Letter Bee

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@Zero Hex, Ah, must have been an overreaction to Menhir bringing up Mage: The Ascension.

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@GreenGoat, @Scio, yeah...I don't like overly grimdark for grimdark's sake; heck, even Mage: The Ascension had its own not-grimdark moments.

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I just wanted to understand how the setting worked and suggest something that made it work a little better so this sort of issue didn't come up again but I guess you can call it whatever you like, friend.

@Menhir

No, it's okay, I didn't mean any insult.

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@Scio@Zero Hex, Was jumping to conclusions.

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So, we're in a flamewar right now?

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@Letter Bee
Ah, my bad. I always get the oWoD and nWoD titles mixed up.

@Menhir

It's okay.

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@Scio
Issues where? It's important to list the issues in question when you're discussing issues.

I mean I could also point you towards Mage: The Awakening, where physical law itself is actually fundamentally the same as magic and is the result of a shadowy cabal of wizards (the Technocratic Union) who have essentially tricked the entire world into playing by their rules but that's a lot of lore to sift through and it got really silly after a while for other reasons.

@BassDropp
See you say that but you have to remember this became an issue in the first place because people didn't want Sodium's character to enter using a helicopter. He was just trying to have fun in his own way, right? And then everyone kept trying to come up with reasons why he couldn't. Pretty much anyone gets prickly when they're being ganged up on like that.

@Menhir

It's Mage: The Ascension; Mage: The Awakening has a different cosmology.

Kingdom Hearts: The Lights of the Multiverse Redux [No Longer Full]

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Alright, gotcha.

@SMS

Thanks!

Now go be badass!

Kingdom Hearts: The Lights of the Multiverse Redux [No Longer Full]

@SMS, oh, and Mai was taught Areo offscreen during the timeskip. She can now make small tornadoes.

Kingdom Hearts: The Lights of the Multiverse Redux [No Longer Full]

Present Day

"All right, I'll have us teleported to the Gummi Ship," Tocsax was weary as well, and with that, everyone would be teleported to the Gummi Ship, including Ryteb and Mac, who would, for the sake of the former's insistence on seperating himself from the group, would be sent to the far end of the residential parts of the vessel.

He would then lead Drake to the training area, a gummi-colored room with training dummies, small droids with stun bolts, a seperate room that served as a shooting range, and a mini-arena with strong magitech barriers that would reduce collateral damage from training spars and duels. After that, he would portal down earthside again to offer Adelle the job he should have been offering, with a downpayment of a *large amount* of magically-warded Munny to her family.

Then, finally, it would be time for the group to head to 'Alternate World War II'.

Timeskip

A week later, a week spent talking, training, or just lazing around in the Gummi Ship, Emperor Michael would ask everyone to use the Ruler of the Sea's systems to teleport to his whale-sized, whale-shaped ship, the Manisa League. To get Ryteb to accept the teleport, Emperor Michael, through hologram, would say to the Mage:

"And before you ask, we have information about Restam," he was trying to seem grave. "He's appeared in your destination world." The silver-haired eighteen year old would then wait for Tocsax, who had admittedly lost some face with the group, to take the band of 'adventurers' to the teleportation room, which would lead to the Manisa League's own chamber for teleportation equipment (the rest of the ship was warded against teleports). After a security check by black-armored (but without actual dark powers) guards, the party would be led to the large vessel's Operations Room, a giant place with several tables with holographic projectors, monitor screens, chairs all around, and finally, one giant table whose centre projected a globe.

And at the head of said giant table was Emperor Michael XIII Sideros, still clad in his imperial crown and special forces armor, and Maria di Italia, whose figure was concealed by her robes of black and white silk with pearls. Empeor Michael would then say:

"All right, we've come to the world of 'Alternate World War II', whose divergence from the 'Original Timeline' is that the climatic conflict of the 20th Century continued on to the 1950s, thanks to the Nazi Party discovering dark sorcery that allowed them to send forth and control the Heartless. The Nazis, by the way, are a group of people who believe that the color of one's skin and the blood that ran through one's veins made one better than other humans," that last explanation was for Drake and Ryteb's sakes.

"For some time, we didn't know who gave the Nazis dark sorcery and allowed them to control such dark beings. Now..." Emperor Michael was now showing a hologram of a tall, handsome, and arrogant-looking man in a black robe, showing a group of Nazis feats of sorcery that Ryteb would recognize as Terra Atum Magic. "...now Ryteb's story has given us the final clue we needed to fill in the picture. Restam, one of the Thirteen Seekers of Darkness, has allied with the Nazis and taught them actual magic!" The young man's face turned grave again.

"And it gets worse; apparently, Stalin, the leader of the U.S.S.R, a group of countries who believe in glorifying the common worker while at the same time hypocritically oppressing them, has been approached by another Seeker of Darkness, Lavinia," the records would then show a beautiful blond woman with strong-looking hips, wearing farmer's overalls, a straw hat, and carrying a large, ominous looking scythe, "who in turn has the power of Agriculture, which sounds like a weak power at first, until one remembers that it allows one to control plants, sharp farming equipment, and machines. And finally, there is the Princess of Heart, a young woman living in the United Kingdom, which is barely withstanding the Nazi onslaught."

"The Princess of Heart is named Lucille, or Lucy, Bolt. She's eighteen-years old and working as a mechanic in a shop in Britain's capital, London, and who is being guarded by an Independent Keyblader, a Jew named Judah bin Issac, an Independent Keyblader with the ability to 'exorcise' possessing entities, including fragments of Leo, but that is a matter for the future."

"Either way...Tocsax, do you have a viable strategy for this world?" A chance for Tocsax to regain face.

"Yes," the boy caught on. "We're going to have to split our seven - no, eight - members to tackle the various objectives, which include the Princess of Heart." He would then face the group.

"Ryteb came here for vengance, so he will get it; he, Mai, and Taka will be sent to destroy the Nazis and their leader, Heinrich Himmler - their former leader, Adolf Hitler, died in mysterious circumstances. Ryteb will also kill Restam." A hologram of Berlin, the Nazis' capital, will then be projected, showing swarms of Heartless and mundane troops.

"Drake and Seth, meanwhile, will be sent to kill Stalin and Lavinia," a hologram of Moscow then showed, along with defenses as thick as those in Berlin, "while v2, Mac, and Cheese will have an assignment in London; negotiate with Jude and recruit Lucille into the ranks." Tocsax would then look resolute.

"Any objections?"

@Double@Arty Fox@SMS@Rex@Ryteb Pymeroce@Gentlemanvaultboy@ShadowVentus