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Blacksmith quest :Take Two
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Liam-don
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Rolled 2d100: total 44 + 64 = 108
You decide to keep learning about the theories of Esper abilities.
It doesn't go very well unfortunately. Despite all your efforts you fail entirely to wrap your mind around the scientific concepts, the words' meaning slipping out your brain almost as soon as you've read them. Still rote memorization lets you retain what you've learned, even if you don't understand it.
It's progress nonetheless.
It's close to noon when you catches a faint buzzing. It's your phone, you realize, you've forgotten it in yesterday's pants. You quickly extricate the device.
Your breath catch as you see the caller ID and the tiger plushie beneath.
Numbly, you answer the phone. "Hello?"
"SHIROOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" A woman wails into your ear.
You move the phone away from your ear protectively as the woman gibbers at the same loud volume.
"Are you okay? Sick? Nee-san was so worried when you weren't here this morning you never miss school even when you're sick and then you didn't call the school to say what was wrong with you and I thought the worst and so I didn't want to overreact so I waited but you didn't call me either and then I couldn't take it anymore and Shirooouuuuuuu..." She dissolves into loud sobs.
A rush of nostalgia fills your heart. "Sorry Fuji-nee," you apologize earnestly. " I just felt really tired this morning and felt like I needed a break."
"So you're really okay?" Taiga sniffs pitifully.
You nod, even if she can't see it. "I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm nearly back at 100%, I swear."
"So will you come this afternoon? I mean, you don't have to!" She adds hastily. "You're such a good boy nee-san know you wouldn't skip school without a good reason, but as a teacher I have to ask."
What do you say?
[] Yes
[] No.
[]...?
You decide to keep learning about the theories of Esper abilities.
It doesn't go very well unfortunately. Despite all your efforts you fail entirely to wrap your mind around the scientific concepts, the words' meaning slipping out your brain almost as soon as you've read them. Still rote memorization lets you retain what you've learned, even if you don't understand it.
It's progress nonetheless.
It's close to noon when you catches a faint buzzing. It's your phone, you realize, you've forgotten it in yesterday's pants. You quickly extricate the device.
Your breath catch as you see the caller ID and the tiger plushie beneath.
Numbly, you answer the phone. "Hello?"
"SHIROOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" A woman wails into your ear.
You move the phone away from your ear protectively as the woman gibbers at the same loud volume.
"Are you okay? Sick? Nee-san was so worried when you weren't here this morning you never miss school even when you're sick and then you didn't call the school to say what was wrong with you and I thought the worst and so I didn't want to overreact so I waited but you didn't call me either and then I couldn't take it anymore and Shirooouuuuuuu..." She dissolves into loud sobs.
A rush of nostalgia fills your heart. "Sorry Fuji-nee," you apologize earnestly. " I just felt really tired this morning and felt like I needed a break."
"So you're really okay?" Taiga sniffs pitifully.
You nod, even if she can't see it. "I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm nearly back at 100%, I swear."
"So will you come this afternoon? I mean, you don't have to!" She adds hastily. "You're such a good boy nee-san know you wouldn't skip school without a good reason, but as a teacher I have to ask."
What do you say?
[] Yes
[] No.
[]...?
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Alexander
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[X] No.
-[X] Cite the need to be sure of your recovery.
--[X] Continue studying: if you don't understand the concepts then search help. Internet is a thing right? And so are forums.
---[X] Reserve a bit of time to research more about your current life. You can't be caught unprepared.
-[X] Cite the need to be sure of your recovery.
--[X] Continue studying: if you don't understand the concepts then search help. Internet is a thing right? And so are forums.
---[X] Reserve a bit of time to research more about your current life. You can't be caught unprepared.
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oh Taiga... always the same. :3
[X] No.
- -[X] Cite the need to be sure of your recovery.
- - - - [X] Continue studying: if you don't understand the concepts then search help. Internet is a thing right? And so are forums.
- - - - - - [X] Reserve a bit of time to research more about your current life. You can't be caught unprepared.
oh Taiga... always the same. :3
[X] No.
- -[X] Cite the need to be sure of your recovery.
- - - - [X] Continue studying: if you don't understand the concepts then search help. Internet is a thing right? And so are forums.
- - - - - - [X] Reserve a bit of time to research more about your current life. You can't be caught unprepared.
Pipeman
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[X] No.
-[X] Cite the need to be sure of your recovery.
--[X] Continue studying: if you don't understand the concepts then search help. Internet is a thing right? And so are forums.
---[X] Reserve a bit of time to research more about your current life. You can't be caught unprepared.
-[X] Cite the need to be sure of your recovery.
--[X] Continue studying: if you don't understand the concepts then search help. Internet is a thing right? And so are forums.
---[X] Reserve a bit of time to research more about your current life. You can't be caught unprepared.
nick012000
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[X] "I've, uh, forgotten where we were supposed to be meeting?"
Much more IC than just blowing Taiga off.
Much more IC than just blowing Taiga off.
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Liam-don
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[X] No.
-[X] Cite the need to be sure of your recovery.
--[X] Continue studying: if you don't understand the concepts then search help. Internet is a thing right? And so are forums.
---[X] Reserve a bit of time to research more about your current life. You can't be caught unprepared.
"I'd rather not," you say carefully. "I'll take the afternoon off to make sure I'm completely fine."
"You do that," Taiga agrees eagerly. "Let your reliable Fuji-nee take care of things on this end!"
The call doesn't last much longer after that, as Taiga's lunch time is short and her meal is large. You heave a sigh as you hang up the phone.
That was nerve-wracking. You hadn't expected a ghost from your past to suddenly appears efore you. You wonder what happened to motivate Taiga to leave her cozy nest back home. Maybe the teachers have really good benefits in Academy City. Or maybe this was about you.
You curse under your breath, your lack of knowledge frustrating you to no end. You really wish Emiya Shirou had kept a diary. This time was easy, as you had old habits to fall back on, but you're not looking forward to complete strangers who will come at you like close friends.
You'll try to figure something out later. For now, you return to your studies.
If the books are too dry and complicated, you should try to find something meant for a more general audience. You boot up the laptop and access the largest repository of junk science and babarized knowledge known to mankind: the internet. Surely there is somewhere an article written in small enough words for you to understand.
As it turns out, Emiya Shirou had bookmarked several interesting pages and forum, which considerably speed up your research. In particular, the blog of "Sensei-chan" has several post elaborating on fundamental principles in very simple term. Among them her explanation of the uncertainty principle using a box of chocolate resonates with you.
An esper is the one who can change the nature of the candy within the box to what he wishes it to be.
You can turn all the marbles in the bag white.
Yes, the two powers are definitely close.
Another site of interest is a forum dedicated to "Level Upping." Most of the users seems to be proper espers expanding on the curicullum the follow to increase their powers. None of the members claim to be higher than level 2, but it's a start.
Sadly, not everything you find is worthwhile and most of your afternoon is spent on repeats of what you've learned in one form or another. In the end, you shut down the machine in disgust.
You need a change of pace. Maybe you should check the phone's memory for names you might recognize?
...A pressure crashes into your body. An energy fills the atmosphere around you, blanketing your room. You recognize it immediately, of course. After all, you've used it yourself countless time. Prana, the source of magecraft.
There is a magus nearby, preparing a truly powerful spell. Judging by the way the energy radiates rather than gather at a point, it is a bounded field of some sort.
Your hand clenches into fist and your heartbeat speed up.
What do you do?
[]Not your business. Keep your head down and hope it goes away.
[] Really not your business. Run away.
--[]Stealthily. Get to the stair and don't look back.
--[]Quickly. Jump out of the balcony.
[]Peek out of your room, carefully.
[]Go out and find the magus
--[] As a worried civilian
--[]Using reinforcement
--[]Draw out your swords already.
[]...?
-[X] Cite the need to be sure of your recovery.
--[X] Continue studying: if you don't understand the concepts then search help. Internet is a thing right? And so are forums.
---[X] Reserve a bit of time to research more about your current life. You can't be caught unprepared.
"I'd rather not," you say carefully. "I'll take the afternoon off to make sure I'm completely fine."
"You do that," Taiga agrees eagerly. "Let your reliable Fuji-nee take care of things on this end!"
The call doesn't last much longer after that, as Taiga's lunch time is short and her meal is large. You heave a sigh as you hang up the phone.
That was nerve-wracking. You hadn't expected a ghost from your past to suddenly appears efore you. You wonder what happened to motivate Taiga to leave her cozy nest back home. Maybe the teachers have really good benefits in Academy City. Or maybe this was about you.
You curse under your breath, your lack of knowledge frustrating you to no end. You really wish Emiya Shirou had kept a diary. This time was easy, as you had old habits to fall back on, but you're not looking forward to complete strangers who will come at you like close friends.
You'll try to figure something out later. For now, you return to your studies.
If the books are too dry and complicated, you should try to find something meant for a more general audience. You boot up the laptop and access the largest repository of junk science and babarized knowledge known to mankind: the internet. Surely there is somewhere an article written in small enough words for you to understand.
As it turns out, Emiya Shirou had bookmarked several interesting pages and forum, which considerably speed up your research. In particular, the blog of "Sensei-chan" has several post elaborating on fundamental principles in very simple term. Among them her explanation of the uncertainty principle using a box of chocolate resonates with you.
An esper is the one who can change the nature of the candy within the box to what he wishes it to be.
You can turn all the marbles in the bag white.
Yes, the two powers are definitely close.
Another site of interest is a forum dedicated to "Level Upping." Most of the users seems to be proper espers expanding on the curicullum the follow to increase their powers. None of the members claim to be higher than level 2, but it's a start.
Sadly, not everything you find is worthwhile and most of your afternoon is spent on repeats of what you've learned in one form or another. In the end, you shut down the machine in disgust.
You need a change of pace. Maybe you should check the phone's memory for names you might recognize?
...A pressure crashes into your body. An energy fills the atmosphere around you, blanketing your room. You recognize it immediately, of course. After all, you've used it yourself countless time. Prana, the source of magecraft.
There is a magus nearby, preparing a truly powerful spell. Judging by the way the energy radiates rather than gather at a point, it is a bounded field of some sort.
Your hand clenches into fist and your heartbeat speed up.
What do you do?
[]Not your business. Keep your head down and hope it goes away.
[] Really not your business. Run away.
--[]Stealthily. Get to the stair and don't look back.
--[]Quickly. Jump out of the balcony.
[]Peek out of your room, carefully.
[]Go out and find the magus
--[] As a worried civilian
--[]Using reinforcement
--[]Draw out your swords already.
[]...?
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nick012000
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[X] Peek out of your room, carefully.
- - [X] If you spot nothing, go out and find the magus
- - - - [X] As a worried civilian
- - [X] If you spot nothing, go out and find the magus
- - - - [X] As a worried civilian
Alexander
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[X] Peek out of your room, carefully.
- - [X] If you spot nothing, go out and find the magus
- - - - [X] As a worried civilian
- - - - - - [X] Be ready to deploy Reinforcement and Tracing if the magus is hostile.
- - [X] If you spot nothing, go out and find the magus
- - - - [X] As a worried civilian
- - - - - - [X] Be ready to deploy Reinforcement and Tracing if the magus is hostile.
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[blockquote]Rolled 3d100 : 35, 4, 68, total 107[/blockquote]Liam-don said:
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Liam-don
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Rolled 3d100 : 35, 4, 68, total 107: 1 success.
[X] Peek out of your room, carefully.
- - [X] If you spot nothing, go out and find the magus
- - - - [X] As a worried civilian
Carrefully, you open your front door. Nothing jumps out to hungrily rip out your throat, so you take a furtive look outside. The hallway is empty, but your eyes stop on the walls. All the way to the stairs, they are covered with small papers vibrating with prana. You recognize the markings on them as runes. You're knowledgeable enough to recognize them as "Torch" and "Aesir", but you can't for the life of you guess at what spell this is for.
There is an explosion several floors up. Leaning above the guardrail, you follow the smoke back to its origin. Despite the terrible angle, you catch sight of a spiky haired teenager, a fire elemental and a man dressed in priest robes. You're fairly sure the latter's the magus.
What do you do?
[]Get back inside. You're not the magus' target.
[]Call the firemen. This shit is dangerous!
[]Call Anti-Skill. It's their job.
[]Rip off the runes. Remove enough of them and it'll disrupt the elemental. In theory, at least.
[]Get up there yourself. It's faster that way.
-[] Quickly! Run up there as fast as you can
--[] Stealthily! Make sure you're not noticed.
--- []Flashily! Climb up there like a boss!
[] You have the magus' location. Just fire an arrow at him. Through the floor.
[X] Peek out of your room, carefully.
- - [X] If you spot nothing, go out and find the magus
- - - - [X] As a worried civilian
Carrefully, you open your front door. Nothing jumps out to hungrily rip out your throat, so you take a furtive look outside. The hallway is empty, but your eyes stop on the walls. All the way to the stairs, they are covered with small papers vibrating with prana. You recognize the markings on them as runes. You're knowledgeable enough to recognize them as "Torch" and "Aesir", but you can't for the life of you guess at what spell this is for.
There is an explosion several floors up. Leaning above the guardrail, you follow the smoke back to its origin. Despite the terrible angle, you catch sight of a spiky haired teenager, a fire elemental and a man dressed in priest robes. You're fairly sure the latter's the magus.
What do you do?
[]Get back inside. You're not the magus' target.
[]Call the firemen. This shit is dangerous!
[]Call Anti-Skill. It's their job.
[]Rip off the runes. Remove enough of them and it'll disrupt the elemental. In theory, at least.
[]Get up there yourself. It's faster that way.
-[] Quickly! Run up there as fast as you can
--[] Stealthily! Make sure you're not noticed.
--- []Flashily! Climb up there like a boss!
[] You have the magus' location. Just fire an arrow at him. Through the floor.
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Kataphraktos
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[X]Get up there yourself. It's faster that way.
-[X] Stealthily! Make sure you're not noticed.
-[X] Stealthily! Make sure you're not noticed.
nick012000
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[X] Get up there yourself.
-[X] Flashily. You jumped off of skyscrapers as an Heroic Spirit, jumping up there shouldn't be too difficult.
-[X] Flashily. You jumped off of skyscrapers as an Heroic Spirit, jumping up there shouldn't be too difficult.
Alexander
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