politely decline. Instead, you go do other stuff.
- [X] You feel like studying. As a scholarship student, you need to keep your grades up at all times or else you'll be forced to leave the academy. Head to your favourite diner and study there.
[X] Go to your part-time job. Every bit of money helps with paying the bills and allows your mother to take things a little easier with her own job.
- [X] Someone couldn't make it to their shift at the florist near your home so they asked you to cover for them.
[x] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [x] It's a girl that you can best describe as a childhood friend of yours. Her message sounded like she was having problems.
[X] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [X] It's your old sparring partner from middle school. He was the only one that could keep up with you. It's been a while since you had a sparring match with him.
[X] You aren't in the mood to hang out or work today so you politely decline. Instead, you go do other stuff.
- [X] You feel like studying. As a scholarship student, you need to keep your grades up at all times or else you'll be forced to leave the academy. Head to your favourite diner and study there.
[X] Go to your part-time job. Every bit of money helps with paying the bills and allows your mother to take things a little easier with her own job.
- [X] Someone couldn't make it to their shift at the florist near your home so they asked you to cover for them.
Adhoc vote count started by shibosho on Apr 25, 2017 at 8:55 PM, finished with 55 posts and 16 votes.
[X] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [X] It's your old sparring partner from middle school. He was the only one that could keep up with you. It's been a while since you had a sparring match with him.
[x] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [x] It's a girl that you can best describe as a childhood friend of yours. Her message sounded like she was having problems.
[X] You aren't in the mood to hang out or work today so you politely decline. Instead, you go do other stuff.
- [X] You feel like studying. As a scholarship student, you need to keep your grades up at all times or else you'll be forced to leave the academy. Head to your favourite diner and study there.
[X] Go to your part-time job. Every bit of money helps with paying the bills and allows your mother to take things a little easier with her own job.
- [X] Someone couldn't make it to their shift at the florist near your home so they asked you to cover for them.
[x] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [x] It's a girl that you can best describe as a childhood friend of yours. Her message sounded like she was having problems.
[X] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [X] It's your old sparring partner from middle school. He was the only one that could keep up with you. It's been a while since you had a sparring match with him.
[X] You aren't in the mood to hang out or work today so you politely decline. Instead, you go do other stuff.
- [X] You feel like studying. As a scholarship student, you need to keep your grades up at all times or else you'll be forced to leave the academy. Head to your favourite diner and study there.
[X] Go to your part-time job. Every bit of money helps with paying the bills and allows your mother to take things a little easier with her own job.
- [X] Someone couldn't make it to their shift at the florist near your home so they asked you to cover for them.
[x] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [x] It's a girl that you can best describe as a childhood friend of yours. Her message sounded like she was having problems.
[X] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [X] It's your old sparring partner from middle school. He was the only one that could keep up with you. It's been a while since you had a sparring match with him.
[x] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [x] It's a girl that you can best describe as a childhood friend of yours. Her message sounded like she was having problems.
[X] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [X] It's your old sparring partner from middle school. He was the only one that could keep up with you. It's been a while since you had a sparring match with him.
[X] Go to your part-time job. Every bit of money helps with paying the bills and allows your mother to take things a little easier with her own job.
- [X] Someone couldn't make it to their shift at the florist near your home so they asked you to cover for them.
[X] You aren't in the mood to hang out or work today so you politely decline. Instead, you go do other stuff.
- [X] You feel like studying. As a scholarship student, you need to keep your grades up at all times or else you'll be forced to leave the academy. Head to your favourite diner and study there.
A academically/physically buff Takasu Ryuji, huh.
Neat.
[X] You aren't in the mood to hang out or work today so you politely decline. Instead, you go do other stuff.
- [X] You feel like studying. As a scholarship student, you need to keep your grades up at all times or else you'll be forced to leave the academy. Head to your favourite diner and study there.
[x] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [x] It's a girl that you can best describe as a childhood friend of yours. Her message sounded like she was having problems.
[X] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [X] It's your old sparring partner from middle school. He was the only one that could keep up with you. It's been a while since you had a sparring match with him.
[x] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [x] It's a girl that you can best describe as a childhood friend of yours. Her message sounded like she was having problems. Number of voters: 3 edboy49, veekie, Happerry
[X] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [X] It's your old sparring partner from middle school. He was the only one that could keep up with you. It's been a while since you had a sparring match with him. Number of voters: 3 LinkOnScepter, Cornix Argentus, auduni
[X] You aren't in the mood to hang out or work today so you politely decline. Instead, you go do other stuff.
- [X] You feel like studying. As a scholarship student, you need to keep your grades up at all times or else you'll be forced to leave the academy. Head to your favourite diner and study there. Number of voters: 2 ConfusedPotato, meganeshounen
[X] Go to your part-time job. Every bit of money helps with paying the bills and allows your mother to take things a little easier with her own job.
- [X] Someone couldn't make it to their shift at the florist near your home so they asked you to cover for them. Number of voters: 1 TurtleDucks
[x] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [x] It's a girl that you can best describe as a childhood friend of yours. Her message sounded like she was having problems.
[x] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [X] It's your old sparring partner from middle school. He was the only one that could keep up with you. It's been a while since you had a sparring match with him.
[X] Meet up with an old friend and see how they're doing.
- [X] It's your old sparring partner from middle school. He was the only one that could keep up with you. It's been a while since you had a sparring match with him.
