[center][h3][color=silver]The[/color] [color=0076a3]Would[/color]-[color=f26522]Be[/color] [color=8dc73f]Watchers[/color][/h3] [hider=Let's Keep Things Simple] [center] Kain: Untransformed: 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 Transformed: 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 25 Spec, Power: Metal | Killing Blow Perks: Healing Artifact | Gifted | Male | Familiar | Closure Benefits: Chatty | Well Connected | Mystical Might | Physical Prowess Drawbacks: Expendable | Cagey | Hostile Familiar: [url=https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/18b0b2b5-d892-4eac-b84f-4f48555a1898.png]Morrigan[/url], The Raven [/center] [center] Shion: Untransformed: 4 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 7 Transformed: 6 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 9 Spec, Power: Oddball - Magnetism | Duplication Perks: Enhanced Weapon | Martial Training | Money | Environmental Sealing | Fated Benefits: [s]Black Coin(?)[/s] | [s]Non-Exclusivity(?)[/s] | Chatty | Concerned | Mana Font Drawbacks: [s]Debt(?)[/s] | [s]Betrayal(?)[/s] | Isolated | Distracted[/center] [center] Makoto: Untransformed: 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 Transformed: 12 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 8 Spec, Power: Time, Gravity | Killing Blow Perks: Martial Training | Enhanced Transformation | Awareness | Big Damn Hero | Healing Artifact | Flexibility | Gifted | Enhanced Sustenance | Eternal Style Monstrous Form: Devourer, Nonstandard Limbs, Second Specialization, Redirected Magic Monstrous Perks: Prehensile Tail, Bestial, Lure, True Sight, Void Touched Benefits: Focused | Subtle | Hidden Death | Magical Overload Drawbacks: Alien Mind | Formless | Empty Pockets | Monstrous Form | Rival Force[/center] [center] Summer: Untransformed: 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 Transformed: 4 | 4 | 21 | 11 | 7 Spec, Power: Oddball - Fourth Wall | Regeneration Perks: Hammerspace Handbag | Sorcery: Divination | Inter-dimensional Home | Overcity Shift | Training: Programming | Fake Parents Benefits: Perfect Life | Spark | Physical Prowess Drawbacks: Vow: Generosity | Excommunication[/center] [/hider][/center] Summer turned to Aria and gave a slight wave. [color=8dc73f]"Nice to see you again, I'll be sure not to mind you, Aria."[/color] [color=f26522]"Oh, hey, Aria!"[/color] Makoto said with a much more enthusiastic wave, now that she knew who had entered the room. Cutting off her brother's soon to be asked question, Shion spoke up. [color=0076a3]"She's the one who made the mana collectors that- ... Wait a second."[/color] She began counting on her fingers for some reason unknown to the others. Just as greetings were finished, a new magical girl appeared on the screen. [color=8dc73f]"Damnit to hell..."[/color] Summer managed before the girl, Nefer, threw an artifact into the air and the screen went to static. [color=silver]"What just happened?"[/color] [color=8dc73f]"Some [i]bitch[/i] just cut off all scrying in that area. Which unfortunately means that we're clueless for the moment. Though I'd guess that she's giving the actually useful advice. Figures that the message wasn't understood. Which is fair, we had a low chance of that in the first place. Still..."[/color] Summer trailed off as she stared at nothing. [color=8dc73f]"Not [i]super[/i] someone we want to fight, so I guess we're SOL."[/color] [color=silver]"So now's the time to go there ourselves, ri-"[/color] [color=f26522]"[i]Better[/i] question,"[/color] Makoto interrupted, [color=f26522]"How is an artifact stopping your magic, whole-stop?"[/color] Summer muttered something under her breath before speaking up. [color=8dc73f]"I'll probably be able to figure out what was said later through context clues, but that's not exactly helpful at the moment. No point scrying over spilt milk."[/color] Shion groaned at the pun while Makoto grinned. [color=0076a3]"So what's our plan now?"[/color] Silence enveloped the room as those in it were at a loss of what to say. Tay, the Puchuu, was the one to break the silence after a few moments. "Let's be totally honest here. Do we need a plan? You three wasted so much magic on a pipe-dream, and everyone else has grown so powerful that you have no chance of victory against them. If you can't beat them, what help will you be to them?" The creature looked towards Kain. "You were impressive, in your heyday, but that time's long past. There's-" [color=silver]"Shut the hell up!"[/color] Kain shouted as he stood. [color=silver]"Who cares about that!? If we don't fight, people are going to die! Even if we don't make it, [i]we[/i] get to come back at some point! There's no telling what can tip the scales of a war, so don't act like we've already lost!"[/color] [color=0076a3]"Kain..."[/color] [color=f26522]"That's right! So what if we're outmatched? There's gotta be something we can do to help!"[/color] [color=8dc73f]"I hate to agree with the digimon reject, but he's right. How do I put this in terms you'll understand?"[/color] Summer thought for a moment. [color=8dc73f]"Okay, so. It's like we're in the UBW route, right?"[/color] [color=silver]"That's not a good sign."[/color] [color=8dc73f]"And we've just lost Archer and Saber to Caster. Except Shirou actually was in a [i]better[/i] position, because he was the main character. Or to put it another way,"[/color] She reached into her Hammerspace Bag and pulled out a large whiteboard and a few markers, making a childlike drawing of a blonde girl as a stick figure. She then wrote several letters next to her before moving to the other side of the whiteboard and drawing a grey, hulking figure in lifelike detail, next to which she wrote several other letters. [color=8dc73f]"Makoto and Shion are like... Rider. Good, really good, makes a human look like an ant, right?[/color] She then spun the whiteboard over to the blonde. [color=8dc73f]"Me and Kain, we're like Saber. Really durable and really lucky, respectively. A's in those stats."[/color] She then flipped back to the lifelike grey man. [color=8dc73f]"There's this chick out there, who... one sec."[/color] Summer grabbed the remote for the television and clicked a button, turning the screen from static to one that showed a vehicle crashing into a magical girl. [color=8dc73f]"This girl."[/color] she said as she went back to the whiteboard. [color=8dc73f]"She's like Berserker. A's in every stat. And they,"[/color] she gestured at the screen, [color=8dc73f]"are the [i]side characters[/i]. The 'ones who are more important in a different route.' Everyone has invested their magic in themselves, and we... We didn't do that."[/color] Summer trailed off. [color=8dc73f]"We have little to no chance if we have to fight her, and we probably won't even have to. [i]We[/i] will probably be fighting even stronger people, so-"[/color] [color=#C0C0C0]"[/color][color=#B9BDBF]W[/color][color=#B3BBBE]h[/color][color=#ADB8BD]o[/color] [color=#A1B4BB]g[/color][color=#9AB1BA]i[/color][color=#94AFB9]v[/color][color=#8EACB8]e[/color][color=#88AAB7]s[/color] [color=#7BA5B5]a[/color] [color=#6FA0B3]s[/color][color=#699EB2]h[/color][color=#639CB1]i[/color][color=#5C99B1]t[/color] [color=#5095AF]a[/color][color=#4A92AE]b[/color][color=#4490AD]o[/color][color=#3D8DAC]u[/color][color=#378BAB]t[/color] [color=#2B86A9]t[/color][color=#2584A8]h[/color][color=#1E81A7]a[/color][color=#187FA6]t[/color][color=#127DA5]![/color][color=#0C7AA4]?[/color][color=#0678A3]"[/color] The siblings in the room shouted, before looking at each other and nodding in approval. [color=silver]"We still have to try! Shirou didn't give up just because he fought a superior opponent, and I won't either!"[/color] [color=0076a3]"That's right. We have something to fight for, and that's more important than whatever stats you think we have."[/color] [color=f26522]"Heh. Sounds like you have your answer, Puchuu."[/color] Ko nodded as well, turning towards her [s]mentor[/s] [s]torturer[/s] [s]tutor[/s] [s]management[/s] fellow Puchuu. "That's right. The human heart is the most powerful thing there is. That's why we bet so much on it. That's why we reach out to them to fight the darkness of the worlds. Even if I don't fully get what they're talking about, even if I don't know what the source of their convictions is, and even if I don't really understand them, I believe in the power of the human spirit. As long as we don't give up, the battle isn't over. The fight doesn't end until someone gives up, and I know that they aren't going to do that anytime soon." The other Puchuu only sighed. "Couldn't you have at least sent a clone of yourself to the park in case of something like this?" Tay pointedly asked Shion. [color=0076a3]"Admittedly, that probably would have been a good idea. But it's not like I made a lot of friends in Penrose. I doubt they'd have taken kindly to it, or to my copy [i]streaming[/i] the conference on her phone."[/color] Morrigan spoke up. "I could go. I'm quite quick, we wouldn't miss too much of the conversation." [color=silver]"I don't want to risk your safety like that."[/color] Kain quickly replied. The raven girl hesitated a moment, but ultimately acquiesced to her partner's position. [color=8dc73f]"Besides, there's a good chance we've already missed something crucial. Might as well just stay on this channel."[/color] Summer said as the screen showed Mac rip off the bumper of the truck she was just hit by. [i][color=8dc73f]We are so screwed.[/color][/i]