Continued...
"Well I felt those tingles when a...stone, I guess, hit me? So I'm guessing nerve damage but then I felt those tingles all throughout my body. It didn't hit my spine though, just my..erm, head. I'm unsure it could do that much damage because I don't see any open wounds, sir.
"And does E-erm, could I talk to the doctor about it personally, please?"
Respond.
(This is the doctor. Sorry about being unclear.)
"That's...unusual." The doctor considers this for a moment.
(...I'll get back to you in a sec.)
((This is quite a long sec, huh. And all these other posts... >_<))
((I was waiting for someone to give me some hint of what to do.))
Stuff happens. Is it fair to assume you tell the truth?
(Just embrace your fame and it will all be good. Also, don't cause massive property damage.)
(never!)
Dive into water and swim to the other side
[6] You leap into some water, intending to escape that way. You accidentally activate your fire jumping, fly right over the water, and land on the other side. Hitting concrete.
[1] Ow. Ooh dear. Let it be noted that you have broken both legs and an arm. You...aren't exactly going to be running much more.
"Alright, time's up. We really need to get going. Seems like it's already night."
The girls are lead out of the hospital, earning no small share of gawkers. You are brought to a trio of vans, each getting one public servant, two guards, and a few girls crammed into the back. You drive for a few hours, making small talk and trying not to think about the implications of everything.
You arrive. The guards exit as well; they start scanning the surrounding areas, a largish dirt area--looking relatively recently cleared out, and being used as a parking lot by the vans.
"First bit of classified information is where this is. Our expert analyst lives here; he will undoubtably be a vital national resource during the weeks and months that follow, and possibly beyond if this goes much farther."
"Really? You can't see any non-magic use for me, Tai?"
A man wearing sneakers, sweatpants, and a hooded sweatshirt exits the woods.
"Girls, meet Kanagawa Chihu. Chihu, I'm Tai
sho."
"Or Tai
ga."
"Don't make me cut your funding."
"Not like I use it for anything. C'mon, Ai, Tai, Kir, girls. I don't think any of you have been around lately. Don't forget the little girl. Thanks for the intern, Ai."
Heishi retrieves Minu. Once they rejoin the group, Chihu leads them up the slope, leaving behind the guards.
"Before anyone asks," Chihu says, "this is a lot more secure than it looks. It's pretty isolated for a place you can almost reach by road. The impromptu parking lot you saw looks pretty conspicuous from there, but it's nothing more than an oddity without any vehicles. Not that people are likely to drive past anyways; the nearby road is mostly used either to get between a couple dinky towns, and it's too secret to tell you which ones, or sometimes as an overflow when a nearby road gets really crowded. The first doesn't happen very often and we've--
I've, rather--found some of the more likely folks; the second is rare, periodic, and occupied by people too busy and rushed to notice a barren patch of forest, vans or no. And it has some other good features, too."
You walk a few more minutes, strangely feeling not much more tired at the end than the beginning. Taisho and Heishi look a bit more winded, though.
"Twenty-three 'steps,' little ridges. Enough to discourage people from trekking up if they don't know what's up here. Important for other reasons, too. It's the most magical number, you know. Is that classified?"
"No."
You walk up, eventually hearing the sound of running water. A few minutes and a couple 'steps' later, you reach a clearing. The clearing is flat, with a pond in the middle, running in a stream towards a cleft in the mountain. The stream is interrupted by a pump drawing it into a building set up over the creek. The building is a quick little prefab structure with some modifications done to it after-market. A few others have been set up, along with some rocks in piles or circles, looking like the handmade starts of buildings. Overall, there are a couple dozen of the little structures. Within that ring are seven rocks around the central pond.
"Welcome to the Compound, aka my humble abode. Technically, it's that building over there. Thirteen. Technically, it's also Morri's house. It's a little duplex. MORRI! The bosses brought a bunch of girls!"
Out of the prefab building Chihu pointed out comes a girl, maybe 18 or 19, wearing jeans and a sweatshirt. She comes over to your group.
"Everyone, this is Saga Moriko. Morri, this is the bunch I told you about. Got the clipboard? Good. Write down your impressions of the girls, even the little one, and I'll decipher them when I get up. I'm in desperate need of a nap before I over-exert myself again. See y'all in fifteen, maybe thirty if I lose track of time."
Morri nods, and Chihu heads for the other door in the living building. The girl turns back towards the group.
"Greetings. Um, if you'd come forward, I could evaluate you? And maybe you should tell me what you've found out about your power already?"
(And thus begins my fiendish plot to figure out who all was at the hospital. Mwa-ha-ha!)
StatusBrief Description: America tomboy from a good family.
Appearance: Slender, Pretty. Twin-braided brown hair to waist. Green eyes.
Personality: ?
Health: Injured (51%)Energy: Winded (82%)Injuries: Legs & 1 Arm Broken
Other Issues: Famous
Magic Description: Short-ranged Fire
Alternate Form: Made of Fire
Known Powers: Alternate Form; Pyrokinetic Leaps Healing?
Other:
Brief Description: Technical Tinker Person
Appearance: Long, dark brown hair. Green eyes. Slightly skinny.
Personality: Loner. Tinker.
Health: Heavily Injured (40%)
Energy: Rested (100%)
Injuries: Missing Arm
Other Issues: Probable Criminal Charges
Magic Description: Electric Magick
Alternate Form: Fragile yellow person, taller and thinner, shocking.
Known Powers: Alternate Form
Other:
Brief Description: Presumably rich teen with size powers
Appearance: Average
Personality: Probably also very average
Health: Hurt (79%)
Energy: Rested (100%)
Injuries: Nothing Serious
Other Issues: None
Magic Description: Sizeshifting
Alternate Form: ??
Known Powers: None
Other:
Brief Description: Energetic, Athletic, Loner Author
Appearance: Slim and youthful; Shoulder-length brown ponytail; Matching eyes and skin; Sharp facial features
Personality: Loner
Health: Uninjured (100%)
Energy: Rested (100%)
Injuries: None
Other Issues: None
Magic Description: Earth Manipulation
Alternate Form: ??
Known Powers: Tough Skin?
Other:
Brief Description: Transgender swimmer
Appearance: Green, Bagged Eyes, Purple (dyed) Hair. "Body of a Swimmer". Looks asleep, looks down. Pearl-white Toenails.
Personality: Detached?
Health: Uninjured (100%)
Energy: Rested (100%)
Injuries: Headache
Other Issues: On a sinking cruise ship
Magic Description: Telepathy
Alternate Form: None
Known Powers: ??
Other:
Brief Description: Crazy Shipping Archer
Appearance: Tall, Brown Hair. Hazel Eyes.
Personality: Bored.
Health: Injured (80%)
Energy: Winded (90%)
Injuries: None
Other Issues: None
Magic Description: Air/Wind
Alternate Form: Gray, Vaguely Angelic Thing with Dragonfly Wings
Known Powers: Aerokinesis
Other:
Brief Description: Martial Artist and Bully/Neer-Do-Well
Appearance: Flat-Chested, Toned Muscles, Brown Eyes, Short Black Hair w/Red Tips
Personality: Selfish, Anti-Authoritarian "Independent"
Health: Heavily Injured (30%)
Energy: Rested (100%)
Injuries: Broken Ribs, Etc
Other Issues: What, that isn't enough?
Magic Description:
Alternate Form: Metallic
Known Powers:
Other:
Brief Description: Fujioshi
Appearance: Scrawny. Hair dyed cherry-red.
Personality: ??
Health: Uninjured (100%)
Energy: Winded (89%)
Injuries: None
Other Issues: Nothing serious
Magic Description: ??
Alternate Form: ??
Known Powers: ??
Other:
Brief Description: Cat-loving Four-Year-Old
Appearance: Light brown hair, Big eyes, Four, Often Wears Cat Costume.
Personality: Curious as a cat. Likes cats. Intelligent. Playful, cheerful.
Health: Uninjured (100%)
Energy: Rested (100%)
Injuries: None!
Other Issues: Parents "Hospitalized"
Magic Description: ??
Alternate Form: ??
Known Powers: ??
Other:
Brief Description: Rich Lonely Girl
Appearance: Slender, Black Hair, Pale Skin. Actually Looks Japanese (and bored).
Personality: Bored. Aloof?
Health: Uninjured (100%)
Energy: Rested (100%)
Injuries: None
Other Issues: You set the roof on fire!
Magic Description: Solar
Alternate Form: Plump, Golden
Known Powers: Aura of Setting Things on Fire (Alternate form only, thank Shys'm Caes)
Other:
Brief Description: Poor, Hardworking Waitress
Appearance: Long black hair. Blue eyes. Flat chest. Tall. Dresses in dresses.
Personality: ??
Health: Injured (55%)
Energy: Rested (100%)
Injuries: Broken Arm, Bleeding
Other Issues: None
Magic Description: Sound
Alternate Form: ??
Known Powers: Super-Hearing
Other:
Brief Description: Suicidal, Introverted Tomboy
Appearance: Brown Ponytails. Red Eyes.
Personality: Suicidal. Introverted.
Health: Heavily Injured (40%)
Energy: Rested (97%)
Injuries: (Broken Back)
Other Issues:
Magic Description: Shapeshifting
Alternate Form: Um...
Known Powers: Shapeshifting
Other:
Brief Description: Farmgirl who spends more time with animals than people
Appearance: Light blonde hair, Silver eyes.
Personality: Shy, Defensive
Health: Uninjured (100%)
Energy: Rested (100%)
Injuries: None
Other Issues: Orenji is Dead!
Magic Description: Nature
Alternate Form: Varies
Known Powers: Healing; Spirits
Other:
Brief Description: Engineering Wannabe
Appearance: Tall, Thin, Long Brown Hair; Hazel Eyes
Personality: Curious? Sightseeing? ...Nauseated?
Health: Hurt (90%)
Energy: Rested (100%)
Injuries: Nausea
Other Issues: None
Magic Description: Poison?
Alternate Form: ??
Known Powers: Being Sick from Normal Food
Other:
Brief Description: Middle-Aged Tourist Artist
Appearance: Rotund, Weary, Shoulder-Length Black Straight Hair
Personality: Depressed, Distant?
Health: Uninjured (98%)
Energy: Rested (84%)
Injuries: Scratch in arm
Other Issues: Voice In Head
Magic Description: Shattering
Alternate Form: ??
Known Powers: Breaking Stuff; Voice in Head
Other:
I've been thinking of redacting the semi-formal turn structure and just running "turns" when needed, with statuses staying in the second post.
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