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Fire Emblem: A Blinding Light

Isolde chased after the Fighter. The Fighter heard the incoming Wyvern and spun to attempt defending himself, but he was far less prepared than Kergin was. He swiped his axe high and Kergin ducked his head below it, successfully snapping at the Fighter’s legs. He let out a shout of pain before being picked up and thrown into the wall, promptly finished. In the distance, Aldo nodded approvingly.

<Most reasonable assumed action for Voss: Avoid taking damage and throw a Flux (as not currently damaged)>

<Most reasonable assumed action for Reina: Engage enemy from side>

Marwood rode and charged with superior movement, keeping Morag from getting to Voss. Morag looked notably angered, glaring up at Marwood.

‘FINE! HAVE IT YOUR WAY! OFF!’ Morag cried out and jumped at Marwood. The mercenary’s currently superior experience meant he avoided Marwood’s lance, and managed to get a full-powered swing into Marwood’s side in a way that would have looked lethal…

… Except Marwood had what Morag did not. Support. Having seen Marwood get injured in the earlier scuffle, Titania had rightly looked at others than Reina to support, appearing in time to heal the wound. The healing magic of Titania’s staff kept Marwood up, in the way, and locking Morag in place.

And then came two Dark spells from either side and a Rapier as Aldo and Voss individually cast their spells and Reina dashed in from the side. The Flux spells arose from the floor and struck into the mercenary twice, staggering him so he could not react in time as Reina came in and ran him through.

‘Urgh…’ Morag glared forward at Marwood, who had refused to die from his powerful blade, swaying where he was. ‘Damn it… Lord Ansovald… You said this would be easy…’ And so, Morag spent the last couple moments blaming the one who hired him instead of his own tactics as he collapsed backwards onto the floor.

The experience was shared among those involved in taking him down. One of them was less experienced than the rest, and as such grew to the next level.

Level Up!
Aldo: Level 1 -> 2, HP+1, SKL+1, SPD+1, RES+1
‘Hm, a new development. I’ll research this at first opportunity.’

With that, the battle was over. The way out to the right was open for them.

Chapter Cleared

Earned some extra bonus-experience for later

Romilda breathed out within her cell.

‘Hmpf, well done. Now, out with you all. You carry the Fire Emblem, correct? Away. Get it to safety,’ she said, standing straight and commanding.

‘As for you, why did you even come? Alone, you wouldn’t have stood a chance against those mercenaries, young Shaman. You should have just protected your own skin. I was safe enough in here already, thanks to you,’ she attempted to reprimand Voss for his appearance here.

‘We need to keep going, someone might have heard us,’ Aldo said, though his eyes wandered at Romilda…

‘… I’m okay with dying if you feel I’m too dangerous to leave in enemy hands,’ Romilda raised her chin as she said, neutral expression. Aldo frowned. The rest was left to the others present. She had the same knowledge as the Fighter that was just chased down and more, after all.

Edit:

Excerpt from Romilda's story in the character's tab, which you should know, she was sort of infamous for a while

Romilda was a Grado Shaman, studying until she grew to be a powerful and respected member of Grado’s dark-magic researchers. However, at some point her path strayed, and she sought to use dark arts to enslave humans in order to make them her assistants as she studied to make monsters of her own. For a time, she had laid claim to several villages to make them cooperate for her goals. When found out a battle occurred between Rioga and Romilda’s unwilling servants and summons, one that ended in Rioga’s victory and Romilda being held in one of Rioga’s famous public trials. The conclusion led to that Romilda’s dark arts were sealed through a rare ceremony not often performed, and is now held in the castle prison until she can be rehabilitated. Castle therapists aren’t hopeful.

_{Support
Titania/Marwood -> 3
Aldo/Marwood -> 1
Reina/Aldo -> 4
Voss/Marwood -> 1 (stored for now)}

Notable Individuals;

Blue, Allied Units

Blue Lord

Reina - The princess of Gardo. Appreciates the finer things in life.
Weapon Mastery: Sword: E
Level: 2
Equipment and Items: Précieuse (Rapier), Vulnerary, Fire Emblem, Tactician’s Stone

Blue Wyvern Rider

Isolde - Clumsy, but reliable Wyvern knight.
Weapon Mastery: Axe: D
Level: 5
Equipment and Items: Halberd, Tactician’s Stone

Blue Cavalier

Marwood - The prince of Renais with a good heart and a rebellious streak, cares deeply for others.
Weapon Mastery: Sword: C, Lance: D
Level: 4
Equipment and Items: Reginleif, Steel Sword, Tactician’s Stone, 5,000G

Blue Cleric

Titania - A tough healer from Rausten, she forges her own path to help as many people as she can.
Weapon Mastery: Staff: D
Level: 5
Equipment and Items: Heal, Mend, Tactician’s Stone

Blue Shaman

Aldo - A shaman researcher and advisor on things magic in service of Grado. Magically gifted and incurably serious.
Weapon Mastery: Dark: E
Level: 2
Equipment and Items: Flux, Vulnerary, Guiding Ring, Tactician’s Stone x4.

Green, Grado Forces

Green Shaman

Voss - Scholarly Shaman of Grado. Usually prefers the company of books over people.
Weapon Mastery: Dark: C
Level: 4
Equipment and Items: Flux, Nosferatu, Vulnerary

Green Summoner in Cell

Romilda – Notorious dark-magic criminal. Captured and had her magic sealed by Rioga.
Weapon Mastery: N/A (sealed)
Level: ???
Equipment and Items: ---

Beyond the Looking Glass: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

@DracoLunaris It's in a tiny little box just above "The World" just below the listing of what all the perks does. Concerns only allies, as Broken stated. Oh, and for you plus

@Rune_Alchemist and @Crusader Lord, we're happy to have your interest and welcome you aboard if you're interested in joining~

@Majoras End Ah, I was afraid of that. I am pretty sure it was supposed to be +2 to only one stat... but I can see how it could be read differently and will wait a bit for Ariamis just in case those 5% mind I have that I could be wrong turns out to be well-founded, haha.

Beyond the Looking Glass: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

@Majoras End Given the significant boost from the last sheet, do you mind if I ask you to outline how you got to your stats?

@BrokenPromise From my experience, having created Deni and Eli and all, I was allowed to have them follow the same Patron as Mariette with somewhat different benefits and drawbacks. That said, if you wish, you could probably roll for it, you could have gotten an ally from anywhere. I am not entirely confident I'll say something that aligns with Ari's thoughts on it here, but it sounds alright to me. If they're allowed to be Mint, I'd say they'd get their Black Coin, as it follows different rules than the normal coins.

@Flamelord Yupp. Basically the same sheet, but with some nice little additions. Use of the Platinum Coin from last season noted, and after having been reminded of where that anti-corruption potion came from this feels alright. Accepted.

Beyond the Looking Glass: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

Mariette Pedersen

Name: Mariette Pedersen

Name (Before Magical Girl): Lina Herring

Age (Magical Girl): 15

Age (Before Magical Girl): 4 (Horror doesn’t care.)

Gender: Female

Gender (Before Magical Girl): Female

Appearance: Mariette is a tall girl of slender but otherwise average frame. Her hair is long and white straight when transformed, blonde wavy when untransformed. She typically has a calm expression on her face. She tends to dress somewhat extravagantly, her transformed state wears elaborate black dresses while her untransformed self typically also endorsed herself with accessories. She’s often seen squeezing a large stuffed animal in the shape of a rabbit. Her right eye is constantly under an eyepatch, but she hasn’t actually lost it. There is a reason behind this.

Transformed

Untransformed, she looks like a very regular blonde 15-year old, wearing glasses and regularly overdressing herself in hats and coats as well as generally gazing off into the vast distance with no purpose.

Untransformed

Specialization: Oddball: Portals. Mariette is a master of using portals. She’s immensely powerful with them, too. She can create them in mid-air, in varying sizes, around enemies and in varying kinds of movement. With as high magical power as she has, she can create her portals anywhere within her sight, but she has much greater fine-control of their movement the closer they were created to her. The portals are circular and flat, and lead to another portal of the same size she also has created within her range. The edges of the portals are solid and can be broken to destroy the portals.

With extended focus, she can also create portals to places much further away assuming she knows the location, and with greater use she can even enter alternative pocket-dimensions. She has no desire to leave this world behind, however. Also, if others flees through teleportation or to different worlds, Mariette may be able to follow them. Using a mirror as the base of the portal greatly amplifies the effect and makes rituals for more extreme portalling much easier. There are some major rituals which she can conduct using big mirrors for the sake of Asengav’s goals.

Weapon: Mystic mirror. It’s a simple hand-mirror that she can seemingly summon from nowhere into her hand. It helps creating portals around the area, and Mariette channels her magic through it.

Power: Tentacles. These are sentient tentacles sprouting from anywhere within a certain range around Mariette. These are a blessing given directly from Asengav, and they look pretty much like darkness given form. They’re powerful, regrow if they’re blasted into pieces and are Mariette’s main defense if the enemy tries to strike her in close combat. Herself, she has no ability in the close.

Perks:
Gifted - The reason Asengav chose her in the first place. She can do things with her portals that other people perhaps would not be able to. She’s an expert at this.
Interdimensional Home - Using her portals, she has set up her own little dimension that she can go to. It’s a nice place to hide, and she can feel comfortable there. There’s food and a view, but she does prefer Joe’s place.
Blood Magic - Among other things, she was granted the ability to expand her own life as magic. Mariette will use this if the situation turns deadly.
Overcity Shift - If she wants to, she can displace the entire area to a different dimension in the Overcity. There the battle can be conducted without destruction and so.
Interdimensional Tourist - It’s Joe. Joe’s an average man with normal job, a stressful life and a licence as an interdimensional tourist. He helps Mariette and the twins out with food and give them a place to stay, for now. He just felt sad for Mariette once, and now he has three girls living off of him… Huh.

Joe

(now Emergency, +2 Combat Perks)
Hammerspace Handbag - Which actually is a portal of hers. She just reaches into the portal, and she has everything she needs there. Good to have.
Allies - Along with her transformation, Asengav saw fit to provide Mariette with two allies that should come in handy. A set of two twinned-souls monster-girls. However, one has died, leaving only Eli.
(Now Gold coin for extra +2 Perks)
Awareness - You’d think a girl with one eye would see worse, wouldn’t you? Wrong. There’s something about Mariette that makes her excessively perceptive of things around her, and she just knows. Even when ambushed she seems to be able to block the attacks.
Absolute Direction - With destination or object in mind assuming she knows about it in detail, Mariette knows which direction it is. … REALLY useful for a girl that can open long-range portals with enough focus. Bad at finding concepts or nonspecific things.

Patron: A Horror named Asengav. Not really his name, but as best and easiest we can pronounce it.

Patron Benefits:
Creeping Doom - Cannot attract extreme attention. He has a carefully laid out plan, and it’s going to be executed, one step at a time. They’re less likely to be lethal and uncompletable for Mariette and her minions.
Reasonable - As disturbingly horrifying as he is, Asengav is reasonable. He has been watching humans and magical girls for a long time. He knows how to blend in. He can even take the form of a human to hold a simple conversation. He does not intend on destroying the world, thank god, because he probably could.
Minions - They’re shaped like men and look like they’ve been drawn with ink, and they’re strong and can lash out at unexpected ranges with stretchy arms. They’re weaker than magical girls, but they can take one by surprise. They can be summoned through Mariette’s portals when Asengav has been kind enough to put them at Mariette’s disposal.
Retrieval - Asengav has no intention of losing his chosen champion. If Mariette is in trouble and he has a moment to, he’ll strike open a portal and retrieve her before she’s done for.
Mystic Might - Asengav has provided Mariette with a bit of extra magical might, and...
Mana Font - … he has also given her a small portal in her heart to a great reserve of mana, for her to use as she sees fit.

Patron Drawbacks:
Quick-Tempered - Asengav’s only reasonable up to a certain point. Mess up a single part in his carefully laid-out plan… and watch the nightmares overcome you.
Mind-Bent - Mariette is completely unable to not follow the orders of her patron. The very idea of opposing her chief causes an immediate major dose of terror and pain. If she ever left Asengav’s care, she’d be left a quivering mess in her bed, forever unable to move unless someone bent back her mind. Also, there has been a SERIOUS impact to her personality.
Insomnia - Can’t sleep, won’t sleep. She clutches her favorite bunny every night trying to sleep, and she absolutely can’t sleep a wink without it.
Bane - Something as simple as a lit wax candle. A lit candle symbolises the hope in the darkness, and it sends Asengav scurrying. Similarly, unlit candles make Mariette uneasy, but lit ones can effectively burn her skin up close. But, they must be kind of small. People holding wax candles will be unaffected by her portals.
Also, broken mirrors. A broken mirror repels Mariette’s portal-sense that keeps track of the positions of her existing portals, where it feels like needles having been inserted into her painfully when she gets close to them. She cannot keep active portals going around them, as they pierce her with pain from proximity.
Health Sapping - So much power is poured into Mariette, with the tentacles, minions, and so, that her movements and physical efforts are somewhat blocked.

Fighting Style: First things first. That eye-patch? That’s to ensure her enemies don’t realize her right eye is constantly looking through numerous portals. She switches the location and number of these portals as she needs to, inspecting the battlefield from varying points, gathering information from a bird’s eye view. It’s imperative that a portal-girl is constantly aware of the positions of everyone, after all, and this allows her to widen the range of where she can open portals quickly as she needs vision to open them. The portals are so tiny, you’d never usually detect it, even with awareness. … Someone with the Third Eye likely would, though.

Mariette does not fight in close combat. When she fights, she prefers to do so behind the minions of her patron. From there, she can support them in an excessive amount of ways with her portals. She can create them as shields that then redirect the attacks at her enemies. She can slap a portal onto someone and send them into compromising situations or place them really far away. She can open portals for her attacks to come from unexpected directions.

For actual fighting, Mariette uses her tentacles. They’re strong tendrils of darkness that constantly surround her in battle. They’re strong with plenty of range, but the average magical girl would be able to keep them at bay. … Which is why Mariette often sends them through portals to attack from unexpected angles and from longer range than expected. Portals make no sound as they’re created, after all. She makes them squeeze and crush enemies from afar. In close combat she can also use better fine-control of portals to trap limbs and halt an enemy’s progress. That’s her last defense.

She doesn’t really have much high-power attacks of her own, but her portals are there to ensure the enemy never get close. She likes to team up with Eli to make her shoot into the skies through her portals or send her into combat supported by portals. Mariette can easily change her own location as well by just walking through a portal herself. But, she’s not fast. Mariette sometimes also risks that enemies try to use her own portals to fire upon her. She simply has to ensure that doesn’t happen. Those are her tactics.

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

Stats (Transformed):
STR: 4
AGI: 4
VIT: 4
MAG: 20
LCK: 5

Personality: Mariette carries herself like an extremely calm older girl, her expression remaining neutral and her force remaining intentful. She’s determined to achieve her goals, and may come across as rather arrogant. She’s playful around official matters but merciless in action. She often acts in a creepy way that seems to tell that not everything is all there. However, that isn’t all there is to her. She finds any small animals or stuffed such animal mind-bogglingly adorable. She wants to try every new experience she can notice, from singing to roller-coasters to arcade machines, wearing accessories and going to school, such. She rarely has the money to try anything, however. But, so it is.

Also, good luck trying to scare her. She’s been in contact with Asengav so often, she won’t even react to what the regular public might think is scary or repulsing. Like someone’s sudden death, or so.

History: There was an emergency. Except, the emergency wasn’t really one which four year old Lina Herring could do anything about. See, she had an abusive father, and she could see the incoming signs the moment she heard him enter the house and start yelling at her mother. So, she fled. Somehow, she managed to escape without father noticing. She fled, and never wanted to return. On that route, she came across an emergency. That is, an emergency for her.

An unspeakable horror dived onto her, enveloping her. Her magical potential must have appealed to him, and with that he took her over and transformed her into the kind of girl he wanted her to be. As far as anyone else knows, Lina Herring either died or was kidnapped that day. It took quite some time, a number of years as the horror was reconstructing her to suit his needs, but one day a girl walked out into the world again. A Magical Girl, significantly older than Lina had been, this one known as Mariette Pedersen. A fake name, of course, but as it is that’s how it goes.

Lunacy of Love: In the previous season, Mariette got into a deal with Justine von Visceral to kidnap girls for her in exchange for assistance with her own goals. Mariette knew that Justine would eventually be an enemy, so she warned Lily Hanson and Alexander Shields in hope they’d prepare. In the deal with Justine, Mariette obtained firepower, but in the heat of the exchange, Justine’s sister Caroline attacked and killed her servant Deni when the slime-girl tried to protect her mistress. After that, Justine declared Mariette to have outlived her usefulness by blowing up her interdimensional apartment, and their battle started. Mariette flew to Alicia of Beacon and proposed a deal.

Mariette ferried the good guys into the Overcity to challenge Justine. She and Eli got into a battle with Caroline, managing to defeat her by the edge of their teeth, though in the midst of sacrificing her she was kidnapped by another being. Mariette then went into the dungeon and “rescued” the magical girls she had kidnapped for Justine, the mentally drained girls believing her. She then walked in on Justine’s treasury, emptying it into a portal before moving on. She spied Justine’s defeat, but was then taken back to the Interdimensional Apartment to see it had been renovated with a whole gothic mansion. Asengav was pleased with Mariette, and she was now informed the time was approaching for the next step…

Incantation: In a world without meaning, exists a purpose with destination, and I will see it to its end. The gate is open.

Additional Info: As said before, mirrors help amplify her portal might. This is actually why she wears glasses in her untransformed state. She can, without rousing suspicion, easily make portals in her glasses to look at something from a great distance.

Also, friendly tip. Mariette’s usually really calm, and won’t even bat an eye if you decapitate someone in front of her. But, if you really want to kick a puppy, or harm any small adorable animal, don’t do it in front of Mariette. Hell feels bad for those who do.

For her services last season, Mariette has received a Platinum Coin. She has yet to decide what to do with it.

Ally, Eli

Name: Eli.

Name (Before Magical Girls): Elizabeth Walton

Age (Magical Girl): 7

Age (Before Magical Girl): 15

Gender: Female

Gender (Before Magical Girl): Female

Appearance: Underdeveloped/Skimpy
She’s an amorphous harpy. She’s small and slim, except for all the slime she has a body one would expect at that age. She finds pleasure in ornaments, wearing them in hair and clothing. Her body is largely composed of black jelly, her arms are typically shaped like wings, her eyes looking very creepy and unnatural. … It should also be noted that the jelly is partly see-through and skin-tight, so one can kinda see the shape of her gelatinous body through, which is why it qualifies as skimpy.

Transformed

When untransformed, Eli wears a uniform fit her age to blend in and wears a pair of glasses to further hide herself. She looks considerably normal for their age.

Untransformed

Specialization: Reinforcement and Darkness.

Reinforcement means Eli can block attacks with barriers, enhance the items or bodies of others as well as heal wounds. She can remove curses and other negative energies, and in addition her disguised human form is a bit tough and her words of encouragement have an intoxicating effect.

Darkness means the Eli can shield herself from detection as she uses her wings to glide through the night. She can see in the dark, and make herself temporarily intangible as well as warp herself short distances between shadows. She can also place minor curses and negative effects on areas and people.

Weapon: Melee/Ranged. That is, Eli doesn’t actually carry weapons. However, she can combine her magic with her amorphous body to suddenly form swords, pikes, axes, sharp feathers, guns and similar things, the ranged weapons powered by her own magic to fire. These weapons are not powerful, but the weapons she can produce this way can be really adaptable to what is needed at that moment, and can emerge from any part of her body.

Power: Third Eye. Eli has a special sight called the Third Eye, allowing her to see the flow of magic, straight through illusions and see traces of past magic having been used in areas.
Eli was originally created by the Twin Soul power of her sister.

Perks:
Dual Weapon - Eli have mastered the art of making ranged weapons out of her amorphous body as well as firing these with her mana as ammunition.
Wings - She’s a fluid harpy. Somehow. Eli can’t actually fly as well as birds, but she sure can climb, jump and glide around.
Martial Training - Eli’s accomplished in a very wide variety of weapons to go with her ability to form weapons on the go. She’s also quite tactically gifted and could handle commanding armies.
Flexibility - Eli’s fluid and adaptable, amorphous. While she normally looks like she’s supported by bones, she can suddenly curve in impossible ways when the current amount of flexibility just didn’t cut it.

Monster Girls: To summarize, Eli’s an amorphous harpy that have wings instead of arms, yet is much more a slime-creature than a harpy. She makes use of this every way she can.
Nonstandard Limbs - Her limbs are slimy harpy things. Though, given that her wings are slime, they can still hold things.
Devourers - There’s a certain hunger within Eli, which could make her attack humans if not properly fed with meat. Mariette ensures to always keep a significant amount of meat in her Hammerspace Handbag just in case.
Amorphous Body - She’s a liquid harpy. Eli’s form is difficult to injure, her fluids can make her bodies contort when it doesn’t feel like looking like it does, and so on. There’s a ton of consequences.
Second Specialization - Aside from natural Reinforcement, Asengav gave Eli and her sister the gift of Darkness to add to their magical arsenals. The two were very efficient spies, because of this.

Patron: Asengav, Horror.

Patron Benefits:
Creeping Doom - Cannot attract extreme attention. He has a carefully laid out plan, and it’s going to be executed, one step at a time. They’re less likely to be lethal and uncompletable for Mariette and her minions.
Reasonable - As disturbingly horrifying as he is, Asengav is reasonable. He has been watching humans and magical girls for a long time. He knows how to blend in. He can even take the form of a human to hold a simple conversation. He does not intend on destroying the world, thank god, because he probably could.
Takes One To Know One - There are two parts of Asengav’s power. The portals and the darkness. Eli is literally dripping with the darkness to her cores, and this has consequences. She feels the same energy if exposed to it in others. This allows Eli to see through the disguises of monsters and detect Horror champions should they touch or meet eye-to-eye. If they have a bane, she also gets a rough idea of what it might be. A better idea the longer she looks them in the eyes.
Retrieval - As with Mariette, should Eli end up in mortal danger and Asengav has the time to spare, her Patron might reach out through a portal and save her. Might. It’s a multidimensional being with plenty of other things on its mind. Saving underlings is significantly less important than saving champions. If she’s lucky, with other words.
Magical Overload - Eli’s an amorphous harpies.

Patron Drawbacks:
Quick-Tempered - Asengav’s only reasonable up to a certain point. Mess up a single part in his carefully laid-out plan… and watch the nightmares overcome you.
Insomnia - With a horror as their patron, the monster girl doesn’t have an easy time falling asleep. Something’s always clawing at her mind, whispering horrendous nothings, giving her terrible dreams when she does fall asleep. Eli does rarely ever want to go to sleep, staying up playing games or stalking targets outside instead, and this is a large part of that. But eventually, she has to…
Mind-Bent - Eli is as mind-manipulated as Mariette. She thinks she’s following Mariette out of her own free will, but she’s really not. Her mind has a compulsion to follow Asengav and her current leader, Mariette, and although Eli can disagree with commands she can never even consider going against the cause. Any notion of such will send a pang of pain through her head, punishing her for even thinking the thought. Should she ever fall out of favour with their horror overlord, Eli will find herself a quivering wreck huddling forever in fear unless someone bends her mind back.
Bane - While Mariette is affected by both lit wax candles and cracked mirrors, Eli is more or less immune to the cracked mirrors. This is because she has no portal or dimension-travelling abilities of her own, which the cracked mirror bane is linked to. However, a lit wax candle is the bane of the darkness of Asengav, which Eli is the personification of. The slightest light of such a candle or the smell of wax in her noses will cause burning pain, forcing Eli to flee. Being locked inside a room with lit wax candles will burn her alive and cause her amorphous body to melt. A much more extreme reaction than that which Mariette experiences.
Monstrous Form - Eli’s an amorphous harpy.

Fighting Style: As stated before, Eli’s an amorphous harpy. Compared to other magical girls, Eli isn’t very powerful, but she’s got considerable adaptability. Her wings and her fluid body allows her to swirl around, and her ability to form hard melee blades or ranged weapons that can shoot out of her body can very easily take an enemy by surprise. Being fluid, Eli’s difficult to hurt and is quite flexible. She dances on the battlefield and take out enemies one at a time.

Eli doesn’t necessarily belong on the battlefield alone, though. With Darkness magic, she makes sneaky attacks that the enemy don’t see coming as she’s hidden herself, and with Reinforcement she can power herself up to match stronger enemies or heal damage. She removes curses from herself with Reinforcement and then puts curses on her enemies with Darkness up close. But, the typical magical girl should be able to fight her off, she’s not that strong.

When she REALLY become deadly is when she’s matched up with Mariette, with portals on her side. Then Eli can dive through portals, shoot through portals or be defended by portals, greatly amplifying her effectiveness. Yupp.

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

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

Personality: Eli’s a naturally shy person, although she has lately been getting a bit more confident. She used to only be able to speak confidently in the word-games she played with her sister, but ever since the climactic battle with Caroline Eli’s found a source of confidence within her, a desire that allows her to act to accomplish Mariette’s goals. She can even be a touch playful, but otherwise she’s as serious as they come, if a bit more whimsical and likely to get scared than her mistress. However, regardless of how at peace she is with having defeated Caroline for Deni, Eli will forever mourn her departed sister.

History: Something went very wrong when Denise Walton was born. Because, somehow, she was born with two consciousnesses in her mind, which switched often. To make things easier, the other personality was called Elizabeth. They were two personalities in one body. Not unheard of, but they were constantly messing up for one another as one was shier than the other. The years went by, and there didn’t seem to be any way to solve this. The two girls in the same body felt panicked, and prayed to the heavens out of stress that something would come and solve their predicament. Unfortunately, something heard them.

Asengav approached them, feeling that the two personalities had been caused by a considerable base of mana. He offered them a way out, and they agreed. Deni and Eli were then formed, split in two and given half the age of each, and they’ve been trained to follow Asengav’s commands and then follow Mariette on her mission. So they did, until the day Deni was slain by Caroline von Visceral. Now Eli alone, who originally didn’t even have a body of her own, follows Mariette to accomplish the goals. She’s fairly lonely.

Incantation: Love and passion, squander my life, make me fight for meaningless ambitions! Eli! Here I go!

Additional Info: Eli can sometimes be seen in arcades owning the heck out of anyone challenging her or her high-score, and she’s totally calm and cool about it, too. She privately wants to make it big as a competitive gamer or an author. She’ll then remember that Deni used to always happily remind her that becoming famous in their condition would be a terrible idea. Eli then gets depressed.

Eli has received a Platinum Coin for her services last season. She thinks of what it can do and clutches it close at all times…

Horror Patron, Asengav

Type: Horror

Name: Unpronounceable, but we call him Asengav.

Personality: Asengav’s a perfectionist horror. It has a master-plan in place, and it will follow it to the letter. As for the rest… who really knows. He’s very calm for a monstrosity that can drive you insane with his mere presence. When he peeks at the world, he often does so through mirrors. They somehow work well with his dimensional magic. So if you glimpse something that really, REALLY shouldn’t be there in the mirror, but look again and it isn’t there… it is quite possible Asengav might have been watching you.

History: For all we know, this horror simply was. One might claim it was somehow formed when countless dark sorcerers from a hundred billion realities committed the same atrocious dark ritual in the same location in many universes, sending all the magical energy spiraling into one location in the multiverse and bringing a horrific entity to life… but that’d just be theorizing, because nobody knows. What we do know, is that its name is unpronounceable. We know it can travel through dimensions at will, and is investing into monsters and girls in many, many different alternate versions of the same reality, influencing each in a tiny way to tip them all away from one another and then watch to see what happens.

As for what he wants with this reality… … … … … Who really knows…?

Resources: An important thing to note about Asengav is that he has invested in many different dimensions, throughout multiple different possible realities. While in the world which Mariette wanders she and her two allies were his only agents, across the multiverse he has many, many more monsters and minions doing his work.

And, um. Asengav does have coins, but you’re expected to work for him because you’ll die if you don’t. You know the skill, Absolute Direction? Yeah. Asengav… has that. Across multiverses. You do not escape Asengav if he has decided to hunt you. And, honestly, he can do much worse things than simply kill you. Muuuuuuuch worse.

One thing he does provide is giant mirrors for the sake of some of the rituals that he wants his followers to conduct for him. They greatly amplify his power, after all.

Additional Info: On the banes. These two are composed of two different parts. One is the portal magic, the other is the darkness magic. They have two different banes. The portal magic’s bane is a cracked mirror, with such a nearby the portals won’t form properly and send pain through any user of such magic, including Asengav himself. Then, there’s the darkness magic which he uses to slide about undetected and murder those he needs to. The bane of that is a lit wax candle, which banishes Asengav’s darkness. However, it should be noted that the other kind of magic can be used in the other’s bane. Portals can be formed around candles, darkness can be used around cracked mirrors. Though, those with candles will be unaffected by portals, due to it partially taking them into the Asengav’s dimension, where he doesn’t want them, ever.

Mariette has both Darkness and Portal magic within her. She uses Darkness when commanding minions, having excellent awareness and her tentacles of sheer darkness. This means she’s affected by both Asengav’s banes. Eli is touched by Asengav’s darkness to the very core, much more deeply than Mariette, but doesn’t have any portals in her. This means a lit candle will affect her way worse than it will Mariette, to the point that long enough exposure will cause her to melt and dissipate. She is, however, completely unaffected by cracked mirrors, something Mariette is way worse affected by.

The Rolls and Decisions that brought me here

Recruited through Emergency.

Rolls 19. 15 years old.
Rolls 12. Average body. +1 AGI.
Rolls 20. Oddball. Eventually decided on +2 MAG, +1 LCK.
Rolls 15. Mystic. +1 MAG.
Rolls 14. Elaborate. +1 MAG.
Rolls 20. Tentacles. Wooh.

Combat Perks.
Rolls 5. Gifted. +1 to an Oddball stat. MAG!
Rolls 9. Blood Magic. +1 VIT

Support Perks.
Rolls 5. Interdimensional Home. It was about here that I decided to make her speciality portals, and made it MAG and LCK because all the MAG I got earlier from Mystic and Elaborate.
Rolls 5. Hah. 14, Overcity Shift.

Other Perk. Support Table.
Rolls 5. Whelp. 1, Interdimensional Tourist.

10. Hammerspace Handbag - Picked with Emergency.
14. Allies - Picked with Emergency
19. Awareness - Picked with Gold
10. Absolute Direction - Picked with Gold

Rolls 18. Horror. Oh, dear.
Benefits:
Minions - Free
Reasonable - Switched to from Marked, Free
Retrieval - Extra
Creeping Doom - Bought with Bane
Mana Font - Bought with Mind-Bend
Mystic Might (+1 MAG) - Bought with Health Sapping

Drawbacks:
Quick-Tempered - Mandatory
Insomnia - Mandatory
Bane - Bought with Creeping Doom
Mind-Bent - Bought with Mana Font
Health Sapping (-1 AGI, -1 VIT) - Bought with Mystic Might

Calculating stats…
STR: 4. AGI: 4. VIT: 4. MAG: 10. LCK: 5

10 points to spread with 3 silvers and 4 bronze. Invest them all in MAG.

STR: 4. AGI: 4. VIT: 4. MAG: 20. LCK: 5

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Now, I have an ally. Let’s roll for her.

Monster Girl
Rolls 1. 7 years old.
Rolls 4. Underdeveloped. +1 MAG.
Rolls 5. Reinforcement. +1 STR, +1 AGI, +1 MAG, +1 LCK. +1 VIT out of costume.
Rolls 3. Melee. +1 STR, +1 VIT.
Rolls 3. Skimpy. +1 AGI.
Rolls 6. Twinned Souls. -1 all stats, but there’s two of them. Need to roll weapon, costume and power for second girl.

Girl 2.
Rolls 3. Melee. +1 STR, +1 VIT.
Rolls 5. Skimpy. +1 AGI.
Rolls 16. Third Eye.

Three combat perks.
Rolls 1. Dual Weapon. +1 new weapon stat. … Ranged, +1 AGI.
Rolls 17. Wings.
Rolls 2. Martial Training. +1 STR.
6. Flexibility. +1 AGI. Gotten with Amorphous Body.

Rolls 20. Ebon Mint. … Rolls 17, Beacon.
Decided that they’ll likely just get the same patron as the original character.

Monster girls.
Body Mutation: Nonstandard Limbs. They’re harpies, since I rolled wings.
Mind Mutation: Devourers. Eat some meat or eat men.
Body Mutation: Amorphous Body. +2 VIT, Flexibility. They’re liquid harpies!
Second Specialization: Rolls 10. Darkness. +2 MAG, +1 VIT.
(gosh, Asengav would have become so different if they hadn’t rolled Darkness… XD)

Let’s see. Counting the stats.
STR: 7. AGI: 7. VIT: 7. MAG: 7. LCK: 4.

Later decided they’d have their own drawbacks/benefits.

Benefits:
Creeping Doom - Switched to from Minions, Free
Reasonable - Switched to from Marked, Free
Retrieval - Extra
Takes One To Know One - Bought with Bane
Genki Girl (only for Deni) - Bought with Mind-Bent (for both)

Drawbacks:
Quick-Tempered - Mandatory
Insomnia - Mandatory
Bane - Bought with Takes One to Know One
Mind-Bent (for both) - Bought with Genki Girl (only for Deni)

Because allied monster girls, no coins to spend on them.

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A Number of NPCs.

Mariette's Allies

Called from across Asengav's interdimensional empire to support Mariette on her quest. Their failure would not be taken lightly.

Windfall Sprite

Lea Keuffer

Age: 13
Specialization: Wind
Weapon: ???
Power: ???
Patron: Asengav

The spokeswoman of Asengav. A monster-girl with an elfin appearance, who is fiercely loyal to Asengav and jealous of the power he’s granted Mariette. A denizen of the Overcity, she has amassed a vast array of contacts over her immortal life.

Stats:
STR: ?
AGI: ?
VIT: ?
MAG: ?
LCK: ?

Union Beast

Freya Cameron

Disguised

Age: 16
Specialization: Beast & ???
Weapon: Claws of the --- (Fists)
Power: ???
Patron: Asengav

A monster girl from a world torn by a war for survival. While a level-headed and competent commander of Asengav, she is unfortunately plagued by an overpowering desire for the flesh of mortals. A chief physical enforcer for when the time of battle comes.

Stats:
STR: Overwhelming
AGI: Exceptional
VIT: ?
MAG: ?
LCK: ?

Perky Pilferer

Josefin Hermansson

Untransformed

Age: 12
Specialization: ???
Weapon: ???
Power: ???
Patron: Asengav

An energetic and bright girl that feels out-of-place among the minions of the Horror. She does her best to support those she feels needs it, which at the moment is Taihei, the Artificer. However, she has a specific duty that Asengav has prepared for her.

Stats:
STR: ?
AGI: ?
VIT: ?
MAG: ?
LCK: Highest of Asengav’s troops

Artificer

Taihei Kumi

Disguised

Age: 8
Specialization: ???
Weapon: ???
Power: ???
Patron: Asengav

A pessimistic monster-girl within the ranks of Asengav’s troops. Above all, she is a creator of magical items and crafts, which can be very useful. However, her soul is constantly plagued by an infectious horrendous bad luck, causing misery to those around her.

Stats:
STR: ?
AGI: ?
VIT: ?
MAG: ?
LCK:?

Cold Sculptor

Tullia Barese

Age: 16
Specialization: Ice
Weapon: Bifrost Staff (Mystic)
Power: ???
Patron: Asengav

One of Asengav’s primary monster-hunters. A cool-headed girl who is confident in her abilities. With her ice she constantly forms great icy beasts to do battle with her, leaving the battlefield and her enemies frozen in her wake.

Stats:
STR: ?
AGI: ?
VIT: ?
MAG: Exceptional
LCK: ?

Frostbite

Victoria Tretyakova

Age: 9
Specialization: Ice
Weapon: Frozen Manifestations (Fists/Melee)
Power: Duplication
Patron: Asengav

One of Asengav’s primary monster-hunters. A hot-headed girl who hides her pessimism under a love for combat. Has had little contact with other humans throughout the years, and is rather excited at this chance to meet other Magical Girls.

Stats:
STR: Exceptional
AGI: Considerable
VIT: Impressive
MAG: No Slouch, Either
LCK: Basic

Emptiness Empath

Suzette Laderoute

Age: 16
Specialization: Empathic
Weapon: ???
Power: ???
Patron: Asengav

An empath under the command of a horror able to traverse worlds. A sneaky woman who wants to enjoy life by acting how she never could. She can head back to a world filled with whatever emotions she needs, making her exceptionally dangerous and versatile.

Stats:
STR: ?
AGI: Decent
VIT: Lacking
MAG: Magnificent
LCK: ?

Psychoarachnid

Ronja Koskela

Disguised

_{Wouldn’t really go back to her disguised self when injured. Her spider-self IS her real self, if anything she’d go back to being a spider if hurt in her disguised self.}

Age: 16
Specialization: Reinforcement & Psychic
Weapon: Dark Silk (Fists/Mystic)
Power: Killing Blow - Overwrite. A blow directly to the mind.
Patron: Asengav

A monster-girl employed by Asengav. With Reinforced web and Psychic abilities, she’s the one deployed when Asengav wants someone captured and information extracted. A playful spider, she’s an exceptionally competent kidnapper and mental manipulator. An important pawn for Asengav. Not to be lost in pointless skirmishes.

Stats:
STR: Impressive.
AGI: No Slouch
VIT: Not here either
MAG: Magnificent
LCK: Not Bad, Actually

Black Rabbit

Jelena Dias

Untransformed

Age: 7
Specialization: Metal
Weapon: Metal Gauntlets (Fists)
Power: ???
Patron: Asengav

A limbless girl who compensates with metal limbs. Preferring to be transformed over all else, she seeks combat and peace of mind. With the ability to manipulate even her own limbs, she becomes a versatile combatant spreading her traps across the battlefield.

Stats:
STR: Strong
AGI: Decent
VIT: Tough
MAG: Competent
LCK: Basic

Flame Demon

Mayra McCullough

Disguised

Age: 15
Specialization: Fire & Darkness
Weapon: Dragon-body. Fists/Mystic
Power: ???
Patron: Asengav

A playful monster-girl new to the world of humans. So many sights to see, opponents to face and friends to make. The most chaotic and unpredictable of the troops, Mayra will often just do what occurs to her whims rather than what she might have been ordered to.

Stats:
STR: All
AGI: Are
VIT: Pretty
MAG: Awesome
LCK: With an exception

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Forces of Cindy Ford

The individuals associated with Cindy Ford and her choice to lay claim to Penrose. Due to Ariamis description of the crowd she was commanding, we can assume Cindy has more minions than those listed here. That said, here are the notable ones.

Lightning Queen

Cindy Ford

Age: 16
Specialization: Lightning
Weapon: Lightning Body Fists/Mystic
Power: ???
Patron: The Thunderbird.

A monster-girl literally composed of lightning. An ambitious woman who view those around her as beneath her, and seek to rectify the order of the world to one which suits herself. Does not desire the world to burn, merely that it recognizes her and makes peace at her command.

Stats:
STR: ?
AGI: ?
VIT: ?
MAG: Awesome
LCK: ?

Animal Scouts

Ellen & Tina Miller

Age: 15
Specialization: Beast
Weapon: ???
Power: Twinned Soul | ???
Patron: ???

Cindy’s closest allies and scouts. They use their power to see and control animals on distant ranges in order to act as Cindy’s scouts. They have intentionally drawn in quite a few animals for this purpose. Ellen favors ground animals, Tina prefers those that fly.

Stats:
STR: ? | ?
AGI: ? | ?
VIT: ? | ?
MAG: Okay | Decent
LCK: ? | ?

Dullahan

Julie Sims

Age: 12
Specialization: ???
Weapon: ???
Power: ???
Patron: ???

A different kind of monster-girl, but a monster-girl nonetheless. Finds herself allied with Cindy when the time comes. Julie is really, REALLY old, but has adapted herself over time whenever the current trends change. She's pretty used to it by now.

Stats:
STR: ?
AGI: ?
VIT: ?
MAG: ?
LCK: ?

Monster Thief

Beatrice Clark

Age: 15
Specialization: Sound & Fire
Weapon: Fire Claws Mystic
Power: Third Eye
Patron: Kawlus, Deity of Criminals and Unfairness.

Beatrice was a known burglar and thief in the Magical Girl community, feel free to have heard of her before. She’s known to use Sound to make things completely silent, then steal things and go. She ended up in hot water a while ago, but has now resurfaced under the protection of Cindy Ford.

Stats:
STR: Strong
AGI: Athletic
VIT: Somewhat fragile
MAG: Competent
LCK: Basic

Mini Mystic

Brittany Todd

Age: 7
Specialization: Psychic
Weapon: Skull Totem. (Mystic)
Power: ???
Patron: Agatha, Lesser Force

A little magician living in Penrose. Aspires to collect magical trinkets and open a shop of artifacts and divination. Has no idea what Cindy actually intends, but got roped along somehow.

Stats:
STR: Nope.
AGI: Yes.
VIT: Nope.
MAG: YES.
LCK: Yes.

Once Guardian

Riley Walker

Age: 14
Specialization: ???
Weapon: ???
Power: ???
Patron: Yuun, a Puchuu.

Born into a family of proud Magical beings. She has a quest in Penrose, which is why she came here. Cindy found her first, and if Cindy can help her on her quest, then suppose the Walker family could help her in turn?

Stats:
STR: ?
AGI: ?
VIT: ?
MAG: ?
LCK: ?

Maple Dragon

Leanna Thornton

Age: 7
Specialization: Reinforcement
Weapon: Draco Blasters (Ranged)
Power: ???
Patron: Pipyo the Puchuu

A monster girl native of Penrose. Due to activities of previous Beacon she went into hiding, and has only been drawn out by the promise of freedom and protection offered by Cindy Ford.

Stats:
STR: Decent
AGI: Decent
VIT: Decent
MAG: Excellent
LCK: Nope

Beastmaster

Minette Deschamps

Age: 9
Specialization: Beast
Weapon: ???
Power: ???
Patron: Beldevyn the Puchuu.

Minette is a different sort of Beast magical girl, as in that she has poured all her might into a single creature, Cernunnos the super-powered moose. He is a titan and a goliath of a physical fighter. A rather simple girl otherwise, she agreed to join Cindy to steer this supposed ruler to the path of righteousness and protecting the innocent.

Stats:
STR: Low
AGI: Low
VIT: Decent
MAG: Exceptional
LCK: Low

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Charlie’s Angels

An unlikely trio of three magical entities that just happen to travel together. Charlie is the only one who calls them “Charlie’s Angels”, and is likely to be “reprimanded” by Janice each time he does so.

LIGHTNING GUY

Charlie Rocha

al-turn-atively

Age: 12
Specialization: Lightning
Weapon: Axe. (Melee)
Power: ???
Patron: Jonivan the Puchuu.

Eccentric and energetic. A terrible combo. He’s the most competitive and friendliest guy ever, but also intends to show he’s the very best. He probably can’t even sit still. Somehow ended up travelling with two magical girls.

Stats:
STR: Yupp.
AGI: Quite.
VIT: Considerably.
MAG: Sufficient.
LCK: Notable.

Designated Tsukkomi

Janice Hunter

Age: 12
Specialization: Metal
Weapon: Metal Gauntlet. (Fist)
Power: ???
Patron: ???

Cool, collected, serious and ready to kick the butt of those who don’t take her seriously. … And somehow she ended up travelling with the likes of Charlie and Noida. She is not quite sure how that came to be. Still, safety in numbers and all that…

Stats:
STR: ?
AGI: ?
VIT: ?
MAG: ?
LCK: ?

Supposed Oasis Protector (escaped)

Noida Losey

Age: 8
Specialization: ???
Weapon: Basic sword. Melee
Power: ???
Patron: Valiant, the puchuu. He hates her guts.

Noida was transformed to protect a sacred oasis! … And she immediately got bored and went off on her own journey! Flighty, smiley, does whatever she wants. Is now travelling with Charlie and Janice because they amuse her.

Stats:
STR: ?
AGI: ?
VIT: ?
MAG: ?
LCK: ?

Beyond the Looking Glass: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

I think this is as it should be. Did some revisions.

Mariette Pedersen

Name: Mariette Pedersen

Name (Before Magical Girl): Lina Herring

Age (Magical Girl): 15

Age (Before Magical Girl): 4 (Horror doesn’t care.)

Gender: Female

Gender (Before Magical Girl): Female

Appearance: Mariette is a tall girl of slender but otherwise average frame. Her hair is long and white straight when transformed, blonde wavy when untransformed. She typically has a calm expression on her face. She tends to dress somewhat extravagantly, her transformed state wears elaborate black dresses while her untransformed self typically also endorsed herself with accessories. She’s often seen squeezing a large stuffed animal in the shape of a rabbit. Her right eye is constantly under an eyepatch, but she hasn’t actually lost it. There is a reason behind this.

Transformed

Untransformed, she looks like a very regular blonde 15-year old, wearing glasses and regularly overdressing herself in hats and coats as well as generally gazing off into the vast distance with no purpose.

Untransformed

Specialization: Oddball: Portals. Mariette is a master of using portals. She’s immensely powerful with them, too. She can create them in mid-air, in varying sizes, around enemies and in varying kinds of movement. With as high magical power as she has, she can create her portals anywhere within her sight, but she has much greater fine-control of their movement the closer they were created to her. The portals are circular and flat, and lead to another portal of the same size she also has created within her range. The edges of the portals are solid and can be broken to destroy the portals.

With extended focus, she can also create portals to places much further away assuming she knows the location, and with greater use she can even enter alternative pocket-dimensions. She has no desire to leave this world behind, however. Also, if others flees through teleportation or to different worlds, Mariette may be able to follow them. Using a mirror as the base of the portal greatly amplifies the effect and makes rituals for more extreme portalling much easier. There are some major rituals which she can conduct using big mirrors for the sake of Asengav’s goals.

Weapon: Mystic mirror. It’s a simple hand-mirror that she can seemingly summon from nowhere into her hand. It helps creating portals around the area, and Mariette channels her magic through it.

Power: Tentacles. These are sentient tentacles sprouting from anywhere within a certain range around Mariette. These are a blessing given directly from Asengav, and they look pretty much like darkness given form. They’re powerful, regrow if they’re blasted into pieces and are Mariette’s main defense if the enemy tries to strike her in close combat. Herself, she has no ability in the close.

Perks:
Gifted - The reason Asengav chose her in the first place. She can do things with her portals that other people perhaps would not be able to. She’s an expert at this.
Interdimensional Home - Using her portals, she has set up her own little dimension that she can go to. It’s a nice place to hide, and she can feel comfortable there. There’s food and a view, but she does prefer Joe’s place.
Blood Magic - Among other things, she was granted the ability to expand her own life as magic. Mariette will use this if the situation turns deadly.
Overcity Shift - If she wants to, she can displace the entire area to a different dimension in the Overcity. There the battle can be conducted without destruction and so.
Interdimensional Tourist - It’s Joe. Joe’s an average man with normal job, a stressful life and a licence as an interdimensional tourist. He helps Mariette and the twins out with food and give them a place to stay, for now. He just felt sad for Mariette once, and now he has three girls living off of him… Huh.

Joe

(now Emergency, +2 Combat Perks)
Hammerspace Handbag - Which actually is a portal of hers. She just reaches into the portal, and she has everything she needs there. Good to have.
Allies - Along with her transformation, Asengav saw fit to provide Mariette with two allies that should come in handy. A set of two twinned-souls monster-girls. However, one has died, leaving only Eli.
(Now Gold coin for extra +2 Perks)
Awareness - You’d think a girl with one eye would see worse, wouldn’t you? Wrong. There’s something about Mariette that makes her excessively perceptive of things around her, and she just knows. Even when ambushed she seems to be able to block the attacks.
Absolute Direction - With destination or object in mind assuming she knows about it in detail, Mariette knows which direction it is. … REALLY useful for a girl that can open long-range portals with enough focus. Bad at finding concepts or nonspecific things.

Patron: A Horror named Asengav. Not really his name, but as best and easiest we can pronounce it.

Patron Benefits:
Creeping Doom - Cannot attract extreme attention. He has a carefully laid out plan, and it’s going to be executed, one step at a time. They’re less likely to be lethal and uncompletable for Mariette and her minions.
Reasonable - As disturbingly horrifying as he is, Asengav is reasonable. He has been watching humans and magical girls for a long time. He knows how to blend in. He can even take the form of a human to hold a simple conversation. He does not intend on destroying the world, thank god, because he probably could.
Minions - They’re shaped like men and look like they’ve been drawn with ink, and they’re strong and can lash out at unexpected ranges with stretchy arms. They’re weaker than magical girls, but they can take one by surprise. They can be summoned through Mariette’s portals when Asengav has been kind enough to put them at Mariette’s disposal.
Retrieval - Asengav has no intention of losing his chosen champion. If Mariette is in trouble and he has a moment to, he’ll strike open a portal and retrieve her before she’s done for.
Mystic Might - Asengav has provided Mariette with a bit of extra magical might, and...
Mana Font - … he has also given her a small portal in her heart to a great reserve of mana, for her to use as she sees fit.

Patron Drawbacks:
Quick-Tempered - Asengav’s only reasonable up to a certain point. Mess up a single part in his carefully laid-out plan… and watch the nightmares overcome you.
Mind-Bent - Mariette is completely unable to not follow the orders of her patron. The very idea of opposing her chief causes an immediate major dose of terror and pain. If she ever left Asengav’s care, she’d be left a quivering mess in her bed, forever unable to move unless someone bent back her mind. Also, there has been a SERIOUS impact to her personality.
Insomnia - Can’t sleep, won’t sleep. She clutches her favorite bunny every night trying to sleep, and she absolutely can’t sleep a wink without it.
Bane - Something as simple as a lit wax candle. A lit candle symbolises the hope in the darkness, and it sends Asengav scurrying. Similarly, unlit candles make Mariette uneasy, but lit ones can effectively burn her skin up close. But, they must be kind of small. People holding wax candles will be unaffected by her portals.
Also, broken mirrors. A broken mirror repels Mariette’s portal-sense that keeps track of the positions of her existing portals, where it feels like needles having been inserted into her painfully when she gets close to them. She cannot keep active portals going around them, as they pierce her with pain from proximity.
Health Sapping - So much power is poured into Mariette, with the tentacles, minions, and so, that her movements and physical efforts are somewhat blocked.

Fighting Style: First things first. That eye-patch? That’s to ensure her enemies don’t realize her right eye is constantly looking through numerous portals. She switches the location and number of these portals as she needs to, inspecting the battlefield from varying points, gathering information from a bird’s eye view. It’s imperative that a portal-girl is constantly aware of the positions of everyone, after all, and this allows her to widen the range of where she can open portals quickly as she needs vision to open them. The portals are so tiny, you’d never usually detect it, even with awareness. … Someone with the Third Eye likely would, though.

Mariette does not fight in close combat. When she fights, she prefers to do so behind the minions of her patron. From there, she can support them in an excessive amount of ways with her portals. She can create them as shields that then redirect the attacks at her enemies. She can slap a portal onto someone and send them into compromising situations or place them really far away. She can open portals for her attacks to come from unexpected directions.

For actual fighting, Mariette uses her tentacles. They’re strong tendrils of darkness that constantly surround her in battle. They’re strong with plenty of range, but the average magical girl would be able to keep them at bay. … Which is why Mariette often sends them through portals to attack from unexpected angles and from longer range than expected. Portals make no sound as they’re created, after all. She makes them squeeze and crush enemies from afar. In close combat she can also use better fine-control of portals to trap limbs and halt an enemy’s progress. That’s her last defense.

She doesn’t really have much high-power attacks of her own, but her portals are there to ensure the enemy never get close. She likes to team up with Eli to make her shoot into the skies through her portals or send her into combat supported by portals. Mariette can easily change her own location as well by just walking through a portal herself. But, she’s not fast. Mariette sometimes also risks that enemies try to use her own portals to fire upon her. She simply has to ensure that doesn’t happen. Those are her tactics.

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

Stats (Transformed):
STR: 4
AGI: 4
VIT: 4
MAG: 20
LCK: 5

Personality: Mariette carries herself like an extremely calm older girl, her expression remaining neutral and her force remaining intentful. She’s determined to achieve her goals, and may come across as rather arrogant. She’s playful around official matters but merciless in action. She often acts in a creepy way that seems to tell that not everything is all there. However, that isn’t all there is to her. She finds any small animals or stuffed such animal mind-bogglingly adorable. She wants to try every new experience she can notice, from singing to roller-coasters to arcade machines, wearing accessories and going to school, such. She rarely has the money to try anything, however. But, so it is.

Also, good luck trying to scare her. She’s been in contact with Asengav so often, she won’t even react to what the regular public might think is scary or repulsing. Like someone’s sudden death, or so.

History: There was an emergency. Except, the emergency wasn’t really one which four year old Lina Herring could do anything about. See, she had an abusive father, and she could see the incoming signs the moment she heard him enter the house and start yelling at her mother. So, she fled. Somehow, she managed to escape without father noticing. She fled, and never wanted to return. On that route, she came across an emergency. That is, an emergency for her.

An unspeakable horror dived onto her, enveloping her. Her magical potential must have appealed to him, and with that he took her over and transformed her into the kind of girl he wanted her to be. As far as anyone else knows, Lina Herring either died or was kidnapped that day. It took quite some time, a number of years as the horror was reconstructing her to suit his needs, but one day a girl walked out into the world again. A Magical Girl, significantly older than Lina had been, this one known as Mariette Pedersen. A fake name, of course, but as it is that’s how it goes.

Lunacy of Love: In the previous season, Mariette got into a deal with Justine von Visceral to kidnap girls for her in exchange for assistance with her own goals. Mariette knew that Justine would eventually be an enemy, so she warned Lily Hanson and Alexander Shields in hope they’d prepare. In the deal with Justine, Mariette obtained firepower, but in the heat of the exchange, Justine’s sister Caroline attacked and killed her servant Deni when the slime-girl tried to protect her mistress. After that, Justine declared Mariette to have outlived her usefulness by blowing up her interdimensional apartment, and their battle started. Mariette flew to Alicia of Beacon and proposed a deal.

Mariette ferried the good guys into the Overcity to challenge Justine. She and Eli got into a battle with Caroline, managing to defeat her by the edge of their teeth, though in the midst of sacrificing her she was kidnapped by another being. Mariette then went into the dungeon and “rescued” the magical girls she had kidnapped for Justine, the mentally drained girls believing her. She then walked in on Justine’s treasury, emptying it into a portal before moving on. She spied Justine’s defeat, but was then taken back to the Interdimensional Apartment to see it had been renovated with a whole gothic mansion. Asengav was pleased with Mariette, and she was now informed the time was approaching for the next step…

Incantation: In a world without meaning, exists a purpose with destination, and I will see it to its end. The gate is open.

Additional Info: As said before, mirrors help amplify her portal might. This is actually why she wears glasses in her untransformed state. She can, without rousing suspicion, easily make portals in her glasses to look at something from a great distance.

Also, friendly tip. Mariette’s usually really calm, and won’t even bat an eye if you decapitate someone in front of her. But, if you really want to kick a puppy, or harm any small adorable animal, don’t do it in front of Mariette. Hell feels bad for those who do.

For her services last season, Mariette has received a Platinum Coin. She has yet to decide what to do with it.

Ally, Eli

Name: Eli.

Name (Before Magical Girls): Elizabeth Walton

Age (Magical Girl): 7

Age (Before Magical Girl): 15

Gender: Female

Gender (Before Magical Girl): Female

Appearance: Underdeveloped/Skimpy
She’s an amorphous harpy. She’s small and slim, except for all the slime she has a body one would expect at that age. She finds pleasure in ornaments, wearing them in hair and clothing. Her body is largely composed of black jelly, her arms are typically shaped like wings, her eyes looking very creepy and unnatural. … It should also be noted that the jelly is partly see-through and skin-tight, so one can kinda see the shape of her gelatinous body through, which is why it qualifies as skimpy.

Transformed

When untransformed, Eli wears a uniform fit her age to blend in and wears a pair of glasses to further hide herself. She looks considerably normal for their age.

Untransformed

Specialization: Reinforcement and Darkness.

Reinforcement means Eli can block attacks with barriers, enhance the items or bodies of others as well as heal wounds. She can remove curses and other negative energies, and in addition her disguised human form is a bit tough and her words of encouragement have an intoxicating effect.

Darkness means the Eli can shield herself from detection as she uses her wings to glide through the night. She can see in the dark, and make herself temporarily intangible as well as warp herself short distances between shadows. She can also place minor curses and negative effects on areas and people.

Weapon: Melee/Ranged. That is, Eli doesn’t actually carry weapons. However, she can combine her magic with her amorphous body to suddenly form swords, pikes, axes, sharp feathers, guns and similar things, the ranged weapons powered by her own magic to fire. These weapons are not powerful, but the weapons she can produce this way can be really adaptable to what is needed at that moment, and can emerge from any part of her body.

Power: Third Eye. Eli has a special sight called the Third Eye, allowing her to see the flow of magic, straight through illusions and see traces of past magic having been used in areas.
Eli was originally created by the Twin Soul power of her sister.

Perks:
Dual Weapon - Eli have mastered the art of making ranged weapons out of her amorphous body as well as firing these with her mana as ammunition.
Wings - She’s a fluid harpy. Somehow. Eli can’t actually fly as well as birds, but she sure can climb, jump and glide around.
Martial Training - Eli’s accomplished in a very wide variety of weapons to go with her ability to form weapons on the go. She’s also quite tactically gifted and could handle commanding armies.
Flexibility - Eli’s fluid and adaptable, amorphous. While she normally looks like she’s supported by bones, she can suddenly curve in impossible ways when the current amount of flexibility just didn’t cut it.

Monster Girls: To summarize, Eli’s an amorphous harpy that have wings instead of arms, yet is much more a slime-creature than a harpy. She makes use of this every way she can.
Nonstandard Limbs - Her limbs are slimy harpy things. Though, given that her wings are slime, they can still hold things.
Devourers - There’s a certain hunger within Eli, which could make her attack humans if not properly fed with meat. Mariette ensures to always keep a significant amount of meat in her Hammerspace Handbag just in case.
Amorphous Body - She’s a liquid harpy. Eli’s form is difficult to injure, her fluids can make her bodies contort when it doesn’t feel like looking like it does, and so on. There’s a ton of consequences.
Second Specialization - Aside from natural Reinforcement, Asengav gave Eli and her sister the gift of Darkness to add to their magical arsenals. The two were very efficient spies, because of this.

Patron: Asengav, Horror.

Patron Benefits:
Creeping Doom - Cannot attract extreme attention. He has a carefully laid out plan, and it’s going to be executed, one step at a time. They’re less likely to be lethal and uncompletable for Mariette and her minions.
Reasonable - As disturbingly horrifying as he is, Asengav is reasonable. He has been watching humans and magical girls for a long time. He knows how to blend in. He can even take the form of a human to hold a simple conversation. He does not intend on destroying the world, thank god, because he probably could.
Takes One To Know One - There are two parts of Asengav’s power. The portals and the darkness. Eli is literally dripping with the darkness to her cores, and this has consequences. She feels the same energy if exposed to it in others. This allows Eli to see through the disguises of monsters and detect Horror champions should they touch or meet eye-to-eye. If they have a bane, she also gets a rough idea of what it might be. A better idea the longer she looks them in the eyes.
Retrieval - As with Mariette, should Eli end up in mortal danger and Asengav has the time to spare, her Patron might reach out through a portal and save her. Might. It’s a multidimensional being with plenty of other things on its mind. Saving underlings is significantly less important than saving champions. If she’s lucky, with other words.
Magical Overload - Eli’s an amorphous harpies.

Patron Drawbacks:
Quick-Tempered - Asengav’s only reasonable up to a certain point. Mess up a single part in his carefully laid-out plan… and watch the nightmares overcome you.
Insomnia - With a horror as their patron, the monster girl doesn’t have an easy time falling asleep. Something’s always clawing at her mind, whispering horrendous nothings, giving her terrible dreams when she does fall asleep. Eli does rarely ever want to go to sleep, staying up playing games or stalking targets outside instead, and this is a large part of that. But eventually, she has to…
Mind-Bent - Eli is as mind-manipulated as Mariette. She thinks she’s following Mariette out of her own free will, but she’s really not. Her mind has a compulsion to follow Asengav and her current leader, Mariette, and although Eli can disagree with commands she can never even consider going against the cause. Any notion of such will send a pang of pain through her head, punishing her for even thinking the thought. Should she ever fall out of favour with their horror overlord, Eli will find herself a quivering wreck huddling forever in fear unless someone bends her mind back.
Bane - While Mariette is affected by both lit wax candles and cracked mirrors, Eli is more or less immune to the cracked mirrors. This is because she has no portal or dimension-travelling abilities of her own, which the cracked mirror bane is linked to. However, a lit wax candle is the bane of the darkness of Asengav, which Eli is the personification of. The slightest light of such a candle or the smell of wax in her noses will cause burning pain, forcing Eli to flee. Being locked inside a room with lit wax candles will burn her alive and cause her amorphous body to melt. A much more extreme reaction than that which Mariette experiences.
Monstrous Form - Eli’s an amorphous harpy.

Fighting Style: As stated before, Eli’s an amorphous harpy. Compared to other magical girls, Eli isn’t very powerful, but she’s got considerable adaptability. Her wings and her fluid body allows her to swirl around, and her ability to form hard melee blades or ranged weapons that can shoot out of her body can very easily take an enemy by surprise. Being fluid, Eli’s difficult to hurt and is quite flexible. She dances on the battlefield and take out enemies one at a time.

Eli doesn’t necessarily belong on the battlefield alone, though. With Darkness magic, she makes sneaky attacks that the enemy don’t see coming as she’s hidden herself, and with Reinforcement she can power herself up to match stronger enemies or heal damage. She removes curses from herself with Reinforcement and then puts curses on her enemies with Darkness up close. But, the typical magical girl should be able to fight her off, she’s not that strong.

When she REALLY become deadly is when she’s matched up with Mariette, with portals on her side. Then Eli can dive through portals, shoot through portals or be defended by portals, greatly amplifying her effectiveness. Yupp.

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

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

Personality: Eli’s a naturally shy person, although she has lately been getting a bit more confident. She used to only be able to speak confidently in the word-games she played with her sister, but ever since the climactic battle with Caroline Eli’s found a source of confidence within her, a desire that allows her to act to accomplish Mariette’s goals. She can even be a touch playful, but otherwise she’s as serious as they come, if a bit more whimsical and likely to get scared than her mistress. However, regardless of how at peace she is with having defeated Caroline for Deni, Eli will forever mourn her departed sister.

History: Something went very wrong when Denise Walton was born. Because, somehow, she was born with two consciousnesses in her mind, which switched often. To make things easier, the other personality was called Elizabeth. They were two personalities in one body. Not unheard of, but they were constantly messing up for one another as one was shier than the other. The years went by, and there didn’t seem to be any way to solve this. The two girls in the same body felt panicked, and prayed to the heavens out of stress that something would come and solve their predicament. Unfortunately, something heard them.

Asengav approached them, feeling that the two personalities had been caused by a considerable base of mana. He offered them a way out, and they agreed. Deni and Eli were then formed, split in two and given half the age of each, and they’ve been trained to follow Asengav’s commands and then follow Mariette on her mission. So they did, until the day Deni was slain by Caroline von Visceral. Now Eli alone, who originally didn’t even have a body of her own, follows Mariette to accomplish the goals. She’s fairly lonely.

Incantation: Love and passion, squander my life, make me fight for meaningless ambitions! Eli! Here I go!

Additional Info: Eli can sometimes be seen in arcades owning the heck out of anyone challenging her or her high-score, and she’s totally calm and cool about it, too. She privately wants to make it big as a competitive gamer or an author. She’ll then remember that Deni used to always happily remind her that becoming famous in their condition would be a terrible idea. Eli then gets depressed.

Eli has received a Platinum Coin for her services last season. She thinks of what it can do and clutches it close at all times…

Horror Patron, Asengav

Type: Horror

Name: Unpronounceable, but we call him Asengav.

Personality: Asengav’s a perfectionist horror. It has a master-plan in place, and it will follow it to the letter. As for the rest… who really knows. He’s very calm for a monstrosity that can drive you insane with his mere presence. When he peeks at the world, he often does so through mirrors. They somehow work well with his dimensional magic. So if you glimpse something that really, REALLY shouldn’t be there in the mirror, but look again and it isn’t there… it is quite possible Asengav might have been watching you.

History: For all we know, this horror simply was. One might claim it was somehow formed when countless dark sorcerers from a hundred billion realities committed the same atrocious dark ritual in the same location in many universes, sending all the magical energy spiraling into one location in the multiverse and bringing a horrific entity to life… but that’d just be theorizing, because nobody knows. What we do know, is that its name is unpronounceable. We know it can travel through dimensions at will, and is investing into monsters and girls in many, many different alternate versions of the same reality, influencing each in a tiny way to tip them all away from one another and then watch to see what happens.

As for what he wants with this reality… … … … … Who really knows…?

Resources: An important thing to note about Asengav is that he has invested in many different dimensions, throughout multiple different possible realities. While in the world which Mariette wanders she and her two allies were his only agents, across the multiverse he has many, many more monsters and minions doing his work.

And, um. Asengav does have coins, but you’re expected to work for him because you’ll die if you don’t. You know the skill, Absolute Direction? Yeah. Asengav… has that. Across multiverses. You do not escape Asengav if he has decided to hunt you. And, honestly, he can do much worse things than simply kill you. Muuuuuuuch worse.

One thing he does provide is giant mirrors for the sake of some of the rituals that he wants his followers to conduct for him. They greatly amplify his power, after all.

Additional Info: On the banes. These two are composed of two different parts. One is the portal magic, the other is the darkness magic. They have two different banes. The portal magic’s bane is a cracked mirror, with such a nearby the portals won’t form properly and send pain through any user of such magic, including Asengav himself. Then, there’s the darkness magic which he uses to slide about undetected and murder those he needs to. The bane of that is a lit wax candle, which banishes Asengav’s darkness. However, it should be noted that the other kind of magic can be used in the other’s bane. Portals can be formed around candles, darkness can be used around cracked mirrors. Though, those with candles will be unaffected by portals, due to it partially taking them into the Asengav’s dimension, where he doesn’t want them, ever.

Mariette has both Darkness and Portal magic within her. She uses Darkness when commanding minions, having excellent awareness and her tentacles of sheer darkness. This means she’s affected by both Asengav’s banes. Eli is touched by Asengav’s darkness to the very core, much more deeply than Mariette, but doesn’t have any portals in her. This means a lit candle will affect her way worse than it will Mariette, to the point that long enough exposure will cause her to melt and dissipate. She is, however, completely unaffected by cracked mirrors, something Mariette is way worse affected by.

The Rolls and Decisions that brought me here

Recruited through Emergency.

Rolls 19. 15 years old.
Rolls 12. Average body. +1 AGI.
Rolls 20. Oddball. Eventually decided on +2 MAG, +1 LCK.
Rolls 15. Mystic. +1 MAG.
Rolls 14. Elaborate. +1 MAG.
Rolls 20. Tentacles. Wooh.

Combat Perks.
Rolls 5. Gifted. +1 to an Oddball stat. MAG!
Rolls 9. Blood Magic. +1 VIT

Support Perks.
Rolls 5. Interdimensional Home. It was about here that I decided to make her speciality portals, and made it MAG and LCK because all the MAG I got earlier from Mystic and Elaborate.
Rolls 5. Hah. 14, Overcity Shift.

Other Perk. Support Table.
Rolls 5. Whelp. 1, Interdimensional Tourist.

10. Hammerspace Handbag - Picked with Emergency.
14. Allies - Picked with Emergency
19. Awareness - Picked with Gold
10. Absolute Direction - Picked with Gold

Rolls 18. Horror. Oh, dear.
Benefits:
Minions - Free
Reasonable - Switched to from Marked, Free
Retrieval - Extra
Creeping Doom - Bought with Bane
Mana Font - Bought with Mind-Bend
Mystic Might (+1 MAG) - Bought with Health Sapping

Drawbacks:
Quick-Tempered - Mandatory
Insomnia - Mandatory
Bane - Bought with Creeping Doom
Mind-Bent - Bought with Mana Font
Health Sapping (-1 AGI, -1 VIT) - Bought with Mystic Might

Calculating stats…
STR: 4. AGI: 4. VIT: 4. MAG: 10. LCK: 5

10 points to spread with 3 silvers and 4 bronze. Invest them all in MAG.

STR: 4. AGI: 4. VIT: 4. MAG: 20. LCK: 5

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Now, I have an ally. Let’s roll for her.

Monster Girl
Rolls 1. 7 years old.
Rolls 4. Underdeveloped. +1 MAG.
Rolls 5. Reinforcement. +1 STR, +1 AGI, +1 MAG, +1 LCK. +1 VIT out of costume.
Rolls 3. Melee. +1 STR, +1 VIT.
Rolls 3. Skimpy. +1 AGI.
Rolls 6. Twinned Souls. -1 all stats, but there’s two of them. Need to roll weapon, costume and power for second girl.

Girl 2.
Rolls 3. Melee. +1 STR, +1 VIT.
Rolls 5. Skimpy. +1 AGI.
Rolls 16. Third Eye.

Three combat perks.
Rolls 1. Dual Weapon. +1 new weapon stat. … Ranged, +1 AGI.
Rolls 17. Wings.
Rolls 2. Martial Training. +1 STR.
6. Flexibility. +1 AGI. Gotten with Amorphous Body.

Rolls 20. Ebon Mint. … Rolls 17, Beacon.
Decided that they’ll likely just get the same patron as the original character.

Monster girls.
Body Mutation: Nonstandard Limbs. They’re harpies, since I rolled wings.
Mind Mutation: Devourers. Eat some meat or eat men.
Body Mutation: Amorphous Body. +2 VIT, Flexibility. They’re liquid harpies!
Second Specialization: Rolls 10. Darkness. +2 MAG, +1 VIT.
(gosh, Asengav would have become so different if they hadn’t rolled Darkness… XD)

Let’s see. Counting the stats.
STR: 7. AGI: 7. VIT: 7. MAG: 7. LCK: 4.

Later decided they’d have their own drawbacks/benefits.

Benefits:
Creeping Doom - Switched to from Minions, Free
Reasonable - Switched to from Marked, Free
Retrieval - Extra
Takes One To Know One - Bought with Bane
Genki Girl (only for Deni) - Bought with Mind-Bent (for both)

Drawbacks:
Quick-Tempered - Mandatory
Insomnia - Mandatory
Bane - Bought with Takes One to Know One
Mind-Bent (for both) - Bought with Genki Girl (only for Deni)

Because allied monster girls, no coins to spend on them.

Fire Emblem: A Blinding Light

@Apollosarcher Nicely posted.

@Pirouette@Eisenhorn I will shortly just go ahead. I'm not going to give a time, but shortly. Raise your voice if you're intending to post before shortly. Otherwise, I'll just make your characters take what I reason to be the most logical cause of action and not say a word while taking that action.

[@All] So, by the way, here's the side-mission I had with the other two. I allowed some things that wasn't strictly as I intended to play this game, but anyways. Here's the full thing. I have not actually proof-read, I am just going to assume this is as it should. Here you go.

Fire Emblem: A Blinding Light

Meanwhile.

Chapter 0 - What We Feared

Kara Part

@PlatinumSkinkKara was drifting into Grado, entirely by coincidence due to that it was the home of the Fire Emblem, an object always on the fleeting consciousness of the Manaketes capable of sensing demonic energy. All seemed to be relatively usual, with the exception of the constant presence of demonic energy to keep her company, when suddenly…

A large spike of demonic energy shot off in the distance, its power like a beacon to Kara’s senses. It flared with an intensity that clearly announced that something was going on, foul play was afoot. It’s not as strong as when the Demon King was present in his full glory, but it’s far beyond the level where it’s alarming. It had a direction. It lay in Jehanna…

… And there fired another one. The one from Jehanna had simply been closer, and as such reached her senses first. There was a second one, in the direction of Rausten. Depending on how her bad her sense of direction is, she might suspect it could be from Darkling Woods, though if she’s good at directions she’ll note it’s a bit too far to the right for that, but that’s not many degrees difference.

And that’s a third. It came from the mountains between Renais and Grado, to her west or north-west. This one, unlike the other two, faded out of existence after she felt it, like it had been an explosion of demonic energy that then dissipated. And then… a fourth surge. One significantly less powerful… but it was seemingly coming from the mountains between Rausten and Carcino. That is to say, if she knew what it was, Caer Pelyn.

Four surges of demonic energy.

After these emerged, she became aware that an invasion of Grado was taking place, having started first after the surges started. The Fire Emblem was in danger. Unfortunately, there was too great a distance to reach Grado Keep before the Jehannan army. Regardless, with the GM’s assumption that she still intended to go to the Fire Emblem after that, Kara flew on in that direction.

… Suddenly, midst her journey through Grado, she felt another surge. This one was by far less powerful than the others… but perhaps far more alarming, for it was centered on her. Sensing it on much closer range, the sensation was that something was gathering demonic energy on her location, as if they had a spell which called demonic energy into the area. She could not sense the source. However, what she could sense, were evil beings gathering in the area. It appeared she was under attack.

Map

This had never happened before. It felt like someone had organized an attack specifically on her. Monsters usually roamed with little in the ways of tactics targeting gatherings of people, and Manaketes can usually sense them on a distance due to their demonic energy, but these had somehow sneaked up on her and surrounded her. That, was unprecedented.

They stopped on a distance, not moving. They were looking at her, as if anticipating her to make the first move, and react in turn. That was also un-monster-like behaviour. … And there were Archer Bonewalkers among them, as well as flying Mogalls probably intent on stopping her if she flew.

… So, what would Kara do here?

Grado is down, but as long as she gets out of here she can probably take the long way round.

@Crimson Raven

Kara

Chapter 0 - What We Feared

The wind rushed through her. If flowed over her. It bore her aloft and swirled round her, bother her support and her parter in a dance across the sky. It was times like these Kara was glad she was born a manakete. No human, save those who tamed the stubborn and willful pegasus, or the savage and fearsome wyvern, would know the joy and freedom of flight. And even those merely were passengers, on lookers, who tasted only a small portion of the greatness of flight.

And they had to sleep with sore bottoms for their trouble.

The dragoness huffed in amusement. But in a way, she was envious of them. Though lmited, they had a convenience that she did not. They could take to the sky as long as their mounds would bear them. She, however, had to limit her time spend as a dragon. Even now, she was bound to her clunky, graceless human body. She was saving her dragonstone, secured safely to her so that it would not be lost when she flew, for when she really needed it. Her instincts told her she was flying into danger.

Kara always listened to her instincts.

So when she felt fluxtuations of the demonic energy she had been tracking, she pulled up short.

Four. Four different pulses from four different locations. What could they mean...?

However, more immediate events demand her attention. From across the plains, in the direction she was heading, her sharp ears picked out the ringing of metal on metal, accompanied by shouts and cries, born on the very wind that bore her.

Has the invasion started then? Kara wondered, narrowing her eyes. While a recluse by nature, she was well aware of the currently perilous political climate. Grado was falling. She was sure of it. She would be witness to it’s final hours.

She strted moving again, lips curled in disgust. A greater threat faces them and still all the humes can think about is making war on themselves. Typical.

So engrossed in her thoughts, she nearly missed the fifth, weaker surge of energy immediately centered on her. Instantly on alert. She felt unwelcome presences around her. Monsters. But where had they come from? She should have sensed them long before they got this close.

The how and why could wait, she decided. What mattered was they were here. Hovering unsteady, she turned in place, picking out the monsters with her sight.

1, 2, 3– Oh hell. Archers. Her breath caught as she saw skeletal bow-wielding figures. She hated archers. Their arrows would put holes in her hide, even when transformed, and they could pick her out of the sky from long range. Upon seeing them, she dropped to the ground, seeking cover before they could get a bead on her.

She was able to get a rough count of their numbers. Twelve in total, all around her, with three archers in a rough triangle. A few too many to comfortably take on herself without back up. If not for the archers, she would consider it, but her best chance for now would be to escape. Unfortunately, she was surrounded, making that difficult.

A savage smile tugged at her lips. A fight was just what she needed to blow off steam, outnumbered or not. In fact, that made it all the more fun. Her tail lashed as her dragonic savagry rose. She pulled out her dragonstone, nonchalantly bouncing it in her palm.

The monsters seemed to be waiting for her to make the first move. This was definitely unusual. She kept that in mind as she briefly considered her options. There was, she remembered, an archer in the forest above the cliff to her right. He was isolated from the others and would make a great first victim.

Taking wing again, she moved in for the kill. Quietly, she flew up the cliff and over the forrest, until she was just above the lone archer. Then she took a deep breath, and dove toward it, letting out a earth-skaking roar that grew in magnitude as she tranformed mid-dive. She was going to smash these weak fragile creatures that dare to challenge a dragoness and then grind their bones into dust beneath her!

The skeleton brought it’s bow to bear, but it was far too slow. Kara turned the dive into a low swoop, extending a tree-like limb. She smashed into the archer with bone-shattering force, sending it hurtling through the air to collide with a tree with a crunch. What was left fell to the ground in a heap and then dissolved into smoke.

Kara roared her victory, but she had little time to celebrate. One of the giant eyeball Mogalls was closing in fast. She swung to face it as it’s eyeball began to glow. Kara knew what was coming next. She felt the magic gather and at the last possible moment, she threw herself to the side. She grunted in pain as burst of magic grazed her, but the brunt of it missed.

The pain only severed to stoke her battle rage. She felt the other monster close in, but her focus was on the irritation in front of her. She growled deep and low at it. It bobbed and weaved in place, just out of her reach, seemingly taunting her.

She chuckled her amusment. Did the thing really think it was safe?

Rearing back, Kara sucked in a deep breath, her scales lit up across her chest, glowing with a flickering inner light. Firelight shown from her maw. “TO ASHES!“ She roared, falling forward, a column of red fire pouring from her throat.

The eyeball vanished in the torrent of flame, never to reappear.

The heat from her breath blackened the trees, their leaves currling up and smoldering, the ends of their scorched branches shone cherry red.

@PlatinumSkink
The Bonewalker drew an arrow on its bow, looking up into the sky for the optimum moment to fire as Kara flew up into the air… but it apparently screwed up the timing because Kara fell down in dragon form and smashed a limb into the skeleton, sending bones sprawling upon contact with the tree.

After her roar and suddenly sensing that the Mogall was coming in close, she decided to dodge the circly rings that would appear on her location when the Mogall had charged its magic…!

Except, instead of that happening, something suddenly flew in at an impressive speed and a cry from of a beast. Kara probably would have noticed it when it got closer, but just now, it also dove down to attack. The Mogall looking at her was suddenly pierced by the full power of a halberd stabbed straight into its side, causing the eye-beast to split and pop as the rider flew past.

The rider was a young adult clad in a brown cloak and red-rusty scarf, it was not hard to place him as someone who had lived in Jehanna for some time. What he rode on was a wyvern, one of an ancient, feathery kind, one of a specific kind Kara might remember was more numerous in the past but today was very rare indeed due to the actions of greedy hunters…

The Wyvern Rider seemingly completely ignored her, despite her being dragon and everything, and instead flew to meet the Bonewalkers rushing their position from the north-west, focusing on the monsters before anything else. Indeed, the monsters had all sprung to action, Bonewalkers dashing at their new location as quickly as their bony legs could carry them and the two other Mogalls flying through the air in their immediate direction.

It seems someone had decided to help her. What would Kara do now?

Map

Servus Part

@PlatinumSkink
Servus was just flying. The reasons are his own.

Recently, the Jehannan army had started their invasion of Grado, and staying had become considerably unsafe. Now, absolutely everything about how he reacted to said invasion and what he’s doing right now is up to Servus, but…

Huh. There’s a gathering of monsters just up ahead! That’s probably no good. Wait, isn’t that… a young girl travelling all by herself in the center of them!? How’d she get there!?

Now, then, presented with this scenario of a young girl _{with significant dragonic features visible only when he got closer} surrounded by monsters, some of them armed with bows and Mogalls flying about, what does Servus do?

@PlatinumSkink
<update, because Crimson Raven posted>

While Servus is free to make his initial decision from the information in the top post, coming closer something else became apparent. The girl was hovering, inspecting the skeletons around her, on two wings she was absently flapping on. Then, she made a decision of her own. She turned her back towards Servus _{which is totally why she didn't notice him} and took off towards the lone archer in the forest past the cliff in the north-east. And then...

With the assumption that Servus hadn't done anything to stop her, she transformed into a dragon in mid-air as she dove down to smash the bow-wielding skeleton to bits. Servus would see that the archer was trying to aim an arrow up at her, and the nearby sword-wielding Bonewalkers in the north and south-east started dashing at her position to attack with their weapons. Perhaps a bit more immediately, that Mogall to the east floated into position and charged magic into its Evil Eye to assault her...

That is, if Servus hadn't done anything to interfere with it all already.

@Lmpkio

SERVUS

Far from the rising tension of battle between the two kingdoms, a young wyvern and her master sore above the distant plains of Grado. The wyvern's dark brown and beige wings flapped gracefully though the wind current as she zips through the air in a carefree bliss, while the master's face was calm and neutral to whats around him as his brown cloak flutters in the breeze. At first glance, one might consider the two to having less than a care to the world regarding the recent unfolding of events, or perhaps they didn't know about the invasion and are mindlessly oblivious. For someone like Servus, it really wouldn't matter either way. All he really cares about is his wyvern, Ambolli, a unique specimen that he's quite lucky to have stumbled upon all those years ago. Perhaps it's best that they didn't know about the invasion...

Yet Servus knows all too well about the invasion.

And if his clothing has to say anything about his occupation, many will point to Jehanna as the land of his birth. And they would be 100% correct at that. So why is he committing treason by running away - or flying away in this case - from his advancing army? Did he have a change of heart? Did he fear that the battle will not be in their favor Did he give up on life as a whole? Yet while Servus did work for them once, that was many years ago. While the glorious Sky Guild, lead by the tenacious Aderyn, gave him a newfound purpose from living on the streets, as well as a means to use his wyvern partner properly and publicly instead of keeping her in the shadows, Servus found that it would be best to leave the toxic life he had there and search for a new home. His travels eventually lead him to Grado, where he made a new life within its boarders. He thought that would be that.

But never did Servus contemplate that the same past he tried to detach himself from would come back to remind him of his worthless days.

He could've stayed and fight, but here he is simply running from it. As soon as he caught word that Jehanna was approaching, he had no desire to partake in it. However, part of the reason was to keep his wyvern safe from brutal harm. He may have left his old home years ago, but his steed is nearly unmistakable... or so he believes anyways. He believes to gained enough fame to be considered a treasonous target and that it would complicate matters even more. And if they're captured, no doubt would they torture and execute Servus for treason... and maybe worse for Ambolli herself. But even if he was forgotten, even if they wouldn't care or remember who he was, he'd still rather not meet them. Not yet anyways. So for now, he takes his leave, secretly hoping that the noble knights of Grado would be able to defeat the nomads of the desert, or at the very least keep them at bay.

Suddenly, Amboli began to stir as she issues a warning shriek, as if she smelled something ominous up ahead. The jolt of the wyvern's body forced Servus to tightly grip on the reins as he tries to calm her down.

"Ey! Ey! Easy girl!" the man grunts as he attempts to rub the wyvern's neck, "You smell something up ahead?"

Ambolli responded by dipping down to the ground and barely glides over the forest. As soon as they were stable, the wyvern lands at the edge of the forest and emerge from the foliage and out to a vast field. Servus eyes the land in front of him as he is quick to notice several figures in the distance. He recognizes most of the figures to be part the local monster population, as skeletal Revenants and archers aided by the grotesque eyesballs of the creepy Mogalls. They surrounded what appears to be a young woman in the center of all of it... and miraculously she just so happens to be floating in mid-air thanks to two wings strapped onto her back. The hooded man's eyes widened in disbelief, while his jaw slightly gapped open. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. Ambolli was already acting a little weird as she gave out several friendly guttural groans, as if she was speaking to her own kind.

"Well I be damned..." he breathed as he watches the spectacle in front of him.

The wyvern chirps at this statement, flaying her neck up and down.

"Of course I know who she is!" he replies confidently before hesitating, "Or more accurately, what it is."

He'd heard many great legends about these unique folk as a child, yet he has never seen one with his own eyes. His mother used to tell him great stories about the great manaketes, Dragons that have stored their incredible draconic power within Dragonstones and thereafter assumed a human form, from which they operate alongside or hidden amongst the humans. He can clearly remember one particular manakete his mother told him in a story, a little girl fighting side by side with a noble royal knight of blue to restore peace to his country. He can't remember what the girl's name was but he remembers how she has green hair and wore cute dainty dress, who turns into a mighty white dragon coated with feathers. It was his favorite story...

But before he can remember further, he sees the manakete dive down to the north-east, presumably to engage one of the monsters. Then, in mid-air, the woman suddenly transforms into a blood-red dragon as she proceeds to smash down against an archer. Servus was awestruck at having the privilege to see a manakete's transformation with his own eyes! While the dragon is slightly smaller than he imagined, it still dwarfed his wyvern considerably. Now the monsters are riled up and are beginning to attack the dragon, with the skeletal warriors engaging behind her from the south-east, along with the presence of a Mogall coming from the east. Ambolli began to become restless, screeching furiously as her wings swung in the air.

"Oi oi!" the master called out desperately as he attempts to keep her under control, "What are you trying to do?"

Ambolli replies with a loud screech towards him.

"Eh?" he asks questioningly as his eyebrow raises up slightly, "You... want me to help her? W-what are you crazy?! That thing can turn into a live unpredictable dragon and you know it! I don't want you to get~"

The wyvern snaps her jaws at Servus to keep him quiet. He abruptly stopped to listen to her partner, who was issuing a guttural moan, slowly posting into a whine. It's become clear to Servus that they had to help the manakete engage the monsters. While he still believes that she could defeat them all on her own, judging by his own act in flying away from the battle in Grado, he might as well help her in defeating these monsters. The master could only sigh at this realization.

"I suppose we're doing this then." he mutters under his breath as he readies for battle, "Onwards Ambolli! Hiyah!"

The young man slaps the reins as Ambolli takes to the air and quickly engages the Mogall who was about to release its evil magic. The wyvern gets close to the floating eyeball as Servus leans in to pierce it with his hallberd, which exploded shortly after being pierced. With that creature out of the way, the flying duo then pay attention to the other monsters closing in on the manakete's location, as they swoops down to engage them.

@PlatinumSkink
The movement is successful. The floating eye was distracted charging magic at the dragon, and as such Servus attack with the axe bit deep into undefended ball, cutting it to pieces and popping it in his flyby. As the trio of Bonewalkers to the west were now the ones closest, dashing at them with swords high intending on engaging him. It should be noted they’d have the Weapon Triangle advantage, but it’s quite likely Servus would still be the effective one in this engagement. He could still swoop down at them, or perhaps he preferred a lonelier target? Regardless, engagement assumed.

In other directions, all remaining Bonewalkers started dashing at their location, the Mogalls flying to eventually engage...

Battle

@Crimson Raven

Kara

Chapter 0 - What We Feared

Before she could release her deadly breath, a human riding a wyvern flew in and poached her kill. She clamped down on the fire, letting it dissipate. How dare he?! She rounded on the intruder. "That was my prey!" She roared at him. But her display was all bark and no bite. She had more important things to do, like cleaning up this riff-raff. Already the other monsters were closing in. Much as she detested the thought of having a human at her back, his help would not be unwelcome. Arguing the point now would be stupid, and merely put both of their lives in danger. She would, however, have words for him after the battle.

"Watch yourself, there are archers nearby." She rumbled. She felt compelled to warn the stranger, not out of care for him, but because her little cousin who chose to bear him, didn't deserve to be shot out of the sky because of their human's ignorance. Taking wing, she rose into the air. There were two more archers and two more Mogalls. One of the archers was within easy reach. She flew straight for the nearest archer, ignoring the puny sword-touting wights. Seeing her coming, the bony archer sighted and released a shot, but Kara moved erratically, dipping and rising, and swerving side to side to foil his aim. The arrow whistled harmlessly past her. With another roar, she descended upon it, electing to smash into it at full speed, scattering bones that quickly dissolved into smoke. Angling upward, she soared back into the air, out of the reach of the remaining monsters. Her dragonstone's power was the anthesis of these unholy creatures, few could stand up to more than one mighty blow in her dragon state. However, it's power also had limits. She wasn't near them yet, but if this battle dragged on too long she might have to worry.

@Lmpkio

SERVUS

As Servus swiped at the Mogull creature, they finally had Kara's attention, who roared angrily that they stole her kill. The raider thought they were going to get obliterated at this point, and didn't dare to say anything back and risk getting her more rilled up, but alas it all thankfully wasn't the case. After all, it would be pointless and unwise to try and kill someone else who was trying to help you, whether you need it or not. Still, he and his mount must still be wary of friendly fire coming from the dragon. If they hit them accidentally with her breath attack, or virtually any form of attack movement, they'd be in big trouble.

And speaking of trouble, the rider sees archers to their right. If one of them hits his precious mount, they'll be virtually sitting ducks.

"Archer's to our right Ambolli." Servus warned as he pats Ambolli's side, "If we can quickly eliminate them before they~"

Yet before he could finish, they suddenly see a flash of crimson fly by them to that same location. The rush caused the wyvern to twitch, screeching in surprise as she quickly regains her balance. The rider grunts as he holds on, making sure he doesn't fall from his mount as well and to his doom. Servus looks to see the manakette rush towards the archers, breathing a quick sigh of relief.

"Right... nevermind the archers." he corrects himself sputteringly as he looks in front of him, "Ok, new target. Let's eliminate that other eyeball in front of us. It's the least we can do for now."

The wyvern grunts in agreement as they make a beeline towards the Mogall. It may fire a shot at the duo, but the Wyvern's incredible speed allows her to avoid the strike altogether as Servus points his hallberd and proceeds to strike the monster down.

@Crimson Raven

Kara

The remaining bonewalkers, along with the last mogall charged the closest of the duo. Raising their swords high, three bonewalkers charged Kara. They didn't have long. With claw and with tail, she felled them in turn, their blades alternately missing their mark or bouncing off her scales, leaving little more then bruises. But, the fourth bonewalker did not charge in. It hung back and watched it's brethren be mowed down with impassionate, empty eye sockets. Slowly, a bony arm reached for a rotten arrowshaft. It's gaze focused on the dragon, it hefted it's bow and knocked the arrow. It drew the arrow back, the decayed wood staves of the bow creaking with the motion. It sighed and released.

Kara, occupied with the three bonewalkers, did not notice until it was almost too late. Thwack! Went the arrow, followed by a roar that shook the trees.

The arrow had pierced her flank. It was a glancing blow, for she had begun to move, and her scales had absorbed most of the impact. It still hurt like hell. And now she was pissed. Kara whipped her serpentine head to face the enemy that had done her harm. She let loose another roar and charged, her thunderous footsteps shook the ground, her claws gouged out great chucks of earth in her wake. Calmly and soullessly, the archer drew another arrow and brought it to it's bow. But Kara closed the distance too quickly for it to shoot again. With a great, cat-like leap, she pounced on the bonewalker. It disappeared under a ton of angry dragon. The force of the impact set her sliding several dozen feet, ploughing a furrow through the hard ground. When they stopped, Kara darted her head down, seized the archer's skull in her jaws, and plucked it off, easy a plucking a grape. Bone crunched as she bit down, smashing and grinding it's skull between her fearsome teeth. It tasted terrible, as monsters usually did. She grimaced and spat the dissolving shards of bone out of her mouth. The rest of the monster's remains quickly vanished too. Her side throbbed, but she barely felt the pain. The arrow would stop the bleeding for not, better to leave it in and tend to it after the battle. With a growl of triumph, she turned to see what enemies were left and if the human had managed to get himself killed or not.

@Lmpkio

SERVUS

Servus pierces the incoming Mogall as it too dies in one strike, bursting into a puff of dark smoke. The raider then proceeds to lift into the sky for a short minute before proceeding with the next opponent. He takes another chance to scout out the surrounding battlefield and glances at the manakete fighting three bonewalkers, in which she takes them out in one shot. He then sees a rogue arrow pierce her side, throwing her into an intense rage as she begins to proceed in vanquishing the attacker soon after.

"Good thing I'm not fighting against her." thought Servus relievingly as he pats Ambolli assuringly, "Would hate to be on the receiving end of her bite... or worse."

Thinking that she'll be fine, the raider sets his sights on the last Mogall in the distance. He might as well finish the job after having killed the last two and it was already closing in on Kara's location. And if it happens to strike Servus or his mount, they'd definitely won't have a good time with it at all. Quickly whipping the reins, Servus instructs Ambolli to dive down from the heavens to strike against the eyeballed monster from above. As they close in on the unexpecting target, it begins to fire up its eyebeam, a twisted whirl of bright purple energy, readying itself to fire on the manakete. But it happens to be just a tad bit slow, for Servus' swing was just a second faster as it pierces the top of its head.

Servus, the Mogall Slayer, has slain his third eyeball of the day... and it won't certainly be his last.

@PlatinumSkink
Kara went off and engaged the Bonewalkers in the south, destroying them but taking an arrow in the side. Meanwhile, Servus started out engaging the Bonewalkers in the north stopping them from charging into Kara’s back, but then flew off and dispatched one of the remaining Mogalls. The other Mogall tried to shoot him down, but he flew off into the sky, admiring Kara’s handiwork before turning and taking out the remaining Mogall as well, flying eyeballs hardly as fast as a full-fledged Wyvern. That left the three sword-wielding Bonewalkers in the north.

Kara felt a little strain on her Dragonstone. If she continued any further, the total time she could remain transformed would be decreased if she had to fight again in not too long. There were hardly any enemies left, but the warning was there, and did she feel confident enough to leave the remaining three sword-wielding Bonewalkers to the axe-wielding Wyvern Rider? The three Bonewalkers, their teeth cackling a little, held their swords at the ready as they-

The head of the Bonewalker in the back flew. It suddenly left the bony body lobbed into the air, volting numerous times in the air before it hit the ground in front of the other two Bonewalkers. Both of them turned their heads to look at the head with empty eye sockets before the body behind them collapsed as well and they turned to look for the cause. There was no sign of anyone. … That is, to the Bonewalkers. Servus and Kara had probably seen the small shape which had snuck up behind the Bonewalker, swiped with his sword, and then sneakily legged it to behind some trees.

Two Bonewalkers remained. What would the they do now?

_{‘There. I did something. I’m totally helping. When I saw a young girl surrounded by monsters, I was going to help the whole time, I didn’t get terrified by their numbers and hid. I was just… distracted by the fact she turned into a GIANT TERRIFYING DRAGON, and then she got help by a guy a million times cooler and a million times braver than I am astride a mighty epic steed I could never even dream to obtain, so I really didn’t find a good moment to attempt a rescue. Not that she seemingly needed rescuing, but, uh, hey! I beat a Bonewalker! Yeah. I totally helped. Ha, ha, ha…’}

The young thief wasn’t succeeding at convincing himself.

@Lmpkio

SERVUS

With the combined strengths of the vigilant wyvern rider and the fearsome manakete, the two were able to eliminate most of the competition within the field. The only enemies left were three bonewalkers to the north, their mangled corpses ready to strike against their foes. No longer did the duo have to deal with the pesky archers and their arrows or the creepy mogalls and their potent magic. Servus eyes the three from a distance, inspecting them carefully as he plans his next actions. The remaining bonewalkers wield swords, which immediately places the axe user at a disadvantage. His halberd is most powerful against lance users (and cavalry units), with its curved blade being capable of countering a piercing jab and can even yank it out of the opponent's hands if its grip weakens for a moment. The axe is a weapon designed almost exclusively for chopping and slashing. Meanwhile, a sword unit can do that as well as pierce enemy defenses with its straight blade, making the wielder capable in using a variety of techniques which usually outclasses most axe units. The sword only looses to lance units due to its lack of range and capabilities in countering the spear.

Servus could probably manage against one sword unit, but three makes it very risky. However, as soon as he considers a motive to stand his ground and leave them to succumb to the dragon, he spots a figure approaching from the forest to his right. Suddenly, in one swift motion, a head from one of the bonewalkers is lobbed off and sent flying into the sky, leaving the body to collapse onto the floor into a pile of rotting bones. The whole action went quickly enough to have the unknown figure sneak back into the bush and for the wyvern rider to loose track of the attacker. Ambolli's nose was able to smell the hidden person and was ready to track it down, but Servus would stop her.

"Easy girl." the rider says assuringly while patting her neck, "Don't worry about it. Whoever it was, it's not a threat. Our focus is on the three... er, two bonies in front of us."

Indeed, for now only two lackies remain on the battlefield. It's a more evenly matched fight now, as the wyvern rider can combat against one unit while the manakete can take on the other. But even then... it's still a risky endeavor on being at the losing end of the weapon advantage.

"On second thought..." he pauses hesitatingly, "Let's fall back and let our 'partner' do the rest."

Not willing to get his wyvern hurt, Servus chose to stay back as he moves west to stay out of range from the sword units. He'll let them deal with the manakete instead, as a unit that's more than capable in eliminating them.

@Crimson Raven

Kara

The battle was almost over and just in time too. Kara felt the stain on her dragonstone. She was running out of time in her dragon form. She inwardly cursed her lack of practice. These many years of little to no action had left her out of practice, she used to be able to stay in her dragon form for much longer than this. Something told her she was going to get in a great deal of practice soon.

Her adrenaline rush was fading now, and the arrow wound began to throb with renewed vengeance. But she ignored the pain and focused on finishing the task at hand. There would be time to lick her wounds later. A flash of movement and the sudden, swift demise of one of the bonewalkers caught her eye. She stiffened, alert. Was this newcomer friend or foe? She sniffed the air. She though she could smell another human in the area. But maybe it was the wyvern rider. Whoever they were, they seemed to be antagonistic toward the monsters. But that didn't make them a friend. The enemy of one's enemy was often just that. Especially if they are human. She would keep her guard up. But for now, she had to help out the Wyvern Rider who was, via his weapon of choice, at a disadvantage against the sword-wielding walkers.

Kara took wing once more and charged the bonewalkers. She didn't bother with a direct attack. Instead she readied her Breath and popped it with a fireball as she flew over. The blast threw up chucks of earth and left a small crater in it's wake. Nothing of the bonewalker was left, just a black scorch mark where it stood. With a satisfied growl of victory, she wheeled around to destroy the final Bonewalker, although one of the other two would most likely beat her to it.

@PlatinumSkink
Kara flew and blasted a Bonewalker with her fiery breath while Servus went to the west. With a dragon so close, the thief in the woods was just a little too scared of accidentally becoming a dragon-snack to actually run out and help. As such, it currently was just Kara wheeling to the last Bonewalker, who ran in to jump at her over the cliff on the east, using its relatively light weight to attempt to jump-stab its sword into her side when she blasted its companion, the skeleton caring naught for the fact it was now the last of its kind on the battlefield.

@Crimson Raven

Kara

The Bonewalker's jump stab landed, although most of the force was deflected by her scales, it pierced deep enough to draw a little blood and a loud roar of pain from dragon-Kara. "Why you little--!" She snapped. "Enough of you!" She whipped her body hard to the left, flinging the skeleton into the cliff face. It hit with an almost certainly fatal crunch, but Kara was satisfied yet. She turned back and attacked the cliff face, sending a small rockside clattering down to bury the annoying pest. Then she finished it off with another burst of scorching breath, melting the rock.

Laboring heavily, she glided down to the ground. Once back on terra firma, she released her dragon form. "Damn...nuisance." Human-Kara panted. the wounds she had received were of comparable size to her new form, so they were mere pinpricks, but the damage had been done. She swayed on her feet, exhaustion hitting like a hammerblow. But she regained balance and stayed upright. She quickly composed herself and looked to the wyvern and it's human with an aura of expectancy.

@Lmpkio

SERVUS

Servus watches curiously as manakete eliminates the last two bonewalkers with relative ease. While he patiently waits for the battle to finish, his mount wanted to help her "cousin-species" in the fight and she nearly succeeded several times. However, her rider was able to keep her from getting too far, knowing their disadvantage in this state. He can't afford to risk unnecessary damage to both him and his mount... especially towards the latter.

"Eaaaaasy girl." he whispers to the wyvern while patting her assuringly, "She'll be fine on her own. Trust me."

As soon as she's finished, the manakete transforms back into her battered, yet hardly dead, human form. The minor cuts she sustained as a dragon translate into smallish pricks amongst her smooth white skin. While these wounds aren't anything severe, the absolute strain in keeping up with her dragon form, has made her utterly exhausted and it clearly shows. Servus snaps the reins on his mount as they approached the dazed woman. As they landed, the rider hops off and pulls down his dark-brown shawl to reveal his mouth, a sign of non-aggression according to Jehenna customs.

"Never thought I'd find myself within the presence of a manakete today." he says with a wondrous expression, "Maybe a few bonewalkers here or there, but that's really all what I expected."

His face quickly changes in a sudden realization as he fumbles through his traveling bag. After several seconds of searching, he takes out a small vulnerary pouch and tosses it at the manakete.

"Funny what life can throw at you, eh?" he finishes with a slight smirk, followed by a brief exhale.

Meanwhile, Ambolli began to sniff the manakete from a distance, trying to get a good read on who she is.

Thereafter

@PlatinumSkink
With a bit more damage done to her and a whole lot of Bonewalkers broken, Kara felt she had shaken off a bit of the rust she had accumulated over the years.

Level Up!
Kara: Level+1, HP+1, STR+1, RES+1

_{no, with the exception of level these numbers mean nothing, i just felt like making up growth rates and then rolling
you rolled horribly on basically all but resistance, hah}

The Bonewalkers and Mogalls eliminated, Kara felt the energy in the area dissipating, it seemed that was it for now. The origin of that energy was impossible to tell, it had seemingly just gathered in her immediate area and caused monsters to converge.

It was only them, now.

@Crimson Raven

Level Up!
Kara: Level+1, HP+1, STR+1, RES+1
"All that did was make me hungrier..."

Kara

It didn't take long for the wyvern and rider pair touched down nearby. Kara caught the thrown vulnerary with a swift snatch but then reversed the motion, throwing it back. "I've got my own." She said shortly.

As if to prove it, she pulled out one from a pocket and uncorked it. Tossing it back, she drained the whole bottle in a big gulp, wrinkling her nose at the bitter taste. She recorked the now empty bottle and tucked it away. She then turned her attention fully to the man and wyvern in front of her. She regarded them in silence for a long moment, her expression guarded and unreadable. Finally, she spoke. "Well. You could have done better."

She wasn't looking him, rather, she seemed to be addressing his wyvern. "Your name?"

"Amboli, I see. And this one?" She pointed at Servus with her scaled hand.

"Servus? He doesn't look like much." She glared at Servus, crossing her arms. Her tail lashed behind her, indicative of her anger. "Human you have wasted your time and risked dear Amboli's life for nothing. Your help was neither needed nor is it appreciated. In fact, you nearly got the pair of you roasted after that stunt you pulled. If I had been a second faster, or you a second slower, the both of you would be have been on the receiving end of dragonfire. You wouldn't have been a great loss, but Amboli is of a rare specices and would be sorely missed." Regardless of his apparent kindness, Kara wasn't going to trust this human yet. Although the fact that a wyvern consented to be his partner and put up with him did speak in his favor.

In her option, wyverns and pegusi were very good judges of character.

@Lmpkio

SERVUS

Servus nearly drops the very vulnerary, for he didn't expect to have the kind gesture denied and thrown back at him so suddenly. He's taken back by this gesture, although he understood she simply will drink her own that she happens to have on her. His blank eyes stare bluntly in Kara's direction for a moment before he shakes out of the trance and puts back his bottle. As soon as he did, he looks at the silent manakete and makes an effort to please her. Perhaps this can warm her cold temperament a bit.

"I, uh..." the rider sighs briefly glancing down at the ground before looking back at her, "I must say, you've done a good job taking care of those monsters. Clearly, I've had no doubt that we - uh, I mean, you - would've come out on top."

"Well. You could have done better."

Servus lightly winced at this response as he gave a more sullen frown. Then again, he's talking to a manakete, a person who can literally turn into a bloody dragon. He may ride a wyvern, a cousin species to the dragons, but even then that pales compared to the figure he stands before. However he notices that she isn't talking to him, but rather Ambolli, who responds with a flare of her nostrils while slowly shaking her head side to side. She didn't take too kindly to her initial response.

"Your name?"

The wyvern gave a few chatters of her mouth as she exhales, her teeth glistening in the sunlight above.

"Amboli, I see. And this one?"

The manakete refers to Ambolli's rider, whom he himself announces before his mount can.

"Servus." he bluntly replies before attempting to ask another question, "And yo~"

"Servus? He doesn't look like much." the manakete replies while still looking at the wyvern.

Servus paused as he looks at the woman with a hint of displeasure. He takes some offense to that statement. "I beg your pardon?" he asks impulsively but dares not to ask anything more.

She then proceeds to lecture him about the dangers that he placed her wyvern in during the battle, especially regarding the first mogall they eliminated. If they had messed up upon that initial attack, or had been a second too later or a second too early, they would've been blasted by the dragon lady's fireball. According to her, Servus wouldn't be missed, but his unique mount would be mourned. This entire lecture continues to sour Servus' mood even further, his face contorting into a frown of utter discontent. He's virtually boiling at this point, his temper already hotter than the sandy deserts of Jehenna itself. It wasn't even his idea in the first place! As he's about to let loose his temper however, Ambolli interrupts by hissing at the dragon lady. She states that it was her idea in the first place and that she chose to do it on her own, without any influence of her rider, all for the sake of saving her "cousin". She even seemed to mention that Servus didn't even want her to go at first, but she did so anyways for knew what she was doing.

Servus paused respectfully to listen to Ambolli's entire explantation, slowly feeling the pressure melt from his chest as his mount rubs her nose on his head. When she finished, he looks back at the manakete with a more relaxed look. "See? I always try to protect my precious Amboli from unnecessary harm." he says to the dragon lady in a more calm voice, "It's just that she often wants to throw herself towards the enemy I don't want her to face. I think it's utter suicide to~!"

Amboli clamps her mouth close to Servus' face with a light hiss, a gesture for him to be silent. In the matters regarding dragons and dragonfolk, human opinion always comes second.

"Can I... just get your name at least?" the rider says hesitantly to the manakete before he ceases any further interruption.

@Crimson Raven

Kara

Well at least he had the good sense to do as his Wyvern says.

Her irritation died down, Ambroboli’s explaination satisfying her. She might as well humour the human and quit being difficult. ”All right. I am Kara,” She said, drawing herself up and spreading her impressive wings. “A manakete and traveler of lands far and wide.” She was going to say something else but she stopped. She thought she heard something. She held up a hand to forstall more conversation. The memory of the suddenly defeated bonewalker sprung to mind.

She narrowed her eyes and scanned the bushes. Was that a flash of color? A rustle of leaves against the wind? ”You there! In the trees!” She barked. “Come out beneath the sun and the sky!”

She was feeling completely drained from having used her dragonstone so much, but nevertheless she put on a tough face and readied the slightly-larger-then-a-fist-sized stone in her hand, just in case this mysterious figure turned out to be another enemy.

@PlatinumSkink
‘Wah!’

There was a noise of alarm as the person behind the trees was called out to, and a young man in a traveller’s clothes, too lightly armored and muscles too slim to be intended to be in the thick of combat, but he clearly had a knack for moving silently and relatively unseen, except the red of his current outfit had given him away. He currently held his hands in the air in gesture of meaning no harm, though there were numerous knives and the sword he used earlier tied to his clothes. Different parts of his attire come from Grado, Jehanna and Renais. There were numerous butterflies sitting on him here and there, for some reason.

Appearance

‘I’m sorry! D-don’t eat me! I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be very tasty, a-and I’m pretty sure I’m way too unworthy for your mighty fiery breath or powerful crushing claws or jaws or…’

He paused his panicked ranting, looking over Kara a bit before changing tactics.

‘Er, don’t mind me! I’m Hevel, just a recently homeless wanderer passing by, intending to help! Now, turned out it wasn’t really needed, _{what with you turning into an epic dragon and gallant knight on mighty steed coming to assist and all,} but I had the best of intentions at heart! So, uh, we’re cool, right?’ he instead asked, an unsure smile on his lips and hands still raised.

There he stood, looking somewhat scared of the two.

_{‘Yeah, that should do. It isn’t as if I had any malice in my intentions this time, it should be perfectly forgivable. I’m kinda confident. That said, I don’t know how dragons think. I probably should be ready to bolt, just in case.’}

@Lmpkio

SERVUS

Kara wasn't the only one to have taken notice of the traveler in the bushes, as Ambolli had already picked up its scent way earlier during the battle. She begins growling at the direction, baring her teeth as she prepares to maul whoever is in the bushes. Servus has to struggle a bit just to calm her down, shushing the wyvern and rubbing her neck.

"Ceaaaaaaase." soothed the rider as he too looks on to see the figure emerge out of the foliage.

The figure was a thin scrawny young boy, with white hair, amber eyes, and wears simple clothes. His cowardly-nature looked rather pathetic to Servus, but began to realize that he might've been the person who killed that one skeleton during the fight. After all, he too saw the entire event as well. But there's something else that catches the rider's eye. Numerous butterflies, all in different styles and colors, rly around or sit situated on the boy. Even Ambolli seems curious, as she snaps to catch one of the butterflies that are flying too close to her. He eyes the boy cautiously with a stern glare before speaking.

"Ya took out one of those bonies earlier, yeah?" Servus asks for confirmation, "Saw ya lob one into pieces from behind a bush. That takes greeeeeeeat balls kid, well done."

He's being rather sarcastic there, but he couldn't calm him a full-blown coward. I mean, he pretty much is, but he wasn't actually useless. Slight props to him. Then Servus asks the obvious question.

"And uh..." he hesitates slightly before finishing, "That's 'lotta butterflies ya got there. Tryna' catch them all or are you secretly some kinda flower?"

@Crimson Raven

Kara

Kara relaxed. Not an enemy, just another human. She shook her head and put away her dragonstone. Now that the monsters were gone, she needed to keep moving. These three here were no concern of hers, she had no interest in talking with them with more pressing matters at hand. Her gazed drifted in the direction of Grado, where that eerie, almost familiar, energy was emanating from. She thought she could just see the tops of the city's towers in the distance.

But all the smoke made it hard to tell.

"And uh... That's 'lotta butterflies ya got there. Tryna' catch them all or are you secretly some kinda flower?"

Kara made a small noise of disgust at the sheer vapid stupidity of what Servus just said. "I'd love to stay and chat," She interrupted dryly, "But I don't have time for this. Be on you way." The last part was noticeably more politely spoken yet carried an unmistakable tone of command. She turned and began walking in the direction of Grado, her wings folded on her back and her tail swaying in time with her footsteps.

Privatly, she cursed the monsters. Thanks to them, she was too worn out to fly the rest of the way, not to menton her dragonstone was drained. She would have to walk, and take her time doing it. There was still the matter of the possiblility that those monsters had sent after her specifically, implying that someone wanted her dead. She frowned at that. Could it be because of her journey or because she was a manakete? If the former, there was no reason to be worried. If it was the latter, then her fellow manaketes in the forest could be in danger too and not all of them were the fighter she was. Still more questions needled her. Who could command and summon monsters like that? Was it even related to her journey? It was possible that she just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. But those archers... She shivered and touched her healing wound. Were the appearance of no less than three archers coincidence?

Too many questions and no answers. She gave up trying to ponder them out. Idle speculation would get her nowhere; she would have to find them for herself.

@PlatinumSkink
Hevel looked towards Servus as he spoke to him, looking a bit wide-eyed as the mention of the destruction of the one Bonewalker. At Servus completion of the line… Hevel broke into a little awkward smile. ‘Haha, yeah, that was me.’

_{‘Heh, right. The guy who looks like he could take on two Draco Zombies before breakfast calls me brave. Sure, I’ll take it.’}

Then Servus asked about the butterflies. Hevel blinked twice looking like he didn’t understand, then he looked around him and seemed to notice the butterflies for the absolutely first time.

‘Ah.’ He waved his right arm to ward off butterflies on his right side. ‘Um.’ Still looking awkward, he made a similar wave on the left side. ‘Please, don’t mind those,’ he requested, running a hand through his hair to make the one on his head fly. He then resumed the position of holding hands up in a non-threatening gesture, and the butterflies resettled on him without further ado.

Kara then said her part and turned to leave. Hevel turned to look at her in slight surprise, but stood still for now. He’s unlikely to interrupt with anything if Servus engaged in conversation or what not unless addressed.

@Lmpkio

SERVUS

Servus looked at the boy weirdly as he attempted to wave his arms in order to get the butterflies off him, only for them to land on him once he rests. At the same time he can also hear the manakete grunt in disgust, but didn't pay too much attention to it.

"This is some weird kid..." the rider thought to himself.

But before he can ask another question, Kara suddenly began to take her leave. Just like that? No thank you or any form of appreciation that he helped her? I mean, Servus did get that lecture, but it's only polite for someone to acknowledge someone's help, even if it was a little unwanted. He turns to call towards the manakete.

"Oi! Hold up!" he called to her, "If ya're not going to give a thank you or whatever, can ya at least tell me where ya going or what ya doing around these parts at least?"

He'd pause before quickly realizing the possible implications of what she can interpret his statement as.

"O-Of course, I'm not gonna follow ya or anything - hell if I do, ya might as well flame me alive or somethin'." he adds quickly to his response.

@Crimson Raven

Kara

Kara kept walking but turned and regarded Servus with a mildly amused expression. He was afraid of her wrath. Good. “If you must know, I’m headed to Grado.” She glanced at the rising smoke in the distance. “Or what will be left of it. However, why I am going there is my business.”

And would probably sound mad if I even tried to explain it. She silently added. That insistant pull, that powerful energy, equal parts attaction and revulsion, familar and mysterious, drove her steps. She had to go. She couldn’t expain why.

The idea that this wyvern rider, and to a lesser extent, the thief would be good protection while her dragonstone was recharging did occur to her. But she had long since done well on her own, why would she need help now?

Then again, there was that mysterious force. If it summoned more monsters than before, or if it could send more in rapid waves before she could rest, even she might struggle. Even if she encountered roving monsters or bandits now she would be nearly defenseless. Just walking was taking determination and willpower. She planned to rest for awhile once she got some distance between her and the ambush site.

But a human for company? Two humans even? The wyvern wouldn’t be so bad at least.

All that was assuming they were even going in the same direction.

She stopped walking suddenly. “I think the same could be asked of you. What are you doing in these lands?” She asked of the wyvern rider. Simultaneously, she lazily lifted an arm and beckoned the thief to join them. Perhaps she had been a bit hasty. She would decide what to do with them after hearing more of their story.

If she tired of them she could always eat them she jokingly suggested to herself.

@Lmpkio

SERVUS

Servus pauses when Kara mentioned the chilling words regarding Grado.

"W-Waddya do ya mean, what's left of~?" he mutters confusingly before looking in her direction.

"Oh... oh no."

And there he sees it. The smoke bellowing from the direction of that very kingdom. He knows all too well of what this means. Jehenna's forces had already begun their invasion, which has begun much earlier then he realized. He believed he had at least an hour or so before he had to flee the kingdom, yet after an hour out on the field there they are now. But why is Kara going there in the hour of strife? She couldn't be simply wanting to help Grado out for its own good, right? No, there's something more to it, but he both doesn't know or is told by the dragon lady herself.

But regarding Jehenna, Servus had no reason to stay and fight them - his own race as a matter of fact - for he and his wyvern would be mercilessly hunted down by them as a traitor if he was seen. That was a past he wanted to bury... and now it has come back to haunt him. He wants to flee, or at the very least, quickly get to his hut and collect his stuff. Yet Kara also asks for what he was doing out here.

"I... uh..." he blubbers slightly, as if he's still shocked by the events unfolding.

His attire, of course, looks much like he's one of Jehenna's own and can fool anyone who hasn't seen him. But to state his true intentions in the presence of an ancient manakete will be unwise. To be called a coward by a dragon will be utterly humiliating to say the least. Hell, it even looks as if she expects him and the thief to come with her too. It looks like he's going to have to do the one thing he resented in doing...

"Well I was just... findin' monsters to practice my combat skills with." he blurts the first excuse that comes to mind, "However, now that there's an invasion force coming to raid Grado, I'ma also be heading back to hold em' back."

Servus reaches out to grab Hevel's arm as he attempts to plant him on Amboli.

"Oi, you." he orders bluntly, "Ya're coming with us, whether ya like it or not."

The wyvern screeches loudly while stretching her wings as the rider grabs ahold of the reins.

"Kara, hop on." he calls to the manakete, "Unless yer wings can still fly yaself there."

Amboli immediately clatters her teeth at his rider for offering Kara a ride despite her being her cousin. This wasn't going to be fun carrying three people back to Grado.

@Crimson Raven

Kara

Kara balked at his gung-ho attitude. “Woah, I never said we were— nrgh.” She broke off and looked toward Grado, thinking quickly.

Flying would be faster, and this way she could rest at the same time. She was too tired to fly, much less keep up on her own

But flying on someone wasn’t the same as flying yourself. Could Ambroli handle three people?

She asked the wyvern as much, who responded confidently affirmative. Like wyvern, like master she supposed. Still, she hesitated. She chewed her bottom lip, her tail flicked and she shifted her wings on her back. Kara, usually so self confident and assured, was nervous about the idea of flying on the back of another creature of the sky. “Fine, it will be faster this way.” She slowly approached Ambroli, not sure how to climb up. She finally stepped around the wyvern’s wings to her tail, and using a strap she unsteadily scaled Ambroli’s back. Oh, winds, this is mad. A dragon riding another dragon?

She sat as modestly as she could in a skirt. Such attire was comfortable and convenient when one had a tail, but it definitely wasn’t the best idea for flying. Oh dear. Amboli’s back wasn’t as hard as she feared, but it still wasn’t comfortable under her bum. “Wha-what do I hold on to?” She asked, feeling like she could fall any second and looking wildly around.

Oh. Right. She hesitantly wrapped her mismatched arms around Hevel in front of her, who stiffed and blushed as he felt an unexpected, but pleasant, softness press into his back. Inexplicably, he still had several butterflies all over him, one of which lifted off and settled on Kara’s nose. She looked at it cross-eyed and tried not to sneeze. Kara carefully pressed her wings as hard as she could to her back and she wrapped her tail up into her lap. She was a secure as she could be. “If I fall, no one will find your bodies.” She muttered darkly. It wasn’t the flying that made her nervous, she did that all the time. It was the insecure feeling, the feeling of being reliant on another that she didn’t like.

@PlatinumSkink
Hevel looked more than satisfied simply listening to the conversation, standing there only the slightest wide-eyed looking over the two. When Kara waved to him to come over, he looked a bit surprised but scuffled over, the butterflies following along. If the question about what they were doing here was directed to both Servus and him, he failed to understand it. He didn’t react in any particular way at the smoke from the distant settlement… but he most certainly reacted when Servus decided the thief was to be taken along whether he liked it or not.

‘Waitwhat- I am? Whoa!’ Hevel’s eyes widened as he was grabbed and placed on-board Amboli, grabbing onto Servus from behind in sheer panic, the butterflies hanging on as well. While he did not speak up loudly, this time he was so close to Servus that he might overhear Hevel’s silent ramble.

_{‘You’re bringing me along, just like that!? Because I helped you once, I am now helping you against the whole might of Jehanna, or what!? What kind of logic is that!? You have no idea who I am or where I came from! How can you assume I will be willing to face armies and monsters beside you just because I-!’}

He quieted when Kara came close, eyes widening as he partly realized what would have to come next. She got on behind him, and asked where to hold on.

_{‘I, uh, suppose you could-’} Hevel began in a silent tone, but Kara came to her own conclusion and wrapped her arms around him. Hevel’s eyes widened, body tensed up, face a bit red. He did not move a muscle, as if afraid to disturb the entity pressed onto his back.

‘…’

‘…’

_{‘I’m okay with this.’}

Hevel has joined the party!

“If I fall, no one will find your bodies.”

_{‘I’m only partially okay with this.’}

With that, the three were in place on Amboli’s back, and while travelling with three people on the back of a Wyvern was not recommended, at least two of the passengers were lighter than the average and was feasible for a not-too-long journey. South of them awaited Grado, smoking from Jehanna’s invasion, people deciding between retreating from the army or holing up in their homes. There would potentially be a danger of being located, as the army had scouts heading about.

Kara still felt two of the four earlier flares of demonic energy that remained, their origin unfamiliar to her. One of them was in Jehanna, the other far across the continent in Rausten. The two other flares she had felt, the weaker two, had faded. This much alike to how the one which had called the attack directly at her had faded. The meaning of these flares were up to her to guess the meaning of. But straight ahead, in Grado, the Fire Emblem remained, just as it had for so long, despite the invasion. … Or was it moving, just the slightest? It was hard to tell from this distance, but it kind of felt like it had moved a bit since the time she felt the flares emerge…

@Lmpkio

SERVUS

Even though he just met both the manakete and the thief, Servus couldn't help but to add them for the support of Grado's defenses. In such desperate times, he might as well pull them along for the ride. They seemed harmless enough. At least Kara seems to agree it will be faster, since she's so tired. As she began to hop onto Amboli, she stepped on her tail causing the wyvern to screech loudly, almost dismounting both riders. Servus continued to sooth the wyvern up to the point the manakete got comfortable. She asked simply what to hold on to in a rather nervous tone. Servus simply chuckled.

"Try tha' guy in front of ya." he said with a humorous undertone.

Once she took ahold of the bashful thief, they were ready to go, but not without Kara giving an ominous warning if she were to fall off. Servus chuckles again at the response, both jokingly with a healthy dose of nervousness.

"Than hang on tight!" the rider announced as he slaps the reins on Amboli, signaling her to become airborne with an abrupting jolt.

With that, the trio began to fly to their next destination. What awaits them has yet to be seen...

@Crimson Raven

Kara

Curiously, all her trepidation vanished after the initial terror of take off. Kara clenched tight against Hevel as Amboli launched herself into the air, the motion disturbingly familiar yet different from when Kara herself took flight. But, all her nervousness faded when they were in the air, as if her body and mind recognized this as familiar. This...isn't so bad. She thought.

However, in the absence of panic, crushing exaustion piled up on her. It has been quite the eventful day and she had spent most of her energy flying and then fighting those monsters. She was beat. To tired to think, her eyes began to droop as she leaned forward into Hevel. The sonorous beat of Amboli's wings worked like a lullaby to the dragoness. Her grip relaxed as she rested her head on Hevel's back. Within seconds, she was sound asleep, her warm breath ticking the back of Hevel's neck.

Lunacy of Love: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

Mariette

and Eli

Mariette simply stood watch as the room was emptied into the handbag portal. When the armour awoke, she employed some basic portal tactics to give her girls the edge against the entity, and it was quickly defeated. Then the other girls returned, delivering tomes and the news Beacon was going to destroy the castle. Puh, really, Beacon? Though, with the assumption Justine was a powerhouse they couldn’t defeat with the available troops, which was a rather logical assumption when she considered it, this was a reasonable tactical manoeuver. It might hamper her ritual. Good. Mariette could get behind this.

This did mean Mariette would have been dead if it wasn’t for Nancy. Fancy that. With a sudden time-limit, she went ahead with her plans. A portal opened in the dark mirror, Mariette sensing the power within. My, where had Justine found this one? In any case. On the other side…

Oh? They had defeated Justine? Mariette was impressed. Without killing her? She was quite curious how this had occurred. At the same time, she was alarmed. If Justine turned a new leaf and was present when the time came, it would be very troubling. This circumstances had to be inspected, and it was important to find out what they planned to do with their enemy now. Mariette planned to step through, connect to the survivors… Hm. Sue and Scout looked different. Some were missing. In any case. They would surely need a ride home, and Mariette could share that Beacon was destroying the mansion but assure that she had saved the prisoners. This would give her a positive reputation boost, and being part of negotiations she could seek an opportunity to eliminate Justine. Excellent. The plan was in motion. She was about to step out, to stand on a portal in the air above the group, looking forward to seeing Justine’s expression upon seeing her and perhaps have a conclusive bit of banter, when…

‘Wah!’ Eli, who had walked close to the mirror to look through at the scene with her Third Eye to make sure her mistress wasn’t just looking at a piece of art made by the Illusion-specialization or something similar had inadvertently taken Asengav’s mirror close. Tendrils sprouted, Mariette had to stumble a few steps back with wide eyes as the two mirrors joined. And there, for just the slightest moment;

BLACK

All semblance of plans blew out of Mariette’s mind where she stood, wide-eyed. She knew what she had seen. This had never happened before. And the mansion now before her, besides perfectly matching her taste, was seeping with Asengav’s presence. In horror, Mariette’s mind immediately went for nightmare scenarios. Had she displeased her patron? Was she in for a harsh lesson? Was she being reassigned to somewhere bad?

It didn’t matter. She would follow his commands. She quietly steeled herself, and prepared to face whatever was through this portal-

“There! That’s our escape!”

Mariette blinked and she looked over towards Nancy, who had said that, and the other girls that seemed like they were agreeing. Wait, hold on. There were bad things through this portal. They should get away. She’d been intending for them to get away. If they left now, Asengav couldn’t get his tendrils on them, and they could live on in peace. Mariette opened her mouth to warn them-

A severe pain coursed through her mind, making Mariette bend over and grunt as she placed her hands on her forehead. When the pain finally cleared, Mariette shook somewhat as she got back upright, looking forward towards the beckoning mansion.

What was that thought for? Warning them? That’s stupid. They’re pawns, and currently they were resources for Asengav to make use of. Surely, the Horror would be pleased with such an assortment of feeble-minded powerhouses. Asengav called for her. She would answer.

‘We’ll get out through here! Let’s go!’ Mariette called to the other girls, before jumping through the portal, into Asengav’s grasp once again.

Pokémon: Start

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Fire Emblem: A Blinding Light

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