Sylvan

Mahou Shoujo No 30 Dai- a spoof rp!

Farrah Day

Today was supposed to be a normal day, with normal-ish people, not my first foray into fighting for my life. I didn't even know there were others in New York City! B-but I'm getting ahead of myself... As I said, it started out as a better-than-normal Saturday...

Farrah was spending her Saturday with an old friend from childhood who'd managed to drag the introverted scientist from her apartment to see a new exhibition that the American Museum of Natural History had just opened, something about Exoplanets that had been discovered beyond the Solar System. The friend in question was Sarah, a short, strawberry blonde woman with the look of someone who took every day at full tilt and loved every second, and a sharp tongue that cut friend and enemy alike. The two had known each other since grade school when Sarah had effectively adopted Farrah as her friend. The two were dressed casually, and seemed more focused on catching up than they were on the exhibition itself at this point, having moved to the museums cafe.

"It's been too long Sarah, sorry I, ah, don't call much..." Farrah said, embarrassment plain on her face as she blew on her coffee lightly before trying it.

"It's not like that's anything new, Farrah." Sarah said with a wry smile. "I've known you for 20 years, at this point I'd sooner expect a monster to attack New York than I would expect you to initiate."

Speaking of monsters, should I tell her about Subject? I trust her, but I don't want her in danger... Farrah thought, with an internal twinge of guilt that she hadn't told her oldest friend.

As if thinking about him had summoned him, Subject 01 spoke in Farrahs mind. "Farrah! I've got a new feeling, and it's not a good one... I think a monster is about to appear, and its close. We need to be ready-" Subject 01, the mouse-like Mascot projected from his hiding spot in Farrahs purse, before being interrupted as both of their phones went off with an emergency alert.

ALERT! MONSTROUS ACTIVITY HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THIS VICINITY! ALL CITIZENS PLEASE EVACUATE CENTRAL PARK AND THE SURROUNDING BLOCKS!"

This caused a predictably panicked exodus, as monsters had mostly left New York City alone thus far unlike what monster movies would have had you believe. As the press of the crowd started to pull the two women along, Farrah took Sarahs arm and pulled them into an emergency stairwell with the air of a mind made up. "Sarah, uh, this isn't how I wanted to tell you, but-"

"If this is how you're timing a confession, you've got even worse timing that I thought..." Sarah said, her voice uncertain and nervous.

"What? No, I-" Farrah rolled her eyes, exasperated even as she knew Sarah had never handled crises well. "No, I can do something about this. I- Something happened six months ago. Remember that cute lab rat my lab got a while back?" Farrah waited until Sarah nodded, though confusion was clear on her friends face.

"Well, ah, turns out he's a Mascot. You know, like Sugar Pink and all the rest work with. And, more, he- he's my Mascot. I can do something about this, so I'm going to. Can you, uh, hold my purse while I fight a giant monster?" Farrah finished awkwardly, trailing off as she realized she had begun to ramble.

"I- uh, holy shit. Yeah, I can- I can hold your purse I guess. We should, uh, talk about this more after you're done. Saving New York. Yeah." Sarah was in shock, and sat heavily on the stairs. "Just, make sure you come back, yeah? We're too young to be grieving."

Farrah smiled as her friends usual humor shone through for a moment, then handed the other woman her purse. With Subject 01 on her shoulder she took a deep, steady breath and focused on the magic within.

"By Dalton's model, by Newtons might, I fight to bring scientific light! Curie Heart, Go!"

A brilliant wave of rainbow light washed over Farrah, beginning the transformation as motes of magic began to swirl around her, building her costume out bit by bit and culminating in a flash as the Magical Girl Curie Heart.

Curie Heart

With a nod to Sarah, Curie Heart sprinted up the stairs and out onto the roof of the museum, the run that would have exhausted Farrah not even winding Curie Heart as she looked out across Central park before spotting the telltale signs of magical energy building up. With practiced confidence, she stepped onto the edge of the roof. "Newtons Cradle, hold me close!" She said as she stepped into thin air, falling for a moment before she flew in the direction of the disturbance, motes of mana beginning to orbit her as her power gathered.

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@Sylvan You're the last one needed for an opener, then we can get into the action.

@shagranoz

Been really busy this week, but I should have a post up today or tomorrow

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Farrah Day/Curie Heart

The Mundane

Appearance

Source

Name: Farrah Day

Age: 31

Personality: Farrah is an introvert, confident in her work but shy with her colleagues and higher ups. She has a strong sense of justice, and is passionate with those she is close to, but she has a hard time reaching people or keeping them close. This has led to her seeming cold or aloof to those who aren't close to her, but warm and passionate, and sometimes clingy, to those who've managed to get past that.

Backstory: Magical girls came into the light when Farrah was in grade school, and she'd been interested in the phenomenon ever since. Over the years, this turned from infatuation, to dreaming of being one, to trying to unlock the secrets of their magic through controlled experimentation and analysis, which in turn lead to her pursuit of a career in the sciences. Throughout her life, Farrah only ever experienced magical phenomena at a distance. No monsters attacked her hometown, none of her extended family were harmed, nothing. Magic seemed entirely detached from her reality until she reached university, and started working with one of her professors who was leading the charge to understand magic as a force within the world, Professor Ariel Jackson. Under Professor Jackson, a renowned physicist, she studied physical chemistry in an attempt to understand the forces and interactions at play between matter and the energy known as 'magic', though neither had made significant inroads even when working directly with Mascot assistance, leading to their team growing to include a variety of disciplines working under Dr. Jacksons leadership.

One night, yet another late night at the lab, an experiment began to show results; that night would eventually mark the beginning of a new story, but we aren't there yet. Her most recent experiment began to react in a never-before-seen chain of reactions, and in her haste and excitement Farrah forgot to take certain precautions. This lead to the experiment reaching criticality and detonating, destroying the records Farrah had managed to make and wrecking much of the lab in the process as well as knocking Farrah herself out, only regaining consciousness when emergency services found her alive and mostly unharmed save a few scrapes and bruises, laying in a clean circle amongst the ruins of the lab along with the labs mascot, an albino lab rat with oddly purple eyes.

Over the following weeks and months, Drs. Jackson & Day lead the team in trying to safely recreate the catastrophic experiment to little avail, the closest attempt having to be cancelled as the containment measures failed and the reaction nearly went critical. During this time, the lab had gained a mascot somewhere, the little rat, who had figured out how to get out of its cage and wander the lab without disturbing ongoing experiments and dangerous materials. The team originally tried to keep it in a succession of cages, but eventually conceded that their new mascot could wiggle its way out of any cage.

One day, several months after the explosion, Farrah heard a voice in her mind. Her little lab rat, the friendly fuzzy-faced mascot of the lab, was speaking to her telepathically. It told her that in the months since the explosion, it had been recovering its power after saving Farrah and keeping the building intact, and was finally able to reveal its true identity as a magical Mascot. It said that it had originally been attracted to the team, and Farrah herself, by their dedication to their studies, instead of just giving up when the going got tough. Subject 01 had chosen Farrah Day, and the two of them bound their souls together in the name of scientific discovery, forming the magical girl Curie Heart. This did not lead to the rapid leaps forward that the team had hoped for, but the availability of a Magical Girl who also held a Doctorate of her own at least ensured smooth integration and the understanding of experimental procedures and the scientific method. Over the following 6 months, Farrah worked herself relentlessly, working both to advance their understanding of magic (very, very slowly to her chagrin), and to master her own powers as Curie Heart, which went far better. The other reason for Subject 01s choice became clear later, when monsters started to attack New York City and Curie Heart was needed to protect the people.

Other Details:
- Fluent in Spreadsheet
- PhD in Physical Chemistry & Physics

The Magical

Appearance

Source

Transformed Name: Curie Heart

General Powers/Theme: Physics

Curie Heart passively generates motes of Mana that orbit her as if they were electrons in an atom.

Minor Powers/Attacks (3. Small attacks and utility power, like D&D cantrips)
- Atom Bolt: Farrah sends a mote of mana to strike her target.
- Atomic Iris: Farrah can use this ability to discern the internal makeup and blueprint of an object not sufficiently shielded. Shielding is anything that would interfere with an x-ray machine or similar device (e.g. enough lead).
- Atomic Reversal: Farrah can use a materials "memory" to try to revert it to a previous state. This can be used to mend wounds or damaged objects, but the longer it has been since the damage was done the harder it is to reverse, and the ability cannot create something from nothing (e.g. she can reattach an arm recently lost, but not grow a new arm on someone)

Medium Powers/Attacks (2. Higher power moves)
- Photon Lance: Farrah focuses multiple motes of Mana into a spinning spear of mana-infused photons that strikes her target at extreme speeds. Depending on how many motes and mana she pours into this, she can make a single lance or extend it into a barrage.
- Newtons Cradle: Farrah uses her orbiting motes to passively or actively affect the area around her. Examples of passive effects would be slowing a fall or stopping a baseball bat swung by a normal person, while active effects could include flight, short-range telekinesis, or deflecting or outright halting ranged attacks. When used to defend herself, the ability costs more to stop more powerful attacks.

Major Power/Attack (1. Signature move/finisher)
- Hadron Smasher: Farrah focuses all of the motes orbiting her into a single, massive beam originating from her palm. This beam can annihilate most mundane materials, and will do serious damage to most magical materials as well, so she always needs to be sure she knows what is behind her target when she uses it.

Transformation Item

Other Details: Her transformation chant is "By Dalton's model, by Newtons might, I fight to bring scientific light!"

The Mascot

Appearance

Name: Subject #01

Personality: Subject 01 is incredibly curious about the physical world, and takes to new experiences, and experiments, with great zeal. He is enthusiastic and caring, always looking for new ways to help the team of researchers he works with and the magical girl he has partnered with.

Other Details: Subject 01 is a relatively inexperienced Mascot, and as such is discovering the full extent of his powers as a Mascot while Farrah is discovering her own powers as a Magical Girl, and both treat it as a collaborative research project for better or for worse. When out and about, Subject 01 accompanies Farrah by hiding in her shirt pocket.

Mahou Shoujo No 30 Dai- a spoof rp!

Also, starter is up, if anyone wants to get their characters going. I was thinking we'd all post our openers traveling to the monster, and then we could get into the action.

@shagranoz

Sorry, I fixed (I hope) the story issues you brought up a few days ago, but I've been having a bit of a time coming up with her powers x.x

Mahou Shoujo No 30 Dai- a spoof rp!

Workable, but I'm going to have to disagree with the 'mundane causing magic' bit. Perhaps Subject was attracted to her curiosity and hought she'd be a good candidate?

Otherwise, so far so good.

@shagranoz

Sounds good, I'll update that as well when I get off work today.

Mahou Shoujo No 30 Dai- a spoof rp!

@shagranoz I thought I'd be able to finish my CS tonight but I wasn't able to get the moves done. WIP is below.

WIP

The Mundane

Appearance

Source

Name: Farrah Day

Age: 31

Personality: Farrah is an introvert, confident in her work but shy with her colleagues and higher ups. She has a strong sense of justice, and is passionate with those she is close to, but she has a hard time reaching people or keeping them close. This has led to her seeming cold or aloof to those who aren't close to her, but warm and passionate, and sometimes clingy, to those who've managed to get past that.

Backstory: Magical girls came into the light when Farrah was in grade school, and she'd been interested in the phenomenon ever since. Over the years, this turned from infatuation, to dreaming of being one, to trying to unlock the secrets of their magic through controlled experimentation and analysis, which in turn lead to her pursuit of a career in the sciences. Throughout her life, Farrah only ever experienced magical phenomena at a distance. No monsters attacked her hometown, none of her extended family were harmed, nothing. Magic seemed entirely detached from her reality until she reached university, and started working with one of her professors who was leading the charge to understand magic as a force within the world, Professor Ariel Jackson. Under Professor Jackson, a renowned physicist, she studied physical chemistry in an attempt to understand the forces and interactions at play between matter and the energy known as 'magic', though neither had made significant inroads even when working directly with Mascot assistance, leading to their team growing to include a variety of disciplines working under Dr. Jacksons leadership.

One night, yet another late night at the lab, an experiment began to show results; that night would eventually mark the beginning of a new story, but we aren't there yet. Her most recent experiment began to react in a never-before-seen chain of reactions, and in her haste and excitement Farrah forgot to take certain precautions. This lead to the experiment reaching criticality and detonating, destroying the records Farrah had managed to make and wrecking much of the lab in the process as well as knocking Farrah herself out, only regaining consciousness when emergency services found her alive and mostly unharmed save a few scrapes and bruises, laying in a clean circle amongst the ruins of the lab along with the labs mascot, an albino lab rat with oddly purple eyes.

Over the following weeks and months, Drs. Jackson & Day lead the team in trying to safely recreate the catastrophic experiment to little avail, the closest attempt having to be cancelled as the containment measures failed and the reaction nearly went critical. During this time, the lab had gained a mascot somewhere, the little rat, who had figured out how to get out of its cage and wander the lab without disturbing ongoing experiments and dangerous materials. The team originally tried to keep it in a succession of cages, but eventually conceded that their new mascot could wiggle its way out of any cage.

One day, several months after the explosion, Farrah heard a voice in her mind. Her little lab rat, the friendly fuzzy-faced mascot of the lab, was speaking to her telepathically. It told her that in the months since the explosion, it had been recovering its power after saving Farrah and keeping the building intact, and was finally able to reveal its true identity as a magical Mascot. It said that it had originally been attracted to the team, and Farrah herself, by their dedication to their studies, instead of just giving up when the going got tough. Subject 01 had chosen Farrah Day, and the two of them bound their souls together in the name of scientific discovery, forming the magical girl Curie Heart. This did not lead to the rapid leaps forward that the team had hoped for, but the availability of a Magical Girl who also held a Doctorate of her own at least ensured smooth integration and the understanding of experimental procedures and the scientific method. Over the following 6 months, Farrah worked herself relentlessly, working both to advance their understanding of magic (very, very slowly to her chagrin), and to master her own powers as Curie Heart, which went far better. The other reason for Subject 01s choice became clear later, when monsters started to attack New York City and Curie Heart was needed to protect the people.

Other Details:
- Fluent in Spreadsheet
- PhD in Physical Chemistry & Physics

The Magical

Appearance

Source

Transformed Name: Curie Heart

General Powers/Theme: Physics

Curie Heart passively generates motes of Mana that orbit her as if they were electrons in an atom.

Minor Powers/Attacks (3. Small attacks and utility power, like D&D cantrips)
- Atom Bolt
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Medium Powers/Attacks (2. Higher power moves)
- Photon Lance

- Newton's Cradle: Newtons Cradle allows the user to modify Newtons Laws of Motion within a short range of the user, with greater changes costing more mana.

Major Power/Attack (1. Signature move/finisher)
- Hadron Smasher

Transformation Item

Other Details:

The Mascot

Appearance

Name: Subject #01

Personality: Subject 01 is incredibly curious about the physical world, and takes to new experiences, and experiments, with great zeal. He is enthusiastic and caring, always looking for new ways to help the team of researchers he works with and the magical girl he has partnered with.

Other Details: Subject 01 is a relatively inexperienced Mascot, and as such is discovering the full extent of his powers as a Mascot while Farrah is discovering her own powers as a Magical Girl, and both treat it as a collaborative research project for better or for worse. When out and about, Subject 01 accompanies Farrah by hiding in her shirt pocket.

EDIT: Fixed the backstory & Subjects blurb (I hope) but still working on the powers.

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<Snipped quote by Sylvan>

If you go chem, give me a holler if you need some ideas. Be nice to put my 100K wallhanger to some use...

@shagranoz

I'm definitely going the Chem route, so hit me up! I'm going to try to finish up my CS tomorrow but I have the bones fairly in order.

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I'm thinking about Chemistry or Physics for a theme to go with the general scientist motif my concept has. Sorry I haven't been that active, I've had guests over all week.

Mahou Shoujo No 30 Dai- a spoof rp!

Ok, so I've got the beginnings of an idea for her powers, the problem is scaling/balance. Given her role as a scientist studying magical girls I want it to be something science-related or non-elemental otherwise, but I'm not sure about the best way to do that without going a bit too broad/exploitable. Does anyone have any thoughts?

EDIT: I have ideas now nvm, will expand after work today.

Mahou Shoujo No 30 Dai- a spoof rp!

@shagranoz ok, not sure what her power set will be yet, but what about a character who is one of the scientists who was working on studying the magical girl phenomena?