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Crisis Glitter

Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Mon 13 Mar 2023 23:10:25 No.5600158 View View Reply Original Report

"There is a glint in your heart, girl. Did you notice?"

Then the jacketed deer regards you with flat eyes, silent and stock still.
Then the jacketed deer regards you with flat eyes, silent and stock still.
Then the jacketed deer regards you with flat eyes, silent and stock still.

Realization comes at length. To truly behold such stillness, one must mirror it. An impossibility, in your life. Yet the world is holding its breath for you. With unfamiliar control, you begin to speak.

>What do you mean?
>Is that snakebelly trim?
>Oh, sorry. Dreams have only... happened to me before.

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Anonymous ID:ENxgYssg Mon 13 Mar 2023 23:19:41 No.5600172 Report

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>>5600158
>Is that snakebelly trim?

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Mon 13 Mar 2023 23:54:00 No.5600208 Report

Quoted By: >>5600238

"Why, yes, snakebelly. I'd thank you not to spread the word, yet I doubt local regulators would be much concerned if you did."

As you settle yourself more fully into your senses, you observe that the trim in question alternates between a sort of shiny leather-grey and dull copper. Not local indeed, if scale in the waking world has any bearing on the size of talking deer clothes.

"But if you're so concerned with fashion outside your species, what do you suppose belongs on my head? Do mind the ears."

>A crown
>A flatcap
>A bird's nest
>I'm not. Just asking.
>Write-in

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Anonymous ID:wSL5bU0t Tue 14 Mar 2023 00:28:32 No.5600238 Report

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>>5600208
>a Laurel.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Tue 14 Mar 2023 01:48:01 No.5600291 Report

Quoted By: >>5600623 >>5601032

You answer, and there it is.

"Oh? It has a grandness of its own, even if the locals are a different sweetness. If it would only..." The deer tries a few ways
to negotiate his antlers. No way of squeezing or hanging the wreath seems to satisfy. In the end, he simply hangs his would-be hat over a forearm.

"Well, I'm no doe, but you tried. I won't give up on it. Set that aside. Why don't you tell about where we are?"

Around you, a familiar place of happiness and troubles falls into focus.

>A fabric store. Looks like it's fully stocked with my wishlist.
>A pool party. I miss summer already. And the friends who moved away.
>The nature reserve behind my house. But there are no houses across the valley.
>Write-in of similar format

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Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Tue 14 Mar 2023 09:06:02 No.5600623 Report

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>>5600291
>A pool party. I miss summer already. And the friends who moved away.

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Anonymous ID:sS8Hiqjf Tue 14 Mar 2023 18:37:25 No.5601032 Report

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>>5600291
>A pool party. I miss summer already. And the friends who moved away.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Tue 14 Mar 2023 20:38:32 No.5601204 Report

Quoted By: >>5601241

Your senses find you beneath a high, cloudless sun and an unkempt apple tree. Crammed between where its roots break through the grass and the fence is a blue, soft-walled pool. The lawn would resemble the tree at the best of times, and is crisped by the sun besides. Deer stands between you and the face of a house lined with a garden hose, curtained windows and a screen door. On the patio is a knee-height charcoal grill and across from it is the toolshed and a folding table set up to hold food.

In short, your yard, sometime in June. No particular occasion. Just a coincidence of free time among friends and a little planning. Mom being nearly vegetarian, Dad would have leapt at the chance to reasonably buy more than one package of 'dogs and ground beef.

Nobody's arrived yet. You haven't set up the chairs.

>3. If you have the choice, just the ones it won't hurt to remember.
>7. C'mon, just one more time.
>Write-in of similar format

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Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Tue 14 Mar 2023 20:59:11 No.5601241 Report

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>>5601204
Why am I thinking and hesitating so hard on this choice, aaargh.
>7. C'mon, just one more time.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Tue 14 Mar 2023 23:40:23 No.5601424 Report

Quoted By: >>5602136

???: 2

As you get to work arranging chairs, you begin to feel an insistent tug, like someone's hand on your shoulder, only... it holds you nowhere in particular and pulls in no direction you can name. You resist it with no muscles, but it tires you all the same.

"Hey, let me help." That's Stella, neighbor and oldest friend, hefting two chairs and half-swinging them elsewhere in the tree's shade before her arms can give out. Even watching her finish the job for you, your tiredness deepens. But once she's done, that splashing in the pool, the giggling by the hose, and the murmurs by the grill will have somewhere to sit.

Stella ignores this and sits on the ground with her back to the tree, looking at you with concern. "Hey, have you been drinking enough? It's been a baker out all day."

>Assure her, and go splash about to cool down.
>If there's a prank brewing by that hose, it's probably one that serves you just as well.
>Dad wouldn't want anyone messing with the grill, so better head that off.
>Something else?

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Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Wed 15 Mar 2023 17:00:09 No.5602136 Report

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>>5601424
Are we gonna receive some explanation of what's happening soon or is it cryptic all the way?
>Assure her, and go splash about to cool down.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Wed 15 Mar 2023 23:37:01 No.5602467 Report

Quoted By: >>5603017 >>5603047

"I'll be all right, Stella. Join me in the pool?" She shakes her head, liking where she is. You step from the shade, onto grass that crackles under your feet.
>???: 1

Even that fatigues you. Fully conscious, standing tall, eyes wide open, yet something weighs down your every step. Has summer heat ever done this to you? Never mind, just a little further...

"Hands off the damn grill!" comes your father's voice from inside the house, and you shut out the bluster that follows. You know how it goes. No negotiations, no apologies accepted. Has he ever been this protective of you? Two party-goers and a tagalong are ejected from the party for the high crime of touching his baby.
>???: 3

By the time you settle into the water, you don't feel any better than you were under the apple tree. But with Taylor, Bunny and Olessya, you're in more company.
>???: 2

Taylor's another neighbor... she's been a bit weird and uninvolved lately. You think Bunny might be why, even if she seems nice enough. Olessya's a good friend, though an awkward start still hangs over you both. At the moment they're all splashing water at each other and using pool floats for whatever advantage they can take in a goalless game.

>Greet someone. Why else did you set up all those chairs?
>Join in. Have a moment of uncomplicated joy.
>Other

>>5602136
You can have it if you know who to ask. Or, if you're asking about the quest's overall direction: it's my take on the magical girl genre, set in my memories of early 2000s USA.

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Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Thu 16 Mar 2023 11:45:05 No.5603017 Report

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>>5602467
>You can have it if you know who to ask. Or, if you're asking about the quest's overall direction
Meant both of these.
As for the vote,
>Join in. Have a moment of uncomplicated joy.

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Anonymous ID:Ssw3+hXh Thu 16 Mar 2023 12:34:12 No.5603047 Report

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>>5602467
>>Greet someone. Why else did you set up all those chairs?

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Thu 16 Mar 2023 13:01:46 No.5603070 Report

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Rolled 3 (1d3)

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Thu 16 Mar 2023 16:33:13 No.5603186 Report

Quoted By: >>5603486 >>5603496 >>5604109

>It happens that our girl can integrate both votes into a single cost, this time...

Forget the niceties, this is war! Advancing with arms spread wide below the surface, you shove a blindsiding wave into your friends and even spilling over toward the fence. Your effort overcomes what little traction bare feet can gain on the bottom of the pool, leaving you semi-floating on your back. You recover, but so do they, and the whole watery affair lapses into a chaos of laughter stifled into spluttering, and thrashing blindly in hopes of impairing another in kind. It's perfect.

But it takes only the slightest lull in the chaos for friend or foe to become clear again. You and Olessya are forced into alliance against the united threat of Taylor and Bunny. Distance is gradually taken until an exhausted truce arises, and both alliances huddle behind animal pool floats to scheme. You in particular are doubly weighed down, but also deeply satisfied.

"Hi, Olessya," you pant. "This almost feels familiar!" She looks down and fusses with her ponytail.
>???: 2 -> 1. That directionless tug is like an anchor strapped you-don't know-where. Even speaking is an act of will.
>Additionally, you're Winded! Dream-Winded. The truce should be enough for you to recover.
>Gained a pure moment of Joy! Leave the job of complicating it to the light of the waking world...

Once, halfway through 7th grade, a group of girls kept you after school over an unintended slight. Just as things were about to get ugly, a grim-looking boy dragged you away by the elbow, off school grounds, all the way to his house, calling his sister to the door before he'd even passed his curbside mailbox, enduring the harpies' shouted barbs all the while . No pleasantries or explanation. Just a few awkward minutes in the living room before Olessya offered you an orange and got out her homework, with you following suit. Half an hour later, big brother Venya tapped the table and nodded at the door for you to leave.

Rumors swirled for a time after that, which was its own sort of problem. Venya never did that again, but neither did you need it. He didn't interact with you at all, actually. Just fobbed you off on his sister again if you ever tried to thank him.

"No, enough," she says with a grin, pulling you into the present. She's actually a mischievous sort, when her brother's off her mind. "We're going to get them good this time. Look." She cups a hand and shows you a way to skim a jet of water off the surface. It's accurate and kind of stings sometimes, wow. It's even thrifty with energy.
>Visiting: 1/2. Olessya's doing fine! Initiating a check-in with a friend and getting a response feels reassuring. It lightens your heart somewhat...

What now? You're tired in more ways than one, but...
>You have an efficient new trick. Attack while they think you still need to recover
>Attempt conversation with the opposing ramparts (how? could backfire if they doubt you)
>Call an end to marine hostilities
>Other

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Thu 16 Mar 2023 16:35:04 No.5603188 Report

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Previous image suffices for this update.

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Anonymous ID:ElVIkVG0 Thu 16 Mar 2023 21:21:32 No.5603486 Report

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>>5603186
> Call an end to marine hostilities
with such WMDs at our disposal, we must sue for peace or risk devastation.

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Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Thu 16 Mar 2023 21:27:27 No.5603496 Report

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>>5603186
>You have an efficient new trick. Attack while they think you still need to recover

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Anonymous ID:ElVIkVG0 Thu 16 Mar 2023 21:47:42 No.5603526 Report

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>>5603496
nevermind, the people vote for destruction

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Anonymous ID:5tnxiH02 Fri 17 Mar 2023 09:06:26 No.5604109 Report

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>>5603186
>You have an efficient new trick. Attack while they think you still need to recover

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Fri 17 Mar 2023 17:18:55 No.5604397 Report

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By design, splash fights can go endlessly when the objective is merely fun. Once someone resolves to play for keeps, however, they become a giant race to the bottom, all in aid of the final measure.

Tickling. A dread word on wings of victory that beat black and terrible. Your grip on this dream has been slipping all this time, and this fight is sure to finish it off. You must achieve victory swiftly, or not at all. You and Olessya go over your tools.

Your goal is to close with the enemy and tickle them. This is usually accomplished by blinding the enemy with water or knocking her off balance long enough that she can't turn the tables on you. Alternately, Olessya believes that the sting of her Pistol Skim will cause her target to gasp, which will lead to a disabling coughing fit if the poor soul is covered in enough water. Victory will not be acknowledged before the finishing blow, however.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Fri 17 Mar 2023 17:20:59 No.5604399 Report

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Accidentally deleted my rules reference without backup. Update will be a bit.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Fri 17 Mar 2023 18:30:00 No.5604482 Report

Quoted By: >>5604492 >>5604540 >>5604561 >>5607785

This is a d6 game. Units may move and attack one per turn. The order of initiative is rolled and declared at the start of each turn.
Units have the stats Stamina, Traction and Soak to represent energy, stability and wetness. Traction increases and Soak decreases by 1 at the start of each turn.
>Low Traction leaves a unit vulnerable to high pool Churn Intensity.
>At 5 or more Soak, a unit is Blind, suffering a 50% miss chance.
The pool has the stats Spray and Churn to represent water in the air and wave activity. Every multiple of 3 in these stats increases their Intensity, affecting the whole battlefield.
>Spray Intensity 2: Secret weapons such as Pistol Skim remain Secret when used.
>At the start of the turn before units recover, units with equal or less Traction than Churn Intensity have a 50% chance to lose balance.
>Unbalanced units cannot move this turn. Additionally, convert half the current Spray to Soak and distribute it evenly among all units unbalanced by the same effect. Any remainder returns to Spray.

Move: -1 Traction, 50% +1 Churn, or 100%. Shift by one range category in relation to target, or dodge a Slow attack. You may attempt to specify other relations.
>Ranges are: Melee, Close, Medium, Far, Distant.
>You may move more than one range, but each beyond the first immediately subjects you to Churn Intensity rules if applicable.
Block: Cannot gain Soak beyond 4 this turn unless you lose balance. You are Blind this turn.
>You can attack and block in the same turn.
Upsplash: -2 Stamina, +2 Splash. +2 Soak to target. Close.
Big Wave: -3 Stamina, +1 Churn. -1 Traction to target. Spend Traction to adjust Big Wave's numericals by 1. Close, Slow.
>Slow attacks enter initiative and have their own Move action.
Pistol Skim: +1 Splash: +1 Soak to target. Far, Precise, Secret.
>Precise attacks can't be blindfired.
Coup de Grâce: Impaired target surrenders. Melee.

A few final things you understand...
>You: Home Turf. +1 to Traction and regeneration.
>Olessya: Pistoleer. Pistol Skim denies next turn of target with 4 or more Soak.
>Taylor and Bunny: Sisterly Bond. If both intend to start and end turn within Melee range of each other, adjust ANY non-enemy stat by 1. Actual siblinghood not included.
>Your seemingly-incurable exhaustion gives you only 10 stamina this fight
>The enemy will not act this turn, and you and Olessya have choice of action order.
>You command yourself and Olessya.

>"Naval" "combat" is a go. Provisionally, I intend to let this stew until 3 voices have plotted your friends' demise, so need to rush the decision. Ask questions, I'm sure I've missed something.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Fri 17 Mar 2023 18:34:04 No.5604492 Report

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>>5604482
*no need to rush

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Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Fri 17 Mar 2023 19:03:27 No.5604540 Report

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>>5604482
Holy shit, mechanics.
Does churn intensity ever decrease? What does secret do?

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Fri 17 Mar 2023 19:08:29 No.5604544 Report

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>>5604540
Currently, the only thing that can decrease Churn, and thereby its Intensity, is Sisterly Bond.
Secret means secret. If a secret gets out, you lose all guarantee that it is yours alone.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Fri 17 Mar 2023 19:19:17 No.5604561 Report

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>>5604482
Oh, if it isn't clear, Slow also means that Big Wave's -1 Traction does not take effect until it actually reaches its target. Or is intercepted, I suppose.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Sun 19 Mar 2023 06:28:33 No.5607399 Report

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If there's no response tomorrow, I'll just put this whole battle up to a roll and move on.

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Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Sun 19 Mar 2023 16:44:23 No.5607785 Report

Quoted By: >>5607832

>>5604482
Does everyone else have stamina as well?
Pistol skim looks good on surface, but it doesn't help us impair the enemy and puts Olessya out of range of all other abilities, so she won't be able to help us. I'm thinking
>get close (slowly) and spam big wave until they collapse, then move in and coup them.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Sun 19 Mar 2023 17:46:14 No.5607832 Report

Quoted By: >>5607903

Rolled 1, 1, 2 = 4 (3d6)

>>5607785
To be clear, you both have full access to the abilities, hers is just improved.

You ponder your situation further...

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Sun 19 Mar 2023 17:58:00 No.5607849 Report

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You have chosen your moment well. Everyone else's Stamina is also 10.

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Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Sun 19 Mar 2023 18:26:34 No.5607903 Report

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>>5607832
Well, we'll have to get close anyway to raise that splash/spray, so whatever

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Mon 20 Mar 2023 03:44:59 No.5608532 Report

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Rolled 2, 6, 1, 5, 5, 5 = 24 (6d6)

>You enter Far range of Taylor and Bunny [-1 Traction]. You launch a Big Wave at Taylor, getting what purchase you can on the pool bottom to aid the effort. [-2 Stamina, -1 Traction, +1 Churn. Traction paid to adjust Stamina cost]
>Olessya follows your example, though she does not close the distance. [-2 Stamina, -1 Traction, +1 Churn.]

"Break's over!" you shout three-quarters through your motion. Taylor and Bunny glance sharply your way and scramble for readiness.

>Rolling initiative for coming turn. Girls in order, then your and Olessya's waves.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Mon 20 Mar 2023 04:21:43 No.5608570 Report

Quoted By: >>5608785

"Oh, that's how we're playing it?" asks Bunny with mock horror and a fist over her chest. "You've gone and crossed the Soul Sisters!" Taylor scrambled a little to hard and is now clutching the edge of the pool for balance, but you think you catch a nod from her amid all that.

>Turn 2 order: Olessya, Bunny, your wave, Olessya's wave, You, Taylor
>You recover 2 Traction. Olessya recovers 1.
>Your team has the drop on Taylor. You can tell that she wants to move in.
>You control yourself and Olessya

>What next?

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Mon 20 Mar 2023 08:37:46 No.5608684 Report

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Friendly Traction should read full.

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Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Mon 20 Mar 2023 11:37:40 No.5608785 Report

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>>5608570
>Get closer
>Olessya gets closer too
Do it after the waves.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Mon 20 Mar 2023 23:33:35 No.5609338 Report

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I forgot to roll the 50% Churn on your movement last turn. Doing that now, followed by four combatants in order for this turn. Low roll increases Churn.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Mon 20 Mar 2023 23:34:40 No.5609340 Report

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Rolled 5, 6, 2, 2, 6 = 21 (5d6)

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Mon 20 Mar 2023 23:57:53 No.5609361 Report

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Rolled 2, 6 = 8 (2d6)

>Olessya enters Far range. [-1 Traction, 50% Churn]
>Bunny enters Medium range and Blocks [-1 Traction, 50% Churn]
>Your wave enters Close range of Taylor
>Olessya's wave enters Medium range of Taylor
>You enter Medium range [-1 Traction, 50% Churn]
>Taylor enters Close range, hitting your wave. [-2 Traction, 50% Churn]
>Taylor Upsplashes you. [-2 Stamina, +2 Splash. +2 Soak to You]
>Sisterly Bond: [+1 Traction to Bunny]

>Bunny is Blinded until her Block ends
>Churn Intensity threatens Olessya and Taylor. Rolling...

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Tue 21 Mar 2023 00:02:29 No.5609366 Report

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Rolled 2, 4, 6, 4, 3 = 19 (5d6)

Initiative. Girls in order, Olessya's wave.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Tue 21 Mar 2023 00:40:25 No.5609397 Report

Quoted By: >>5609837

>I've been writing Splash instead of Spray. Fixing now.
>Olessya is Unbalanced! Half current Spray is transferred to her as Soak [1]
>Initiative tiebreaker. As Olessya is Unbalanced, Bunny's roll wins.
>Turn order: Taylor, Bunny, Olessya, Olessya's wave, You.
>All units regenerate and dry off.

As the pool begins to roil, Taylor clings to Bunny for support, while Bunny clams up. As you wonder what she's up to, presenting such a target, you hear an 'ack' behind you and know that Olessya has been swept up by the waves. "Soul Sisters, Souls Sisters, go with the flow Sisters!" Your opponents prepare to press the issue with a heartened cheer.

>What now?

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Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Tue 21 Mar 2023 12:05:34 No.5609837 Report

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>>5609397
>Keep spamming waves until they lose balance, then move in to coup them
No point blocking until we hit like 3 soak, since blocking only prevents us from gaining over 4.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Fri 24 Mar 2023 20:05:47 No.5613718 Report

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Rolled 5, 1, 7, 2, 1, 6, 4, 7, 4 = 37 (9d10)

Sorry for disappearing. Let's get this fight finished. Will process remaining turns as soon as I notice a reply.

>Dice: [1 die] for a hit on Bunny. [3 dice] Churn Intensity threatens all but you. [5 dice] for initiative, girls + wave.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Fri 24 Mar 2023 20:06:49 No.5613721 Report

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Rolled 1, 4, 5, 3, 4, 5, 2, 5, 5 = 34 (9d6)

Wrong dice.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Fri 24 Mar 2023 20:57:42 No.5613796 Report

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>Taylor Upsplashes you. [-2 Stamina, +2 Spray. +2 Soak to you.]
>Bunny Upslashes you. [-2 Stamina, +2 Spray. +2 Soak to you.]
>Sisterly Bond [+1 to Bunny's Upsplash Soak] [+1 Soak to You]
>You are Blinded.
>Olessya launches Big Wave at Bunny. [-2 Stamina, +1 Churn, -1 Traction.]
>Big Wave hits Taylor. [-1 Traction]
>You launch Big Wave at Bunny. Miss! [-3 Stamina, +1 Churn]

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Fri 24 Mar 2023 21:13:55 No.5613823 Report

Quoted By: >>5614042

>Bunny is Unbalanced. [-2 Spray. +2 Soak to Bunny.]
>Intiative Tiebreaker: Bunny is Unbalanced and loses initiative to Olessya.
>Turn order: Olessya, Bunny, wave, you, Taylor.
>All units regenerate and dry off.
>You are Blinded.
>You are unable to divine Taylor's intent, but suspect she wants to finish you off.

"We got her, we got her- ack"

>What now?

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Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Fri 24 Mar 2023 23:27:40 No.5614042 Report

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>>5613823
Wait, does blinded count as impaired? I thought we had to specifically unbalance to coup.
Either way, time to sacrifice ourselves for the greater good. We got initiative before Taylor, so
>Move in and coup de grace the unbalanced Bunny.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Sat 25 Mar 2023 00:06:38 No.5614082 Report

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Rolled 3 (1d6)

Coup attempt on Bunny...

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Sat 25 Mar 2023 00:40:23 No.5614110 Report

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Rolled 6, 3, 6, 2, 6, 5 = 28 (6d6)

>Olessya enters Close range of Taylor and Upsplashes her. [-1 Traction, -2 Stamina, +2 Spray. +2 Soak to Taylor.
>Bunny Upsplashes Olessya. [-2 Stamina, +2 Spray. +2 Soak to Olessya.]
>You enter Melee range of Bunny, maintaining Close with Taylor. [-1 Traction]
>You attempt to Coup Bunny. Miss!
>Big Wave strikes Bunny. [-1 Traction]
>Taylor enters Melee range of You, keeping Melee range of Bunny, and Coups you.
>Yer out!

It's a race to the bottom, and you've hit sand. You try to take Bunny with you, but while you struggle to blink away the water, she wriggles from your clutches. Taylor's surer fingers reach you, and you surrender before you have to suffer a complete massacre of your flanks.

>Dice: [3 dice] Churn Intensity threatens all. [3 dice] Initiative.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Sat 25 Mar 2023 01:15:42 No.5614142 Report

Quoted By: >>5614470

>Taylor is Unbalanced. [-3 Spray. +3 Soak to Taylor.] Taylor is Blinded.
>Turn order: Taylor, Bunny, Olessya.
>All recover and dry off.
>Taylor no longer Blinded.

It's all over the the dying. If you'd just managed to trade your life for Bunny's, Olessya could have handily won this duel against a flailing, dripping Taylor. But with both of the Soul Sisters fresh and eager off a first conquest, Olessya sees no choice but to admit she is their second. The splashfight is lost.

Having felt yourself fading fast soon after surrendering, you make your way to the ladder out of the pool. It probably wouldn't matter if you collapsed and drowned in a dream, or if anyone saw you do it, but there's no need to tack that to the end of something pleasant.

>Say nothing to the victors. Hold on to a moment of Frustration.
>Congratulate the victors. Hold on to a moment of Grace.

>This one gets a little time to breathe. Feel free to ask further questions in the meantime.

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Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Sat 25 Mar 2023 09:29:16 No.5614470 Report

Quoted By: >>5614634

>>5614142
>Congratulate the victors. Hold on to a moment of Grace.
Damn.
>This one gets a little time to breathe. Feel free to ask further questions in the meantime.
I'm not sure if these are questions for you, Answerer, or for our friends, but if it's the former, who is the deer? How are we acquainted?

Answerer

Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Sat 25 Mar 2023 15:12:38 No.5614634 Report

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>>5614470
You do not know Deer, and this was your first meeting. He resembles people you know only in broad terms; enigmatic, affable, fashionable somewhere in the world. Animals don't talk. Dreaming papered over the surreality of it all, but it becomes obvious in daylight. The subject of Deer will get a bit more attention in coming updates.

Answerer

Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Wed 29 Mar 2023 07:42:32 No.5618882 Report

Quoted By: >>5618989 >>5619129

"Off so soon, girl?" That's Deer, offering you a cloven hoof as you crest the ladder, and easing you onto his back. "Well, at least you enjoyed yourself. We'll meet again." Your feet never touch the ground. The comfort of sunlight soaking through the water dripping off you fades into the warmth of your bed; the firmness of Deer's back into a book held tightly to your chest.

You sit up in bed, mind racing over the possibilities of that splashfight. You could walk over to Taylor's right now, even if she's been a bit weird lately, and tell her you'll get her in the rematch, and that'd be sure to pull Bunny out of the woodwork. It's a bit difficult to get Olessya out of the house sometimes, but if you told her there would be cute pets or little kids around, she'd make time. So it would help if you called... called... Oh.

That's not possible. Not here. Here and now, your social circle is in shambles and it hurts to think about why. High school starts in eight days, and Biology wants a project you should have started a month ago. As always, you have chores to do. The thought of mortality occurred to you a out of nowhere a few late nights ago and it's really unfair how long it's haunted you for how unprovoked it came.

Just as it occurs to you that the many weights on your shoulders will bury your happiest recent memories before you know it, you realize that no, they haven't. The whole sequence of events comes back to you with a little effort.

>Playing with friends gave you a moment of Joy. You are heartened enough to face the day despite your burdens, yet may buckle if you face some of them too directly.
>Accepting a close, fair defeat gave you a moment of Grace. You are prepared for situations that call for a bit of tolerance and concession.
>Motivation recalled! Social: Maintaining friendships gives you energy to face the day. Every two friends checked up on in a day grants you an extra Hour or [???].

As you go through your morning routine, you realize that you woke up late today. Mom's left a note about the pancakes and eggs cooling on the stove. Many Hours in a day, but only 4 of them productive. How will you spend the first?

>Journal your unusual dream. There might be something in having it all solid.
>Facing a friend right now is out of the question. Thinking far back enough about them should be fine. (who?)
>Start that science project. It'll get you out of the house.
>Dad would appreciate you fixing up some of his clothes. Money can be tight.
>Contemplate death. Wait, seriously?
>Other

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Wed 29 Mar 2023 08:11:39 No.5618890 Report

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Didn't mean for things to breathe that long, but I think I can manage two updates per day of similar length over the next three days. What I hope to convey if I haven't already is that our girl is one whose world has steadily grown more complex around her. When something, or many somethings happened to her circle of friends, it compounded the complexity and struck at her confidence in the foundation with which she might have faced it.

When the magical side of things really starts kicking in, it's up to you just how much of a help or a problem it will be.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Wed 29 Mar 2023 12:01:13 No.5618989 Report

Quoted By: >>5619011

>>5618882
>Journal your unusual dream. There might be something in having it all solid.
Maybe we should shill in qtg to get more anons on board.

Answerer

Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Wed 29 Mar 2023 12:45:20 No.5619011 Report

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>>5618989
I'll give it a shot.

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Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Wed 29 Mar 2023 16:29:35 No.5619129 Report

Quoted By: >>5619949

Until a month or so ago, you've always had better things to do than dust off your journal. Journaling had sounded so fun and secret in books you read that you got a nice hard-covered one for your birthday some years ago. It didn't take long for the thought of facing a new blank page to feel like a chore, so you shelved it. Now, though, picking up pencil and paper is about the simplest thing you can imagine doing with your life.

With the events of your dream flowing easily to the page, oddities make themselves apparent when they resist description. You were different somehow in that dream. No reserve in your interactions with friends. No surprise at a deer talking to you; your first words to it were a question about its clothing, for goodness' sake. Well, that could just be standard dream strangeness. A dream just happening to you, and you at its mercy. But it can't be.

You were as close as you've ever been to being entirely, recognizably <span class="mu-i">you</span> within a dream, a dream that was yours to mold, where even in defeat, you had been outdone, not overridden. Yet you, the hand that writes, you have only seen deer peeking from treelines, you have never seen a snake of size or hue to trim Deer's jacket, you begin to shake at the thought of approaching the tangled, thorny knot that has become of your social circle. What separates the two of You who are so alike?

>Mystery afoot: The Nature of the Dream. Your mind races to wholly understand what happened to you last night. [-1 additional Hour]
>But perhaps you'd rather narrow your focus to a lesser mystery, which you might have real-world leads on?

>Then choose another task from >>5618882

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Thu 30 Mar 2023 08:16:23 No.5619949 Report

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>>5619129
>Dad would appreciate you fixing up some of his clothes. Money can be tight.

Answerer

Answerer ID:BC1Fx0Hz Thu 30 Mar 2023 08:31:35 No.5619950 Report

Quoted By: >>5620015

Looks like I was unclear. There is also a choice presented between taking on the whole mystery at the cost of an hour, or narrowing focus to something more specific.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:4oQnr8tq Thu 30 Mar 2023 12:12:24 No.5620015 Report

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>>5619950
Oh, I see. I thought it was an already-happened effect, like we lost one hour, but didn't resolve it, so it's best to focus on other tasks. If that was a choice, then in addition to my post
>Mystery afoot: The Nature of the Dream. Your mind races to wholly understand what happened to you last night. [-1 additional Hour]

Answerer

Answerer ID:3Mnjh8qj Wed 19 Apr 2023 19:54:57 No.5640752 Report

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To anyone still watching this thread, sorry for disappearing. I've gotten busier lately and am a slow writer. This game is one of the few times I've ever run a combat map from start to finish without clear need for rebalance, and I'd like to press that success. Crisis Glitter will return, I'm just not sure when.

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