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[ragnarok97071]

"No, it's fine, really... I have a jacket I can wear." She'd head for the door, grabbing her coat from nearby to mostly cover herself, though to be perfectly honest it didn't help to quiet the screaming, but that was worth avoiding putting any more of a burden on them than she already had.

[Twinwolf]

"Ok, let's go~" Yuki says cheerfully. Turning to the crowd, she raises her voice a bit. "Those are some great special effects for the fight!" Then, she turns to Noriko. "Hey Noriko! Nice to see you!" she says as if nothing strange had happened last they saw each other.

[Powder Miner]

"Um... alright, if you're sure, Sakurako." Once they headed outside, Faith made sure that they ended up in a corner where people weren't nearby, and she began to speak a little lowly to Sakurako, figuring it probably wasn't a good idea to go projecting things out anyway. "So, Sakurako, from what I've been told... it sounds like things have been hard. How have you been holding up...?"

[Chevaleresse]

Noriko had been trying really hard not to think about the last time they met, but Faith's reaction was enough of a reminder. This resulted in the both of them looking about uncomfortably, Noriko's feet shuffling about a bit, as she tried to compose herself. At least Faith was actually clothed now. "Uhh, they sell warded clothing and stuff. I can send you the address later, but I did try to grab some stuff for you and Yuki." She shook one of the bags on her arm, apparently the heavier of the two.

[Powder Miner]

Faith's own stewing in awkwardness was overriden by her desire to avoid getting stripped in the future, and she snatched the bag with remarkable speed.
"Oh, my God, thank you so much. Please do send me the address! I swear, there's something bullshitty about the Awakened w-- ah, bah, I'm getting worked up. But thank you!"

[ragnarok97071]

"I'm doing alright, really. I mean, I'm all healed now, and I'm learning how to control it."

She sounds calm, not wanting to worry them, smiling even though she'd yet to *quite* get ahold of the powers so that she *didn't* wake up and have to spend twenty minutes getting her heartrate back under control, like her muscles weren't constantly sore from overexertion just from the amount of tossing and turning she did in the night, and on a more practical level she'd gone through three separate pairs of sheets since the incident due to tearing them apart in her sleep.

"How are you all handling things? I mean, what with... well, what you do..."

Being heroes. Saving her, cleaning up after the mess she'd gotten herself in, things like that.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Minato flashes her a confident smirk.
"Oh, you know. Saving a kitten in a tree here, bailing out a damsel in distress tied to some train tracks there, a fight with the evil version of some Western artist somewhere...."

[Twinwolf]

"Ooooh, thanks! It's been hard getting spare uniforms on short notice, so something like that is great!" Yuki said cheerfully in response to Noriko, before turning to the girl. "Oh, it's been great! We get to be superheroes and magic and save people (although most don't realize that) and we actually get paid so that's nice too!"

[Powder Miner]

”Uh... I’m handling things fine,” Faith replied far less convincingly than the other two. ”Boy, though, there sure are a lot of things going on... like, WMD magical girls (well, just Nicole) and getting an offer from them and all that.”

[ragnarok97071]

"Well... I'm glad everything's going so well for everyone."

Just more reasons you shouldn't be bothering them with your problems.

"Well, I should really get back to practice, thank you all for coming out to see me~

[Chevaleresse]

Noriko shrugged. "I've been doing alright, I guess. Just, like Faith said, a lot of stuff to deal with." Her lie was a bit more convincing than Faith's, at least, even if she believed the sentiment less; she'd been pretending to hold it together for a while. "Been trying to figure some private stuff with Kouta out."

[Empiricist]

Shef
It is now Thursday. You're at the venue, a grand event hall. Big, wide open, circular tables scattered across the room. Height is three stories with terraces at the side of the hall. More positions to hide above in the lights and scaffolding. You got the plans on hand too. You alone, or did you bring a plus one?

Yuki
Okay so you start heading back home and you're well on your way when you hear a ruckus coming from a nearby alleyway.

Noriko
Okay so with this over you head back home ready to relax and just wallow in your own insecurities. Might need to put a raincheck on that, cause as you enter the safehouse's Sanctuary you find yourself face to face with Mary, Fleur, Vendelin, Evi, Elly, and a small group of plushies. Each of them is standing near or holding a box.

Faith and Minato
You two are walking back to Faith's. It's around here that you realize something's off. The air, it feels strange here, it feels stale, sterile, dead. And looking around you two find yourselves surrounded by wheat, pale stalks of wheat, you're up to your shoulders in it. It's everywhere, it's covering the place, the street, the road, the interior of the nearby shops. The civvies continue walking, oblivious.

Minato, you know what this is - Sanctuary Inversion. An Aramitama's Sanctuary projected onto the outside world, transforming their stronghold into a weapon. You're in danger, everyone's in danger. You feel a chill run down your spine. Something's coming, and you're right in its sights.

Spoiler: World Lines (click to show/hide)

Faith
Status: Fine
World Line: 5 2 3 3 4 3 4 6 6 2
Alterations: 5
Resolve: 3

Minato
Status: Fine, untransformed
World Line: 2 1 5 1 5 4 3 1 2 2
Alterations: 5
Resolve: 3

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

Welcome to the TnO++ Alternative system test! In this version of the TnO++ system, everything is the same except for Alterations. You start at your Alteration cap of 5 and regenerate 1 Alteration per turn. You can spend one Alteration to increase or decrease a die's value by one. You can spend as many Alterations as you like in a single turn.

This aims to fix the issue wherein people would just never use low results and just progressively fuck their worldlines further and further, now if you got a bad roll you're either gonna need to alter it or just eat it, and the same goes for enemies, so no more bosses spamming alterations to roll 5s nonstop either.

[Strider03]

Leone is with Shef. There were no windows, so it wasn't particularly feasible to have Hanako five blocks away for sniping. It'd work, given that there was no telling how accurate she'd be under pressure, and with the volume, she couldn't just snipe from a hotel room. Here at least, if she was shooting, people would already be panicking. She could be set up on one of the balconies along the sides. View of the stage wouldn't be perfect, nor of the area directly beneath, but there was no way to get around that.

He carefully made his way around the perimeter of the room, checking for the locations of electrical outlets and light fixtures. Additionally, he gave a quick check to the undersides of the tables. Unlikely that they would have anything more than an hour before the event, but best to check. Then he gave a quick glance around the room to determine whether it was empty of other people save Leone. If it is, he'll go to one side of the room, under the balcony, and see how many portals it takes to ascend up to each level. Better to know that ahead of time than to have to figure it out on the fly. He continued to keep an eye out for any abnormalities.

[Empiricist]

Shef
Outlets are in the walls at regular intervals. Fixtures are generally located above with the scaffolding in the main room, or in the ceiling for the balconies. Nothing out of place underneath the tables and there are people buying around helping set up at the moment.

"If we're expecting larger monsters, we will need to plan out escape routes. If worst comes to worst spell fire will be blowing through the walls. It may be counter intuitive but if something does appear we may need to use our client as bait."

[Strider03]

"Yes, I know." He muttered irritably.
"You're going to be closest to the client, there to take the hit it need be, so you'll be the primary escort in escape. There's the main ways in and out, stairs and elevators. We'll use those if we can. If there's indication that they're being watched, there's a set of two loading elevators through the service corridor here, and through backstage and across the link bridge." Shef indicated two locations on the floor plan. "There's also the deck, if it comes to that. Exit choice will be up to your judgement, however, if possible exiting the main way is best, then balcony if we're separated, service elevators if not." Essentially, he drew two recommended lines on the map, as proposed exit plans that could be used if things went right, and they'd adapt when things inevitably did not go right.

"Let's take a look at this area over here." Shef pointed out the location on the map that involved the service corridor, some dressing rooms, and the elevators. He'd head that way, and make his way in so that they could get an idea of the layout in each of these rooms. Use requiem and portals for keeping people from asking questions and getting in respectively. Continue to keep an eye out for suspicious devices, layout choices, people, etc as they move through the service corridor and into the smaller rooms.