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Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

"You killed the void shade that appeared last week, didn't you?"

"Oh yes, that was me." Tokiko snickered. "I couldn't have anything causing trouble while I was busy with Hex Night, so I made sure to thoroughly exterminate every shade and shadow in the neighborhood. This way, there won't be anything distracting me..." She pulled her hand out of her bag and stood up, now holding a taser. "... from wiping out you and everyone else who stands in my way!"

As she was talking, her Archetype continued to advance, driving the spear girl back towards Hikari. The spear came thrusting up again, but the creature simply swung one heavy arm and swatted the shaft, knocking her opponent's strike off course before stepping in and throwing a heavy punch. Even if she was just a servant, she seemed more than capable of keeping up with the magical girl in a close-range fight.

Tokiko, however, was looking past the ongoing battle. Looking at Hikari, or rather, at the winged creature that had just descended in front of her. Suddenly, she raised one hand and shouted at her Archetype. "Eve! Pull back!"

"Grrr...?" The monstergirl stopped her assault and sprung backwards, arms raised in a defensive stance. Tokiko, meanwhile, was now frowning in anger. "Damn it, fairy! Why'd you have to interfere?" Even if she'd been entirely confident in her victory before, the appearance of the feathered girl had her spooked.

@VitaVitaAR

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

"Skewer me?"

Tokiko cackled again, and wagged one finger in admonition. "So bold! But first, you'll have to get through her..." With that last word, she rapped one hand against the mechanical coffin beside her.

In response, something rumbled from within the device. With a great creaking and clattering, the coffin lid began to shift, and something squeezed out through the gap. Huge grey fingers, thick as drainpipes, then a massive muscular arm covered in bandages and scars. As it pushed free, the mighty limb shoved the rest of the lid out of the way...

...and a smiling girl popped out. She waved her hands menacingly. "Raaaar!"

"Behold, the ultimate weapon!" Tokiko was dancing with excitement, bouncing from one foot to the other. "Get her, Eve!"

"Graaa!" The creature stepped forwards, then suddenly stopped. She looked at the spear girl, then at Hikari, then back at the spear girl, and then turned to Tokiko with a confused expression on her face. "Grrr... gruuu?"

Tokiko groaned, and pointed at the spear girl. "THAT ONE, you incompetent ninny!"

"Oooooh..." The Archetype nodded, and then charged forwards at the spear-wielding magical girl, swiping out with one massive hand to knock the weapon aside. "RAAAAAH!"

Meanwhile, Tokiko crouched down, reaching out for her school backpack. It had been knocked aside by her transformation, but seemed mostly intact, and now she unzipped it and stuck one arm in, fumbling around through its unseen contents. "Needle... in that case..."

@VitaVitaAR

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

"Oh..."

Tokiko sounded almost disappointed at the revelation. Where she'd been angry, alight, excited and furious all at once, she now seemed to deflate. Her shoulders slumped, her arms dropped limply to her sides, and she let out a small sigh. "So... you didn't come for me, then."

That was a good thing, right? She could just leave now, right? If the annoying shorty was going to become a magical girl soon anyway, then attacking her now wouldn't technically be a breach of the rules, and there'd be no risk of magic being exposed to the wider world. Plus, the spear girl was right: less competition was a good thing for all of them. Logically, the best thing for Tokiko to do here would be to just carry on her way, go and meet RokuGun and leave these two to sort out their own business. She had no real reason to stay.

... so why won't my feet move?

Maybe it was the blow to her pride, the fact that an enemy had come not for her but for some random civilian who wasn't even a magical girl yet. Maybe it was her own eagerness, the ever-building anticipation for Hex Night that couldn't be held back any longer.

Or maybe it was what the spear girl had said, about putting Hikari in hospital. Isn't that... going a bit too far? In a fight between magical girls, it made sense to go all-out, because they could take it. Attacking an ordinary human, though? That wasn't a fight. That was bullying.

Tokiko's head slumped forwards, her hair dropping over her eyes. And she giggled.

"Eliminating the competition... then, aren't you pointing your spear in the wrong direction?"

The wind was starting to pick up. Tokiko reach up with one hand and pulled off her glasses, and now she was laughing out loud, a high staccato without rhythm or reason.

"Moron! Imbecile! Thick-headed simpleton! Do you not see?"

Light exploded out from within her body, surrounding her in a column of green-tinted lightning as her laughter rose to a maddened cackle. It spun around her, bright and furious, gradually coalescing into a series of solid forms. Black gloves wrapped tight around her hands, a pair of thin rectangular spectacles with thick steel frames that perched on the tip of her nose. A long white coat, flaring and flapping in the wake of her transformation. Last but not least, her archetype: not a wand, nor a spear, but a huge metal coffin taller than Tokiko herself, surrounded by wires and machinery that crackled with loose electricity.

"Your competition was right here all along, wretch!" Her face split with a grin that reached almost from ear to ear, and she jabbed a thumb in her own direction. "And you've fallen right into my hands! I'll eliminate you and your pitiful spear before the Hex Night even begins! HA! HA! AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

@VitaVitaAR

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

Why is she following me? Tokiko figured that most girls would have been scared off by her surly demeanor by now, but this one just kept getting more and more riled up. Even when Tokiko tried heading down an empty alleyway to throw her off, she kept on coming. The taller girl scrunched her face up in frustration. What would she have to say to get rid of this person?

"I'll call you whatever I damn well please, you tiny—"

She found herself stumbling forwards as something slammed into the wall behind her, hard enough to crack concrete. Her glasses clattered to the ground, and she yelped in alarm. The heck was that? Did someone shoot at us?

Someone was talking, but it wasn't Hikari. Some other girl, talking about competition... aha. The realization calmed Tokiko down, and as she snatched up her glasses and put them back on, her suspicions were confirmed. A magical girl! It made sense: there were likely to be scuffles ahead of the Hex Night itself, and as (in her own opinion) one of the stronger magical girls in the area, of course some of the competitors would want a chance to take Tokiko out early. Only question was how this one had found her...

Actually, wait. There was another question. "You!" Tokiko shouted at the girl with the spear. "You cretin! Don't you remember the rules?" She gestured vaguely in Hikari's direction. "She's a normie! A muggle! And we do not fight in front of people without magic!" She groaned, and slapped her forehead with one palm. "Look, I get the eagerness. But if you wanted a piece of me, couldn't you have waited until I was alone?"

@VitaVitaAR

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

Tokiko sighed and slouched as the little brunette started telling her off for her behavior. Freaking... normal people. With magical girls, at least you could just have a fight and work out your differences. With anyone else though, it was always talking, talking, and more useless talking, arguing in circles and getting nowhere. Such a pain.

Her phone buzzed in her pocket, and she took it out for a quick peek, ignoring Hikari's little rant. RokuGun had gotten back to her, and from the sound of it the meeting was a go. A cosplay cafe, though? Tokiko didn't hang around in places like that much. Still, it made sense as a place for them to meet in magical girl form, somewhere they could blend in pretty easily. Not that my magical girl costume looks like anything special...

It took her only a couple of seconds to tap out a reply. sounds good. meet u there in half an hour.

Then she raised her head, and looked Hikari in the eye. "Sorry, what was that? I'm not used to being lectured by grade schoolers."

Argh! Again with the anger, the insults. No matter how much she tried to live up to her ideal of a magical girl, everyone was just so freaking irritating! Gritting her teeth and turning on her heel, she started to walk away. "I have places to be, so just leave me alone!"

@VitaVitaAR@Iceborne

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

"Get back here!"

Tokiko stopped in her tracks, then pivoted around on her heel to scowl at the other girl. "What? I said sorry, okay! Do you have a problem with me or something?"

The words came out a little more harshly than she would have liked, probably thanks to how stressed-out she was today. It felt good to lash out, to snap at someone, but at the same time Tokiko was conscious of how hypocritical she was being. Magical girls were supposed to fight negative emotions, not create them! No matter how irritated she felt, she had to at least try and be a little nice.

She took a deep breath, scratching at her hair.

"Um. You're not... hurt or anything... right?"

@VitaVitaAR

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

It took a few minutes for Tokiko to make it out of school, once classes were dismissed and the halls flooded with students eager to get on with their day. Even after practically bolting from her homeroom, she was forced to shuffle slowly forwards behind a crowd of drooling ingrates who didn't seem to understand how to efficiently exit a building. She clenched her fists, she bit her tongue, she considered raising her voice to tell everyone how stupid they were—but no, that would only get her made fun of, and she was unpopular enough as it was. There was nothing she could do but stew in her own irritation.

Speaking of irritation, the delay meant she had little better to do but log back on and make sure everyone was playing nice in the MG chat. Sure enough, the new channel had exploded with messages almost right after her announcement, though most of it was just random one-liners and banter rather than serious discussion. Boring, but not worth banning anyone over...

Then something new popped up, and caught her eye. She squinted, tapping at the screen, then opened up a new window.

***Private Message TO User:[RokuGun]
FROM User:[MEGA_GENIUS]***

no rules saying teams arent allowed. just only one winner.

if you are who i think you are, we could work well together. wanna meet?

She hit SEND, then stared at it for a few seconds, waiting for a reply. The crowd before her was thinning out, and unconsciously she carried on walking forwards at a faster pace, shoving her way through the doors and into the bright sun outside.

Alas, fixated as she was on her screen, she didn't see the girl walking more slowly in front of her. At least, not until Tokiko crashed right into her from behind.

"Ngh!" She flinched back, quickly shoving her phone in her pocket, her posture defensive. "Hey, w-w-watch where you're going!" A flash of recognition crossed her features. She'd seen this one before... what was her name? Hikaru? Hikari?

"...sorry." she amended, then rushed past, embarrassed by the whole situation. Fuck, all this Hex Night stuff was getting her so worked up she was forgetting to pay attention to anything else.

@Iceborne@VitaVitaAR

Fate/esoterica

Kazamyr Silvestrov

Accept their alliance, or end this now?

Kazamyr chewed on one fingernail, thinking hard. Based on Rider's words, the Servant seemed confident he could end his opponent. To go all-out now could mean taking out an enemy early on... But on the other hand, escalating the battle here would mean unleashing Noble Phantasms. They still didn't know what Assassin's was, and using Rider's would almost certainly give away his identity to any observers. While Kazamyr doubted there were Masters in this war who could match his skill in crafting familiars, there were many ways to gather information, and the other pairings would almost certainly be out searching tonight.

Even then he might have made the sacrifice, but his words before had been honest. Assassin had been able to hold her own against Rider's physical abilities, and even if she might be weaker than most Servants, that speed of hers could be useful in going after enemy Masters. Ah, it would be satisfying to see her crushed... but imagine what we could do, working in concert!

The two crows circling above erupted into a series of harsh caws, that rained down from the night like laughter. One of them landed once more on the brim of Rider's shield. "I'm satisfied," it croaked, "I wouldn't want to push you too mush so early on. Besides, for a sneaking killer, this one seems strong!"

The other familiar alighted on a lamppost near the Assassin's Master. "Fine. We'll cooperate." It tilted its head to one side, balefully observing the young woman. "I know where Caster and her Master are. Shall we go and kill them? Or perhaps Lancer?"

@King Cosmos@KoL@Raineh Daze@VitaVitaAR

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

More serious note, I'm trying to think of what to do with Tomoe next. I had an idea that she's made a deal with someone else taking part in the Hex Night. Anyone willing to team up for a bit?

@Iceborne

I’d be down for that.

Mahou Shoujo no Hex Night: A Magical Girl Battle RP

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[MEGA_GENIUS]: sup dorks
[MEGA_GENIUS]: final day is dawning, so i figure id better address the elephant in the room
[MEGA_GENIUS]: Hex Night

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Honami Tokiko glanced up from her phone, checking to make sure the teacher wasn't watching. Technically, students weren't supposed to even have phones in class, let alone use them, and at this school the punishments were strict enough that most students actually went along with the rule. She'd already had one device confiscated earlier this year, and if she was caught again the fallback would inevitably be worse, thanks to it being a repeat offense.

But then, who goes through life without breaking a few rules from time to time?

Nimble fingers quietly tapped out another message, before slipping away under the desk as the teacher's head turned to survey the class. His eyes lingered on Tokiko for a moment, and she stared back with the usual dull, blank expression of a tired student until he finally moved on. Same old suspicious looks, same old boring facade. High school, the springtime of youth, the fountain of knowledge. High school, the prison of the young, the dullest freaking place on Earth.

It wasn't as if she was a delinquent or anything, but anyone would start to go mad getting cooped up in this place. She paid attention when she needed to, she got good grades, but still she had to sit around for hour after hour whilst the same information was hammered into her skull over and over again, well after it had already taken root. Mind-numbing, teeth-grinding, frustrating to the point where it made her feel like a pressure cooker about to blow its top off.

She wasn't the only one, either. There was so much negative emotion stuck around this place that she had to come around every other week under cover of night and purify the grounds of evil. Every time, she felt a little tempted to just knock the whole building down, but rules were rules. At least the thought of protecting the world from the forces of darkness gave her something to look forward to every day, and in the end, that was enough. She could get though the drudgery, so long as she had those bright moments to keep her going.

Today, though, she was especially antsy. Foot tapping quietly on the floor, fingers clutching tight at her phone, sometimes reaching up to adjust her glasses or scratch at her messy black hair. Her classmates probably thought she had lice, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Rather, her head was infested with ideas, with plans and schemes and imagined mechanisms, sparking and whirring with mad velocity as her anticipation steadily built.

At last, class was dismissed. Snatching up her backpack and rushing out the door before anyone had a chance to try and talk to her, Tokiko turned back to her phone, reviewing what she'd been about to write.

She'd started up the chatroom a few months back, with the idea that it could be used as a place for Magical Girls to make friends, blow off steam, talk a little about that side of their lives they so rarely got to share. She'd had a hard time finding any at first, but a couple of chance encounters had let to a couple of quick invites, and then those girls had invited their own acquaintances, and so on and so on. By now she had a small but thriving group of local Magical Girls regularly logging in, though she'd only met a few of them in person.

Now, though... well, she'd started this whole thing up with the assumption that everyone using it would be an ally. But for the next few weeks, at least, that would no longer be the case.

[MEGA_GENIUS]: okay so first up
[MEGA_GENIUS]: i'm not assigning roles for this
[MEGA_GENIUS]: if you want to tell everyone you're participating then go ahead, but given the nature of this event i figure some of you won't want the others to know
[MEGA_GENIUS]: whether or not you're participating, please refrain from discussing hex night stuff in the #GENERAL channel
[MEGA_GENIUS]: all hex night related discussion goes in the #HEX_NIGHT channel. anyone who breaks this rule gets a warning followed by a mute
[MEGA_GENIUS]: also, even if some of us are about to throw the fuck down in a giant magical wish war, let's keep it civil
[MEGA_GENIUS]: save the drama for the battlefield
[MEGA_GENIUS]: that's all for now. best of luck to all those participating
[MEGA_GENIUS]: (you're gonna need it)

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