Everybody wants that fire IC but nobody wants to GM it.
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If you're roleplaying with your only friends, you're roleplaying with your best friends.
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I think to sell someone on an interest check, it's really important to seem enthusiastic about your own idea. That means writing more than a single sentence to attract potential players.
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The virgin "My post was so bad it killed the RP!" VS the chad "My post was so good it concluded the RP."
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Bio
W I T H R I G H T E O U S H A N D S
Did you know that Dante's inferno is called a divine comedy because things work out for the protagonist? Back in the day, the only two genres were comedy and drama. The only difference was that in a comedy, the protagonist is better off at the end, and a drama is the opposite. So that's why a story about going through hell can still be considered a comedy, even if it's not funny.
Name:
Broken Promise, BP, Boss
Age:
Old enough to know better, too young to care. (that is to say 30's)
Preferred RPs:
I Prefer to make my own, but will occasionally join something if it looks interesting. I'll join just about anything so long as it isn’t overly edgy/sweet, though it's rare for me to do. I don't do 1x1s too often either.
Preferred Roles:
I tend to play adorable characters everyone wants to befriend or proper assholes everyone wants to stay away from. I try not to play moral paragons or prime evils.
RP Conquests:
I've completed quite a few RP's off site, but most of them are on private forums or have simply been lost to the ravages of server crashes. As for stuff here, I'm sure everyone who sees me post in the off topic sections has seen me find an excuse to talk about Danganronpa: Tower of Carnage. It's a project that took over 4 years to complete and I feel pride not only for myself but all the wonderful people who helped make it enjoyable during its run. Re: Zero: The High Council Is technically my first, but it was just something I kind of took over and ended up ending the story after just six months. It finished, but eh...
For some reason I can't seem to stay away from Ari's magical girl RP, even if I'm not sure why I'm still in it.
As for my own projects, I'm doing Symphony on High to continue the gigachad adventures of the espers in Pax Septimus.
RP Graveyard:
I've been pretty fortunate on this forum. I think I joined one when I first came on the site that didn't really do anything, and there are a few 1x1 things that didn't go anywhere. It's disappointing when an RP ends before it can be finished, but I've come to look at them as learning experiences.
And then there's that london magical girl RP, and that dark magical girl RP. I think I'm done joining magical girl RPs for a while.
Other interests:
Videos
I watch a lot of educational videos on youtube. Usually as research for something I’m writing or purely because a topic interests me. I like channels like Tier Zoo and Daryl Talks Games, and I’ll also watch things like Critical Drinker or Literature Devil to deepen my understanding of story telling. Though I also like memes and jokes, to which I’ll find myself watching stuff like Sseth, but usually find myself surfing through meme videos. I gotta work on that.
Games
I have a rather long history of playing virtually every platformer to come into existence during the indie boom, as well as quite a few other indie games. I’ve played Meatboy, Binding of Issac, Gunvolt, Cuphead, Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt, Classic Metroid, Warcraft 3, Final Fantasy 7,8, and 14, Left 4 Dead, Shantae, Celeste, Danganronpa, God Eater, the list goes on. What I’ve played is kind of all over the place. I don’t play many games these days, I tend to pick things that look interesting and go on a decent steam sale.
Painting Minis
I do this in moderation. Otherwise, it's a pretty expensive hobby to start...
Music
I listen to everything, save most country/rap songs. I have too many favorites to name.
Personality:
Not one to take life or the internet too seriously. Is only serious about writing well and having a good time.
STR: 23 | AGI: 23 | VIT: 23 | MAG: 23 | LCK: 23 STATS ARE A SCAM!
Ani had no idea what the queen was going on about. The words that she was spouting out would have taken too many tokens to process properly, something she was finding to happen more and more as she spent time in Penrose. In some ways, this was not the craziest thing to have happened. Even as far off objects were rendered into words and paper, it really just felt like more of what she expected.
Though something that the super sophisticated AI had not counted on, something that truly surprised her, was Alice coming to her for help. She couldn’t remember talking to this woman ever, or what made her think rocketing somewhere was safe or even plausible. But Ani immediately cast that idea out of her head when she remembered who was talking to her. This was Alicia Hayden. If she thought that a rocket was the best way to get somewhere, then there would be no more questions.
"Okay, I typically don’t do this for people under rank 3, but given the situation…" Because Alicia wasn’t missile shaped, she would not fit in her launcher. But the biggest rocket Ani had was part of her hammer. So she lowered the head of the hammer onto the rood and held the handle like a joystick. Because the hammer was made to be retardedly big, it was possible for Alicia and Ani to stand on it. She helped Alicia stand between herself and the hammer’s handle. This meant that Ani had to reach under Alicia’s arms. She assumed Alicia was going to shoot at something, but couldn’t be sure. All she wanted to know was if she could be rocketed somewhere, so that was what Ani was setting up. "There’s no seatbelt, so grab onto something if you think you might fly off!" There wasn’t a lot of room for Ani’s feet, and after thinking about it, the thrusters would likely blow out from under her feet. So she wrapped her legs around the haft of the hammer too, which also meant her legs were crossing over Alicia’s hips. She didn’t bother commenting on how awkward the arrangement was. This was probably business as usual for seasoned Alicia Hayden.
Fortunately, Ani didn’t need to pull a trigger to activate her hammer’s oversized thrusters. With a thought, the thing took off. While Alicia’s intent was never communicated, she needed to rescue the miko twins. Getting close to the miko twins should have put Alicia in close proximity to the queen as well.
"Come on everyone!" Chloe called to her skeletal minions.
But off the side of the building, where Lily and Marriete were falling (along with Dave in pursuit) a Gothizzar Harvester witnessed the group falling. Despite her earlier falling out with Lily, the bony minion seemed to understand they were an important part of securing victory. So he positioned his back where the duo might fall. The heap of bones and sinew that rested on its back wouldn’t make for the safest landing, but had a great deal more give than the concrete floor of the city.
"Mom! We gotta hit the boss!"
"You said that last round, honey."
— Su Fang & Mika Sarraf
Age: 50(?)/13 | Gender: Female/Female | Air | Uniform Fists | Focused assault, Power of Friendship, Dread wings, Avenger | Boteg Hammerspace handbag, Enhanced Transformation, Enhanced Outfit, Overcity Shift, Sorcery, Gifted, Ally(Mika) Focused, Subtle, Mana font, Mental link, Mystic might, Former Familiar | Limited, Alien mind, Paranoid, Vendetta, Former Familiar Dragon Scale Pendant, Ether staff
STR: 03 | AGI: 05 | VIT: 03 | MAG: 07 | LCK: 04
STR: 04 | AGI: 14 | VIT: 04 | MAG: 24 | LCK: 04
Age: 16/13 | Gender: Female/Female | Beast/Water | Skimpy Body | Tentacles | Dan Enhanced Outfit, Sorcery, Healing Artifact, Power artifact Dan stuff, Dan stuff Edgy Equips
STR: 05 | AGI: 05 | VIT: 04 | MAG: 06 | LCK: 04
STR: 09 | AGI: 08 | VIT: 08 | MAG: 09 | LCK: 04
Hitting the queen was becoming a lot riskier, especially with Alicia and Ani rushing into close range. Maybe Su would have done a double take if this was her first day in Penrose. She was pretty sure Alicia’s bow was more effective at range, but assumed there had to be a reason for her to want to get so close.
Rather than attack the queen, Su and Mika fired off their magic in a torrent. Water and wind swirling together behind Alicia and her taxi driver. The goal was to make a barrier that could protect them from friendly fire and, if they got close enough, assist Eli and Deni’s escape. Water and wind were flexible elements, and together they made a sort of amorphous blob that would turn into what it needed to when the time came.
Rika did not understand the layout of the ship, but even a broken clock was right twice a day. The seemingly ordinary chunk of wall broke and fell away, revealing the alien in question. Tim was seated in front of controls with the same inorganic design as the inside of the ship. His head moved, slowly, to look at the destructive little esper.
"I have studied your culture." He said with all the calm of a disappointed father trying to suppress his rage. "Do you know what I discovered?" He rose to his feet. "That your kind would rather lie than tell the truth, that you are happiest when you have more than you deserve, and more than everyone can share equally." He brandished his spear. "For centuries your kind have preyed upon each other, enslaved one another, either through contract, law, or subjugation through violence. Even with the mercy I’ve shown you thus far, violence is your answer to this dilemma." He chuckled darkly, even as the ship continued to turn sideways. "Fine by me!"
The wall of slime pushed out of the holes, sprawling a network of tentacles that stitched themselves together like a net. It began to get dark around Rika as the sunlight was filtering through thicker and thicker layers of slime, and Tim lunged out of his newly created opening and soared towards his opponent.
"Can we kill it now?"
— Mika Fang, Cerberus
Mika Fang Max MP: 30 Current MP: 24 - 2 = 22 Casting: [self] 0 + [transform] 2 = 2
The ground was only becoming more slanted, to the point where Mika had to dig her claws into the floor to prevent herself from sliding. Her eyes shifted to Marrie, who was trying to break up the cooled slime chunks into even smaller slime chunks. She raised an eyebrow, but would never really fault anyone for being cautious. Though given the look on her face, this was more something done out of frantic desperation than a cool head.
Nina’s goggles verified what she already knew. The ship glowed with arcane energy, and she needed to squint just to make looking into her goggles bearable. Her current setting couldn’t tell her if Luna was real or not, but she was giving off an arcane signature like she’d expect of an esper. It was hard to tell if the slime had an arcane signature or not with the ship glowing like the sun, but it was mild enough that Luna’s magic was able to register. She couldn’t see much more through her goggles.
Ashley’s vision was also flooded, but it was all information on her tactical goggles. Much of the information she already knew. It was a monster, it was weak to arcane damage sources, its soft body gave it a resistance to crushing-like attacks, it used tentacles to defend itself, but then the interesting bits came in. This creature was more than just lab equipment, it behaved as the ship’s central nervous system. While it was used to analyze and study subjects, damaging it too much would adversely affect the ship. Otherwise, it seemed like it had the ability to sap the mana out of whatever it touched, and was able to subdue targets by keeping them in a coma so long as it was allowed to enter their lungs, at which point it took over breathing for them. Care would need to be taken if it was killed outright, as its victims would risk suffocation if they weren’t extracted fast enough.
The creature spasmed, and began to grow. Or rather, draw itself in from other corners of the ship. Its color changed, the chamber trembled, and the tendrils in the hallway darted in behind the espers.
"We’ve kept it going for 12 weeks! Hooray!"
— Dan Daggernose
Dan ignored the jellywoman’s words, or at least he didn’t appear to react to them. As the incline of the ship got worse, he less ran and more slid towards his destination. Where that would be would soon reveal itself. After sliding a certain distance, he swung into a side chute that was just a bit narrower than the duct they had been in previously. It was very dark in here, but there was enough light to see the encroaching slimes. Though Dan wasn’t too worried about them.
Until he got to a particularly big mass. He stopped running and picked up the jelly woman and pointed her at the cyan growth that was growing out of control. "Hit it with your most powerful spell." He commanded her.
Meanwhile, the other two espers were left to contend with the slime queen. Jack wasn’t fairing well against the increasing incline, and the block attack nearly crushed her. However, Pekka was in a better position to attack. While the slime monster was only distracted for a moment, it was enough for the doll to land a blow on the slime queen’s other arm, and the added magical energy was enough to sever it. However, it wasn’t enough to kill it outright.
There was a lot less floating inside the slime queen now. She didn’t even really look like Penny anymore. Her arms were missing, and her head had elongated into an appendage to hold the massive cube. But now it was in close proximity to its attacker.
The slime monster opened up like a clam and swallowed Pekka. A green cylinder of slime now surrounded the doll. It’s body thickened, making controlling Pekka more difficult, but worse, its body twisted into itself. The strings that bound Nukkelina to Pekka were drawing her in, all while the slime monster prepared for a mighty blow. The massive cube was wrenched out from the hallway, and was being swung like a flail on top of the girl’s head.
Maybe if Rika knew how the ship worked, she could stop it. Maybe if she could cut into the ship, she could sever something important. But while the ship gave easily to her magic, it resisted her sword. The thing bounced off the hull without so much as denting the mysterious material.
"Uh…" Kidd looked to Rika, even as the ship continued to raise in a lopsided manner. "Can you cast a spell like that again? It did a number on the ship before. Your sword doesn’t seem to be doing that much."
Phoebe looked on. It wasn’t clear if it was fear, confusion, or just awe at what she was seeing, but she did nothing as the ship continued to take off. This was a precarious situation for a new esper to handle, and Kidd wasn’t of much help. At least, he had only managed to delay the inevitable with his hands.
The two were going higher and higher. The ground was starting to look pretty far away now. How high up were they? Twenty feet? Thirty feet? Falling was starting to look painful, then like it might net someone a trip to the hospital.
"Maybe one of us should climb inside? It doesn’t seem like any more of those slime things are coming out."
Above the hole where Kidd and Rika were hanging, a hologram of Tim was projected on the side of the ship.
"So that’s what’s stopping me from taking off?" He grumbled. "Release my ship, or I’ll use the less diplomatic option."
"Since when have you done something diplomatic?" Kidd yelled at the hologram.
"Fair enough."
Kidd and Rika could hear something thick and wet being squeezed down a narrow passage. Kidd hoisted himself up and looked down one of the holes that the espers had made in the side of the ship, and he could see a corridor filling ooze moving towards them. It kept growing tentacles to latch onto the walls, only for those tentacles to become overrun with more tentacles. It looked like it was made out of the same material as the slime.
"That could be a problem." Kidd looked down the other hole, and saw that a similar mass was climbing and growing its way out of that hole as well. "That could be a big problem. But I can handle it!" He pulled himself over the edge and disappeared into the hull of the ship, vanishing from sight.
"I'll be keeping a close eye on you, Titus."
— Mika Fang, Cerberus
Mika Fang Max MP: 30 Current MP: 24 - 2 = 22 Casting: [self] 0 + [transform] 2 = 2
The floor was tilting, and it wasn’t really good for anyone. Fortunately the rambling girl didn’t need Mika’s help and Ashley had wedged herself in a corner to prepare a shot. She was prepared to pounce on Marrie if she did anything weird, but she cast her magic on some tendrils. As to be expected, the shapeless entities were difficult to hold down with restraints, and the tentacles were able to remove themselves easily. But it was better that it was something ineffectual like that then another case of brainwashing where one of their own would be turned against them. Mika turned her claws into snakes. One bit into the frame of the door, and prevented Mika from sliding much further into the room. The other one she could use to defend herself and Ashley from the slime monster.
Nina’s ice beam changed the dynamics of the monster a bit, however. When it was cooled and sluggish, it had a much harder time resisting it’s restraints. This made sense, Mika reasoned. While a gel-like creature was shapeless and malleable, they tended to be less so when cooled sufficiently. Though Mika only had a moment to examine the effects of the ice beam before Ashley’s technolight projectile cleaved into the monster. Giant chunks of the creature fractured and broke apart.
There was only about half the creature left. Reaching the other door in the lab wouldn’t be an issue, but the espers would have to deal with what remained a bit more delicately. Freezing the creature and breaking it apart could harm the remaining espers. They still didn’t know what condition their friends were in. Was this slime keeping them incapacitated, or was it keeping them alive?
"11 sharks floating in space 11 sharks in space. Take one down, spin it around…"
— Dan Daggernose
While Dan was sulking (not very useful) The jellyfish girl (also not very useful) decided that now was the time to lie about some dolphin man that Marrie thought ‘was so much cooler than shark men.’ The farce was absurd, of course. Dolphin men tended to build their harems in interdimensional worlds where time passes as fast as a summer vacation. They were creatures of magic, not science. Though as absurd as the lie was, the jellyfish girl delivered the words without giving a hint to this fact. Though what was this about ‘not really knowing?’ Did she know this first hand, or was it just hearsay. Either way, Dan knew what he had to do.
"Well in that case, I’ve just gotta show her how much cooler us shark guys can be!"
Dan looked to the ceiling and, while the jellywoman was trying to steady herself, he jumped onto her head and sprung up towards the ceiling. A massive block had come down, and the slime that had entered from here certainly had to come from somewhere. This was something the former inhabitant of the ship seemed to understand, as he vanished from sight.
Nukkelina’s tactic worked like she had imagined, at least, up until her target started stretching. While Jack explained why it wouldn’t work, the slime maiden gave a live example. Her feet never left the ground, but her arm stretched up to meet the ceiling where Dan had disappeared to. Though Jack’s follow up ensured the opportunity wasn’t wasted. As the string’s magic gave out, Jack’s golden vines came in to continue the job.
While Jack was able to brace herself, the ground kept getting more tilted, and the high ground that the slime queen held kept getting higher. The creature allowed it’s slimy tendril to slip off of it’s makeshift glove, and it’s other hand swelled up. It enveloped the massive cube in it’s only remaining hand and slung it straight for Jack’s position. While the cube was far too large to fit inside the doorway normally, the massive piece of debris was slung at them fast enough that it caused the walls to deform. All the neatly stacked cubes that made up the wall were pushed away as the massive object was shoved into the corridor.
"Gray wash? Where I come from, we find time in our day to slay the gray."
— Isra Mahmud
Nanite on nanite combat was an interesting concept. Normally nanites are giant slayers, working most effectively against things that are many times their size. Against most machinery, Penny’s ‘gray wash’ nanites would inhibit and degrade the metallic adversary that they were designed for. As nanite constructs, there was more than enough material to kickstart their self replication. This was not the case when your opponent was also a nanite. Nanites were, after all, carefully constructed from highly specific components selected by a mad scientist, and these two nanites had entirely different jobs. Osiris’s nanites were all about arranging an impenetrable defence, while Penny’s nanites were designed to combat regeneration and erode machines. Had the strangely specific gray nanites gotten onto Osiris herself the story would be different. But they resisted Penny’s nanites attempts to assimilate them, much like Penelope Pussycat resisting the advances of Pepé Le Pew.
At least, that might have been what was going on. This was magical nanite combat after all, not that Osiris understood any of it anyway. What she knew was that she could create a modest sized shield that would protect her from virtually any attack.
"Cool." she noted. Not at her nanites being immune to the gray wash, but the light ring coming from Penny’s back. It was a good thing she wasn’t an xbox.
The Scorpion of Destruction however was not so fortunate. It’s metallic body, while also designed by a mad scientist, did not have a way to negate the effects of Penny’s nanites. While its compounds were incredibly pure and bereft of anything they could eat (minus any ambient mana they could feed on), it would stop the scorpion from regenerating. Though that hardly mattered when the thing hadn’t even been wounded yet.
But maybe that would change soon.
While Penny’s hammer swing was intercepted, it was not without its tricks. A sudden burst delivered a surge of acceleration. However, the hammer in question was held by two immensely strong engines of destruction. Neither Penny nor scorpion yielded. But the hammer was releasing tons of energy and needed a place to go. The Scorpion of Destruction refused to let its arms buckle even a little bit, and so it became part of the handle. Its pincers and torso locked in place, but its front legs were lifted off the ground. Then its middle legs were lifted row after row, until it was standing upright and had no recourse but to fall backwards.
Osiris was along for the ride as well. She was still holding onto Penny, and hadn’t attacked her yet because of all the engine wash generated by the hammer. Her swarm had formed a shield in front of her, and while the barrier held strong, the grey wash nanites were burned away by the tremendous power of the attack. Though this had an interesting effect on Penny, as her leg was being pulled behind the hammer, which almost put her in a superman pose.
The scorpion fell, but it wasn’t totally helpless. It did have its tail after all. The curved appendage allowed the scorpion to roll as it fell backwards instead of fall flat on its back. It was also able to alter the trajectory of its fall, but ultimately ended up on its back while Penny’s hammer detonated the ground in front of it. Chunks of asphalt and dirt blasted out in all directions, not just from the impact of the hammer, but the scorpion as well. As soon as they had landed, the scorpion righted itself without releasing the hammer. It was fortunate that the scorpion of destruction couldn’t feel vertigo, because an attack like that would have left most opponents reeling, even having avoided the attack itself.
But while Penny and the scorpion had come to a stop, Osiris hadn’t. The engine wash wasn’t on the shield anymore, and the Scorpion of Destruction was starting to use its own magic manipulation. If the Egyptian magical girl hadn’t braced for impact ahead of time, she wouldn’t have had time to do it now. Behind her shield, Osiris deployed her Mechanical Appendage Neo-Titanic Implementation System to create a pair of massive mantables. The white hot shield careened into Penny, and it would make holes to allow her newly created appendages to meet her target when it did.
"I’m so cool, boss."
— Oriko Ishii, Oros the Swift
Oriko had assumed that the trio would be harder to deal with than that. Yet a few swings of her blade was all it took to bring them down. Then again, that was only her expectation given that so many of their opponents were incredibly durable. Most of them were undead, or something more.
She slid her sword back into her sheath and landed beside a ruined car. The DJ rapped her knuckle on the door while looking under it. "Ready to come out now?"
Sure enough, a hand reached out from under the car and dragged itself out.
It was done sleeping.
— Oros the Savage
Savage was easily among the most durable of the Oros, second maybe to Wisdom. It was also rather cunning. Despite no longer having the ability to speak, it understood the plan they had all made together. Inventive’s nanites had crawled into its exposed head to act as a weak point, and Savage had the common sense to play dead as soon as they emitted that crack sound. It wasn’t a gambit without risk, of course. Savage’s phylatory was their weapon, and they had swung it at the triplets knowing that they wouldn’t have tried to shoot it off of her person. It was still a close one though. Without Inventive or Swift’s help, it likely would have been shot up and dissolved to the point where its connection to its phylatory would have been severed, bringing it to its eventual end.
The creature stood up, and its head had mended itself. The various anti-magic rounds had greatly slowed its regenerative abilities, to the point where it wouldn’t be in full fighting shape for a while. Savage let out a weary groan and stumbled forward.
"None of that now, we have more foes to dispatch." Swift placed her hand on her blade, ignoring the displeased look she was getting from the creature. "Assist me with my target."
Right. Madness was supposed to take care of that lot once she helped distract the trio, but it seemed like something hadn’t gone according to plan. Or rather, this was always part of Madness’s own plan that she had kept secret from everyone. The butterfly effect that caused was going to make the initial strategy obsolete rather quickly. But it didn’t matter. The goal was to deal with all the green skins and provide Overlord with some backup.
While Stampede Stacy’s cattle were running down a photon cannon, Swift and Savage moved in to attack. The nanites that had been instrumental to its survival flew off, but that was okay. Someone else likely needed them more than it did right now.
Swift could fly overhead, but Savage had been shot up, bloodied, and hit with enough anti-magic rounds to all but dispel any moth dust that remained on it. The photon cannon’s shot went high and would have cut the sky in half had Nykannis’s reality stabilizing barrier not been in place. Hopefully that wouldn’t hit anyone.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Savage bellowed and charged the three and a half undead. Meanwhile Swift poised herself for another unseen barrage of sword strikes. Once Savage was in range, she let her sword fly true.
While it was a simple matter to redirect paint away from her eyes and body, it was another matter to prevent the nanites themselves from becoming totally saturated in paint. While her skin remained dry and chemical free, the same could not be said about the metallic layer of nanites that had covered her body. Were Lada a miniature, mini painters would scream and holler at how Saw Blade Stacy was filling in all the details. The paint’s thick consistency wasn’t conductive for showing finer details, and even Inventive’s clothes seemed to disappear under the deluge of pink pigment.
"What?!"
Was the last thing that managed to bubble out of the paint before it set up completely. Lada was frozen in place, trapped inside a pink statue of a slime girl lounging on the grass. Though as peaceful as the statue looked, on the outside, the same couldn’t be said for inside the statue. It was claustrophobic, dark, and void of air to breathe. Despite the odds, Saw Blade Stacy had come out on top.
"I’m just a little guy, what am I doing here?"
— Amber Bianchi, Oros the Shrewd
While Amber was trying to beat this zombie girl, she wasn’t trying to piss her off. "Wait, we can fix this!" She reached into her backpack even as Stacy charged up her next attack. "I apologize for soaking you like that, but this is something I can fix!" The little woman rummaged around until she pulled out a blue box that was half the size of her chest. Of course her opponent was either choosing to ignore her or couldn’t hear over the sound of their attack powering up. "Gah!" With fear gripping her heart, she used the half opened box of detergent to block the incoming attack.
Normally, detergent wasn’t so combustible. It had replaced gasoline as a clothes cleaner for that very reason. But if you heat anything up enough it will burst. Heat was just energy, and Stacy’s super cool zappy zap was a metric ton of energy primed to release. A fiery explosion rocked the arena, and hurled the combatants away from each other. Even Shrewd’s backpack went flying through the air, with its wearer still tangled in its straps. It looked like the massive backpack was going to come down on top of Saw Blade Stacy.
"Heart be still!"
— Suki Oyama, Oros the Joyful
Needless to say, blasting the love of your life so hard with your nose bleed was not really an ideal way to start a first date. Though for Suki, her emotions were mixed. Part of her was happy that she had slathered the super cutie with her blood. She would undoubtedly be swooning for her before long. On the other, her nose bleed had shot her date one way and herself another. It was fine for the nurse to be slathered in her blood, but letting her get hurt because she hit the ground too hard was not cool. But where there was a crisis there was opportunity, and how badass would it be for Joy to swoop in and catch the super cutie before she got hurt? She could see it now, the silhouette of her own body holding the nurse against the backdrop of the battlefield. Their lips locked, bloody bodies embracing, just picturing it was getting her remaining blood to flush out of her nose.
Though pure desire, Joy managed to angle her head and get herself flying in the right direction. Unfortunately, single minded simpletons like herself were not known for paying attention in extremely hostile situations. And so when Grimoiric Hearts Stacy launched her double lightning strikes. Her body seized up, Joy’s body seemed to strobe and her skeleton was visible like an xray, Then the charred mass that used to be her body slammed into the ground and broke apart like charcoal. She didn’t have to worry about blood loss anymore.
Though this also meant that Wisdom’s sharkenbear clone was completely unimpeded, and was able to grab a hold of the girl’s arm and leg and attempt to pull her apart. Would her stitches hold?
"I’m not usually this mean, but if it means winning…."
— Mika, Oros the Wise
The witch had escaped, but the pennybot that she had traded places with did not fare so well. The ball of flesh in teeth collapsed as it put the finishing chomp on its victim. It belched out some metal fragments before joining Wisdom’s body again. OG Stacy it seemed would need more time to be chewed. Though Wisdom wasn’t really focused on that. Even Staceella falling asleep while Wisdom’s discordant voice droned on. The woman with a loudspeaker head continued to drone on.
"Of course it’s true, was it not obvious? All the eyerolls, the disappointed tone, all the shit you break that she has to fix in your absence. You couldn’t have been totally clueless." Wisdom scoffed. "Perhaps you really are that foolish. Ramona has been working overtime to send you off and you keep turning up like a bad penny. I imagine she must have been especially disheartened to see you back after you turned into a slime monster. That can’t be easy to clean off of the sofa, though I imagine your capacity to be annoying is even greater now. Are you sure you weren’t intentionally using her? She can’t see it any other way."
"You know what else tastes good?"
— Thalia Alvoy, Oros of Shock and Awe
Thalia’s brow twitched when Stacy slighted her. "Right." She fished an eyeball out of the tube by the optic nerve. It was massive when compared to a human eye, about twice the size of a gumball. "We can go for round two, sure. Thanks for letting me finish. I’ve been saving this one for a special occasion."
She stuck out her tongue and lowered the eyeball onto it. Then her tongue, slowly, curled around the morsel and pulled it into her mouth. Her lips closed and her jaw started to work. What had barely fit in her mouth had deflated in her mouth, but she continued to chew. "Mmmm!" She inhaled sharply, her grip on the bottle and sword tightened, her chest expanded.
Then she spit.
A spray of thick blood coated whatever was unfortunate enough to be in front of Thalia, which happened to be Stacy. Though as soon as she went to capitalize on her opening, the cockpit began rolling, and the two nigh-indestructable pilots were bouncing around the interior of the ship.
"Fuck you and this cursed gravity!"
"Pay no mind to the clone of the cone of the cone’s yandere GF."
— Davis Gallo, Oros the Conqueror
"We are finally free of that accused tower." Davis smiled at his false lover.
"We are finally free of that cursed tower, my love!" The robot cradled Davis with one of her many arms. "But I see we are merely inside yet another prison. What should we do?"
"Kill anything with green skin." Davis’s eyes locked onto Saw Blade Stacy. "Or that one."
"She looks like that girl you were dating before you met me. I’ll be sure to end her immediately."
Such a target was not worthy of facing oblivion at the hands of Infinite Mugen’s persona weapons. The robotic abomination scrambled up to Scylla while still cradling Davis. She hit the ship with her shoulder, and then used her many hands to start rolling it. The oval-ish shape didn’t roll the best, but with every spin it slowly deformed into a more desirable shape. As it rounded out, it became easier to push, and Alice moved faster.
Kidd was absent mindedly listening to Phoebe as he flung another ball of sinew and blood at their opponents. "Uh, I mean, probably?" He shrugged his shoulders. "But without the workshop manuel for the ship, I don’t think we’d even know what the engine looks like. I mean, what’s with this thing? It seems like everything is made out of black cubes and slime. Unless you saw something different on board?"
She hadn’t, of course. Other than some of the glowing light fixtures, everything had that low poly look like a dated arcade game.
The magical steel meteors closed in on a few targets, but the ship was suddenly rocked by two massive quakes. What they lacked in power they more than made up for in volume. An explosion around the hands swallowed up the well armed slime that had been firing on Rika, and another explosion of steel rocked the side of the ship. The cubic debris were reduced to splinters as well, which had to inhibit their ability to be used as weapons. What had looked like a hopeless skirmish just a few seconds ago was looking much more manageable. Rika’s spell had protected the hands, cut of the aliens from powerful reinforcements, and did significant damage to the hull of the ship.
Significant damage.
To the hull.
Of the ship.
"Hey!" Kidd pointed at Rika. "Who I want to love is none of your damn business! This certainly isn’t the place to bring up my ‘yaoi hand’ or whatever!" Then when the ship creaked, Kidd turned his head to look at his massive hands. "Oh dear…"
While the hands were no longer being attacked, the strange ship was breaking apart under them. Some of the hands tightened their grip, only for the ship to break free and leave them with a handful of giant metal cubes. Others still held on, And one side of the ship started to lift upwards.
"Not good!" Using his superior athletics, Kidd was able to jump onto the side of the ship. Though he didn’t weigh nearly enough to actually pull it back down. The ship wasn’t going to be getting away (yet) but anyone inside was likely going to lose their footing very soon…
"Where’s the engine? We gotta stop it!"
But even with all this going on, more slimes trickled out of the new holes made in the ship.
As it turned out, the giant ceiling fixture was moving just a little too fast for Mika and Jack to jump out of the way of. Yet neither of them were hit either, as they both seemed to phase through it and arrived at the other side. Mika looked at Jack and raised an eyebrow, amused that they both seemed to have the same power.
"Of course, leader." Mika returned her focus to Ashley. It made sense that she would be the best person to run ahead, but she had been making an effort to be more of a team player. She still remembered the fight against the weretigers in the casino where she openly mocked her superior officer. In truth, she still found monsters to be utterly disgusting creatures. And a slime version of an esper, even one that made it her mission to shelter monsters, was an aberration that she would have liked to have slain with her own hands. But there would always be time to kill monsters. Her other squadmates? Her superiors? Their time was fleeting and they needed rescue.
So she agreed with Ashley’s request, and ran ahead, expecting Jack to follow after them. The Slime Queen did not pursue Ashley or the others, and seemed to recognize that there were still many espers by the entrance of the ship. But then Jack saw about trying to stop the other mavericks and shark from advancing. Mika trusted the stranger, but it was anyone's guess if leaving her with a bunch of espers she seemed to be hostile towards was a smart idea.
"We’ll be okay." She wasn’t sure why she said that, other than to reassure herself. Ashley was put together enough to not need someone to baby her, and Nina seemed like the epitome of chilled out.
But the next face they saw was a friendly one, as Marrie came down the hallway. Though she looked a little determined and was futsing with some device in her hand. The door she was standing in front of opened and she walked inside.
"Huh."
Mika didn’t know Marrie that well. She knew Ashley knew her, she knew she was there when her mother died, but it wasn’t like they had ever spoke. Perhaps it was that curiosity that had her looking into the room where Marrie had gone.
…
Marrie wasn’t concerned with the people behind her. There was something far stranger before her.
The lab didn’t look that much different than anything else. Just more cubic instruments with a few glowing bricks here and there. The giant slime that was almost as big as the room itself? That would get anyone’s attention.
It had a nice cool, cyan shade. Though various espers and monsters were floating around inside of it. Marrie noticed Stacy, Mika and Ashley noticed Binky, and Nina noticed Luna. They seemed to be unconscious and floating inside the massive slime, unharmed. Was the slime drawing off their energy somehow, or had they been defeated and this was its way of preventing them from further retaliating? It wasn’t clear, and it didn’t really matter. It needed to be stopped.
The slime groaned. Some primordial screech that belonged to an apex predator from beyond the stars. It couldn’t move out of the room. It was a cylinder that stretched from the floor to the ceiling. But that didn’t stop it from growing many, many tendrils. The space around it was starting to fill up fast, but not before Marrie noticed another door inside the room. There had to be more people in there right? While there had to be two dozen espers inside the slime, more had to be deeper inside.
The slime stretched and contracted, and the ceiling outside the lab started to move. Tentacles were coming from the ceiling now, twisting and stretching their way towards the espers. Whatever they were facing, it had yet to sate its appetite.
"Is it too late for a Ben 10 reference?"
— Dan Daggernose
It only took a moment to cut dan free, and then he was up. Unfortunately, there had been a cave in ahead, and more unfortunately, it seemed like the lot of them were trapped with the slime queen. Though really, she looked more like a maid than a queen. A very menacing maid, but a maid none the less.
"Oh man!" Dan started to panic. "I can’t help Marrie from here! We’re trapped!"
But the other espers had cooler heads than Dan. Which was why they were able to react when the slimy entity stretched out its arms and pointed in two different directions. One of its fists were aimed at Jack, and the other one was aimed at Nukkelina. The metallic blocks in the Slime Queen’s body glowed before nets were fired in both of their directions. Jack's melody collided with a net, eviscerating it on her side. But the imposter queen wasn't done. She spun like a top. The centrifugal force caused her arms to stretch and curl in the air, until they were scraping the walls. Even if her nets missed their target, her fists would surely find anyone that stood still for too long. Yet the room was not perfectly smooth. There were small alcoves where one could take shelter if they needed to.
Yet.
The giant block that Slime Queen had slid at them earlier was still in the room, and one of her outstretched hands grabbed a hold of it. Was she going to throw it again?
The corners of Bionca’s lips curled into a smile as the scalie scampered away. "Suppose we’ll meet again before long." She said, but didn’t expect to be heard by the strange girl. Bionca stepped backwards into a bush and dropped the chicken leg before ducking out of sight. She wasn’t Rika’s concern anymore. At least, not for the moment.
"In the land of the confused espers, the bad idea traveler is THE GOAT!"
"Oh, you’re one of those helpful types." Book Kidd completely ignored the commotion happening on the closing ramp. Or at least it was closing until it got stuck on a naval mine. He turned to Rika as she approached. "Yea, I’ll give you better orders in a moment. Just let me finish with this girl now." He looked at Phobe and blinked. "Uh, you don’t look familiar. Anyway, I’m Book Kidd. Are you familiar with the lifestyle influencer taking the internet by storm? Book Man? Yea, he and I um, we work together."
Kidd stopped his introduction when Rika swung her sword at one of the slimes. It wasn’t very easy to cut, and every swing and thrust she delivered to the blobs just seemed to momentarily stun them and toss them about. Fortunately she was rather swift and could keep this up against several targets at once.
"We don’t really know what these things are, but they seem to be monsters, so they should be vulnerable to magic. Otherwise, just protect the hands that I’ve summoned to hold the craft down. It’s trying to escape, but some of the other espers might be trying to sabotage the engine as we speak. Or maybe they’re just trying to rescue everyone else. Or maybe they are going to fight the pilot of the ship. Or maybe they’re going to go to the bridge and commandeer the thing themselves. Or maybe they’re going to take the diplomatic option and try to talk down the aliens. Or maybe…"
The slimes were not going to stand by idly while Rika played whack a mole with them, it seemed. While some of them remained by the massive outstretched hands beneath the ship, others had slunk away. One rolled into the debris left behind by its dead companions and had even more bits floating around inside of it. They arranged the bits into even larger guns, and turned to Rika to begin firing. The larger weapon made for larger lasers, it seemed. Others were swiftly climbing the side of the ship to where the two giant slime turrets initially popped up.
"Well this isn’t too good." Book Kidd looked back up at Phobe, who was still parched on his outstretched hand. "So, do I need to put you on the ground? Are you going to ninja flip off my hand? I don’t mind holding you, I just think I could fight better with both hands. Unless you have a cool idea you want to try. Have you ever seen how they throw midgets? I mean, I’m not calling you a midget, I just think you could stick a stylish landing and-"
"I don’t care how big the room is, I CAST FIREBALL."
— Alice Mason
Alice Mason Max MP: 80 Current MP: 58 - 16 = 42 Casting: Self (0), Zone E (4), Dynamo E (0), If Self (1), Fervor (4), If Foe (1), Ignite (4), Damage (2) = 16
Sharr locked eyes with Alice. The newly released butterflies hovered at her side. They didn’t move like real ones. They were capable of hovering in place with a few flaps of their wings, and had an eerie blue glow that made them stand out against the darkness. Sharr watched her opponent for a few seconds, then went to yawn into her hand.
"Guess I’ll start." She shut the book. Though the soft thud of the book closing was muted out by the alien drones of several magically charged insects. There had to be at least 20 butterflies, and they shot off in all directions. Many of them simply swarmed around Sharr, but 5 flew along the left wall, and 5 more flew along the right. They curved as they approached the corners and seemed intent on colliding with Alice on either side.
Alice clicked her tongue, quickly opening fire on the incoming swarm. Before even so much as one butterfly could reach her, she herself and the space around her seemed to burst into flames. She had encased herself in a half-formed fireball, intending to scorch the little insects into ashes.
The air around Alice filled with fire. Any living creature would have been burned significantly, especially a tiny and ethereal thing like a butterfly. They caught fire, and the very heat in the swirling flames should have blackened their little wings. But it didn’t. The butterflies were behaving more like an instrument, or something with a powerful enchantment that would prevent it from being truly destroyed. At least, without knowing what the power source was. But Alice’s spell was not purely offensive in nature. As the butterflies took turns pummeling her with their tiny burning bodies, she rushed forward, turning her focus back to Sharr alone.
The butterfly wielding girl tipped her head and grinned. "What tenacity! This is going to be more fun than I anticipated!" She stood her ground and pointed her tome at the space between the two of them. Giant wings sprouted out of her back and started to beat. There was a breeze inside the ship now, and it was quickly ramping up to a storm as it slowed Alice’s advance. The wings beat faster and faster, before they made their largest and fastest sweep yet, threatening to throw Alice back into the waiting butterflies.
"Shit-!"
A second pair of limbs burst out from Alice’s back; perhaps similar to a certain spider girl’s, but golden and mechanical, the sharp ends shaped like clock hands. The limbs struck down into the floor of the ship, anchoring her against the windstorm. She continued juggling between firing at the few butterflies attacking her, and trying to shoot Sharr out of the air.
Mika, being herself, wasn’t too quick to speak up when Jack started laying into the spider woman. It was a little weird to see Jack turn so suddenly against Iris. She’d have assumed Jack was just an asshole, as there were plenty of those in Pax already. But the woman had been playful with her moments ago. Though if Mika had to make an educated guess, it sounded like someone Jack deeply respected was somewhere in the ship. Maybe a few months ago that would have been a sentiment Mika could have agreed with. When Jack looked to Mika for a comment, she shrugged her shoulders.
"A ghost smashed my mom between two cars." She stated as a matter of factly as possible. "People die to stupid things in this city all the time. But we can’t let that stop us, I guess."
Iris just listened to Jack with her arms folded, and wrinkled her nose before departing. That was, probably, the best way to handle this situation at present.
After Jack ordered her inside (She was going that way anyway) Mika brandished her claws and gave Ashley a nod. "Of course, leader." Then she joined the others in tearing through the slimy creatures. They weren’t the best at fighting, Their clubs weren’t really a match for Jack’s halberd, and Mika was swift enough to run them through with her fists without much issue. She didn’t like fighting with strangers, but her senses hadn't let her down yet. So far, Jack was performing admirably and hadn’t been outright hostile towards her. In the aftermath it was easy to tell which of the slimes were killed by who. Jack’s slimes were bisected, Mika’s had been reduced to little jelly cubes, and Ashley’s wand managed to melt them down into a puddle. Nina and Nukkelina hadn’t joined the fight yet. While Nina had bought everyone precious time, she needed a little help freeing her weapon, which was now trapped in the ramp. Her puppets had managed to get their strings wrapped around Nina’s chain too. Hopefully it will be sorted out soon.
But just as the last slime fell, a ceiling cube fell out of place. Mika was nearly squashed, but managed to hop out of the way before it landed on her. "Are we not done yet?" Though more peculiar than the cube itself was what was hiding on top of it: A giant blob of slime.
For its size, it was fast. But it didn’t attack the espers. Instead it hopped on the other side of the massive ceiling block, and took cover. It reached out for its companion’s components and wrenched them into itself. Ashley was able to snap off a quick wand shot at it, and managed to sever one of its tendrils. But it had acquired more than enough material for what it had planned.
A massive gauntlet made of black cubes pushed the larger ceiling cube out of the way, and the creature had revealed itself. Unlike the other slime creatures they had fought thus far, this one had decided to shape itself like a person. One that Mika was able to instantly identify,
"Oh." She brought her claws up. "I think that’s a copy of the Iron Queen."
Indeed, anyone who had seen Penny in the flesh would see the resemblance. The nigh indestructible black cubes were arranged to look like the android maid’s metal gauntlets. Her flesh was made up by the slime’s semi transparent body, which was a sickly shade of green. Strangely, the imposter esper was wearing clothes. Her black and white maid outfit could have been partially made from the same black cubes the rest of the ship was made out of, but the soft frills of her outfit did not appear to be made out of slime. Nor were the ribbons that she wore on her head and back. Regardless, there was something about this slime queen that felt off.
"What a waste of time." Mika looked back at Ashley. "Someone needs to run ahead."
The slime queen didn’t wait for the espers to hatch a plan. The block that she had pulled out of the way wasn’t to merely reveal herself, but a wind up. She shoved the brick at Mika, and Jack, which threatened to crush them up against the wall. She then dove for Ashley’s position. Her fists were stretched out, and she fired a hard light net at Gemini’s squad leader.
"Danny Number 9! Bet that’s not a touhou reference!"
— Dan Daggernose
Dam immediately ran into the portal. For now he ran to the nearest door and placed his hand on it.
"What the" He rubbed the back of his head. "Ah, yea, can’t go through there. It would be a pretty big mistake if we did." But dan didn’t elaborate on why. "I guess the best thing for us to do is- AH!" A stray net from the slime esper in the other room wrapped around Dan. "Ah! Grah!" He bit into it with his teeth. "If I know Tim, he’ll be hiding some of you guys down the yellow hall. First door on your right. Hngh!" He wrestled inside his restraints. "That’s where the lab is. I might be able to get you inside, but we need to make it there first. Boy this is tight!"
"Okay Zoomer."
— Tim Tendril Termitidae
"Everyone has their limits, eh?" Tim scoffed. "I wonder if it’s truly a desire to help if you’re so selective about how you want to go about doing it." He looked to destroyed monolith, the former causality distortion engine. Or whatever he had called it. He stared at the broken mess for a bit, then spoke. "Regardless, you don’t need to be a ‘mother’ to help me. Hngh, this would have been a lot easier if Dan had been more cooperative." He approached a wall and slid something out of it. Then he marched back up to Marrie and knelt beside her. That put him at the perfect height to place a rectangular shape in her hand. It was black like everything else, but it was interesting in that it appeared to be made out of just two shapes. There was a vial-length body, and a tiny button-like cube the size of a dice on top. "This will allow you to open some of the doors on the ship. Use it to gain access to the lab room down the hall. Both the left and right doors have some of the espers that I’ve abducted. It will not be everyone, however. If you encounter any other espers, it is important that you convince them to leave the ship. Tell them they escaped already or something. Tell them you were able to defeat me and get that key. Tell them whatever you need to. Whatever you do, don’t let them access this door." He pointed to the northernmost door on this floor of the ship. "Do that, and everyone gets to be a hero. You get to rescue most of the espers, and my people don’t die here." Tim didn’t wait for a response before leaving Marrie. He left the room and its monolith through a door beside the one he instructed her not to let the other espers into.
STR: 23 | AGI: 23 | VIT: 23 | MAG: 23 | LCK: 23 STATS ARE A SCAM!
Chicken Ultra Crushing Mega fished Ani out of the portal and placed her on the ground. The magical AI rolled her shoulders, mostly to straighten out her clothes after she had been hoisted up by the giant chicken. "Thanks! I owe you one!" she said in her cutest tone. Though she was a little unsure why she had been rescued by Chicken Ultra Crushing Mega of all things. She wasn’t Mac after all, but maybe this oversized bird saw something in her that reminded it of Mac. But much like chat GPT when it’s been fed too many prompts in one session, her mind move away from that when she saw what was presently going on. The queen had been baffled, and a swift followup might harm her before things get too out of hand.
With all the arrows flying the queen’s way, adding a rocket to the mix wouldn’t hurt. And so, an XXL rocket flew out of Ani’s cannon and cruised towards the queen.
With the cracking of the world and the opening of one reality into infinite others, it seemed that reality was bending again. Chloe blinked, and Penny was gone.
"Well okay then…" She scrambled up to the roof with her minions in tow. "There she is, now let’s give her a good one!"
Chloe cast out her hand, and several of the ossiarch warped together into a giant bone boulder. Maleficent soul energy seeped out of it in the form of green specters. But everyone would only have a moment to observe it before it hurtled towards its target.
"mom! We gotta hit the boss!"
"Oh is the fight starting now?"
— Su Fang & Mika Sarraf
Age: 50(?)/13 | Gender: Female/Female | Air | Uniform Fists | Focused assault, Power of Friendship, Dread wings, Avenger | Boteg Hammerspace handbag, Enhanced Transformation, Enhanced Outfit, Overcity Shift, Sorcery, Gifted, Ally(Mika) Focused, Subtle, Mana font, Mental link, Mystic might, Former Familiar | Limited, Alien mind, Paranoid, Vendetta, Former Familiar Dragon Scale Pendant, Ether staff
STR: 03 | AGI: 05 | VIT: 03 | MAG: 07 | LCK: 04
STR: 04 | AGI: 14 | VIT: 04 | MAG: 24 | LCK: 04
Age: 16/13 | Gender: Female/Female | Beast/Water | Skimpy Body | Tentacles | Dan Enhanced Outfit, Sorcery, Healing Artifact, Power artifact Dan stuff, Dan stuff Edgy Equips
STR: 05 | AGI: 05 | VIT: 04 | MAG: 06 | LCK: 04
STR: 09 | AGI: 08 | VIT: 08 | MAG: 09 | LCK: 04
The rupturing world caused the mirror one to fall away, dumping Su and Mika back into reality. Or at least, they thought they were in reality. They took a moment to take in all the insanity. The world turning into words, the attacks aimed at the queen with a disregard for the absurdity of the situation…
Yep, this was Penrose alright.
But as strange as the city had become, Mika didn’t waste any time.
"Look mom!" She blasted the roof with her water magic, which was coming out as the word WATER over and over again. But it seemed to be soaking the pages that they were standing on. "Now you can blast the queen with it!"
"Will that be effective?" Su almost asked. But reason was starting to fall away. With a shake of her head, she extended her hands and commanded the wind. Only now several words that read WIND started to circle around the queen. The wet pages were rolled into a disgusting clump, and then with a clap of her hands, Su brought the damp mess into the queen as wind crashed against her from all directions.
"I’m finding myself starting to agree with Nyxia’s banners."
— Suki Oyama
It was odd listening to Evil Eye weigh their options. She seemed cautious about fighting a giga miseria at night or taking multiple trips out, yet did not seem as concerned about someone attacking their ride. Regardless, Oros found herself agreeing with her point about their transportation.
"It would more convenient to keep everyone together, and having two automobiles can make things weird. We could get separated and have twice as many vans to defend. I doubt we’re going to get that strong going out of town once, so we have a long term plan." Oros nodded to herself.
However, Oros was reminded of how infuriating working with others could be when Roche spoke up again. Yes, she had driven everyone to the beach. There were a lot of reasons Oros didn’t like to think about the vacation, but it did seem like they had a second driver. It wasn’t like Oros cared one way or the other. It was just so tedious how a quick discussion could get hung up on tiny details like how many cars they should drive. Were they going to discuss the color too? Not a bad idea honestly. But nobody was going to agree to her idea to do a waifu car wrap. The important part was that they did something. Though Oros could agree with Roche’s assessment of their situation.
"Yep, trouble really is everywhere. Goat Girl is proof we can just stand around and trouble finds us." She looked back to Evil Eye. "See what you can do with the vans. If you can only get one, that’ll probably be enough. If we don’t drive too far, we don’t need to pack like we’re on vacation." Holy shit did Oros hate packing. It was fortunate that all of her possessions could fit inside a small closet.
The GEMs were definitely something that needed to be addressed, and it seemed like that was something Haruna was willing to work with. Oros’s own feelings on the matter were a little complicated, but she saw the value in having a light girl vouch for them. She didn’t have anything else to add to what Haruna was talking about. That was, until Nyxia decided to be a wet blanket again. This bothered Oros, but only because she didn’t understand her behavior. It was hard to believe the foul mouthed girl who did as she pleased would hesitate to do anything over a family situation. "I think Pinocchio is capable of moving a van once she’s transformed, with or without us inside." So long as the van still had it’s wheels, it wouldn’t be hard for some of the stronger girls around them to push it. Hell, Nyxia’s cannon was about the size of a compact car. She could probably push a van for miles, with or without the wheels still on it. Did the idea of traveling together still bother her? It couldn’t be, she reassured herself.
Then Shatterscape spoke up again. She couldn’t help but sigh when she mentioned that she, like Suika, had been approached by Regina. "Oh come on…" There was no reason for Oros to suspect it was a lie, but she was inclined to disbelieve the claim. While she could see Suika holding off on mentioning something so important, Shatterscape wouldn't hide anything for any length of time from Roche. And Roche would have told the club by now . There was something about Shatterscape's mannerisms that rubbed Oros the wrong way. Her beautiful face scrunching, as her brow knit itself together and her smile turned.
Fortunately, a much cooler head spoke before she did. "Yea!" Oros’s face lit up like the sun when Suika finished speaking. "If some of us get too strong, we’ll run into the same issue we have now, where we have to gain distance from each other to hunt. Maybe." Lord this magical bullshit was hard to keep track of. "I think Eyeball has reconnaissance covered, so long as the GEMs don’t spot ‘em first. But that’s why Pinocchio is gunna contact them. If we can do something about them, then that makes a lot of stuff easier. Though if you’re offering I’m sure they wouldn’t mind the backup. Anyway, once we have a van or two and we get word about the GEMs we can start doing stuff!"
It felt like a plan had come together. Or at least, the first steps of something happening. More details needed to be resolved, but getting everyone unanimously on board with an idea was kind of a light girl thing. That and Oros was pretty tired of getting ignored by Nyxia. Though that was preferable to getting more odd looks from her. But for now it felt like everything was settled.
"I guess I’ll uh, root for your success." When Oros excused herself, she found herself power walking out of the room and down the hall. If anything important hadn’t been resolved, it could be handled later.
"I know the dragons and puppets are horny (they have horns on their heads) but a smoke screen is not a privacy screen!"
— Bionca Herrmann, Knight of Tonight
"Eject Button -1 btw."
In such a frantic situation, most anyone would be forgiven for acting a little frantic. But Rika decided to keep her cool. Even if she couldn’t see anything, she decided to wait for an opportunity. Once Bionca made her move, she could rely on strength she doubted the other esper had or was prepared for. Breathe in, breathe out, or maybe don’t. Rika wasn’t sure if the smoke was an agitant or even a carcinogenic.
Though something else happened while she waited. One of Nukkelina’s puppets had come to her aid. Not that she was able to see its approach. Not only that, but it couldn’t see where Rika was. After it used its sword to scrape the gunk off of its shield, it ventured into to smoke and tried to place itself between chef and would-be cuisine. Though Bionca was the only one with eyes in this space, which was something she made use of immediately.
She retrieved her knife and shoved it over the doll’s shield. It found its way into its neck, which caused the entire thing to collapse as if its strings had been cut. Puppets of this nature were strong, and even comparable to espers, but an esper’s tools and finer abilities would always give them an edge against simple conjured opponents. That was doubly true when they had such a clear advantage.
But Rika knew where her opponent was now, and so she led with a shoulder charge. What she didn’t know was that Bionca had conjured a wolf pup to assist with subduing her. While it was just as blind as Rika was, it served as a tripping hazard for Rika’s clumsy escape. Bionca shuffled off to the side while she fell, and brought her frying pan over her head to deliver an unseen blow to the dragon’s head.
But she only hit sand.
Some new feature of Rika’s form had spirited her out of the way of danger, and deposited her outside the smoke cloud. She was standing upright, and aside from swearing she had been struck in the back of the head with a frying pan, she was alright. Mission successful?
The smoke had dissipated by this point, revealing a little wolf pup with an apron. Unlike its master, the puppy seemed happy to be there. It’s tail wagged in circles and the apron had a paw print embroidered on it.
"Hmph." Bionca scooped up the puppy. "If you don’t want me to go after you, then you can leave the premises. Otherwise…" Bionca didn’t finish speaking. She walked backwards towards a bush while her arm swirled with magic, and a drumstick appeared in it.
"If you say so, Dark Winter. Just try to live through this."
— Iris Silk
Iris Silk Max MP: 60 Current MP: 52 - 8 = 44 Casting: [self] + [Obfuscate B] (Turning invisible for stealth stuff) 4 + [intangible B] (Moving through walls) 4 = 8
With all the shooting, and largely because of Tim’s smog, Iris hadn’t been able to close the distance between them. Things were made more complicated by the ship’s attempt to lift off, only to be stopped by Book Kidd’s ritual. While it kept the ship from entering the sky, it did make things unstable. The spacecraft rocked side to side, and Iris was only able to steady herself by planting her extra legs on the ground.
She prepared her sword as the last remaining door turret prepared to aim at her, but Jack was on the way. Sure enough, a few good strikes was all it took to free her body of most of the material. The rest would come off in a hot show. It didn’t take her long to run for the ramp where her target waited. Jack leapt up the ramp and cleaved the thing in half. The creature pretty much exploded, throwing gel-like gunk in all directions, bombarding herself and Iris with the strange substance. The ship itself was far more robust, but did dent and crack from the effects of her melody.
"Disregard that my banner still features my beach outfit."
Between careful covering fire and Mika’s own efforts, the last giant turret finally fell. It separated from the ship and rolled off the side of the ship and dissolved in the salty waters below. Mika cast a glance at the Mavericks at the other end of the ship, but said nothing to them. She’d cooperate with them for now, but they were still allies to monsters.
After recovering and freeing herself, Nina wedged her weapon in the doorway before it could fully close. Then Nina, both puppets, and her slipped inside the ship where they were joined by the others.
"Why do you have slime on your face?" Jack was covered in it, but Iris had only been hit in the face by the slime explosion. It did look like she had tried to kiss the turret.
After wiping the chunks off of her face, Iris took stock of Jack. "Ah, thank you." She wiped her hand off on her shoulder before placing her hands on her katana again. "We should refrain from damaging the ship too much." She addressed everyone "It would be a shame if it were to explode while our friends are trapped inside."
No sooner did Iris mention this did both girls become aware of a knocking sound. It got louder and louder and louder until…
The side of the ship burst open, and an esper with a planetary design flew out. Black cubes that made up the ship’s exterior were blown out of place, yet perfectly intact. Though she wasn’t alone. Several more of those smaller mobile slime turrets were pursuing her.
"Well that’s going to make things more complicated." With a snort, she raised her voice. "Mavericks, continue chasing Tim! I’m going to seek out the other espers!" Her legs reached over her head. They all converged at one point before spreading open, creating a black net over her body. "Continue to work with the others." And then she stretched it over her body and vanished from sight. Not only had she turned invisible, but she had passed through a wall. Something that Jack was able to see with her glasses.
Ahead, there were far more dangers to tackle. The room before them was filled with more of the slimy bastards, and Tim disappeared around a corner with Marrie. Though these once seemed to be equipped differently. While they had black cubes floating inside them, they treated them more like melee weapons. They wielded cubic shields and had cuboid clubs to beat back the intruders with. Though if the outer turrets were anything to go by, then these things likely had other abilities as well.
"Found a bug."
— Alice Mason
Alice Mason Max MP: 80 Current MP: 62 - 4 = 58 Casting: Self (0), Intangible B (4) = 4
"Careful not to get shot, I can only heal so many of you!" Alice shouted out once she dropped in from the portal after Ashley. The hall was going to get far too crowded with so many of them occupied with dispatching the slime turrets, and Iris had decided to focus on jailbreaking, guess she could try and stall the ship from the inside? With a huff, Alice sprinted off ahead. As much as this was irritating, she couldn’t afford to let up yet.
While there was a room ahead filled with danger, Alice did notice that there was a sealed door to her right. Though it was locked shut and she had no idea how to open it. Without using force, that is.
Luckily, that wouldn’t be necessary. She simply turned herself intangible and stepped through the door itself.
Abandoning everyone else, or at least not caring if they could follow, Alice sunk through the door like it wasn’t even there. She found herself in a very large, very orange room. There were various tools and props made out of cubes, but only the aliens knew what any of them were made for. But for its size, there wasn’t very much in it. There were no slimes to speak of, and most of the instruments seemed to be located in the center of the room around an altar. A warm, orange light lit the space, but left the corners dark. There didn’t seem to be anything important in this room, but with some searching she might find some hidden passage or another door along the shaded walls. This ship had certainly been designed around being as difficult to navigate as possible. At least to creatures that needed light to see. The walls were always so dark.
But before Alice could begin her search, someone stepped out of the darkness. Someone who’s voice she recognized. It was feminine, haughty, and belonged to a brat or a gremlin.
"Fancy seeing you here." Under the orange light, the girl’s purple and white dress looked violet and pink. Two butterflies floated above her shoulders, and the fingers of her gloved hands were pressed together. "I would have thought you’d have stuck with the others and maybe endear them to you, but this makes sense. If it’s not your favorite failure, it’s not worth wasting your time protecting, is it?"
Alice scoffed. "The others will be fine, they can go without being babysat for a moment." She would’ve leaned against the wall, but, well, melody. "I’m more wondering why you’re hiding in the middle of this floating scrapheap, of all places."
Sharr pouted. It wasn’t genuine. "Well, unlike you, I was trying to enjoy a nice dream. So my powers have been greatly suppressed. And, well, Dan’s arrival suppressed them even further." Her smile returned. "So I got ‘captured’ knowing that simpleton would screw things up somehow. And now that it’s come to pass, I’m back to my old self of a fashion. Well, until he initially returned." She giggled into her hand. "Now I can start to put my plan into effect. I think calling this a setback is too strong a word. It is a detour though. Yes, once we’re done with this detour I’ll be able to go through with the next part of my plan." With a sigh, she looked up. "You know I only joke when I say Finn is a failure. That’s a nickname your loving friend gave him, right? He’s actually been very useful to me, and I’m sure he’ll continue to be useful moving forward."
"She’s a petty bitch, and that pettiness is gonna end up biting her in the ass inevitably. Wasn’t exactly happy with me coming here to do my job." Alice rested her rifle over her shoulders. "She sends her regards, by the way." She idly walked around the room. Night vision wasn’t going to help much with looking, was it? "And since you felt the need to mention the kid; you don’t seem too worried about him being with Oros as we speak, for whatever she or Aigorost plans with him." Alice glanced back at Sharr.
"I suppose Oros the Mad will try to swing him over to her side." She tapped her chin with her gloved finger. "But the ball is very much in his court on that. She can tempt him. She can whisper things into his ear, but she has no real power over him. Short of bribery or blackmail, everything he does from this point forward is his own choice. He may be thirteen, but being a man takes responsibility for his actions. In that respect, I’d say he’s more mature than most, wouldn’t you?" The question was rhetorical, as Sharr pretended to look at her wrist. "Hmmm, so how invested are you in Ashley?"
"Doc’s little pride and joy, how could I not be?" Alice wryly smiled. "You were last trying to take her grimoire, which spurred her into causing all of this in the first place. I’m to assume said grimoire wasn’t one of your making, or at the very least, Doc had a hand in its creation specifically, which is why you need the little slice of discord back before it becomes something worse. Is any of that correct?" She asked.
"No dream should include intrusive, outside thoughts." With a snap of her fingers, a book appeared in her hand. It was just as extensively decorated as her dress, and featured a butterfly embroidered on the cover. "There are many things that I wish to jettison from this dream. One of which is Ashley’s grimoire, but there are other things as well. Such as you." She flipped open the book. Each page contained a specimen of butterfly, which flew off the page as it was flipped to. This seemed to cause a chain reaction, as the pages flipped on their own, faster and faster, releasing more butterflies into the air. "I’m actually interested in taking this new grimoire for a test drive. Maybe you’d like to be a training dummy for me?"
Alice quickly aimed her other gun at the growing swarm. "Not as if I have a choice here?!"
"You didn’t get my permission to come, you don’t get the option to refuse."
"Shark week 8 already?! Make it stop!"
— Dan Daggernose
"You want me to help you? You trust me to do that?" Dan was rather puzzled by the request, but some of his earlier confidence seemed to return. "You’re right! We need to rescue Marrie! And convince Tim that this isn’t the way to go about doing things." His hands settled on his hips. "I can deactivate the exterior turrets with my- oh…" They had all been destroyed, of course. He rubbed the back of his head when he realized this could have all been made much easier. "Uh, well it probably wouldn’t have worked anyway. The causality generator is responsible for handling commands from off the ship, and that’s down." He sighed. "But if I get on board, I should be able to override some of the ship’s systems." He suddenly looked much less confident. "Unless he removed me from the administration registry. Then I’d have far less control."
The ship was struggling to leave the ground. They really didn’t have much more time to gab.
"Alright! We’ll figure it all out once I get aboard!" Dan turned towards the portal Marrie made and ran towards it. "Don’t worry Marrie! I’m coming for yaaaaaaaa!"
"Watch me be a giga chad."
— Book Kidd
Book Kidd Max MP: 50 Current MP: 46 - 9 = 37 Casting: Casting: [Projectile] 0 + [AoE E] 2 + [If Foe] 1 + [Damage X C] 6 = 9
Book Kidd was really moving fast. He put on the breaks as he approached Rika. "Forget about her!" He reached for her wrist. "I know those cute fem fatale types are probably right up your ally, but-" Kidd’s attention was drawn to the side of the spacecraft blowing open. "Damnit! I’ll be right back. Stick with Orion, she’s not too horrible!"
Book Kidd barely had time to finish his sentence when he saw an esper blast out of the freshly created hole. "Uh!" He was holding his book with one hand, so he reached out with his other to try and catch her. Fortunately, monsters such as himself had tremendous strength, and it didn’t take too much effort to catch her with one hand. It did take some dexterity to prevent the woman from toppling over once her caught her though. He stumbled forward, then backward, and finally came to rest with her still suspended in the air. "Ah! I did it!" It was an awkward position for Phoebe to be in, however. She was sitting in the palm of a man that was dressed up in ornate cultist robes. Seeming to sense this, Kidd offered a few words. "It would be weirder if you weren’t wearing underwear."
Though the banter was cut short when more of those slime things crept out of the hole in the hull. They weren’t just after the newly escaped esper however. Some of them were attacking the hands that were holding the ship down.
"Stop boarding the ship!" Kidd called out, and his book glowed a bright crimson. "We gotta protect the hands!" He pointed his book at the slimes, and a crimson bolt of rust and blood zipped over to the hole in the ship. It exploded, but none of the blood or rust struck anyone nearby despite being in the blast zone. But the death of so many nearby slimes just bought them some breathing room, as more of the creatures were pouring out of the broken hull.
"Good thing termites don’t have ears."
— Tim Tendril Termitidae
Tim was not concerned with the espers trying to follow him. He had prepared for a possible engagement with the espers. Most of the strongest threats were well quarantined and wouldn’t be a problem. Better, now that the causality generator had been destroyed there was no reason to stick around. The experiments could commence, and who cared if they didn’t have every last esper in Pax? They had enough of them, and if they needed more there were other parts of the world where they would be less suspecting.
With the sound of combat disappearing behind them, Tim carried Marrie into the room that held the causality generator. It was in ruins now, squirted on and torn apart by one of Dan’s guests. He leaned Marrie up against a wall and stepped away from her. He had heard all of her rambling, but hadn’t responded to any of it.
"You like aliens, hmmm?" He squeezed one of the tubes running along the outside of his outfit, and the purple cloud of smoke dissipated. He turned to Marrie and kneeled in front of her. She had finished talking, and it seemed like her mental facilities were serviceable. At least, as serviceable as they would be. "Why do you like them?" He kneeled in front of her. "Do you have a fascination with animals too? Is it that they’re exotic and different? Aliens are intelligent creatures right? Would you find a dog as interesting as an alien if it could talk or reason at a human level? What about beyond a human level?"
The questions were rhetorical. Which Tim indicated when he stood up and continued talking. "There are not many of us left, I’m sure ‘Dan’ told you as much." He approached one of the walls, where there seemed to be a console of some kind. At least that was what it had to be because Tim was pressing little cubes on it, but it was impossible to tell exactly what he was doing. "We’ve performed all kinds of genetic experiments on ourselves. We’ve made ourselves a great deal stronger than we ought to be. The issue is genetic diversity. A race that is perpetual and never changes is doomed to fail eventually no matter how powerful it is. That is why creating new offspring with traits combined from its parents is an ideal way to create a race that constantly improves. While this can introduce defects, it is important to the long term survival of many creatures, ours included. This is no longer an option for my people. Or at least it wasn’t until we came here." Tim stopped pressing buttons. He didn’t look at Marrie. "Do you really want to help us?"
It was hard to gauge how everyone felt. Fewer people were talking and most everyone seemed to be keeping to themselves. Everyone seemed to have ideas, but few had ways to actually implement them. As Evil Eye implied, it would be next to impossible to force Rei out of town.
"It definitely wasn’t." Suki agreed with Evil eye.
That was about when Nyxia looked at her weird. "Who said it had to be a school trip?" Roche had, but Nyxia wasn’t looking at Roche. She didn't think she secretly wanted to ride up and down the countryside on motorcycles as a lesbian biker gang, did she? Because that was 100% true, but Suki figured that Nyxia wouldn't be able to work that out. "I think we’re gunna have to do this at night or on the weekends, which would rule out making it a school activity." She looked at everyone else. "Even if it’s just once a week, it’s once a week more than we’ve been doing." Then she looked back over the computer. "So you can get a van? Why don’t we try that? This spot here doesn’t look too out of the way."
As soon as her finger touched the computer screen, Suika started talking. A lot. Way more than the old Tsubomi would have. Suki froze in place and allowed her companion to speak uninterrupted.
"Uhhhhh…"
That kinda came out of nowhere. If it was anyone else, Suki would have wondered why they hadn’t said something earlier. But because it was Suika, it was hard to be surprised. Or rather, it would have been hard to be surprised if it was still the old Tsubomi as Suki remembered her. But she was being shown time and time again that the girl she used to know really didn’t exist anymore. Had evil Tsubomi won? Was this how she planned on killing good Tsubomi? All of this to ponder before addressing that she had been confronted by Ashbringer, or anything else she managed to ramble out, both behind and ahead of the current point in the discussion. Suki was more or less paralyzed by the flow of revelations, not given enough time to really absorb much of what she said. So she mentally latched onto something she could understand and turned to Evil Eye with it.
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[i]Did you know that Dante's inferno is called a divine comedy because things work out for the protagonist? Back in the day, the only two genres were comedy and drama. The only difference was that in a comedy, the protagonist is better off at the end, and a drama is the opposite. So that's why a story about going through hell can still be considered a comedy, even if it's not funny.[/i]
[b][color=Silver]Name:[/color][/b]
[indent]Broken Promise, BP, Boss[/indent]
[b][color=Silver]Age:[/color][/b]
[indent]Old enough to know better, too young to care. (that is to say 30's)[/indent]
[b][color=Silver]Preferred RPs:[/color][/b]
[indent]I Prefer to make my own, but will occasionally join something if it looks interesting. I'll join just about anything so long as it isn’t overly edgy/sweet, though it's rare for me to do. I don't do 1x1s too often either.[/indent]
[b][color=Silver]Preferred Roles:[/color][/b]
[indent]I tend to play adorable characters everyone wants to befriend or proper assholes everyone wants to stay away from. I try not to play moral paragons or prime evils.[/indent]
[b][color=Silver]RP Conquests:[/color][/b]
[indent]I've completed quite a few RP's off site, but most of them are on private forums or have simply been lost to the ravages of server crashes. As for stuff here, I'm sure everyone who sees me post in the off topic sections has seen me find an excuse to talk about [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/157933-danganronpa-tower-of-carnage-finished/ic]Danganronpa: Tower of Carnage[/url]. It's a project that took over 4 years to complete and I feel pride not only for myself but all the wonderful people who helped make it enjoyable during its run. [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/173392-re-zero-the-high-council/ic]Re: Zero: The High Council[/url] Is technically my first, but it was just something I kind of took over and ended up ending the story after just six months. It finished, but eh...
Last RP I finished was [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/186698-symphony-of-espers/ooc]Symphony of Espers[/url] which turned out pretty good.[/indent]
[b][color=Silver]RP's in progress:[/color][/b]
[indent]For some reason I can't seem to stay away from [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/180148-darkest-before-the-dawn-a-cyoa-magical-girl-roleplay/ic]Ari's magical girl RP[/url], even if I'm not sure why I'm still in it.
As for my own projects, I'm doing [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/191774-symphony-on-high/ic]Symphony on High[/url] to continue the gigachad adventures of the espers in Pax Septimus.
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[b][color=Silver]RP Graveyard:[/color][/b]
[indent]I've been pretty fortunate on this forum. I think I joined one when I first came on the site that didn't really do anything, and there are a few 1x1 things that didn't go anywhere. It's disappointing when an RP ends before it can be finished, but I've come to look at them as learning experiences.
And then there's that london magical girl RP, and that dark magical girl RP. I think I'm done joining magical girl RPs for a while.[/indent]
[b][color=Silver]Other interests:[/color][/b]
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[b]Videos[/b]
[indent]I watch a lot of educational videos on youtube. Usually as research for something I’m writing or purely because a topic interests me. I like channels like [url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsRtomD4twRf5WVHHk-cMw]Tier Zoo[/url] and [url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJfJWct8jN1RpCuVWk3zHTA]Daryl Talks Games[/url], and I’ll also watch things like [url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJPFQdZwrOutnmSFYtbstA]Critical Drinker[/url] or [url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz1fTbwui7o5aDZ6W1dOLTQ]Literature Devil[/url] to deepen my understanding of story telling. Though I also like memes and jokes, to which I’ll find myself watching stuff like [url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD6VugMZKRhSyzWEWA9W2fg]Sseth[/url], but usually find myself surfing through meme videos. I gotta work on that.
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[b]Games[/b]
[indent]I have a rather long history of playing virtually every platformer to come into existence during the indie boom, as well as quite a few other indie games. I’ve played Meatboy, Binding of Issac, Gunvolt, Cuphead, Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt, Classic Metroid, Warcraft 3, Final Fantasy 7,8, and 14, Left 4 Dead, Shantae, Celeste, Danganronpa, God Eater, the list goes on. What I’ve played is kind of all over the place. I don’t play many games these days, I tend to pick things that look interesting and go on a decent steam sale.[/indent]
[b]Painting Minis[/b]
[indent]I do this in moderation. Otherwise, it's a pretty expensive hobby to start...[/indent]
[b]Music[/b]
[indent]I listen to everything, save most country/rap songs. I have too many favorites to name.[/indent]
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[b][color=Silver]Personality:[/color][/b]
[indent]Not one to take life or the internet too seriously. Is only serious about writing well and having a good time.[/indent]
[b][color=Silver]People to Insult:[/color][/b]
[indent]Dalton is a Dingus.[/indent]
<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><span class="bb-b"><font color="silver"><div class="bb-center"><img src="https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/9bf0ab63-afe2-4637-aa10-6dc90db5fc8c.png" /><br><div class="bb-h2">W I T H R I G H T E O U S H A N D S</div></div></font></span><br><br><hr class="bb-hr"><br><br><span class="bb-i">Did you know that Dante's inferno is called a divine comedy because things work out for the protagonist? Back in the day, the only two genres were comedy and drama. The only difference was that in a comedy, the protagonist is better off at the end, and a drama is the opposite. So that's why a story about going through hell can still be considered a comedy, even if it's not funny.</span><br><br><span class="bb-b"><font color="silver">Name:</font></span><br><div class="bb-indent">Broken Promise, BP, Boss</div><br><span class="bb-b"><font color="silver">Age:</font></span><br><div class="bb-indent">Old enough to know better, too young to care. (that is to say 30's)</div><br><span class="bb-b"><font color="silver">Preferred RPs:</font></span><br><div class="bb-indent">I Prefer to make my own, but will occasionally join something if it looks interesting. I'll join just about anything so long as it isn’t overly edgy/sweet, though it's rare for me to do. I don't do 1x1s too often either.</div><br><span class="bb-b"><font color="silver">Preferred Roles:</font></span><br><div class="bb-indent">I tend to play adorable characters everyone wants to befriend or proper assholes everyone wants to stay away from. I try not to play moral paragons or prime evils.</div><br><span class="bb-b"><font color="silver">RP Conquests:</font></span><br><div class="bb-indent">I've completed quite a few RP's off site, but most of them are on private forums or have simply been lost to the ravages of server crashes. As for stuff here, I'm sure everyone who sees me post in the off topic sections has seen me find an excuse to talk about <a href="https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/157933-danganronpa-tower-of-carnage-finished/ic">Danganronpa: Tower of Carnage</a>. It's a project that took over 4 years to complete and I feel pride not only for myself but all the wonderful people who helped make it enjoyable during its run. <a href="https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/173392-re-zero-the-high-council/ic">Re: Zero: The High Council</a> Is technically my first, but it was just something I kind of took over and ended up ending the story after just six months. It finished, but eh...<br><br>Last RP I finished was <a href="https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/186698-symphony-of-espers/ooc">Symphony of Espers</a> which turned out pretty good.</div><br><span class="bb-b"><font color="silver">RP's in progress:</font></span><br><div class="bb-indent">For some reason I can't seem to stay away from <a href="https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/180148-darkest-before-the-dawn-a-cyoa-magical-girl-roleplay/ic">Ari's magical girl RP</a>, even if I'm not sure why I'm still in it. <br><br>As for my own projects, I'm doing <a href="https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/191774-symphony-on-high/ic">Symphony on High</a> to continue the gigachad adventures of the espers in Pax Septimus.</div><br><span class="bb-b"><font color="silver">RP Graveyard:</font></span><br><div class="bb-indent">I've been pretty fortunate on this forum. I think I joined one when I first came on the site that didn't really do anything, and there are a few 1x1 things that didn't go anywhere. It's disappointing when an RP ends before it can be finished, but I've come to look at them as learning experiences.<br><br>And then there's that london magical girl RP, and that dark magical girl RP. I think I'm done joining magical girl RPs for a while.</div><br><span class="bb-b"><font color="silver">Other interests:</font></span><br><div class="bb-indent"><span class="bb-b">Videos</span><br><div class="bb-indent">I watch a lot of educational videos on youtube. Usually as research for something I’m writing or purely because a topic interests me. I like channels like <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsRtomD4twRf5WVHHk-cMw">Tier Zoo</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJfJWct8jN1RpCuVWk3zHTA">Daryl Talks Games</a>, and I’ll also watch things like <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJPFQdZwrOutnmSFYtbstA">Critical Drinker</a> or <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz1fTbwui7o5aDZ6W1dOLTQ">Literature Devil</a> to deepen my understanding of story telling. Though I also like memes and jokes, to which I’ll find myself watching stuff like <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD6VugMZKRhSyzWEWA9W2fg">Sseth</a>, but usually find myself surfing through meme videos. I gotta work on that.</div> <br><span class="bb-b">Games</span><br><div class="bb-indent">I have a rather long history of playing virtually every platformer to come into existence during the indie boom, as well as quite a few other indie games. I’ve played Meatboy, Binding of Issac, Gunvolt, Cuphead, Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt, Classic Metroid, Warcraft 3, Final Fantasy 7,8, and 14, Left 4 Dead, Shantae, Celeste, Danganronpa, God Eater, the list goes on. What I’ve played is kind of all over the place. I don’t play many games these days, I tend to pick things that look interesting and go on a decent steam sale.</div><br><span class="bb-b">Painting Minis</span><br><div class="bb-indent">I do this in moderation. Otherwise, it's a pretty expensive hobby to start...</div><br><span class="bb-b">Music</span><br><div class="bb-indent">I listen to everything, save most country/rap songs. I have too many favorites to name.</div></div><br><span class="bb-b"><font color="silver">Personality:</font></span><br><div class="bb-indent">Not one to take life or the internet too seriously. Is only serious about writing well and having a good time.</div><br><span class="bb-b"><font color="silver">People to Insult:</font></span><br><div class="bb-indent">Dalton is a Dingus.</div></div>
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