Charm!!MuAmVlLGL0 2012/05/28(Mon)16:08 No. 416779 ID: af10de
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>>416595
>>416597
>>416620
>>416677

"Alright, I might be interested in hearing you out. But if you're going to get me on board, I need to know everything involved in this deal, right here and now. What do want from me, what do I get out of the deal, and why do you insist on making my life miserable in doing so?"
"Peace, azure princess. Such anger does not suit a woman of your...current temperament. Unless you feel lost within the wells of knowledge you draw from? Perhaps I should start referring to you as a maiden of the Crimson?"

...okay, I may be wearing a red blouse, but I'm not some dumb pyromaniac. I'm angry because this little shit is really getting irritating, and that's it.

"As for your questions...you would swear alliance to me and grant me access to your mana bond as payment. You will go where I send you, with whom I send you, when I call for you; and you will fulfill the objectives I set for you without fail. In exchange, I will take your current form and replace it with one of your own design that can accept the power with which you will be bestowed."

...so basically he wants me to run magical errands whenever he asks, in exchange for a power-up and a magical makeover. I don't really think it's the best deal, but it certainly knows this shit better than I do...

>[ ] Alright, you have a deal.
>[ ] No, get away and never come back.
>[ ] I need more time and information before committing...
>[ ] Other (Please Specify)

[X] No, get away and never come back.

Better to muddle through on your own then to behold yourself something calling itself a soul taker. Thats why you blasted it in the first place.

>>416779
"There's a big difference between 'sliver of mana' and 'life of servitude'. Funny how you asked for the former and meant the latter."

>[x] No, get away and never come back.

Unless this time of servitude has an end, no.

If it does end at some point other than our death, when would that be?

No, get away and never come back.

blast him dead.

[X] No, get away and never come back.

>>416782
yeah, this sounds like a deal where he snaps up people with high potential but no knowledge and enslaves them before they know better.

>[ ] No, get away and never come back.
In the form of verbally saying that we want nothing to do with him and his duplicitous deals. That would possibly be more lasting than simply killing him again, and blasting him would give him an excuse to send his minions after us.

Charm!!MuAmVlLGL0 2012/05/28(Mon)21:38 No. 416875 ID: af10de
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>>416780
>>416782
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>>416820

"Hmm...that's a tempting offer. but I've a better one: you stop hunting in my city and I might decide to not make it my life's mission to destroy your very essence. How's that sound?"
"...you humans are so...fascinating. Are you aware of how many people are willing to throw away a future for the chance at powers that in the grand schema offer little more than what they currently possess?"

I really hope there's a way to kill this demonic furball without needing BRAIN LASERS, because that stung like hell. Not that the thought keeps it from continuing to drone on.
"I think I like it here, in 'your city' as you called it. Surely there are others like my alabaster maiden willing to serve for a price. I expect you too will join me in time, once you find yourself...lacking. Her newfound might appears to have made a significant impression, one that will only bolster my ranks."
Son of a...is he making a magical girl army or something?!?

"However...so long as you do not attack me or mine, I suppose we will merely have to co-exist in this plane. But do not think for a moment that you can overpower me - or I'll tear you from existence, piece by tortuous piece."

Before I can respond to the son of a bitch, it just...vanishes. Like it was never even th-

...and the bloody thing took my leftover pizza with it. Calm down Erica...this isn't the end of the world. Yet. But any hope of a peaceful day just got shattered, and any appetite I had is gone.
>What the hell am I supposed to do now?

>>416875
>What the hell am I supposed to do now?
Go find Nicole. Quickly. That thing implied that she's being corrupted somehow by her power, and that he's got superpowered servants running around- we need to check up on our ally and watch her back... not mention have her watch ours.

we build our own army, we find people with power and find some way to activate it. then we warn them about the furry little bastard. i'm willing to bet he get rejected at least halfe the time, we might be able to get the numbers we need to overcome him if we act fast.

Ok, it definitely sounds like he is building some kind of military force. Fortunately, this greatly increases the chance that we can come to a favorable arrangement with the government, as they have obvious reason to be concerned about an mysterious alien amassing secret army of superweapons in their country. I think we should prepare to make such an arrangement as soon as possible.
(Of course, when we first meet with them we should wear some kind of illusion rather than talking to them as ourself, or even stay invisible and have an illusion puppet do the talking for us.)

You need to call Nicole. This being is going to go around powering up more girls so he can get his army. He'll go after Nicole and you have to warn her.
Also, here's something that you might need to tip the scales if you need to convince Nicole not to join him.
>Surely there are others like my alabaster maiden willing to serve for a price
Sarah is on his side. Surely, Nicole would not want to be on the same side as Sarah.

>>416875
he STOLE YOUR PIZZA? What a dick.

Charm!!MuAmVlLGL0 2012/05/29(Tue)20:09 No. 417100 ID: af10de
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>>417051
Yeah, because if I wasn't yet sure he was evil by trying to enslave me, then threatening me with a magical army, the fact that he stole my pizza means that this means war.

...God I feel like such an idiot for thinking that.
>>416882
>>416884
He did say that he wouldn't sic his dogs on us so long as we left him alone...not sure how much stock I can put in to that, but I still think staging a battle isn't a good idea for a long long way down the line.

>>416878
>>416897
Yeah, that's a good idea. Calling her up now.
"There better be something big happening right about now, I was about to take a nap..."

I take as little time as I can to explain exactly what just happened - the white thing that we both killed coming back, how it's apparently roped Sarah if no one else into its army, and how it plans to keep recruiting more girls.

"...That's seriously fucked up. I'll be sure to run the little shit through the ringer if it shows its face around here. But how do we get to people with the potential for this stuff before it does?"
"One thing at a time Nicole...one thing at a time. Speaking of, are you sure you're okay? The thing said you might be getting a bit...out of control with your magic. You haven't killed anyone since last night, have you?"
"No...should I have?"

...I get the feeling she's hiding something, but that it's not having killed anybody. Something else she'd hide.

Still, I know that she's got something else on her mind, but I doubt it's more important than this.

>[ ]"There's something you're not telling me...what is it?"
>[ ]"Think we need to meet up and form a battle plan?"
>[ ]"Now might be the time to find somewhere else to be..."
>[ ] Other (Please Specify)

She might have raised the dead or summoned something she shouldn't have.

>>417100
Try to uncover what she's concealing, but in a friendly, somewhat joking way.

"You're hiding something, and I want to know what it is. I suspect this is going to be a motif for us, since black mages are compulsively deceptive and blue mages are compulsively curious. Spill, or I'll pester you incessantly. I won't hold anything against you, I promise."

>He did say that he wouldn't sic his dogs on us so long as we left him alone
Sure he said he wouldn't send his minions after us, but I rather doubt his plans are limited simply to recruiting an army and leaving. He acts more like his long term goals involve operating either in or from this plane, both of which could be disastrous for a world not prepared for magical conflict.
And of course a fight right now would do little more than our mind blast did; I was thinking of building a more long-term power base to oppose whatever plans the fuzzball might have.

>>417120
If we say something like that we should say 'secretive' instead of 'deceptive'. Sounds less judgmental that way.

I think a face to face meeting is best.

don't press the issue- Nicole has proven that she can be dangerous and there's a good chance now that she isn't exactly the paragon of stability. in fact, I think you should look for other allies than her.

Charm!!MuAmVlLGL0 2012/05/31(Thu)16:48 No. 417754 ID: af10de
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>>417120
>>417127
"Look, I know you're not telling me something. This is probably gonna be an ongoing thing the way blue and black magic work, so spill or I'll annoy it out of you."
"Well...I tried summoning something like you talked about...and this man did teach me lots about magic, including some stuff you missed. I just...I dunno, it's like I'm really sleepy, and Bob didn't know of an easy way to fix it. So I just...feel out of it?"

Well...that's definitely better than it could have been, although I don't trust her ability to take too much more at the rate she's going. And if Sarah or any of the others decide to drop in on her...

>>417130
"You free to meet at Swinford Park, say...30 minutes?" It's about a 10 minute walk from my place, and not too much farther from hers if my math is right. She agrees to it without much hassle, so at least we'll be able to plan something.

>>417287
I'd love more allies than just her - mind you there's no way in hell I'm abandoning her, but few things would make me feel better than having someone with magic just walk up to me and say hi.

>But given the odds of that are really fucking slim, fat chance. Short of that, what can I do?

>>417754
>Short of that, what can I do?
Aggressive use of magic to find the next person who will manifest with magical power, or to find others who have it already. Your natural senses are nice, but they're not really up there with true spells. Fortunately, from what we've been taught of magic, both blue and black have a variety of ways to gather information, some very potent. Get together with Nicole, see what she learned from her summoned tutor, and then between the two of you start throwing around divinations like there's no tomorrow.

The guy who taught her was summoned, right? In any case it would be interesting to hear what he had to say.

>>417763
This is true. It would be nice to have more people so we can make a "Justice League" to help defend the world from the aliens paws.

But really, throwing a large amount of divination to find more people is gonna bite you in the butt if you're not strong or smart enough to keep them in line as your allies. You need to get stronger so you can protect what you have.

Charm!!MuAmVlLGL0 2012/06/16(Sat)19:34 No. 423267 ID: af10de
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>I do apologize for not getting back to this. new full-time job + lotsa people asking me for money + Prepping for WCQs means this kind of fell by the wayside. I do intend to update this daily from now on though.



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>>417803
After thinking for far too long about our next move, I head over to the park. Nicole is waiting for me on a bench, but she really doesn't look too hot.

>Nicole has 3/10 life.

"Holy...what the hell happened?" I almost wish I knew some kind of healing spell, because she really needs it.

"Bob...showed me some stuff. I know a lot about how magic works now, instead of just shooting random crap at people. Problem is...I just feel like I've aged two weeks in a day, and it's like everything I learned drained something...primal."

...This could get really bad if Sarah shows her face around here...or if any red mage does either, for that matter.

>[ ]Find some way to get Nicole's life total up, stat!
>[ ]Loan her some of your life total (and specify how much)
>[ ]Keep her stable and discuss scrying for new mages
>[ ]Run over everything you know to make sure you're not forgetting something
>[ ] Other (Please Specify)

[X]Find some way to get Nicole's life total up, stat!

>>423267
>[x]Keep her stable and discuss scrying for new mages
Nicole is a black mage. She should be able to suck the life out of something to heal herself without too much trouble, and we've got stuff to worry about. We're a savvy enough mage that we should be able to sense anyone incoming in enough time to get away before Nicole gets punked.

[x]Loan her some of your life total. 4 Life should be enough, given that we have 12, so it would bring her to 7 and us to 8.

>>423390

make it 2. she can find a way to heal herself.

Charm!!MuAmVlLGL0 2012/06/17(Sun)15:03 No. 423608 ID: af10de
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"Hang on Nicole...let me see if I can't wake you up some." I have to try something...maybe just giving it to her will work, but I can't let her take too much or else I'll be the one in trouble. Enough to get her on her feet, but not enough to knock me out...

Erica feels her head swimming and her vision go blurry as she transfers some of her energy over to Nicole. Erica is at 10 life, Nicole is at 5.

ugh...I jus...what am...who...urrg. alright, gimme a minute to get my head back on straight.

Wow. Not doing that again if I can possibly avoid it.

>>423303
Now that she's paying attention, I go over my basic outline. White furry shit planning to raise an army of teenage magician girls, and we need to do something to even the numbers.

"I agree we gotta do something...but it's not like we can just go up to random kids and give them magical powers. And even if we could...who's to say they'll ally with us?" She's got a good point, but it doesn't take long for me to come back from that.

"First off, the little shit's press-ganging these girls into lives of servitude. I don't need a magical army, and I'll be damned if that's what we make. They come with us, and we let them do what they want so long as we don't get into gigantic pissing matches over it."

"Plus, I might be able to find a way to give them a good dental plan. Don't underestimate a good benefits package."

...Yeah, I think that one went over her head. But she seems in agreement with most of it. Now all we have is the easy part - finding teenage girls in this city that have the ability to bend the laws of reality over their knee.

...Yeah. Easy. So, uh...how should I go about looking for them?

>[ ]"You know, I heard a few names and a party coming up...maybe there's someone in that group?"
>[ ]"Magic likes finding other magic, maybe you can help me look?"
>[ ]"The white thing has to have a way to find out, we could tail him and steal his recruits..."
>[ ]Other (Please Specify)

We can cast cards from other sets when not in combat, and a caster can control things they summon, right?
What if, when Nicole gains enough power to select another color, we convince her to go black/white and then have her summon up a certain fluffball to get some answers out of him?

you were doing the meditation thing when you detected her. you know what they say about the difference between one hand and two... maybe you can find a way to link together and cast spells as one. that'd be useful in this endeavor as well as others.

>>423608
>[x]"Magic likes finding other magic, maybe you can help me look?"

Help her help you look

Charm!!MuAmVlLGL0 2012/06/18(Mon)21:51 No. 423994 ID: af10de
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>>423614
As amusing as that sounds, Alexi said most magical beings allow astral projections to be summoned so they don't risk death.

...now that I think about it, that probably explains a lot.

>>423622
>>423646
>>423700
"Hey...you think you can help me find some people who can use magic?" Nicole nods as we try pooling our mana together, looking for a way to find magic users.

>4

"...I know you two have a good reason for calling me here...but I'm going to want to know why I should bother hearing it. Because I really don't need every two-bit sorceress begging me for lessons."

...oh shit. This guy feels powerful. Like an entirely different level of powerful, moreso than Alexi did. And he doesn't look happy.

>A wild Jon Finkel appears!
>...Well, shit. Anything I can say to keep him from turning us into mindslaves or something?

>>423994
If the card is accurate, he's not really all that powerful, he just has a fear aura. Either of you got anything that can deal 3+ damage? Lots of them, preferably, if he has a counter? Show them off without using them.

>>423994
Man, I was really hoping for something more along the lines of "detection spell" than "summon". Oh well.

Anyway, it's clear that this guy with his "why should I bother hearing what you want" is challenging you to demonstrate that you're badass. Between the two of you, you should be able to throw down something flashy and deadly with your mana and then give him a "because you'll help us or else". It's not perfect since he is probably not in his real body, but even he probably doesn't want to get his brain scrambled by a pair of extremely annoyed sorceresses, two-bit or not.

>>423994
You don't have to be scared of this guy. He actually not that strong, so don't let him intimidate you. Besides Alexi is stronger than him and you faced her down too.
Strangely enough, he's actually a good summons. He's a spy and you need information on the plushie's plan, so why not get him to spy on Sarah.

did you say Jon Finkel? run motherfucker run

or say you'll flash him your tits maybe that will work

Oh, right. That's the card made in honor of one of the best magic players ever. Let's not threaten him or try and act badass.

I say we say something like "Well, from what we understand there's practically noone on this world with magic, except there's some evil rabbit thing running around awakening anyone with talent to Archmage levels of power in return for servitude. I'm going to guess that's unusual and thus interesting."

>>424016
A description like this sounds best if we talk to him, but I am kind of tempted to just say "wrong number" and dismiss the summon. That is a thing we can do, right?

Charm!!MuAmVlLGL0 2012/06/19(Tue)21:56 No. 424278 ID: af10de
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>>424072
>Normally you can dismiss summons like that, but as >>424008 and >>424016 astutely noted, This is Johnny Magic you're dealing with here. Normal isn't the proper word for anything regarding him.

>>424016
"Umm...I know that we look like total newbies...and I guess we kind of are. We're just trying to keep some magical hellspawn from raising an entire army of teenage sorcerer girls for shits and giggles. Magic...really isn't that common here, so we're a bit on our own. Is there anything you'd be willing to help us with?" While diplomacy isn't my forte, it certainly seems better than trying to pick a fight with the guy.

>12
>Seems the dice are turning against you...

"...No."
"So you're just going to let the fuzzy bastard destroy this world?"

"Didn't say that. But I'm not tying myself to two teenage girls who don't know shit about how this works. And I rightly can't say if it'll blow the world up - even if it does, not my problem."

...I really don't want to let this guy just walk away like nothing happened, but on the other hand, he's more powerful than both of us, by far. Trying combat seems a near-suicidal option.

>Hey, I know you're still there! Any thoughts on what I can say to keep this guy around?

>>424278
Well, he sounds like he would like a challenge. Challenge him to a duel and if you win, he'll help you with the Kyubey/Sarah issue. He probably won't want to teach you two anything so you gotta learn through observation and experience.

>>424293
>Trying combat seems a near-suicidal option.
>Challenge him to a duel
Really?

>if you win, he'll help you
If he were to lose against two newbies he would not be a better teacher than Alexis.

I say let him go. We didn't even intend to summon him and he does not want to teach us. Lets resume magical girl hunting instead.

>>424293

hahahahano. if you want practice, practice against Nicole when you're both at full health and there aren't any insanely dangerous people around.

be a good girl and don't insist he stay.

So... not being interested in the problems of some novices is understandable, but why did he show up in person if that is the case?

Charm!!MuAmVlLGL0 2012/08/30(Thu)18:23 No. 449806 ID: af10de
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>Oh hey, this is still here. I know it's been a long time but if people are still interested, I'll keep posting.

>>424339
"If you don't care about two newbies, why show up here?"
It doesn't make sense for the man to bother visiting us in person if he's just going to blow us off.

"You two really don't know anything about this whole 'summoning' business, do you? You call on someone with enough power, they can choose to project themselves metaphysically so they can't be harmed by whatever is going on. Now get out of my sight before I actually come over there and show you what magic actually is."

...okay, backing away from the scary guy now. Do NOT want to piss him off ever again...and Nicole is either too brave or too stupid to follow. Dammit, get over here before he turns you into a pile of goo!

"...Well...can you at least tell us how to find other magic users? Maybe ones who don't know that they can use it?"

"...What's in it for me?" the man asks, disdain still evident in his voice.

>Well? What is in it for him?

>>449806
Well, we can't give him anything material, so how about something that a blue and black aligned creature might appreciate. Finding out secrets and fighting white.

Tell him that some creature that can be affected by Deathmark is currently heading a conspiracy involving young girls and exposing them to magical powers so that he might have footsoldiers.

So, me and Nicole would like you Mr Finkle to help us out in trying to find out what's the real story about this guy and how to defend ourselves from him.

Well damn, if projections can be that cooperative my plan to eventually summon a Kyubey of our own to wring answers out of is done for.

...Is there anything someone as powerful as him would want that people like us would have?