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Yumiko Harada, The Moon Clever +2 | Quick +1 | Flashy +1 | Forceful +0 | Sneaky +3 | Careful +2 Fate points: 4/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: - Aspect: Exhausted! Yumiko gasped a bit when Seka dragged her around all of a sudden, but followed her lead nonetheless. They sat motionless in the janitor closet for what felt like an eternity. "What a day..." Yumiko whispered. "Can't believe we gotta hide in the make-out closet from... Whatever that is." After making sure the door was locked, Yumiko did her best to hide herself and Seka. The neon strips on her clothes gave a light fluorescent shine under the door, so she pressed herself into the corner to minimalize the exposure on her side and back, and she pulled Seka against her to block as much light from her front as well. Then, remembering this was a thing people did in movies, she clutched her hand around Seka's mouth to make sure she wouldn't make so much as a gasp. And then, they waited. Yumiko hoped whatever was out there would just walk past the closet. She made a mental note to check if the "quit" button was available on her app yet, as soon as the monster was gone. Overcome to Sneakily hide in the closet until the coast is clear: 4dF+3 = 6! (Rolled in Discord chat.)
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Shin Soichi, Strength Approaches Clever +1 | Quick +2 | Flashy +3 | Forceful +2 | Sneaky +1 | Careful +0 Fate points: 3/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: - Aspect: “Rat Fucker!” Shin shouts out as Rumiko becomes intimately familiar with the locker door. He’s already charging as the red creature manages to knock apart the closet door. Standing stock still, dumbfounded by whatever it did or didn’t find, gives Shin enough time to angle up perfectly. Leaping forward from just a few feet away, Shin turns his body so he is facing the behemoth. Sailing through the air with a furious grin, he angles his hand just right and wraps it around the bastards horn. His movement through the air and the force of his pull rips the beasts head to the side and away from the closet. Shin let’s go just before he loses all momentum while screaming “Dunked on Shithead!”, letting him land and roll a few feet away. Twirling as he gets up, he offers the monster the one finger salute of cocky assholes everywhere. “Come and get it!” Flashily Create and Advantage: "Dunked On!": 4dF+3 3
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Seka Kuroda Forceful +3 | Flashy +2 | Clever +2 | Quick +1 | Sneaky +1 | Careful 0 Fate Points: 2/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: 1[x] 2[x] 3[x] Aspects: None Are you afraid? What a dumb question to ask herself. She was terrified. She was going to die lying on the floor of a closet in a creepy demon world. Was it her asking the question? I was afraid too, once. I felt the fear one feels when there is no escape. But you have a chance. Death is not certain. Seka looked up, past Yumiko's pained expression, to her phone on the floor of the closet. It reflected back at her. She saw her face. Her (real?) face, clad in gold, eyes blind. A suggestion of wings and sunlight. Why don't we share our power? You who desires to fight for those who cannot, call upon me. She scrabbled out from under the door, crawling towards her phone. She was dimly aware of Yumiko doing the same besides her. I am thou. Thou art I. She reached her phone, picked it up. I am Icarus. Come with me and we will seize the sun in our hands. The word came unbidden to her lips, even as she brought her bruised fist down onto her screen and shattered the glass. "PERSONA!" A figure leapt from her phone screen in a whirl of gold feathers, metal clinking, sunlight. She didn't need words - she turned, now up on one knee, and pointed a shaking finger at the demon. Icarus filled the space, wind erupting from its wings like razorblades. (Flashily Attacking. 4dF - (bb+-) = 0, +2, +2 from Faked Out, +2 from the oni being DUNKED ON, spending 1FP to invoke the Tower due to the pretty dramatic change happening right now = +8. Rolled this in chat.) The Deleter fucked around with this message at 17:24 on May 18, 2017 |
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Yumiko Harada, The Moon Clever +2 | Quick +1 | Flashy +1 | Forceful +0 | Sneaky +3 | Careful +2 Fate points: 4/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: [X] [X] [X] Aspect: Exhausted! Yumiko lay on her stomach, feeling numb all over. Her head hurt, partially from the impact, partially from exhaustion, and her body refused to cooperate when she wanted it to stand up. This is it, she thought to herself. I'm empty. Done for. Batteries are nil. She resigned herself to her fate. Do not despair, my child. She gasped. Was this mom's voice? Was she here? No, that voice was nothing alike mom's. Yumiko had no idea why it reminded her of her mother. I can feel your heart ache. You know no help is coming, yet you refuse to leap into action. "I'm afraid," Yumiko whispered. Nevertheless, she picked herself up. Standing upright sounded daunting, but each motion individually was manageable enough. First, her right arm. Then, her left. Then, arch the hips, gently push. There we go. You are afraid of disappointing. But I wonder: who would be disappointed in you for leaping into action, even if you failed? Your friends in need, or yourself? Yumiko stared into the shards. Through them, she could see a divine woman, pale like porcelain and surrounded by stars in the obsidian blackness. Next to her, Seka roared thunderously, and a radiant figure rose from before her, striking the Oni with all its might. It seemed insufficient to vanquish the demon. Let the moonlight pierce the fogs of doubt! Gaze unto yourself, and recognize the strength that you hide. I am thou. Thou art I. Yumiko raised her right hand, and held her thumb and index finger in an L-shape, like a movie director looking for the perfect shot. In her left hand, she raised a shard of glass to her chest, clutching it like a precious jewel. She gauged the distance between herself and the Oni, using Shin and her fingers as points of reference. I am Ka-Ata-Quilla. Together, when the night is dark, and the people afraid, we shall grow like the moon and illuminate a path in the void. "Per... so... na." Yumiko broke the glass in her left hand. A woman wrapped in a cloak of darkness rose up before her, her hands cupped around a small, baseball-sized moon, which spun dangerously fast. The woman released it, and the moon coiled around Yumiko for several cycles, then shot forward like a bullet released from a sling. It struck the Oni in the head with such force that the moon shattered on impact and the shrapnel riddled the wall behind it with holes. Carefully Attacking the Oni with a Moon Shot (+2 careful stat, +2 to carefully attack to the last enemy to be attacked by an ally, +4 from the advantages) = 8! Rolled 0 in chat.
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Yo Kobayashi, The Hermit Approaches: Flashy +3 | Clever +2 | Sneaky +2 | Quick +1 | Careful +1 | Forceful +0 Fate Points: 3/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: - Aspects: None Alright, points of notice. 1) This is a world on the other side of the mirror. Judging by all the names of 'Cocoa Fat and Sugar Bar' and 'Fried Potato Slices in Salt' and 'Caffine' this was some sort of weird They Live shenanigans. Noted. 2) The way it seemed the clerk was reaching for something when he was suspicious of me says humans aren't entirely welcome here either, also noted. I'll play along with this charade for the moment because it's probably the only way I am going to avoid immediate trouble. 3) He's probably going to say nothing else unless I buy something. That isn't unnatural that's just human nature. Maybe this world is also a reflection of human nature too in some, weird ethereal way. "Yeah I could go for some 'Extra Caffeine', one second." He thought about getting out his wallet and paying with money, but he was not entirely certain his 'Yen' would be a good as their 'Yen', who knows it might be mirrored or something so he thought about reaching for his card instead and. It was already in his hand, just as he was thinking about it, just it was like it was there all along, ready to hand over. "Wow that's handy, I'll pay by card please." He said the clerk, handing it over. As his 'Extra Caffeine with added Vanilla Flavouring' was acquired, he decided to engage in questioning disguised as small talk. "Say, I've heard some weird crap about fleshies sort of tripping into our world on accident lately, but that can't be true right? Is that even possible?" TheNabster fucked around with this message at 18:52 on May 18, 2017 |
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Rumiko Tsubasa: The Empress Approaches: Forceful +3 Careful +2, Quick +2 Clever +1, Sneaky +1 Flashy 0 Fate Points: 2/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences - | Stress [][][X] Aspects: None Nothing. It did nothing. Rumiko's price was hurt, thought not quite as hurt as her forehead as she was slammed up against the lockers. Stupid. So stupid. She wasn't any kind of priest. Just some dumb girl from the country at the wrong place at the wrong time. She heard the crashing of the door, the screams of the girls inside. She was so useless. She leaned heavily up against the locker. Shin's voice interrupted her melancholy, delivering a hard smack on the demon, distracting her from the girls inside. It was distracted! She moved to go inside, figuring she'd have to carry at least one of the girls, considering what that... thing had done to them. "There's more comin'. We gotta get the heck outta... here." What the... Shogeton fucked around with this message at 21:08 on May 18, 2017 |
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Small Conveniences The hooded one gives you another weird look, before seemingly remembering something. "Falling in? gently caress no, that doesn't happen. Those meatbags on the other side got no idea about this place. Only time someone would know is when they get Snatched, and by then it's too late for them to tell anyone. But I mean, everyone knows about the Snatchers." He sighs. "Not that they show up very often, that's for sure..." The Educational System The Oni looks at Shin, enraged that something else has appeared and deigned to attack it. It raises up a fist to strike, when a tornado of cuts ensnares it, slicing at it viciously. This force, whatever it is, has most definitively hurt the creature, and hurt it to the point where it reels for a moment before snapping around to face its attacker again, ready to charge forward. Instead, it receives a cannonball to the face. A very loud and painful CRUNCH noise follows as its neck twists in a way it was clearly not meant to in order to allow the ball to pass, at which point the ball and its shrapnel crash into a locker, destroying the door and, likely, most of its contents. Speaking of contents, the demon itself seems to explode into a shower of sparks and small yen denominations. Seka and Yumiko's phones, seemingly repaired by an unseen force, now have a glass-backed phone case, showing the reflection of themselves they saw and summoned. The farmgirl's is cracked similarly to the other two's just a moment prior, as well. The explanation and discussion between the four people there would have to be brief, however, as, true to Rumiko's words, there is a sound of clambering hooves as, yet again, a bunch of green horse-like creatures crash down the stairs, very obviously agitated.
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Shin Soichi, Strength Approaches Clever +1 | Quick +2 | Flashy +3 | Forceful +2 | Sneaky +1 | Careful +0 Fate points: 3/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: - Aspect: The Oni shatters before Shin and a greedy little thought enters his head; all that money would be the equivalent of a shift or two at the fast food joint. His mum might be able to buy new clothes for the brats instead of repairing some old hand me downs… But that would have to wait. He rushes back up to the closet where the surviving pair and Rumiko are standing. “Are we all good? Like Rumiko said, we’ve got more on the way.” All three look winded, but they’re still standing. Shin almost doesn’t recognise the pair, but it soon become obvious enough; Yumiko and Seka from class. There isn’t any chance to catch up though as the clip clopping of the approaching horse monsters set’s everyone on edge. He wants to stop, make sure everyone is alright, maybe run and hide but the stark clarity that has saved many a game going bad returns to Shin like an old friend. Hiding won’t do any good right now. Looking around quickly, Shin spots a few of the more intact pieces of debris. He hefts it in one hand and gives it an experimental few swings; he’s never used a weapon before, so he doesn’t what good it might do, but it’s got to be better then using his fists, right? Well, he would soon. “Get ready, they’re nearly here.” Forcefully Create an Advantage; Going Clubbing: 4dF+2 3 Just to provide a little more oomph for Shin during the coming fight.
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Yumiko Harada, The Moon Clever +2 | Quick +1 | Flashy +1 | Forceful +0 | Sneaky +3 | Careful +2 Fate points: 4/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: [X] [X] [X] Aspect: Exhausted! "Seka-chan... What was that, just now?" Yumiko's hands trembled. She felt like something inside of her had broken... But nothing important. Quite the contrary: it felt as if a chain around her heart had snapped, and it could finally beat freely. She shook her head. These two uniformed strangers still needed to get out of here. And besides, she wasn't sure if their Icarus and Ka-Ata-Quilla were strong enough to take on a horde of enemies just yet. "We need to get out of here."
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Rumiko Tsubasa: The Empress Approaches: Forceful +3 Careful +2, Quick +2 Clever +1, Sneaky +1 Flashy 0 Fate Points: 2/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences - | Stress [][][X] Aspects: None The... beings that helped them vanish as soon as the mosnter... explodes into money? She sees Shin preparing to fight, Yumiko wanted to flee. Alright. Think. And don't try to think like a priestess, think like a farmgirl. Horses. What to do against angry horses. Can't just outrun them, don't just fight them. Spook 'em. She looks in the janitor's closet, rushing to grab one of the battle, looking for the tell-tale litlte warning-mark of a flame, as well as a book of matches. Her eyes can't help but notice a warning reading. 'Don't drink it unless you're trying to pussy out of life in a painful way, coward, in which case, bottom's up.' What the hell IS going on. She undoes the top and hurriedly pours a 'line' that would block the horses' way to them as well as she can. "Alright, get ready to run again, folks! I darn well hope these things don't like fire any more than real horses do" Quickly Create an advantadge: 4dF+2 0 Spend another Fate point for that reroll, applying Empress. Quickly Create an advantadge: 4dF+2 5 Create a 'Firewall' Advantage, and a free invoke of it? Shogeton fucked around with this message at 11:53 on May 19, 2017 |
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Seka Kuroda Forceful +3 | Flashy +2 | Clever +2 | Quick +1 | Sneaky +1 | Careful 0 Fate Points: 2/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: 1[x] 2[x] 3[x] Aspects: None "I dunno what that was..." Seka staggered out of the closet. "But that was loving AWESOME! Whooo, we rock, Yumiko-chan! Go us!" Her attempt at a Featherman-style victory pose was cut short by the arrival of a horde of horrible green horses. Uhm. Yeah, that was gonna be a problem. She considered summoning her... what had she even done to do that? She wasn't even sure how to repeat that summoning thing. yeah, running sounded good. She didn't recognize her potential rescuers at first - their costumes were way more covering and heavy than hers or Yumiko's. But when the masked girl spoke, with her accent... "Wait, you're the new girl! You- you only just got- What?" She doesn't spend too much time babbling about it - the horses are coming close and the new girl is setting up a rad fire. So, uh, time to jet. If this works. The Deleter fucked around with this message at 20:31 on May 20, 2017 |
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Yo Kobayashi, The Hermit Approaches: Flashy +3 | Clever +2 | Sneaky +2 | Quick +1 | Careful +1 | Forceful +0 Fate Points: 3/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: - Aspects: None Soooo, this isn't something they know about yet? So that removed the possibility of this was some sort of communal effort, if not even they know what's happening, with the additional somewhat concerning scruple of 'then who is responsible for this if not them?' That question got pushed aside by the second, and much more concerning revelation. "Snatchers? As in, Body Snatchers? As in, Invasion of The Body Snatchers that film from the 1950s remade in the 1970s where aliens steal away people with alien spores that make near-perfect but emotionless replicas of them to as part of larger invasion plot to infiltrate society with clones? Those kinds of Snatchers?"
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Yo Kobayashi, The Hermit Approaches: Flashy +3 | Clever +2 | Sneaky +2 | Quick +1 | Careful +1 | Forceful +0 Fate Points: 2/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: - Aspects: None It seems as Diplomacy continues to not be plausable here, and it's only a split second decision to get behind the counter top before the ball hit, but then he realised too late that his kitten had fallen out of his coat. "Tomo!" But it was too late. The bursting fireball hits the counter, shattering the glass surface and bursting. Tomo got caught in the blast Yo saw this happen right before his eyes. He did not want to believe what just happened, and he didn't believe what happened next. The cat got up, it turned yellow eyes to Yo, and started to talk with a very thick accent. "Oh good grief what are ye doing?" Yo just sort of blinked and went, 'Buh?' "You let this bawbag walk all over ye just like that? You got a hold of the mystery of a life time and ye gonna just let it go?" "What?" "Ye've known all along haven't yer, in yer heart. There's something ye couldn't put yer finger on even if ye had no words for it. Even when ye got a weird reputation for it, even when yer mother kept tellin' you to let it go until she gave up, and even when your brain was tellin' ye that you were chasin' shadows all day you didn't want to stop lookin'." "Because ye wanted somethin' anythin' to prove that yer Pappy didn't just up and die in an accident and leave ye all alone, didn't ya?" "No I... I..." He didn't know what felt worse honestly, the fact that this was being brought up during an incredibly high stress situation, or that it was being delivered to him by his cat. "But now that you know, what are you going to do with that knowledge? Because if you don't fight back right now and give this pile o' bones a righteous arse kicking, that truth is going to be lost to the ether." "The truth dies here if you don't start fightin' back! Repeat after me! I am thou, thou art I" A shakey hand reached across the floor and grasped the piece of glass that Tomo was floating over, he looked into it's reflection what he saw in it was... Handsome ain't I? My name is Cait Sith, Lord of the Cat Kingdom, trickster extraordinaire, devilish rogue, and together, we will find the truth in this world of shadows, and there can be no lies in the face of Truth! Say it with me! "Per... Sona" He cracked the glass with his fingers. And the effect was quite thunderous to say the least, a thousand volts of electricity shot up both cat and owner propelling them to their feet. The fire in their eyes pierced the skeleton in their combined gazes Yo pointed an accusatory finger. "You sir are an appalling store manager if this is your idea of customer service! You spilt my coffee, you almost killed my cat, and you are waving edged weapons near my face! Consider this a formal complaint to your manager!" The end of Yo's finger began to glow brightly as the energy built up, as well as the front paw of his Persona, lazily pointed in the same direction. Exactly how, why or what he was doing right now were questions he was considering, but they were lost somewhere amidst the indignant and righteous anger, there was one word on his mind however. "Kouga! You don't touch Yo's cat, the Skeleton is eating a Flashly Attacking Light spell to the face. Yo Kobayashi: @Yo (TheNabster): 4dF+3 = (+-+b)+3 = 4 Spoopy Skeleton: @Unknown Quantity/Akibear: 4dF-1 = (+++-)-1 = 1 That's a success with style to Kouga level. I won't make a boost though. The combined beams of light met in the middle between partners and target, and burst in bright lancing lines, skewering the opposing skeleton in bright and brilliant daylight.
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Small Conveniences Weak! The skeleton is lanced with light bright enough to create a flash for quite a ways off and is knocked to the ground. Obviously not destroyed, but definitely reeling enough to need to take a while to get back up. Meanwhile, with your cat seemingly transformed or being the proxy for a far more humanoid and talkative cat, it seems to have gotten over the whole "filled with glass" thing.
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Shin Soichi, Strength Approaches Clever +1 | Quick +2 | Flashy +3 | Forceful +2 | Sneaky +1 | Careful +0 Fate points: 3/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: - Aspect: The phone pings and Shin sags, breathing harshly and deeply in an attempt to catch his lost breath. A quick head counts shows all four made it out. “Well… what now?” He let’s out in ragged gasps, before memory strikes him. “poo poo! You remember that PA that went off? It said something about Miss Aizawa. Do you think she’s stuck in there to?”
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Seka Kuroda Forceful +3 | Flashy +2 | Clever +2 | Quick +1 | Sneaky +1 | Careful 0 Fate Points: 2/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: 1[x] 2[x] 3[x] Aspects: None The ping is also Seka's cue to stop running - safety is now at the push of a button. The adrenaline seizes her limbs. She trembles even as she bends over, hands on knees. Every breath is gulped down. There had been a brief moment, back in the closet, where she was certain as hell she was gonna die. All things considered, this was an improvement. When the tall guy speaks, it takes a moment for it to register. Something familiar... "Shin? You Shin Soichi, right?" She manages to raise her head to look at him. "Uh, thanks, man. We would've been dead if it weren't for you and Rumiko." Confusion flutters at the mention of Aizawa, but it rings a bell. Seka casts her mind back - oh, yeah. When they entered. That wasn't the kind of announcement you forgot. But then something occoured to her. "Woah, woah, hold up." She managed to stand. "How could she be stuck there? There's no way she's got the app too... right? I mean, we would've seen her in some... form. Besides..." She waved a hand at the school. "I think they're gonna be pissed we killed someone. Like... if they even register that? So we should probably not try and poke that wasp nest for a bit." The questions of 'Is this a game?' and 'What IS this? went unasked for now. "Can we just... leave? We might need to get our heads around this. I summoned a big gold winged guy from my phone. That's not normal."
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May 23, 2017 13:12
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Yumiko Harada, The Moon Clever +2 | Quick +1 | Flashy +1 | Forceful +0 | Sneaky +3 | Careful +2 Fate points: 4/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: [X] [X] [X] Aspect: Exhausted! The headache, the weirdness of this place, and the awakening of her persona caused Yumiko to tremble on her legs. Seeking her balance, she put one hand on Seka's shoulder and said to the group in general: "I just want to go home and sleep." She made a few steps towards the street, then fell to her knees in exhaustion. Before passing out, Yumiko managed to stammer out one final sentence: "Video games are stupid." She snored on the sidewalk.
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Rumiko Tsubasa: The Empress Approaches: Forceful +3 Careful +2, Quick +2 Clever +1, Sneaky +1 Flashy 0 Fate Points: 1/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences - | Stress [][][X] Aspects: None If Seka didn't grab her first, Rumiko would reach to grab her to prevent her from falling to the ground. She looked at Shin. "Might be. Might be she did the smart thing and got out of this world as soon as she could. We're not gonna be helping anyone by getting ourselves killed. If this things lets us go back, let's go back, see if we can do that, and what the blazes is goin' on here. We can see if Miss Aizawa is gone missing there, and then decide what we do." She looked at the other girl. "You ah... Harada-san, right? Can you try and take her with you first? Two of us will wait here in case she doesn't come along with you and see about wakin' her up if she needs to be conscious to bring her back. No guarantees what works and what doesn't with... whatever this is." She looked at her own cellphone.
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Shin Soichi, Strength Approaches Clever +1 | Quick +2 | Flashy +3 | Forceful +2 | Sneaky +1 | Careful +0 Fate points: 3/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: - Aspect: It's the smart plan, but Shin isn't to happy with the possibility of leaving someone stuck here. Still, there is little choice right now. "poo poo. Yeah okay. Smart play is to go. And Rumiko is right, we need to make sure Yumiko goes through first time. I can wait with Rumiko."
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May 24, 2017 12:20
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Yo Kobayashi, The Hermit Approaches: Flashy +3 | Clever +2 | Sneaky +2 | Quick +1 | Careful +1 | Forceful +0 Fate Points: 2/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: - Aspects: None That fight had gotten Yo pumped up, he was angry, he was filled with strange power, the attack seemed to work. He raised his hand to give the skeleton one more blast and. Stopped. "... Nah, nah I think not." He lowered his hand, Cait Sith looked at him quizzically. "I don't feel all that comfortable about killing another living person, even if he's very impolite." He turned back to the Skeleton. "Consider this a lesson in humility and not violently attacking people because they are human! Let's go." And with that he left the store, he didn't want to stay around in case any friends showed up to assist the storekeeper. He decided he'd try and make his way back to the school whilst he kept an eye out for anything else that would give him clues about this place. Questions about Tomo apparently transforming into a magical talking cat could wait until they weren't in immediate danger. TheNabster fucked around with this message at 07:13 on May 25, 2017 |
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Rumiko Tsubasa: The Empress Approaches: Forceful +3 Careful +2, Quick +2 Clever +1, Sneaky +1 Flashy 0 Fate Points: 1/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences - | Stress [][][X] Aspects: None Rumiko holds Yumiko for a bit, only to suddenly look up when a new figure approached, dressed in a raincoat approached and... was that cat floating or was she just seeing things now? Whatever the case, she alerted Shin in case he hadn't seen him, positioning herself between the newcomer and the unconscious classmate. "Who's there? You wanna step forward nice an' slowly, because we're all mighty twitchy with what's goin' on."
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Seka Kuroda Forceful +3 | Flashy +2 | Clever +2 | Quick +1 | Sneaky +1 | Careful 0 Fate Points: 2/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: 1[x] 2[x] 3[x] Aspects: None Seka takes up the duty of making sure Yumiko doesn't eat the sidewalk. Demon world sidewalk. She looks up at the newcomer and the floating cat thing that's overing next to them. Wait. Everyone she'd seen so far that wasn't a demon was a human was from their high school. So either this was a demon, or it was... Nah. That was crazy. Then again, she was in a demon world. Her hunch could be right. "You guys deal with this weirdo." She shuffles back, trying to put distance between herself and Rumiko. Nice of the new girl to throw herself"I'm getting Yumi outta here. We meet up at the fast food joint, okay?" Seka scrabbles for Yumiko's phone and mashes that "Quit" button.
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The Real World Seka and Yumiko get about five seconds of countdown as the app begins whirring and loading the exit sequence.  The grays and fluorescent lamps of the alternative world begin being replaced with more color, particularly the light of the sun that had gone missing up til then. Time has most certainly passed based on the position of the sun. It would seem that anyone who was still in the school is piling out, in light of a light sound of the school's fire alarm system. There's no real alarm to their gait, more like they chose to walk out given the annoying sound. Conversation passes by you. "Who'd pull the fire alarm after hours? That's a real lame time to try to pull a prank." "Doesn't matter, we were wrapping up our club meeting anyway. Besides, aren't you glad to be heading home earlier?" "Well yeah, but the ringing in my ears is going to take a bit to go down thanks to this. If someone gets caught for it they are gonna be in so much trouble." The alarm subsides within another minute, although before it does, you spot a familiar face awkwardly carrying their things and shuffling their way out of the building.  She doesn't pay anyone much mind as she seems to be hurrying towards the parking lot. Lacking a free hand, she fishes through her purse pocket with a single pinky finger, attempting to produce a ring of keys.
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Shin Soichi, Strength Approaches Clever +1 | Quick +2 | Flashy +3 | Forceful +2 | Sneaky +1 | Careful +0 Fate points: 3/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: - Aspect: With Seka and Yumiko back safely in the real world, only Shin, Rumiko and the stranger in the raincoat (floating cat accessory seemingly non-optional) are left outside the otherwordly high school. Rumiko is sensibly taking the cautious route, but Shin has always found you catch more flies with honey then vinegar. And it's not like the two of them together wouldn't be able to handle the new guy. There's been enough fighting for now so there's no sense not being friendly. “Yo, how you doing?” Shin begins nonchalantly even as he shifts himself to stand beside Rumiko, should the red raincoat guy turn out to not be friendly.
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Yo Kobayashi, The Hermit Approaches: Flashy +3 | Clever +2 | Sneaky +2 | Quick +1 | Careful +1 | Forceful +0 Fate Points: 2/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: - Aspects: None And on the short list of people he didn't expect to see today, friends! Well not really friends but people who are occasionally cordial with him and that's almost like a friend right? There was, Vanilla Princess and Trouble, and The Beast, and the New Girl from the Country. Friends were good, he wanted a friendly face. So he sauntered over, but the looks he was getting were quite unfriendly in response however, two of them were looking at him suspiciously, whilst Vanilla Princess and Trouble just up and left. The walk got a little less sauntery and a little more siddly, until he was a fairly comfortable distance away from the two remaining. The pause was awkward for everyone involved. “Yo, how you doing?” Oh good someone does recognize him! That's a relief. "I'm doing fine thanks, I wish people wouldn't threaten me with violence though." Yo took down the hood, it probably would help his case to these actual humans that he looked actually human. If they were human, he doesn't know if shape-shifting is in the purview of the shadows. "Like I met a shopkeeper and he told me a lot of cool stuff about this place and then he found out I was actually human and attacked me randomly! He spilled my coffee and almost killed my cat and then my cat became a magic cat... You are actually people in the game right I'm not talking to more shadows right?" He tried not to look like he was crazy when he said that, they looked almost like they had a similar experience that he had. Cait Sith deigned to look at the two for a moment, and then went back to grooming himself. "But... I got a lot of convenient plot exposition before that happened though, wanna hear it?" TheNabster fucked around with this message at 22:28 on May 26, 2017 |
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Rumiko Tsubasa: The Empress Approaches: Forceful +3 Careful +2, Quick +2 Clever +1, Sneaky +1 Flashy 0 Fate Points: 1/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences - | Stress [][][] Aspects: None "Oh, sorry about that. But we're all a bit high strung at the moment on account of... well, sounds like y'all had the same welcome." She peered around. "Now, I'm all for a good nice talk, but I'd rather do it out of... whatever this place is first. Is your timer almost ran down too? We should move out together. And I'm gonna a lot more at ease if I know the other two are safe and sound. Who knows what this darn program is doin'."
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Shin Soichi, Strength Approaches Clever +1 | Quick +2 | Flashy +3 | Forceful +2 | Sneaky +1 | Careful +0 Fate points: 3/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: - Aspect: Shin is initially shocked at how forward the stranger is, until he takes down his hood and reveals himself to be Yo. Ohhh. “I’m sure your… exposition is important, so we should wait just a little bit like Rumiko said. Just until we’re back with the others to save you telling your story twice, yeah? Speaking of, we should do it now if we can.” Shin finishes, before he starts to fiddle with his phone, trying to figure it out.
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Seka Kuroda Forceful +3 | Flashy +2 | Clever +2 | Quick +1 | Sneaky +1 | Careful 0 Fate Points: 2/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: 1[x] 2[x] 3[x] Aspects: None The real world! Relief floods through Seka as she finds herself back in the real world, with a non-demon school. Well, relatively speaking. At least she was out of the weird clothes now. Trying to prop Yumiko up, she takes a quick check of herself and her surroundings. All limbs still attached. Tired, but no wounds. Phone is - she quickly pulls her phone out of her pocket - intact. No golden weirdos jumping out of it. But the game screen was showing, and there was a little golden figure hovering above her avatar, alongside the blue figure above Yumiko. "Great," she mutters. So it was real, then. She wasn't going to pretend she'd had a hallucination or this was a prank. Better deal with it now. The game took her somewhere that was real. How real? That question is quickly answered as she hears the students chattering, and the fire alarm. She remembered Rumiko setting off the fire, and the realisation struck her like ice down her spine. Things in the demon world... affect the real world? Okay. In that case... well, she couldn't just go back and try poking around, or making up dumb poo poo she had no idea about.It might be possible stuff here affected that game world too. But she had no way to test that. And she had more important things going on. Yumiko wasn't going to be easy to drag - she should probably be brought around. And there was someone she could probably rely on! Also, she faintly remembered hearing Aizawa's name back in the demon world - maybe she could... try and see if there was a link? She was having a hard time getting her head straight on this. "Aizawa-sensei? Yumiko-chan's fainted!" She hopes her voice carries, and that Aizawa cares enough to help or isn't mad or oh god. "I could use some help!"
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The Real World Aizawa-san has just gotten their key into their hand when they hear someone call out to them. They flinch and freeze up for a moment before slowly craning their neck to look over at whoever it was that called to them while blindly attempting to insert the key. They fail to do so before spotting Seka, and sigh, seemingly with relief...Then they realize what you just said, and, rather than drop their bags, put each item down one at a time in a careful and neat order right by her car door before rushing over.  "O-oh no! What happened?" She whispers a "why today" to herself really quick before continuing. "Can her parents pick her up? I...Have another appointment to keep, so I can't really help you escort her to the school nurse, but..." The teacher takes another look at the front gate, and seems to see something that unnerves her. All Seka sees is just other faculty members. Aizawa-san's pace picks up. "But if you wanted to take her home or somewhere else safe, if you could please help me load her and my things into my car, I could drive you two there." Shin finds the Exit feature quickly enough. As with the others, the world shifts back into the one they're far more familiar with. School is likely another ten to fifteen minutes away from closing for the day, As they drift back into the sights of this world, one of the prominent ones is Aizawa-san gently carrying Yumiko into the passenger-side back seat of her car while Seka puts a series of bags and other supplies in the passenger-side front seat. immediately after putting her in and buckling the seatbelt, Aizawa-san zips to the other side of the car and retains a low posture as she slips into the driver's seat.
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Shin Soichi, Strength Approaches Clever +1 | Quick +2 | Flashy +3 | Forceful +2 | Sneaky +1 | Careful +0 Fate points: 3/3 | Boosts: - | Consequences: - | Stress: - Aspect: Shin blinks his eyes, and an unseen oppression leaves his body. Back home. It looks like Yumiko and Seka got back fine as well… was that Aizawa-san? Well, it looks like they were right, but then what was that PA message about. Shin almost runs over, before noticing how exposed he is. Maybe it's part of the app, but more likely it's pure luck three people popping into existence in front of the school hasn’t been noticed yet. In either case Shin's not about to draw any more attention to the spot when there’s still two more people to come. With a quick sidle over the left, he starts to move over. “Yo, everything alright here?”
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