- Location
- South Africa
I was just quite astonished to see the picture while knowing the character.
- Location
- South Africa
Because it's the most common way she's referred to in the show. Though, I guess you could just translate it to "Professor".
EDIT (Also, in my case, I'm more used to typing "Hakase" as I'm a Negima fan and Hakase is the actual family name of one of the characters )
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Crossworlds 1
- Location
- UTC -6
Silver Chevalier's attention went directly to you when she entered the hall. With rapid quick steps she zeroed in on the seat next to you. Using the hand that isn't holding a blueberry muffin you swat her hand away from the two that remain of your dessert.
She grabs your hand and uses the other to grab a muffin.
A brief tussle sees your seat broken, the two of you on the floor, and Silver Chevalier with a mouth full of one of your muffins. With your gazes locked you see not the slightest hint of regret. The two of you chew your food for several seconds in the suddenly quiet food hall.
Chevalier finishes first. "Who are you and what have you done with Summit?" She teases.
You roll aside and let Chevalier roll out from underneath you. "I'm not sure I understand the question."
"You're wearing a dress and have your hair done nicely. I thought you were a new magical girl for a bit." She leans on the table and swipes for the last muffin. You yank it through the intervening space before she gets ahold of it. "Are you trying to look nice for somebody?"
"Ah, that's not quite it." You stand up from sitting on the floor. "I was looking for simple clothing so that I could try adding and removing it from my Panoply. When I was there an elf insisted I allow them to work with my hair."
"You've met Sabina Ashe I take it." She gives you a thumbs up. You eat about half of the muffin while she looks at you. "She's really nice, a huge MGroupie, but nice. Sabina likes knitting and hairdressing, you could make her day by asking for a scarf."
"I see. And why did you steal my food?"
Chevalier's grin goes feral. "Just trying to help your diet. I know you barely spend any time exercising, so I thought I'd help keep your weight low by sharing food."
You eat the last bit of muffin and answer by gripping your left elbow with your left hand, showing that your fingers reach all the way around.
"See! You should have muscle there! If you keep lazing around you're going to turn squishy, if you have any pride in yourself as a Magical Girl you will begin a training regime." Chevalier crosses her arms under her chest. "In fact, I'll help oversee it. I challenge you to a spar to test your strength and will! Do you accept?"
You pick up your water bottle from the table and take a swig to clear your throat. "How will this be different from last time?"
Her face turns a bit red. "And this time you can't use that Ramming Speed move of yours! It's dishonorable to fly away from your foes instead of facing them head on."
"I'm not sure I like that rule. Could you tie both of my hands behind my back instead?"
"We both know that wouldn't mean anything! Are you afraid of Honorable combat?"
You walk towards the door, leaving the broken chair and a small crowd of gawkers behind. Chevalier stays right behind you though. You can see her trying to glare through the back of your head.
You pause and let out a sigh. "I prefer noticing what my opponent can do, then acting in a way that keeps them from being able to hurt me. If exposing myself to risk is honorable? I'm not afraid of it, but don't see why you think it's important."
"Turn around when you talk to someone." She mutters. "The point is that I can't learn from you if you just send me careening around the field. And in a real fight I'd have somebody who could knock you out from the sky anyway."
"Who broke the chair?" A booming voice asked from the other end of the crowd.
Taking it as a cue you teleport outside. Silver Chevalier can handle things on her own, and she did get dirt on your new dress.
You take a moment to feel satisfied in yourself before an angry looking elf bursts out from the building.
"I am Centurion Gaius! Your disorderly behavior means you are also spending the rest of the day cleaning the floors."
He stands a bit under two meters tall. His black hair is slightly curly, and his face is round -- though creased by a sharp glare. The armor he has is marked with several symbols, you think you see two degree marks but are unclear on what they mean.
More to the point, he's an elven officer, not part of the Counter Force or placed in authority over you.
You walk back into the hall, Chevalier shouldn't let herself be pushed around by this man.
"I don't hear an 'acknowledged'!" Bellows Gaius.
Your response is a stare as you push open the door. Inside Chevalier has a sheepish expression and is being pointed to a closet by another soldier
"Chevalier? Do you want to spend the rest of the day cleaning? I thought you were going to teach me your exercise routine." You ask.
"Um, I think we're in trouble at the moment." She mutters.
"Your punishment is not optional! For that you can spend tomorrow cleaning the building as well." Gaius shouts, jabbing his finger into your back. "Look at me when I'm talking to you, child!"
You step forward and spin. As you do so, the Panoply extends from backpack form to cover and frame you. By the time you face Gaius you are supported above the ground to make yourself taller than him. The black surface of your weapon writhes as you manifest speakers to amplify your speech.
Gaius takes a step back.
"Summit! Don't kill him!" Demands Chevalier.
"I'm not going to." You reply, then turn your head back. "I am Magical Girl Summit." The Panoply rumbles a bass undertone to your voice. "And your demand would make me unable to follow current orders. So I will not be cleaning for the rest of the day. Would it be acceptable if-"
"Don't talk back to-" Gaius tries to cut you off, finding his voice. You slam a part of the Panoply into the floor next to him to cut him off.
You bring your face close to his and talk quietly in the ensuing silence. "Don't. Talk. Back. To me."
His face goes red and his hand grips the sword at his side. Then his eyes dart to the mass of the Panoply hanging above him. Color drains out of Gaius's face and he releases the grip on his sword. With his eyes on you he steps back the few paces to the door and slips out.
You hear running feet.
"Oh… I'm going to hear about this later." Moans Chevalier. "Say, what was that about orders anyway?"
You retract the Panoply into a backpack form before answering. "I got a written sheet with orders to 'stay within the bounds of Firebase Momo' and 'attend to various and sundry duties to support future deployments'. If I spent all day mopping floors I would not be able to attend to other actions that allow me to fight effectively."
Chevalier gives you a thumbs-up. "Those! Thanks, I never thought about it that way. That means my training is more important than the angry guy, doesn't it."
"You should still clean up the chair you broke."
"But it was your~ chair." She protests with a sing-song voice.
You run your hand over your face. It's less trouble to just clean it yourself instead of arguing.
----
Exercising goes poorly.
Apparently you ran 'wrong', and lacked the strength to do a pull-up. At Chevalier's insistence you swap between jumping jacks and sit ups until moving feels like too much trouble. It takes about four minutes, after which Chevalier seems to have absorbed all the smug you had felt about your earlier victory.
With sore everything you watch her go through her routine while using the Panoply as a lawn chair. Nothing could get you to move right now, all you want is some rest. Maybe you'll get your breath back by tomorrow.
A figure in green approaches. One you recognize.
Rest can be had later, you much prefer to stay far away from the crazy trainer guy. With a mental effort there becomes here and you are thankfully far away from Chevalier's personal trainer.
Hmm. Are you friends with Chevalier now? Maybe she could get her friends to tone it done for you.
----
Recalling yesterday's extended journey you head to the hangers to see if you can get your hands on anything that could be turned into a personal aircraft. Before you've even gotten to explain yourself the area is awash in excitement. With a bit of concentration you hear several conversations over radio, the words "multiple casualties" are repeated a few times.
Finding a corner that seems less excited you wait out the minutes until the helicopters come into view. As the first one starts to touch down a purple-haired figure (Purity, Faith, Divinity) leaps out the the second helicopter, cradling a smaller figure (Purity, Faith, Divinity). One of the Drives and Cores, whichever ones the purple belonged to. You had a bit of trouble with how their magic was overwhelmingly the same. She zooms off towards the infirmary.
Shortly afterwards Magical Girl Red Rose strides out of the first helicopter, a body slung over her shoulder and a grim expression over her face. Followed by Insight, and a girl you don't recognize (Keyblade, Song, Legend-Maker???). Once they've cleared the exit a handful of men with stretchers move in. You don't have a clear look, but you think there are a handful of unconscious people in the helicopter.
Your heart leaps into your mouth and all thought of getting a closer look departs. A blazing figure of gold disembarks from the second helicopter (Rule, Annihilation, Epic). The earth thrumming as Goddess Gold deigns to walk upon it once more. The Goddess casts her gaze around and points to you.
"You look strong, help carry Team GEAR and their heavy armor to the infirmary." She marches off with waiting for or expecting a reply.
A quick hustle has you looking at the outrageously armored forms of Solid Core's team. Before you enter a small armored figure (Earth, Wind) darts out. Inside Gabriel is propped on a seat, and a couple of people you aren't familiar with are lying on the floor (Library and Fire).
"Are they safe to pick up?" You ask the team members that are still slumped in the seats.
"Yeah, we dragged them in here when we left." Says the closer one.
He pushes himself upright and steps over Gabriel. The further soldier groans and stands up as well.
Insight pops her head into the helicopter. "Physically they're perfectly fine, Brilliant Key fixed them up. They're just overwhelmed from excessive healing."
"Oh." You extend the Panoply to sling Gabriel over your shoulder and the other two under your free arm. With a bit of shifting you have all three of them secured. The remaining two follow after you leave.
Traveling to the infirmary doesn't take very long at all, the Panoply bearing the weight of your passengers easily. As you depart you see behind you that the unconscious people in the first helicopter were all magical girls, powerful ones judging by their Affinities.
What were they doing that needing ten magical girls? Or eleven if Red Rose had been carrying one of the ones sent. What warranted sending Goddess Gold, Solid Core and Drive, Red Rose, and all the others.
"Penny for your thoughts." Asks one of Solid Core's minions.
"Oh." You stay quiet for a bit. "How did you survive fighting something that knocked," you make a gesture with your elbow towards the stretcher groups following, "them out. Red Rose and Goddess Gold alone…."
"Now that," he holds an armored finger to the front of his helmet. "Is a secret! Why did you decide to join, last I heard you ran off because of Gabriel."
You look blankly at him. "Sore wa… himitsu dessu"
For once you recognize a reference, back when you were staying in a Unification Crusade camp they would show Slayers and other shows featuring magic-using heroes all the time. He might even have watched the show in similar circumstances as you did, seated on benches with dozens of other children.
"Ha!" The other ambulatory human of Team GEAR interrupts.
The first of the pair stops and tracks the other with his helmet. Which the latter responses to by also stopping and tucking one arm under the other. This stand off continues while you keep a steady pace, leaving them behind.
Walking the rest of the way is uneventful. Soon you've made it to the, still under construction (like almost everything else on base), infirmary. You're instructed to just place the three you're carrying on the floor near Solid Core, they are apparently "too heavy" in their armor. Stepping to the corner where Solid Core is curled up on one of the chairs while Solid Drive fiddles with the younger one's hair. Solid Core casts a glance at you and your passengers before resting her head in Solid Drive's lap.
Solid Core doesn't look very healthy. Her skin is greyed and cracked, fluid is leaking from her eyes as she tries to shut ragged eyelids, and her right leg turns black about halfway down from the knee.
You set the trio down gently and turn to leave.
"If you're curious? White Soul was a bitch." Solid Drive said.
"It looks worse than it is." Solid Core croaks out. "My nerves are mostly gone, thankfully…."
You've seen three days dead corpses that looked more alive. Best not to say that out loud.
With a quickened pace you slip out of the infirmity.
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There's a bit of time left in the day, you consider your options for what to do.
Pick One:
[X] Take Silver Chevalier up on her offer of sparring without flying or Ramming Speed.
-[X] And work on honest skill.
-[X] And cheat by teleporting into the sky and using ranged attacks to defeat her.
[X] Find Red Rose. Maybe you can get her autograph?
[X] Pick a fight with the new Legend-Maker so she can see what someone of that growth affinity is capable of doing. (Get rekt by Brilliant Key, who's a bit worn out but would find Summit's ignorance amusing.)
[X] Practice your new spell, maybe you'll learn something.
[X] Fail to think of something more important than asking Gaia about your weird dream.
[X] Try to get something else to absorb.
+5 EXP Let someone know they aren't your supervisor.
+5 EXP Hung out with Silver Chevalier for a bit.
+10 EXP Lots of new faces, lots of new questions.
573 + 20 = 593 Total EXP.
She grabs your hand and uses the other to grab a muffin.
A brief tussle sees your seat broken, the two of you on the floor, and Silver Chevalier with a mouth full of one of your muffins. With your gazes locked you see not the slightest hint of regret. The two of you chew your food for several seconds in the suddenly quiet food hall.
Chevalier finishes first. "Who are you and what have you done with Summit?" She teases.
You roll aside and let Chevalier roll out from underneath you. "I'm not sure I understand the question."
"You're wearing a dress and have your hair done nicely. I thought you were a new magical girl for a bit." She leans on the table and swipes for the last muffin. You yank it through the intervening space before she gets ahold of it. "Are you trying to look nice for somebody?"
"Ah, that's not quite it." You stand up from sitting on the floor. "I was looking for simple clothing so that I could try adding and removing it from my Panoply. When I was there an elf insisted I allow them to work with my hair."
"You've met Sabina Ashe I take it." She gives you a thumbs up. You eat about half of the muffin while she looks at you. "She's really nice, a huge MGroupie, but nice. Sabina likes knitting and hairdressing, you could make her day by asking for a scarf."
"I see. And why did you steal my food?"
Chevalier's grin goes feral. "Just trying to help your diet. I know you barely spend any time exercising, so I thought I'd help keep your weight low by sharing food."
You eat the last bit of muffin and answer by gripping your left elbow with your left hand, showing that your fingers reach all the way around.
"See! You should have muscle there! If you keep lazing around you're going to turn squishy, if you have any pride in yourself as a Magical Girl you will begin a training regime." Chevalier crosses her arms under her chest. "In fact, I'll help oversee it. I challenge you to a spar to test your strength and will! Do you accept?"
You pick up your water bottle from the table and take a swig to clear your throat. "How will this be different from last time?"
Her face turns a bit red. "And this time you can't use that Ramming Speed move of yours! It's dishonorable to fly away from your foes instead of facing them head on."
"I'm not sure I like that rule. Could you tie both of my hands behind my back instead?"
"We both know that wouldn't mean anything! Are you afraid of Honorable combat?"
You walk towards the door, leaving the broken chair and a small crowd of gawkers behind. Chevalier stays right behind you though. You can see her trying to glare through the back of your head.
You pause and let out a sigh. "I prefer noticing what my opponent can do, then acting in a way that keeps them from being able to hurt me. If exposing myself to risk is honorable? I'm not afraid of it, but don't see why you think it's important."
"Turn around when you talk to someone." She mutters. "The point is that I can't learn from you if you just send me careening around the field. And in a real fight I'd have somebody who could knock you out from the sky anyway."
"Who broke the chair?" A booming voice asked from the other end of the crowd.
Taking it as a cue you teleport outside. Silver Chevalier can handle things on her own, and she did get dirt on your new dress.
You take a moment to feel satisfied in yourself before an angry looking elf bursts out from the building.
"I am Centurion Gaius! Your disorderly behavior means you are also spending the rest of the day cleaning the floors."
He stands a bit under two meters tall. His black hair is slightly curly, and his face is round -- though creased by a sharp glare. The armor he has is marked with several symbols, you think you see two degree marks but are unclear on what they mean.
More to the point, he's an elven officer, not part of the Counter Force or placed in authority over you.
You walk back into the hall, Chevalier shouldn't let herself be pushed around by this man.
"I don't hear an 'acknowledged'!" Bellows Gaius.
Your response is a stare as you push open the door. Inside Chevalier has a sheepish expression and is being pointed to a closet by another soldier
"Chevalier? Do you want to spend the rest of the day cleaning? I thought you were going to teach me your exercise routine." You ask.
"Um, I think we're in trouble at the moment." She mutters.
"Your punishment is not optional! For that you can spend tomorrow cleaning the building as well." Gaius shouts, jabbing his finger into your back. "Look at me when I'm talking to you, child!"
You step forward and spin. As you do so, the Panoply extends from backpack form to cover and frame you. By the time you face Gaius you are supported above the ground to make yourself taller than him. The black surface of your weapon writhes as you manifest speakers to amplify your speech.
Gaius takes a step back.
"Summit! Don't kill him!" Demands Chevalier.
"I'm not going to." You reply, then turn your head back. "I am Magical Girl Summit." The Panoply rumbles a bass undertone to your voice. "And your demand would make me unable to follow current orders. So I will not be cleaning for the rest of the day. Would it be acceptable if-"
"Don't talk back to-" Gaius tries to cut you off, finding his voice. You slam a part of the Panoply into the floor next to him to cut him off.
You bring your face close to his and talk quietly in the ensuing silence. "Don't. Talk. Back. To me."
His face goes red and his hand grips the sword at his side. Then his eyes dart to the mass of the Panoply hanging above him. Color drains out of Gaius's face and he releases the grip on his sword. With his eyes on you he steps back the few paces to the door and slips out.
You hear running feet.
"Oh… I'm going to hear about this later." Moans Chevalier. "Say, what was that about orders anyway?"
You retract the Panoply into a backpack form before answering. "I got a written sheet with orders to 'stay within the bounds of Firebase Momo' and 'attend to various and sundry duties to support future deployments'. If I spent all day mopping floors I would not be able to attend to other actions that allow me to fight effectively."
Chevalier gives you a thumbs-up. "Those! Thanks, I never thought about it that way. That means my training is more important than the angry guy, doesn't it."
"You should still clean up the chair you broke."
"But it was your~ chair." She protests with a sing-song voice.
You run your hand over your face. It's less trouble to just clean it yourself instead of arguing.
----
Exercising goes poorly.
Apparently you ran 'wrong', and lacked the strength to do a pull-up. At Chevalier's insistence you swap between jumping jacks and sit ups until moving feels like too much trouble. It takes about four minutes, after which Chevalier seems to have absorbed all the smug you had felt about your earlier victory.
With sore everything you watch her go through her routine while using the Panoply as a lawn chair. Nothing could get you to move right now, all you want is some rest. Maybe you'll get your breath back by tomorrow.
A figure in green approaches. One you recognize.
Rest can be had later, you much prefer to stay far away from the crazy trainer guy. With a mental effort there becomes here and you are thankfully far away from Chevalier's personal trainer.
Hmm. Are you friends with Chevalier now? Maybe she could get her friends to tone it done for you.
----
Recalling yesterday's extended journey you head to the hangers to see if you can get your hands on anything that could be turned into a personal aircraft. Before you've even gotten to explain yourself the area is awash in excitement. With a bit of concentration you hear several conversations over radio, the words "multiple casualties" are repeated a few times.
Finding a corner that seems less excited you wait out the minutes until the helicopters come into view. As the first one starts to touch down a purple-haired figure (Purity, Faith, Divinity) leaps out the the second helicopter, cradling a smaller figure (Purity, Faith, Divinity). One of the Drives and Cores, whichever ones the purple belonged to. You had a bit of trouble with how their magic was overwhelmingly the same. She zooms off towards the infirmary.
Shortly afterwards Magical Girl Red Rose strides out of the first helicopter, a body slung over her shoulder and a grim expression over her face. Followed by Insight, and a girl you don't recognize (Keyblade, Song, Legend-Maker???). Once they've cleared the exit a handful of men with stretchers move in. You don't have a clear look, but you think there are a handful of unconscious people in the helicopter.
Your heart leaps into your mouth and all thought of getting a closer look departs. A blazing figure of gold disembarks from the second helicopter (Rule, Annihilation, Epic). The earth thrumming as Goddess Gold deigns to walk upon it once more. The Goddess casts her gaze around and points to you.
"You look strong, help carry Team GEAR and their heavy armor to the infirmary." She marches off with waiting for or expecting a reply.
A quick hustle has you looking at the outrageously armored forms of Solid Core's team. Before you enter a small armored figure (Earth, Wind) darts out. Inside Gabriel is propped on a seat, and a couple of people you aren't familiar with are lying on the floor (Library and Fire).
"Are they safe to pick up?" You ask the team members that are still slumped in the seats.
"Yeah, we dragged them in here when we left." Says the closer one.
He pushes himself upright and steps over Gabriel. The further soldier groans and stands up as well.
Insight pops her head into the helicopter. "Physically they're perfectly fine, Brilliant Key fixed them up. They're just overwhelmed from excessive healing."
"Oh." You extend the Panoply to sling Gabriel over your shoulder and the other two under your free arm. With a bit of shifting you have all three of them secured. The remaining two follow after you leave.
Traveling to the infirmary doesn't take very long at all, the Panoply bearing the weight of your passengers easily. As you depart you see behind you that the unconscious people in the first helicopter were all magical girls, powerful ones judging by their Affinities.
What were they doing that needing ten magical girls? Or eleven if Red Rose had been carrying one of the ones sent. What warranted sending Goddess Gold, Solid Core and Drive, Red Rose, and all the others.
"Penny for your thoughts." Asks one of Solid Core's minions.
"Oh." You stay quiet for a bit. "How did you survive fighting something that knocked," you make a gesture with your elbow towards the stretcher groups following, "them out. Red Rose and Goddess Gold alone…."
"Now that," he holds an armored finger to the front of his helmet. "Is a secret! Why did you decide to join, last I heard you ran off because of Gabriel."
You look blankly at him. "Sore wa… himitsu dessu"
For once you recognize a reference, back when you were staying in a Unification Crusade camp they would show Slayers and other shows featuring magic-using heroes all the time. He might even have watched the show in similar circumstances as you did, seated on benches with dozens of other children.
"Ha!" The other ambulatory human of Team GEAR interrupts.
The first of the pair stops and tracks the other with his helmet. Which the latter responses to by also stopping and tucking one arm under the other. This stand off continues while you keep a steady pace, leaving them behind.
Walking the rest of the way is uneventful. Soon you've made it to the, still under construction (like almost everything else on base), infirmary. You're instructed to just place the three you're carrying on the floor near Solid Core, they are apparently "too heavy" in their armor. Stepping to the corner where Solid Core is curled up on one of the chairs while Solid Drive fiddles with the younger one's hair. Solid Core casts a glance at you and your passengers before resting her head in Solid Drive's lap.
Solid Core doesn't look very healthy. Her skin is greyed and cracked, fluid is leaking from her eyes as she tries to shut ragged eyelids, and her right leg turns black about halfway down from the knee.
You set the trio down gently and turn to leave.
"If you're curious? White Soul was a bitch." Solid Drive said.
"It looks worse than it is." Solid Core croaks out. "My nerves are mostly gone, thankfully…."
You've seen three days dead corpses that looked more alive. Best not to say that out loud.
With a quickened pace you slip out of the infirmity.
----
There's a bit of time left in the day, you consider your options for what to do.
Pick One:
[X] Take Silver Chevalier up on her offer of sparring without flying or Ramming Speed.
-[X] And work on honest skill.
-[X] And cheat by teleporting into the sky and using ranged attacks to defeat her.
[X] Find Red Rose. Maybe you can get her autograph?
[X] Pick a fight with the new Legend-Maker so she can see what someone of that growth affinity is capable of doing. (Get rekt by Brilliant Key, who's a bit worn out but would find Summit's ignorance amusing.)
[X] Practice your new spell, maybe you'll learn something.
[X] Fail to think of something more important than asking Gaia about your weird dream.
[X] Try to get something else to absorb.
+5 EXP Let someone know they aren't your supervisor.
+5 EXP Hung out with Silver Chevalier for a bit.
+10 EXP Lots of new faces, lots of new questions.
573 + 20 = 593 Total EXP.
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Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
[X] Fail to think of something more important than asking Gaia about your weird dream.
That's mostly my fault
- Location
- UTC -6
What it means is that I've chosen to start the next bit on the premise that Soul Collector went well. There are no guaranteed wins for anyone from this. I just didn't want everyone to be dead in this sidequest.
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
I take issue with her name. It's weird. Specifically her surname.
Solid Core wouldn't have her legs like that, IIRC. No Longer Human means she's immune to/ignores Body Modifiers, remember?
And then there's Indestructible Core...
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Wasn't it more that body modifiers only affect her if she thinks they're supposed to affect her? Its not like she knows IC yet that she can ignore them.
Not to my knowledge. I think you're thinking of her lack of a need to breathe/eat?
As far as I can tell she doesn't actually need most of her body parts, so if her legs was lopped off she'd probably just keep floating.
- Location
- UTC -6
Nepgear was perfectly fine, body-wise, then she got tagged by Soul Rend and brought to negative Health. Everything is from The Kind Monster's bonus body modifiers overwhelming those defensive Abilities.
Once a bit of soul-scrying gets finished Solid Core will be back to her whole, amazingly durable, self. [/justify]
And vote, whydontcha.Actually, it's because her body is magic, and so it's impossible to lose. It's like cut off a piece of water or air.
Of course, do it enough, and there's no water/air left, which in this analogy, is when Nepgear explodes.
So it's kinda impossible for her to lose a limb, and not be dead.
- Location
- madison
she did get knocked out that one time though.
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
For the surname, it may interest you to know that thus far the canon elves have taken their surnames from League of Legends characters (Sona, Riven).
Decim
On again, off again lurker.
- Location
- St. Louis, MO
[X] Fail to think of something more important than asking Gaia about your weird dream.
If it makes you feel any better, it's only a two-way tie atm.
If it makes you feel any better, it's only a two-way tie atm.
- Location
- UTC -6
VOTE LOCKED
Tally:
[X] Pick a fight with the new Legend-Maker so she can see what someone of that growth affinity is capable of doing. (Get rekt by Brilliant Key, who's a bit worn out but would find Summit's ignorance amusing.)
veekie
ltmauve
[X] Fail to think of something more important than asking Gaia about your weird dream.
crystalwatcher
Decim
[X] Take Silver Chevalier up on her offer of sparring without flying or Ramming Speed.
-[X] And work on honest skill.
kitsune9
Looks like a tie. Tie-breaker: does the next poster want more XP or quicker access to █████-██████?
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LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
the latter.
- Location
- madison
[X] Fail to think of something more important than asking Gaia about your weird dream.
as funny as a running gag of picking fights and losing is, I don't think it really fits what we've seen so far.
as funny as a running gag of picking fights and losing is, I don't think it really fits what we've seen so far.
Crossworlds 2
- Location
- UTC -6
A bit of searching (and judicious use of flying) finds Insight and the new girl seated in an administrative building, sorting a small pile of plastic cards between them. Insight tucks away a handful of receipt paper and grins at your approach. The new girl sighs and taps a hand with cards tucked between her fingers on the table.
"What did I tell you?" Insight said.
"Uh. Hello, I'm Magical Girl Summit." You introduce yourself. "My Affinities are Discovery, Protection, and Implacable. I can already tell yours, so you don't need to… uh." You finish weakly.
"But the important one here is Legend-Maker." Insight said, lowering her voice for the last word.
The new girl tucked the cards in her hand into a pouch, which she held between herself and my position, and picked up another stack of 'her' cards from the pile.
"Well?" Insight asked me. "Wait. You don't actually know. Oh my God, this is great, you don't want Key's autograph at all."
'Key' shot a look at Insight, then at myself. "I'm Magical Girl Brilliant Key. Sorry about being stand-offish, most of the time I don't need to introduce myself."
Insight pipes up. "Summit flies very quickly, and can teleport. She also has this move that shoots her at a target really fast and makes her glow green, you can't hurt her while she glowing from that." Insight keeps talking even as you turn you head to look at her. "There's something else she does, but I haven't seen it in action yet. You don't need to hold back either, Summit is tough."
She's… giving advice to Brilliant Key? Advice for fighting you.
Was that what you wanted to do? And would asking Key to spar after a rough mission be polite? With Insight's glee and the oddity you couldn't discern about Brilliant Key, well with all that you had enough of a reason to avoid the issue.
"That's very impressive Summit. Maybe you'll be famous as a powerful Legend-Maker soon." Brilliant Key said, smiling.
"Thank you. I'm sure your last mission wasn't easy." You reply. "It was nice to meet you, but there's someone else I should talk with."
Insight pushes herself up with her arms. "Hey! Are you just going to back out?"
"Back out of what?" Brilliant Key asks, setting her pouch back down as she spoke.
"I'm not sure what you mean." You say.
Insight finishes standing up and points at you. "You were going to ask Brilliant Key to spar with you. Isn't that why you chased us down, so you could wow another Legend-Maker with your crazy abilities?"
Brilliant Key's face assumes a quizzical expression as she looks between you and Insight.
You shrug.
"Yes, really." Insight speaks to Brilliant Key. "Come on! Challenge her already! You know you want to." She says to you.
"I should go." You say just before teleporting away.
As you start another circuit of the base you decide you'll need to look up Brilliant Key by the next time you meet Insight.
----
When you tried focusing to 'see' Gaia it resulted in everything in your field of vision pinging as having all of Gaia's elements, just like in your dream. Well, not quite everything, a group of angels didn't register even though the sky, ground, and you did. Knowing it was coming helped avoid the sensation of being devoured by something incomprehensibly powerful.
A not-quite shift in perception has the effect stop. You'll need to think of something else if you want to stalk, er, find Gaia.
You take to the air again, looking for anyone with Magic and Epic. Nothing stands out.
Floating in the air you find yourself at a loss for how to proceed. You hang in the sky for a couple minutes trying to think of a way to search inside tents and buildings without just teleporting inside of them.
An interruption shows itself. Hero WEAPON had shown up in your field of vision, by jumping several dozen meters into the air. With a slow flip she lands back on the ground and lands behind a tent.
That's convenient.
Yanking the intervening space pulls you right behind Hero as she enters the tent.
"Alright I did it. Anything else you want to bother me about?" Hero says to a woman--Gaia--lounging on a couch.
Gaia waves her hand in a non-committal gesture. Hero grumps softly and turns around to close the tent door, she starts at seeing you then relaxes again. Hero pulls your shoulder to bring you inside enough for her to finish closing the door.
"Were you expecting Summit?" Hero asks with an exasperated tone.
"Guess." You can almost feel the grin in Gaia's voice. "Summit! Come sit next to me, I've got an anime you might like going."
You extract yourself from Hero WEAPON gently and make your way to Gaia's couch. You slide the Panoply over one of the sides and sit as far from Gaia as you can manage. Gaia sits upright, scoots over to you, and puts her arm on your shoulder.
"This girl is trying to study magic to impress a guy, but she's found a conspiracy that…" She all but shoves a tablet into your face.
The video playing has the apparent lead holding a blanket with one hand to cover herself while sitting up in bed. Is this the sort of thing the soul and will of Earth enjoys?
"Sh-Sugar! I swear, two minutes ago they were using transforming magic guns to fight conjured monsters. It's not that kind of anime." Gaia yanks the tablet to the other side of her. "Now I, of course, know what you've come here to talk about. Tradition demands that you ask anyway before I give you a sideways answer."
You're shaking with nervousness. Part of you wonders why, it's not like you're any further away from something that could consider you part of her. Take a breath and calmly… what was that about a sideways answer?
"Don't you mean a straight answer?" You point out.
"I don't do straight answers anymore, not since the accident." Gaia replies.
Hero walked back into sight with a bowl of popcorn, moving to the open end of the couch.
"So from now on it's sideways answers and levity for inquiring minds." Gaia continues. "Unless you've decided to take me up on my offer."
"I don't remember any offer." You answer.
"It's for the best, Mother mostly gives me sideways answers." Hero interjects. "Did I miss Fiona getting Kei?"
"Nah, Kei wussed out and Fiona told him he was brave and to find his promised childhood friend." Gaia answers.
"Damn it! How does he not see that Fiona is his childhood friend. This is almost as annoying as that love triangle last summer where the guy won't go for Magical Girl Sweet Dreams because he wants to stay loyal to her 'normal' self." Hero took a few bits of popcorn. "How about Sin-4? Did he get away?"
"Nope. Kei pointed Sin out to the regulators, he's very blasted right now."
You have no idea what they're talking about.
"Double damn it. What are they planning for the finale if the killed off the only thinking antagonist left?"
"You'll just have to watch it to find out." Gaia pats your shoulder. "And it's actually good you don't remember my offer. Saves me a bunch of trouble."
"...I had a dream where I saw that…. Um. That I had forgotten that you were Gaia after seeing." You make an encompassing gesture with your hand. "All the magic shining everywhere. Everything as a part of you, even myself. It was like something had grabbed me and I couldn't get away."
Gaia tosses her tablet into Hero's popcorn bowl and hugs you.
"If that happened… what happened to me? What did you do to me that made me forget?" You ask.
"Really, at that point it was more like doing something to myself. You're still a bit …unhinged from spending so much time alone and away from me. When your magic noticed it went overboard and you tried to subsume yourself. Since you didn't really want to dissolve your sense of identity, and I didn't want to absorb you-it was a simple fix." Gaia explains.
"Thanks?" You offer. You're not sure how you feel about being described as unhinged.
"No problem! I did say I wanted you independent, didn't I? Since you're grateful at the moment maybe I could ask you to do some things for me?" Gaia stops hugging you and moves her arms to rest on the back of the couch.
"I don't want to betray the Counter Force-" You begin.
"Oh, nothing like that! First, I want you to keep your eyes open around the non-humans try to figure out what they're planning, for yourself if nothing else. Second, if you ever see one of my WEAPONs fighting... well, you should be running away as soon as you notice them. Got that?" She taps her finger against your forehead. "Since you're such an interesting person to watch I'll give you a present for all this."
You rub the spot where Gaia tapped you. "What kind of present?"
"You've already got it, it might just take a while to notice." Gaia gives a thumbs-up. "Now, would you like to stick around for the next episode? Hero made popcorn."
You excuse yourself, it's going to be an early day tomorrow and sleeping in your transformed state never feels as restful.
----
A good thing about Momo is that it doesn't have a shortage of pillows. It's quite comforting to be able to bury yourself in pillows. With fluff covering your sight you drift off to sleep.
What seems like moments later a clock blasts a shrill alarm.
That's a signal, you remember, it means you have about three minutes left of your transformation. You extract yourself from the nest of pillows and stand next to your bed. A bit of concentration lets the magic flow out of you. This time you get it right, your purchased dress appearing over the (ridiculous) uniform.
You shiver a bit as the chill air becomes noticeable. Another reason to stay transformed as much as you could manage.
"From the peaks I watch! I am Magical Girl Summit!"
The burst of invigoration fades rapidly. You work yourself back under the pillows and go back to sleep.
----
Morning arrived, and with it the appointed hour of awakening, all too soon. You take a moment to refresh your transformation before walking to the showers.
Showering is a different experience without balancing the discomfort of cold air and too-hot spray. You could probably stand under a stream of boiling water without injury as Magical Girl Summit--or one that's ice cold, like these showers presently are. Which would explain why these stalls are deserted. The whole experience is odd without reactions to temperature. You clean up quickly and stretch your MG outfit open at the neck to fit back into it.
On a whim you even out your hair to make it look closer to how the elf yesterday had styled it.
Breakfast is a bit more lively. You get hash browns, sausages, and a small container of raspberries to eat.
You deflect questions about yesterday's events. Most of them you weren't here for and don't know about. Other questions about your Panoply you answer in general terms. You accrue a bit of an audience from turning a knife into a spoon and back, but after most people have seen the change it disperses.
One brief flight later brings you to the tent where Commander Mason has his command setup.
Inside is relatively sparely occupied compared to the space available. Commander Mason sits on one end of the tent listening to an angel on one side and a soldier (Hewett, by her nameplate) on the other, a trio of coffee cups on the desk in front of him. Closer to you a pair of soldiers are going through the clipboards stacked on a large table.
There's a few elves present as well, the apparent leader (Water) is seated on a folding chair. Behind her a pair of armored elves stand straight with their right hand holding their left wrist as their arms hang down in front of them. One of them is Gaius from yesterday.
You're a bit early, but not by too much. With a smooth motion you move to Mason's corner of the command tent and compose yourself and Panoply to a respectful pose.
"I'm here, Commander." You said.
Mason glances over at you, gives a quick nod, and goes back to paying attention to Hewett.
You stay with your hands held behind you while they exchange metal covered clipboards. The names on them grab your attention when you get a glimpse of two of them. Silver Hero, and Summit. You strain to hear them, but can't make anything out. You suspect the angel can tune his aura to prevent eavesdropping.
On the side Gaius has gone a bit red after you spoke. He stays put without further movement. You do the same.
After several minutes Mason puts a few papers into the 'Summit' clipboard and touches the base of it with his thumb. There's a small spark of magic as the metal cover fuses itself to the base.
"Good to see you're here on time Summit. Yesterday brought in four more girls to keep track of, enough that I'd like to offer you the chance to help a few of my friends." The Commander opens a drawer of his desk and drops two bundles of stapled paper. "First option is to help out the Milidia garrison. Your fast flight and newly-discovered ability to repair could be very valuable, and they always need more help. Second option is to go to the Fairy Home Realms and work with Joy Oak for a bit. Joy has a rare talent for blood magic, which is how we suspect the tracking on you is being done. Right now Joy is leading a suicide squad, you'd be assisting her for a week or so. Lastly, there's been a number of interesting revelations from the girls recovered yesterday. If you feel up to infiltrating Hell and finding Goddess Red and Goddess Grey it could have a dramatic impact. I'm only offering this because you've apparently been able to escape Hell once, do you think you could sneak into Hell?"
You take a stride to the desk and look over the front pages of the bundles.
"Right now you're the leading expert on what you're capable of. Tell me which mission you think you would do best at, based on what you know." Mason finishes.
----
Operation Damned Tears
Oh Lord, Heaven knows,
We belong way down below.
Solid Core has had outstanding success in recovering Magical Girls that Goddess Red has resurrected. We would like to push our luck on this.
You've already made it out of Hell once. Transit back, find where Goddess Grey and the other revived girls are, and set a beacon to allow a team to attack and recover them. This puts you in a position of extreme risk. Marax has a way to track you when you're untransformed and Goddess Grey could kill you in seconds. Success however, would bolster our own forces while denying them to Hell. This is a long shot, but just might be possible with Goddess Gold and Goddess White assisting. Stay out of sight, stay alive.
Anticipated Difficulty: *Points at Goddess Grey* You don't want to know.
Known Allies: You're on your own. Depending on circumstances the beacon might not even be used. Be sure to report on anything notable.
Confirmed Enemies: Hell's garrison, Goddess Grey, Goddess Red, lots of everything else. [Marax]
Possible Combatants: Everything.
[Opportunity: Hunt and kill Marax. This is counterproductive to your stated mission, but will give ~500 EXP and the Ability Retribution Will Follow if completed. He also has stuff you can steal.
Alternatively: Defecting might see Goddess Red revive your mother... ]
Operation Glass Hymn
Di qui non si passa
Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare
A child could see that the forces of Light are preparing. Report to Milidia and assist the forces there against the inevitable spoiling attacks.
People that can break trucks with their bare hands? We have thousands. People who can fix trucks in minutes with the same? Summit is in a rarified group. The Fairy-Elf Fortress at Milidia has been under constant attack for years. A talent at repair and construction will make a considerable impact on battles there.
Anticipated Difficulty: Low. If Summit is half as tough as she claims there should be no trouble.
Known Allies: Milidia Garrison (~50 Magical Girls, Elven legions, Fairy army, and Human division.)
Confirmed Enemies: Hell's Seventh Legion.
Possible Combatants: Unknown.
[Opportunities: Lots of things to declare beyond repair and absorb. A semblance of down-time to study, possibly with veteran Magical Girls or Fairy sages.]
Operation Crystal Watcher
There's blood in the streets,
It's up to my ankles.
There's blood in the streets,
It's up to my knees.
The magic that tracks Summit appears to be blood based. There's a respected Fairy sage that knows a great deal about blood magic. She's leading a Suicide Squad, but might find the time to help a subordinate…
Anticipated Difficulty: High. The squad is sure to take deadlier missions with a Magical Girl in their ranks..
Known Allies: Crack Fairy Commandos.
Confirmed Enemies: Unknown. You'll find out when you get there.
Possible Combatants: Unknown.
[Opportunities: Stand atop a mountain of your fallen foes.]
Shadow Carnage
Learn by doing…
It's been less than forty-eight hours since Summit formally joined. Circumstances are exceptional, but it's still prudent to have a training period.
Stick with Carnage, she'll show you the ropes. Expect to be deployed alongside her unless one of you says otherwise. As an aside, we think someone should stay near Carnage anyway….
Anticipated Difficulty: Low-ish.
Known Allies: Carnage, possibly other Magical Girls
Confirmed Enemies: None
Possible Combatants: Unknown. Carnage joked that Solid Core might wake up a lesser Divine Being, but that was just a joke. Right?
+5 EXP Met Magical Girl Brilliant Key
+5 EXP You think you dodged a bullet…
+45 EXP You cannot grasp the true form of Gaia's trick!
+10 EXP A fateful decision.
593 + 65 = 658 Total EXP.
OOC: I'd rather not say how long this took me to write...
"What did I tell you?" Insight said.
"Uh. Hello, I'm Magical Girl Summit." You introduce yourself. "My Affinities are Discovery, Protection, and Implacable. I can already tell yours, so you don't need to… uh." You finish weakly.
"But the important one here is Legend-Maker." Insight said, lowering her voice for the last word.
The new girl tucked the cards in her hand into a pouch, which she held between herself and my position, and picked up another stack of 'her' cards from the pile.
"Well?" Insight asked me. "Wait. You don't actually know. Oh my God, this is great, you don't want Key's autograph at all."
'Key' shot a look at Insight, then at myself. "I'm Magical Girl Brilliant Key. Sorry about being stand-offish, most of the time I don't need to introduce myself."
Insight pipes up. "Summit flies very quickly, and can teleport. She also has this move that shoots her at a target really fast and makes her glow green, you can't hurt her while she glowing from that." Insight keeps talking even as you turn you head to look at her. "There's something else she does, but I haven't seen it in action yet. You don't need to hold back either, Summit is tough."
She's… giving advice to Brilliant Key? Advice for fighting you.
Was that what you wanted to do? And would asking Key to spar after a rough mission be polite? With Insight's glee and the oddity you couldn't discern about Brilliant Key, well with all that you had enough of a reason to avoid the issue.
"That's very impressive Summit. Maybe you'll be famous as a powerful Legend-Maker soon." Brilliant Key said, smiling.
"Thank you. I'm sure your last mission wasn't easy." You reply. "It was nice to meet you, but there's someone else I should talk with."
Insight pushes herself up with her arms. "Hey! Are you just going to back out?"
"Back out of what?" Brilliant Key asks, setting her pouch back down as she spoke.
"I'm not sure what you mean." You say.
Insight finishes standing up and points at you. "You were going to ask Brilliant Key to spar with you. Isn't that why you chased us down, so you could wow another Legend-Maker with your crazy abilities?"
Brilliant Key's face assumes a quizzical expression as she looks between you and Insight.
You shrug.
"Yes, really." Insight speaks to Brilliant Key. "Come on! Challenge her already! You know you want to." She says to you.
"I should go." You say just before teleporting away.
As you start another circuit of the base you decide you'll need to look up Brilliant Key by the next time you meet Insight.
----
When you tried focusing to 'see' Gaia it resulted in everything in your field of vision pinging as having all of Gaia's elements, just like in your dream. Well, not quite everything, a group of angels didn't register even though the sky, ground, and you did. Knowing it was coming helped avoid the sensation of being devoured by something incomprehensibly powerful.
A not-quite shift in perception has the effect stop. You'll need to think of something else if you want to stalk, er, find Gaia.
You take to the air again, looking for anyone with Magic and Epic. Nothing stands out.
Floating in the air you find yourself at a loss for how to proceed. You hang in the sky for a couple minutes trying to think of a way to search inside tents and buildings without just teleporting inside of them.
An interruption shows itself. Hero WEAPON had shown up in your field of vision, by jumping several dozen meters into the air. With a slow flip she lands back on the ground and lands behind a tent.
That's convenient.
Yanking the intervening space pulls you right behind Hero as she enters the tent.
"Alright I did it. Anything else you want to bother me about?" Hero says to a woman--Gaia--lounging on a couch.
Gaia waves her hand in a non-committal gesture. Hero grumps softly and turns around to close the tent door, she starts at seeing you then relaxes again. Hero pulls your shoulder to bring you inside enough for her to finish closing the door.
"Were you expecting Summit?" Hero asks with an exasperated tone.
"Guess." You can almost feel the grin in Gaia's voice. "Summit! Come sit next to me, I've got an anime you might like going."
You extract yourself from Hero WEAPON gently and make your way to Gaia's couch. You slide the Panoply over one of the sides and sit as far from Gaia as you can manage. Gaia sits upright, scoots over to you, and puts her arm on your shoulder.
"This girl is trying to study magic to impress a guy, but she's found a conspiracy that…" She all but shoves a tablet into your face.
The video playing has the apparent lead holding a blanket with one hand to cover herself while sitting up in bed. Is this the sort of thing the soul and will of Earth enjoys?
"Sh-Sugar! I swear, two minutes ago they were using transforming magic guns to fight conjured monsters. It's not that kind of anime." Gaia yanks the tablet to the other side of her. "Now I, of course, know what you've come here to talk about. Tradition demands that you ask anyway before I give you a sideways answer."
You're shaking with nervousness. Part of you wonders why, it's not like you're any further away from something that could consider you part of her. Take a breath and calmly… what was that about a sideways answer?
"Don't you mean a straight answer?" You point out.
"I don't do straight answers anymore, not since the accident." Gaia replies.
Hero walked back into sight with a bowl of popcorn, moving to the open end of the couch.
"So from now on it's sideways answers and levity for inquiring minds." Gaia continues. "Unless you've decided to take me up on my offer."
"I don't remember any offer." You answer.
"It's for the best, Mother mostly gives me sideways answers." Hero interjects. "Did I miss Fiona getting Kei?"
"Nah, Kei wussed out and Fiona told him he was brave and to find his promised childhood friend." Gaia answers.
"Damn it! How does he not see that Fiona is his childhood friend. This is almost as annoying as that love triangle last summer where the guy won't go for Magical Girl Sweet Dreams because he wants to stay loyal to her 'normal' self." Hero took a few bits of popcorn. "How about Sin-4? Did he get away?"
"Nope. Kei pointed Sin out to the regulators, he's very blasted right now."
You have no idea what they're talking about.
"Double damn it. What are they planning for the finale if the killed off the only thinking antagonist left?"
"You'll just have to watch it to find out." Gaia pats your shoulder. "And it's actually good you don't remember my offer. Saves me a bunch of trouble."
"...I had a dream where I saw that…. Um. That I had forgotten that you were Gaia after seeing." You make an encompassing gesture with your hand. "All the magic shining everywhere. Everything as a part of you, even myself. It was like something had grabbed me and I couldn't get away."
Gaia tosses her tablet into Hero's popcorn bowl and hugs you.
"If that happened… what happened to me? What did you do to me that made me forget?" You ask.
"Really, at that point it was more like doing something to myself. You're still a bit …unhinged from spending so much time alone and away from me. When your magic noticed it went overboard and you tried to subsume yourself. Since you didn't really want to dissolve your sense of identity, and I didn't want to absorb you-it was a simple fix." Gaia explains.
"Thanks?" You offer. You're not sure how you feel about being described as unhinged.
"No problem! I did say I wanted you independent, didn't I? Since you're grateful at the moment maybe I could ask you to do some things for me?" Gaia stops hugging you and moves her arms to rest on the back of the couch.
"I don't want to betray the Counter Force-" You begin.
"Oh, nothing like that! First, I want you to keep your eyes open around the non-humans try to figure out what they're planning, for yourself if nothing else. Second, if you ever see one of my WEAPONs fighting... well, you should be running away as soon as you notice them. Got that?" She taps her finger against your forehead. "Since you're such an interesting person to watch I'll give you a present for all this."
You rub the spot where Gaia tapped you. "What kind of present?"
"You've already got it, it might just take a while to notice." Gaia gives a thumbs-up. "Now, would you like to stick around for the next episode? Hero made popcorn."
You excuse yourself, it's going to be an early day tomorrow and sleeping in your transformed state never feels as restful.
----
A good thing about Momo is that it doesn't have a shortage of pillows. It's quite comforting to be able to bury yourself in pillows. With fluff covering your sight you drift off to sleep.
What seems like moments later a clock blasts a shrill alarm.
That's a signal, you remember, it means you have about three minutes left of your transformation. You extract yourself from the nest of pillows and stand next to your bed. A bit of concentration lets the magic flow out of you. This time you get it right, your purchased dress appearing over the (ridiculous) uniform.
You shiver a bit as the chill air becomes noticeable. Another reason to stay transformed as much as you could manage.
"From the peaks I watch! I am Magical Girl Summit!"
The burst of invigoration fades rapidly. You work yourself back under the pillows and go back to sleep.
----
Morning arrived, and with it the appointed hour of awakening, all too soon. You take a moment to refresh your transformation before walking to the showers.
Showering is a different experience without balancing the discomfort of cold air and too-hot spray. You could probably stand under a stream of boiling water without injury as Magical Girl Summit--or one that's ice cold, like these showers presently are. Which would explain why these stalls are deserted. The whole experience is odd without reactions to temperature. You clean up quickly and stretch your MG outfit open at the neck to fit back into it.
On a whim you even out your hair to make it look closer to how the elf yesterday had styled it.
Breakfast is a bit more lively. You get hash browns, sausages, and a small container of raspberries to eat.
You deflect questions about yesterday's events. Most of them you weren't here for and don't know about. Other questions about your Panoply you answer in general terms. You accrue a bit of an audience from turning a knife into a spoon and back, but after most people have seen the change it disperses.
One brief flight later brings you to the tent where Commander Mason has his command setup.
Inside is relatively sparely occupied compared to the space available. Commander Mason sits on one end of the tent listening to an angel on one side and a soldier (Hewett, by her nameplate) on the other, a trio of coffee cups on the desk in front of him. Closer to you a pair of soldiers are going through the clipboards stacked on a large table.
There's a few elves present as well, the apparent leader (Water) is seated on a folding chair. Behind her a pair of armored elves stand straight with their right hand holding their left wrist as their arms hang down in front of them. One of them is Gaius from yesterday.
You're a bit early, but not by too much. With a smooth motion you move to Mason's corner of the command tent and compose yourself and Panoply to a respectful pose.
"I'm here, Commander." You said.
Mason glances over at you, gives a quick nod, and goes back to paying attention to Hewett.
You stay with your hands held behind you while they exchange metal covered clipboards. The names on them grab your attention when you get a glimpse of two of them. Silver Hero, and Summit. You strain to hear them, but can't make anything out. You suspect the angel can tune his aura to prevent eavesdropping.
On the side Gaius has gone a bit red after you spoke. He stays put without further movement. You do the same.
After several minutes Mason puts a few papers into the 'Summit' clipboard and touches the base of it with his thumb. There's a small spark of magic as the metal cover fuses itself to the base.
"Good to see you're here on time Summit. Yesterday brought in four more girls to keep track of, enough that I'd like to offer you the chance to help a few of my friends." The Commander opens a drawer of his desk and drops two bundles of stapled paper. "First option is to help out the Milidia garrison. Your fast flight and newly-discovered ability to repair could be very valuable, and they always need more help. Second option is to go to the Fairy Home Realms and work with Joy Oak for a bit. Joy has a rare talent for blood magic, which is how we suspect the tracking on you is being done. Right now Joy is leading a suicide squad, you'd be assisting her for a week or so. Lastly, there's been a number of interesting revelations from the girls recovered yesterday. If you feel up to infiltrating Hell and finding Goddess Red and Goddess Grey it could have a dramatic impact. I'm only offering this because you've apparently been able to escape Hell once, do you think you could sneak into Hell?"
You take a stride to the desk and look over the front pages of the bundles.
"Right now you're the leading expert on what you're capable of. Tell me which mission you think you would do best at, based on what you know." Mason finishes.
----
Operation Damned Tears
Oh Lord, Heaven knows,
We belong way down below.
Solid Core has had outstanding success in recovering Magical Girls that Goddess Red has resurrected. We would like to push our luck on this.
You've already made it out of Hell once. Transit back, find where Goddess Grey and the other revived girls are, and set a beacon to allow a team to attack and recover them. This puts you in a position of extreme risk. Marax has a way to track you when you're untransformed and Goddess Grey could kill you in seconds. Success however, would bolster our own forces while denying them to Hell. This is a long shot, but just might be possible with Goddess Gold and Goddess White assisting. Stay out of sight, stay alive.
Anticipated Difficulty: *Points at Goddess Grey* You don't want to know.
Known Allies: You're on your own. Depending on circumstances the beacon might not even be used. Be sure to report on anything notable.
Confirmed Enemies: Hell's garrison, Goddess Grey, Goddess Red, lots of everything else. [Marax]
Possible Combatants: Everything.
[Opportunity: Hunt and kill Marax. This is counterproductive to your stated mission, but will give ~500 EXP and the Ability Retribution Will Follow if completed. He also has stuff you can steal.
Alternatively: Defecting might see Goddess Red revive your mother... ]
Operation Glass Hymn
Di qui non si passa
Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare
A child could see that the forces of Light are preparing. Report to Milidia and assist the forces there against the inevitable spoiling attacks.
People that can break trucks with their bare hands? We have thousands. People who can fix trucks in minutes with the same? Summit is in a rarified group. The Fairy-Elf Fortress at Milidia has been under constant attack for years. A talent at repair and construction will make a considerable impact on battles there.
Anticipated Difficulty: Low. If Summit is half as tough as she claims there should be no trouble.
Known Allies: Milidia Garrison (~50 Magical Girls, Elven legions, Fairy army, and Human division.)
Confirmed Enemies: Hell's Seventh Legion.
Possible Combatants: Unknown.
[Opportunities: Lots of things to declare beyond repair and absorb. A semblance of down-time to study, possibly with veteran Magical Girls or Fairy sages.]
Operation Crystal Watcher
There's blood in the streets,
It's up to my ankles.
There's blood in the streets,
It's up to my knees.
The magic that tracks Summit appears to be blood based. There's a respected Fairy sage that knows a great deal about blood magic. She's leading a Suicide Squad, but might find the time to help a subordinate…
Anticipated Difficulty: High. The squad is sure to take deadlier missions with a Magical Girl in their ranks..
Known Allies: Crack Fairy Commandos.
Confirmed Enemies: Unknown. You'll find out when you get there.
Possible Combatants: Unknown.
[Opportunities: Stand atop a mountain of your fallen foes.]
Shadow Carnage
Learn by doing…
It's been less than forty-eight hours since Summit formally joined. Circumstances are exceptional, but it's still prudent to have a training period.
Stick with Carnage, she'll show you the ropes. Expect to be deployed alongside her unless one of you says otherwise. As an aside, we think someone should stay near Carnage anyway….
Anticipated Difficulty: Low-ish.
Known Allies: Carnage, possibly other Magical Girls
Confirmed Enemies: None
Possible Combatants: Unknown. Carnage joked that Solid Core might wake up a lesser Divine Being, but that was just a joke. Right?
+5 EXP Met Magical Girl Brilliant Key
+5 EXP You think you dodged a bullet…
+45 EXP You cannot grasp the true form of Gaia's trick!
+10 EXP A fateful decision.
593 + 65 = 658 Total EXP.
OOC: I'd rather not say how long this took me to write...