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>>42326722

This party is being held in some kind of underground or extradimensional room somehow attached to the Crowne Arcade. Its mostly white and shiny, a strange yet welcomingly comfortable mix between a karaoke lounge and a ready room. You gained access to this space with magical key cards labeled with your cat’s face which opened a magical portal instead of the doors to the Arcade’s Karaoke booths.

While almost everyone else has been excitedly talking after your big sister’s arrival, you’ve been quiet and off to the side. Stewing in your guilt.

Just as well, everyone in here besides you and a talking cat from the future is a Magical Guardian. They don’t need you bringing the mood down.

~Besides me,~ you murmur to no one while stealing a glance at the white star shaped locket broach hanging from your neck.

“Is everything alright, Mikage?” your company on the couch inquires.

You have been playing the wallflower during the wait for the guest of honor’s arrival sitting on a couch off to the side alongside Aiha Mizuno, Sailor Mercury. During her awakening as a guardian, you learned that the two of you had been online friends for quite some time, though that involves a whole other matter of double identities.

The blue haired girl looks over to you with concern while your elder sister, Usa, fends off everyone crowding her at once. Well, not everyone. Kanari Kino, Sailor Jupiter, is hanging back by the snack table trying to play herself off as disinterested and cool. Rin Kumada, Sailor Mars, is walking over to you and Aiha with two cups of punch.

>~Everything is fine, Aiha,~
>~Not really, this is all my fault,~
>~Oh, sorry, just thinking out loud,~
>Say nothing
>Write in

&

>Stay here and listen/engage with Rin & Aiha
>Attempt to join the mob around Usa.
>See what’s up with Kanari’s loner mode
>Obtain snacks, guilt softening snacks
>Check out this secret Karaoke room
>Write in

>>42326766
>~Not really, this is all my fault,~
&
>Stay here and listen/engage with Rin & Aiha
>See what’s up with Kanari’s loner mode
See what they have to say, then poke Kanari.

>>42326766
>~Not really, this is all my fault,~
I like trying to be honest with lil' blue.

>Stay here and listen/engage with Rin & Aiha
Hey, if we're gonna fo awkward and to the side, might as well do it with team purple.

>>42326998
>awkward and to the side
>do it with team purple.
I could do a Brooklyn Nine-Nine and an Archer joke/reference with these. I'm just sayin' that I could, but I won't, 'cause these are kids you sick monsters.

Writing.

>>42327080
>I could, but I won't
Is the name of your sex tape.
Also, we aren't doing phrasing anymore.

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>>42327236
You monster.

>>42327306
>You monster.
A phrase with amazing sextape name potential in the context of this series.

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>>42327456
I'm not sure if I want to hug you or hit you.
Also the name of your sex tape.

~Not really, this is all my fault,~ you grouse.

“Mikage, don’t say that,” Aiha says as she puts a hand on your shoulder.

~Why shouldn’t I? Usa has to pay the price for my stupid mistake,~ you clench your fists in your lap, ~Messing with magic I didn’t understand,~

Aiha is quiet, she exudes that awkward nervousness that seems to be her default state. She starts and stops in forming a response to that twice before Rin finishes her journey to the two of you on the couch. One of the cups of punch finds its way into Aiha’s hand. The shorter and black haired girl turns to you and takes a casual sip as you glance up to her and look away.

“You had no way of knowing,” she shrugs before gesturing in request for you to scoot over a bit.

Complying, she sits down between you and Aiha. You imagine she was close enough to hear the conversation on her approach, or she knew this conversation would happen. Sometimes, its hard to know how she may know something sometimes.

“And the price was split, you still went berserk and them wound up comatose,” she shrugs and holds her cup up while you groan at remembering that, “I’m flying mostly blind on a few things right now without my mom around to help me with my fire readings, we’ll all make mistakes with the unknown,”

“Is it hard taking care of the shrine with just you and your dad?” Aiha asks Rin.

“Actually it's been nice working with my dad, he said he really missed being there” she smiles at the blue haired girl before turning back to you, “Doesn’t look like she blames you?”

Stealing a glance back over to the mob, everyone is starting to disperse but stick close to Usa as she’s making her way over toward the three of you.

>Preemptive Usa Hug
>Avoidance tactic, to the snacks table
>Wait for her to get to you
>Become invisible
>Write in

&

>Let yourself sink into that guilt
>Try to follow Rin’s advice, Usa didn’t blame you
>Fuck it, it's a party in a magic Karaoke Lounge
>write in

>>42327843
>Avoidance tactic, to the snacks table
>Try to follow Rin’s advice, Usa didn’t blame you

>>42327843
>>Avoidance tactic, to the snacks table
We can poke Kanari while we're there. No too hard, figuratively or metaphorically, don't want a tough girl overreaction response.

>Try to follow Rin’s advice, Usa didn’t blame you

>>42327853
>>42327980
Thirded. Though more to allow the others some time with her, we and Koyomi have seen her a more recently than the rest.

Writing

>>42327843
>Wait for her to get to you
>Try to follow Rin’s advice, Usa didn’t blame you

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You take Rin’s advice to heart, you know for a fact that your big sister doesn’t blame you for what happened at the tower. Maybe you shouldn’t harp on it, and so you’ll try not to. Still, you’ve monopolized a lot of Usa’s time at home so you’ll hang back while she gets to know the girls and catch up with her friends.

Besides, the idea of spending time around and being emotional about Usa around everyone is a touch off putting.

Excusing yourself from the couch before the distance is closed, you cut a direct line to the table setup with snacks. Among the snacks laid out on the table are some more of the cookies you and mom made. Seriously, how long will those batches of cookies last? Snagging one from among the familiar confections, you slowly enjoy it and ladle yourself a cup of punch.

~Hey,~ you offer to the younger girl clad in green hovering near the snack table.

Kanari Kino, your little sister’s best friend, holds you in this weird place between contempt and respect. The two of you wound up in a bit of a conflict when she was first awakening to her powers as Sailor Jupiter. As you’ve been able to piecemeal the matter together, she is disappointed in you for being too afraid to take action and assumedly too ashamed to fight alongside them.

If only she knew.

“Hey,” she nods back, and then after a quiet moment, ”So, what was all that with that guy?”

Right. That little light hearted stunt you pulled with Yoshi, a classmate and an old flame who you’re still sorting out your feelings for, to talk about some things away from your baby sister’s ears and make her think something romantic or lovey dubby had happened.

By some miracle, despite her shock at the visual tableau your actions painted, Koyomi never really questioned you. Yet now, Kanari is.

>He’s just an old friend. Wave it off
>What was what? Go coyly
>I don’t know what you’re talking about. Defensive
>He’s cute, right? Test the waters
>Activate Princess No
>Write in

>>42329237
>He’s just an old friend. Wave it off

>>42329237
>Just teasing an old friend I'm trying to reconnect with.
No reason to get too defensive. At least until she starts asking if we're romantic and we start deflecting because we're trying to figure that out ourselves.

>>42329237
>He’s just an old friend. Wave it off

>>42329322
In hindsight, I am suggesting pretty much the same thing as
>>42329277
>>42329401

but including a specific wave off of what could have looked like a romantic gesture from a distance.

>>42329237
>What was what? Go coyly
See what she thinks the situation was.

writing

having posting issues, the system thinks the first part of my next update is spam.

OH COME ON!

~Yoshi? He’s just an old friend,~ you wave off her concern dismissively as you take another sip of the sweet red punch, ~I was teasing him, I’ve been stepping out of my comfort zone to reconnect with people,~

Before stepping into this room, you used your burgeoning psionic abilities to gird your mind against interrogation. That power passively allows you to present a front that Kanari doesn’t question.

“That’s good,” the athletic girl smiles broadly before narrowing her eyes, “So, you’re starting to act like your old self. Does this mean after you run this whole Red Eyes ruse to get intel on the enemy you’re going to start running with us openly?”

~Are you still on that?~ you laugh nervously.

“Why wouldn’t I be,” she shrugs and grabs a cookie before looking up into your eyes haughtily, “Though I can still be happy you’re taking our little chat to heart,”

Her reference to her rough verbal treatment of yourself after the incident at Tokyo Tower hangs in the air between you hangs for a moment as she backs down from her attempted staredown and slowly takes a bite of the cookie. Brushing past you, she heads toward the couch and the dispersing congress of sailor guardians.

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>>42330648
Riot!

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>>42330733

>>42330829
Yes, anons, calm is good.

I Mad enough as it is about this.

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Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>42330714
Looking past her, you notice that your older sister has taken residency on the couch, she probably still feels a bit faint. Just because she’s recovered enough to fall through a portal in space and time doesn’t mean she’s fully recovered from her bouts of weakness.

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Fuck it, just fuck it. I've reformatted and rewritten massive passages ten times already and it thinks different individual paragraphs are spam separately.

WHAT THE FUCK!

I think I require mod assistance.

>>42331131
Oh, and that posts perfectly fine?

THE HELL!

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>>42331131
>>42331150

>>42331131
>Fuck it, just fuck it. I've reformatted and rewritten massive passages ten times already and it thinks different individual paragraphs are spam separately.
Art, you have a bad case of The Hex.

>>42331150
Know that those of us that have come down with something over the weekend share your frustration.
Use a different device. If it doesn't work I wouldn't know what will.

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>>42330714

Looking past her, you notice that your older sister has taken a spot on the couch. Just because she’s recovered enough to fall through a portal in time doesn’t mean she’s fully recovered from these bouts of weakness.

Meanwhile Koyomi is busy dragging Aiha over to the elaborate tactical computer that apparently doubles as a karaoke machine. No doubt to set a song list while to get this party into full swing. Keiko is making her way over slowly behind them, no doubt she wants to show off her likely impressive singing talent.

Honestly you don’t know if she’s any good or not. You think she’s done a few musicals, so maybe? This train of thought it cut short as bounding toward you is the ever energetic and adorable Venus Aino. Taking another drag of your punch, you don’t flee at her approach.

“PB-chan! Why didn’t you tell me SB-chan was from such a cool place!” the small child in a long blonde wig vibrates as she skids to a stop in front of you.

You guess no one really told her about Crystal Tokyo before. She seems far more energetic today than even when you first met her which could be a side effect of the tactical magical healing nuke you dropped on her in a panic when you witnessed one of her seizures.

Wait a second. What the hell is SB an acronym for? This kid and her nicknames, come to think of it she seems to enjoy explaining them more than just giving them.

>Yeah, she can be cool, sometimes
>Hey, I’m still cool, right
>SB-chan?
>No, she is the last cool!
>Write in

&

>Ask how she’s doing, only subtly referring to her problem
>As her about her brain tumor directly
>Don’t ask her right now
>Don’t even think about the tumor, the tumor, the tumor

>>42331280
>SB-chan?
>Don’t even think about the tumor, the tumor, the tumor

>>42331280
*Least cool* on the voting option, not Last cool!.

Least.

it took me half an hour to post the next part of my update. Entirely too long. I am upset.

And reCAPTCHA can't tell the difference between a street name sign and a no parking sign, and thinks pistachios are peanuts.

>>42331280
>>SB-chan?
Sister Bunny? Smart Bunny? Sexy Bunny? Squirrel Bunny?

>Ask how she’s doing, only subtly referring to her problem

>>42331280
>SB-chan?
>Don’t ask her right now

No awkward here!

>>42331341
I'll go with this.

Might want to tweet that you got through eventually.

>>42331280
>>42331679
Or maybe just ask her how she's doing and she can answer as she sees fit?

>>42331280
>>SB-chan?
>Don’t ask her right now

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Just leave this open a touch longer while I blow off some steam

And back.

Lets see what we got.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

Alright, definitely asking about SB chan, but we're in an even heat between subtly asking her and not asking her about her problems.

Flipping a coin for it.

1 is ask with subtlety

2 is don't

>>42332622
I think you miscounted because don't ask won that exchange

>>42331341
>>42331679
Ask subtly

>>42331658
>>42331766
Don't ask

>>42331306
Setup for Freudian slip to accidentally say tumor

>>42331708
Missed this one, which is just the subtle inquiry.

~SB-chan?~ you question the latest nickname added to her parade of colorfully applied nomenclature as you kneel down to her level, ~Why is Usa-neesan’s nickname SB-chan? Sister Bunny? Smart Bunny? Wait, it isn’t Sexy Bunny, is it? You’re too young for such things, Venus-chan,~

The effervescent child shakes her head with in negative.

“No,” she says with a perfectly happy smile.

It reminds you for a moment of your own tendency toward the cultural taboo of outright using the word; then again it's quite different than your usual usage. There are plenty of other negative statements she could use, but she went with the most succinct one. Probably because of all the time she’s spent living in America.

~Then what’s SB-chan short for?~

“Fufufufu,” she chuckles to herself and then speaks in a tone to express that she’s doing you a favor, “Well, I already explained it to the others, but I guess its fine to explain it again,”

This is immediately undercut by the broad and sparkling shine in her eyes, she revels in explaining her nicknames.

“You since there are two pink bunnies, I had to pick something to differentiate them,” she explains while pantomiming horns on her head, “And your big sis has her buns with those pink cones. Despite actually being red, pink is a color often associated with strawberries. Since there were pink cones, I dubbed her Strawberry Bunny Chan,”

Quite pleased with herself, she crosses her arms happily across her chest which is puffed out in pride at her cleverness.

>>42333478

~Well then that’s a pretty good nickname, Venus-chan,~ you smile and offer the younger girl a headpat.

You take a breath as you withdraw your hand and glance over to the others. The Asteriod Senshi are mostly chatting with the other girls and showing off their more magically powered transformation wands. while your sister laughs at the whole affair. Koyomi and Keiko are over by the console, having Aiha bring up the available karaoke list.


Its as unobserved as you’re going to be, so you’ll ask subtlely.

~Say, Venus-chan,~ you as quietly as you shift your glance to her forehead, ~how is everything?~

Her mood doesn’t change, at least as far as body language is concerned, but her tone shifts.

“I had a few tests done to take a peek inside,” she says, “and I’ll be consulting with an oncologist to go over the results. Also I switched up my primary care back to your mom’s old practice with Tomoe-san,”

She sighs and uncrosses her arms.

“I’ll be fine, PB-chan,” she says with a smile, “Now lets just enjoy the party,”

With that she turns away to begin investigating the vanity makeup table labeled for her.

>Go check out & get in on some of the Karaoke
>Go talk to and sit with Usa
>Get to know one of the Asteroid Senshi. Green, Blue, Pink, or Red?
>Continue snacking
>Write in

>>42333478
Venus has great adorableness powers.

>>42333514
>Continue snacking

>>42333533
Venus is neck and neck in cuteness factor with Little Di

>>42333514
>Get to know one of the Asteroid Senshi. Green, Blue, Pink, or Red?
Might as well take a shot while Usa is still in town to get to know them more, imagine we haven't talk since overhearing about Helios all those years ago.

Who? Dunno, whomever seems more willing to talk.

>>42333514
>>42333635
I could go with this, do we recall being closer to anyone them when we were a happy child roughly forever ago?

>>42333635
This.

>Continue snacking

>>42333635
>>42333749
>>42333771
I'd say lead in with Palla (Blue). Wisdom and magic seems like someone to we could small talk with about this extradimensional space if we hit any awkward spots.
I wonder how they feel about about us, in theory they probably know they would have been meant for us.

Writing Momentarily.

Sorry guys, my flow has been disrupted from earlier and dinner is nigh, lets see if I can get an update done before then.

>>42334607
Whelp, it's dinnertime. What're having.

>>42335394
Slow cooker chicken in BBQ sauce with onion, bellpepper, potatoes, and Jalapeno

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While you could keep snacking, you’ve had more than your share of food thanks to the late lunch you were forced to take. Instead you think you’ll be sociable with the people you don’t know very well here, specifically the Asteroid Senshi.

During Usa’s tenure of Sailor Moon, when you were very young, they were her team and friends. Apparently they didn’t have normal childhoods, and even years later they had trouble adapting to life even though they’d gone through junior high and highschool proper with her.

Now, you don’t actually know what they do with themselves. Usa’s been attending college in the UK at a relaxed pace, but honestly you lost track of them when you stopped paying attention to your big sister. Drifting away from the snack table you take notice of the blue haired girl with weighted braids hanging from around her head, squealing in glee while inspecting one of the vanity stations and pressing buttons excitedly and at random revealing makeup trays, first aid supplies, and assorted other things you don’t think have a place in a vanity.

“This is so cool,” she squeaks as you walk up to her and clear your throat.

~Uh, hey,~ you say a touch awkwardly, ~Palla-san,~

>>42336113

She wheels around and looks you up and down before smiling.

“Oh wow, little Mikage-chan! You’ve gotten so big!” she beams and snatches your hands forward, “PallaPalla would have said so earlier but it didn’t look like you were in a mood to talk!”

She still refers to herself in the third person. She’s a grown woman who is older than your sister, yet she speaks with the tense and cadence of a child. More than that, you recall that she is her team’s resident magic expert and as Sailor Pallas she is sailor guardian of civilization and wisdom.


“Yet here you are, talking to PallaPalla!” she giggles and bounces on the balls of her feet.

Guardian of wisdom.

>Ask Palla-san what she’s been up to since last you spoke to her
>Ask Palla-san something about magic
>Ask what she was doing with the, it would appear to be Keiko’s, vanity
>Nope, she’s too intense, excuse yourself
>Write in

>Ask Palla-san what she’s been up to since last you spoke to her

>>42336134
>Ask what she was doing with the, it would appear to be Keiko’s, vanity

>>42336134
>>Ask Palla-san what she’s been up to since last you spoke to her

>>42336223
>>42336522
Thirded.

Writing

~So, Palla-san, what have you been up to since...well,~ you stop for a moment to mentally reach as she lets go of your hands and slides her own hands behind her back before rocking slowly back and forth, ~since we- well we never spoke much when I was a kid,~

She giggles and leans in close.

“Yeah, you really seemed to hate PallaPalla and the rest of us after you overheard us and your sister that night,” her perennial smile shifts into a momentary frown, “Life can be full of those kind of sad circumstances, but PallaPalla never lets them get her down! And now you can become friends with all of us!”

You absentmindedly wonder just how many times she could say her own name in a single sentence.

~Well, to get that started,~ you say a touch more comfortably, ~What have you been up to since then?~

She brings a finger to her lips and looks up in thought for a moment while a hum reverberates passed closed lips. With a snap of her finger, her eyes fall back down to meet yours.

“That would have been near the end of highschool,” she explains, “PallaPalla graduated and went to Todai for and double majored in Anthropology and Civil Engineering!”

It catches you off guard, the bubbly and seemingly vapid girl’s exclamation about the skills she acquired. The University of Tokyo, she really studied there? And pursued two degrees?

~That’s really impressive,~ you say calmly, relying on the mask provided by the barriers of mental protection to not insult her by your reaction.

“Then afterwards PallaPalla finished her Masters and became a field researcher for the Tomoe Institute,” her smile broadens, “Its great fun and I’m able to travel the world. Though PallaPalla and the girls took a long break together to tour with a few big circuses. Gotta keep our acrobatics polished!”

>>42337525

~That’s really impressive,~ while Palla-san being possessed of a Sailor Guardian pedigree probably helped her secure her position, her mundane areas of study were probably really impressive to Tomoe-sensei, ~Why’d you study those things? I can see how anthropology fits into your magical expertise, but why’d you study civil engineering?~

She immediately blushes in embarrassment and rubs the back of her head while looking away. I couldn’t just be that she was the Guardian of Wisdom and Civilization?

“Oh, just something silly,” she tries to play off her embarrassment as unimportant, but you see through her rather easily.

While she probably highly intelligent and experienced, she wears her heart on her sleeve and wreathed in pointing neon lights and underscored by a ticker dot matrix.

>Press the issue, why Civil Engineering?
>Drop it, talk about something else, what?
>Spare her the embarrassment and go check on someone or thing else
>Write in

>Press the issue, why Civil Engineering?

>Press the issue, why Civil Engineering?

>>42337553
>Press the issue, why Civil Engineering?

>>42337553
>Spare her the embarrassment and go check on someone or thing else

writing momentarily

That blatant telegraphing of her embarrassment doesn’t quite sit well with you. You must know why she pursued Civil Engineering of all things, and why she is so embarrassed about it. However, you’ll do it politely.

~Come on,~ you say in a friendly tone, ~Even if we don’t know each other very well, we’re all friends here. You can tell me Palla-san,~

After a moment of indecision, in which she glances to her neon colored teammates and your older sister, she looks at you and nods.

“Ever since you were born,” she begins a bit sadly, “We knew Usa-chan’s future wouldn’t happen. Crystal Tokyo as she had told us wouldn’t happen,”

She pauses, her previously indomitable levels of energy hitting a low.

“Its something PallaPalla decided before you stopped wanting to have anything to do with us and still wishes to accomplish,” she meets your eyes with a certain resolve, “You wouldn’t have the Crystal Tokyo. PallaPalla is going to build you your own city,”

Her quiet declaration catches you off guard as a rising music echoes from the lounge’s stage. A pop orchestra starts out slowly and then kicks into forward momentum as Keiko-chan sings.

You’re caught up in Palla-sans words that you barely notice the opening verse, but awareness returns to you as Keiko belts the speedier chorus. Declaring survival, she can’t stop wanting to live, and that eyes met guided by the constellations

Everyone seems to be enjoying the sudden song, it is a party after all.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 102
End

No interlude vote.

As always, thank you guys for the fun thread. Sorry I was slowed down today by unexpected technical difficulties.

Please, feel free to discuss things and chat.

>>42339925
Nice.

>>42340059
Thanks for running!

>>42340481
Glad to

>>42339925
We should hang out with the Asteroid Team more.

>>42339925
Thanks for the thread Artemis.

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>>42339925
>>42341483

What this means is PallaPalla was actually the best girl all along.

>>42341920
A little research into them seems to have paid off. Wisdom and magic for the win.

>>42341483
Yeah, as first impressions go, she's a-ok.
PallaPalla can refer to PallaPalla in the the third petson all PallaPalla wants.

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>>42339925
Having our own city could be pretty cool one day.
Tricky part would be where to put it.

Rebuilding the Moon ruins doesn't feel right, at least not as our main place, need more connection to the Earth.

Antarctica is one of the few places someone could claim a chunk of without seriously stepping on toes.

Which also reminds me about Point D. That place was hugenormous. Had vast openings and separate large buildings and everything.
Certainly some potential for remodeling there.

Hrm. Previously, I have wondered if Juuban might be the ancient site of the seat of Elysium, though now I also wonder if what we know as Point D was once part of the kingdom.
We do still need to ask the Shintennou and Helios about that.

I didn't want to like PallaPalla since she's in big sisters court and all but wow.
Wanting to build Mikage a city? maybe getting to know the rest of them might not suck

>>42344954
Would Artemis make them suck intentionally?

>>42344954
Not so much her court as serving as her guardian quartet. Though it sounds like Usa's Crystal Tokyo court is kinda lonely for her.

>>42349597
As of yet, they have not encountered the Amazoness Quartet in the Crystal Tokyo timeline. Though not for lack of trying.

>>42349677
No Quartet, no Helios, I don't think I've heard of the Outer sensi being around other than Pluto (who kinda has her own way past long stretches of oliterated civilization), and likely not a new generation either with the different circumstances, increased responsibilities, and loss of life- at least not as we knew them. And the rest of the universe being dead, and the looming specter of those that killed it still out there hopefully very far away after thousands of years.
Crystal Tokyo is shining and happy, but there are some very sad and scary things about that timeline.

Okay, out on a personal errand, but when i get back, comedic aside and future interlude

Errand done. Home bound.

>>42352079
>>42351138
Woo! Both things I enjoy.

Delay, had to help the folks unpack from a flea market and they invited me out for lunch.

back, writing.

Comedic aside

With Aiha-chan working the controls, you skip away from the console as Sugimoto-san takes the lounge’s stage. You have a secret, private, karaoke lounge underneath the Crowne Arcade and it's super cool!

Your name is Koyomi Chiba, and you need to drag your best friend into doing a duet with you. Finding your bestest bestie in the whole wide world in the general vicinity of the lounge’s couch, you grab her wrist and pull with all your might.

“Kanari-chan! Let’s sing something together!,” you cheer and lean away as the other girl barely budges from the pull of your weight.

“Fine,” she smiles and finally steps into your pull, “but I’m not following Sugimoto-san or Venus-chan,”

“What? But I wanted to go next!?” you call over the din of the music.

Kanari Kino sighs and then offers a relaxed chuckle. She pauses and then glances around before leaning in toward you conspiratorially.

“I asked your sister about that guy earlier,” she whispers to you as softly as she can while still being heard over the music, you lean in to join in on the secretive communique.

“What did she say? I knew she’d just brush me off if I tried to ask her anything,” you ask her in sudden anxious need to know just what your sister was up to with Yoshi Sakurada.

“Said she was reconnecting with an old friend,” your bestie explains with a sigh, “and that she was teasing him about something and I’m kind of inclined to believe her,”

“What? Really? I could have sworn there was something more there,” you whimper dejected, “Sakurada-san came just as often as that brat to visit her in the hospital. I thought something was up when he left upset after she woke up,”

“Sakurada-san?” your friend questions before developing a sly grin on her face and glancing back over to your big sister where she’s talking with Palla-san, “So, would Yoshi be a nickname or a first name,”

>>42356340

“Huh? First name? Why is that important Kanari-chan,”

She’s quiet for a moment before she offers a quiet laugh to something playing out in her own mind before she mutters something in Portuguese that you don’t understand. Her attention back on you, her hands raise up and hold your shoulders.

“Koyomi-chan, I take back what I said about your sister,” she smiles broadly.

“Eh?”

“Do you know how they know each other?” she asks you evenly.

“Well, Sakurada-san used to help her with math and science. They’d been in the same class for a while so they would meet at our house or at his place sometimes. Mom said to give them space, ‘unless they turned out to be too dense for their own good’,” you explain and recite your mother’s oddly specific wisdom from memory before sighing sadly, “But then, she graduated junior high and…”

A moment passes as Sugimoto-san reaches the second chorus of the song she’s singing. Kanari-chan glances over at your older sister who isn’t a time traveler and nods with a certain resolve.

“She’s way more like you than she lets on,” a mischievous glint takes her eyes, “And I think that when she isn’t working her little spy mission, we should have our own spy mission with her as the target,”

“What?” you sputter, “How is she more like me?”

“Koyomi-chan,” she sighs, “How many guys did you gush to me about having a crush on in the past two months,”

You curl into a defensive posture, though still conspiratorially close. You like that word, conspiratorial. Being a Sailor Guardian is a conspiratorial act.

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“I don’t know,” you explain through crossed arms as your best friend takes a neutral and expectant expression, “and besides I have an actual date with your brother on Friday. My past passing interests should have no impact on current proceedings,”

“That’s not what I’m getting at,” she huffs, “I’m saying that I think she likes two guys, two guys like her, and she’s either too brain dead like you sometimes get or too out of practice to make a decision to pursue or back off,”

“EEEE!” you squeal in realization as your eyes brighten, “That means the pipsqueak and Sakurada-san will be competing for nee-san’s attention. As Sailor Guardians of Love and Justice it's our duty, nay, our privilege to help out,”

What could go wrong?

Wait, HEY!

"Kanari-chan, don't be mean!" you whine over the coursing music as you thrust your arms out to the side, "I'm not brain dead and don't say I'm a klutz either!"

Your suddenly extending arm neatly crashes into the plastic cup your friend and ally Rin Kumada was carrying. The contents spill haphazardly across the blouse of her school uniform.

>>42356443
Wee~

>>42356528
good wee or worried wee?

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>>42356443
Koyomi could have an exciting career as one of those people in infomercial for whom everyday tasks result in absurdly great calamity.

>>42356443
The funny thing for me is that while Mikage is sorting out her feelings for two different boys, we really were just trying to reconnect with an old friend back there.

>>42358193
friendship is important

Love doesn't last forever, friendship never ends.

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>>42357998
I can already see it now, she gets super excited about becoming an actress who also gets to model with products, and then finds out exactly what she'll be doing.

>>42358750
The action will be more natural if they tell her specifically to not make a mess.

>>42360513
End of the day comes, she's so sad she kept screwing everything up so badly that they didn't even try to redo each take.

Then the producers compliment her on some of the best work in this business that they've ever seen.

Interlude: Waiting at the Gates

Footsteps echo through the room with no walls. In the center of this room, so designated by the arrangement of inlaid patterns in the white, is an ornate archway and door. Three souls stand before it, though only two with any sense of calm.

A woman with long and green hair with a red jewel topped staff in her grasp holds with a vigilant quiet, eyes toward the freestanding and closed portal. Dressed in an elegant white dining jacket is a man with silver hair and quiet eyes, he waits patiently stealing glances at the third person in the room.

The ribbons of a bow tied around the back of her slim white gown extend out behind her in the shape of a butterfly’s wings. Her golden hair trails behind her in twin buns and tails that whip and bounce at worried her movement. Hands wrung together, the pained intensity of her pacing threatens to wear a groove into the likely nigh impermeable floor.

Behind them is a less ornate, but still ostentatious, frame and door perhaps half the size as the one in the center of the room, the smooth surface beneath it all reaches out beyond this freestanding frame and further out in all directions. The marble white floor in fact extends into the hazy distance shrouded by the mists of time, itself uncertain the further from the central gateway one travels in this place.

“She should be here by now,” the woman in white worries in a focus of maternal concern, “Something may have gone wrong. Setsuna, open the gate and-”

She passes by the man in white, whose outstretched gloved hand lands gently upon her shoulder.

“Usako, don’t worry so much,” he smiles softly, “We’re just a bit early, isn’t that right Setsuna?”

“Time is relative, Neo Queen Serenity,” the woman in green turns from her vigil to face her King and Queen, “King Endymion has the right of it. The exact moment of her arrival remains unclear, she might arrive several minutes before her departure or after,”

>>42361086

This calms the queen, somewhat, as her posture and breathing steady. One of her hands rises to the King’s hand on her shoulder. With a steady voice and a sterner demeanor, she directs her attention back to the guardian before her.

“Setsuna,” she asks softly, “In relative time, has my daughter left yet?”

Nodding in response, the guardian of time extends her the garnet topped rod toward the gates. They shift, slightly, creaking of hinges meant to carry and swing the weight of all that has passed and all that will be. Withdrawing her tool of office, the Sailor Guardian of time regards her liege with a cool and dispassionate voice.

“The pathway through the Cherry Road has not yet been opened, and their Gate of Time remains firmly shut,” she explains, “The power of Chronos has not yet been called upon, but I feel the rippling pressure of its use ahead of us. Please be patient my Queen,”

The woman in white nods, in understanding, but then pouts.

“I want her home,” she sighs, “And I wish I could give her the things she needs to stay,”

Approaching the gate of time directly, she lays a bare hand upon the portal and stares at it wistfully.

“Even with Diana, she’s so lonely here,” she laments, “We’ve tried but we can’t find her friends and-,”

She pauses.

Her hand is withdrawn from the gate and it drops to her side, in mirror to her other hand they tighten in frustration before she relaxes her grip and her shoulders.

“I sometimes see the point of that rebellion’s position,” the queen says solemnly while still facing the door, “before Death Phantom manipulated them into wholesale slaughter. The long life granted to our world may seem unnatural, but it is still life. Immortality, however, has been both a wondrous opportunity and a terrible burden,”

“Usako,” King Endymion whispers softly.

>>42361111

“She’s so lonely here,” Neo Queen Serenity repeats in sadness, “And because I am unchanging, forever as I am to protect our world, I cannot grant her a sister,”

Silence reigns in the room. A subtle tremor passes through it’s guardian’s tool of office, pulling her eyes briefly away from the saddened queen.

“It’s our burden,” she says with a bit more confidence before turning to her husband with a sad smile on her face, “And I can regret it all I want to, Mamo-chan, but I made my choice for the sake of as many as we could save. For that I won’t have any regrets,”

A look of guilt plays across the face of the guardian of time. Her olive skin contorting in a moment of discomfort as an old exchange echoes in the back of her mind. The tremor in her tool of office forgotten, she remembers a time when she told the woman before her that she cannot fight what was to come. That the near and total destruction of the earth and its people would come to pass unless she waited to act until after it had started.

Of course, she wouldn’t listen. She had to try.

What the guardian had not foreseen was the true resolve of her sovereign to be. She had since learned not to underestimate her as by choosing to at least try the woman before her had managed to save more lives that would have otherwise been lost.

A surge of power calls to her, and her reminiscence is cut short as she is aware of incoming temporal activity.

“My Queen,” she speaks with some authority, “Please step back from the gate,”

Complying, Neo Queen Serenity stands beside King Endymion as the gates of time slowly open in full.

Comedic Aside and Interlude posted.

Dear lord that took me longer to accomplish than I had planned

>>42361111
Hm. Side effects.
One more thing to fix, I suppose..

>>42361133
Wait, are we saying that Crystal Tokyo's unending life also means there is no new life?
That seems unhealthily stagnant, no wonder Usa is happier in our time/world. I thought it was a problem of her royal circumstances before.

Guess that rules out a next gen crop of scouts in general, even if both parents might have been fortunate enough to make it to Tokyo before stasis. (Imagine Rin's father would have be one, for example.)

>>42361869
The people of Crystal Tokyo are night immortal, and new life is slower to happen than in the present day.

Neo Queen Serenity and King Endymion as well as the rest of the senshi are held fast aging frozen immortality ground zero.

>>42362052
nigh immortal, not night immortal.

Though now I have this horrid fanfic in my head about Crystal Tokyo being a twilight city populated by Vampires with Usagi and Mamoru as -

And stopping that train of thought right there. No plot bunnies.

>>42362105
Why are you doing that to us.

>>42363315
The real question is why would I do that to myself.

Re imagining Sailor Moon as vampires is a thought process rippling back in time in my head. Its too easy.

Too easy.

And I hate myself for entertaining the idea.

>>42363423
The image search for sailor moon vampire has a couple interesting results, a sizable amount of near porn, and some porn.

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>>42364046
Forgot the example of interesting that I saw.

>>42363423
Wouldn't Moon be werebeasties and Earth be vampires?

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>>42364482

I like the way you think!

Wait, no. Why won't this idea die?

>>42364482

Okay, I can't stop thinking about this.

Quick, someone say or do something more ridiculous and quest relevant. Have a new shadowrun or theory.

Start coming up with ideas for a city built over the ruins of D Point? But crazy?

Make predictions about Eclipsed Moon R Quest

>>42366535
Just get me off the the train of thought involving magical girl werebunny Usagi and the starcrossed love with Vampire Kamen.

>>42364579
Halloween Special ideas?

>>42366952
No, just something hilarious I found floating around the internet.

>>42366952
Oh, you mean the vampire idea, not the picture.

Not a half bad idea there, anon. Not a half bad idea.

>>42366584
Well, Kairi and Midori’s character sheets could use an advancement to level 3.

>>42367101
Yes, yes they could. I'll start my paper notes on that finally.

>>42367142
Nothing gets the mind out of weird places quite like numbers.

>>42367284
Or weirder places.

>>42366535
Full fledged self contained archology within Point D.
Depending on circumstances, either with a sleepy research post as a cover on top, or a grand dome with a view of the sky and a bustling airport/skyport/spaceport.

>>42368672
A masterwork of civil engineering.

Does Point D even really reside fully in our reality? Always seemed a bit unreal to me, then again that might be just how they liked to decorate.

>>42366584
Seems like an amusing fairytale to tell the kids.

>>42368672
Now that's something worth getting behind. Or beneath.

>>42371400
What's were creatures would the other Senshi be?

>>42366584
Technically wifbunny. Not werebunny.

>>42374957
Makoto, Dog. Strong and loyal.
She waited for you, sempai.
Works well for Kanari too, who likes to bark at things and growl.

Ami & Aiha, cats. Seem quiet and aloof, with reading in place of catnaps, until the right person or event has their full attention.

Rei always did have those birds around and crowing about Usagi's mistakes.
Guess that would extend to Rin as well. But cats and birds together is forbidden love!

I want to say red panda for Venus-chan, but I don't think it works for her mother.

Then I remembered I need to get ready for work.

>>42375608
I too thought Raven for Rei & Rin

>>42375684
I had trouble recalling whether it was crows or ravens.

>>42376416
Phobos and Deimos? I think they were Ravens.

>>42376437
I now suddenly picture those ravens as the senshi of their respective moons.

>>42376961
A Normal Raven, dressed in a sailor Senshi outfit is amusing.

>>42375608
Venus and Minako are hard to place, I suppose.

>>42370331
Well, you stick a monstrous castle in the middle of a tundra and see how whimsical you get with it.

Especially when possessed by unimaginable cosmic horror.

>>42368672
Spaceport is a good idea.

>>42380818
Seems like importing the dead/sickly trees to the underground expanse is a lot of work for evil whimsy.

..I wonder if the Kingdom of Elysium went all Atlantis-y, but instead of underwater it went underground with some sort of crazy shadow fueled power that burned into the bone of the queen to do it, and resulted in many of the cursed or monstrous beings and elements that have descended from the survivors of that survival attempt.

>>42382718
I look forward to the details of my upcoming reveals.

>>42384485
>tries to peer around the QM screen

>>42384680

Hey, stay out of my notes! Wait, no. This is fine.

-

"She may appear to be an enemy of the Sailor Senshi, but that doesn't make her our ally, Kalunite," a man with copper brown hair groans as he looks over the broken remains of a spear.

"Ah, but you fail to appreciate the beauty of my plan," yawns the lazily postures figure in the dark, "Either she succeeds and we can use her in the future or she fails and we have Borealis's rogue assets drawn into the open for retrieval,"

>>42384680
We've stumbled upon delicious candy before doing just that. Let us do so again.

>>42386743
Mmmm, candy.

>>42386771
>>42384848
Wait, shadows can go AWOL? Well, I guess some have a bit of free will as we saw with our tall and lanky future porn shopping buddy. Just what are these "Rogue Assets" anyway and why do I worry about where its going to take us.

Also, board is moving fast tonight.

>>42387536
The shadow nobody that spawned off of four hosts, originally made up of focused hunger and bad vibes as a single being that scary-us took down at the tower.

>>42387732
Oh, right, given that one line we got from an interlude we didn't pick...oh dear.

>>42382349
That and good positioning near northern shipping route could make a bustling trade nexus of our burgeoning megapolis.

>>42388841
Free agents.

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I have got to step up my snack making game.

>>42377562
Indeed.

>>42391423
Tasty and cute.

>>42391423
Snack artistry is only as easy as you are resourceful.

Do your best!

>>42389119
Hmm, and the spread of tech that makes an arctic circle city viable means if a big freeze does happen, more could weather it.

>>42394467
More a resource issue, hopefully I'll eventually have enough time+money again. I miss baking things.

>>42396086
You can always try your hand at pancake art.

>>42396086
Baking is a fun pastime and I hope you can get back into it with gusto and sweet sweet fun.

However don't forget savory bakes.

>>42396086
Well, all this fun considered, I now aim to make a tuxedo mask themed toasted bagel.

>>42399268
That wasn't even my trip, what the hell did I even write? Okay, sigh

>>42399285
>!!C4hqN1IT8z6

Curiosity with the aid of Archive.moe informs me I have accidentally discovered someone else's trip.

Apologies to the quest master of F:NWQ. I accidentally cracked your secure trip.

>>42387732
Finally, payoff.

>>42391423
I want to eat that bow

>>42402866
I assume this is from a craving for magical bows, rather than waffles.

>>42403035
>42403035
Fabric is good fiber

>>42406236
Om nom nom magic.

>>42408782
I can't see eating magic ending well, unless you are some kind of magicphage.

>>42409090
Well, Mikage does eat darkness…

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>>42409315
>mrw

>>42409655
>>42409315
At least her unique kind of vampirism doesn't come with a lamprey mouth.

>>42382349
>>42389119
>>42368672
I suddenly have an urge to try to model this in Starbound. Guess I'll need to find a good ice planet as a base for it.

>>42410223
oooh, sounds like fun.

>>42410275
Just started playing again recently. Need to gather a lot more resources for that. But should be fun test of the new colony features when I get to that point.

>>42411639
Nice.

>>42411639
I have not played Starbound, how is it?

>>42413988
Still early access so things change, but the core is exploring the galaxies, mining planets, finding hidden things, and fighting/building things.

Personally have found it more entertaining than Terraria. More variety to explore, npcs and quests, and visiting different worlds within the same universe (as opposed to generating new worlds and importing characters).
One of the nifty features is sharing coordinates for worlds, since that seed code will bring up the same world for other people, with some variation on exact chest contents but similar sort.

>>42414710
Also, you could capture a space bunny and make it a pet.

>>42415900
>>42414710
How many space bunnies can one capture?

>>42414710
Thats a really cool game. Good luck in your planning through use of an ice planet.

>>42418340
Frustratingly, the vfx for one of the abilities I need to use in the boss fight to finish repairs to my ftl causes my system to lag just enough to be fatal.
Seems to be a issue with my own system, since friends are not experiencing the same issue.
Eldritch space horrors are even trickier when they cause time itself to stutter.

>>42418439
Oh, that's no good. Hope you can still enjoy it.

>>42419400
Oh yeah, just need to wait for some friends to come around to give me a hand through that part. Got the boss' attack pattern figured out, so should be relatively straight forward with a bit of help from someone not having the issue.

>>42419441
Or I could just keep stubbornly smashing my face into it until I manage to barely survive despite the issue.
Yeah, that is my style, just didn't expect it to finally work! Yay!

Time between posts is a proper timing of one successful fight.

>>42419578
Most excellent.

>>42419578
That is using your face!

And this is why we need the space bubble mythic power.

>>42423451
Yes. Yes it is.

>>42423788
So we can go, IN SPACE!

>>42424050
Space makes everything better.
For example: Sailor Moon, space-powered magical girls.

>>42425347
So it only makes sense that the Earth-powered one needs to get more space goin' on.

>>42426490
for it will be the scion of the earth who reach for the stars

>>42426559
Sadly, the first things that come to mind is a pair of HFYs. The one about the Earth sending out her children to feed on the stars, and the other, prehaps more fitting when looking at the couple at the core of things, about mankind always looking to the heavens and wanting to have sex with whatever was up there. Endymion is living the dream.

>>42426997
As Prince of Earth, it is good that Endymion aspire to just that!

....and in doing so doomed his kingdom because he didn't know a powerful sorceress was so open to possession due to her unrequited love for him.

You know what kind of message that gives? Bitches be craycray and Ladies be cosmic.

>>42427080
I feel like we should give Usa a shirt that says that to take to her future with her.

>>42428097
That could make a fun t-shirt.

>>42429252
Mention it enough in the right places and it might be come a real one; t-shirt makers love borrowing ideas like that. Look at the fifty competing variations on senshi-themed "Fight like a girl" shirts.

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>>42429778
There's a lot of shirts out there.

>>42428097
>>42429252
Hey, we got a couple people, including Artemis to draw Mikage with the Batman shirt, maybe we can get someone to do one for Usa.

Maybe make it into a thing, eventually get images of the entire cast in t-shirts with phrases!

>>42432787
So what shirts should the others have?

>>42434565
Well, lets consider things.

Would Rin wear a shirt that's too hot to handle?

>>42435183
What's a good fire song?

>>42435183
"I See Dead People"

>>42440548
For Kanari, Thunderstruck

>>42434565
Why do I feel like Venus-chan could totally rock an oversize t-shirt with her own face on it?
Not out of vanity, but because it was soo cool.

>>42442182
Seems in character and adorable.