>>513726
Squat

>>513726
LET C'MELL SPEAK.
ASK ROOK FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE REBELS

best quest ever is back

>>513731
No no, that's what the bad girls did in high school with the boyfriends that had bikes and pompadours. You were the shy nerd girl that's never been kissed and got bullied.

>>513726
>ASK ROOK FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE REBELS
>Tell him we've been trying to make friends, that we're still pretty scared and lost and not a lot of things are making sense.

>>513827
Do you want to stop C'Mell from blurting out whatever it is she's about to blurt out?

>>513860
I don't and if he doesn't respond consider that I'm speaking for him. :^)

>>513860
I'd like to keep C'Mell from vomiting facts all over the place, yeah

>>513878
NO

WE SHOULD LET IT HAPPEN

>>513887
why?

>>513889
...because!

>>513900
that's not a reason at all.

>>513908
>needing reasons

>>513911
>trying to fuck with a quest for lulz so randumb
c'mon, seriously?

>>513916
I want to hear what she has to say.

Consider that if it's truly terrible she's just digging her own grave.

>>513921
>>513916
I mean that literally.

>>513921
but there's no reason to let her bring down the heat if we can manage to keep this civil
remember, the last time she disagreed with us, she punched us in the face

>>513929
I would like to believe that she's developed a little more since then, especially with the changes. I want to hear what she has to say to either confirm or deny that expectation, rather than shunting her out on the possibility.

I consider this a trust exercise, and worth it. Stopping her from being blurty puts the ball in her court against us for our . Conversely, letting her speak allows us to pin greater consequences on her for the act, we don't precisely need to abide by it, and I don't believe she has anything to say that will hurt us more than we can use it to hurt her.

I consider this in kind with Rook's character and how he's dealt with things so far, according to everyone else and him on who's side he's on, especially with how he'll handle it.

Tied at one vote a piece for don't let C'Mell speak and let C'Mell speak.

>>513929
>>513952
To simplify, "Who needs who more, and why?"

That is the answer she's about to provide us, for herself, and for Rook.

>>513966
Sorry for causing an impasse.

>>514013
Its alright. I'm sure the slow response rate is because I started so late. I'm sure it will pick up tonight. I hope. I had like 50 something IPs last thread. It's going to suck if I've hit some attrition because I'm not sure what's gone wrong. People seemed to really like the quest. It got a good review.

>>514035
I don't know where any of the previous anons went. Do they not autoupdate or stick around the thread or something? I don't wanna to be a debbie-downer but maybe anons can't be active for some reason? I really like this quest, so I can't say why anyone else wouldn't be engaged.

>>513966
Don't
>>514051
The first thread dropoff is real.

>>514068
I didn't think a dropoff could be this bad.

Ah well, I guess we won't get deeper insight into their characters, but we'll be safe.

>>514068
You hold up a hand to tell C'Mell to be silent.

"Tch! Come on!" She says. "Let me in on the Besant talk, I got a lot I want to say to Rook!"

"That's what I'm worried about." You mumble.

"Tell me about these rebels Rook." You think over the Besant.

"Oh man, the rebels. Where do we begin with those guys? They were a problem way before the Mats were. They want to take over Earth like they're Kamen Rider bad guys or something. They're Manu supremacists."

C'Mell grits her teeth. "Come on Yuki or Akari or whatever you want to call yourself, let me tell the bastard off!"

"No. I'm trying to at least pretend we can work together here....So Rook, these rebels, they don't like the Mats takeover anymore than we do right?"

"Yeah." He admits. "But they're still a problem. I mean yeah. We'd rather they take over the world then the Mats. At least that way the world would still have people and not flesh puppets. But you know, they still want to take over the world...Now I don't know where that last jammer signal came from and I don't know its range. Our talk could drop at any time and...Oh shit, I nearly forgot! Do you remember the code phrase?"

"Code phrase? Oh yeah. Karris."

"Reagan...Oh man, we cant' screw up like that again. What if there was a Mats in my head? You got to remember the code phrase!"

'I know, I know...so you want me to head to Tokyo?"

"Yeah. But since I don't know how long we can stay in touch I'm going to be sending one of our Manu to escort you. His name is...wait, is he really all we can send? We can't send someone like James?" You hear him telepathically communicate with someone else. "Ah damn, I guess it can't be helped...sooooo anyway, his name is...and I'm serious about this, Battle. He's got a lock on your location and will be there soon."

C'Mell punches her fist into her hand. "Alright Yuki! You got them to send a prisoner right into our trap!"

Prisoner? Oh boy...

SAY/DO?

SUGGESTIONS:

INTRODUCE C'MELL TO ROOK

TELL C'MELL THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NO FIGHTING WHEN BATTLE SHOWS UP.

SIDE WITH C'MELL AND LAY A TRAP.

TELL ROOK YOU'RE FINE WITHOUT AN ESCORT, YOU'LL SHOW UP TO TOKYO ON YOUR OWN

TELL ROOK THAT YOU NEVER AGREED TO BE APART OF HIS TEAM AND HE SHOULDN'T ACT LIKE YOU ARE

>>514131
>TELL ROOK THAT YOU NEVER AGREED TO BE APART OF HIS TEAM AND HE SHOULDN'T ACT LIKE YOU ARE

>>514131
>INTRODUCE C'MELL TO ROOK

>>514155
Second.

>>514146
>>514155
>>514158
"Rook, we got something we need to talk about. You know those rebels you're talking about? I met one of them."

"...What?"

"She's actually standing right next to me. Making faces."

"Oh shit oh shit did they capture you? Are you okay?" His panicked thoughts hit you like a mild migraine.

"I'm fine I'm fine calm down Rook."

"Yeah!" C'Mell blurts out over the Besant. "She's fine!"

"C'Mell! Damn it, did I say you could talk?" You yell at her on and off the Besant.

"C'Mell? C'Mell is with you? Oh shit not her..."

"Yeah I'm here!" C'Mell yells. "How you doing Rook you old traitor! You had your pet tank monster assassinate anyone recently?"

"You shut up about Tarkus right now!"

"Or what? You gonna send Battle after us? You know I could take him by myself. Against me and Yuki he stands no chance!"

"Yuki? Whose Yuki?"

You grab your forehead. You're starting to get a headache from something other than two people yelling at each other in your skull.

"Who is Yuki? How many people are with you Doc? Do they have you in a containment unit? Are there any other prisoners?"

"I'm Yuki-"

"No we don't have any prisoners." C'Mell yells over you. "You want to change that just tell me where the hole you're hiding in is..."

"Just so you know I've joined up with Mass' unit. Yeah, Mass. You mess with us he'll send you packing with your tail between your legs rebel bitch, you and whoever Yuki is!"

"Actually I'm Yuki-"

"You think I'm scared of that freak?"

"Yeah actually. I think you are."

"Um, everyone..."

SAY/DO?

GO RAGE MODE. EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR ONE GODDAMN SECOND.

SIT CALMLY UNTIL THE TWO ARE DONE WITH THEIR TELEPATHIC BICKERING.

TRY TO BE THE VOICE OF REASON. SHOULDN'T WE ALL WORK TOGETHER TO DEFEAT THE MATS

STRESS TO BOTH OF THEM THAT YOU TAKE NO SIDE.

>>514204
>SIT CALMLY UNTIL THE TWO ARE DONE WITH THEIR TELEPATHIC BICKERING.
Let them vent, they keep saying stuff I wanna know.

Sorry GS but I gotta go do work stuff right now, hope more people drop by.

>>514204
>TRY TO BE THE VOICE OF REASON. SHOULDN'T WE ALL WORK TOGETHER TO DEFEAT THE MATS

>>514204
>TRY TO BE THE VOICE OF REASON. SHOULDN'T WE ALL WORK TOGETHER TO DEFEAT THE MATS

>>514204

>GO RAGE MODE. EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR ONE GODDAMN SECOND.

Then

>TRY TO BE THE VOICE OF REASON. SHOULDN'T WE ALL WORK TOGETHER TO DEFEAT THE MATS

>>514449
Yup, time to yell at Chollo's

Seconded.

>>514215
1 vote sit down and let them yell it out

>>514219
>>514377
Two votes for being the voice of reason

>>514449
>>514545
Two votes for yelling and then being the voice of reason.

>>514551
Nice to see players are back, you slut.
YELL
and then reason

>>514555
Gene may be the slut but I'm definitely going to hump your leg.

>>514555
Crying about your low player count in /qtg/ usually gives a few pity votes.

>>514204
>>514551
I'm back after emptying six gallons of cow colon, just so you know I ain't gone.

>>514555
And supporting this.

>>514555
Okay.

Okay.

This is frustrating.

"God why can't you assholes just surrender to us already?" Rook yells at C'Mell through your cranium. "We don't want humanity turned into puppets anymore than you do!"

"Well why don't YOU guys surrender to US?" C'Mell fires back. "The Mats happened under YOUR watch! YOU kicked us out and now the whole things gone to shit and NOW you expect us to fall in line?"

"We don't expect you to, we demand that you-"

"SHUT UP!" You scream the words in your mind like a thunderclap just a you scream them in C'Mell's startled face. "WILL YOU TWO JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP?" You say and think while shaking the only one in reach.

"G-geeze..." C'Mell stutters as you glare at her full in the face.

"Look...I'm tired, scared, confused, and I barely know what the hell is going on with all this. All I know is that humanity is in trouble and they need our help. I don't care who is in charge. Let no one be if that's how it has to be. But I'm..."

ALIGNMENT DECISION TIME

I'M SUPPORTING NONE OF YOU GUYS. I JUST WANT TO SAVE HUMANITY AND I'LL FIGHT ANYONE THAT GETS IN THE WAY OF THAT.

I'M SIDING WITH ROOK. I'M SORRY C'MELL BUT YOU REBELS ARE JUST MAKING THINGS WORSE. YOU WANT TO TAKE OVER JUST LIKE THE MATS AND DON'T EVEN REALIZE IT.

I'M JOINING THE REBELS ROOK. THEY WANT TO HELP HUMANITY. YOU AND VAIVASVATA HAD YOUR SHOT AT RUNNING THINGS AND NOW WE'RE FIGHTING ALIENS. ITS TIME FOR US TO HAVE OUR SAY.

>>514626
I am fine with pity votes. Maybe some of them will actually like the story and stick around.

>>514670
I am as a deer in headlights. Someone please choose for me.

>>514670
>I'M SUPPORTING NONE OF YOU GUYS. I JUST WANT TO SAVE HUMANITY AND I'LL FIGHT ANYONE THAT GETS IN THE WAY OF THAT.
Actually y'know what this is what I argued for a dozen posts last thread and I'M STICKING WITH IT.

>>514670
>I'm supporting none of you.
>>514707
Done anon.

>>514670

I'M SUPPORTING NONE OF YOU GUYS. I JUST WANT TO SAVE HUMANITY AND I'LL FIGHT ANYONE THAT GETS IN THE WAY OF THAT.

Now either work together and help me or kindly fuck off.

>>514753
Seconding especially the second part of this. We are our own faction!

"I'm supporting none of you guys."

"...What?" They both gasp.

You hate the look of hurt and betrayal in C'Mell's face. You've seen that look before, that look that says "you aren't what I thought you were."

You grit your teeth. This is no time for feeling soft.

"Either you two idiots start working together and help me help humanity or kindly FUCK OFF."

"You...you don't understand Yuki..." C'Mell says.

"Again who the fuck is Yuki?" Rook asks.

"I'M Yuki." You reply. "It's a name given to me by a person. A normal person."

"But your name is Akari..."

"I KNOW that. But Yuki is my name as well..."

"So...so what are you going to do?" C'Mell asks nervously.

"Help humanity. Don't stand in the way of that C'Mell...please."

"That's what we're doing!" Rook complains.

"Fuck you! You're making her confused!"

"No...no I understand enough C'Mell. I understand that none of your sides are right."

"This is the amnesia talking Doc. You were one of us. Come on. You got to try to remember that!" Rook pleads.

"I was a scientist Rook. That much I remember. And being a scientist means understanding that sometimes things you thought were right get made wrong by new data...I've seen to many people afraid of what we are and what we do. If I was a part of your group I'm sorry. I'm not anymore..."

A tense hush falls over the forest.

"Please don't do this Yuki...Akari...whatever your name is..." C'Mell's eyes water. "Someone is going to put you in a cage for this. If not them than us. There's no fourth side to this don't you see!"

"She's right Doc. You can't go this alone."

"Just watch me. I've got a lot of practice walking away from people..." You have to swallow the last part: "No matter how bad it hurts".

"So what are you going to do?" Rook asks.

"Hop on over to Tokyo. Make sure humanity gets protected from this war."

"How can you say that? How can you say that we don't take care of humanity?" C'Mell asks. "We're the only side that actually cares about people! We're the ones that want to change the world for the better!"

"You're wrong about that..." Rook says.

"No, you're wrong!"

"You're BOTH wrong." You say with finality. "And I'm done arguing with you two."

C'Mell grabs your shoulder. "Don't do this...please don't do this. Don't make me have to fight you for real..."

SAY/DO?

SUGGESTIONS:

THREATEN C'MELL.

TERRIFY C'MELL.

TELL HER YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO FIGHT HER. WE CAN ALL JUST WALK AWAY.

TELL HER YOU'D RATHER BE A FRIEND TO BOTH SIDES AND WOULD LIKE HELP MAKING THAT HAPPEN.

SAY NOTHING.

>>514832
>TELL HER YOU'D HAVE RATHER BEEN A FRIEND AND WALK AWAY

>>514832
u alive?

>>514832
>TELL HER YOU'D RATHER BE A FRIEND TO BOTH SIDES AND WOULD LIKE HELP MAKING THAT HAPPEN.

>>514891
Getting some sleep right now, this is a big decision so I'll wake until tomorrow to count up the votes.

>>514895
Gotcha.

>>514833
>>514893
Seconding a mix of these if possible. IE, I second >>514893 but if it doesn't work >>514833 let's just walk away.

>>514893
Supporting. Goodnight.

>>514832
>TELL HER YOU'D RATHER BE A FRIEND TO BOTH SIDES AND WOULD LIKE HELP MAKING THAT HAPPEN.

>>514832

>SAY NOTHING.

"C'Mell, I want to be a friend to both sides. I want us to work together." You say taking her hand off your shoulder and holding it.

"Well we already offered amnesty..." Rook says.

"Rook. Shut the fuck up right now, okay?" You say. "I would like some help in making that happen. I don't want to fight anyone."

"O-Okay..." C'Mell stammers. "But if you walk away from here you're going to be attacked by the remnants, or worse the Mats. Come back with me okay? Meet Jommy, have coffee with us...hell, Jommy's smart, he's a scientist like you are. Ma-Maybe he can help you with your memory problem okay?"

"And if she doesn't want to come back with you as your totally not a prisoner what then?" Rook says. "Are you going to fight her?"

C'Mell nods.

"Rook, I thought I told you to shut the fuck up?" You say.

"Doc, I know you're going to hate me for this but you aren't well. You can't remember being on our side and what are you going to do when you're surrounded by rebels and those memories come back? I've told Battle about what's going on. He's going to keep you out of their hands. For your safety."

"Now who's trying to make her their prisoner?" C'Mell snaps. "You fucking snake! You worm!" She physically yells the words and makes them echo through the trees. She turns to you and speaks in a much gentler voice. "Just come back with me. Please. I promise if you don't like it we'll let you go. I promise!"

"That offer goes for our side as well. We aren't press ganging you Doc. We just want to make sure you aren't taken advantage of in your condition. We just want to sit down and talk."

SAY/DO?

GO WITH C'MELL

GO WITH BATTLE

TELL THEM YOU'D RATHER THEM COME TO YOU. MAYBE AT MCDONALDS OR SOMETHING. YOU REALLY COULD USE A HAMBURGER.

>>515483

>TELL THEM YOU'D RATHER THEM COME TO YOU. MAYBE AT MCDONALDS OR SOMETHING. YOU REALLY COULD USE A HAMBURGER.

>>515483
>TELL THEM YOU'D RATHER THEM COME TO YOU. MAYBE AT MCDONALDS OR SOMETHING. YOU REALLY COULD USE A HAMBURGER.

>>515483
>I want to talk. With both of you. I want that choice, please. I don't want to fight anyone or have other people fight each other over me like a prize.
>Rook, you've been kind enough to help me from the start. Would you be kind enough to be patient? I'll go an talk with you and hear you out, I promise, but... I want to see things from C'Mell's camp first.
>Please?

>>515546
Ooh, this.

>>515546
Yeah. This. It invites a chance for each side to show their actual faces.

>>515483
"I just want to talk. With both of you. I want that choice. Please. I don't want to fight anyone or have other people fight each other over me like a prize."

"So what do you suggest? That we all sit down and have lunch together?" Rook asks.

"Would that really be such a bad idea?" You reply.

"We're at war!" Rook yells. "What, are you going to be some sort of...intermediary diplomat between our sides?"

"Well why the hell not? I don't like either side but that means I don't hate either side. I could provide some objectivity here, help us get working on the more important matter of the Mats."

"But you are on a side Doc. You're on our side. You just don't remember."

"Then I won't let her remember!" C'Mell yells. "I won't let you...turn her into something she isn't!"

"Oh and now it comes out." Rook says with a smug note in his disembodied voice. "See Doc? This is what I mean. They're thugs, all of them. They'd strong arm the entire world if we let them."

"Please please please don't go!" C'Mell begs. "I'd hate myself forever if I had to hurt you to save you..."

"Isn't this a fine picture of your side!" Rook says. ""We only want to hurt you for your own good...""

"Rook. Shut up." You say. "I don't care what I was." And you half mean that. "All I know is humanity needs us to stop fighting each other and save them from being turned into meat puppets...look, how about this. I go with C'Mell and talk to her group and then I'll hook up with your group. And then once I've seen how you guys are with my own eyes I'll see about joining sides and whatnot-if I even join one at all."

"Thank thank thank you Yuki!" C'Mell says bouncing excitedly on her feet. "I promise you that you'll like us, I just know you'll fit right in!"

"She's only going to talk to you moron." Rook says.

"Well she'll join when she Jommy explains everything to her!"

"Or she'll do the smart thing and join us. Given she's one of the smartest people in the world I wonder what she'll do?"

"Fuck you!"

"Oh. You're an eloquent rebel aren't you? Learned that from reading graffiti? Doc, are you sure you want to do this? You'll be surrounded by people just as violent and stupid as she is."

"I am not stupid!"

"Oh god, just chill out the both of you...Rook, you've been kind to me from the stop. Real kind. You were the first voice I heard not my own. Would you be kind enough to be patient? I'll go and talk with you and hear you out I promise...but I want to see things from C'Mell's camp first. Please?"

"...Fine." Rook sighs. "Fine. Just be careful Doc."

"She doesn't need to be careful, not when we're protecting her!"

"...Do you even hear what she's saying? I mean come on Doc..."

"So this guy you were sending over, Battle was it? Can you tell him to not make this awkward meet up any more awkward?" You ask.

"Right right right. I'm telling him to turn around right now...C'Mell are there supposed to be three rebels coming to assist you?" Rook says gravely.

-cont

>>520438
"...No. I wasn't supposed to be out here actually. Jommy didn't want us chasing Yuki into the woods."

"...Oh shit" Rook mutters.

"See we DON'T strong arm people! We give them space. It's just that I was worried about her so-"

"Oh god you stupid bimbo... the three signals closing in on the two of you aren't rebels? That's not your backup or something?"

"...What three signals? What are you talking about?"

"I got three signals closing in on your location NOW!" The mental warning pounds in your forehead.

"Well I can't see whatever it is you're looking at!" C'Mell replies.

"Shut up and transform you idiot! The both of you transform, incoming Mats!" The urgency in his voice is compounded by a sudden surge of emotional fear that sends electric chills down your backbone.


You knew you'd run into them before too long. But part of you was hoping for a period of rest between the violence. A day. A week. Something.

You can still smell burning forest and taste ash in your mouth.

You remember the plastic texture of Manu flesh breaking on your teeth, sliding down your gullet...

...Oh, you are a disgusting creature underneath the human gilding. And it feels so natural and right when you do it. Like taking a deep breathe after swimming underwater.

Something about how easy and fulfilling violence is...something about that instinct to eat flesh to repair yourself...

You remember....

You remember...

ROLL 3D20 TO REMEMBER

>>520451
And I mean 3 separate rolls of 1D20 from 3 posters.

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>520451
Rolling for traumatic memories.

>>520454
As long as the other two rolls are good we're about to learn something interesting about ourselves...

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>520513

>>520542
my bad, meant to reply to >>520451

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>520451

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>520451

>>520454
>>520542
>>520555

....You are a weapon.

Oh my god you're a weapon. Someone made you like this to better kill things.

A transformation from human to Manu often triggers aggression, anxiety, mood swigs-its treating biochemistry and genetics like improvisational jazz after all. But they don't have the...instinct you have.

Is that the word for it? Instinct?

What else makes it feel normal to chow down on a body like you did?

You don't know why or who did it but someone made you a weapon. Was it done in anticipation of the war? Whose side made you a weapon? Rook say you were on the side of old Vaivasvata but...

Would Rook tell you the truth?

Would he tell you what he thought was the truth?

The crackle of mental noise and C'Mell shaking your shoulders brings you back to reality.

"Damn it why aren't you guys transforming? They're coming at you at the speed of cruise missiles!"

"Because Yuki hasn't transformed yet idiot!...Are you okay?"

You nod a couple of times. "Yeah...yeah I'm fine."

You have to admit, there are worse things to be at the moment than a super powered Manu built for combat.

"Good, you got kind of spacy there Yuki. Got me to worry for a moment."

"Will you stop calling her that her name is Akari." Rook complains.

"We're going to have to transform, okay?" C'Mell places her hands on your shoulders and looks you steadily in the eye. "You know how to do that? Do you remember it being painful? I can hold your hand if want. It might not sound like much but it helped me my first few times..."

"She just transformed a day ago moron..."

SAY/DO?

SUGGESTIONS:

TRANSFORM.

HOLD HER HAND AND TRANSFORM. IT MIGHT MAKE THE CHANGE A LITTLE MORE BEARABLE.

AVOID TRANSFORMING. MAYBE THEY WANT TO TALK AND TRANSFORMING WILL JUST RAMP UP TENSION? WE SHOULD TRY DIPLOMACY WITH ALL SIDES, EVEN THEIR SIDE.

>>520593
>HOLD HER HAND AND TRANSFORM. IT MIGHT MAKE THE CHANGE A LITTLE MORE BEARABLE.

>>520593
>Hold hands and Transform

>>520593
>HOLD HER HAND AND TRANSFORM. IT MIGHT MAKE THE CHANGE A LITTLE MORE BEARABLE.

>>520597
>>520598
>>520644
You hold your handout and she takes it.

"I've done this before but...it's great knowing someone is here with me. Thank you C'Mell."

"Heh!" Her smile stretches from ear to ear. "Didn't I tell you we're friends? Now just breathe. Focus on your breathing...keep your breathing in your mind. Even when you can't feel your lungs remember that inside you're still breathing. In and out, in and out..."

"Any year now girls!" Rook screams in your mind. "Evil aliens with god complexes incoming!"

The first time you remember transforming was in the heart of a nuclear inferno. You can't help but associate the pain of near atomic disintegration with the transformation. You fear pain, at least while you're human. You don't think you feel pain as a Manu, not as humans understand it anyway. At worse you've felt a sense of bodily discomfort, but never pain, not even when Goldman fried you from the inside out.

You fear the pain of transformation. And you have to smile. Your fear means you're still human. And you can experience other human things as well-like the feeling of being comforted by a friend.

In out in out, just like she said.

You feel the air come in and then you feel the air come out. You feel the cool forest air go past your human lips and down your human throat.

In and out, in and out.

And then first comes the feeling. The feeling that whatever you started couldn't be stopped even if you wanted it to.

C'Mell squeezes your hand. "Remember, keep it in your mind. In your mind..." Her voice comes in slow underwater echoes as your senses are enlarged. You try to breathe but you're not moving anything that could be called a lung. You feel a sudden wave of terror as your body rejects your mental command but you remember to keep breathing in your mind. In and out. In and out. Feel it in your head if you can't with your body.

You cannot feel her hand but you know it is there. And that is enough.

In: plated armor skin, a horn the color of burnt carbon, bloodshot eyes bigger than softballs

Out: Soft pale skin, long black hair, bright thoughtful eyes.

In and out, In and out, all in a moment that feels like an eternity.

And when you finally pry open the armored shutters that are your eyelids you are once again a monster.

But you do not scream. You do not feel rage or confusion.

You feel like you underneath the body.

The greater self-awareness makes your horrific revulsion at what you are all the more painful. You can feel yourself. You feel your plates lock and grind. You feel super charged muscles swell like metal balloons under your skin. You can feel your horn knock a branch from a tree.

Your self-hatred contrasts with the sudden affection you feel for the enormous white wolf whose paw you're holding in your claw.

You know that's C'Mell. But this affection...there's more to it. It feels...very familiar...

ROLL 3 1D20 FOR MEMORIES!

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>520763

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>520763
Rolling to get traumatized.

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>514035
I didn't even see that this thread was on the board.

>>520763

>>520885
>>520782
>>520766
Should have saved those high rolls.

>>520766
>>520782
>>520885
No trauma, but you didn't remember all that you could have.

...You brought the Japanese wolf back from extinction. You did that. That's how you became a Manu. You got the attention of Vaivasvata from your work at Genesmark. They brought you on board to improve the bacti battery and...and...

...animals. You were brought on to find way for animals to exist on Avalon. The biodiversity of Avalon is horribly limited compared to Earth. There are plants, small insects, fish...but nothing like wolves. You were brought on to find way for animals to make it through the gravity gate. You were brought on to find ways to turn animals into Manu...

...If mankind was going to destroy the world the animals deserved a chance to follow the survivors to another world...and there was something else. Something important happened because of your work with animal Manus...

...Did you help create Captain Wow?

...No, something else...something important...but you just can't remember!

It's hard to focus staring at the enormous wolf face regarding you with calm, strangely human eyes. You love wolves...you love dogs...

...Did you have a dog once?

You can't help but reach your claw out and touch C'Mell behind the ears. Her head rolls. "Uh...you alright Yuki?" You hear her say over the Besant.

"You're...a wolf..." You think back to her.

"Uh...yeah." She takes her paw from your hand and moves her head away as you try to pet her.

...You used to draw wolves in your notebook in high school...

"I love you!" You find yourself blurting out over the Besant.

"Excuse me?"

"Uh...sorry." You apologize. "I just remembered I sort of like animals."

"Oh? My Manu form jogged your memory? Were you a vet?"

...As a matter of fact yeah, you DO remember being a vet...

"When I was in college I interned at a clinic...I moved beyond that though. I genetically resurrected the Japanese wolf."

"So you went from saving animals to saving animal species? Pretty neat Yuki. Just don't go thinking I'm one of your patients or something..."

You stare guiltily at your four fingered hand. "Sorry about that..."

Her Manu form is so beautiful with its white fur and golden eyes and big ears...you can't help but want to pet it...

"About time you guys finally changed!" Rook yells through the Besant. "I got touchdown in thirty seconds, from...there!" A instinctive signal goes off in your head and you can feel a tug from the southwest.

"Interesting." You think. "I didn't know you could do that over the Besant."

"More like you don't remember." Rook says. "There's a lot of stuff it can do."

C'Mell bares her teeth, each as large as a human arm. Her ears fall flat against her skull as she snarls. Her growl causes the trees to shake until their bark starts to chip away.

Even enraged she looks like a scroll painting of a kami you'd see in a temple while you look like something Ultraman would kill...

"Stick behind me Yuki! Whatever they are I can take them!"

SAY/DO?
-cont

>>522077
SUGGESTIONS:

GET BEHIND THE WOLF KAMI.

"NO. STAY BEHIND ME. TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THIS I'M MORE OF A WEAPON THAN YOU ARE."

JET AHEAD AND INTERCEPT THE MATS.

STAND TOGETHER AND PREPARE FOR THEM.

>>522080
>"NO. STAY BEHIND ME. TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THIS I'M MORE OF A WEAPON THAN YOU ARE."

If we're gonna go neutral and slap everyone's shit we can't begin by standing behind someone else's back.

>>522080
>"NO. STAY BEHIND ME. TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THIS I'M MORE OF A WEAPON THAN YOU ARE."

>>522080
>STAND TOGETHER AND PREPARE FOR THEM

FOR NARNIA!!!

>>522080
>"NO. STAY BEHIND ME. TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THIS I'M MORE OF A WEAPON THAN YOU ARE."

>>522156
>>522107
>>522098
"No. You get behind me." Your thick feet crack the ground as you lumber in front of C'Mell. "Believe me when I say this. I'm more of a weapon than you are."

You spread your shell to shield C'Mell. It snaps open with a boom. Your four thin iridescent wings catch and refract the light. Rainbows fall on C'Mell like shadows.

"Woah...pretty..." She says.

It's good to know something about you isn't repulsive. "Thank you..." You reply.

"Get ready you two...just try to hold on, Battle is back on his way to help you." Room says.

In the tense seconds that tick by a single green leaf floats down from the branches above you and lands on your enormous yellow eyeball. Your multifaceted sub eyes focus on it. You can see its cellular structure, the beautiful natural not-created architecture. It's living structure fills your vision.

And then you blink.
-cont

>>522186
The clear gullotine camera shutter that makes the eyelid for your car crash between hominid and insect vision organ reflexively snaps shut and obliterates the leaf.

"No matter what happens here..." You begin. "...I want you to know that there is a side I'm on. I'm on the side of life."

Rook and C'Mell try to say something over the Besant. Doubtless it's more excuses why they're side is right and why they're really on the same side you are and more of what you're tired of hearing.

But everyone falls silent when three figures appear in a blue light that erupts out of the air like a fireball, shines suspended in space like a star, and then winks out if existence like an ember leaving your enemies staring at you.

The one standing behind the other two you instantly recognize.

Bloodion. Rebuilt after you nearly killed him. His rubbery skin is a now a light orange color with a single streak of red starting at his crown and running down his body and one leg. You figure that's what's left of his original body...

WAIT AND TEY TO COMMUNICATE?

ATTACK BLOODION NOW. HE'S TOO DANGEROUS TO BE LEFT ALIVE.

>>522238
Fly to the side, use Horn Attract and then immediately Repulse them towards C'mell. Yell at her to be ready to play ball

>>522244
This.

>>522244
>>522246
How much energy do you want to spend on the maneuver? The regular amount is five.

>>522535
Regular sounds good.

>>522535
Let's go regular, we don't know if C'mell can keep up if we go all out.

Rolled 20 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>522539
>>522551
The other two you don't know. One is wrapped in thick black robes. From the openings you guess whatever is under it has hands and feet and a neck. The other is a strange sphere shaped creature covered in eyes and floating on a disk a little off the ground. Its body, for lack of a better word, is a deep ocean blue. Its eyes are white with red pupils and green irises. The eyes are disturbingly human like. The disk it floats on looks like a streak of blue neon the same shade as its body and the same color of the light that teleported the group in.

But you don't care about the other two. They brought Bloodion with them. That's enough reason for you to preemptively strike.

"-One of their teleporters! Mandala!" Is all C'Mell has time to yell over the Besant as you go into action.

"HORN ATTRACT!"You scream as you fire a wide beam of gravitrons at the group aiming to slam them into each other like a ball.

A deep moan comes from the cloaked figure.

The eyes of the orb creature dilate in surprise.

Bloodion just smiles.

ROLL 3D20+5

Rolled 12, 18, 16 + 5 = 51 (3d20 + 5)

>>522578
HIGH ROLLER!!!!!

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>522578
WELP

FUCK

Rolled 2 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>522578

Rolled 6, 12, 5 + 5 = 28 (3d20 + 5)

>>522578

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Haha holy shit, it was nice knowing you guys.

>>522589
>>522590
No real need for a third roll now...

The trio suddenly vanish in the same flash of blue light that brought them.

"Mandala! Man, to think they sent one of their teleporters after us...don't freak out if he tries to telefrag you, remember we have defenses against that kind of thing!" C'Mell says.

Well this is great. You had the advantage of surprise. Now they've stolen that from you...and what is she talking about? What the hell is a telefrag? What defenses?

ROLL 3D20 FOR MEMORIES

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>522611

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>522611

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>522611

Rolled 15, 18, 9 = 42 (3d20)

>>522611

>>522616
>>522624
>>522625
>Average 9

"Um...explain telefragging C'Mell?"

"...Oh shit, you don't remember?"

"No..." You stare uneasily at the still forest around you. Waiting. Watching. Listening. Straining your senses to the utmost to detect anything.

"Um...okay. Its like teleporting but you do it wrong on purpose. Like they try to mix your atoms with a tree or the air or the ground or whatever or teleport a rock inside you brain. But you got like, reflexes and response systems in case it happens."

Ah, of course. Manus were created to survive travel through the gravity gate. You were built physical stronger than anything that walks on the ocean bottom so you could survive the pressure. Your ATS is so you can survive psychological effects straight out of Space Odyssey.

Of course there would be more to a gate between worlds than pressure and terror. Of course you would have defenses for it.

"I'm not sure how these defenses are supposed to work. I can't remember..."

"D-Don't panic!" C'Mell says sounding like she's doing enough of that for the both of you. "It's like...sweating, or how babies stick their heads above water. It'll just happen!"

EXPLANATION: Some Manu have the ability to teleport themselves and others by exchanging matter with the Besant field. "Telefragging" is an offensive application of this power and attempts to harm the opponent by scrambling his matter. Telefragging is countered by built-in defenses that return your matter to a default form. However, skillful use of telefragging attacks can surmount these defenses.

In other words, teleporation combat is SENSE VS SENSE just as telepathic combat is MIND VS MIND. A healthy body has better reflexes, and you become more and more vulnerable to being teleported against your will the more damage you accumulate.

You have -2 against teleporation attacks so far due to your reflexes being very rusty. This will last until you get the hang of it after a few attacks.

........

You feel a buzzing in the Besant field...

"That's them trying to either contact us or attack us telepathically..." C'Mell says. "Oh man, what should we do? Should we trust that they only want to talk? I mean, maybe they do? They haven't opened fire yet..."

...but this lull might be a deception. You remember that Bloodion is very tricky...

ACCEPT TELEPATHIC HAIL?

REJECT IT?

>>522713
>REJECT IT?

>>522713
>Reject it!!

Fuckers wouldn't bring bloodion if they wanted to talk.

Rolled 3 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>522723
>>522727
>Reject

"Don't let them into your head! They tried that earlier. They tried to make me think I was one of their worshipers or something."

"Really? Creepy Mats..." C'Mell says.

In a moment the static in the back of your mind clears...

"...So they were actually trying to talk to us?" C'Mell asks.

"Or they wanted us to think that all they wanted to do was talk..." You reply.

Suddenly you feel...something hard to describe. It's like feeling yourself warm up from the inside out, like your insides are suddenly submerged in warm churning liquid.

"C'Mell, I feel strange..."

ROLL 3D20+2

Rolled 8 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>522626
idiot.
stop rolling like that.
stop. it.

>>522810
now for think good, I hope

Rolled 15 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>522810
>>522897
It's OP that's idiot, not him.

>>522897
>>522902
A roll of one would still win us the average.

You feel yourself become very cold and very large, like a cloud. You feel space between yourself. Then you feel yourself snap back together again no worse for the ordeal and with the sense that SOMETHING tried to move you...from THAT direction!

"There!" You shout over the Besant and somehow you feel that the direction is communicated to C'Mell as well like how Rook communicated the location of the enemy early.

The huge wolf swings her head over to where you indicate, teeth flashing. "Want me to move us to them or move them to us?"

"You're a teleporter as well?" You ask.

"Not exactly...its more that I can bend space. I even can break it if I use too much force."

That flies in the face of so much of what you remember from your physics classes, but so does teleporation and giant insect people.

COMMAND?

BRING US TO THEM. LET US RIP AND TEAR THEM TOGETHER.

SLING THEM TO US. THEY'LL HIT US LIKE AN EGG AGAINST A BRICK WALL.

ATTACK FROM RANGE WITH REPULSOR HORN, C'MELL CAN SET THEM UP WITH HER POWERS SO YOU CAN GET A BETTER SHOT.

BOTH OF YOU GO ALL OUT WITH RANGED ATTACKS. C'MELL HAS A SPACE BREAKING SHOUT.

NOTE: FEEL FREE TO SUGGESTS BATTLE TACTICS I'M TOO STUPID TO THINK OF.

>>522976
>ATTACK FROM RANGE WITH REPULSOR HORN, C'MELL CAN SET THEM UP WITH HER POWERS SO YOU CAN GET A BETTER SHOT.

>>522976
SLING THEM TO US. THEY'LL HIT US LIKE AN EGG AGAINST A BRICK WALL.

>>522897
Make me.

Also,since the fight is about to begin I should give you C'Mell's stats:

C'MELL:

MANU REBEL GAURODIAN

HUNGER: HUNGRY

MIND: 3

SENSES: 4

PHYSICAL: 6

LIFE: 40

ENERGY: 15

DEVOURS: 0

ATTACKS:

Maul (physical onslaught of teeth and claws)

ENERGY MOVES:

Space Pull: 2 (pulls at the very material of space, distorting the distance between objects and dealing distortion damage as per a telefrag attack on a succesful roll)

Space tear: 5 (Rips a portion of space apart creating a temporary "black hole" that sucks objects toward it until it dissipates through Besant field interaction into photons. Causes massive distortion damage but requires rolling a backfire dice (30 percent chance of being sucked in and affected by the attack))

FINISHER: SPACER HOWLING: Drains all energy when used. Energy drained goes into dice roll. An all or nothing desperation attack that forces C'Mell to spend two turns recharging after firing. C'Mell shouts at reality and reality trembles.

RECHARGE RATE: 5

DAMAGE CHART:

Maul: 5

Space Pull: 5

Space Tear: 10

Spacer Howling: Energy Spent X2

So our dog can hump reality's leg as a finisher. Good to know.

>>523600
And damage chart for Yuki/Akari/Doc/Beetalion...

Brawling: 5

Dive-Bomb: 10 (requires two turns of gathering speed and distance)

Horn Pull/Repulse: Depends on how you use it. The shear force of being pushed and pulled by the move deals 5 damage at the base cost of 5 energy. For every 2 energy spent powering up the move it deals one more damage.

Climatic Thrust: Deals damage equal to the amount of energy spent on the attack.

ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY OF THIS CRUNCHY STUFF?

>>522989
>>523321
TIED VOTE

>>522976
>SLING THEM TO US. THEY'LL HIT US LIKE AN EGG AGAINST A BRICK WALL.

>>523720
We should lewd cmell tonight.

Rolled 8 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>523831
"Sling them to us then." You curl your claws into fists. "They'll hit us like an egg against a brick wall!"

"Right!" She says with a a WOOF that shakes the trees."I'll reel them in, you beat them down!" She snaps her jaws at the air and clenches her fangs...and then something happens that causes discomfort to your eyes. She...tugs...at space. Trees and sky and rocks and earth blend together and stretch like an abstract water color painting. The effect is disorienting to say the least. It takes your eyes a split second to adjust.

ROLL 3D20+4 FOR C'MELL

Rolled 9 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>523916
That was for Mandala (the eyeball flying saucer). This is for the cloaked figure (Winzard).

Rolled 1 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>523929
And this is for Bloodion 2.

Rolled 13 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>523916
How is that fucker still alive?

>>523949
A chunk of him managed to crawl away after you exploded him.

You got to make sure you finish the job this time.

Rolled 18 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>523916

Rollin'.

Rolled 9 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>523937

>>523916
Eh, might as well show up and see what's this about.
>>523834
Quest Master, are you being lewd again? Why i am not surprised?

Oh shit, these enemy names are so 90's. I love it

Are the visuals of the transformations based on S-Cry-Ed or Akira?

>>524264
>>524043
>>523949
17 average beats all their rolls. They all take 5 distortion damage and are moved right into punching range.

"Punching dummies coming right up!" C'Mell roars through the Besant as she directs your attention to a part of the painted blur through the Besant's direction sharing element.

You feel your plates tighten as you cock your fist.

In an instant the trio are right in front of you. The eyeball on a platter's pupils focus lifelessly on nothing. The cloaked figured writhes in apparent pain.

Bloodion has his arm extended, a familiar pale purple light forming in a depression on his palm.

He was trying to snipe at you again. Luckily C'Mell caught him. And she's moved him to face the wrong way.

His neck twists around like a towel and that rigid toothy smile can only express fear when he sees you.

Good.

"No! Not again!" He screams and whirls his arm around.

He remembers what happened last time you got close to him when he was trying to shoot at you.

That time almost killed him.

You're going to make damn well sure this time sticks.

COMMAND?

SUGGESTIONS:

LEAVE THE OTHER TWO FOR C'MELL. KILL BLOODION AND MAKE SURE HE'S DEAD THIS TIME. ATTACK HIM WITH (CHOOSE ATTACK).

TRY YOUR "STICK THEM TOGETHER LIKE A BALL WITH THE HORN ATTRACT" MOVE AGAIN.

SCATTER THEM WITH HORN REPULSE. DIVIDE AND CONQUER.

>>524291
Thanks for coming anon. I hope you like the quest! It's very, very 90's anime meets Slan.

>spoiler

I'm trying to get into that psychic body horror genre. Like Akira and Scanners.

>>523834
>>524291
Do you guys want to go the yuri route? It is a 90's OVA after all. Such things were common. Like in Iczer.

>>524424
Oh, and if you'd like to hit one of the other guys instead of Bloodion you can do that to.

>>524424
>LEAVE THE OTHER TWO FOR C'MELL. KILL BLOODION AND MAKE SURE HE'S DEAD THIS TIME. ATTACK HIM WITH (CHOOSE ATTACK).

>>524448
I certainly wouldn't mind it, but we're still pretty new to the game
it's only been, like, 3 days? and we haven't even met her faction yet.

>>524424
>LEAVE THE OTHER TWO FOR C'MELL. KILL BLOODION AND MAKE SURE HE'S DEAD THIS TIME. ATTACK HIM WITH (CHOOSE ATTACK).

>>524448
That would be nice.

It seems we have a bone to pick with this Bloodion (Gosh, love these names)
Maybe we can try tearing the old parts from the new ones? Tear the mat the seams, y'know? They might be somewhat loose

>>524424
>I'm trying to get into that psychic body horror genre.
Ever watched Demon Lord Dante? That is the first thing that came to mind when a was reading the thread. The monsters are spot on.

>>524448
To be honest, i am kind of burned out on lesbians.
Not your fault, just over expossure. Even a chaste run would be refreshing.
As always, i'll go along with what the mayority wants

>>524424
LEAVE THE OTHER TWO FOR C'MELL. KILL BLOODION AND MAKE SURE HE'S DEAD THIS TIME. ATTACK HIM WITH (CHOOSE ATTACK)

Keep him close. So horn attract, and beat down.

How long till battle gets here to take care of the mats?

>>523949
We let him go instead of eating him.

Rolled 1 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>524475
>>524489
>>524747
>>524557

>Kill Bloodion.

Separate him from the group and rip that old part from the new part. Tear him apart at the seams.

You'd be frighten over how easy brutality comes to mind but you're too busy to think.

"HORN ATTRACT!" Black particles coalesce around your horn and Bloodion as the red rubbery monster is jerked toward you at missile speed.

ROLL 3D20+5

ENERGY:10

Rolled 5 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>525689

>>524448
>>524557

I don't mind a straight run. Grab a guy and ride him for as long as he can keep it up! I just thought the emotional release would be good for yuki and may trigger a memory. Hell if ppl get up in arms about it then she could go both ways.

Rolled 4 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>525689
>>525716

Wow. Today is not a good day to be Bloodion. Your average can't get lower than his.

You skillfully concentrate the particles on the crimson piece of his skin and pull him toward you by that.

He's a stretchy, durable bastard. You remember blasting him full in the face with a Horn Repulse just for his head and upper torso to stretch with the force like rubber. But he's got a weak spot now. The part that connects his old piece to the rest of is new pale orange body has to be weaker.

And you're right.

You feel the skin splat against your horn even before you see the wound.

10 DAMAGE

You tear the red from the orange and Bloodion screams through his crooked smile. A wound of glowing purple light is left behind and he frantically pulls at his skin to cover the hole.

"NOOO! GIVE IT BACK! GIVE IT BACK!"

ROUND 1 ENEMY TURN:

Bloodion staggers, stumbles, nearly falls to the ground but keeps just enough control of himself to form a winking purple hole out of the back of his shoulder that discharges a thin purple beam...at C'Mell.

ROLL 3D20+6

Also, because its making a comeback in my other quests...

ACHIEVEMENTS:

EPISODE 1:

The best and brightest mankind had to offer: Create your MC using QG's patented "snapgen" character generation system!

Beyond human: Get nuked.

Red rain, white earth: Defeated Bloodion

Die for your god: Defeated Goldman

Alone again, alive again: Reject human contact for their sake.

Not natural: Devour an enemy

I am not a monster: Spare an enemy

Clarity through the haze: Successfully pass a memory check

It only hurts on the inside: Don't feed on the forest and walk wounded instead.

EPISODE 2:

I will kill you: Reject human contact yet again.

In too deep: Fail a memory check

The side of life: Reject all sides for your own

When gods fight: Engage in a battle with multiple manu.

I am not alone: Acquire a friend

POTENTIAL ACHIEVEMENTS:

Two times too many: Kill Bloodion this time for good

He will not stop: Bloodion survives his 2nd battle with you

We are at war: Kill an enemy

We can't afford to lose: Kill three enemies

We've lost too much to turn back: Kill six enemies

Carry that weight: Kill ten enemies

I won't forget you: A friend dies

I miss you all: Have three friends die

Loved by ghosts: Have six friends die

You can still feel them: Have ten friends die

Friends: Make three friends

Family: Make six friends

Community: Make ten friends

A truer self: Unlock a new ability through devours

Deadlier: Have three devours

Deadlier still: Have six devours

Godhead Have ten devours

Tombstone: Reach a game over

Holy Scarab: Complete the quest without reaching a game over

ANY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS ABOUT ACHIEVEMENTS?

>>526137
Now we have to devour them all.

Rolled 3 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>525916

Rolled 5 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>525916
forgot to roll

>>526191
>>526194
It's close so far. Next roll decides it...

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Rolled 15 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

Rolled 8 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>526197
The beam shoots right toward C'Mell's head, but she quickly ducks out of the way and it punches holes through several trees and a hillside.

"Damn it! This is your fault you trash!" Bloodion yells at the orb of eyeballs. "You gave away our position! Why can't you fight worth a shit?"

"Dooo notttt yellll attt themmmmm." The cloaked figure says in a warbling distorted voice that seems to come less from where his head should be and more from...his hands... "Theyyyyy arrrrrreee notttt soldierrrrssssSSSSSSSHHHHAAAAA"

His voice becomes louder and louder as his cloak billows and twists until the air seems to shake with the noise.

...You don't think there's anything under the cloak. You think he IS the cloak and he's just folded himself up to be vaguely human shaped.

He's making the air between his folds vibrate to talk. And now he's making it whip around you in a tornado funnel.

You feel the wind slash at your armor and start to lift you off your feet. Rocks and dirt and wood smash against you. The forest spins around you and you feel yourself rise higher and higher as everything spins and screams...

ROLL 3D20+8

Rolled 17 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>526213
I want to stay in the tornado and horn attract Bloodion to us. We're a fucking tank it should hurt him more than us and maybe the dumbass will halt to avoid friendly fire.

Rolled 8 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>526213
MAXIMUM RESIST!

Rolled 8 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

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>>526213
Cloackman is refering to Ball of Eyes man as a collective, does it count as many enemies or we go by the Gimli principle?

>>525719
To be honest, my main issue is being locked to a single character, i want us to try different stuff and then choose what feels right. If it happens to be /u/, then so be it.

Also, i want us to develop a one-sided crush on bad boy Battle

>>526484
Can't you go somewhere else if all you want is smut? There's a million other venues for erotica, some that are actually well written.

>>526529
I... don't think he's asking for smut? Just romance options and the ability to explore them rather than committing to one off the bat.

>>526529
What the fuck? By "try different stuff" i meant "Not getting into a serious relationship with the first person that shows us some kindness, take it slow woman!", not "Fuck everything right in the pussy"
Hell, check my previous post, i was saying i'd be pretty okay with a chaste run

>>526552
Thank you

>>526559
According to op, Dr. Shirow would totally do one night stands.

>>526584
To be fair, he may or may not have a point. Her finisher, which I hold the blame for naming, is called "CLIMACTIC TRUST".

>>526584
>I am a monster that can take the impact of an atom bomb and dish it out in a single point without collapsing reality. I happen to be in the middle of a threeway where every side does shit i don't agree with and every person i could fug without fear of breaking them apart is on one of these sides
I think her current situation is enough to put on hold her sex life, Mark
The QM said she totally would, not that she normally does. It could be her trying to catch up from the time she spent as an awkward nerd


>>526593
>We didn't pick the Hard-On Collider
Next thing you are going to tell me is that we are not called "Battler Beetle"
Also, playing a pent up nerd scientists who is feudian as fuck would also be okay

>>526626
I voted for the penetrator.

>>526626
>>526675
Yeah, she's freudian

>>526794
>>526675
Fuck it, let's go full "So, tell me about your mother"
Phallus Invidia (5 energy): If an enemy has augmented his base stats by any amount you get to temporarily copy said enhancement and keep it for the remainder of the battle. Keeping any stat increase costs 1 energy every round.

Death Wish (0 energy):
Active effect: Canibalize life points equal to the energy you want to regain. Can only be used in battle. When the battle ends you lose a number of life points and/or energy equal to the amount of energy you gained using this skill in battle.
Passive effect: 20% stat increase when health is critical. It only works if the active ability has been used at least once this battle

Id, Ego and Superego (0 energy): Only one can be active at a time
Superego: If any of your allies that is within reaching distance is under attack, you can choose to recieve that damage instead. Add a +3 to the defense roll. Decrease the roll of any action that puts your allies in danger by -2.

Ego: The more wounded you are the more your stats increase. +1 to every stat for each 5 points under your max health. Your ability to heal from any source is halved.

Id: Become invulnerable for a whole round, your action becomes the most aggressive, the one that inflicts the most damage to your opponent, or the one that brings you the most satisfaction. Can roll for mind to overcome the impulse. At the end of the encounter your hunger status drops to INSANE, any feeding during the battle might mitigate this.

>>526868
XD kek, dead.

Rolled 8 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>526218
>>526276
>>526288

DAMAGE: 5

You buzz your wings in an attempt to create a counter current as you bust through a cloud-bank. The funnel has you trapped. Your vision and hearing are choked with howling wind.

You feel the air pressure increase around you to levels the ocean bottom doesn't reach until you hear your plates begin to groan under the strain.

Through it all you remain calm. If you focus your senses you might be able to fight past the wind and get a fix on the other combatants for a ranged attack...

MANDALA TURN:

Even while spinning in the middle of the sky turning over and over you maintain a sense of where C'Mell and your enemies are. Your manu senses put the direction finding abilities of birds to shame.

But one of their "signals" is growing faint...the eyeball teleporter is taking evasive action. If you lose track of him you'll lose track of an enemy that can move you into attacks and move your enemies out of the way of your attack...

ROLL 3D20+3 TO KEEP TRACK OF MANDALA WHILE HE EVASIVELY TELEPORTS

Rolled 17 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>528009
I spy...

Rolled 4 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>528009

Rolled 17 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>528009
I cast stolen luck.

>>528011
>>528014
>>528077
His signal goes fuzzy...but you focus hard and track him as he seems to be here, there, then where he was before...

...but now he's -there-. You got him.He's moved a couple of miles up. He might not be a skillful teleporter but he appears to have range.

Either that or he's running scared.

ROUND 1 END

DAMAGE SUMMARY:

Beetalion: 5

Mandala: 5

Winzard: 5

Bloodion: 15

ENERGY:

GAURODIAN: 13

BEETALION: 10


PLAYER TURN 2:

"Yuki? You okay girl?" C'Mell says to you over the Besant.

"I'm fine. It's just a tornado."

"It's bigger than the World Trade Center!"

Great. You can't wait to see the wasteland you made out of another forest when you get back down to Earth.

"That's not important. Are you okay? I need you to-"

SPACE PULL ME OUT OF HERE!

KILL BLOODION! DON'T LET HIM RECOVER, HE'S DANGEROUS!

GET THE HELL AWAY FROM BLOODION! HE'S TOO DANGEROUS FOR YOU TAKE ON YOUR OWN!

HOW'S YOUR RANGE? CAN YOU GET THAT TELEPORTING EYE MONSTER?

GET THE CLOAK GUY!

>>528137
>KILL BLOODION! DON'T LET HIM RECOVER, HE'S DANGEROUS!

>>528137
Let's kill the cool aid man once and for all

>>528139
>>528146
"Kill Bloodion! Don't let him recover, he's too dangerous!"

"K-Kill him?" C'Mell gasps.

"He'll kill you if you don't! Don't hold back for a second!"

You hate the idea of her being alone down there with that freak. In her own way she's just as innocent as the normal people you've met.

SELECT GAURODIAN'S ATTACK.

>>528157
I love how the girl who was all badass and violent before is now becoming scared of how quickly we suggest a lethal solution

Bastard is liquid, can't we open a small hole in reality for him to drain to? With the fangs?

Also, is it Bloodion as in "lion" or is it pronounced Bloo-dee-on?

>>528163
Like Blood-Eon.

C'Mell is a brawler and a tough girl, but she's never killed anyone before. When she thinks of fights between Manu she's thinking super hero fights, not a war.

That might change very shortly...

We can SPACE TEAR him into a black hole if we want, but ripping holes in reality can backfire.

SPACE TEAR? AND IF SO HOW MUCH ENERGY DO WE SPEND?

>>528179
Nah, i feel that going for the kill right out of the bat would probably out of character

Just space pull at standard strenght

Y'know, i was somewhat reticent to hang out much with this gal because she didn't seem that interesting. Now that we have the chance to corrupt her without meaning to while everything she ebelieved in crumbles around her in that delicious 80's/90's fashion
Once again, you prove you can't do uninteresting characters, QG.

>>528195
Can you believe that this girl got upset over being called a dangerous monster when she can tear up reality itself? Lol

>>528179
Standard space pull

Rolled 3 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>528195
>>528280
ROLL 3D20+4 FOR SPACE PULL

>>528306
Man, Bloodion is getting all kinds of messed up today...

Rolled 1 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>528306
UNLIMITED POWEEEERRRRR!!!!!

>>528314
Fuck!!!!

Rolled 19 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>528306

Rolled 20 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>528306

>>528342
See guys this is how it's done

>>528314
>>528323
>>528342
That toasts his average.

You sense C'Mell do...whatever it is she does to make space bend like ribbon. Bloodion's signal becomes frantic and unfocused as he's caught in her SPACE PULL.

Good. You hope she turns that signal off like a light.

But you're worried about her. She's not like you. She can't just -kill- an enemy like you can.

Bloodion is a tricky foe. All he needs is a singal opening...

BLOODION TAKES FIVE DAMAGE.

You want to help her, but you're worried that making a move on Bloodion might leave you open from an attack by the other two...

COMMAND?

DRAG BLOODION INTO THE TORNADO WITH HORN ATTRACT. LET YOUR GRAVITY SCRAPE HIM AGAINST THIS TORNADO WALL UNTIL SOMETHING BREAKS.

FOCUS ALL EFFORT ON FLYING OUT OF THE WALL.

TARGET WINZARD. BLOW THE LIVING WINDSOCK AWAY WITH HORN REPEL OR GIVE HIM A TASTE OF HIS OWN TORNADO WITH HORN PULL

TARGET MANDALA. TELEPORTERS ARE CURRENTLY A WEAKNESS OF YOURS DUE TO YOUR IMPERFECT MEMORY OF THEM AND HOW TO FIGHT THEM. ITS BEST TO DROP THE COLLECTION OF EYEBALLS QUICK.

>>528356
>DRAG BLOODION INTO THE TORNADO WITH HORN ATTRACT. LET YOUR GRAVITY SCRAPE HIM AGAINST THIS TORNADO WALL UNTIL SOMETHING BREAKS.

>>528356
>DRAG BLOODION INTO THE TORNADO WITH HORN ATTRACT. LET YOUR GRAVITY SCRAPE HIM AGAINST THIS TORNADO WALL UNTIL SOMETHING BREAKS.

>>528360
>>528367
Here's a proper application of all that science knowledge you crammed into your head.

What happens when you pull Bloodion with your gravity powers as C'Mell is pulling him with her space powers and then into a cone of blast winds strong enough to compress even your armor?

Lets find out.

For this complicated move you'll first have to pin point Bloodion. I'll need a sense check. Your modifier against teleporation attacks doesn't apply thankfully.

ROLL 3D20+5

TARGET NUMBER IS 12

Rolled 14 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>528374

Rolled 1 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>528374

I apologise

>>528417

>>528424
Fucking captcha and its copy paste boxes throwing off my groove...

It's a bad roll, but it doesn't sink our average assuming a decent third roll.

This is sort of why I like averaging the three. It allows for tension as the rolls come in.

How do you guys like the rolling system? Should I switch to one roll to make the thread quicker?

Rolled 7 + 5 (1d10 + 5)

>>528374

>>528429
>Should I switch to one roll to make the thread quicker?
Maybe only when the thread is slow and there are few people around, otherwise, the current system is fine

>>528429
I think it's fine but as you see we roll and wait for hours for someone else to come along. Maybe put a timer on it so you take the rolls you're given after half an hour or let people roll more than once if it takes too long?

Rolled 10 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>528467
m8 that's a 1d10

>>528378
>>528416
>>528467
>>528506

Thereeee he is...

You focus your senses past the whirling wall of wind and bring your awareness back down to Earth...

You see C'Mell stand over a wad of stretched reality dangling from her mouth. A whirling orange blur shows you that Bloodion is being crushed and stretched hopefully to death...

...Then you see C'Mell's face and a chill runs down your double spine.

She doesn't look like a snarling wolf. She looks like a lost puppy. Tears fill her enormous eyes.

"Please surrender...I know this is hurting you." She broadcasts over the Besant. "I-It won't stop unless you do..."

No. no no no C'Mell what are you doing?

"P-Please..." Bloodion cries out. "Spare me...you're killing me!"

The giant white wolf cringes and drops the piece of reality. As it resets to normal you see a car-wreck shaped Bloodion slowly form a head and arms. His wound glows and shines up through the cloudbanks.

"Look...look what you've done to me..." He burbles.

"I...I...I'm sorry..." C'Mell says as she draws back. "I didn't m-m-mean to..."

"C'Mell!" You scream. "No! Finish him! Don't trust him."

"I-I can't Yuki! Look at him...look what I've done to him..."

You see a piece of the puddle grow hard and taper into a point like a hook...and then it glows with a powerful purple light...

No no no no no you have to stop him!

HOW MUCH ENERGY DO YOU WANT TO SPEND ON HORN ATTRACT?

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>528542
Ah fuck it, we have 10 left right? Let's double dip and spend it all. The others aren't soldiers, they'll flee or get fucked up from our normal punches after.

Also when this is over, we should tell C'Mell "You said you were going to beat me up, to hurt me when I didn't take back what I said about us being more dangerous than nuclear bombs. Is that threat still looming over me or do you finally understand? This is reality and not a Saturday morning super hero show."

>>528542
Cmell just lost all her street cred. I'm always wary of going all in when outnumbered, go for a normal horn attract.

>>528542
Spend 6

Oh and this time let's eat the "gods". That spare them shit is only going to fuck us in the ass later on.

>>528564
I change to this to stop the 3 way tie.

>>528566
Yeah let's devour all of them, we're going to have to level up now that we didn't pick a team.

Rolled 18 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>528583
ROLL 3D20+6

Rolled 20 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>528601
OH I WILL

>>528605
Hey now, there's some hope there...

Rolled 18 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>528624

Rolled 8 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>528601

Rolled 5 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>528671
And we blew it...

You see the glow of your black griviton particles cut through the cloudbank as you lift Bloodion away from C'Mell. A mass of orange bio-mass and earth crashes through the clouds an instant later. You didn't go for precision. You just focused on getting him away from her.

The earth shatters into nothing on the tornado wall and you expect it to turn a vivid orange color...but instead Bloodion twists and folds himself. He elongates. he becomes thin and sharp and glows a violently brilliant purple color.

He's turned himself into a super heated spear. And you're guiding him towards yourself.

In one beat of our jet engine heart you see his glow illuminate the swirling funnel as he passes through it placing you in a purple cage. In another your vision fills with purple light...

ROLL 3D20+8

Rolled 17 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>528704
No surprise there.

Rolled 6 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>528704
damn it

Hey, people. Remember how Bloodion once said that nukes are useless against Manus because the energy is to dispersed to do any lasting harm? That is why Manus can punch eachother to death yet be unharmed by the detonations. That statement stuck with me for some reason, now i remember why.
Well... Turns out you can use said useless nuclear devices to power extremely powerful x-ray laser beams and it's all kosher because it was designed amd developed in the 70's and 80's. Laser beams have plenty of focus if that was a problem before. Now, if only we had some nuclear devices on orbiting satellites. Oh wait
On the flip side, with the right tech we could also totally power some freaking laser beams with the impact of our horn.

>>528605
Now that's 90's anime
>>528671
Now that's 80's anime

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>528704

Rolled 9 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>528704

Rolled 5 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>528716
>>528706
>>528707

He's trying to spear your horn.

Big mistake.

You twist your thick neck and fire off a low level repulse blast at his flank, just enough to cause him to miss your horn by inches.

The streak of glowing purple stops in mid-air as the tornado around you ends.

He careens back into the tornado wall and vanishes.

"Good catch." You hear him say over the Besant to his partner. "Almost makes up for me nearly killing myself on your stupid tornado. Now keep me spinning...Hey Beetalion?"

Faint purple lights begin to show in the wall of air. And they start to glow brighter and brighter...

"...Ever seen Last Starfighter? You're gonna wish you had!"

He's using his partner to spread himself around you, to use the blast winds as a shield as he sets up a gauntlet of death-rays...

And you feel that twisting warm feeling inside again. The eyeballs are trying to teleport you around to make you the ideal target for this combination attack...

ROLL 3D20+3


>>528715
>Work to replace nukes with powerful X-ray devices to give humanity a weapon to fight back against Manus while addressing the less normal-friendly aspects of nukes that Manu don't have to worry about like fallout and area of effect.

Could this be part of our endgame? We get rid of nukes but also leave humanity in charge of its own destiny.

Rolled 18 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>528743

Rolled 12 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>528743
Two things

1) Can we use horn attract to like, anchor ourselves to the ground and use the magic to pull ourselves? We should find a way to do that, I'm sure it'll be handy.

2) End game is obviously finding a way to neutralize besant particles and commit the greatest genocide the universe ever has and ever will witness.

Rolled 19 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>528743
First of all, let's insult his taste in movies. If only to be petty.

Also you mean you didn't know? I was sure that is what you were hinting at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excalibur
Is what i was talking about

>>528752
>Project Excalibur
That is certainly something to incorporate into the quest...

>>528754
>1
Yeah. We can use it to pull ourselves towards something without breaking it apart if we get the particle magic right (in other words if we roll gud)

>2
>Going full End of Bride of Frankenstein
Never go full End of Bride of Frankenstein.

Although a lot of 80's sci fi anime DOES have "Bad End" it's usually one where a lot of normals die. Like Akira or Megazone 23. One where all the super beings die would be sort of novel.

>>528752
>>528754
>>528757

"Your movies SUCK!" You shout over the Besant.

"Oh look. The monster learned how to talk over the Besant. It thinks its people." Bloodion says. The lights grow more numerous and more vivid. Soon the entire tornado is purple with overlapping bands of darker purple. It's going to be hard to tell where the shots are going to come from...

You...do whatever it is your body does to avoid being teleported against your will. C'Mell is right. It's a reflex, like moving your hand when you touch a hot stove. It's automatic. But there's got to be a way to train it like other reflexes...

"Yuki..." C'Mell says. "Are you okay? I-I thought he was dying and..."

"Oh. I'm fine. And he will be. Soon."

"Yuki don't!" She shouts. "Don't kill him! Please!"

"Oh you stupid bitch." Bloodion says. "Didn't you see I was about to cut your head off? Eh he he he he..."

"W-What?"

"Dumbass!" You shout. "This is war! He's trying to KILL US you moron!"

"Surrenderrrrrr..." The windsock's voice projects itself from the very air around you. "Weeee dooooo notttt wishhhh toooo killll youuuuu."

"Thunderer sends his regards." A new voice enters the Besant conversation. You figure its the voice of the eye creature. "Originally the plan was for Bloodion and his team to...liquidate you."

"Now because Thunderer's a giant pussy I'm only supposed to kill you if you resist...which you're doing." Bloodion says. "Thank you for that by the way."

"I was sent along as a token of good will." Mandala says. "I am not a fighter, as you should be able to tell. I am a willing merger of Manu minds under the benevolent direction of a Matsya. I am here to be a living refutation of any rumors you might have heard about "mind slaves" and "body puppets". I am the Earthling of tomorrow in all his glory. Please surrender. Otherwise we will be forced to render you vulnerable to our associate's attack."

"Meaning they set you up for me to finally pull the trigger on you." Bloodion says. "Oh please tell me you're going to fight. I want to hang your shell on my wall. Eh he he he he..."

"Yuki...what should we do?" C'Mell says in a panicky voice. "I-I don't want to have to kill anyone..."

SAY/DO?

SURRENDER.

FIGHT. FUCK YOU MIND ALIENS.

>>528780
We can rename it "Project Bellerophon" or "Project Vorpal" if we take over
Because if we are as monstruous as you say we are, the Manus can easily be Chimaera or the Jabberwock

>>528817
>FIGHT. FUCK YOU MIND ALIENS.

>>528817
>FIGHT. FUCK YOU MIND ALIENS.

>I'M NOT GOING TO FIGHT YOU BLOODION. I'M GOING TO KILL YOU. AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.

>>528817
How fast is C'Mell? Can we hop on her back and try to escape until Battle makes it here?
Also how much energy do we have left? Not much i believe.
Can we feed in the middle of battle? Would it hurt C'Mell if she was near enough?

Ah, fuck it, let's pull a 300 and pretend to surrender by kneeling... Only to do a final Climatic thrust against Bloodion.
If we manage to kill him and eat him the rest of his group might be persuaded to retire for the day, considering they don't seem to like that much him either.

>>528845
We're in the middle of a giant tornado our mortal enemy is riding around in to fan his body mass around us in a funnel while he sets a gauntlet of laser beams.

C'Mell is pretty damn fast. if we can get out of the tornado we could try running.

>>528845
We're still in a tornado though, how would we kneel?

Bloodion is afraid of us and teleport dude is still a joke, let's just keep the pressure on and hope that C'mell stops being a bitch and that Battle arrives soon.

>>528849
To consume another Manu they have to be defeated, right? We can't latch on them and eat them while they are councious, right?
Because that eye meatball is looking migthy tempting now. It might also send a subtle message to C'Mell about what happens to "non combatants" who participate in this war


If that's too edgy, let's hop into our wolffer while pointing our horn forward and helping her with our wings. We are going to skewer a tornado

Rolled 6 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>528840
>>528830
>>528853

"Fuck you brain aliens! I'm not going to fight you Bloodion, I'm going to KILL YOU!"

"Then...Then I'll fight with you Yuki!" C'Mell says. "Give me a second, I'll get them off of you!"

"You have made my multitude sad." Mandala says. "But very well. You have made your bed. Now lie in it. But don't call it a grave. It's the future you have chosen for yourself..."

MANDALA AND WINZARD BOTH HAVE MATS INSIDE THEM. JUST LIKE GOLDMAN THESE MATS ATTACK EVERY OTHER TURN. JUST AS THEY'RE DOING NOW.

LIGHTBRINGER IS UP FIRST

ROLL 3D20+5

Rolled 11 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>528867

Rolled 6 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>528867

Rolled 13 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>528867

Rolled 14 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>528870
>>528871
>>528879

Your mind is assaulted by pleasant voices made of crisp Summer afternoon sunshine and cool Autumn breezes. They batter and burn you and then still themselves into black silence. A single white light erupts out of the darkness like the only star in a universe.

"These are my people. They are the happiest people on Earth." The light says. "This is when they are together. This is when they are -me-. But we are not a hivemind. We are a community. We are individuals whose interactions with one another sharpen our individuality. Within light..." The white light dissolves into a kaleidoscope of shades and hues and blends. "...lies all color. This is what you have rejected."

...These are humans. There are humans inside this monster. A whole community of vivid, wonderful humans. Weren't you fighting for humanity?

They're so happy. You can feel it like warmth from a bonfire.

You want to be happy like they are...

"...But this is what you have chosen."

He turns the lights off.

He takes the people away.

He leaves you in darkness.

Alone.

"This is what you have-"

NO

You shake off the mental haze and snap back to reality. Whatever you are you certainly aren't alone right now. You got several people fighting against you and a tornado.

Son of a bitch goddamn alien mind monster using your emotions against you! You're going to -hurt- him for this!

But Mandala isn't the only one with a Mats...

STAND BY FOR EARTH MOTHER'S ATTACK

ROLL 3D20+5

Rolled 4 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>528915

Rolled 14 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>528915
>EARTH MOTHER'S
We fighting horses now?
Also, you have the wrong name on, Genesmith

Rolled 18 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>528915

>>528917
>>528922
>>528955

Black again.

You're really getting sick of these psychic attacks.

"I am Earth Mother." A feminine voice brimming with strength booms. "I watched the Earth before humanity came. I will not let you harm my child, unnatural creature. Return to dust and sleep forever!"

-2 PHYSICAL

Your vision clears but you feel heavy and slow. You move only with great effort. You feel your wings strain to the utmost. You feel the plates of your arms slide against each other as you're shocked you're moving so little with so much effort.

Telekinesis. Earth Mother is trying to hold you still for the kill...

The purple tornado starts to close in around you. You count ten, twenty, thirty firing points...

...and then the entire tornado lights up.

You really hope most of that is just light in an attempt to intimidate you. Because if not you're about to be smashed by a lotttttt of lasers...

"Don't worry. Eh he he he he...I'll take good care of your dog when you're gone..."

TURN 2 SUMMARY

DAMAGE TOTAL:

BLOODION: 15

MANDALA: 5

WINZARD: 5

BEETALION: 5, -2 PHYSICAL


ENERGY RESERVES:

BEETALION: 10

GAROUDIAN: 11


REMINDER: You can spend a turn to recharge 5 points of energy. This recharge can be upgraded when you DEVOUR.

>>528822
I like these project names. Maybe Project Bellerophon if only because Vorpal gets a lot of play in pop culture.

>If we are as monstrous as you say we are

We can choose who we are. Are we a monster, a goddess...or a woman?

>>528854
>>528845

We can't start absorbing their bio mass to heal and power us up until they're defeated. But we can bite off chunks of them in a fight if we're feeling particularly savage. Eating them in that state won't do anything for us however. Until they're softened up they're protected from DEVOURING by the same quantum defenses that protect them from telefragging and the like. You got to knock those out to DEVOUR.

FEEDING is super risky. And you better do it in an area with a lot of life. You'd be left wide open to attack and in a vulnerable state should you try it, and you can't FEED on enemy Manu because of quantum defenses.

In general its a very bad idea to try it in a fight unless you want your opponent to super critical you with their finisher while you set yourself up.

>>528854
>Eating one of the most innocent members of the bad guy team

>Basically doing that scene from Devilman/Getter Robo Armageddon because of all the innocent people stuck inside Mandala.

We're going to have a choice to make after the battle whether to be merciful to not. C'Mell will be watching. We can choose to show mercy again or we can traumatize everyone including ourselves.

Or we could force C'Mell to make the kill herself by setting it up as a mercy kill. She must become stronger if she wants to live through this war .

>>528922
>Wrong name

Eh, everybody knows who I am anyway.

>>530852
ROUND THREE ALLY TURN

We're in a tight spot! What should our heroes do?

COMMAND?

If you guys start hurting for ideas I'll turn SUGGESTIONS back on. Or I could turn them back on now if you want.

>>530870
I'm thinking something with our wings.

Think we could disrupt the tornado or dull the laser by some combination of flapping, venting heat and MANU-QUANTUM RAGGLEFRAGGLE?

At the least it's something of a play on certain insect defense mechanisms.

>>530938
Yeah let's use some energy to flap, maybe we can build enough pressure to disrupt the tornado, or at least make the enemy spend more to stay in control

>>530867
How about just pull us out of the damn tornado?