Ariamis

March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

Alex, having used his clones as diversions with defensive capabilities, managed to keep the bottleneck up despite the horde of wendigos slowly restoring their numbers, their tails expertly used to slam and parry the claws and antlers of their adversaries. Though the duplicates fell before the quick attacks of the blue monsters, they prevented the monsters from attempting to bust through the barriers around them or spread out. When they got through to Alex, he succeeded in standing his ground even as an antler pierced his arm right from under his shoulder, having bought enough time for Lily to charge her spell.

”Take this!" Lily’s eyes glowed an intense yellow, and she held Ramuh’s bowstring fully drawn.

”Raisō!"

A loud boom rang out as the blue thunder spear, as large as a ballista bolt, was shot out as if from a railgun, piercing through the ranks of the wendigos. The monsters were blown away into ash by the intense energy of the projectile, leaving none behind.

”Alright, we got them all!" Lily cheered. However, her smile quickly changed into shock; it was only then that Lily had noticed the injury that Alex had taken.

”Alex, are you alright?" She asked, looking worried. The antler had disappeared alongside the wendigo it belonged to, causing the opened wound to trickle with blood.

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At the hospital, two wendigos rushed for Alicia with swift leaps, about to savage the Beacon archer, when they suddenly stopped in their tracks: they were slain by Sanngridr’s impaling spears that sprang up like deadly pillars right through their torsos, leaving their corpses to dangle in a macabre fashion. The one biting Aurelio was also struck; it was hit in its side, causing it to weaken its grip on Aurelio but not quite release it.

Alicia, however, chose not to accept the Valkyrie’s embrace, and dodged backwards…Right into the path of an impaling spear. The spear struck against Alicia’s lower back, but failed to pierce her; her Enhanced Outfit held firm, and saved her life. However, it dealt a critical blow that broke some of her ribs and caused her to cough up blood as she was knocked into the ground by the impact. Her body shook from the impact, but she managed to rise up to one knee and shoot a single arrow at the wendigo biting Aurelio; the Magician’s magic aimed for her, and pierced the monster’s frozen heart with burning light, rescuing him.

Aurelio, after a strike of his cane, used the emotion he got to quickly shoot out executing blades at the rest of the wendigos coming after them; he managed to decapitate one beast and cripple another, causing it to fall down. Then, having been freed from the jaws of the beast, attempted to protect himself from Sanngridr’s indiscriminate spell with a protective box of Determination. While it only slowed down the spear, it gave him just enough time to quickly move aside as the spear cracked through the box, scraping the side of his arm, making it look like a particularly insane form of an escape trick.

The remaining wendigo rose up quickly despite losing a limb, and set its sights on Sanngridr, seemingly finding the girl with the unfurled black wings particularly scrumptious. It rushed in to bite Sann’s black wing, causing black feathers to scatter as the beast painfully pulled and shook the delicate limb in an attempt to rip it off, but failing due to strength-sapping injuries it had incurred from various blades and arrows sticking out of it.

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At the industrial sector, Shane hatched a genius plan to contend with the crows. Using the Thunderbird’s agility to evade the pursuing birds, Shane used collected dust and debris to form a field to conduct electricity, followed by unleashing a spherical burst of electricity that enveloped the area. Crows screeched as they were zapped, causing a black rain of feathers to fall. Dina’s phoenix joined the fray, a majestic beast with wings of flame, and it further scorched the skies blotted black. Finn also provided relief with his own Beast magic, lessening the power of the magic that has been cast on the flying combatants, but without being able to completely negate it.

Some of the crows followed after Mariette, and eventually perched on the very building the eyepatched girl hid herself away in, cawing loudly enough for even her to hear. Despite her predicament, Mariette was still able to assist, shooting at wendigos in the industrial district with periodically opened portals. One of her beams of light successfully shot through a wendigo’s heart, scorching it with white-hot brilliance and turning it to ash. At one point a crow managed to block a portal’s view with its fluttering, causing a black feather to fly into the basement as she slapped the bird away with a tentacle, but otherwise she was able to survey the battlefield and provide support without harassment.

Down on the ground, as Roxanna, Oliver, Finn, and the Angel of Hope arrived, Dina made her stand, and activated the Ruler’s Menagerie. Like a banner was proudly raised up, the spell gave a bolstering effect to the fighters around her; wounds slowly closed, and skin hardened against the blows of the enemy. As the spell, now further empowered by the Angel of Hope adding her own Reinforcement to the mix, washed over Hanna and her friend, they too stood up, having found new courage. “Y-You’ll pay for Karen’s death!” Hanna screamed as she summoned her blades and joined the fight alongside the wolf spirit-wielding girl. “Let’s avenge Karen, Fubu!”
“Yeah!”

Ashlyn took a sure-footed, area-of-effect style of fighting, performing mighty blows in a 360-degree arc and incinerating three wendigos with flame-wreathed weapons. Monica also fared on her own, and split a wendigo in half with her axe, leaving the halves to smoulder away.
Belladonna continued keeping up the good fight despite taking a more defensive approach, and with Ashlyn covering her succeeded in destroying two wendigos. The three of them together formed a triangle of pain, giving the ravenous beasts no quarter and no chances to flank them.
Hannah and Fubu also joined forces, and took down a wendigo each; Hanna with her slick blade chakrams, and Fubu with her rending wolf spirit.

As the number of slayed wendigos kept climbing, the eight wendigos that previously wailed now stopped, and descended down from the rooftop to jump on the fighters below, joining their accursed brethren. Even so, the cursed crows continued to flock. Finn and Dina, having taken careful note of the curse that permeated through the air with their Beast magic, now realized that it was perpetuated by an altogether different entity, hidden inside the factory nearby.

In addition to thinning the number of malevolent crows, Finn utilized his own black-beaked friends to distract and harass the wendigo pack, drawing aggression from others as they snapped their jaws and swiped at them, mostly to no effect as the birds flew just out of reach. He also performed some close-range burning attacks, keeping himself safe from the wendigos around him and even crippled a wendigo, rendering it incapacitated as its legs burned away, leaving it to snap at ankles. Oliver got to work with his bombs and ammo, burning three wendigos (un)alive by exploiting their weakness. In response to possible retaliation, Roxanna provided a wall of clones, preventing the monsters from breaching through to attack AoH or Finn and Oliver. It was a combination attack beyond compare, merciless yet magnificent.

Mayra was initially not faring well, having suffered numerous wounds from the horde of wendigos she had dove into the midst of. However, once Dina and Angel of Hope granted their blessings, the Flame Demon found a second wind within her, and turned into a whirling inferno of kicks and punches. Her body nearly exploded with fiery energy as she shrugged off the biting monsters, now wailing in pain as the magma-like blood burnt on their cold jaws. True to her name, Mayra was like a devil, traversin across shadows like an apparition and striking away at the monsters before they realized she had escaped, before moving on to new targets once her foes had become donuts. As a result, a whopping six wendigos scattered into ash.

”Agh, they just keep coming!” Justine cursed as she contended with a couple of wendigos, spinning her spear to deflect a claw swipe and following it up with a stab through the monster’s chest. However, she then blinked, having hear Mariette’s voice.
”C-Caroline!?” She yelled, and turned away briefly, before giving on last look at the battlefield.
”I’m sorry, but I need to find her!” Then, upon white wings, flew away, letting the winds of fate carry her.
”Stay there, Caroline…I beg of you…”

The wendigos, despite their reinforcements, were losing, yet they still managed to get a few more hits in. A wendigo bit down on Ashlyn’s neck, finding its teeth shattered as the ogre-like monster girl’s hide had become thick and chewy. Another wendigo clamped down on Monica’s leg in an attempt to immobilize her as she slowed down, followed by another wendigo clawing at her back, but failing to wound her due to her magical protection. One wendigo attempted to slam it’s antlers against Belladonna, only to be kicked right in the skull, separating it from the monster’s shoulders. Two wendigos went to attack Hanna and Fubu, slashing Hanna in the stomach and biting Fubu’s hand, causing Fubu to grunt in pain as it attempted crushing it. The three final wendigos struck at Roxanna’s clones, destroying six of them with their claws and bites, with the remaining three managing to barely hold the line. The two wendigos that yet remained against Mayra got in a slash at her chest and a headbutt on her back, only to be swept away by a single slap of her tail.

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At the Penrose Bank, Caroline leaned her head to the side like a loose ragdoll as she looked at Connie, as if trying to read her expression through the mask she wore. She lazily nodded, a big grin on her face.
”Hello!” She greeted the timid girl back, and stepped even closer to her.
”Yes, Caroline’s Big Sis!” She answered. As she blinked, she then returned to a neutral expression, and…extended her tongue.

_”Blep.”

However, before she could continue, Miko interrupted Caroline. She turned her head to the side in an exaggerated fashion like an owl, without moving the rest of her body, and smiled brightly.
”So Big Sis is really here! Yay!”
She stopped leaning in Connie’s direction, and clapped her hands in an applaud as Mia further encouraged her.

”Okay! Caroline is going to look really hard, so Caroline will find Big Sis for sur-”

Suddenly, she froze, and her eyes darted to the newcomer who just arrived and slandered her. Her expression returned to a neutral one, like an alerted animal.

”Caroline…is ugly pig spit?” She asked with no emotion in her voice as her irises shrunk, a chilling contrast to the friendly demeanor she had shown just moments ago.
”Ugly pig spit?”, she whispered in repeat.
A creepy grin formed in the corner of her lip.
”Big sis…used to call Caroline pig spit. Big sis did all kinds of things to Caroline, like called Caroline names. Big sis gave so much pain…Caroline was happy, at home.”

She lowered her head, and her weapon appeared in her hand. It seemed to burn with even more intensity than against the wendigos. She raised her face enough for her lunatic red eyes to shine through the strands of her hair.

”You want to…play with Caroline…Like Big Sis? Caroline…Will play!”

She giggled maniacally, and with frightening speed dashed to Sakura, slashing wildly at her.

”It’s been so long since Caroline has got to play! Please forgive Caroline, Mother! Caroline wants sweet red! Lots of sweet red!” She screamed at the top of her lungs, as she continued running circles around Sakura, swinging her oversized weapon with great strength and unerring accuracy, forcing Sakura to block and knocking her across the street from the impact, managing to land upright.

March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

@AtomicNut Accepted. You may pick either sheet to use at start, but changing it after using one in the future will require the transformation to happen IC.

March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

@AtomicNut Accepted.

March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

Lily weaved through a combined attack by two wendigos, circling around Alex and shooting arrows at any of the monsters trying to approach him as he fought off the alpha. However, even she could barely manage to handle their numbers, having to contend with them herself. Alex then regrouped with her, having come up with a solution in the form of a bottleneck. She gave a thumbs up.

”Nice idea, Alex! Let’s see them get past this!"
She took a firm stance, drew her bow, and gathered her magical energy, manifesting as a ball of lightning at the tip of her arrow. As the wendigos scrambled in, she released a Barrage:

”Wrath of Adrammelech!"

She began shooting thunder arrows rapidly into the ball lightning, which in turn multiplied the shots as they passed, turning the bottleneck into a storm of electricity that wracked the wendigos. The blasts of lightning additionally ricocheted off Alex’ barriers. The monsters screeched as the they were rapidly zapped, eventually clogging the route with their incapacitated numbers. That was when Lily ended her Barrage, and began charging up her Killing Blow, her green hair crackling with electricity as she glowed brightly.

”Alex, keep them at bay for just a little longer!"

A few of the wendigos were not yet zapped, and Lily saw through the barrier how the one slain by Alex also rose back up. It joined its pack, climbing over with a snarling maw.

”I need to hit them so hard they won’t come back!"

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At the industrial sector, the battle had turned into a blazing one with Mayra’s explosive entrance; she delivered a fiery attack that exploded, launching the swarm of wendigos off of the winged monster girl just as Mariette created a portal under her, causing her to drop down to the Sanctuary. Mayra successfully destroyed three of the wendigos in the attack by striking their hearts with fire, and damaging six others, before the rest of the swarm assaulted her.

Deprived of their prey and with the taste of blood fresh in their fangs, the wendigos fiercely struck back despite their weakness against fire. Mayra fought valiantly, managing to strike one more wendigo through the heart before two wendigos headbutted her flanks, locking her in place with their antlers. She managed to swipe them away with her tail, but another wendigo managed to bite into her shoulder scales, ripping them off. Two other wendigos latched onto her tail, forcing her to recklessly swing and slam it around before they would release while slowing her down just enough for a wendigo to bit at her leg, and another to slash at her face, drawing three lines of blood on her cheek and over her nose. Despite the wounds she sustained, Mayra’s expertise in close-quarters combat paid off, as she managed to keep standing and not be pinned by the monsters, burning hotter from the intensity of the battle.

One of the wendigos that were slammed away crawled back up, only to be struck back down by a crimson spear that pierced its back. The monsters screeched and turned limp, having been drained of blood by Justine.

”Apologies, but I can’t sit idly by while these foul beasts yet draw cursed breath,” she spoke, and upon lifting her spear twirled it to parry the other wendigo’s claw swipe.

Meanwhile, Mariette set her sights on Hanna, who was about to be caught by the wendigos pursuing her at the circular rooftop of a factory building, having cut off her escape route.
“Get back!” She screamed, but the wendigos didn’t heed her words, growling as they sprinted up to her. Fortunately, the unlucky girl had two guardian angels watching over her from above; Mariette, who delivered bolts of light from above, and Shane, whose Thunderbird snatched one of the vile monster before blasting it with lightning that had frizzled its heart, seeping as ash out of the majestic mount’s talons like sand through fingers. Shane and his mount struck down thunderous retribution on the cannibals, giving time for Mariette to open a portal for Hanna. While the wendigos were distracted by one more turning into ash from a bolt of fury, Hanna jumped right in, too terrified of her plight to think of the consequences. She ended up dropping right next to the Sanctuary girls, who continued their battle against the wendigo horde.

When the wendigos saw their prey escape, and the two rescuers high above, they growled viciously. Then, they howled in unison, having formed a circle on the rooftop. As they kept howling, both Mariette and Shane saw Dina arrive on the back of a great eagle, when suddenly they felt something malignant in the air; cold winds picked up, like streaks of icy malice that dashed around them and carried the howls of the wendigos, shivering them like they were caught in a heavy rain of snow. Then, Mariette, with her Awareness heard it first; the sound of cawing that rapidly turned louder and louder until eventually they both saw the source of it.

A murder of crows, with soulless eyes and wings scattering black feathers, flew in to attack them, attempting to peck their eyes out. Even if they shot a few down, more would arrive from all around Penrose and the woods beyond, their endless cries ringing in their ears. To her horror, no matter how far Mariette escaped with her portals, birds flew after her in a frenzied flock, as if they were using her own Absolute Direction against her. Shane was also troubled, as the smaller birds easily overwhelmed the Thunderbird, causing it to shake in the air. Fortunately, Shane’s acrobatic mastery over riding animals ensured he wasn’t deterred by the turbulent flight.

The remaining monster girl who cried out after Hanna struggled before the wolf spirit she had conjured had dissipated, unable to bear the blows of the wendigos any longer. That was when Belladonna came to the rescue, proving herself even fiercer and sharper of claw than her adversaries as she cut down a wendigo and kicked another away, while only incurring a bite to the back of her neck that she shrugged off. Ashlyn, meanwhile, stayed to protect the newly-arrived Hanna, and Monica, who succeeded in enchanting their weapons with fire, enabling them to permanently slay the resurrecting beasts. Belladonna succeeded in destroying a wendigo, Ashlyn with two wendigos, and Monica another one with a swing of her axe. In return, the wendigos inflicted a headbutt that impaled one of Ashlyn’s lower arms and a slash on her back, a slash on Monica’s chest as well as a bite to her flank, and a bite of Belladonna’s tail, ripping some fur out.

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At the Sanctuary, Mariette had brought the winged monster girl to the middle of the street, where she was immediately found by one of the locals, and brought to the local equivalent of an infirmary or sickbay. However, by the time she got treated by the local healers, it was too late; the winged monster girl, having suffered countless grievous wounds and loss of blood, didn’t survive Mayra’s fiery blast.

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At the Penrose Bank, Mia called on the mighty forces of nature with her magic, and summoned amazing flora with the power to produce flame. The three fiery flowers surrounded the entrapped wendigos, and blasted them with the force of a wildfire, incinerating the beasts until only black ash remained. However, once the spell was cast, Mia felt her knees briefly turning weak; having called on such formidable magic was a costly affair, especially when invoked in a place as barren of the gift of life as in the cold, concrete streets of Penrose. Having been reduced to about a third of her mana reserves, Mia knew she had to be careful lest she transform back into her human form.

Ronin and Miko continued their 2v2 team match against the pair of wendigos. Their initial X-pattern didn’t confuse the wendigos, simple as they might be. However, their use of magic paid off, as both gust and guard were effective to grant them strikes against the enemy. The wendigo cut in the stomach dropped down in stance, now on the defensive as it kept its wounded area protected. The other wendigo managed to swing it’s antler just in time to prevent decapitation, cutting it off instead.

As a result, the beasts immediately ganged up on Ronin, having perceived her as the greater threat. They attempted to swipe and bite at her, managing to lightly shred one of her sleeves despite her evasive maneuvers. Left alone, Miko now had the opportunity to flank them, and delivered heavy blows that caused the two-antlered wendigo to slow down to a crawl. However, as they continued this dance, the two realized that the wendigos gradually regenerated, their wounds closing up shortly after being dealt. That was when Connie took her chance, and cast a nightmare spell against the slowed wendigo, catching it in the blast. The wendigo rolled around in mental agony like the ones she fought with Mia. However, the one-antlered wendigo, having kept close to Ronin, left Connie with no opportunity to safely launch her magic. However, it did distract the beast, who turned to Connie, hunger in its eyes.

But then, the dark gaze in its eyes suddenly dimmed, and it collapsed on the ground. It took only a glance at what had struck it to realize it was the work of a new arrival; a strange weapon resembling both a sword and a staff of fire was impaled through it’s back, and pierced it’s heart.

”Yay! Time to play!”

Ronin felt a cold shiver run through the entirety of her being, and into her very soul, when she heard a familiar voice greet her group from above. And as the girl landed on the street, her fears were confirmed;

It was Caroline von Visceral…And she had returned.

The vampire girl had a gleeful expression as it turned towards the other wendigo, howling in misery.

”Aww, that’s no fun! You should play with Caroline!”

The monster girl summoned her flame-wreathed weapon, and with a haphazard slash, bisected the large monster, once again having struck it in the heart as if by accident. However, Ronin and Miko could tell she didn’t hit either beast in their weak point accidentally, only making it look as if she did with her careless movements. When the monster scattered into ash, Caroline giggled.

”Whoo, that was fun! Caroline loves to play!”

Then, as if she had only then noticed the magical girls around her, she slowly turned to look at them, her body moving unnaturally like a puppet with a few cut strings. First, she looked at each girl with an unsettlingly happy expression, only for her gaze to finally linger on Connie; it seems she didn’t recognize Ronin or Miko.

”Hi! Wanna play with Caroline? Caroline just loves to play games!”
In her red eyes eyes, Connie could see a ravaged soul, numbed by madness.

She then put a finger to her lip, swinging her head back and forth with a whimsical expression.

”But Mother said Big Sis is nearby, and Caroline wants to find Big Sis. Can you tell Caroline where Big Sis is-sis-is?” She then whispered softly afterwards to nobody in particular: ”Big Sis is…”

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At the hospital, Alicia and Aurelio found a new ally in their midst…Or, at least a person willing to fight the wendigos instead of them at that moment. Sanngridr’s rain of blades successfully halted the initially rushing monsters, causing some to fall down and a couple to flee as the sharp constructs then shimmered, burning a couple of wendigos and outright destroying one with a blade lodged in it’s chest, causing it to dissolve into ash.

Aurelio drew forth the emotion of ravenous need for sustenance that the wendigos represented in their very essence, and applied that power, mixed with his indignation, as an enchantment to Alicia. The spell enabled her arrows, already capable of seeking foes, to do so with even more potency, with a hunger for their frozen hearts. However, as a side effect, Alicia felt her stomach slightly grumble, as if she had skipped a meal before heading out.

However, that wasn’t the last trick in the Magnificent’s show, as he then summoned a clone that channelled the power of Hunger into duplicating illusions of him and his allies. Six wendigos were initially confused by the trickery, and ran after the clones, snapping and clawing at empty air, or even at each other, as the illusions intentionally led them to attack each other. Two remaining wendigos were not fooled, and reached both Aurelio and Alicia.

Alicia took aim, and with arrows enchanted by Aurelio, managed to hit three wendigos in the heart with sunlight arrows, incinerating them from the inside with displays of shimmering sparkles. She also managed to hit two other wendigos, slowing them down with hits to their limbs. One of these was a wendigo heading straight for her, while another was in the crowd. The remaining wendigo, having reached Aurelio, snapped it’s jaws around his leg, immobilizing him as two more wendigos recovered from the illusions, and now rushed towards Alicia.

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At the Business District, the couple curled up with a scream as they saw the violet projectiles flying right at them, or rather at the wendigos that have gathered around the car. But then, they blinked as they saw Penny extend her long limbs to shield them from the brief specks of violet explosions. The car suffered a few dents from the attack, adding to the numerous collection the vehicle had suffered from the monsters’ attack. However, Penny then applied her Metal magic in a restorative fashion, smoothing out the sheets and even mending fractures and broken pieces back together. Even damage that was irrelevant to the incident, such as some rust on the underside or a wobbly exhaust pipe, was fixed.

Ka’ris struck the final nail in the wendigo pack’s coffin; what few monsters had managed to survive Penny’s onslaught were obliterated by the Gravity-manipulated crystal payload, the violet light having blown them up into ash. The remaining wendigos, subdued by MDP’s powerful yet pacifist magic, were then swiftly eliminated by Penny’s lightning.
Once the fighting was over, and Penny had turned away from the car to address both girls, the couple seemingly decided to take their chance and flee, turning sharply with their car and driving away as fast as they could. It wouldn’t be long before Penny was alerted by Snoopy, the drone having opened comms with Elora: “There’s a large group over at the industrial sector, coordinates attached,” she heard the cybermancer reporting in.

March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

The blue wendigos crashed into the wall Alexander created; the first one, who seemed to act as the pack alpha, broke its horns as it fell down in a heap. The others had slammed into the wall, also deterred by the obstacle, but by that point the wall had absorbed so much damage it cracked. However, they succeeded in drawing the attention of the monsters, who snarled as they turned towards the two of them.

Alex delivered death from above with his sword, slaying one of the fell beasts. Lily turned and skidded to a screeching halt before jumping off the bike, letting it crash wheels-first into the two wendigos at the front who were about to rush Alex.

”I oughta give you a ticket for speeding!" Lily yelled, and launched a volley of thunder arrows, managing to hit the two wendigos tripped by the motorcycle as well as the third one running in from behind them. However, even as the wendigos were paralyzed, they were stomped on by the remaining two wendigos, including the alpha with the broken antlers and a smaller one with antlers in the shape of a wreath. The alpha wendigo attacked one of Alex’ clones, destroying it with a feral chomp of its jaws before the clone managed to react before attempting to do the same to the real Alex, while the wreathed wendigo slammed the other clone out of its way in pursuit of Lily.

”Oh, you want more of this! Come and get it!"
Lily began to run on foot, accelerating herself to a fast enough speed to stay one step ahead of the swift monsters. That was when the paralyzed wendigos recovered, and started to run towards the side. Lily immediately realized their intent.

”They’re trying to flank us!"

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Justine nodded, managing to smile a bit from Maura’s maternal gesture.
”Oh, um…Thank you,” she responded, and sat down at the table.
When Maura brought up the types of appropriate meal, Justine shook her head.
”Anything’s fine with me, Mistress. Please don’t worry about it.”
For a moment, she silently ate the waffles that Maura prepared, and carefully wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, looking down at the plates.
”It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten properly like this,” she spoke softly, and stood up from the table.
”Thank you for the breakfast, Mistress. I’ll be, um, careful.”
After one last curtsy, she left, her mind wandering to memories of a past life. That sense of nostalgia only strengthened the conclusion she arrived at:

Caroline…You’re in Penrose, aren’t you?

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“Eat this, Beacon scu-AHH!”
The dark magical brought her blade high up, aiming to stab it right in the back of the hapless Beacon girl’s neck, when it was suddenly blasted right out of her hand by a beam of light, causing her to stumble backwards. The two monster girls were also startled, the winged girl having stepped backwards towards a pile of dead wendigos, lightly nudging a skull.
“H-Hey, what’s the big idea, you stupid-” She exclaimed, only to freeze as she saw the Beacon girl sink through the floor, passing through some kind of passage, followed by Mariette’s cool entrance; the eyepatched girl’s emotionless countenance seemed to intimidate the corrupted girls.
“Y-Your protection? Why would you protect them when-” the formerly stoic, now unsettled, monster girl protested, but the dark magical girl lifted a hand to silence her.

“Look, we’re just looking for some shelter. And based on the glims we read, we reckoned we’d go to the Sanctuary. S-So it’s fine, no big deal. We’ll just be on our way-”
Monica then asked about the hearts, and the winged girl leaned her head to the side with a quizzical expression. “What hearts? We just showed up when this lamphead stabbed the last one, and-”

She didn’t finish her sentence, as she suddenly tripped, having been bitten in the leg by a wendigo. And the moment she did, the entire pile of dead wendigos, at least twelve in number, swarmed her. She screamed horrifically as the monsters tore into her, having disappeared under a mass of beasts in a feeding frenzy.

Of course, those were not the only wendigos to rise from the dead, as the rest of the wendigos lifted themselves up. Monica, having expected the possibility of the wendigos resurrecting, was not surprised. The moment two wendigos pounced on her, she delivered a pre-emptive cleave of her burning axe, causing them to burst into flames as their frozen hearts were seared.
The sight of the flames caused the seven wendigos in the immediate vicinity to back off.
Belladonna was also not surprised thanks to her alertness, and clawed at the wendigo going after her, managing to knock the fiend away from her. The others in her group were surprised, and Ashlyn had to shrug off a wendigo biting her forearm, slamming it hard into the ground followed by shaking one that jumped on her back. A couple of wendigos even seemed to try and get Mariette by jumping up at her, but the eyepatched girl had ample Awareness of the noisy monsters to relocate herself out of the way.

The dark magical girl let out a blood-curdling scream, and ran away. “Hey, Hanna!” The stoic monster girl shouted, but was unable to follow as she fended off against five wendigos that quickly surrounded her, barely managing to keep them at bay with her summoned wolf spirit.
A pack of ten wendigos split off to chase after Hanna. Jumping up the industrial sector’s countless pipes and railings didn’t deter the beasts who climbed after her. The rest of the monsters stayed to attack the group, eight of them intending to feast on their bones while the rest were distracted with fresh meat.

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Ronin and Miko descended to the entrance of the Penrose Bank, their blades drawn. As they landed, after two glints of steel, they sheathed their blades. And the moment their hilts clicked, blood sprayed from the wounds of the wendigo as they were struck, staining the cracked glass doors of the building and shocking the civilians inside. The monsters, however, were hardy, and did not fall from the sneak attack. They turned their attention to the twins and rushed to attack them, giving the civilians their chance to escape.

The first wendigo, infuriated by the attack, swiped a claw at Ronin, who managed to deflect the blow with a skillful twist of her blade as part of her Martial Training, though it did cause her to stumble off-balance from the weight of the strike. Miko, on the other hand, had to contend with the other wendigo’s headbutt; she managed to avoid being impaled by the antlers with a sideways dodge, but as a result her red skirt was torn, scratching her through it.
The two realized that going one-on-one with the monsters could easily end poorly for them.

On the other end of the street, Mia’s Pea Shooters made their mark on three of the four charging wendigo, peppering them with narcoleptic spores that slowed them down and caused them to swing their heads, seemingly dizzy. The fourth one managed to avoid the shots, but ended up tripping thanks to Mia’s backup plan of vines that burst from the ground. They were then subjected to horrifying visions courtesy of Connie’s dominion over dark dreams of dread.
As a result, the wendigos were incapacitated, howling loudly in their sleep with ear-screeching tones while clawing and biting at anything they could reach; this included the concrete street, the lamp post, each other, or even themselves.

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Penny landed on the wendigo below her like a ten-ton weight, crushing the monster’s skull into fine dust. However, despite her dynamic entrance, the robotic rescuer knew the secret to the monsters, and with electricity fried the heart inside, causing the monster to twitch momentarily before it stopped moving, and dissolved into black ash.

The other wendigos turned their attention to Penny, and attempted rushing her, only to be hammered into submission by her additional appendages. At that moment, as Penny brutally eviscerated and cut apart the beasts without a change in her expression, she noticed how the passengers in the car had turned silent.

Meanwhile, at the convenience store, Magical Dream Princess unleashed her glittering, pastel-colored magic upon the wendigos eating frozen meats and chickens, and summoned simulacrums depicting anthropomorphized stylized hearts. Due to the lack of space within the tight aisles of the convenience store, the wendigos were unable to avoid being grabbed by the creatures, their immense strength fueled by MDP’s desire for peace and happiness. As they scrambled around like panicked animals, they were swiftly bonked in the head by yet another simulacrum, and thus were lulled to involuntary sleep.

As MDP brough the monsters outside, she saw Penny, covered in blood, as she performed electric executions on the maimed monsters with her spider-like extra limbs. She also that the passengers, having formerly screamed for their lives, were now shaking silentrly, in absolute terror at the robot girl before them.

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At the hospital, Aurelio and Alicia gallantly stepped in for the rescue. Aurelio’s red clone, while not particularly devastating with his detonating cane slams, quickly roused the ire of the beasts, who turned their attention on the clone and quickly destroyed it, but not before the clone gave them one last explosion, scattering them around the courtyard of the hospital. The green clone was more successful, the monsters having failed to break through thanks to the green barrier he had generated. But while the beasts were feral, they were not deaf, and turned to rush the taunting clone.

However, before he shared his red comrade’s fate, Alicia shot at them with her bolts of bright light; to her surprise, she managed to hit one of the monsters in the heart, and it collapsed in a pile of dark ash, its heart having been burned by the intense sunlight stored in her arrows. However, it was not enough to deter the rest of the pack, who descended on green aurelio and caused him to disappear next. The two Beacon fighters could feel the red eyes of the nine remaining wendigos on them, and realized they might be in over their heads.

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Sann, as usual, went to check on the dead drop, and found a letter there:
I’ve got a couple of new assignments for you. First off, I’ve recently hired some new muscle. Her name’s Coco, and she’s also known as the Sinner of Greed in Beacon’s books. Funny how many of them have appeared in Penrose, huh? I want you to keep tabs on her, see if she’s as legit as she claims to be, and report back to me. Wouldn’t mind if you dug up some dirt on her too. Whether you pose as a friend or foe to her to get the intelligence is up to you, as long as she doesn’t find out about this job. You can also earn a bonus by helping her complete her own gigs.

The second job involves a certain broad named Connie Williams. Find her, and give her a Black Coin alongside an offer for employment; we could use someone of her skills. If she vaccepts, guide her to Warehouse K. However, if she refuses, you are to take her to Valhalla instead.

Alongside the letter was a Black Coin. When she picked it up, the letter burst into flames, leaving no trace of her new assignments.

March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

@AtomicNut
Accepted.

March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

@AtomicNut

Hey, glad to see ya again. You can join in the first event if you'd like to.

March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

@twave
The Gifted Perk looks good as a defensive trap/alarm tool, accepted.

March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

@twave
The Gifted Perk needs a description of some kind, but otherwise the CS is accepted.

March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

Lily’s usually professional driving was momentarily disrupted by Alex’s concerns, causing her to wobble a bit before she corrected it.
”Well, yeah…The Beacon hasn’t made much noise, and neither has Mint or anybody else, really. I’m guessing the whole Mirror thing back in Dan’s place caused it…But it does seem a bit too easy." She passed by a couple of cars standing in diagonal spots at a red light, slipping by them using a sequence of 90-degree turns like a Tron lightcycle.
”I’ll ask Alicia about it. Maybe she knows some behind-the-scenes stuff. Anyway, there they are!"

Lily spotted the pack of wendigos out in the distance, though it seemed like a cluster of blurs at first; the bestial fiends glowed with blue light as they sprinted at speeds comparable to motor vehicles rather than normal animals, and seemed to be chasing a car.
”They’re after someone! I’ll drive us closer, so try to make a wall or something to block them!" With that said, Lily took a deep breath, and visibly glowed as electric energy circulated from her to the motorcycle, accelerating it to wind-howling speed. At the rate they were going, the street was soon going to split into left and right at an intersection.

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Rachel gave a simple nod as both Penny and Alicia agreed to fight the monsters. “If I must,” she answered sardonically. “Elora, contact Aurelio. Violette, prepare a team; we’re going to the bank area.” The cybermancer gave a small nod while in the midst of typing, and brought up the Beacon contact list to call Aurelio. “Aurelio, we have monsters sighted in Penrose central and surrounding sectors. Requesting for assistance.”
Violette saluted and left the room, while Rachel stayed to look at the map. “This number…is abnormal,” she mumbled.

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Penny appeared at a rooftop looking over Business Street, usually a bustling area where shops and offices were situated. Not far from her location, she saw the Covington Tower, standing as a central landmark to the district.
“Eight wendigos coming in,” she heard Elora speak to her through her comms once she established the link. And soon enough, she saw the pack of monsters rounding the corner, seemingly hunting for any humans they could find. However, three of them separated from the pack and busted into a convenience store, ripping and tearing into the food products there even as the remaining five continued moving along.

That was when MDP also arrived at the scene, having spotted the separation of the packs. The five-strong pack, having moved closer to MDP’s direction, now surrounded a car with a couple inside, scratching at the windows and tackling the vehicle, about to push it over. The both of them then heard a scream coming from the store: “Help! Police!”

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Alicia arrived at the hospital, and saw that at least 10 wendigos were in the area; seven of them were attacking the ambulances parked to the side of the building, clawing and tackling the vehicles in a frenzy. She heard someone screaming from inside the vehicle. The remaining three wendigos were at the entrance doors, trying to force their way through the barricaded door. On the other side, a group of civilians were holding the barricade down like in a zombie movie. “These are some goddamn mutated deers, not hoodlums!” She heard them screaming amidst shrieks of terror.

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“Alwright, finally some fresh meat!” Belladonna howled, and took point as the vanguard of Sanctuary headed to the site in the industrial sector. However, the scene they arrived at differed from what they expected; the disturbingly numerous pack of wendigos had been taken down, some even in pieces as they laid amidst the corpses of the Beacon patrol, having taken their civilian guises upon death. A quick glance counted at least thirty of the monsters. However, one Beacon girl still miraculously survived, lying on her stomach. Belladonna’s eyebrows were raised, however, when she realized it wasn’t a wendigo stomping on her…but a dark magical girl.

She was accompanied by two monster girls; one wore an eyepatch, while the other has gold-embroidered wings on her head and back.

The Beacon girl squirmed, blood trickling from her brow, as she seemed to try and free herself despite her wounded state, while the corrupted girls simply laughed at her misery.

“Serves you right, lamphead.”

“Doesn’t feel nice being curb stomped, right?” The gold-winged monster girl taunted, while the eyepatched girl simply looked on, until she glanced to look at the Sanctuary girls.

“Oh, hello there. Would you like to join us?” She asked calmly, to which the DMG simply scoffed as she summoned her bladed weapon. “Nah, I think we’re done here. I’ll just quickly kill her so we can continue looking for the Sanctuary.”

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Oliver and Finn arrived at the train station, where they saw Roxanna and four of her duplicates fighting four wendigos stalking the area. The monsters were tall and thin with spindly limbs, resembling trees from a distance, though as one came closer the animalistic abominations soon showed their true colors of undead-like fiends, with patches of fur clinging to them and atrophied muscles. Their emaciated, frozen bodies were topped by the antlered skull of a deer. They possessed red eyes that peer from shadowed eye sockets, and wide jaws filled with sharp canine teeth, giving them an eerie juxtaposition with the herbivore skulls. The monsters glowed red as their hunting instincts have been woken, no longer content with eating frozen chickens and other meat products as warm-blooded creatures caught their scent.

Despite their large size and malnourished appearance, they were swift, able to keep up with Roxanna’s adequate speed. Fortunately, they didn’t seem to possess the same swiftness that the blue wendigos at Central Street did. While three of them circled Roxanna, cautious of her ability to inflict lasting damage with fire, the fourth one scrambled after it was knocked down, ripping out what looked like a wooden stake from its body. It’s wound was still smoking from the burning that Roxanna caused when it roared in bestial fury, only to be silenced by Roxanna as she delivered a kick that shattered the monster’s skull, causing it to tumble down. She couldn’t tell if the monster’s heart had burned yet or not, however.

Meanwhile, two of the wendigos pounced at the clones, causing them to disappear in puffs of purple smoke as the wendigos bit and clawed at them, while the third wendigo attacked Roxanna. Roxanna managed to hold her own against the beast, dodging the downward slam of its claws and returned a karate chop that rattle the beast, but immediately realized she was in trouble; the wendigo snapped its jaws on her thigh, but failed to puncture her thanks to her Enhanced Outfit providing a solid defense. However, as a result, the dress wouldn’t tear, and she was held in place as the other two wendigos turned their attention on her, savage growls emanating from their hollow throats.

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Connie and Mia rushed to Penrose Bank, where they spotted six wendigos terrorizing the local civilians; two of them were at the doors to the bank, attempting to tackle through even as a bunch of people were pressing against it. They could hear someone scream as a woman fell back from the door, signaling that they wouldn’t be able to hold down the fort any longer. The other four wendigos were about to head to a butcher shop when they noticed the two magical girls; one of them howled like a demonic wolf, followed by the four monsters rushing to attack.

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As Coco was reading, she gradually began to feel a subtle, uncomfortable feeling, as if someone was watching her. Then, she turned and saw it; in dark corner, a black blotch emerged. The shape of it resembled a tall, broad-shouldered human wearing a brimmed hat. Next to it was the shorter shape of a young woman.

“Greetings, miss Coco. I have been expecting your arrival.”

She saw the corporeal mass of shadows step out of the dark corner, as if freeing himself from a tangled web made out of the abyss itself. As it did, it took a more defined shape. A woman with cold eyes stepped out of the darkness behind him; she lifted a hand, and the swirling darkness behind them closed, giving Coco the impression that the woman was the one who opened the portal in the first place.

The man smiled eerily.
“Welcome to Penrose. My name is Al Scarpe, the local representative of the Ebon Mint.”
A cigar extended from the depths of his sleeve, as if pulled along by an invisible thread, and he lit it with a golden lighter studded with tiny jewels. He paused his speech as he smoked the cigar.
“Now, what have we here…” he muttered afterwards, and slowly walked closer towards Coco.

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Justine, after she had made her preparations and dressed, stepped downstairs to have breakfast with Maura.
”Mistress…I saw that there were monsters attacks on Glimmr. I’ll…get rid of them,” she hesitantly spoke after she was finished eating. ”If that is fine with you.” However, Maura could tell that wasn’t the whole story, as if Justine was hiding something.