[X] Clear the Air with Luna [DC 15]
- d10 +14
[X] Test your transformed abilities [DC ??]
- d10 +15
[X] Figure out how much you make, and how much you spend [DC 10]
- d10 +4
[X] Try to find another Guardian [DC ??]
- d10 +0
[X] Luna wants to teach you a game called Liar's Dice [DC 8]
- d10 +0
[x] Experiment with Sailor Moon's Magics [DC ??]
- d10 +7 +(6/2)
[x] Luna Personal Action [One Actions Available]:
--[x] Search for the Dark Kingdom's Agents [DC ??]
- d10 +13
[x] Naru Personal Action [One Actions Available]:
-- [X] Help your Mother at OsaP [DC ??]
- d10 +6+3
-[x] Usagi Personal Action [Three Actions Available]:
- [X] Do your Homework
- d10 +7
--[x] Ask Luna about the Moon Kingdom
- d10 +7
--[x] Ask Luna about the Dark Kingdom
- d10 +7
Right! You know, if would make my life a whole lot easier if I could just wake up and start working on the update, and to do that, I need dice to be rolled.
I would vastly prefer if only one person did a singular dice roll, but if it turns out there aren't enough people, then whatever.
The personal actions : these are supposed to be d100s not d10s
Need to stop posting late at night
--[x] Search for the Dark Kingdom's Agents [DC ??]
- d100 +13
[x] Naru Personal Action [One Actions Available]:
-- [X] Help your Mother at OsaP [DC ??]
- d100 +6+3
-[x] Usagi Personal Action [Three Actions Available]:
- [X] Do your Homework
- d100 +7
--[x] Ask Luna about the Moon Kingdom
- d100 +7
--[x] Ask Luna about the Dark Kingdom
- d100 +7
Diplomacy DC 15
Roll 8 + 14 = 22 [PASS] Luna Convo
Martial DC ??
Roll 10 + 15 =25 [??] Test Abilities
Stewardship DC 10
Roll 4 + 4 = 8 [Fail] Figure Out Money
Intrigue DC ??/DC 8
Roll 6 [??] Guardian Search
Roll 8 [PASS] Liar's Dice
Learning DC ??
Roll 2 + 7 + (6/2) = 12 [??] Experiment Magic
Luna Personal DC ??
Roll 41 + 13 = 54 [??] Search Dark Agents
Naru Personal DC ??
Roll 51 + 6 + 3 = 60 [??] Help at OsaP
Usagi Personal DC ??/??/??
Roll 50 + 7 = 57 [??] Homework
Roll 71 + 7 = 78 [??] Moon Kingdom Info
Roll 14 + 7 = 21 [??] Dark Kingdom Info
The sky is dark, filled with swirling clouds of shining gold and glimmering green. There, high above the dance floor is a bright orb of green and blue.
It is familiar... but...
Usagi doesn't recognize what she is seeing. She stands there, looking up into the sky, but no matter how long she looks at the distant... moon? she cannot parse what she sees.
"!" There is a sound? A voice? Something - The girl turns, and blinks. All around her, there are people. She is surrounded, almost the same way she was surrounded the night she first became Sailor Moon. The controlled women all around her, hands stretching like claws towards her.
Yet... There is no fear. There is no sound. There is no anger on the faces of the people all around, instead they dance.
One two three four
One two three four
Around and around and around they swirl, beautiful dresses flaring out as they are lifted by tall men in tuxedos.
"!" There is the sound again, and Usagi spins around once more. There...
In front Usagi is...
Someone. Someone important. Usagi- No. Sailor Moon knows that the figure in front of her is important. Knows that the figure in front of her is someone that... That...
"!" The figure's face moves. Sailor Moon? Usagi?
The girl in the sailor suit frowns, she can't see the face of the woman in front of her. The woman is chiding her. Usagi knows from the way that the beautiful woman moves, she is being told off.
If only she could hear the words that the person is telling her. If only she knew what was being said. She could fix the problem. She could make things better. Usagi doesn't know why, but seeing this figure, seeing them frustrated and sad...
It makes Usagi sad. She doesn't want the girl to be sad. She doesn't want the woman to be upset.
The silence goes faster, faster and faster and faster, the beat that Sailor Moon cannot hear means that each of the dancers spin more and more, whirling and twirling, and swirling about, as everything starts to become like wet paint.
All the lights and the colors mix and blend, until the light becomes blindingly bright - And Usagi wakes up. Slumping up into a sitting position, the girl slowly wipes at her face, wet tears smearing across her cheeks.
Why... Why was she crying? Well, clearly, it was because of the dream. But she doesn't even know what was happening in that dream. Just that she feels like she failed. Like she did something wrong, and that she needs to fix it. With a deep sigh, the girl flops back again, and starts to roll over in bed. Maybe she can get back to slee-
As she turns over, Usagi finds the window before her. A window through which Luna is slowly pacing back and forth, an odd, forlorn look on her face. The looks like she is feeling as bad as Usagi does this morning.
On the one hand, Usagi really doesn't want to talk to Luna this morning, not after Luna threatened to take her friend's memories away. How could she even say something like that?
But...
Usagi groans, rolling herself back up into a sitting position again. Rubbing at her eyes one more time, the girl pushes herself out of bed. Making sure to keep her back to the window, Usagi heads to the closet, starting to gather everything she needs for the day.
...
...
She can't focus. Not when Luna is so sad. Usagi knows that she shouldn't feel bad, she did the right thing...
Right?
Right?
The fact that Usagi isn't sure the answer to that question says plenty about how she feels about this whole situation. Sighing, the girl finishes getting dressed, before she approaches the window, quickly throwing it open before she can convince herself not to do so.
Luna starts, leaping nearly six feet up, passing out of Usagi's sight for a moment before she lands again. Spinning towards the girl, the cat's face is filled with fury, fury that drains away as she sees Usagi standing there.
Everything is quiet and still, "I..." Usagi starts, but she can't think of any other words to put to Luna. "Well..." Usagi starts again, and again her words fail her.
[DIPLOMACY CHECK: DC 15]
[ROLL: 8 + 14= 22]
[CHECK PASSED]
"I was lying yesterday." Usagi finally manages to say, causing the space cat to blink. "I was angry at you, but... But that monster was hurting people. I can't..." Her words are starting to fail her again, but Usagi won't let herself stop, not when she is finally starting to get progress. "Fighting that monster was the scariest thing in my life, but if I didn't do that... then Naru would be dead. You said that that monster won't be the last. That means other people might die if I do nothing." Usagi just lets the words spill out.
"I can't just stand by and do nothing. Not when people might get hurt." Usagi explains a little further. "So I was lying when I said I wouldn't fight anymore."
Luna looks as Usagi for a moment, before sighing herself. "I... I need to apologize too." Luna says after a moment. "What I did was wrong. The last thing I wanted was to screw up your life. I need your help, but the entire reason why we are fighting is to stop the Dark Kingdom from conquering the earth. To keep them from destroying everyday lives. Had I taken your friend's memories... I would have been just as bad as they are. I'm just..." Luna trails off, the first time that Usagi can remember the cat being at a loss for words.
"I'm worried Usagi." Luna continues after a moment. "If the Dark Kingdom discovers that your friend knows your identity... They would feel nothing but joy at the prospect of torturing the information out of her. Then they would come here, they would find your mother, they would find your father, and your little brother. Then they would do the same thing to Naru's family."
There is a moment of silence between the two, but unlike the terse silence from the night before, this is more companionable quiet.
"I'm sorry that I overreacted last night." Usagi said, "Let's stop the Dark Kingdom, all together."
"In that case," Luna says after a moment, a small smile on her face. "Then I'm going to need to meet Naru and work with her to keep you in line."
"Heeeeey!" Usagi complains, even though she's smiling. "No picking on me!" Usagi yawns, slumping over onto her desk. Thanks to the strange nightmare that she had Usagi woke up far earlier than she normally did in the morning, and even counting her conversation with Luna, the girl was still far earlier to school then she is normally.
If Usagi were more awake, she would probably be annoyed by the way that several of her fellow students were staring at her with wide eyes. She was far too tired to listen to the whispers and quiet questions. What she wasn't too tired to dismiss however was -
"GOOD MORNING USAGI!" Gurio Umino says loudly, standing stock still in front of the girl's desk. The sound makes Usagi snap up, bleary eyes blinking as she looks all around.
"Sorry Miss Haruna, I wasn't sleeping!" Usagi yells out, before realizing that it wasn't the teacher that woke her up. The girl could feel her face burning as the other students around her started to chuckle.
Much to Usagi's relief, before the girl has a chance to embarrass herself further, Miss Haruna enters the classroom. "I was called?" The teacher asks, quickly quieting the laughing students. After looking back and forth across the class, she settles at the front of the room and begins taking attendance.
Frustratingly, there is something very odd going on with Umino today. It seems that every time that Usagi has even a spare moment, the glasses wearing Umino is there.
In between every class he is there, a wavering smile on his lips as he pushes himself into any and every conversation that Usagi tries to have with anyone, about any subject. She tries to ask someone next to her to borrow a pencil, and a row away the boy leans over, offering one of his own to her.
She tries to ask a question of the teacher, and Umino answers instead. The inability to interact with anyone other than the boy is starting to get on Usagi's nerves, most of all because she needs to speak with Naru.
Naru knows her secret, but Umino doesn't, and to be honest, the girl would much rather that stay that way, particularly if the boy is going to continue acting like this around her all the time. Thankfully, today is Saturday, which means that today is a half day of school.
Finally, after what feels like hours and hours, the last class of the day - History, comes to an end. As everyone starts heading to their lockers, Usagi finds her chance. Grabbing hold of Naru's sleeve, the girl quickly motions to an empty classroom.
"Sorry for grabbing you like this," Usagi starts off, sighing as she slides down the now closed door to the floor. "I've been trying to find a moment to talk to you all day, but every time I turn around, Umino has been there." Usagi drags her hands down her face, sighing as she shakes her head. "I don't know what is getting into him, but it has made getting a moment alone a nightmare." Usagi sighs again, before slowly pulling herself back up to her feet. "Anyways, tomorrow's Sunday, so we don't have any school. Which means that my... boss? Guide? Magical Mascot Character? Anyways - Luna is having me go with her to the park in order to do some training as Sailor Moon. You know about Sailor Moon, so I was wondering if you might like to come see what I can do... and stuff?"
Naru worries at her lip for a few moments, before shaking her head. "I'd love to, Usagi..." Naru says, "But given the damage to OsaP, Mom needs my help for a while. I'm going to be helping her around the store all tomorrow."
"Well, we'll have to see about showing you all my magical girl stuff some other time then." Usagi declares, and after a moment, Naru nods a small smile on her face.
"I'd like that."
Having finally managed a chance to talk with her best friend, Usagi has completed the most important thing that she needed to do today - Which means that she is now free to try and handle the now most intrusive part of the day.
The fact that Umino was standing outside the door to the classroom when Usagi finally opened it up again. Luckily, Naru manages to drag the boy away saying that she has something she needs to talk to him about, allowing Usagi to leave the school without being bothered. However, Umino has been acting strange all day, which bothers the blonde.
Umino doesn't normally act like this.
Usagi tries to think of why he might be acting the way he is, but after a few moments of thinking, the girl comes to the only conclusion that she can.
She needs the assistance of a Professional. And Usagi knows just the person to help her with this. Luckily, it's Saturday, which means that the nearly twenty minute ride on the Oedo line to get from Juban to the northern side of the Nakano Ward isn't too much of an issue for the girl.
The particular alleyway that Usagi heads towards is just a hop and a skip away from the subway station, but much to Usagi's surprise, the line that is normally there every Saturday afternoon is not to be found.
There isn't a single girl looking to have their palms read or their Tarot cast by the Mysterious High Schooler Psychic named Miyo.
Usagi first discovered Miyo three months ago, when the blonde accidentally ended up dozing on the subway, missing her stop. The seventeen year old girl had been setting up a stall, right across from the station - Something about a girl from her school suggesting that the Psychic could probably sell her services instead of just helping out students at her high school.
Intrigued but not entirely sure that she trusted the girl, Usagi gave her a try, and found that Miyo's predictions were far and away more accurate than the old man down in Juban that she normally went to before then. Ever since, Usagi had spread word of the girl around, and within two weeks Miyo's Saturday business had been booming.
"Miss Tsukino." The psychic says, without even looking up from the tarot spread that she has laid out on the table. "Nearly everyone else has decided to go to the newly opening House of Fortune down in Juban." Miyo explains, "I have a feeling the place is a sham. But you are here for a Fortune, not my complaints about my competitors. Come, sit, sit. Let the cards show your fate."
Usagi sits down across from the psychic, who begins to flip over the cards without another word. "So your troubles begin with a boy? No. Two." The girl says, an answer which slightly confuses Usagi.
Sure, Usagi has had trouble with how Umino has been acting, but she hasn't had any issues with anyone else. "The first of the two is acting differently from how he normally does. Crowding you tight, giving you no space to breath. My condolences, that can be most irritating." Another card is flipped. "The second acts much the same as he always does around you, yet that in itself is the trouble." For the first time, Usagi starts to wonder if the girl she has been going to may be a fake, or at the least having an off day. "My readings don't always make sense in the moment, but you have experienced their abilities before." Miyo says as a means of trying to settle Usagi's doubts.
Another card flips. "There is a shadow over both - Yet the way they handle the darkness differs. One succumbs, the other flees. Hmmm..." Miyo flips two cards at the same time. "For your current worries - The shadow that covers your friend will pass by Midnight on Monday, at the latest." Miyo looks down at the last of the cards that she flipped for a moment, before shaking her head.
"Today the reading is on the house. You should get going, you have a meeting to get to." Usagi isn't exactly sure what Miyo means by that, but the girl is already returning her Tarot cards to their box, gathering up her things, and beginning the process of folding her table back into a suitcase.
On the one hand, Miyo said that Usagi had a meeting to get too, which is a particularly odd thing for the girl to say, but on the other she says that Umino should be back to normal before this time next week, so that is good. Finally, she also mentioned another boy, Usagi has no idea who that could be...
Regardless...
Well, She's all the way up in the Nakano Ward. From here, the most direct path back to her house passes by the Arcade! A bonus to coming here to meet Miyo instead of her old Fortune Teller. With a smug smile, Usagi steps out from the Alleyway, eyes closed and a big smile on her fa-
The girl's legs tangle, something caught between them. Usagi tips, she tilts, she falls and hits the ground with a crash.
"You again?" A familiar voice asks, and Usagi can practically feel the hairs on the back on her neck rising in anger. It can't be. There is no way. Glaring up at the source of the voice, Usagi knew what she was going to see.
"What are you doing hiding in Alleyways, dough-head?" The tall, sunglasses wearing asshole asks, before looking down the alleyway, spotting Miyo who waves at the two, before he turns back to Usagi. "Were you... getting your fortune told in a seedy alleyway? Are you trying to get yourself drugged and stabbed?"
"I..." Usagi starts, as she untangles her limbs, pulling herself back up to her feet. "I don't have to answer to you!" The girl says, "Whats it to you anyways?"
The young man just sighs, and she can practically feel him roll his eyes, despite being unable to see his eyes behind his sunglasses. "You'd probably have better grades if you just studied instead of trying to find out the answers from a scam."
"I wasn't trying to - HEY! Miyo isn't a scammer!" Usagi starts to argue, before changing her words to defend the girl she had come to trust. "Not that its any of your business, but I was asking for advice on how to handle someone suddenly deciding to act differently than normal."
"Right... right..." Usagi growls as she turns away from the mysterious guy that she keeps running into, stomping towards the subway and ignoring anything that he might have to say. Following... That...
Usagi decides that the best thing that she can do is burn off a bit of her anger, and frustration. Where else would be the best place to do that than Crown Center Arcade and Karaoke
The two story building is one of Usagi's favorite places to hang out after school, particularly on days when she has a...
Less than stellar score to show her mom, and wants to avoid that for as long as possible. There are dozens of different games all spread through the first floor of the massive building - Games of every shape and size and genre. Arcade shooters and fighting games galore. Everything from House of the Dead to Mortal Kombat, and of course, what kind of Arcade would be complete without at least two separate Dance Dance Revolution games on the floor. (Not Crown, that's for sure.)
Slipping in through the door, Usagi starts wandering the rows of machines, before reaching into a pocket to pull out her mini-purse.
With a grin and flair, the blonde haired girl opens her purse with a flourish, flipping it upside down to allow all of her cash to fall freely down into her hand!
...
...
Not even a single yen falls from the mouth of the bone dry coin purse.
Usagi is completely and totally broke! Already, without even getting a chance to play a single game, she is already out of cash! That just doesn't seem fair to the girl.
As if he might be the only possible solution to her problems, Motoki Furuhata slide up to the Counter next to Usagi.
"Good afternoon Usagi!" Motoki says with a smile, "How are you this afternoon, happy that school is out for the day?"
"I wish..." Usagi groans trying to ignore the heat rising to her cheeks, "I came to play some games at the Arcade, but when I got here, my wallet was completely empty!"
The blonde haired girl pouts up towards the blonde haired young man at the counter, but Motoki only laughs. "Seems like you might not be handling your money responsibly then, you should see about planning your spending better."
That was not the answer that Usagi had hoped for, but it was an answer. Motoki was not going to give her free tokens. So instead, Usagi sighs, hanging her head and nodding. "Yeah..."
"Well then, be seeing you." Motoki says with a smile and a wave, before heading somewhere deeper into the Arcade. Good Evening Lovely Listeners, it's the midnight hour, and you all know what that means. It's time for Midnight Zero on FM 10. Tonight we have a very special love letter from a very lucky lady. She's reaching out to a long lost love, hoping to find him once again. This is for you, Hopeful Haruna.
Of course, before I read the letter, I'd like to remind all my wonderful listeners that Midnight Zero always does what it can to help those searching for love; Write to FM 10, and if you read your letter on the air, then we will send you a truly romantic gift to help you find the man or woman of your dreams.
"I know that you aren't going to hear this. You never liked sappy romantic shows like this, but... for so long, I only wrote about you in my old diaries.
Now I find myself only every writing about the old days. I miss you, Darien. I want to see you again, and tell you the feeling I never managed to all those years ago, back when we were in high school." Sunday Morning, April 5th 1992
Kenji Tsukino sits at the kitchen table, slowly flipping through the Newspaper, while occasionally glancing up, over the edge of the paper to look at the other two sitting at the table.
Usagi is nearly face down on the table, her eyes red and bleary as seems to try and force food to appear on the plate in front of her through sheer will - A will that she seems to lack as her eyes drift close for a moment, and the girl starts to droop forward, before her eyes snap open again, and she sits back up.
Kenji's other child, Shingo instead is sitting at the table, his Gameboy in hand as he waits patiently for breakfast to be ready.
Everything seems to be quiet and calm, which is almost a little odd. Then again, it is Sunday - There is no need for the hustle and bustle of weekday life - No Usagi barely managing to get out of bed and rushing down the stairs, grabbing something to eat as she dashes out the door.
...Then again. For the last two days the girl has been getting out of the door far earlier than she normally does. Could it be that his little girl is finally starting to grow up?
Seeing the peaceful scene, Kenji slowly allows his eyes to trail back down to the paper in front of him. There, one news article stands out among the rest - "Hmm... There seems to be a new sickness getting around," He says, more to Ikuko than either of his children. "Some sort of sleeping sickness, putting people into comas that they aren't waking up from, no matter what people try."
Ikuko practically dances into the kitchen, the very picture of poise and grace, plates of pancakes sliding perfectly in front of both children, even as a piece of toast is offered to the head of the house. "A new sickness, you say?" Ikuko asks.
"Yes, I'll admit... The idea of getting to sleep in more is a little tempting..." Kenji says, even as his wife's brow starts to furrow.
"And if you end up like that, what would the rest of us do?" She asks.
"I didn't mean it like that, my cinnamon bun." Kenji tries to walk back the statement, but his wife isn't giving him the chance.
"And what exactly did you mean?" She wonders aloud.
"I..." Kenji starts to say, but before he has a chance to dig himself either deeper into the hole, or out of it, there is a sharp loud clap.
"Itadakimasu!" Usagi says, and quickly begins to dig into the food with the gusto and speed only reserved for the starving. "So..." Usagi starts, looking at Luna sitting on her windowsill, "Where were you thinking of us going for my practice? I think there is a part not too far from here."
Luna paces back and forth a few times before answering. "There are a few options, though I am not... particularly fond of going to a park. While you've been at school the last two days, I have been searching to see if I can find any of the Dark Kingdom's plans." The cat says, a smug look on her face. "And I've hit pay-dirt."
Usagi perks up, a scared look on her face. "You... found Youma?" Usagi's voice most certainly doesn't waver, and anyone who says otherwise is lying. "Are... you wanting me to fight them... Now?"
"Not today, no." Luna reassures Usagi with a shake of her head. "But the Gym I found that was basting in dark magics is on the way to an unfinished construction site that would be perfect for practicing your magics. On the way there, we could stop and scout out the place." Usagi lets out a little sigh, nodding slightly.
"Other than that, There is a train heading out to Yuunagi down in Kanagawa, which would get us far and away from any spying eyes. And if you aren't wanting to go that far out, then there is also a closed amusement park off the coast of the Minato Ward."
[ ][Training] Abandoned Construction Zone
[ ][Training] Yuunagi the Coastal City
[ ][Training] Closed Amusement Part
[Training to be continued After the Vote]
[hr/hr] [The Events of Monday to be continued in Future Clouded! The Fate of the House of Fortunes!] [The Events of Tuesday to be continued in Search from the Skies to the Streets! Where are the Other Sailor Senshi?] [The Turn shall resume following the Results of The Monday and Tuesday Event!]
