Winning vote: [X]Stake out the school and try to find Tamiko's friends, maybe one'll know what happened to her.
[X]You could go to Tamiko's house and question the mother, she migth have noticed something the father hasn't.
[X]Yes
[X]after
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After pulling yourself out of the water and drying out your clothes,(Thank you fire magic, you will forever be apreciated for this.)which were miraculously spared of being smeared with... residues, you start planning your next steps.
From all Tamiko's father said she was acting normally until the night she vanished, still you think it migth be best to get a second opinion. From somebody close to her preferably
As far as you know Tamiko's mother is still alive and according to the father she was remarkably close to her daugther, you decide to pay her a visit later today.
But rigth now you think you should go to the school and ask around, classes should be going rigth now and you're bound to find a friend of your missing girl eventually.
You also feel something extremely agressive somewherw in the city, but you'll take a look after you're done investigating.
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You climb out of the sewers through a drain pipe which was, thakfully, in an alley and as such you got to avoid questions as to why you were there in the first place.
You write down a note to remind Meaver to be careful with her drop sites and walk out of the alley to find a steer lined with bars, restaurants, arcades and dance clubs, the street is mostly empty rigth now with a few kids going to the arcades and a few older passerbys.
It looks like a nice place to pass the night,you think, but it's midday right now and you're working anyway.
You write down the location for later tough.
(You discovered Kazamino's entertainment district!)
(A new section has been added to the notes!)
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You ask a few people about the location of the school and after much wandering around you find a relatively big structure divided in three sections, walled off by a metal fence with a pleasant looking garden surrounding each of the three buildings.
There's a sign at the entrance that reads 'Kazamino middle school'.
You quickly jot down the location and walk inside.
(Kazamino middle school has been added to the Locations section!)
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As it turns out you walked in during lunch time. And while people were curious as to why you weren't wearing uniform they left you alone anyway.
After a few minutes of stalking through the corridors you find a girl that matches one of the descriptions Tamiko's father gave you completely focused on eating a sandwich next to a set of lockers.
You put on the the most friendly smile you can muster and approach her "Hello. You wouldn't happen to be Minami Satsuki would you?" You ask.
The girl tears her head away from her sandwich and starts looking you up and down.
After a few seconds she looks at you in the eye with her brow furroed"Yes that's me."she says "Have we met before?" She asks, furrowing her brow even further.
You suddently feel very uncofortable"N-No." you stutter, your smile long gone"I'm just here to ask about Mifune that's all." You say trying your hardest not to flinch under the smaller girl's gaze. You didn't try hard enough."My name's Rina by the way..."you add.
Minami is outrigth glaring at you now"What do you have to do with Her!"she snaps."You know she disappeared rigth? Do you have something to do with it? I don't think I ever saw you around!"she growls menacingly.
You shake your head"I-it's nothing like that."you stammer out"Her dad hired me to look for her t-that's all."
Her posture softens somewhat at that before she stops for a moment"Fine" She says after an unconfortably long pause"I'll bite. Ask away." She still looks at you suspiciously but at least she's cooperating.
Thank god for that.
You ask her if she noticed something odd about Tamiko before she dissapeared.
"Well she's been spending a awfull lot of time speaking to someone on the phone lately."Minami says"I dunno with who tough."
You ask her about the mysterious disappearences.
She just shrugs "They ain't nothing new."she looks out the window"There's been some weird crap going on the past few years, people vanishing in thin air is just what's happening now." She sighs"It ain't safe to be out at nigth anymore."
And finally you ask her if she has any idea about why most victims are young girls.
That actually gets her the shudder"I have a few." She says" But it's probably some creep out in the streets or something." She grimaces" Better not even think about it."
You thank her for the collaboration before excusing yourself and starting to walk away.
"Wait!"
You're interrupted by Minami shouting"What is it?" You ask, turning toward the intense little girl.
"I got one last thing."she says"The girls who vanish seem like they kinda... space out every once in a while. It wasn't happening to Tamiko but y'know...could help."she shrugs"that's it."she says going back to her sandwich
With that you turn around and go ask the remainder of the student body about your target.
(New information has been added to the Tamiko Mifune case!)
(Minami Satsuki has been added to Acquaintaces!)
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After asking around a bit more you find out that the remainder of the student body is nowhere near as usefull as Minami was. You hear plenty of stories about aliens kidnapping people(Yeah rigth.) and demons stalking the place and dragging people to hell(That's not how it works...).
You manage to stay roughly and hour before the bell rings again and a rude janitor forces you to leave so he can clean up the place was filled with discarded papers and cans.
Either way you managed to get something usefull out of this whole thing and thatms what matters.
(It's 1:00 PM by the time you leave.)
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"Hey did'ja see that girl?"
"What girl?"
"You didin't see her? The one with the black dress and the weird eyes!"
"No... do you think that she migth be..."
"Maybe so,she was asking about Mifune..."
"I see..."
"Should we take a look after school?"
"Why not now?"
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Next stop is Tamiko's house, thankfully the father gave you the adress so the place is preety easy to find.
You arrive at a medium size house painted white, just like all the houses next to it.
All the ligths are turned off and you can't hear anything moving inside, the whole place is quiet and depressing.
You take in a deep breath and knock on the door.
When nobody answers you knock again.
And again.
And again.
Eventually you realize nobody's going to answer and reach out to see if there's a soul inside.
The place is completely empty.
Okay that explains that.
You ponder what to do for a bit before coming to the conclusion that something inside migth give you a clue.
So you walk around the house, find a backdoor and freeze the hinges off before kicking the thing in.
The result is what you'd expect, the door flies off and lands with a crash inside the empty floor of what you guess is the kitchen gue to the presence of unwashed dishes and silverware.
You enter the house and notice how unclean the place is, it seems the mother was too torn over her losses to clean up.
You feel for her, you truly do.
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You decide to not stick around too long and search for Tamiko's room, you'll sweep the place and leave.
You eventually find the girl's room, it's on the very end of the house and,surprisingly, seems to be the only place that's actually clean in the while house.
You don't let the implications of that sink in and simply move to look through things, you can't find a diary or anything like that but you do find a little note inside the wardrobe
It reads: Meet Shizuka at the ent dist for ptrl.
(Note has been added to the notes section)
And you also find a cellphone inside the pockets of a yellow jacket hung on a chair.
There seems to be a lot of calls from a 'Fox'.
You write that bit down too.
(Notes updated!)
You don't find anything else.
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"Did you see that!"
"She's defenetly a magical girl."
"Yeah..."
"That can't be good."
"I dunno what she wants but she can't just break into our territory like that."
"Go get the others we need to have a chat, I'll keep an eye on her."
"Don't do anything stupid."
"You know I won't"
"'Giggle'Ok,ok...'giggle'"
"I mean it!"
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With your prioritised leads explored you decide to take a look at what the hell that agressive thing you felt was.
Whatever it is it's moving.
Thankfully it's getting closer to you.
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You eventually manage to pin the thing down, surprisingly enough it stop in a small clinic in the western part of town.
You notice the thing seems to be blanketing the place with a weird aura and that the people around seem extremely down.
You also notice how they're starting to pick up a ridiculous amount of drugs from the shelves.
And that the're completely ignoring you no matter how many times you try to get their attention.
You feel you stomach sink once you realize what they're trying to do
You start searching for the 'center' of the thing and find it in a room filled with shelves of what you guess is medicine.
The second you approach the 'distortion' opens up and you find yourself in a the middle of a cartoonish looking traditional japanese village, with little papper lanterns, and even some restaurants and shops,looked over by a massive palace in the distance.
You're immediatly surrounded by people that look like paper-cutouts from some ancient japanese painting.
They're closing in on you and boy do they not look happy to see you.
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Battle plan!
You
HP: 560
LVL 10
Skills
Reap! lvl 1
Fire lvl 1
Ice lvl 1
Wind lvl 1
Weapons on hand(You may trade them instantaneously anytime you want)
Fake sword
Bonus to physical atacks
Crooked staff
Bonus to magic
Etc equipped
None
Item bag
5 Charred Newts
+200 HP
VS
Enemy
Russel's health: 90 HP(All familiar of this type have this much health)
LVL 4
Natalie's
health: ???
LVL 9
[]Write in a battle plan?
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An: Here have an extra long chapter
Also just so you know, I rolled a D100 to determine the witches's strength... and got a 16
If you guys somehow die during this I'm gonna be disapointed... and probably laugh my ass off but point stands.
Edit: also the cross out's staying for now, my phone won't let me remove it
