(The cafeteria is full?)
((no idea, but the school is. We've been here half the day already. And we are headed to a scheduled lunch break, so the cafeteria should have students in it by now.))
Correct. There are a few dozen students already getting set up at the tables. They don't seem to notice it ~ but they do notice the the lights, or the lack therof.
The students begin murmuring amongst themselves. "When was the last time this happened?" seems to be the general point of conversation..
Ozarck (Di/Makiko) (4Df 3Pw 7Pc 2Wt)"That girl said they avoid crowds. Why is it in such a place full of people, in the daytime? It's eyes are strange ..."
Makiko stays near Nagisa and recalls their last battle and Makiko's spirit world. she tries to summon something organic - plantlike, like a tree or a large bush to help fight. Also, she puts her hand on her knife but doesn't draw it from under her outfit, and uses all dodge against bite and claw.
You close your eyes while concentrating, but in the end it feels like they haven't closed at all, as you enter into a new level of awareness. The spirit forest you once know has returned ~ rancid detrius covers the ocean floor, and layers upon successive layers of fungal growth dominate the shrubs, logs, and stumps planted among the woods across countless aeons.
Wandering the depths in search of help, you step on something hidden in the grass, levering part of it out in the air. A femur. You wonder if it's human...
Maybe looking behind you isn't the best idea. The sight of something horrible, a colonnade of a dozen legs dancing among the shadows cast by the blue moon. A dash of noxious spit blinds you in the darkness, snuffing out all trace of light save for the moon itself.
You dart up the closest tree you remember seeing, reaching out with your hands... but suddenly find yourself standing atop a lunch table in the cafeteria.
A tremendous six-meter centipede leaps out of the darkness of the hallway. Its torso is adorned with red and green chevrons up its total length, and its jaws hide rows of fangs designed to spit bubbles of poison. It poises itself in front of the skeletal dragon, but contrary to its vivid and frightening appearance, it joins Nagisa's rank and seems to await your command.
You reach down toward your pocket, but somehow your outfit seems to have changed. It's glowing with a bright radiance, yet the darkness in the hall doesn't seem to be illuminated, almost like a glorious illusion.
You've summoned a spirit. Your ability to control it depends on how many Power dice you devote toward it. If you successfully roll as many successes as its command score, it attacks with its full strength--but otherwise it will act as a separate entity with its own rolls. If half your command rolls are 6's, it will go berserk.Spirit Shards:Mask of Mystery -- It exudes a constant feeling of confusion. You have the feeling something will happen if you wear it.
Shackled Spirits:The Night Phantom (Strength: 3) (Command: 2)
--You can devote your power dice to command this creature as if it were your own.
--Can spit poison (
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Inventory:Bloody Knife (Skill Level: 3) (Damage: 2 physical) (Reach: +0)
-Slash: Against unarmored targets, you can throw 2 additional skill dice
As the skeletal dragon 'demon' continued to 'eye' them with interest, Nagisa made sure that Makiko was within arms length. Though it was thankfully daytime and a bit of sunlight was coming in through the skylights, the cafeteria and perhaps the rest of the school was dark. Though it clearly wasn't her 'demon', Nagisa have a bad feeling that whoever it was hunting was still at school.
"Okay, so this 'demon' is a bit bigger than the one we killed last night," Nagisa whispered to Makiko, hoping that it cannot hear her or doesn't have any attachment to the plant 'demon' if it can. "However, Youka said they tend to be repelled by determined resistance by people like us or something of that nature. Let's summon our weapons. Maybe we can scare it away or something?"
Summon her celestial musket and aim it at the 'demon'. Use all of Perception to keep an eye on it and 2 Defense to dodge any physical attacks it uses and the rest to dodge any magical attacks. If it attacks., retaliate.
You vicariously pile through a mound of discarded tools, anxiously tossing aside worn gears and blunted tools in search of your trump card. It seems to be gone ~ the crossbow mounted on the wall may just have to do. It has a strange box-shaped attachment...
In the cafeteria setting, your mystical apron appears again and you pull the crossbow out of thin air. Levelling it at the beast's head (it is 3 units away in distance), you wonder what this thing can do...
...
The beast stares at the two of you, in a curious sort of way that reminds you of a domestic animal.
You hear a voice ~ a human voice.
"Shhhhhhh!" A girl wearing a glowing green dress covered in vines walks out from the middle of the cafeteria, waving both of her palms out in front.
"P-please put those away... I just wasn't... paying attention to her...""She tries to place herself firmly between yourselves and the dragon (2 units away).
Spirit Shards:
Mask of Despair -- It pulses with an overwhelming sense of dread. You have the feeling something will happen if you wear it.
Inventory:
Celestial Repeater (Skill Level: 2) (Damage: 5) (Accuracy: 2)
--You can imbue the arrow with your Pc dice to increase its accuracy by an equal amount.
--Guided Projectiles: Skill level decreases by 1 beyond half the accuracy rating. Replaces the point blank modifier but no other modifiers (such as Out of Range)
(Ill let you three continue the conversation yourselves)
The lights suddenly go out.
Gai notices the girl Lannfrank saw before. Mitsuru has her back turned.
Inventory:
Keys!
Backpack with a bunch of books
As you help Mitsuru up, you note that the lonely girl sitting in front of the lockers seems completely uninterested in the current theatrics. But she did stand up and stare up at the ceiling ~ and for good reason.
The lights seem to have gone out.
Status:
Inventory:
Assassin's Plaque -- A token of... victory? It writes of a shadowly ninja clan.
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