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Besides the chart mess-up it looks incredible, though. You said the tone was campy more than grimdark, right? I'm interested in what the world is like; things like where these monsters are coming from and what sort of organized force there is fighting them. Is it just loose bands of magical girls like the PCs defending humanity from the Yami?
Hmmm Perhaps Dark comedy is the best description? When I think grimdark, I think just like the most dark horrible nasty stuff, often for it's own sake. Like 40k. There's no tonal dichotomy in 40k. There are no nice things in 40k. Everything is murder and death and mindfuck.
And this world isn't that. The characters are in a pretty fucked up situation, and they're fighting really potentially frightening things, but it's not like the entire world is on fire and made of blood. In contrast the actual world of this is retrofuturistic and quite upbeat in that whole 1950's "By golly, I'm gonna drive my atomic car to work while my wife cleans the house with a garden hose because everything I own was coated in teflon! Time for a nice, healthy, refreshing cigarette!" kinda way.
So it's not noblebright, but it's not really what I would consider grimdark.
Oh and the general idea as per how magical girls get made, operate, and such is somewhere between Saikano and madoka with terminally ill or fatally injured girls being given the chance to live in exchange for their service. They are then transformed, via something unknown, which might be magic, might be science, and enlisted as groups to fight off incursions of these extradimensional Yami. The Yami cannot interact with this dimension under normal circumstances, but can manifest themselves if they have a host which is producing the right brainwave (they have some sort of affinity for the right frequency waves, especially organically produced ones). These Brainwaves are those created by negative emotions; hate, cruelty, despair, apathy, etc. Young girls are chosen because they seem to lack the capacity to produce the kind of brainwaves needed to become parasitized.
So now the magical girls are shipped around the world, fighting outbreaks of these Yami wherever they pop up. Magical girl Xcom where you're fighting alien demons produced by negative emotions.
Simple, right
OK, double post because I've read it.
Can you summon multiple copies of one monster at once from a summoning idol? (Given the text is "the monster will transform from the idol", I assume no)
If not, when a summoned monster is killed, will the idol break, or can you resummon the monster?
If you unsummon a monster that has used a lot of essence, will the idol have a little bit of essence left in it, lots, or none at all? What about unsummoning a monster that hasn't used any essence?
Do you get more essence using the essence from the "essence batteries" described in point #1, or by converting them (point #2) and absorbing it personally?
A description as to what "Magic Girl Look", "Normal Look", and "Life Until Now" could be useful.
Nope, just one per idol. The idol effectively becomes the heart of the summoned creature, so it won't die until that idol is broken.
Good question. See, the difference between Magical girls and the Yami is that magical girls hold a lot more essence and can use it in a lot more ways, while the yami have less, but never run out. The process to create a magical girl is not unlike a partial transformation into a yami. Just incomplete so they don't generate essence, they need to steal it to stay alive. As such, the essence used in summoning would be doing what amounts to jump starting the creation of the yami. You use it all up but create a core that generates its own essence. When you desummon it, that essence would count as spilled, so you wouldn't get it back, but you could still use it for a short time afterwards.
You get the same amount. The point is that essence batteries is that anyone can use them and that they don't require self injury to use. See, essence batteries can be broken and used for actions or go straight into your personal essence. That way they can work as a kind of first aid kit, allowing others to break them and absorb the essence when they're low. And if you look at the very bottom of the document, there's a chart on regenerating after injury. As you can see, releasing a lot of essence can require you really hurting yourself, which can make you less able to fight until you regenerate. If you're in a melee fight with some high level Yami, you don't wanna be down an arm or collapsed on the ground because you had to stab yourself through the heart to do some magic. Instead you can just break a handful of essence batteries and instantly cast without needing to do anything else.
Oh and yeah, that will get updated before I start. I was just sticking that there partially to remind myself, partially as a start to that section.
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