IceHeart

Accidental Magical Girl CYOA

Suzie Greshan

Name: Suzie Greshan

Age (Magical Girl): 7

Age (Before Magical Girl): 22

Gender: Female

Gender (Before Magical Girl): Female

Appearance:
She stands at 3’11’’ with short, carrot-red hair, and a very well developed body for a ‘7’ year old. With ample breasts and wide hips she can look a little plump angles because of her rather stout body, which is a bit annoying.

Suzie Greshan

Specialization: Metal

Weapon: Mystic Amulet

Power:
Hammerspace

Perks:
Enhanced Transformation
Gifted
Training – Mechanics
Mystic Artifact
Ally

Patron: Lesser Force

Patron Benefits:
Focused – Easier to concentrate on magic and uses less mana per spell
Subtle – Harder to Sense by others
Genki Girl – Near limitless Stamina
Physical Prowess

Patron Drawbacks:
Loud – Hard to keep anything secret

Fighting Style: Using a style she had dubbed, Trash’em, Smash’em, and Craft’em. Suzie makes great use of her Hammerspace in order to compliment her attacks and fashion weapons. Crowbars, steel pipes, nails, car doors, power tools, pretty much anything you can find at a junkyard she has stashed away in her Hammerspace for later. Her combat style is to smash opponents with whatever she finds handy in her pocket dimension, which, due to her metal magic, can be manipulated for a wide variety of effects. While she can use her amulet to attack as well, usually she just uses it like a makeshift gun, to propel small metal objects at the enemy like nails and bolts’n’nuts. This gives her great variety in her weapon choices to suit the current moment.

If she ends up fighting in a location with a lot of metal objects, she can manipulate them quite easily to turn the tide to her advantage.

Stats (Untransformed):
STR: 4
AGI: 4
VIT: 4
MAG: 3
LCK: 3

Stats (Transformed):
STR: 12
AGI: 6
VIT: 12
MAG: 8
LCK: 4

Personality:
Suzie is a somewhat snarky individual who is not afraid to point out other’s faults. She can be rude and critical but that doesn’t mean she is heartless. Perhaps it is her affinity with machines that makes her a little awkward when interacting with people but is certainly trustworthy and will never back down from a promise.

She considers her magical girl activities to be more of a side job than anything else. Of course she won’t let the monsters have their way, but neither will she go out of her way just to take out some trash. As for the other magical girls, she can take em or leave em to be honest. She won’t refuse help or anything but unless there is a need for her help, she probably won’t bother to enter the fight.

History:
Bloodline was the name of the game that led a lesser force to make a contract with Suzie. Unknown to her, her grandmother had been a previous magical girl from a long line of magical girls. As a result of her heritage she had quite a lot of magical potential bubbling up in her veins which caught the eye of a certain lesser force.

A genius of all things mechanical, Suzie was always tinkering with things from a young age. Finding little of interest in more common fields of study, as soon as she graduated from high school she quickly went into auto mechanics and some engineering. However things got a little complicated when Metallion entered into a contract with her, granting her the body of a seven year old, though with quite a bit of muscle and volume. Her new body did give her some advantages, like being able to squeeze into spaces she couldn’t in her original body.
Thankfully her patron is rather good at making her magical girling pay well, either with cash or with various parts at discount prices. This means that her normal job as a mechanic is augmented by her patron who helps her out in exchange for fighting monsters.

Incantation:
“May a soul of steel guide my hands and protect my heart! Metallic Overdrive!”

Additional Info:
Suzie hates really sweet things, like she will not even touch milk chocolate.

Patron Metallion

Type: Lesser Force

Name: Metallion

Patron Benefits:
Supplier

Patron Drawbacks:
Limited
Alien Mind
Clueless
Loud

Personality:
Metallion is stubborn, hard headed, and will generally ignore anything that does not fit with what he wants. Like the metal he is associated with he has very little flexibility and believes he always knows what is best. This can become a bit of a problem considering he seems to lack any real information about the magical entities around him. Metallion acts like a head honcho, even though he is a mere lesser force, at least he is just smart enough to know when he is in trouble and goes too far, except in human matters.

History:
Metallion was a relatively minor player on the magical stage until he was lucky enough to gain his first employee, a magical girl. Things started to turn up for the lesser force who soon found that the city was a great place for displaying his powers over metal. His desires are a bit nebulous as he thinks very outside what humans would consider normal, but he seems to have high hopes that Suzie can help him achieve his goals.

Resources:
Currently there are two magical girls under his employee, his best being Suzie, and has actually started a business of his own. He runs a magical delivery business which can acquire some very hard to get items which proves very helpful for his employees which can benefit from his services as well as monetary payments. His inventory is quite expansive and seems to grow by the month.

Additional Info:
He seems to have a preoccupation with electronics and can often be caught testing out new equipment. Sometimes he will drain electronics of their energy in order to give himself a 'buzz'.

Erika Johnson *Ally*

Name: Erika Johnson

Age (Magical Girl): 16

Age (Before Magical Girl): 25

Gender: Female

Gender (Before Magical Girl): Female

Appearance:
5’4” Blonde and of average build.

Normal Appearance

Costume

Specialization:
Time

Weapon:
Fist

Power:
Killing Blow

Perks:
Wings
Sorcery
Monstrous Metamorphosis – Her hands turn into talons, her hair turns into white feathers, and gains tail feathers.

Patron: Metallion

Patron Benefits:
Focused – Easier to concentrate on magic and uses less mana per spell
Subtle – Harder to Sense by others

Patron Drawbacks:
None

Fighting Style:
Using the Sacred Time Fist style, Erika is able to ‘cut’ into time, allowing herself to react to most situations within ‘time’. For short periods of time she can cut her way into a slipstream of time, accelerating her own sense of time to gain ‘super’ speed and reaction speed. Using her enhanced time, she can slip in and out of combat quickly and strike assuredly. If she feels especially pressured she may also carve out a space bubble of about a meter in radius around herself which slows time down for all matter caught within except herself. The time bubble is quite taxing however so she tries to avoid using it if possible and can only be used for around 3 seconds.

Stats (Untransformed):
STR: 3
AGI: 4
VIT: 3
MAG: 4
LCK: 3

Stats (Transformed):
STR: 7
AGI: 6
VIT: 4
MAG: 10
LCK: 8

Personality:
Erika Johnson is a very bubbly kind of character. Erika likes life and wants to defend other’s lives with all her being. Some might consider her too happy, as she always has a smile on her face it seems. She is admittedly not exactly a deep thinker and can be somewhat superficial and shallow. She knows what she wants in life and lives accordingly, as a magical girl.

History:
Erika is a contract girl, she met Metallion about 6 months ago and jumped at the chance to fight. Becoming a magical girl was a dream come true for the young woman. Since Metallion could pay her to be a magical girl, Erika quickly went into it full time and has been quite active for a while.

She has an annoying habit of trying to get Suzie to join her on every mission and seems somewhat puzzled by how Suzie tends to shove it off to concentrate on her normal job. Erika takes every job she can get and has been gaining experience at a quick clip, but since she is not exactly a natural she has to work hard to improve. At the moment she has an apartment set up by Metallion in a high-rise complex.

Incantation: “I will show you the stars! Mahou Timeless Fist!”

Additional Info:
Erika loves parties, idols, and seems to always have a crush on the newest pop star on the scene, which can get old real fast.

Castle Grimm [A Fantasy Drama]

@AnaSilan Sunja@Vashonn

Hmm, well as I have not heard from the new person and everyone is quite busy. Let's just put this on haitus for the moment until things can get back in action. I'll see you guys out there.

Accidental Magical Girl CYOA

@IceHeart For the stats, you start with a 4 in each on while transformed, 2 in each while not. A lot of the options give bonuses to you stats, and some of them have the marking that means they apply to your character while not transformed. If you don't use your coins on the options, you can use them to directly increase your stats. Since this is a freeform RP, not a tabletop, the stats are going to act more like guidelines than actual stats.

@Western Robot

So you are not supposed to roll for stats then? Just starts at a base level?

Also the patron module confused me. I rolled lesser force but was stumped by how to do the benefits/drawbacks part, kind of want to randomize but its not really set up that way.

Accidental Magical Girl CYOA

Seemed interesting so I gave it a go.

Ended up with a

7 year-old
Overdeveloped
Metal magic user
With a mystical weapon
Flowing clothes
The power of Hammerspace
Enhanced Transformation
Gifted
With Training
A Mystical Artifact
And an Ally

An amusing exercise to say the least.

Also I don't really understand the stat system and the coins...did it even say somewhere how many coins you start with? Nvm...I just found the coin part.

Lets talk about JonTron and his possibly racist views.

@Vilageidiotx

I'll just have to say we'll just have to agree to disagree on this, though I will say I never advocated for just ousting welfare, but I do think that it should only benefit actual U.S. citizens and not illegal aliens.

Welfare in its current form is unsustainable and will run out of money eventually. To compensate the government might raise taxes making it harder for more middle class families to stay in the middle class. I'l argue it would be much better to overhaul the system and make it more sustainable and useful to American citizens before it completely crashes down, sending the entire country into a downward spiral instead of nipping the problem in the bud before that can happen.

Frankly it may be too late already; however a little chaos now would be much better than another depression hitting making it impossible for anyone to live with basic needs expect the very rich. Welfare will run out in its current form and when it does, everyone will be in a much worse position instead of just a few while a more streamlined and efficient system is put in place.

Also, of course there will always be scumbags who abuse the system, any system, but just because no system is ever perfect is not a valid argument against trying to improve the current system. The current system has too many flaws and is easily abused, so might as well make it harder for that abuse to happen, if you can make it not worth the effort to try and abuse the system anymore then less and less bad people will bother trying.

Food stamps are an utter disgrace with very shoddy regulation. People abuse the system by applying in two states so they can get double the food stamps. Also food stamps can often be used on items with little to no nutritional value, fraud is rampant, and big businesses get in on the action so they can use those funds for themselves by selling people horrible products they buy with those stamps. Now its not like I have the answers to these problems but I am quite certain things could be improved dramatically with better regulations. Just the fact that an entire section of town is essentially reliant on government issued food stamps shows there is a serious problem going on there that needs to be fixed.

Any town that reliant on food stamps needs to have some serious work done to make sure that is no longer the case.

Lets talk about JonTron and his possibly racist views.

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The problems caused by welfare are minuscule compared to the problems that would be caused if it were to be withdrawn. Like I said, the welfare system exists to stabilize the working class, and if that stability is taken away, heads will roll.

All the rehauls i've seen suggested are either just scaling it back, which would cause bigger problems, or fundamental misunderstandings on what bureaucracy is actually capable of doing. Believe me, I've been on the office side of filing plenty of this paperwork, it's not a perfect system because people don't make perfect systems. Of all my time actually dealing with people's welfare in the trenches, the only one I ever thought was truly abused was disability, and even there the application is mixed. I've seen people who clearly couldn't work get a conservative hard-ass dealing with their case and insisting they can still work, and I've seen people who got disability on minor anxiety.

And I guarantee you, if you give most people trying to balance their benefits with a job the opportunity to make middle class wages, they would drop welfare in a heartbeat. Most people in my experience who have benefits also work, they just don't have a clear path to a good job. Remember, most people on welfare have jobs. They are the working poor, not the lazy.

@Vilageidiotx

Oh no doubt if they 'could' make it to middle class they would, the problem is a lot would get cut off their welfare before they manage to get those middle class wages and therefore lose too many benefits and not be able to keep up payments. Also if you want to go the job route a good majority probably are only working 'part-time' jobs in order to make sure they are under the cut-out amount that boots them out of welfare. So unless you are actually making a whole lot more money, often staying on Welfare is easier and more profitable for many. This is completely unsustainable and will eventually collapse under its own weight.

Also I've heard through family about some of the horror stories of families on welfare and the 'facilities' used to 'help' them. Often times all the government does is throw money at them and hope they become better people. Instead they just stay where they are and accept all the hand outs while never improving themselves. Welfare is basically a cancer to society in its current form. Are there good people who are doing their best to get out of such situations? Of course and that should be encouraged but there are too many benefits for people who don't care about improving anything but their own lives and their communities suffer as a result.

Oh and don't use WSJ cause I can't read the article...

Lets talk about JonTron and his possibly racist views.

But we were talking about Mexicans. I think amnesty should be a case by case basis. I think deporting criminal aliens, and illegals caught doing other shit besides having just crossed the border, is perfectly fine. But I think those trying to make a life for themselves, for whom the process of kicking them out would be mostly pointless, should have a path toward citizenship so they don't end up in poverty. I don't just say this out of human interest, but also because I feel purposely exacerbating poverty to make a point is costly and stupid.

Also, be careful hating on the welfare system. Without that shit, we would have had a revolution before any of us were born. Welfare isn't just the safety net of individuals, it's the safety net of capitalism as a whole. There is a reason the majority of modern economists support social welfare policies. When the working class isn't stabilized, they start sharpening their knifes. Ask the Tsar.

@Vilageidiotx

Oooh boy, well here is one of the main problems with the whole systems right here, the welfare system. The welfare system is one of the main contributors to the illegal immigrant problem in the first place. If the welfare system had better regulations and wasn't so easy to abuse there would not be so many problems in the first place. Most legal citizens, especially legal immigrants, hate seeing their hard earned cash given to people who came into the country improperly. There is very little more insulting to legal immigrants who worked their butts off see illegal immigrants get more help than them and actually have easier lives, just because they know how easy it is to abuse the current welfare system, especially if they have a lot of kids.

A lot of ghettos are perpetually subsidized by the current welfare system that promotes, single parent households, baby making, and no incentive to actually work because all of their needs are taken care of by the government. Imagine if instead people were rewarded more for getting out of the 'poverty' zone instead of being incentivised to keep the status quo because if they start making too much money they lose most of their benefits. So in order to keep these benefits upholding these communities more and more illegals move in to create a 'safe space' where the community won't rat them out, have little motivation to work harder and better, and in some cases won't even bother to learn English[which really should become the national language to make things easier for everyone while promoting assimilation into society].

If welfare benefits could no longer be acquired by illegal immigrants, you can bet they would try a whole lot harder to become legal U.S. citizens so they could regain those benefits. I think everyone can pretty much agree that the Welfare system needs a massive overhaul to become sustainable and less enticing to non-citizens.

Also on a side note, the welfare system actually does promote racism because of the percentage of minorities who are on welfare. This is just about food stamps but that is part of Welfare programs. Just looking at at the Black and Hispanic percentages, that is a huge chunk of the population so unfortuantely, some stereotypes are rather easily enforced when anyone looks into those communities.

Now one could make the counter-argument that the 15% white population is a lot more since there are many more 'whites' in America meaning that 15% is a huge number; however, on the other side that means the much smaller populations of Hispanics and Blacks are disproportionately receiving benefits. Also, often times hispanics and blacks kind of lump together in places which makes it even easier for a random stranger to encounter one of these beneficiaries. Well, this study is a bit old now so who knows how it has changed but the point is the welfare system is proving rather counter-productive as certain people, especially minorities can be encouraged to not try their best lest they loose benefits.

A rehaul of the welfare system would save a lot of money and fix a lot of problems plaguing the United States right now. Also I do agree that it should be a case by case basis for people living her but it would certainly help matters if the welfare systems wasn't getting in the way of illegals wanting to become citizens.

Castle Grimm [A Fantasy Drama]

Alive but it seems like nobody is interested in taking the initiative and I've been trying to avoid double-posting like the plague. I was hoping @bloonewb would get a post out next but we'll see.

Castle Grimm [A Fantasy Drama]

The loud one who instigated the first 'fight' between the two factions was easy enough to find for the dark elf, but the elf-touched was nowhere to be seen. The man certainly had not lost any of his 'charm' as he noticed her gaze and nodded in jest. She snorted under her helmet and tried to find the female but she was keeping herself hidden. In any event now was not the time for her to attempt anything in the presence of her mistress, also there was the plain fact that she was part of her liege's 'forces'.

Still, a chance would open up eventually.

Lady Esmerelda made her rounds through the ranks to encourage them. Everyone was quite interesting in the young lady but her escort made sure no one got too close. A few minutes more and it was time to leave, but as they left, the dark elf's sensitive ears picked up a light thud as something fell from above. A quick glance back showed it was the girl who had been helped by the elves. Unfortunately, as they were already starting to leave, the glance was all that she managed to get before they departed.

The White Rock Confederacy quickly mobilized into several small groups. While they got a decent look around the previous night the fact was there was a lot they still did not know. They needed to keep an eye on as many areas of the castle was possible so they would not be taken by surprise. They quickly came up with a system where, if a certain group was outnumbered they would quickly retreat to a fallback point where they could signal an alarm for the others. The biggest problem was there were only so many combat ready troops so every man mattered in this war. As the Empire would no doubt be better as a military a big engagement was not to the White Rock's advantage, their best bet was to chip away at the enemy forces one by one.

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The Onyx Empire was up and ready for action, very quickly they had mobilized for combat even before the horn had blown. They were pleasantly surprised when they too, got a visit from their patron, Lady Primrosa. Like her sister, she was also accompanied by a dark elf, the red-armored sister. From the get-go she seemed pumped and ready to go. Her energy was infectious to the troops as they watched the lovely young woman give her own pep-talk to the troops.

"Thank you all for being willing to fight for me! It is my honor to fight by your side-" The red-armored dark-elf turned to look at her as if questioning her words which Primrosa quickly noticed and quickly added, "-in spirit! As the rightful heir to the castle I will do everything in my power to aid your cause! I would join you on the battle in a heartbeat, if my father approved but since they are forbidden from killing me I suppose it wouldn't quite be fair to my sister's side." That got a few chuckles from some of the knights who knew how hard it would be to fight someone without killing them in combat.

"May the great dragons watch over your every step!" As if on cue, as soon as she finished the horns blew, signaling the start of hostilities. The empire quickly went into motion. They split into four groups, two spearheads, a reinforcement group, and the back defenders. The spearheads would go in and probe enemy territory, attempt to locate any traps and see if they could catch any confederates off guard. The reinforcement group would keep themselves as inbetween the two groups as possible and would rush to whichever required aid should the time arrive, they would not engage the enemy on their own however. The last group was to make sure the enemy could not infiltrate their camp and sabotage their sleeping quarters, also they would continue to do recon in their own territory to see what they could uncover.

Lady Primrosa watched as the fine tuned machine marched out, leaving behind many of the noncombatants at the home base. Time would tell which side would be victorious, but she was sure the Empire would be the winners in the end, even if she had little to go off of at this time.

Castle Grimm [A Fantasy Drama]

That last thought of Geoffrey's most certainly wasn't a poke at our active participant listing at all :D

All joking aside, I apologize for continuously taking a fair share of time in responding, though I do hope we can get more activity coming in from new people, which will in-turn influence me to cease the overwhelming sin of laziness.

@Vashonn

We can hope, now I can post without double-posting.