Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)
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If anything, Rabiroo would finger the wardens. More plausible they let something slip than the guy who showed up for a few hours and didn't let anything slip beyond MCAT's name.
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Perhaps this was Selene's way of avoiding some custom of obnoxious people being entitled to challenge her to a sorcerer's duel.
"Okay, fine. There's my champion, you get to fight her instead of me. Oh, not interested anymore? Ah, well."
Canon has never shown us what in this quest I like to call a "fully realized" Sailor Saturn, the kind who's actually had decades or centuries to refine her arts and develop her abilities. As we've seen all the quest Senshi develop spells that do not exist in canon, it is reasonable to suppose that the canonical Silver Millennium princess of Saturn had some that we never saw our Sailor Saturn (Hotaru) use in canon.
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Ah, so the Summer alt is a Saber.
While I suspect the present version is going to need work on dialing the yield down once we recruit her, I agree that the SM version probably put that work in long ago in UQ. If nothing else, the Silence Glaive being swung around at high speeds presumably hurts.
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The phrase "backhand of annihilation" drifts through my mind...
RadiantPhoenix
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Presumably she's got spells/abilities that make her even better at scry-and-befriend.
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There probably was a fair bit of the idea of deterrent, in that you could challenge Queen Selene, but must first combat her Champion, Lady Tuxing the Destroyer of Worlds. An uninhabited, secluded asteroid is set aside with a few disposable camera drones for this purpose. In the spirit of fairness, Tuxing will be equipped with a Styrofoam covered stick instead of her accustomed weapon; this will not help your chances much, but will make it much more embarrassing when you get annihilated (and reduce the chance of collateral damage reaching anything else).
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Tuxing starts stepping down the arena, polishing the blade of her glaive with a rag... then sets the glaive aside, brandishing the rag while saying, "I hope this won't be too much for you."
Rereading some stuff...I wonder how Miss Carroll would react to NxF Blast Calamity.
View: https://youtu.be/4pO4GVs9AmE?si=NrQYk2JlJuZUNkkK
Two primary circles, using different elements, double counterotating in the same space, with 3-5 letter grades more energy than the barrier jacket with two casters, creating both a powerful central beam each plus myriad homing lasers that, despite the complex environment, do not intersect at all until they hit the target, and they only intersect after the high penetration central beams breach any barriers the target may have
At which point you get a highly visible demonstration that if they had crossed the streams at any earlier point, they'd get a powerful plasma explosion.
I feel there may be some understated British Panicking involved.
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
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Oh there is going to be uBP related to spell circle designs well before the Tome of Darkness incident. Assuming season 1 of Nanoha goes more or less as canon (some events might trigger early etc).
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV1a7LWozoY
Fate+Baradiche use multiple appearing-disappearing circles (presumably to fake out RH's defenses or something) to lock Nanoha into a multi-bind while using another circle to generate a small artillery park's worth of lightning*-based shots. Nanoha's Divine Buster response has three independent ring circles around RH, and then her StarLight Breaker has one one big circle under her feet and a massive containment ring surrounding the main collection site for the energy. Fate's multi-shield response is in a way presumably just as BS since all the circles are likely reinforcing each other etc.
Carroll's going to be wanting some quiet time with a paper bag after seeing that (or a few stiff drinks).
*Fun thing, unlike here where everybody's core (at least on Earth) has an elemental alignment right from the get go, that sort of natural attunement/afinnity is supposed to be rare for Nanoha-verse mages.
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Should be rare here as well, from my understanding it's basically the same thing as Shirou Emiya's deal in that their Element manifests so strongly that it screws with anything off the Element.
As I understand Blast Calamity only canonically gets developed after the BoD incident (the stuff in the video would be from the in-universe movies), so that particular uBP would have to wait.
jwolfe_beta
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Ultimately there is going to be plenty of uBP to pass around.
Particularly since the active magic-circles that Nanoha-verse mages use aren't device-only tricks. I recall Yuuno using them multiple times and he doesn't have a device (at least not a visible one).
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Understated British Panic is a function of them being at about Tier 1-2 of the TSAB's tech tree while the TSAB itself is, I dunno, on Tier Something-teen. Generating stable complex compound midair spell circles, as opposed to single or duplex circles, is beyond the limits of their computational support.
Even the spells people cast with their bare brains benefit significantly from being 11+ levels up the tech tree.
Dame Judith Carroll, Staring: "With what supercomputer?"
Raising Heart, Quietly: "Master, permission to engage experimental trolling protocol?"
Nanoha Takamachi: "Uh... okay?"
Raising Heart, Loudly: "Hiiiiiii~"
Dame Judith Carroll: "Ah. That supercomputer. Right, then."
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RadiantPhoenix
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Well, there's some good news for the British:
The TSAB aren't space-British, so they probably don't have to worry too much about the Crown Jewels winding up in a museum on Midchilda or something.
Now I'm imagining Yuuno in an Indiana Jones outfit running away from a giant mob of Buckingham Palace guards, the british crown clutched in his hands.Well, there's some good news for the British:
The TSAB aren't space-British, so they probably don't have to worry too much about the Crown Jewels winding up in a museum on Midchilda or something.
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"It's just a replica we made after the real one was destroyed! It's not even magical!"
"Yeah, but it still belongs in a museum."
If the hope diamond turns out to be the focusing crystal for some ancient super-weapon the TSAB are absolutely going to confiscate it. Its destination will be more 'vault' than museum but nonetheless.Well, there's some good news for the British:
The TSAB aren't space-British, so they probably don't have to worry too much about the Crown Jewels winding up in a museum on Midchilda or something.
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*Symphogear awkwardly side-eyes its particle cannon*
jwolfe_beta
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Not exactly going by Artemis's lecture:
So everyone can (at least in theory) cast any spell, you just get more out of your efforts if you work on something that aligns with your innate ability.
Meanwhile MCAT has (or will soon) manage to jury-rig something a lot closer to TSAB standard by piggybacking off ancient relics enhanced by the power of rock.
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You're missing the point:
My understanding of Mana Conversion Affinities is that this bit isn't true for them; keeping their Element out of neutral spells is extremely difficult, and they outright can't manage other Elements. There's a reason I compared it to Shirou Emiya the moment I heard about it.
*Japanese music, the power of rock requires grabbing Chris out of Val Verde.
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jwolfe_beta
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Here's what the wiki states:
People with MC can convert mana into a given elemental type without needing spells/magic to help the process, and get a better yield than somebody without the trait. I don't see any real indication saying that they can't use 'neutral' magic or different elements if they design the spells correctly.
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Ah, yes!Well, there's some good news for the British:
The TSAB aren't space-British, so they probably don't have to worry too much about the Crown Jewels winding up in a museum on Midchilda or something.
Q Division's habit of nicking everything that isn't nailed down and then seeing if they can pry up the nails was, during the imperial era, less pronounced than the corresponding habit of mundane British antiquarians, for a number of reasons:
1) The Spellblades and other British mages often didn't have anywhere near the margin of superiority over the local magical community that the mundane British military had over the local mundane military. This was particularly pronounced in India, where Spellblades typically walked very carefully and very politely, and in Egypt, where they made some fairly specific and careful bargains after 1881.
2a) In a lot of cases, the historic artifacts British antiquarians ran off with were things that, at the time, the local population wasn't inclined to raise a fuss over. Egyptian peasants had been taking building stones and bits of treasure from ancient ruins for thousands of years; the British doing the same thing didn't raise nearly as many eyebrows then as it retroactively does now when everyone realizes that the British had methodically and scientifically dug through much of Egypt and run off with many of its greatest surviving historical treasures before the Egyptians got their boots on.
2b) By contrast, a lot of the good actively magical stuff was still in the hands of people able and willing to put up a good fight for it, who had a fair understanding of what it was worth. The stuff the mundane antiquarians ran off with was generally no longer considered important; the Egyptian gods of 1920 AD didn't care that much whether the Brits carted away the contents of King Tutankhamun's tomb when all the other tombs in the Valley of the Kings had been looted centuries ago.
Still, it would certainly be karmic justice if the Brits had to deal with magical space factions randomly nicking their cultural artifacts!
"This IS a museum! The Tower of London is literally a museum!"
"Can't hear you byyyye!"
In fairness to them, there's a bit of a difference between "confiscating your cultural heritage" and "confiscating your cultural heritage item that just so happens to double as nuclear launch codes."
The former is just being an asshole. The latter is being an asshole with a side-order of "I'm doing it for my own safety."
It bears noting that Artemis' lived experience my not align with the lived experience of Midchildans in the present day.
The way people's elemental affinities behave may actually vary a bit across ages of history, across species origin, across the way they're raised and the environment they grow up in, and so on.
Sadly, the power of rock is unknown to Q Division's technical branch, and this represents an innovation they cannot reasonably hope to match without a lot of copyright violation.
FictionPack
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So seeing as Rabiroo is going to MCAT, which Alice Hiiragi look is she going to get? Or maybe her youma form will get a makeover? Naru takes regular trips to MCAT and she'll definitely intersect with Rabiroo with the rabbit youkai.
