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@Lewascan2

Only a couple, about 10-15. The clouds can be seen but are mostly over the park area.

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Just out of curiosity, how many Pageless are at the park?

@Ponn

Only one hiding in the storm clouds. Tall.

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Who else are we waiting on to post.

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By the way, I'm thinking of introducing a new Support character later. A "Grimoire Tuner", after all, the girls will need someone to repair and enhance their grimoires if they hope to survive the endless war against the tides of darkness.

@KoL

Or she’s the Librarian. I think this is the route I’m going to decide with.

Grimoiric Heart

From dawn enamored the charge of Magical Girls remained the same no matter the generation: protecting the stories of the world from the Pageless. It was this duty that remained universal in their endeavors and why such patrols were necessary in the modern world. Tesni, for all her rough edges and blunt approaches, perhaps understood this best. She sprinted across the road to all but completely kick a hooded boy’s face off without a beat in her words. The difference in their strengths wouldn’t have mattered much when the embodiment of Sun Wukong was built like a tank. If she was concerned about the gasps of those around her, she didn’t much show it.

The boy, dazed as he was, revealed the hidden firearm that Tesni promptly showed off to her fellow Magical Girls and the newcomer. However, with the boy on his back, Tesni could see something else off about the would-be perpetrator. His eyes were hazed and glossed over with a familiar sickening sensation of negativity clouded about his body. Even sprawled out as he was there was little mistake the boy was under the influence of the Pageless. Perhaps that was why he was walking around with concealed firearms in London streets to begin with.

The people around him and Tesni backed away, their bodies moving on their own much the same as the Magical Girl’s. While their brains may have told them to rationally call any sort of authority on the scene, something primal awakened their instincts to flee the situation. The negative cloud only grew more and more, denser with Moonlight Tsubasa’s attendants pointing out the obvious right above them. There, high upon the rooftops above them, they came like crawling ants marching along the wall. Their movements were coordinated, slow and methodical as they descended.

The Pageless stopped their approach once they fully landed among the Magical Girls. The reports of the creatures becoming more aggressive lately was no doubt a buzzing reminder in the girls’ heads. But the Pageless didn’t move a muscle or an inch even as they stared down the group with unwavering beady eyes. Their position was noticeably much closer in proximity to Moonlight Tsubasa than any of the other girls and they made no move to attack. It was almost as if they were drawn to the newcomer; or they were waiting to be given a direct order from her.

All of this took place miles away from Lucette’s group in the park. It was almost to no surprise Nessie was placed among one of the eldest Magical Girls available to be tutored and taught. Knowledge of the Pageless was imparted on all the girls from Lucette, hopefully answering any questions or lingering doubts they had. Whatever the case, it would be downcast and trodden, literally, by the sunshine above dimming deeply. London weather was always prone to be fickle at best and horrid at its worse. Today was unfortunately no different.

Without warning the once bright imagery of the park became laden in shadow as rainclouds picked up and gathered high above. The noise of disgruntled and annoyed citizens filled the air and most of them packed up to leave behind what otherwise would have been a perfect day. It wasn’t long before the first drops of rain fell and with it the booming clasp of thunder and lighting too. But the air was charged with more than rainfall, the clouds overtaking not just the park but the city beyond. Another flash of lightning streaked the air for the Magical Girl group to see. There, very clearly but only briefly among the light, were two golden eyes looming down on citizen and Magical Girl alike. It disappeared in plain sight with only the lightning to reveal the Pageless’ dark presence among them.

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@Izurich

I don't intend to throw things at Lumiere's group yet given you're all having a Q&A. Though this may change depending what happens before Thursday.

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I’ll post Thursday.

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@The 42nd Gecko has been absent for 10 days now. Hope they’re doing alright.

@Izurich

They’ve told me they’ll try to get a post up this weekend.

Tower of Fable

The very moment the blackened beast filled Thomas’ sight was the moment a harsh and resounding melody screeched in his head. A noise and tune only he could hear; the instrument of Death’s calling filtered the screeches and monstrous roars of the black dragon into a melody that danced off Marianne’s fingers by their own making. Whatever it meant, it spelled the same dread the massive dragon evoked as it continued hovering above the party and what was left of the Abyssal caverns. But before the dragon could make its first move, another force stirred in front of Thomas.

Kanbaru’s appearance and words said one thing while the tune in Thomas’ head said another. The dragon’s song spurned into something else entirely that bristled with the unseen danger the whale brought with her. Still, whatever grievances Kanbaru had with Riku and whatever veiled implications her words held, there was little doubt those words were true. Even Riku agreed the dragon came as a first priority with an offered plan. All the same, the near-familiar song Marianne played out in Thomas’ mind didn’t cease.

It only took a pause when the dragon high up let loose another world-shattering roar. Its massively black wings beat once like a hammer driven into the nail and a gust of horrible pressure blew outwards towards everyone below it, friend or foe alike. The Abyss’ ceiling cracked from the sheer brunt of the force and the air weaponized and rocketed towards the entire party like an invisible sword slash. The black dragon waited no more and a horrid black flame leaked out from its maw.

The air around its jaws became dense and hot with an obsidian energy that bent all space around it. Gathered and constricted into an orb, the dragon hurled out blackened balls of fire nearly akin to meteors. They rained from above like heaven’s unholy judgement, arcing and streaking towards everyone be it Thomas and Akiko, Kanbaru and Riku, Runa and Nephy. The dragon lurched its wings backwards after the first volley and charged right towards the ground to bombard and ram everyone present with its own darkened body.

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@Lewascan2

As long as she's not outright saying to normal people she's a Magical Girl and it's not a random army of homeless she's revealing, then it's fine. Jonathan's phone call, when he's never been mentioned prior to the post, made it seem like she just had a secret network of homeless and London's downtrodden hidden from the very start. That said for the future, I would like this to be focused more so on the Magical Girls so time will tell how much impact this network has on things going forward.