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Ha I gfi ally had a long enough lunch break to read Camalot’s intro post, I regret not doing it sooner. Just, damn, I’m hooked. Can’t wait to interact more with her now that she’s become Roma’s #1 target.

The Angel is still #2, but one can’t stare at such radiance and self sacrifice without wanting to peel it apart and see what makes the girl under the armor tick.

@Lewascan2 What would be a small token cast in gold that Camelot would find significant? I was thinking authentic coinage from Camelot era.

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This is the first time I feel we need to impose a post size maximum limit.

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I’ll post Monday at the latest

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If she doesn't embrace her destiny, hesitation will be the mink killer.

Tower of Fable

Kanbaru Otoko

The shadow was a liar, for it couldn't be Touka, and if it wasn't her then nothing it said could hold any merit. But dismissing those venomous words was harder when they struck so deep, slicing through her defenses like a poisoned knife her foot fell and couldn't rise, the whale stricken with a look of horror on her face. Sickness crept up her throat and she clamped a hand to her mouth as she realized even lies were built on a nugget of truth.

"I...wasn't leaving you, Touka. I wasn't! I was not going to leave you!" She screamed, eyes shaking at the apperation forming before her. The physical reminder of her past, resplendent in the Magical Girl attire she hadn't seen in so long. Since the Magic had left and their world fell apart without anyone noticing. A quiet apocalypse that took so much. Their power. Their unity. Her partner.

Chie...

"I was gonna get an apartment when I went to college, and I was going to invite you Touka. I was! We would have been toge-" Her pleas fell on suddenly deaf ears, Kanbaru's words choked down as her ever near companion bisected the false Touka. The sight of such blood and viscera was a bizarre comfort, as a real Magical Touka would never have fallen so easily. She knew that would have been a mess of wires still thrashing about and trying to skewer them, not some mess of shadow fading away. Replaced by the silent nun hovering before her, comforting Kanbaru with her touch.

The whale stepped forward, sword falling with a clatter of steel on stone as her arms enveloped the JSTR in a desperate hug. She shook with half formed sobs, eyes wet as she struggled to keep down her tears. A sadness gnawing at her not for the apperations death, but for reminding her that her appearence in the Tower had robbed her of her plans.

"I d-didn't chose to come here. We were moving on. We were..." Kanbaru whimpered, fingers curling against JSTR's back before looking up with red, puffy eyes to the angelic parasite. "I'm an awful person. Yurei was so innocent and Chie had so much potential, yet both are dead because of brats and that fucking snake! Why do I get a second chance at power when...when Touka needed it more? I don't even know if she'll...be alive, by the time I leave this Tower."

"So please, help me fix this mistake. I need her to be okay." With a final gulp of air she stilled her trembling, brushing the back of her hand across her cheek and staring at it with a grim smile. The dry glove creaked as it closed into a fist that she dropped to her side.

"And if she isn't, help me with that saw of yours. There's a snake and an Angel's spawn who deserve your tender mercy."

Silver Gate Academy [Accepting New Players]

Lorelai De Windt

Alas, hunting was not in the cards for the group, but that just meant Lorelai and company could focus all their attention on the coming festivities to come. And they were grand indeed, an affair equally alien as it felt western compared to their trip to venerable old Kyoto. Like stepping over into a picture book, where knightly orders were something one could openly speak of with admiration and not as a footnote of ages past. Where everything they had held contained in secret was just the norm in Arcanis.

"Almost makes me thing I was born in the wrong time. Or place...then again, I don't know if they have my brand of shampoo here." The blonde chirped to herself, finger to her chin as she looked upwards, visibly thinking over whether she could live somewhere without the means to care for her lengthy hair. She looked askance at Helena and considered that she was always meticulously well put together, but she was a noble. Did she have maids who did that for her on a daily basis? They'd probably be all traditional and wear those adorable frilly outfits. "I'd look good in that. Heck, I'd make a great maid, period! Why doesn't Helena ask me to be-"

The tangent of a scatter brained blonde when waiting for the events in the long hall to begin were blessedly derailed by the grandest and burliest of men taking center stage and regailing them all with their oratory prowess. While they weren't anyone she'd known before coming here, or even the sovereign of her own nation for that matter, the Dutch-Japanese couldn't pull herself from their words if the group had attempted to drag her away.

It was all so very straight forward and just! Oh how she loved it, leaping with joy as she cheered with the crowd as the festivities opened for all and people could do as they please with the commencement given. This left an excitable ditz fired up for a tournament and within easy reach of a sparring partner. With a lunge that brought them face to face she grasped Helena by the shoulder and shook her- Or was Lorelai simply vibrating so strongly it had the same effect?- to get her attention.

"We must train for the tournament! And while we're at it you can tell me what shampoo our maids use on you and were do they get those frilly aprons!"

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With a final look back at the family estate of her fair haired noble friend and the comforting presence of an iconic outfit resting in her luggage, Lorelai embraced the day of the tourney with a smile in spite of the numerous cuts marring her limbs beneath neatly applied bandages. Sparring with a fencer was bound to lead to her to being grazed frequently, but she thought it was good practise for facing enemies who were more dynamic and speedy then the towering monsters she'd found herself fighting till now.

"Today's the day I show a whole new world what the De Windt are made of!"

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The Holiday and post holiday season is a pretty tiring tome of year

Tower of Fable

Kanbaru Otoko

There was a lot that happened and a lot that Kanbaru just had to ignore, the Abyss a place she found increasingly confusing just for how people and events were want to come and go with seemingly no measure of reason behind them. Perhaps if her parasite was more cooperative they could have kept track but she wasn't inclined to, so Kanbaru settled for tugging down the brim of her hat and continueing on in their flight from the untouchable miasma choking life from the Abyss.

A cheap adversary, and Kanbaru didn't know if she longed to crush the source of it or leave it behind entirely so it was someone else's problem. If she couldn't freeze, shoot, punch, or stab something, it was simply a headache for the whale. Kneading her temple as she felt the stirring of a more tangible cranial pressure, she found herself mounting a staircase of slashing light and shadow.

One with a particular voice that had her halt mid-step. The belated fall of her foot was heavy and sounded like an uproar to her strained ears as she focused on her surroundings with a heightened sense of tension. Her sword was in hand, balanced on her shoulder not for comfort, but to better bring it down on whomever borrowed that voice. A voice that shouldn't be here, when even her Serei was long absent.

"I'm more real then you, impostor." Kanbaru retorted icily, forcing down the desire to snarl as she begrudgingly continued up the steps. "If she were here she'd be running this shitty Abyss, so don't waste my time when you can't grasp how awesome she was- Is."

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Suzuya Kuzunoha

Though the numbers of Magical Girls swelled in a short time frame, and not an iota of reinforcement had arrived for the Pageless, their desperation only drove them to new heights of ferocity. She'd barely alighted on a girder before they rose, clambering upon one another in a rising tide of claws to snatch the last page of her own personal story. With a look of cold contempt she slashed and leapt, the fires of her heart burning brighter as she culled the tides crashing around her.

A girl with her hands folded in prayer commanded a moment of her attention, first for the brazen display of her own defenselessness in the face of so many foes, and second for the boon she offered. Burning Heart smiled then, her heel alighting upon a vertical beam and launching her downwards to the ground amidst a thick knot of Pageless not yet crushed by the whalloping of a Monkey or the lasers of an Angel.

"I do promise to burn like the brightest star in the sky!" Suzuya consummated her oath pulling a heavy mace wrapped in bands of studded iron from her tail, smashing it to the ground to pulp the darkness into a murky paste. When oath met actions her flames tripled in their intensity, including the arrow wall still burning amidst the steel girders. A light to banish the dark, refusing to smothered even by weight of Pageless perishing atop them.

Taking a second to admire the display brought her focus upon Lilac struggling, herself positioned as the seeming last direct line of defense between the bewitched people and their would-be-executioners. Her mace was left with nary a glance and she bounded back to the perimeter they'd built, finding the air delightful hot after a night of misty gloom, with Lilac being pushed to draw her sword in a vicious melee with the angel hovered above them.

"You fight well." Her greeting preceeded her arriving in a flurry of motion, drawing a fresh Naginata in a spinning slash that brought her to Lilac's side in a mess of Pageless ichor. The many tails of gold and fire brushed the other girl's back without harm, their softness almost ticklish before Suzuya moved to her side with a fierce, excited expression. "But we will fight better together."

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I'll post on Monday.