[OOC] Darkest Before the Dawn: A CYOA Magical Girl Roleplay [Completed]

[Shifter_Master]

In hopes of getting an 80's style montage to help raise Penny's stats on the Waifu tier, what are some of her failings that drop her to Trash tier waifu?

[BrokenPromise]

I knew I should have waited till April first to post it.

[Majoraa]

Rip.

Amaryllis best girl tho. Fite me.

[BrokenPromise]

Not a bad choice, but Fanfan's nails best girl.

[Majoraa]

Crap, you got me there.

[Ariamis]

I expected Lily to score lower on Mein tier and higher on Waifu tier, glad that wasn't the case. Also lol at the most shipped chars (Alicia and Penny) in trash tier. Too much Waifu ruins laifu

[BrokenPromise]

@Ariamis

Lily was badass in season 2, and did a pretty decent job in season 1 until she became a damsel for the last 1/4. But mostly she's just demonstrated strong support powers and gets along with almost everyone.

And yea, hard to be a tru waifu when everybody wants you. Not jelly.

On a more serious note, I think I showed you this character previously. But here's a more complete revision.

Eyepatch Kid

Name: Trixy

Age (Magical Girl): 14

Age (Before Magical Girl): 30

Gender: Female

Gender (Before Magical Girl): Male

Appearance: Trixy's body is rather normal for a 14 year old girl, minus the lanky limbs, pale skin, and jagged teeth. Her wardrobe is rather expansive, but her magical girl outfit is just a french maid's outfit. Tends to slouch a bit when she walks. (click for the big)



Specialization: Wood: Trixy can accelerate the growth of plants, sometimes beyond the size they normally could otherwise. Her plants are sturdier than their non-magical counterparts, and she can cause roots and vines to move on their own.

Weapon: Barette M82, M107, call it anything but late for dinner. It's a semi-automatic anti-material sniper rifle. If a description like that isn't a worthy magical girl weapon, then I dunno what is.

Power: Duplication: Trixy can create a few clones of herself. Each one possesses her physical attributes, but only a minimal amount of magical power.

#2: Devour (DMG) Trixy's signature power as a dark magical girl. Her jaw unhinges and her mouth expands, revealing a black abyss that consumes all it touches. Has regenerative properties when she eats organic matter, and is greatly enhanced upon eating something magical.

Perks:

Flexibility: Turns out doing Yoga has its benefits.

Hammer space Handbag: She keeps a plethora of seeds in there to use during combat.

Training: In addition to Yoga, Trixy also did some Judo. This enables her to grapple with magical girls that are stronger than she is. When grappling is involved, Trixy's prowess is measured with her Agi.

Big Damn Hero: Trixy can "love bite" a person and place. She will always be alerted should they be in peril.

Eternal Style: Trixy has access to a hammer space wardrobe. She also smells and looks great despite having poor hygiene.

DMG options:

Dark Regeneration Power: Trixy has a regenerative power, but it only activates if she eats something organic (plants, animals) or magical (Magical girls, artifacts, enchantments)

Devourer Mental Mutation: Aaaaand she needs to make use of it. It's not uncommon for Trixy to take a bite out of whatever's nearby to sate her endless hunger. Telephone poles, mailboxes, livestock, you name it. Trixy can usually keep her hunger at bay by growing and eating her own plants, but the more stressed she becomes, the hungrier she gets. She's devoured an entire telephone pole after a rejection in the past.

Patron: Crimson Cradle

Patron Benefits:

Top Manager: Veronica has given Trixy some administrative privileges over her network of agents. While looking after everyone is hard work, it's made a bit easier by being aloud to use the cradle as instant transport. With a bit of coordination, Trixy can step into the cradle and step out to an area anywhere in Penrose or the overcity. The only requirement is that there has to be another Cradle agent in the area where she wants to go to help Veronica triangulate the exit. Using the cradle this way takes several seconds, and isn't an ideal way to escape and/or navigate a firefight. Trixy can enter the cradle with other magical girls, and has access to 1 piece of cradle gear.

The Shooting Star: A legendary flying broom, said to be the fastest that exists. Technically a melee weapon, but this thing has a mind of its own and insists on always moving as fast as it can. All of Trixy's flights have ended with her falling off or crashing, at which point Veronica collects the broom and gives Trixy back her weapon.

Cradle Supply: Trixy can get a loansky on various items, so long as she can set something aside for collateral.

Connected: Free wifi and friend finder. That was a joke, but Trixy is always connected to the other agents.

Gifted artifact (universal): Trixy has a mystical scope on her gun: The Spectacle of Eros. While the scope is capable of divining things like the location of a target, Trixy primarily uses it to track her targets through time by several seconds to lead her shots. Only when she isn't using it to peep on people.

Patron Drawbacks:

Babysitter: Veronica has tasked Trixy with the well being of her top agent, who is the centerpiece of all major operations. Trixy is required to follow any and all of Silhouette's orders, less she face the wrath of her patron. The exception to the rule is when Veronica chooses to make things more interesting for

Exposed: Even if Trixy wasn't a total blabbermouth on Glimr, Veronica knows everything she does and thinks.

Penance: Those that under perform end up sacrificing themselves for the greater good.

Fighting Style: Trixy is a high mobility support that helps fellow agents through delivering suppressing fire, attacking key targets, and delivering effects through seed loaded bullets.

Trixy can load her bullets with a seed and then make that seed grow into a plant wherever the bullet ends up landing. This can have beneficial effects, like planting a hedge that gives her allies cover, Or more detrimental ones, like having poison ivy climb up the legs of her opponents. A M107 certainly has the power to do a lot of damage and will outright kill weaker magical girls, but Trixy prefers to subdue her opponents most of the time. Though she has no control over what her allies do...

The seeds Trixy employs change from battle to battle, but she genuinely always carries vine plants (for ensnaring), a few large trees (for creating walls), some poisonous plants (slowing down the enemy), some carnivorous plants (to deal with minions), and plants with thick foliage and/or flat leaves (to provide cover, create caltrops, etc).

She's also not bashful about splitting off a few extra clones of herself. They aren't especially magical, but their weapons and aim are every bit as good as her own.

Trixy tends to fight at a distance, and will actively try to maintain distance between herself and her opponent. But if she needs to get close, she likes fighting really close. Her martial abilities are really strong, and when in doubt, she can bite her way out of most situations.

Stats (Untransformed):
STR: 3
AGI: 5 (Average body, Flexible)
VIT: 3
MAG: 3
LCK: 3

Stats (Transformed):
STR: 8 (Wood spec,silver,bronze)
AGI: 16 (Average body, Ranged, Flexible, silver, silver, bronze, Gold)
VIT: 8 (Wood spec, silver, bronze)
MAG: 8 (Wood specX2, Elaborate, bronze)
LCK: 4

Personality: Trixy comes across as bubbly and flirty most of the time, with a jovial smile on her face. Most would have a hard time believing someone so open could be an agent, but here we are. She treats most people as a close friend, willing to get them whatever she can.

Flirting is a pretty big part of what Trixy does. Or at the very least, she feels inclined to complement everyone she's in close proximity to. The flirting and advances don't happen until she's a bit more comfortable. Most of her efforts don't really amount to anything.

She has a pretty good wit too, and absolutely loves puns. Though she's usually not clever enough to think up her own. Though it's not that she's stupid, words just don't come to her very easily.

In fights, Trixy is usually pretty level headed. But if things start to go south, she stresses out and starts to eat things. Eating is how she comforts herself in any situation, and her appetite grows the more stressed she is.

It's difficult to make Trixy angry, but true betrayal is a hard trigger for her. Even when it's her enemies screwing each other, it really grinds her gears.

History: There's not much to say. Trixy's past isn't something she likes to talk about, but she has fond memories of Penrose Middle School and supporting her favorite teams. In fact it was witnessing a student athlete's death that pulled her into the magical girl world. While she hadn't caused the death of the girl, Trixy wished there was more she could do to help her against her greatest foe. Perhaps it was this desire to do more that made her want to join Veronica's cause.

Incantation: "P-E-N-R-O-S-E! M-I-D-D-L-E! S-C-H-O-O-L! Let's roll!"

Additional Info: No one really knows what's behind her eye patch, but Trixy jokes there's a second mouth under there. It's actually just a normal eye, and the eye patch is actually a tightly woven screen that can be seen through.

Magical Coins: Anything Trixy made she has since put back into Crimson Cradle.

[Ariamis]

You did show a WIP some time back. This is accepted.

[BrokenPromise]

Ari posted this as a blank template, so I had to fill it up.



I think I placed Sophia a little high on the RaaawwwrrXD scale, and Emily too close to Smol bean, but otherwise I think this checks out.

[Majoraa]

Hah, both El and Celia are beans.

[Ariamis]

The timeskip has now begun, and will take place for a week of time in-universe. You may now make posts intended for ambiguous time, such as meeting collabs between two or more characters.

[AtomicNut]

Just letting you people know, i am tinkering with a magical gurl now.

[FamishedPants]

I'll tinker with you if you keep it up

[AtomicNut]

So far I got a chap that got into the business via magical girl drunken driving roadkill. Puuchus don't press charges but do something else instead.

[Ariamis]

Truck-kun gets isekai'd

[ERode]

Bounty List

Explanation
This is mainly here to give newer players a chance to make money and thus be able to afford all the weird goodies in Brittany's Shop because otherwise, it'll take a hot decade for y'all to get to the same wealth level as some of our old-timers. This also serves as a way for magical girls to maybe get connections with others.

Of note, however, is that the Bounty List will only be active during timeskipped periods, and any bounty-hunting collabs that are not completed at the end of this timeskip will be put on ice until the next timeskip. I don't exactly want random monster-hunting quests to disrupt the main plot and all. To keep things from being two convoluted, only two magical girls can go after a single bounty together. No large ass groups. Also don't do that thing where you just have two of your own characters go after the same job so you can earn double money. Only one of Allies and Twinned Souls can participate.

Once you kill the monster, you get Coinage. The more powerful the enemy, the greater the rewards, but rewards earned per timeskip period caps out to the equivalent of 1 Gold OR 8 Silver OR 20 Bronze, essentially enough to earn a single stat boost.

Also, it's definitely possible to get messed up during these missions and subsequently fail. If you wanna get paid, you'll have to be willing to bleed.

The Marks
Goblins in the Sewers

There are goblins in the sewers. Dunno how many there are, of course, and there may be more than one nest, but still, they're just goblins. Kill them all while avoiding damage to the sewers themselves, and you'll net yourself a cool 10 Bronze OR 2 Silver. Repeatable.

Challenge Rating: B
Notes: Lights are good, but night vision is better.

Weretiger Traffickers

Buncha Weretigers have been using Penrose as a rendezvous point for trafficking humans into the Overcity. End their meager existence and rescue the humans, and if both objectives are completed, you'll net yourself a cool 15 Bronze OR 3 Silver.

Challenge Rating: A
Notes: Weretigers can Overcity Shift. Can you?

Horror Poop

The detritus of a Horror has ended up in the swimming pool, and now it's a hellscape of unmentionable flesh. Venture into the swimming pool dungeon, find the core of the fiend, and destroy it, before it infests its surroundings further. You get 15 Bronze OR 3 Silver. You won't be compensated for emotional trauma.

Challenge Rating: A
Notes: Tentacles are a magical girl's worst enemy. Be careful.

Routine Deathmatch

The Contender's at it again. Punt his toned ass back into the Netherworld before he causes too much trouble to anyone who doesn't want a deathmatch. Earn 18 Bronze or 4 Silver for completing this job. There may be a chance that he tips you extra Coinage if you face him solo without weapons and magic.

Challenge Rating: A
Notes: He casts Gun if two people come at him at once.

Artemis Knight

Some fellow with a scythe's going around turning magical girls into popsicles. Good idea to stop him before more popsicles are made, because they don't sell well when it's cold outside. Vanquish him for a cool 6 Silver or 1 Gold.

Challenge Rating: S
Notes: Dress warmly.

[Majoraa]

Okay. Now I'm tempted to have Eliza visit Brittany's.

[AtomicNut]

Okay, I will be working on an intro post...

I just realized I can play her as loli M. Bison.

Edit: So anyone on team expendable Puuchuu willing to assist with an intro?

[BrokenPromise]

It's actually been a really long time (discounting the liches) that we've had regular monster hunts. This is a good idea.

@Majoras End If Eliza wants help tackling a bounty, Tetrad or Trixy could accompany her.

[AtomicNut]

Wonder if i should join in...