WEEK 4 CYOA: Shinobu, Futaba, Rin

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[wisterin]

[ ok, rin, shinobu is going to try to help and fail. we saw those rolls. somehow, the adrenaline fading after the crow monster bites it combined with her hearing that's half gone make her tired enough to stumble over her invocation.

she turns to the frazzled man with the med kits with a grateful look and reaches for them. ]

If you could lead us to a room to recuperate, I would appreciate it.

[technocool]

[ the moon moon stones will get slipped into a pocket where hopefully none of them forget about it later. in the meantime, with the blood loss and injury she just kinda nods vaguely in agreement to shinobu's words. what is she agreeing to? who knows! not her!

after all, with her 1, futaba loses the battle with conciousness and slumps over ]

[battling]

[The med kits are now in Shinobu's CYOA inventory.

The man startles and catches Futaba when she begins to fall.

Shinobu will get the sense that he would bow to her if he wasn't currently carrying an unconscious girl. Futaba probably is his max carrying amount. He's just a secretary, he doesn't have muscles or magic.]

Certainly, please follow me.

[He will lead her to a guest room in the castle, with two wide, spacious beds. It's fancy in here, and the desk paper bears the six pointed star emblem that she saw before.]

[aono]

[Rin is still unconscious on the floor.

He sadly cannot ask this man for his name or thank him for his help. Because he is unconscious.]

[wisterin]

[ she will do her best to carry rin but also levitate him using magic (11) so he's not being dragged on the floor since she's small and physically not strong in her nerfed state. she will set rin down on a bed. ]

Thank you for your help.... May I ask for your name?

[technocool]

[ futaba would plus one this if she wasn't out cold ]

[battling]

[I think, no matter what Shinobu does, Rin's feet are going to hit the ground and drag.

He'll put Futaba on one of the beds and then straighten up.]

Oh, did I forget to introduce myself? My name is Cock Robin, a pleasure to be at your service.

[He bows.]

[aono]

[Rin wakes up just in time to hear that name, but he's going to try and pretend he's still asleep because he does not think he can talk without laughing at that name. He has all the maturity of the 16 years old he is.]

[wisterin]

It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Robin. [ this is a western-looking fantasy everything. ] I hope we continue to get along. Do you know anything about the research in the Central Tower?

[ can she do a party heal (16)? they need to be able to move, if this isn't the last of it. ]

[battling]

[She CAN do a group heal.

Her own wounds have fully healed. Rin and Futaba's worst injuries are now only surface wounds instead of going all the way down to their bones. They should have full movement, but they will retain scars of all the wounds they've sustained so far. They will also have enough energy to rise from their unconscious states.]

You as well.

[Cock Robin frowns and considers what he knows about Central Tower. It's not that he doesn't want to tell you, it's that he's only ever heard some mutterings.]

I think... that's where the Magical Technology Corps do their research. It's where they test machines fueled with mana stones. I'm not sure if they've tried anything else.

[aono]

[Mira saying they WILL wake up.

But actually does this heal Rin's broken arm too?

He's already awake and listening to this though, so once he has his giggles under control he will crack an eye open to look at Cock Robin while he asks a question.]

Did the tower actually fall in that earthquake?

[wisterin]

[ she thinks over that answer. ]

Is that somewhere we can investigate, or is it off limits to us?

[technocool]

[ futaba unfortunately doesn't get to wake up early enough to hear his name and thus continues to be mr. npc. alas.

she on the other hand squints at the ceiling like it personally offended her while catching up to the conversation. talk about the least graceful exist ever, geez. eventually, an arm flops up vaguely to catch their attention ]

...These stones?

[ present: one moonstone ]

[battling]

[It partially heals Rin's broken arm. Rin can try and fully heal it on his own, or he can ask for more assistance.

The first question, he can answer with no problems.]

It did fall. That's what the earthquake was, I think.

[The second, he considers a little longer.]

You can investigate it on official business. Considering everything that's happened tonight, this should count. The tower is a few hours by carriage, but if you flew there, it would only take an hour.

[When presented with a moonstone he looks extremely uneasy.]

Where did you find that? There are legends of moonstones like this transforming people into monsters, human and wizard alike.

[aono]

Yeah, we found it in a monster.

[Let's not talk about the fact that they totally killed that dude. RIP knight guy.]

That's why we're beat to hell and back, you know? But I guess we'll have to keep going, if there might be something at the tower.

[wisterin]

[ these moonstones probably need to be kept somewhere safe. ]

Who knows if there are more out there or not?

Are you two well enough to move?

[technocool]

We'll beat them up! Now that we know their weaknesses it'll be easy peasy!

[ until the dice makes them eat shit again.

for now she just attempts to make a secure bag of holding for said stones (9). it uh. looks pretty? ]

I'm all rested up though, we should keep going!!

[battling]

The moon is out. Please be careful.

[This might be a few days after the sage's wizards fought the moon, but if the moon is out and bright and full, there is every possibility that they could run into trouble.

Futaba, you have made a bag. Hard to say if it's secure or not, but as long as you don't eat them, or put them into your body, you won't transform into a monster.

He will give you the direction of where the tower fell. It should be obvious, because there will be a giant pile of rubble, larger than any home, almost as large as the castle.

Are you ready?]

[aono]

Yeah, gimme a sec.

[He tries to heal his arm some more (8), but it's not going so great. It doesn't hurt anymore but it's still kind of weird-looking. But that's a problem for future-Rin! They have a tower to investigate.]

It's fine. We kick the moon's ass all the time, yeah? So we'll just beat it up again.

[He sounds confident despite the fact that they nearly wiped to one enemy.

But yeah he's as ready as he'll be. Let's do this.]

[wisterin]

[ she smiles her thanks at cock robin. ]

Please be careful, you two. I would be distraught if anything happened to either of you.

[ don't be too foolhardy, is what she's trying to say.

But she's also as ready as she'll ever be. Her wounds are all shallow now, so it's fine.

Time to fly to this pile of rubble. ]

[technocool]

[ futaba attempts a mediarama party cure spell. it's super successful! (19). ]

I'm ready to kick ass!

[ and hopefully not eat shit again lmfsjhdsj ]

[battling]

[With Futaba’s healing spell, the whole party is free of injuries. Rin's arm looks as it should. However, they do retain faded scars of all the places they were injured.

Up here all you get is moonlight and starlight. It’s deep into the night, there’s no hint of the sunrise approaching as you travel towards the collapsed Central Tower. The cool night wind whipping at your faces however fast you wish to travel.

How high are you flying? Where are you looking? Are you paying attention to the ground beneath you? Only towards the rubble?]

[aono]

[Asking Rin not to do anything foolheartedly is asking a lot, but he'll try.

He is watching the ground beneath them as they fly though. No need to get jumped by monsters as they fly towards the rubble! But he's also hoping there aren't more monsters and that everyone else is safe, if a little startled by the earthquake.]

[wisterin]

[ hooray for scars!

thanks to futaba, shinobu is alert now that she's fully healed, so she is looking everywhere as they're flying, on the ground and around, as they get toward the rubble.

she thinks.... if it was a huge research facility that fell, there's got to be a lot of kickback and reactions and all that jazz. ]

[technocool]

[ futaba attenpts to spell her glasses to do something similar to her persona goggles for a map layout and enemy locations. alas the eight means the best she gets one of those maps that won't show up until she's physically standing upon it. very helpful. maybe later we can add cool updates to it.

for now she just hangs back, a few feet above and behind the two of them just to play her usual role of lookout. the dark skies get a dubious squint in between keeping sn eye behind them. no need to be spooked!!! ]