Raineh Daze

Final Fantasy: Lightseekers

Miina Malina

"Ha–" Miina was halfway through buffing herself to deal with the onslaught when Rudolf intercepted. Well… never mind that, then; if someone with actual specialised sword skills wanted to engage the demonic scythe, so be it. When was the last time she had actually put hers to any use, anyway? Her knife saw plenty of engagement, comparatively, as it was a useful tool as well as a good thing to shove into someone.

Her sword was… basically a glorified lightning rod? Hm, maybe she should address that at some point, or at least see if it could be improved. But magic was so much more interesting.

What she wouldn't give for an offensive white magic spell, though… well, nothing too serious, bodily; maybe an eye at most. It seemed like such an oxymoron, but… well, why couldn't it destroy just as thoroughly as dark magic? The mechanism would be different but it should still be possible. Same as how she had improvised that black magic dispel the other week.

It was just that fighting against some maybe-summoned entity was not the time to start trying to improvise one of the two pinnacles of the art. They had better not ever need the other one; Miina didn't want to test how close someone could come to being dead before magic became ineffective. Going beyond it seemed like something that involved a rather complete trade, or probably just the downfall of civilisations.

Still, even with her mind racing on hypotheticals (and bemoaning the lack of library access to answer any of these questions) and her need for defence stilled, the redheaded mystrel wasn't completely lacking in instinct or sense. She wanted to hurt this guy, and while she couldn't do white magic, there was the all-purpose all-bright elemental equivalent:

"Fira!"

Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

Tachibana Hibiki

Hibiki gave the room a curious look, then ran out and looked in the next apartment – and the next, and the next, and then after the fourth came back to give an enthusiastic report: "They're all the same!"

… or, in other words, it didn't really matter which apartment any of them picked – maybe one on a corner of the building was ideal for the ninja who wanted extra window, but aside from that, it didn't really matter. No one apartment had a different layout from any other, and the facilities seemed pretty much the same as the last two places she'd shared with Miku… more cramped than their current accommodation, but less than the dorms after Lydian's original buildings were destroyed.

There was also a spare room, which Hibiki supposed was technically a step up from a bunk bed you were only using half of, but she couldn't see her and Miku needing that at any point. Not unless she really messed something up again…

"Is there any reason for us to pick now?" the black-haired girl wondered after her girlfriend's announcement. If all the apartments were the same, then there was nothing they needed to set up, was there?

"It's not like we brought luggage to unpack." Hibiki added, nodding along. She was ready for whatever was going to happen.

Sword and Dungeon: An Adventurer's Guild-based Fantasy RP

Quille

"Maybe I should just get started looking in the forest," Quille suggested, looking ahead at the town with a certain amount of apprehension. The dark elf had said barely a word on the trip here – and made nearly as little noise, particularly when they stuck to proper roads – and looked slightly uncomfortable at the idea of wandering in and striking up a conversation.

In her defence, a small town like this was unlikely to see a dark elf with even the slightest regularity and her presence might distract people from talking about the actual problem. But she clearly just wanted to skulk off to where there weren't people but might be their job target.

Or things that her knives were useful for.

Sword and Dungeon: An Adventurer's Guild-based Fantasy RP

Fort Magrial

Past the boundary, the filth lessened slightly; the goblins might have been discarding the refuge haphazardly, but they did seem to have some sense in pushing it away from whatever passed for living areas. But the overt decorations increased: smaller animal bones replaced with larger ones, and some sort of order to it.

There was also the sound of things talking. Almost animalistic in how rough they were, some extremely high pitched, and others substituting the pitch for an even thicker rasp. Not that they were close enough (or liable to speak any recognisable tongue) to tell what they were saying, but the goblins were undeniably in residence.

Nor were they all sequestered away inside: now there were some looking around, wiry green figures of similar size to their own scout, carrying whatever sharp and pointy thing they could get their hands on — seemingly nothing good for those banished to this dull task, kitchen knives or whatever they'd been able to fashion themselves rather than pilfered arms of any quality.

Final Fantasy: Lightseekers

Miina Malina

She knew that Skael was going to be cold (and why did the spies have such an attractive boss? That was a bit unfair, it had kept her distracted all the time), but this hat was already getting a bit annoying. Miina was sure she could get used to it… but any muffling on her hearing was just frustrating. Maybe she could do some sort of inverse-Silence spell to improve it? Something tiny and unnoticeable, just enough to even it out.

That was the thing about travel, it was just… such a dull experience that she had plenty of time to get lost in her own head even more than normal and think about things. Magic, normally. It wasn't like keeping an eye and ear open took too much focus, so…

Maybe that was just her upbringing speaking, though? She should ask one day, see if it was a more active job and that was how the non-mages kept themselves from getting bored while they were travelling.

The greenery giving way to ruins drew the Mystrel out of her musing and into sharper observation. Rudolf was a surprisingly active tour guide, but her real interest was the cloud hanging around the place, and aetherial miasma that she just couldn't ignore. Not like the blight, nor the heavy element down by the water crystal, but rather… black magic? This place had something to do with whatever was going on inside him, though, right? Maybe it wasn't surprising.

Oh, it wasn't meant to be like this? Of course not, when could they ever just walk from place to place. Miina was sure she hadn't had anywhere near this trouble with just travelling before she joined the Kirins, did one of them have some specific curse or something…

Right, nasty darkness thing (Rudolf had better give a nice, proper explanation after this) to fight, enough wondering about why later. Shame she didn't have anything white-magic attuned more offensive to use than a Dispel, and that was a very definite melee engagement. But it ought to work, white magic unweaving the bonds that held something aetherial and especially something attuned to black magic to the world…

If she could get in close. And that scythe looked nasty.

"Protect," there, that gave her something (she needed to work on that clothes-repairing spell after this, no doubt), and everyone else an extra layer of defence too…

And then she ran in towards the thing. Yeah, yeah, lure it out; wasn't that easier when you provoked it? But she needed to be in touch range for a Dispel. Hopefully someone else got the memo and covered her.

Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

Tachibana Hibiki

There were some hushed whispers as Miku continued to dumb down the explanation to layman's terms. Something hardened in the girl's expression when she looked at Wynn – the idea of sacrificing the remnants of entire worlds to prop up whatever they were doing not one that sat well with the girl – but Hibiki didn't raise any fuss. Or question the teleportation; after being pulled to a parallel world and having been teleported to the moon before, this was already becoming strangely routine.

And then it was time to introduce herself—

"Tachibana Hibiki, age 17! My hobby is saving people, and my favourite things are Miku and food!" her introduction was delivered with enthusiasm, enough that she seemed to miss her girlfriend covering her face in embarrassment. "I'm no good at explaining things, but I can transform with Gungnir! I hope we can all be friends."

"I'm Kohinata Miku. As I said, I don't have any way to fight," the black-haired girl had recovered from her latest bout of embarrassment, "But if there's any other way I can help, I will."

There was a moment's pause, before Hibiki added, "We'll only need one room, we've been sharing for years."

Miku could only sigh at the phrasing. "Hibiki…"

@Cmmelody@FujiwaraPhoenix@VitaVitaAR@Rune_Alchemist

Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

Doesn't matter if it's a one person bedroom, Hibiki and Miku are sharing. They've been doing that looooong before either of them worked out their feelings, silly pair.

Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

Tachibana Hibiki

Hibiki started off following the conversation… mostly. They were from separate worlds, she had no problems believing that part, even if it was a bit out of her usual experience. After all, the Noise had been in a sort of parallel thingy, and Finé was a reincarnated ancient priestess. Being literally pulled to another place that wasn't some pocket dimension was a perfectly reasonable escalation.

… probably. It had happened and she wasn't going to overthink it.

But what she was going to (fail) to understand was exactly what was going on. Something bad was happening at home and they'd… uh, done something?

That was about the point that the brunette stopped following along and started panicking as the explanation got more technical and she could only latch onto the vaguest point: something about collapsing and stasis. The entire rest of the following conversation went completely past her.

"W-Wait! Our worlds are collapsing!?" Hibiki asked, not wanting to move past that point, "Are Chris-chan and everyone else alright!?"

At least Miku was here and perfectly safe (for whatever amount of safety an interdimensional abduction counted for), but everyone else was unknown and they had been late to meet Chris and if something had happened to her… and then there was Tsubasa, the commander, Maria, Shirabe, Kirika, Elfnein, all the other command staff, the rest of their classmates…

A (now-presentable) Miku's hand taking hers brought the wielder back to something approaching calmness, "She means that she paused our worlds to keep everything safe, right? And everyone here was chosen to help fix the problem?"

The white-haired woman nodded in response, and Hibiki was glad to now be at least (somewhat) on the same page as everyone else. If the first explanation hadn't been so complicated… well, that wasn't important, what did matter was that everyone was safe for now, and she had a clear goal!

… and no idea how to accomplish any of it.

"I don't have any idea how we can help, but I'll do my best!"

"Me too," Miku nodded beside her, "But Hibiki's the only one of us with a Symphogear. I'm just an ordinary girl."

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Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

Okay, tomorrow, for sure: Hibiki continues to be an idiot and panics at first. xd

The Metian Institute: Project Gungnir

Cellica looked around the storage room curiously… and took off to inspect the construction robot immediately. The thing about large robots was, well, large and made entirely of resilient materials. If this was to start moving of its own accord, there was no bigger threat to their safety: collapsing ruins and environmental hazards could accidentally get you, but they didn't have a known habit of chasing you to make sure you were paste and a map of the area.

It might be a construction robot, but you never knew if programming had gotten muddled down the line and it thought it was now a combat model.

Curiously, the uneven corrosion suggested that the robot had been mobile and active more recently than anything else… perhaps maintenance work? And its power source was the tank…

"It seems this robot has moved more recently than anything else here. Perhaps if the leaking tube was temporarily sealed, it would reactivate and we could guide it. Or it might simply repair the door of its own accord, dependant upon its programming."