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2996/KtF: I Knew She Was Trouble When She Walked In...

2026-04-04T21:07:35Z

KitKat: Created page with "{{Log Header |Date of Scene=2026/04/03 |Location=The Shed |Synopsis=Hinote Kagari questions Rei Hino about her visions of the woman with the palm tree hair. He learns things,..."

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2026/04/03
|Location=The Shed
|Synopsis=Hinote Kagari questions Rei Hino about her visions of the woman with the palm tree hair. He learns things, and has a place to start his own investigation into her!
|Cast of Characters=72,82
|Tinyplot=Kill the Fade
|pretty=yes
}}
{{Poses
|Poses=:'''{{#var:72|Rei Hino (72)}} has posed:'''     While Rei's attempts to read the fire and determine just what Mamoru's brother, and Obsidian, were up to hadn't borne any new fruit, Riventon's relative radio silence had still caused her some degree of concern. From everything she knew, silence from him didn't mean he'd quit or given up. And occasional flashes of insight would still creep up on her.     But on her own, she hadn't figured anything out. And yet, she didn't have to do everything on her own. Even the senshi - even now, with Usagi not being able to transform - didn't have to fight on their own. And in this case, another magical hero - Hinote Kagari - had offered his expertise to helping her make something out of the few leads her psychic fire-reading had been able to provide. So after she performed another one - so the images she saw in the flames were fresh in her mind - she made her way directly to the shed to discuss with him. 

:'''{{#var:82|Hinote Kagari (82)}} has posed:''' There's a Mystery Afoot, which means. Tracy and Hinote Kagari are on the case. Who is the palm tree haired--- woman? Man? They still had much to figure out and therefore, the two we're ready. Hinote had his case file out, notepad, and pencil and had sketched most of what he knew down into the case file already which is just... more of the same Rei had already told to the shed. Maybe a direct discussion could garner information he doesn't know or was left out because it wasn't deemed important. Tracy? Tracy is sitting behind a tiny desk, his fedora down over his eyes as he intones. "She walked into my office, eyes of fire and heels of red. The dame had information I needed. I had a bad headache from the case I was on. One of these couldn't be traded for the other. Maybe my natural charms could persuade her to give her what I needed." Hinote Kagari blushes as Tracy starts his tirade the moment Rei walks in before he can say anything at all, and he says. "Tracy, this is the shed. I'm going to ask her, nicely, some things!" he insists as he says. "I'm so sorry." he insists as he rubs his face. 

:'''{{#var:72|Rei Hino (72)}} has posed:'''     And Rei? Rei looked down at Tracy and for a moment it seemed as though she might have been annoyed, or bothered... but then she lifted a hand to her mouth to stifle a giggle or two. When she removed it, she used it to wave her hand up and down. "Don't worry, don't worry." she says. "It's kind of adorable."     "I understand he's not any more under your control than Luna is Usagi, or my birds are for me. Or maybe even less." she says, as she pulls up a chair that is decidedly not at the tiny chara's table.     "And besides, what we need to do right now is more important than worrying about anything. This is important, and if he can help you, help me, we help everyone, right?" She says, leaning forward with a bit of a devious smile on her face. "And if he calls me a 'broad' I'll just fill a glass of water and dunk him in it like a cookie in milk, until he shapes up." 

:'''{{#var:82|Hinote Kagari (82)}} has posed:''' Tracy says. "The dollface had sass. Sassy like a kitty kat." Tracy said as he decided turned his way away from the discussion at the tiny desk on his swivel chair, fedora still down over his eyes. Hinote Kagari rolls his eyes. "Thanks for that." he says. Maybe he'll try that threat in the future. Nah. He couldn't bring himself to actually follow through. Tracy probably knew that. Still. Hinote Kagari kind of asks. "So about your ... visions? Premonitions? I don't know what you call them, but it isn't important I guess. What I want to know is..." "Besides this figure with palm tree-like hair. What else do you see? Surely they are not just... standing in a white void? Unless they are. In which case. Hrmmmm..." he says as he taps his pencil on the notebook, ready to scribble notes. 

:'''{{#var:72|Rei Hino (72)}} has posed:'''     Rei sighs, but she's clearly more amused at Tracy than annoyed. "I suppose it takes a dollface to know a dollface." She says, reaching out, and she'll try to ruffle Tracy's Fedora a little bit, if he doesn't get out of the way of it or otherwise avoid it. And that was about as much as Rei had in her either - she wasn't really the dunk a chara type. But one had to set boundaries.     "Well, I'm not sure what to call them either. I sometimes get them at random, just... pushed into my head, but I can also try to make visions out of the fire. And with us not really being a hundred percent on what Obsidian's been doing, I've tried to get some information. And it's... consistent, but it's also not super helpful. It gave me the information I put on the shed board..." she says, pointing in its general direction "About the really old lady who's working for or with Obsidian somehow with that... wild hair." Rei says.     "I know she's important to whatever's going on. I don't know why. And I would hope that someone with hair like that would be easy to find, but apparently nobody's seen her at all." She says.     "Originally a lot of what I saw was... she was a lot of places that were really old. Like, this woman is ancient. But... lately, I kinda keep seeing what... I think... might be something like a shrine. It's hard to make out, but that's... the feeling I get." She says. 

:'''{{#var:82|Hinote Kagari (82)}} has posed:''' Tracy crosses his arms as he's ruffled, he tries to look bold and brash but fails at the moment. Hinote Kagari starts scribbling notes when Rei speaks. He hrms and says. "A Shrine? Do you feel that's a recent place? An older place? You must be seeing a lot if she's ancient. But if you can tell me anything more..." he says as he scribbles. "How'd you try to get information?" he asks. "Who do you know you can ask?" he says as he scribbles note and considers. "So you see old places, with this woman. But a shrine sticks out." he considers as eh jots down a note. "What can you tell me about the shrine. Even if it's hard to make out, you know it's a shrine so... what makes it stick out to you it's a shrine?" he asks. 

:'''{{#var:72|Rei Hino (72)}} has posed:'''     Rei smirks at the little Chara. Point: Rei.     "No, it's got... it's hard for me to explain, but it's got the aura, the energy, of a very old place. Somewhere important, mystically. Not like... Moon Kingdom old, or Golden Kingdom old, but still pretty old." she says. "And yeah, she's older than anyone I've ever really seen in my fires. I'm pretty sure one of my visions involved her being around during the Sengoku era." she says.     "I see tori gates. Or at least, the shadow of them, I think." she says, tapping her chin. "And symbols of purification, I think..." she says, her hand coming from her chin to her head, like she's trying to pull thoughts from her memory. "What I think are Shimenawa - wards against evil spirits - but I think she cut some of them down." she says.     "At first I thought I was only seeing old things, but... then I saw a van too, a modern van... and she's got a crystal ball, but..." she sighs, shaking her head.     "Sorry. I know a lot of that will apply to most shrines in Japan. But I also figure... Obsidian is active in Tokyo, primarily, so it should be nearby. And she doesn't... seem like the kind of person who hides who she is. Not with that hair, or the giant red feathers on the cloak-cape thing she wears." 

:'''{{#var:82|Hinote Kagari (82)}} has posed:''' Hinote Kagari takes more notes. She only sees it shadows and vague images along it. He scribbles and considers. She seems at a loss but he presses on with his questioning. "So it's in Tokyo, most likely. That's.. a lot of Shrines..." he considers when there's literal thousands of them. But the fact she sees a van... he notes damage to wards from evil spirits. So a place beset by evil spirits. What places might that be? Probably not near the school... probably not even near the city. Probably... maybe The Forgotten District? That place reeks of... bad energies anytime he's gone near it. If there was ever a shrine that needed obvious 'warding'.... Regardless. He presses. "Sorry I know I keep asking hard questions, but I think I'm getting ideas... a place to start. What can you tell me about the area besides the shrine. Is there a skyline? What time of day is it? Was the van 'Obsidian' marked?" he asks. Tracy lifts his fedora up. "Keep at it, kid, you're doin great!" he states. 

:'''{{#var:72|Rei Hino (72)}} has posed:'''     And then Rei's eyes light up suddenly. "Wait! Wait. There's something special. I missed it before, I didn't entirely understand it, but... I think... there's a sumo ring there." she says. Her face scrunches up at that, but she lets it go. "Not like, a temporary one. An old one. It feels old. It seems... old." she says. "That should narrow it down a little, I hope." she offers.     "The shrine itself, there's a lot of trees. There are things taller than the trees, but, I'm not sure what they are. Could be skyscrapers, or mountains, or just other tall trees." She notes. "But I suppose that means, if it is in Tokyo, it's at least a little isolated from usual sightlines..." she says, using Hinote's questions to drive her to better answers.     "I don't mind the questions. I feel like maybe I'm getting somewhere with this that I wasn't when it was just me. I probably should have asked someone to help me wrap my brain around it sooner." she says, idly running a hand down her long black hair for a moment. "It also doesn't seem like it's busy, so it's not a usual tourist shrine, I don't think. I... don't know if the van is important. I couldn't make out much about it, it was just in the distance. It's not like it said JERKS R US on the side. Nothing's ever that easy for me." 

:'''{{#var:82|Hinote Kagari (82)}} has posed:''' Hinote Kagari takes more notes. Isolated Shrine. Not a tourist spot. Sumo Ring nearby that's really old. Trees all around. Alright. Things like this help a lot. It lets him narrow it down. He can start on his own hunches too combined to maybe start somewhere. "Thinking a lot, talking a lot, helps." he says as he taps his pencil. "Alright. I think and... it feels like you're not gonna remember any more than you've told me, but it looks like you've had your 'Eureka!' moment." he says. "I agree." says Tracy. Hinote Kagari begins copying this down into the case file, noting where he learned it from and his own hunches into it. Why does he keep casefiles? Which Detective doesn't!? A bad one, that's what! "So unless you wanna give things one final think over in your head, and see if you can't come up with more..." he says. 

:'''{{#var:72|Rei Hino (72)}} has posed:'''     And Rei nodded. "Yeah, I've certainly had a... lot of things to think about recently. And haven't given them all the time they deserve." she admits. "I think you're right. That was a big moment. Not many shrines have sumo rings on the grounds - I mean, at least not compared to the number of shrines in Tokyo. Plus, it's isolated, which means a lot of the big tourist spots are out." she notes. She's thinking, too.     She leans back in the chair and scrunches up her face, then shakes her head. "The only thing I get when I try to think more is a headache. I think I'm spent." She admits. "But... I'm really hoping you can find something. We can't just always wait for them to make the next move." she says, sighing. "Especially not... now." Usagi's situation weighs on her mind, but she lets that go.     "I probably should have talked to you sooner. I'll try to remember that next time I'm trying to track down a tree-haired lady in the flickers of a fire." she says, then pauses. "I mean, I can't guarantee that won't come up again." 

:'''{{#var:82|Hinote Kagari (82)}} has posed:''' Hinote Kagari is very glad to have been of help, but also nods at the explanation of being spent. "Alright. So I have information to start off of then. I can start to hopefully track down this person and maybe get a clearer picture of who she is and what she's about." he says. "So I'm going to start my investigation. I'll let you know what I learn." he says. Tracy nods. "We're on the case, ma'am, you can believe in us. Detectives specialize in this sort of thing." he says. "Yeah especially magical detectives when dealing with magical miscreants." adds Hinote. "If I can find Molly-chan when everyone believed she died, I can find a tree haired woman who doesn't hide who she is." "Anyways. Wanna go get some ramen to nurse a headache? I know A good place nearby." he says as he closes his case file. Well it's time to start. But tomorrow. Tonight there's ramen in his future. 
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2026-01-11T17:06:09Z

KitKat:

2904/Ex-Egg

2026-01-11T07:04:32Z

KitKat: Created page with "{{Log Header |Date of Scene=2026/01/11 |Location=Riverside Path |Synopsis=A confession goes wrong makes the Ex-Egg X-Egg. It gets set straight by Pulp Noir, Puella Amy and Cut..."

{{Log Header
|Date of Scene=2026/01/11
|Location=Riverside Path
|Synopsis=A confession goes wrong makes the Ex-Egg X-Egg. It gets set straight by Pulp Noir, Puella Amy and Cute Wolf Tsukiko!
|Cast of Characters=82,107,52
|pretty=yes
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:82|Pulp Noir (82)}} has posed:''' It started out with a simple scene, a boy, a girl. Flowers and a confession from a girl to a boy. The Boy... did not reciprocate. And just like that, a heart is broken and a dream is crushed! A heart egg darkens when the dream of being together falters and soon, there's an X-Egg on the loose, causing chaos. The Ex-Egg, as this one will thus be called, is a black egg with an X-sigil over a broken heart, firing out blasts of dark energy beams from it's central point, the beam when it hits couples on the Riverside path, seems to be causing fights and disorder in people as it darkens their hearts and own X-eggs. And Thusly, Pulp Noir shall close this case! Hinote Kagari was walking actually, to Juuban Ward, when the chaos broke out so was close by when Tracy sensed the X-egg. This means he's already shooting a semi-automatic looking pistol at the Ex-Egg, a jet of water emanating from it as he pushes it back momentarily to get it's attention. Well, he has it's attention. It's stopped firing on couples and is now firing on him, causing him to comical dance on his feet and step backwards a little. "Yowzers. Well then. Guess it's on my tail now." he says, as he draws his fedora down a little ominously, for some reason. Welcome to the hub-bub, bub! 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     Amy happened to be patrolling when there's a change in the air, and she starts seeing a lot of fighting couples, and feels a dark presence.     Homing rocket-propelled bullets join the water in trying to knock the egg aside "HEY! Pick on somebody your own... uh... roundness?"     Amy leaps from elsewhere to atop a nearby lamppost, smiling to Tracy. "Need a little help ''cracking'' this case?"     She looks from him to the egg. "...Seriously, why is it an egg, though...?" 

:'''{{#var:52|Cute Wolf Tsukiko (52)}} has posed:''' Over in one set of evergreen shrubs, Ikiko is busy feeding one of the local packs of strays. Pretty calm day, at least so far...     ...whoops, spoke too soon! The sounds of chaos and the sense of darkness are familiar enough, although ''this'' 'flavor' of darkness doesn't seem familiar to Ikiko. Well, what better time to learn than now? One murmured phrase and a silvery glow later, Cute Wolf Tsukiko goes bounding towards the source of the noise. The wolfgirl arrives in time to do some darting feints to keep the Ex-Egg distracted. "Okay, I don't think I've ever seen one of ''these'' before," she remarks, waving to the familiar Puella and the unfamiliar... detective? Well, Red seems to know him, so he's obviously a mahoujin. 

:'''{{#var:82|Pulp Noir (82)}} has posed:''' Tracy is currently merged with Hinote to form Pulp Noir, but Pulp Noir answers anyways because Tracy's inside him. "Hey Red. This is an X-Egg. It means someone's heart egg up and vamoosed and darkened. We gotta purify it or browbeat it enough to calm it down." he says as he raises the pistol again as he aims down the sights of the Ex-Egg as it reels from the shots of bullets and water, soaking wet and looking comically dented before undenting itself. "Useless..." it suddenly intones outloud. It shoots waves of dark energy from it's form at the two attackers, leaving Cute Wolf Tsukiko unharmed at the moment as Pulp Noir raises an arm and tries to weather the attack, griting his teeth and eating the dark energy head on. Well that was a bad idea. He's unharmed, but he feels... Well he doesn't feel very well, shaking his head as he deals with the rush of negative emotions and bad thoughts that come with eating a lot of dark energy at once. "That was... a bad idea. Avoid that in the future." he says tersely, as he fires another jet of powerful water at the Ex-Egg quickly. His eyes trace down to... The dog girl? Is that a dog girl? Is the dark energy making him see things? Luckily, the darting feints do keep the Ex-Egg distracted as it tries to shoot that couple-destroying beam at her everytime she moves, each time missing. 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     Amy blinks. "So this is... someone's dream, that left them and got corrupted?! Why would it leave them???"     She jumps, startled, at the noise as it undents itself, and then diving out of the way of the dark wave and landing in a roll that leaves her sitting on the ground. "Oof... You OK? You don't have to take hits for us."     Pow pow! pow! She resumes firing and kips up, "Can we really just... beat up someone's dream, though?" 

:'''{{#var:52|Cute Wolf Tsukiko (52)}} has posed:''' "So, we have a darkened heart's egg on the loose? And it's related to dreams?" Tsukiko asks, still dodging the dark blasts (and occasionally dashing forward to flick the X-Egg on the back of its shell when it tries to ignore her long enough to snipe at the others). "I ''might'' be able to help purify it, but, uh... do you happen to know ''why'' we're dealing with a corrupted dream?" Because, honestly, Red has a point: beating up someone's dream just doesn't feel right. And if the wolfgirl is going to try to soothe the, well, ''heart'' of this heart's egg, it'd help to know what needs the soothing. 

:'''{{#var:82|Pulp Noir (82)}} has posed:''' Pulp Noir's blast of water sends it flying again and the blasts from Amy cause it to spin on it's axis around and make it get dizzy, it spins there in place intoning "Im..Impossible." it goes. "...Useless." it says again as it reseats itself and gets flicked from the back for it's trouble. It's being treated like a common ping pong ball and this angers it. Pulp Noir and Amy ask a question. He answers Amy's first. "Honestly it's best if we purify it, but I don't exactly have the ki---" and then Cute Wolf Tsukiko speaks up, and says she can purify it, or help with that and he grips the edge of his fedora. "Well then that's better." he says. "We DO have the kit then. As for... the reasons. Hrmmmmmmgh.." he goes. He uh.. he didn't see the X-egg's birth. He doesn't know the reason. But what does he know? He saw it destroying and messing with couples earlier. Okay. So it likes to cause tension in romance. But that could mean any number of things. What else can he know? Okay. That thing has the normal 'X' insigna, but is inset with a heart as well... Pulp Noir answer Cute Wolf Tsukiko. "Broken Heart." he says confidently. He avoids taking the hit from a beam of darkness as he steps to the side and grips the edge of his fedora. "Not wanting to beat the crap out of someone's dream is why I'm using the water. Hey Red, you got nonlethal stuff in your kit? How about a flashbang?" he asks. 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     "You're not useless!" Amy shouts at the egg, while ''also'' switching to a bigger gun -- two-handed -- and continuing to shoot it with higher-caliber rocket bullets.     "Somebody had a broken heart?" Amy blinks. "Well, some kid or teen did... huh. Does that happen a lot to people who like... get to do much of the romance thing?"     Pulp Noir asks for nonlethal and she dismisses the gun and hands him a flashbang. "Uh, yeah, sure..."     She spins and waves her arm, fireworks conjuring around her and launching, exploding around the dream and... they're not ''harmless'', but it's a lot more noise and light than explosion. 

:'''{{#var:52|Cute Wolf Tsukiko (52)}} has posed:''' "Broken heart, huh?" Tsukiko muses, adding a bit of distance between her and the Ex-Egg to stay out of explosion range. "Might be a bit of a challenge, but I ''think'' I can work with that." Okay, so the available purifier, whose main purification works on wordlessly speaking to emotions, needs to soothe broken romantic feelings... when she's not particularly familiar with them on a first-hand basis. ...well, nobody's ever said being a mahoujin was easy work. 

:'''{{#var:82|Pulp Noir (82)}} has posed:''' Pulp Noir has a flashbang. He huhs and considers... he doesn't know how it works personally but he's seen movies, you pull the pin and throw right? So that's what he does, pull the pin and throw--- The flashbang explodes in the air near the Ex-egg and Pulp Noir watches as the fireworks and flashbang do the job and flash the Ex-egg, making it currently 'blind' (Does it even have eyes? Well it worked anyways!) and causes it to spin around and try to see. It'll need a moment to readjust and is no longer attacking, giving Pulp Noir some breathing space. "Sorry, that's all I can gather from the available information." is all he says. "Impossible!" it finally intones at Amy and fires a beam of dark energy off kilter into Amy's general direction as she talks. It isn't very well aimed. Aiming at her voice as she tries to talk sense into it. "Talking sense ain't gonna work. This thing is senseless." he says. "We gotta handle it. And I dunno, honestly." he answer Amy. "Someone's dream must have hinged on that relationship. Given it's an X-egg now. So..." he looks at Tsukiko. "Can you really do it uh..." "W..what's your name. I wanna call you some stupid nickname and I'm trying REALLY hard no to." he says with an internal cringe. 'Dogface' would have gotten him SUCH A LOOK he'd imagine. 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     The X-Egg is apparently blinded and possibly deafened? "...Huh. How did that... does it even have eyes? Or ears? Magic is weird... Woah!"     She nearly dodges ''into'' the beam. "Dreams that hinge on ''other people'' are often doomed to failure. And people are so confused about relationships! Maybe a bit less here at Radiant Heart, but still... like, your first one ever is hardly ever gonna work out... and like... some people may not figure stuff out for ''decades''..." 

:'''{{#var:52|Cute Wolf Tsukiko (52)}} has posed:''' "I'm Cute Wolf Tsukiko!" the wolfgirl grins at Pulp Noir, a fanglie slightly obvious but not particularly threatening. "And I can at least give it a try. Hopefully heartfelt-ness and sympathy will be enough, since I'm not particularly suited for giving romantic advice." She takes a moment to take advantage of the Ex-Egg's disorientation (and current lack of explosions) to dart forward and flick the egg on the back of its shell ''again'', then resumes darting to avoid the beams, making sure she can tell where the beam is going '''before''' trying to dodge. Harder to do, but the disoriented beams are likewise getting harder to predict, so it balances out. 

:'''{{#var:82|Pulp Noir (82)}} has posed:''' Pulp Noir raises his pistol and with a more proper aim, fires a beam of magic energy from the pistol rather than water this time, ramping up his attacks, the beam smacking into the disoriented Ex-Egg to look back to Amy. "Oh it can hear and see. It just doesn't care I think. Yes. Magic is weird. But weird is in the eye of the beholder. For example. my poster boards in the shed!? NOT WEIRD!" he announces, throwing his arms out. The Ex-Egg rewards his fervor with a blast at his feet that causes him to jump backwards again as he looks to Cute Wolf Tsukiko and nods. "Pulp Noir." he say. "Detective." he says matter of factly. Amy keeps talking and the egg replies. "USELESS!" and focuses one of those earlier dark energy blasts on Amy, the same kind that hit Pulp Noir earlier. "Watch out!" calls out Noir. Cute Wolf Tsukiko's flick makes the egg turn around to fire a beam behind itself, hoping to catch the Cute Wolf before she can run away or feint again. "Red. We need to knock this thing to the ground so our friend here can do her thing then!" he says as he leaps into the air finally and draws his hand back, drawing it back... Before he punches the thing in it's insignia with a massive bar-room brawl style haymaker. "THE BIG GOODBYE!" he calls out, the fist connecting with the egg with a black flash as he knocks it downwards. Hopefully Amy is also helping! 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     Amy giggles a bit at Pulp Noir's assertion that the boards aren't weird. "It's fine. You found out Molly wasn't dead, remember?"     But when he says to go on the attack, she flings another flashbang, then leaps into the air, an artillery cannon briefly manifesting on her shoulder as she fires ''downward''     BOOM!     a point-blank explosion to try and smash it down to the ground!     "Sorry, dream... may you be made into an omelet of something better!" 

:'''{{#var:52|Cute Wolf Tsukiko (52)}} has posed:''' Tsukiko yelps as she dives out of the way of the quick-retort beam, the dark energy grazing her. "Oof, that ''does'' feel terrible," she mutters, shaking her head to help clear out the Ex-Egg's influence. The wolfgirl darts clear to let the other two soften up the Ex-Egg, then takes a deep breath--     --and howls. Her wordless song speaks to the X-Egg, reassuring it with purifying energy that the best person for that person's dream is the one that enjoys being with them as much as they enjoy being with that person, and that their friends might have some insight as to who that might be for the person whose dream this is.     (okay, so Tsukiko's having to crib some notes in order to come up with something that's more encouraging than trite, but at least she ''has'' notes to crib!) 

:'''{{#var:82|Pulp Noir (82)}} has posed:''' The Ex-egg, along with The Big Goodbye, and the Cannon Blast, is smacked into the ground into a small tiny crater. The Ex-Egg is knocked senseless as it mutters a weak.. "'impossssssible.'" and seems to be dizzy again. It probably sees spots now! Good! Because in it's now weakened state, it's no match for the power of Cute Wolf Tsukiko's song, even if...it's not one hundred percent on point... it does the trick, the Ex-egg spinning up as purifying energy causes the egg to become white again! The broken heart insignia changing to the default star that many nameless people have and it whews. "Thank you...!" it intones before it spins into the air and away, back to it's owner, all healthy again. It's owner will remember advice it never remembers actually being told now. That'll be weird for her. Still. It's a good outcome. and Pulp Noir fixes his fedora as he whews and then falls backwards onto his keister. "Aha... that X-energy is no joke. I need a moment, kapesh?" he says. 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:''' Amy Faust dismisses the cannon and lands, turning to watch the Egg go and then looking at Pulp Noir and nodding, miming tipping a hat. "Another case closed for Pulp Noir! And I hope the dream's creator... figures things out, I guess." 

:'''{{#var:52|Cute Wolf Tsukiko (52)}} has posed:''' "Dark energy's no joke, but this stuff's even harder than most on the emotions," Tsukiko agrees, brushing at where that one beam had grazed her. "Makes sense, since it's a corrupted dream, but still!" The wolfgirl nods to Red and Pulp Noir, then remarks, "I should probably get back to tending to my canine friends. They weren't particularly close to this area, so they should be fine, but I need to make sure they all get their snacks." 
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|Poses=:'''{{#var:47|Nanoha Takamachi (47)}} has posed:''' The Takamachi's Yearly 'Cake Rally' is a local affair that has gained some somewhat outward traction in the last couple of years outside of the major neighborhood. People come to sponsor people who will walk a mile with a piece of cake balanced on their head without tipping it over. The cake is of course on a standard plate. Local businesses always experience a small, but good enough boost in business from the event that sponsors keep coming and growing every year. Today Nanoha sits at a table, with members of her family at other tables. Nanoha's job is to take nametags, check against a list, and provide large slices of cakes on plates. So thusly, she is slicing and plating, checking names again handing contestants their cake slices, carefully. Should that cake hit dirt, it's over! usually this event is ... uneventful in the terms of things gone wrong and really there isn't any other reason to think this Rally Day would be any different. She really didn't know why something felt off. She eyed a little motion out of the corner of her eye occasionally. Like one of the cakes would wiggle. She'd look. It'd stop. She'd look away. It'd wiggle. It'd stop if she looked at it. "...Must be one of the jelly cakes for the hardcore contestants..." she says carefully, starting to lower her knife towards it.... 

:'''{{#var:41|Rashmi Terios (41)}} has posed:''' One thing that mahou and local businesses have in common; you always support your own. And while Rashmi might not -- probably won't -- make it the full mile, with or without the cake on her head, even the horrifying specter of *wasted Midori-ya cake* cannot stand against Turning Out For Nanoha. So as she joins one of the many lines for her number and plate, she leans over, waving cheerfully to her fellow Devicer. Cake Rallies; what a fun, wholesome, silly little activity. What kind of utter monster would even care enough to defile something so innocent? 

:'''{{#var:37|Takuto Tsunashi (37)}} has posed:''' Sometimes there are redheads (see: ''Rashmi''.) Sometimes there are flatpoles with red tribbles at the top (see: ''Takuto''.) Sometimes there are both! Right now Takuto's standing in line and it's Almost His Turn, and he can see over the heads of the two people in front of him, but there's nothing weird about Nanoha's cake, right? Oh, he sees Rashmi and waves, then flexes jokingly. Maybe he thinks the cake is heavy. 

:'''{{#var:134|Geode Girl Loyalty (134)}} has posed:'''     Niji Dasshu is here not as a business owner or spectator, but as a contestant. It's a vaguely athletic thing, a contest, and cake is involved. Plus, how could the rainbow-haired girl not stand out? She's actually in the middle of signing up when she hears something about 'hardcore contestants' and shows why she makes good friends with Hinoiri by immediately turning back towards it.     "Wait, is there a more hardcore choice?" she asks, eyes almost aglow. She looks towards the cake that probably didn't move. "If there's a more difficult choice I wanna take it!" she proclaims. And is probably somewhat disrupting the line, causing her to shirk a bit and rub the back of her neck. "Sorry, you can go around me..." she says to someone as she tries to make it back over towards Nanoha. 

:'''{{#var:47|Nanoha Takamachi (47)}} has posed:''' Nanoha Takamachi is about to touch the knife to the wiggling jelly cake when she stops just short and says to rainbow haired girl. "Yup! The jelly cake wiggles and makes it harder I've been told. Just look at it, it's ready!" she says. Wiggle. Wiggle. Is that cake. Alive? She smiles and waves to Rashmi and her flexing friend. Is he trying to flirt? Does Chrono get jealous? She wonders. Still. She presses knife to jelly cake to slice Niji a slice finally when it sinks in. "YEOUCH!" goes the cake. In bright angry red frosting on it's top, and also, SAYING IT LOUD. Cakes don't talk!? "What was that for!? I'm going to make you all pay!" says the cake as it starts to glower with dark energy and start growing on the table, outgrowing the other, non-youma cakes to the ground in splatter as Nanoha shrieks! "THE CAKES!" she yells. "RAISING HEART SET-UP!" << YES, MASTER! >> as Nanoha Takamachi shifts into her barrier jacket there on the spot. Because secret identities are smart and no one told the girl that early on! "RASHMI-CHAN, BARRIER PLEASE." she sputtlers out. Yuuno isn't here. He's doing ferret things in the house. ;_;. The cake youma starts spluttering dark frosting-style mounds out of it's mouth at random people, so Rashmi may wanna stop mundane people from being dark energy drained by mounds of delicious frosting, ASAP. 

:'''{{#var:41|Rashmi Terios (41)}} has posed:''' Of course Takuto's flexing makes Rashmi giggle. He's silly and endearing, and she's about to whip out her phone to get a picture of it to send to Wako and Sugata, when Nanoha's cake... complains?! Oh for-- "On it!" she calls, ducking and rolling under a table to break eye contact. One flash of golden light later, she lunges out in full Barrier Jacket, seal already spreading out under her feet.         << *BONG!* >> << TIME-SPACE BARRIER >> Hopefully the only thing harmed by the time between Barrier request and activation is Nanoha's poor cakes...     << TELEPATHY >> << Nano-chan I'm *so sorry about your cakes!* >> she moans into the newly set-up comms net. << Who else is around? We'll teach this creep a lesson about how you're *supposed* to waste food. >> 

:'''{{#var:37|Takuto Tsunashi (37)}} has posed:''' "Oh my god," Takuto says, staring for a split second, and then diving to start saving cakes-- Approximately five seconds later, a frosting-covered should-have-expected-that high school senior stands up from the mess of cakes on the ground, holds his fists down at his sides, and yells, "APPRIVOISER! Dashing Entrance: Ginga BiiiiiIIIISHOUNEN!" Almost the entire henshin sequence happens, minus only the giant robot, and with a wink and a cock of his hip and then one hell of a complicated set of arm motions, the Ginga Bishounen is on the scene! He's immediately in flight, ducking every which way to get people out of the way of giant chunks of splat being flung at people to drain them, at least until Rashmi's barrier takes care of them and he can exhale. <<I'm here!>> 

:'''{{#var:134|Geode Girl Loyalty (134)}} has posed:'''     Niji is, very clearly, excited to be getting the more difficult cake. Until it makes noise and warps the frosting, and the geode that's on a string as a necklace glows bright blue. "Yeah, I noticed..." Niji says exhaustedly to the geode. "You're real late to the party."     And the athletic, energetic, rainbow-haired girl is very clearly Not Excluded by the barrier that comes up. She's never been directly next to a youma before when one went up. She looks around. "Crap." she adds as Takuto Transforms. Is it even worth running off now when she's so clearly been sectioned off by the Barrier?     Whatever her henshin phrase is, she mumbles it under her breath - but what isn't subtle is the shuddering almost violently bright blast of color that erupts from her geode. And then she's transformed as well - winged boots, starry leggings, super-long rainbow hair, blue skin, awesome literal wings - and with a shimmer of magic, a dented aluminum baseball bat.     "Man, I was gonna carry one of those a mile and then eat some of the rest." she grouses, pointing her bat towards the youma like she's telling a crowd a home run is coming. "You messed up big time, cake-thing!" 

:'''{{#var:47|Nanoha Takamachi (47)}} has posed:''' The barrier goes up in time as Takuto saves a civilian from being splat and being encased in frosting hell just in the nick of it. The cake youma listens to the lamentations of the heroes, and Nanoha just stands there, looking at the cake on the ground and back up to the youma. "I worked really hard on some of those you know...!" she says. "So now I'm going to make you pay, jerk!" she says as she starts splatting the cake with a barrel of low powered shot barrets at point blank. They splatter into the cake but seem to just piss it off. "HEY OW QUIT IT!" it yells. Meanwhile. Yuuno notices the barrier going up and peeks out a window, opening it a smidge and sliding out, and running across the courtyard after jumping down onto the roof and an awning. Scamper scamper scamper. << I'm so mad! >> says Nanoha over the telepathy. <> she says to the group. The cake youma has a bat pointed at it. "You messed up by TRYING TO CUT ME!" "YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO CUT CAKE!" yells Nanoha. "THAT'S BESIDES THE POINT!" argues the cake back. Nanoha continues with the barret storm out of anger before she gets SPLAT to the ground in retaliation suddenly finally. SPLAT. WITH FROSTING. "ARGH GROSS!" she yells. 

:'''{{#var:41|Rashmi Terios (41)}} has posed:''' "NO YOU DON'T *GET* TO BE MAD IF YOU CAN'T LOOK AROUND AND FIGURE *A THING OUT,*" Rashmi shouts, beyond indignant at the cake youma's complaints.     << *BONG!* >> << FLIER FIN >> As Nanoha gets splattered to the ground by Dark Frosting, Rashmi runs toward her fellow Devicer, insect-like wings already flickering to life at her shoulders. Pausing just long enough to make sure sh gets a good grip, she launches them both into the air. << You all right, Nano-chan? That frosting isn't burny or acidy or anything, I hope? >> Looking down at the developing melee, she purses her lips for a moment. << Nicomachea: Beta Glace. >>     << *BONG!* >> << BETA GLACE -- BOOST UP >> A pair of golden wisps appear at her side, streaking down to give her other allies a very... interesting boost. A feeling of cool determination, as magical ice leaches into their mana; if unleashed, their next attack will not only be empowered by ice, but *create* ice that hobbles, if not entrapping this youma entirely. It seems Rashmi has a very good idea of how she wants this mess to play out. 

:'''{{#var:134|Geode Girl Loyalty (134)}} has posed:'''     You know what a magical baseball bat is good for? Returning most projectiles to sender. You know what isn't most projectiles? frosting.     She swings her bat at it, but it just mostly results in her getting less frosting - not none - and her arm is wedged in there amongst all of the frosting. She gets the Beta Glace sadly just after this, and she is busy trying to wedge her hand back from the frosting now. She feels the tingling coolness in her grip as she has to release the grip to at least get her hand free. At least she's able to get her arm free of the frosting by shaking it rapdily, blur-speed movement. "Aw, man. My bat." she says, looking at the frosting like it's betrayed her. Which it hasn't, it was never on her side at the first place!     "Agh, I really, really should have gotten laser eyes or something..." she bemoans. Can't exactly punch the thing, but that's more common with Dark Energy than she'd like, so she moves to an old standby - what's at hand.     Denied a baseball bat, she just runs over, kicks the legs out from under a table, picks it up long a long slab of wood, and swings the whole thing into the side of the cake monster, ice crystals from Rashmi's buff flowing off the other end of it. "TABLE FOR ONE!" she can't help but yell. Do these sort of things just come with being a magical girl?     (yes) 

:'''{{#var:37|Takuto Tsunashi (37)}} has posed:''' "Brr!" the red-and-yellow-haired Bishounen shivers, laughing, up in midair above the mess on the ground and briefly hugging his arms to himself. Then he nods to Rashmi firmly, starting to lift his hand to thump it into his chest and summon his swords, a wisp of blue-white energy-- And then there's Niji. Still in midair, Takuto starts laughing himself sick at the table, but still manages to bring his fists together in front of him and gasp out, "TAU GALAXY BEAM!" to shoot forth a jaggedy homing laser at the cake youma. 

:'''{{#var:47|Nanoha Takamachi (47)}} has posed:''' Nanoha Takamachi cries. << It's just gross! >> say complains telepathically. Indeed, it's gross being covered in frosting that's all overly sugared and not balanced at all! << This frosting is horrible, my family didn't make this! >> she continues to cry. Yuuno finally appears. "Sorry Nanoha-chan! I was busy doing ferret things." he says, as if he doesn't need to elaborate what ferret things are. << Is everyone alright? >> Yuuno says over the telepathic link. Yuuno helps Nanoha out of the frosting with a little flier fin help and then it's back to the youma. Cakezilla takes a frozen table to the body and it sticks and starts to freeze that part of the cake! The same with the Tau Galaxy Beam, a homing laser jaggedly lancing through the air before smacking into it's 'face' (Which seems to be two giant strawberries for eyes, cherries for a mouth and a large dollop of frosting for a nose) and freezing. "No, you can't ice me out!" it yells. Nanoha Takamachi fires a un-named lancing laser from Raising Heart's staff mode before shifting it to bombardment mode finally, freezing more of the cake. "I wish I could say it was ice to meet you!" says Nanoha. Is it working? Slower than maybe Rashmi would like, as it lancing out with some sort of sticky, chocolate innard tendrils. Dark Chocolate! Nanoha manages to avoid being smacked out of the air with Yuuno's help. "Yuunoooo." cries Nanoha. "They ruined the rally. This isn't even something useful like a lost logia, the jerk. it's just a monster." she says. << Confirmed. >> agrees Raising Heart. "Wow. What bad luck." says Yuuno. "I knoooow!" cries Nanoha. She's still sad about her cakes. Maybe beating up this monster more will help! 

:'''{{#var:41|Rashmi Terios (41)}} has posed:''' Well it's *starting* to work, but the faster it works, the better; there might still be time to salvage the rally if they can just wrap this up quickly! And now that Yuuno's here to help Nanoha, Rashmi can get into the fight a little more directlWHOA. Launching herself *upward* to avoid the evil and frankly unsettling Dark Chocolate Innards, she dials in her target.     << *BONG!* >> << SOLAR BARRAGE -- GLACE SHIFT >> A dozen Barrets materialize around Rashmi's waist, then with a screeching *CRACK* they all turn into jagged, golden chunks of ice. << I'll try and slow it down, >> she calls to her friends. << Don't let up for a second! >> And the icy Barrets launch out, one after another after another, a new one resummoned the instant one is fired. The result? A rapid-fire, likely quite painful, build-up of clinging, 'sticky,' hobbling ice, that clings to the youma and itself to become a sheer drag on any attempt to move. 

:'''{{#var:134|Geode Girl Loyalty (134)}} has posed:'''     "Right? I was gonna win this." Loyalty notes. Is the cake rally a thing you can win? Likely not. Is it worth having the argument with Niji right now? definitely not. "And then eat victory cake!" she growls. "But I guess it's still victory cake after I beat up a big dumb youma." she notes.     Of course then she has to hit the deck to dodge a glob of Dark Dark Chocolate; but this, she's better at. Having given up at trying to return the projectiles to sender, she's very fast - a blur, in fact - and as long as she focuses on dodging she probably won't get hit. "You can't aim at all!" she yells at the youma, trying to distract it from the others. "Also, HAVE A SEAT." she says, when she stops dodging to grab a chair, fly up into the air, and throw it full force into the thing's face, followed by coming down with her foot to kick it harder in. 

:'''{{#var:37|Takuto Tsunashi (37)}} has posed:''' Aaaaand THAT's when Takuto decides to laser-lightshow rose-bride himself a couple of swords: he slams his right fist into his chest and yells out, "Star Swordo! EMERAUDE!" and pulls a big green crackling energy sword out, then repeats it with the left and a blue sword, "Star Swordo! SAPHIR!" Then the Ginga Bishounen does a loop-de-loop through the air, skirt of his jacket flaring out as he spins into a swords-first dive-swoop directly at the willful cake from the side opposite Loyalty. Then SWISH! SWASH! "GALACTIC CROSS SLASH!" he hollars out, flipping over the cake in an absolutely unnecessary display of flashy gymnastics and landing on Niji's side, on his feet, landing facing the youma. Landing right in an unseen pie of frosting on the ground, squelch. "Noooo..." is his sad little protest. 

:'''{{#var:47|Nanoha Takamachi (47)}} has posed:''' Nanoha Takamachi cries to her talking ferret over the cake a bit, which is a total normal thing to do while the fight continues, as she hangs in the air. We will forever wonder... what ferret things are. (Smash cut to Yuuno stuck in a cardboard tube, making dook sounds, nibbling things he shouldn't. Tapping away at some sort of closet computer made of spare Mid-Chidian parts trying to scan for Lost Logia while wearing a tiny headset, those kinds of things.) Rashmi fires an array of icy barret shots , quickening the icing over of the cake. The cake also takes a chair directly to the ''face'' again, messing up the gaze of the cake lopsided now as it "OW! QUIT IT!" it yells, speech slurred as it face distorts weirdly. Ginga Bishounen's CROSS SLASH cuts into the cake, opposite of the chair to the face as frosting spluts all over the place as jelly filled, dark chocolate frosting and all sorts of delicious cake things spill out of it. It's kinda gross and disgusting but weirdly would be delicious if it wasn't also a dark energy monster. "C--Cold!" it splutters out as it finishes finally icing over, stopping it's assault finally. Nanoha hovers down and starts admonishing the cake. "Shut up! You ruined a rally for a good cause because you we're a delicious looking cake! And also she was maybe going to win?" she says pointing to Loyalty. "I dunno! WE'LL NEVER KNOW NOW!" she yells. Yuuno pats Nanoha's back consolingly. "Also there's a cool boy and Rashmi here and they we're contestants!? Also I hate you. And I don't hate anybody!" The cake just looks ANGERED as it remains iced over. It doesn't feel bad at all! Should probably end it's existence guys. This thing feels NO REMORSE. 

:'''{{#var:41|Rashmi Terios (41)}} has posed:''' << Nano-chan? >> Rashmi says gently over the comms. << This feels like a really good time to show him just how mad you *really* are. Maybe Buster-class mad? >> Partly Rashmi wants Nanoha to have the final kill shot for the closure, but also? Ginga Bishounen really needs to see what *their* Kingu can do. ...*With* a little unnecessarily overwhelming help.     << *BONG!* >> << BURST INDEX: TERA BLAZE -- BOOST UP >> Rashmi slots a module into place over Nicomachea's 'pages,' and three wispy, oddly jittery balls of energy materialize into being before arrowing toward their targets. While the feel of the Blaze Boost might be familiar, a very Takuto-esque hot-blooded determination to succeed... it carries with it a feeling of something straining against bonds barely holding it in check; the Burst Index, meant to add an extra kinetic blast to an attack. Rashmi has learned how to imbue <Explosion> element. Enjoy! 

:'''{{#var:134|Geode Girl Loyalty (134)}} has posed:'''     "Yeah, do you know how mad that makes me?" Loyalty asks, following Nanoha's lead. "You ruined a great thing for a lot of people - a group coming together to support each other and have fun!" She exclaims, her hands glowing. "Ugh, if only I had my bat, I'd solve you real good..." she says, especially as she feels Rashmi's literally explosive power coursing through her.     And then she almost slaps her forehead. She can. Summon. Her bad. She worked so hard with Hinoiri to learn how to do that. Which means she can summon it from the frosting. "UGH YOU RUINED SUCH A GREAT DAY FOR ME AND SO MANY OTHERS!" she growls because forgetting fror that period of time makes her feel worse. But with a shimmer of rainbow energy her bat returns to her hand. "You know what you just need to GET OUTTA HERE." she says as she collects the mixture of her own energy and Rashmi's boost into a ball in her hand, which she tosses up in the air.     LOYALTY... ''Exploding'' Homerun Special! she calls as the ball rises and falls and she strikes the rainbow colored ball with a ferocious swing, sending the condensed purifying and explody energy in a long rainbow-trailed arc into the youma. 

:'''{{#var:37|Takuto Tsunashi (37)}} has posed:''' "Rashmi-chan get a picture of this one for Sugata-kun and Wako-chan!! Please!!" Takuto calls over the din toward the sunshine-gold Devicer, and he pushes off (dripping glops of icing) the ground and beams at the monster who's about to get whatever a buster-class mad is'd in the face from Nanoha. He is brightly interested in that, but in the meantime he does have his own shot to shoot, and there's more Rashmi explosion in it, and oh this is ''fun fun fun'', and Takuto winds up to pitch Star Swordo Saphir?! "TAU EXPLODING BOYFRIEND SWORD!" 

:'''{{#var:47|Nanoha Takamachi (47)}} has posed:''' So the iced over cake, well. ICEed, Iced cake, because cakes are already iced in frosting, get it? Anyways, starts taking smacks and the first thing to hit is Nanoha just screaming "DIVING BUSTER!" from the sky as as a bombardment laser the size of a large truck smacks into the cake and starts exploding around it. To add insult to injury, the purifying blast of the HOMERUN SPECIAL is doing even more terrible damage into the dark energy monster on that fact alone, but it's also explosively so! And then a exploding Sword Smacks into the cake finally and all this explosive power is having quite an effect. "Wait are you sure that's a good id---" says Yuuno as suddenly the cake monster. Explodes. Not in an explosion. just. Frosting. Everywhere. Covering everything. Covering Nanoha in white and chocolate frosting and Yuuno in it too. Leaving just two blinking eyes as Nanoha goes. "Arrgggggh not again!" she yells. Maybe exploding a giant cake monster wasn't thought out too well. At least the frosting is just 'gross' and 'overly sweet' and not horribly energy draining on it's own. It's pretty gross, yea. "At least the barrier is up. So I won't need to clean this mess. Just the sad regular cake mess." laments Nanoha from her frosting cocoon. She starts wiping herself off. Maybe others can avoid being covered in horrible frosting at least if they thought better than Nanoha did her angered state. "Thanks for helping guys. I think that cake's problem was it sucked." she considers. "Let's go with that." 

:'''{{#var:41|Rashmi Terios (41)}} has posed:''' So Rashmi *figured* that was a really good idea. And I mean, explosion + angry mahou = quickly defeated youma, yes? Well, yes, but that ignores all the splattery, goopy, frosting-y attacks it's been throwing around. Which up to now, Rashmi has been managing to dodge! 'Wait are you sure that's a good id--' When the cake monster explodes, Rashmi is just straight swatted out of the air by a glob of bakery shrapnel, splattered and held against a building across the street with absolute @_@ face for the moment. << Y... ya.... yaaaaaaaayyyyyyy...? >> 

:'''{{#var:37|Takuto Tsunashi (37)}} has posed:''' "GACGKGHPHTH--" is more or less a reasonable approximation of the sound Takuto makes as he takes an exploding cake to the face. But you know what, frosting is ''so much better'' than exploding youma guts, say. Or acidic ichor. Or-- the point is, Takuto lands in defeated surprise, squelching all over again, and sighs. He starts to pick himself up, slips, falls in the frosting again, and SIGHS. Then tentatively licks his finger. "It's not horrible," he calls out in Rashmi's direction. "You can probably eat yourself free!" 

:'''{{#var:134|Geode Girl Loyalty (134)}} has posed:'''     "Eggggh." is the closest approximation in text to the noise Loyalty makes as she's hit byu a glob of frosting. But at least the thing is dead. Gone. Explodinated. Still, yuck.     "There's no way you should be eating monster cake frosting, you could youmafy your spleen!" Loyalty calls as she basically shakes her whole body and sends frosting away from herself (a bit like a dog. or a pony. or a pegasus). "Plus. The *calories*. there's no way this stuff is in any way healthy." she complains.     "...I have to get out of this outfit before the Barrier comes down. I can't be standing in the street like uh. this." she says. 
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1891/Crying about Donuts and Vampires.

2025-02-22T01:08:33Z

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|Poses=:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:''' Norie Okana sends Amy a rare text. > Norie TO Amy: Meet me on the roof of your dorms after dark And thusly, Norie is there, sitting on the roof of the dorm's roof, just under Amy's room, knees pulled to her chest as she looks up at the night sky. Her eyes give a rare sparkle in the moonlight as she sighs a little, looking back down as her eyes become dull again, waiting for Amy to show up. She has a box of donuts near her. A thermos of some sort of warm liquid and some cups with her on the roof as she mutters something under her breath, looking down into the school campus. Magical girls and their strange meeting locations. 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     Amy opens the door to the roof wearing an oversized black shirt with the ¤APERTURE                                                                       LABORATORIES                                                                         logo, pale blue pyjama pants, moccasins, and a small bag with her phone and keys in it.     She lets the door close before she says, "Norie!" And hurries over, before sitting down. She does not attempt to hug. "What is it?" 

:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:''' Norie Okana looks up. And blinks. "Oh. Uhm." she says. "You asked. Questions the other day. I gave incomplete answers..." she says quietly as she opens the box of donuts and slides it towards Amy. She opens the thermos and pouts two cups of green tea. She then starts talking. "Hinoiri Kirara gave me some donuts. They come from. Another world." she says quietly. "They're delicious. They also....cured me." "Temporarily. I have two left. Hinoiri played a dirty trick. By giving me a cure...I can't replicate. Can't be replicated. I.." "I hate her so much." she says quietly. "I also wanted to... thank you. For trying to help the other night. I didn't expect to get hugged like that. Ever." she says quietly still. "Amy-chan." she says quieter. "I don't know how to ask this." she says. She looks away, with a blush. "Can I hold your hand?" she asks. "If it helps. I probably need the energy anyways.." she lies. She got enough when Sarah hugged her. 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     Amy reaches for a donut, takes a bite and chews, and then looks *rather alarmed* at the suggestion these are the special donuts Norie needs -- although when she says two left, Amy realizes they can't be these.     She chews and swallows. "I don't think she meant harm... but I understand if you can't see things that way right now."     She closes her eyes a moment, then opens them. "Had I lost this form and gained a way to only temporarily return to it, I would be... rather distraught."     She cocks her head to one side slightly. ''Is she blushing? Why?''     "Of course. I told you I can spare some..." She holds out her other hand, while bringing the donut to her mouth to take another bite... but before she does, she asks: "Do you... like hugs, but can't have them?" 

:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:''' Norie Okana looks at Amy's offered hand and she hesitantly touches Amy's hand before grasping it. She doesn't say anything, but that energy drain still happens. Draining energy, with that dark energy crackle, and the pain that comes with it. But then she starts to tear up. And then. She starts to cry. "Amy-chan..." "Amy-chan..." she repeats. "Amy-chan. Y..you're one of the closest thing I have to a best friend anymore." she says. "-and want to know how I repaid you? I tried to murder your girlfriend without question." she says quietly. She doesn't comment on anything yet Amy says, fully. "I just needed to touch someone." she says quietly. "I miss... hugs. I miss. Taking a busy bus. I miss. So much." she says as she cries lightly. Not a sobbing mess, but she sure is living up to the name 'Lacrima' right now. She then releases Amy's hand before she either overfeeds, or hurts her too much. "Of--- course I like hugs... and. Hinoiri did it on purpose. She was getting her own back for. For the whole kidnapping thing." she sniffs. 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     Amy is surprised, both by the ''-chan'' and the crying. "It's not your... well, you can only feel negative emotions. That's... I can't imagine how difficult that is. I... I told you, as long as you don't do something like that again, I can forgive you." It would sound more serious if it wasn't said around a mouthful of donut.     Norie goes on and Amy has never wanted to hug her so much.     When she first met 'La Crima', she knew what the 'lacrimae' meant, and mentally nicknamed her 'Tears' at first. She's certainly living up to that now.     "...Is it just skin contact that does it?" she asks, hopefully. She could easily hug Norie while avoiding skin contact... 

:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:''' Norie Okana frowns. "Would you believe it happens when it wants to happen?" she asks. "Some days...most days... clothing... gloves work. Sometimes. They don't for a bit. It's like a cruel joke." she gives a self-deprecating laugh at herself. "Talk last night...made me so sad. That the girl wanted to hug me. Talk about. Love." she says. "I don't know if I can feel... romantic love." she finally admits. "I can't....hug. I can't. hold hands. I can't kiss." she says quietly. "...Is it fair for me to even try dating?" she asks quieter, sniffing, starting to calm down. 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     Would she believe it? Amy nods. "Yeah, I would. We can see if this is a good day or not..."     Amy listens, and considers a few things. "I don't know if ''I'' can feel romantic love. A lot of people can't, apparently. I just... I want to be close to Hannah. ...I also want to be close to Taro. And a lot of my friends. Although uh. I'd be up for ''more'' with Hannah, if you know what I mean." She blushes a little and looks away, scratching at her neck.     She then looks back at Norie seriously. "Your situation... Well, I have two thoughts." She holds out one finger. "One: There are people who can't be close to their lover who manage. You could do like. An online relationship. There are, y'know... like." She points at her head. "We're brains. With feelings. The body's just sort of an interface, in a way. You may not always be able to touch, but you can still communicate thoughts."     Amy takes a breath, and holds out a second finger. "Two: Use magic or technology to circumvent it. Maybe you can be hugged through a really thick blanket. Actually a think I saw a series once... Pushing Daisies? About someone whose magic powers meant if he ever touched the girl he loved, she would die. They would hug through a plastic sheet, as I recall."     "Um. Anyway. This might sound kind of silly but like, for all I know maybe someone can hug you through a robot or make a hugging machine and... if you know the hug is from them, indirectly, is that something? It's not silly if it works."     Another breath. "And that sounded silly, but... This body is a flesh robot I'm remote-controlling ''right now''. It's actually kind of curious that you can drain me through it. Maybe that wouldn't happen if I put my Soul Gem far enough away?" 

:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:''' Norie Okana listens. She sniffs, but has stopped being a crying mess. She looks at Amy and blinks. "Taro? That boy at the tea party. The Slasher's henchman, yes." she says softly. "I had to remember that. What Slasher-san told me. I... never told you that did I?" "That I met another vampire? He calls himself.... 'The Back-Street Slasher'." she narrows her eyes. "Which is... a name for sure. But I guess. So is La Crima." she says. "He drinks blood. And he can choose to drain. I'm super jealous." she says as she shifts. "...a long distance might work... and I already know I have trouble through surfaces... but. Mami-chan...Onee-chan." she blushes, but still monotone. "Does that using her ribbons. She makes a clone of herself, using her ribbons. And I'm able to hug that. And there's no drain through it to her." she says. 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     Amy tries to keep a poker face as the Slasher is described to her. "You did kind of name yourself 'Tears'. ...I heard that the Back Street slasher tried feeding you; I was glad to hear he did a good deed. I wonder if Dory can hug you? Small though her hugs may be."     And then as Norie says she's able to get ribbon-hugs, Amy smiles earnestly, just so glad to learn that there is indeed at least ''one'' source of hugs Norie can enjoy.     "Alright. I'm gonna test it. I'll just..." She sets the half-eaten donut down on a napkin or something, walks over to another part of the roof, takes her ring off, sets it down gently, and walks back over towards Norie, before reaching out to gently poke her hand with a finger. 

:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:''' Amy pokes Norie. Norie still drains. It seems as long as there's a connection to that soul gem in some manner, she's going to drain. She shifts a bit. "It's okay, Amy-chan." she says quietly. "You tried." she says gently. Her eyes light up again a moment. "R-right don't...worry about. Not finding a solution for me. You're not a scientist. Or knowledgable about dark energy." she says. Then the name is brought up..... 'You did kind of name yourself 'Tears'' And she frowns. "I did...not name myself. It's the name. In my head. What the... the... gift names you. The last owner of this power.... he wanted the power. He wanted to have it. So it named him 'Poderoso'." she looks down. "I didn't want it. It knew it'd make me miserable. Sad. So it named me. La Crima." she says quieter. "I never spoke to you before. About my power's history." she says quieter. "I know some of it. I dream of him. Poderoso. It's how I learn to do things. I dream. I don't have my own dreams anymore." she says. "It's always him..." she says. "Always out of order. But..." she takes a breath. "I know he'll be back soon.... he and his Cursed Castilla...." 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     Amy tries again, moving the soul gem as far away as she can. It still drains. She looks at her hands. "How?! How does the power ''know''?! This is just a flesh-puppet, technically! Argh!" She stomps a foot, and then runs across the roof to retrieve her soul gem.     Not a scientist. Amy sighs a little. "I do ''have'' a degree, you know." She may have just lost track of who she's told at this point.     The name wasn't hers. Poderoso. "I don't know what that one means."     And as the explanation goes on, Amy's little hands ball into fists and she almost shakes. "Your feelings. Human touch. Your ''name''. Even your ''dreams'' aren't your own?!"     Her voice growls. "That monster... We'll find him and take him down. And we'll fix you. We ''HAVE'' to. This is... this is ''unconscionable.'' This is ''torture.'' I had no idea. How have you ''lived'' like this for a year?!"     She sighs. "No, I know the answer to ''that''. You had no choice. Well it has to end. It has to end!" 

:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:''' Norie Okana says. "It means 'Powerful'." she says quietly. "'Mighty." she adds. "He.. reforms every. Few hundred years. Along with his castle. Which I know sounds like a dumb videogame." she says. "Except it really isn't." she says even quieter. "Besides. There's a reason half his power is hanging out over here in a girl." she snorts. "That's an old grievous wound. He pissed off the wrong person. Someone who knew how to actually harm him. I don't know all the details. All I know is half of him was ripped off into the necklace I wear. It ended up in a fricken second hand shop in Japan. I bought it." she says. "But. Amy-chan, If I am half this other vampire's power. Will the other half make me whole? I wonder this a lot. Or are we just returning the power to sender." she says softly. "What if our fates are tied? Defeating him would just end me, too." she says. "How.. have I lived? Very poorly Amy. But you already know this." she says quietly as she looks away sheepishly. "Poderoso is someone else's problem anyways. You need healing magic. I am made of the literal opposition force to that. Sailor Moon or someone else can defeat him and yell at me later." she says. "As long as I remain out of the way, and he remains wounded.... half of himself.... someone will always be able to defeat him. If he's whole. Who knows..." she says quieter. "Besides my affliction is not his fault. In technicality. I assume he'd rather the power back." 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     Sounds like a dumb videogame? "My life is a dumb ''manga'', so." She shrugs.     And listens.     "Sailor Moon may not agree with stuff like this when I say it, but... we're ''Magical Girls.'' Fighting for love and justice and all that. And I know this:"     She points at Norie.     "It ''cannot'' be wrong to help you. If it is, then the ''world'' is wrong. If we have to make someone live in ''misery'' so that the world can continue on like some fucked-up Omelas?"     She sweeps her arm in a horizontal chopping motion. "Then such a world ''isn't worth saving.''"     It hurts.     ''It hurts.''     The injustice ''hurts'', and it makes Amanda rage against the world in a way it hasn't since she first started hearing news of people suffering halfway across the world and could never do anything to help. Norie is being ''tortured'' every second of every day; even ''dreams'' aren't a break.     She grabs Norie's shoulders for a few seconds, drain be damned. "We have to ''tell'' people! I ''know'' the other magical girls won't stand for something like this! Nor your friends at Obsidian, surely!" 

:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:''' Norie Okana is grabbed, and indeed, energy drain as expected, but her expression softens. "...Amy-chan...." she says quieter. "I've done too much wrong." she admits. "I know it's wrong but. It's so easy...to do things. When you can't feel half of what you're supposed to. Things feel right. Even if they're wrong..." she admits, looking away with that soft expression, she can't look Amy in the eyes right now. "No one's going to care. Some dumb castle will appear. There will be some youma. A vampire like myself will come out, who thinks he's tough s**t. Someone will launch a big heart at him or something and everything will be normal again." she says. "-and I'll continue to exist as I do." she says. "Nothing will change about me. I'll still be the terrible person I am now. And I'll make them all regret helping me." she says. 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     Amy grips her shoulders tighter, fire in her eyes. "No. It's ''wrong.'' I don't care if I sound like a kid throwing a tantrum, it's ''wrong'' and anyone who can't see that is ''wrong!''"     She lets go, finally. "Of course, you can't feel hope."     Something in the back of Amy's mind urges not to make promises she can't keep. That these feelings are unsustainable. She'll get tired.     But, Norie...     If she can't help someone suffering this much, ''what is the point of being a magical girl?!''     She wants to scream at the world. To blow whatever's responsible for this up.     Whenever she starts to cool a little she remembers that ''Norie cannot even dream her own dreams'' and the fire rages again.     "Whoever thought they could manipulate us by stealing your feelings so that we would blame you, ''will pay.''"     "...No. I don't care if they pay. I care that they can never hurt anyone in their light cone ever again." 

:'''{{#var:94|Norie Okana (94)}} has posed:''' Norie Okana tries to continue to keep her own cool. "Amy-chan...." she says, looking back to Amy. "I don't know why I can't feel. I don't know what happened to my feelings. But an ancient vampire isn't...isn't controlling me. I feel this much is true." she looks away from Amy. "I think you need to calm down." she says quietly. "And that sure is a statement coming from me." she says in a coy sort of monotone, though her expression still soft. "Here." she says, pushing the food she brought with her. "Have the donuts. Share them with Hannah. Maybe. I should try to relax, myself." "Maybe an onee-chan hug." she says as she looks up at the sky again. "Maybe. A lot of things. I think..." "I am going to walk to my room. Instead of dusk porting." she stands up and starts to walk away. "Be well, Amy-chan..." she says. 

:'''{{#var:107|Amy Faust (107)}} has posed:'''     "Not controlling you, no. But altering you, without your consent. It's like if they gave you drugs that kept you from thinking properly. In what sure ''seems'' like a plan designed to make sure ''you'' draw our ire instead of the curse you're under."     She's left looking between Norie and the box. She starts pacing around the roof. "'Calm down.' How am I supposed to calm down?!"     She's probably not getting any sleep tonight. 
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Kyubey

2025-01-30T17:25:28Z

KitKat:

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