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done, does this work now?
Voices From Beyond: A Skullgirls Quest
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Get rid of this option than yes it's close enough.
[X] Plan: Informing Marie and giving a Warning
[X] Plan: Informing Marie and giving a Warning
Don't know if it works the same way, but I remember reading a fire emblem quest that was similar to this. One little problem came up where the questers (voices) already told her what they wanted to say but later on in the chapter during a important moment in the quest she tried to talk with them and was confused on why they weren't talking back. Then they had to tell her that they could only answer her questions and do things at a certain time.
Don't know if you already done it, but should we give her a reason as to why we wouldn't be talking back to her if she asked us later on for something after we've already voted.
Don't know if it works the same way, but I remember reading a fire emblem quest that was similar to this. One little problem came up where the questers (voices) already told her what they wanted to say but later on in the chapter during a important moment in the quest she tried to talk with them and was confused on why they weren't talking back. Then they had to tell her that they could only answer her questions and do things at a certain time.
Don't know if you already done it, but should we give her a reason as to why we wouldn't be talking back to her if she asked us later on for something after we've already voted.
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Should be ready now right?
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Oh yeah the Three Houses one at Spacebattles right.
Yeah that works for me.
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[X] Plan: Informing Marie and giving a Warning
-[X] (Voice 1) "The Leader of the Medici family is a man called Lorenzo, his second in comman is his son Vitale. There's several other members in the mafia but those 2 should be your targets. Eliminate them and the Medici will run like headless chicken around.
-[X] (Voice 1) "Two things you need to take in mind. One is that the leader Lorenzo has something called the Life Gem. This gives him bascially eternal life and super regeneration. You could burn him alive and he will be fine moments later. GET RID OF THAT GEM. Once you do, you can kill him."
-[X] (Voice 2) "Second warning. their personal assassin and enforcer is a woman called Black Dahlia. She is dangerous, she has survived agaisnt other skullgirls far stronger that you currently are, if you take your eyes from her...you might not be able to walk away. You need to either Kill Lorenzo while avoiding her...or focus your full attention to kill her first, then the others"
-[X] (Voice 1) "We don't know the exact place the Medici are based. Just that their headquarters is one of the highest or the highest Tower in the city. You will find the Medici there."
-[X] (Voice 2) "You can trust Double as you trust the mafia madam, she has her own plans involving the Skullheart but it isn't something you would agree with. If those plans clashes with your vengeance, don't think for a second that Double won't interfere with you. Rely on her as little as you can"
-[X] (Voice 1) "The Leader of the Medici family is a man called Lorenzo, his second in comman is his son Vitale. There's several other members in the mafia but those 2 should be your targets. Eliminate them and the Medici will run like headless chicken around.
-[X] (Voice 1) "Two things you need to take in mind. One is that the leader Lorenzo has something called the Life Gem. This gives him bascially eternal life and super regeneration. You could burn him alive and he will be fine moments later. GET RID OF THAT GEM. Once you do, you can kill him."
-[X] (Voice 2) "Second warning. their personal assassin and enforcer is a woman called Black Dahlia. She is dangerous, she has survived agaisnt other skullgirls far stronger that you currently are, if you take your eyes from her...you might not be able to walk away. You need to either Kill Lorenzo while avoiding her...or focus your full attention to kill her first, then the others"
-[X] (Voice 1) "We don't know the exact place the Medici are based. Just that their headquarters is one of the highest or the highest Tower in the city. You will find the Medici there."
-[X] (Voice 2) "You can trust Double as you trust the mafia madam, she has her own plans involving the Skullheart but it isn't something you would agree with. If those plans clashes with your vengeance, don't think for a second that Double won't interfere with you. Rely on her as little as you can"
The sight of Canopolis grows ever closer, step by step, as Marie considers the information she has been given. Double being untrustworthy is no surprise, the blasted creature gave her the Skull Heart, but it's good to know her feelings on that weren't wrong. It would be... unfortunate, if Marie had been ignoring someone who could have been a proper ally. The rest of the message, though...
I suppose it would be too easy if you could give me their home addresses. So, what do those three people look like, what does the Life Gem look like, and what weaknesses does Black Dahlia have? I take it Lorenzo and Vitale Medici are ordinary men, since you haven't told me anything about them besides the Life Gem.
Can the Life Gem make me alive again, she is careful not to ask. Some things aren't worth hoping for.
Can you give me any new abilities that would make finding or killing these three easier, she does, eventually, ask. That, at least, isn't a fool's hope.
And all the while, Marie has continued walking on. Soon, she will need to change course and seek out a railroad yard. She knows which direction New Meridian is in, more or less, so finding a train headed there should be simple enough once she's where the trains are. Ah, and there's a train heading into Canopolis right now. That should lead her to a yard quickly enough. The night is some time away, though. There will be cover for her to hide behind in the yard, but this will still require caution from her as she searches. What Marie would give for some sort of invisibility power right now... "I've got eyes on her, out in the open and heading to the MART station. We'll intercept before she gets there."
A/N: At this point, I feel like discussion in the thread has gotten to a point that I've decided you can send Marie images/video as well as sound once she's in New Meridian. Also, Canopolis doesn't have much in it compared to New Meridian, so once Marie catches her train she won't need much more than a day to get to New Meridian. I'm definitely playing fast and loose with the geography, but I've spent a while trying to figure out how far the two cities are from each other, and it seems the answer is "as far as the story needs them to be," so in this quest they're on opposite ends of a broad metropolitan area. It takes time to get from one to the other, but it's not a massive amount of time.
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Okey will work on adding the Images here on a bit.
As for Black Dahlia weaknesses?
She is a filthy zoner I guess? Real talk I think removing her arm-shotgun would decrease how deadly she is by a little bit and I think that Marie could abuse her mentality to get her guard lowered? She needs to rush at Black Dahlia without giving her a moment to plan or to keep distance without overextending herself Aside from that not much I can come up without more research.
As for abilities, if we can grant her some, one that could be useful but not 100% reliable is Menat Tarot reading and Soul Power, I'm thinking maybe she could use that to find more about stuff.
Gonna spend sometime researching useful powers we could give Marie
Also…shit they found her already. I'm not sure if it's allowed that we could give her a warning. Next few updates might get…messy.
As for Black Dahlia weaknesses?
She is a filthy zoner I guess? Real talk I think removing her arm-shotgun would decrease how deadly she is by a little bit and I think that Marie could abuse her mentality to get her guard lowered? She needs to rush at Black Dahlia without giving her a moment to plan or to keep distance without overextending herself Aside from that not much I can come up without more research.
As for abilities, if we can grant her some, one that could be useful but not 100% reliable is Menat Tarot reading and Soul Power, I'm thinking maybe she could use that to find more about stuff.
Gonna spend sometime researching useful powers we could give Marie
Also…shit they found her already. I'm not sure if it's allowed that we could give her a warning. Next few updates might get…messy.
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Get ready for a fight everyone, looks like Last Hope found us.
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Oh I swear…if they dare to attack Marie on a populated zone/were civilians are near, this will make things harder.
Thank hoy Marie has Balkuen's skill, that's gonna really be a nasty surprise for them. This will teach them not to interrupt someone's train ride.
Aside from that…we really a good argument to convince Mary not to kill them…but at the same time we really cannot just let go nor keep them imprisoned…
Wait could we give Marie something for that perhaps?
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Anyone have any pics for the people she needs to kill or the Life Gem she needs to remove?
Any weaknesses in mind to use against her?
The rest are just regular people right, cause I know one is a little guy that pilots a robot.
Should we tell her that we don't know?
Well at least she can watch some videos to either past the time or to train..
Alright any ideas on what pics or videos/music we should give her?
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If you can come up with a good enough argument for it and an ability from a fighting game character that would help Marie keep the Last Hope from being a problem without killing them, I'll let you have it before the fight starts. If you don't, well, we'll see.
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Do we have a time limit?
We'll probably need to warn Marie, maybe say it's a six sense that we have trouble coming.
To bad we can't bring images to help Marie fight, cause she'll certainly be outnumbered by Last Hope.
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[] Plan: Media Time! (Work in progress
-[] (Voice 1) "Ask and you shall receive my young lady!"
-[] Lorezo
-[] Vitale
-[] Black Dahlia
-[] Life Gem
-[] (Voice 1) "Lorenzo and Vitale are normal men, aside from guns they don't have means to resist you. Black Dahlia in the other hand...She has a ...and I quote: "Swiss Army Shotgun-Blade", a group of mindbroken assassin ladies that follow her everywhim and ruthlessness that only a demented person can have."
-[] (Voice 2) "Against Black Dahlia, best option is too overhwlem her, give her no time to react and always keep her on your sights, she has more decades of experiences than you, any opening you give her she will take and abuse. If possible focus on her arm-weapon, without it, she will have less option of offense."
-[] (Voice 1)"To be honest Marie even we don't know the full powers of the Life Gem, we know it's the one thing that keeps Lorenzo alive and young. But we don't know much us about it, we're sorry we couldn't help more.."
-[] (Voice 2) "One more thing madam, our answers take awhile to come in so if it feels like we aren't saying anything we are merrily gathering our thoughts on what to say, so don't be upset if we don't say anything either during a fight or while you're attacking the Medici's."
How''s this? Still missing the part for what skills or weapins we can give her, need to check for a bit. Also couldn't find any image of the life gem yet, will keep looking.
Well gonna start researching it then! Wish me luck!
Also @Small Nerd do the images work? Can you see them, is that format alright or should i post them another way?
Probably for the best but that is worth checking?
-[] (Voice 1) "Ask and you shall receive my young lady!"
-[] Lorezo
-[] Vitale
-[] Black Dahlia
-[] Life Gem
-[] (Voice 1) "Lorenzo and Vitale are normal men, aside from guns they don't have means to resist you. Black Dahlia in the other hand...She has a ...and I quote: "Swiss Army Shotgun-Blade", a group of mindbroken assassin ladies that follow her everywhim and ruthlessness that only a demented person can have."
-[] (Voice 2) "Against Black Dahlia, best option is too overhwlem her, give her no time to react and always keep her on your sights, she has more decades of experiences than you, any opening you give her she will take and abuse. If possible focus on her arm-weapon, without it, she will have less option of offense."
-[] (Voice 1)"To be honest Marie even we don't know the full powers of the Life Gem, we know it's the one thing that keeps Lorenzo alive and young. But we don't know much us about it, we're sorry we couldn't help more.."
-[] (Voice 2) "One more thing madam, our answers take awhile to come in so if it feels like we aren't saying anything we are merrily gathering our thoughts on what to say, so don't be upset if we don't say anything either during a fight or while you're attacking the Medici's."
How''s this? Still missing the part for what skills or weapins we can give her, need to check for a bit. Also couldn't find any image of the life gem yet, will keep looking.
Well gonna start researching it then! Wish me luck!
Also @Small Nerd do the images work? Can you see them, is that format alright or should i post them another way?
If the QM is okey with that we could do it?
Probably for the best but that is worth checking?
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You're forgetting the Life Gem as well.
[] (Voice 2) One more thing madam, our answers take awhile to come in so if it feels like we aren't saying anything we are merrily gathering our thoughts on what to say, so don't be upset if we don't say anything either during a fight or while you're attacking the Medici's.
Can you add this to the plan or is it to long?
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havent found an image of the life web, might need to check the webtoon to take a screenshot
give me a moment and will add it
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We'll probably need to describe it to her if we don't find a pic.
Many thanks.
By the way @Small Nerd is it alright for us to warn Marie that she'll be in a fight soon or is that against the rules?
So something like this either from you or me.
"To be honest Marie even we don't know the full powers of the Life Gem, we know it's the one thing that keeps Lorenzo alive and young. But we don't know much us about it, we're sorry we couldn't help more.."
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The images work, but you're a little early. You can't show Marie images until after the fight that's about to happen since the Last Hope will be blocking her from getting to New Meridian.
That's fine. Depending on how you all do with the challenge I set, you might only be able to warn her a minute or two before things start, but you'll certainly be able to tell her about the attack before it happens.
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Alright so save the pics after the fight.
@Kingster looks like a new plan we'll be needed.
Well at least we can warn her to go some place secluded away. Is there anyone else at the train station or is it just Marie and Last Hope?
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Okey not sure how much time we have so I have currently 2 ideas...both of them are not good at all I believe, but worth asking if they could work.
First one if giving Marie the abilitie from Nine of Blazblue to cast Magic, either to make prisons like phantom did to Rachel to restrain her in Continuum Shift II or if we need to get even more extreme, allow to use the Mind eater spell to mind control Last Hope...which I really wanna avoid but i'm a bit desesperate.
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Another optiion is giving Marie either Dimittri (Darkstalkers) or Eliza (Tekken Revolution) vampire abilities, specially the vampire ability of mind controlling people for a time, its not exactly confirmed that threy posses it, but its generally common iof vampire in media to be able to do that, perhaps we could use it for Maire to have them forget everything they know about her/even that they found her and maybe erase the records or something like that. Heck maybe even help her to keep her informed of the other lab movements?
Demitri Maximoff
Demitri Maximoff (デミトリ・マキシモフ, Demitori makishimofu) is one of the main protagonists of the series, debuting in Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors akin to most of the franchise's characters. Demitri has been voiced in almost all his notable video game appearances by Nobuyuki Hiyama. In the English...
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Eliza (エリザ, Eriza?) is a character in the Tekken series who was introduced in the free-to-play game Tekken Revolution after winning[2] a community poll made by Namco in 2013. Eliza made her first canonical appearance in Tekken 7: Fated Retribution as a DLC character in 2017. Eliza is a female...
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I think im going to an extreme part jumping directly t mind control but not sure how much time do we have before fight starts.
We need an option that removes Last hope of the board without killing the, or at leasst make it really difficult for them to intertfere with Marie and notify the ithers that the skullgirl is around
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Hopefully there's more options for us..
Do you think we can imprisoned the others while having Valentine as a helper, cause being imprisoned is probably better than dead.
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Maybe if we could get a power that creates pocket dimension to imprison them? Otherwise it will be hard to drag them around while not giving them or Valentine chances to escape.
I have not found something exactly like that, at best stuff that immobilizes for a few seconds but nothing like freacking Madara/Obito and his Sharingan, which would be useful.
@Small Nerd found this… Kukri can create alternate/parallel universes tk trap people in them…
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"His true form is a mystery. Just who IS under that hood anyway?! KUKRI." - The King of Fighters XVKukri (ククリ; Abjad: كوكري) is a character from The King of Fighters series. He was introduced in The King of Fighters XIV as a mysterious hooded, fouled mouth man, although there is more to him than...
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Well hopefully the universe will have food if they'll be imprisoned for awhile.
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If this is allowed we can just teleport food at them(as long as is the same dimension of course) to keep them feed. Aside from that…yeah.
Man fighting games don't really have easy methods to restrain someone…
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Well hopefully Valentine would be willing to share any information on Last Hope, more specifically what they like, dislike and if they're allergic to anything.
Well it's mostly fighting against each other, and I'm sure the players wouldn't like the idea of a character restraining a opponent during a fight.
But at least it's not Mortal Kombat with the fatalities.
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There's a good amount of people in the station no matter what time of day it is. It's one end of a line between Canopolis and New Meridian, the MART, so it's one of the most-used stations in the city. It's something like the real-life Grand Central in New York City, if that's a useful comparison.
In terms of real-world time, you've got as much as you all need to have a vote and pick a winning plan. In terms of quest-world time, you've got maybe half an hour from the end of the most recent story post to the Last Hope getting to wherever Marie is by then. It might be less if Marie does something to close the gap herself. As for your ideas, if you went with Nine you'd have to pick exactly one of her spells to give Marie and that'd be all you got from her for the whole quest because Nine is way too busted otherwise, though imprisoning the Last Hope in another dimension would get them out of Marie's hair. I'll allow mind control from Dmitri or Eliza if you can find evidence that either one can do it in their home games. Giving me evidence of another fighting game vampire having mind control powers would also work, though I can't think of any off the top of my head.Okey not sure how much time we have so I have currently 2 ideas...both of them are not good at all I believe, but worth asking if they could work.
First one if giving Marie the abilitie from Nine of Blazblue to cast Magic, either to make prisons like phantom did to Rachel to restrain her in Continuum Shift II or if we need to get even more extreme, allow to use the Mind eater spell to mind control Last Hope...which I really wanna avoid but i'm a bit desesperate.
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Mind Eater (Opprimo Vinculum)
Another optiion is giving Marie either Dimittri (Darkstalkers) or Eliza (Tekken Revolution) vampire abilities, specially the vampire ability of mind controlling people for a time, its not exactly confirmed that threy posses it, but its generally common iof vampire in media to be able to do that, perhaps we could use it for Maire to have them forget everything they know about her/even that they found her and maybe erase the records or something like that. Heck maybe even help her to keep her informed of the other lab movements?
Demitri Maximoff
Demitri Maximoff (デミトリ・マキシモフ, Demitori makishimofu) is one of the main protagonists of the series, debuting in Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors akin to most of the franchise's characters. Demitri has been voiced in almost all his notable video game appearances by Nobuyuki Hiyama. In the English...Eliza
Eliza (エリザ, Eriza?) is a character in the Tekken series who was introduced in the free-to-play game Tekken Revolution after winning[2] a community poll made by Namco in 2013. Eliza made her first canonical appearance in Tekken 7: Fated Retribution as a DLC character in 2017. Eliza is a female...
I think im going to an extreme part jumping directly t mind control but not sure how much time do we have before fight starts.
We need an option that removes Last hope of the board without killing the, or at leasst make it really difficult for them to intertfere with Marie and notify the ithers that the skullgirl is around
I'll allow this, but it would be only storing people/objects in an empty world that no one but Marie can access. Creating an entire universe's worth of tools or materials etc whenever would be too powerful.
Oh, right. Let's say the Kukri World would be empty aside from food and water.
Yeah, fighting games mostly expect you to restrain your opponent by making zones of the screen hazardous to enter rather than actually preventing them from moving. And that's something Marie can already do pretty well thanks to her abilities as a Skullgirl.