Meduka 1.1: Apocalypse How

[15:46] <&Genshuku> THE YEAR IS 20XX, in this city of Mae, located on an island region. And in Mae, EVERYONE PLAYS FOX.
[15:46] <&Genshuku> ...OK, that's not entirely true. There's someone trying to play Marth, but it's going about as well as you'd expect.
[15:50] <&Genshuku> Recently, Fate, the rabbit tsukaima in charge of recruiting magical girls, has been nothing short of entirely perplexed. Recruitment had thinned earlier, but as of a while ago, the rate had done nothing short of skyrocket, and most of the people were strange, even by the standards a magical girl would be held. Was it a sign? Perhaps. Or, perhaps it was Fate. Heee. That said, Fate's adventure never stops! And so, deep in the afternoon, it continues to do its job. Another house, another window, another potential savior.
[15:53] <&Genshuku> Yuna, who might note that it got loud for a bit inside the house, but suddenly quieter again for reasons she's likely too aware of, hears a noise she wasn't quite expecting. A voice that spoke as if directly into her mind. A voice that the tsukaima was audibly saying, but certainly couldn't be actually heard through the house walls, saying "Excuse me, may I have a moment?" ...And a voice she would know is coming from the window, where if she looks, she would see a white rabbit with a gear in its head, staring intently!
[15:55] * Yuna_Fujiwara looked up from reading her book, which told the tale of a young boy that, as part of his training to be a wizard, was to teach at an all girls high school. Along the way, many of them would take on magical traits of their own. Her reading was interrupted as she heard some sort of noise
[15:59] * Yuna_Fujiwara ...from somewhere in the house. "Hmmm...?" she says, looking up from her book. "What was that?" she wonders aloud. As soon as the noise had come, it stopped. Must have been a truck going by... She looked back down at her book, then jumped when she heard a voice in her head. "Gaah...!" Her eyes went wide as she
[15:59] * Yuna_Fujiwara ...searched for the source of the voice. Her eyes eventually glanced over the window, where Fate would be found waiting for her. She stared at the rabbit intently for a moment. "Are... what's going on?" she asked, assuming that the rabbit was the one doing the talking.
[16:00] * Yuna_Fujiwara opened the window to allow Fate in... He seemed harmless enough, though she was still a little on edge, wondering if she was dreaming...
[16:03] <&Genshuku> The rabbit hops in! Hop, hop, hop. It eventually ends up on Yuna's bed, and proceeds to speak normally...or, at least as normal as a rabbit speaking clearly in the human tongue could possibly be. "A lot of things that are implausible are going on. Are you ready to hear them?"
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[16:08] * Yuna_Fujiwara plops herself down onto her bed, marking her spot in her book so she could return to it later if it turned out this wasn't a dream. She gave the rabbit a nod, wondering what could be more implausible than a talking rabbit with a gear in its head.
[16:14] <&Genshuku> "...Then, take the time to think about the state of the city you are in. People go missing with a distressing regularity, and buildings are destroyed at a rate most similar. But, you haven't paid it a second thought, have you?" Such a claim is quite unreasonable if taken at face value, but...for the first time ever, you pay it a second thought. And you wonder just how on earth it was you--rather, how absolutely no one else has truly noticed such unreasonably large destruction aside from just brushing it off with some unbelievable excuse--that you and everyone else simply accepted, at that! For the first time, you realize your situation. Realizing that you live in a place with such chaos when you thought it a more peaceful place...is pretty surreal, to say the least!
[16:23] * Yuna_Fujiwara furrows her brow at the creature's statement. "You're right... I never did find it odd... I thought that was just how life in this area was..." Indeed, looking back at it, it was quite odd that the number of missing persons reports were so frequent on the news.
[16:23] * Yuna_Fujiwara "So what do I have to do with this?" she asked, still convinced this was some sort of dream that had come about from reading her fantasy books too much.
[16:30] <&Genshuku> "The force behind these things is quite fearsome indeed. The things responsible for the destruction are actually youma, terrifyingly powerful beings bent on death and destruction. They have a strange power that allows them to do their deeds while going unnoticed by normal people, no matter how much it stretches the imagination. It takes a fearsome power, unbound by those rules, to notice them as well as engage them. And I mean to tell you that you have the potential to become one of these forces. It takes the power of magical girls in order to combat the youma!"
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[16:40] * Yuna_Fujiwara looks at Fate, "Magical Girl...?" she says, "Like in those animated TV shows?" She had seen quite a few magical girl anime, though had never seen any to completion. "I always thought it would be fun to be a magical girl."
[16:42] * Yuna_Fujiwara 's eyes sparkled slightly as she imagined all the different kinds of costumes she might be able to wear.
[16:43] <&Genshuku> "Let's not underestimate the dangers, though. The youma are exceptionally powerful creatures. It takes more than one magical girl to beat a youma nowadays, so simply getting by on your own isn't an option, you'll need a group! ...On the other hand, because they have grown so strong, they've begun to drop things called Oblivion Seeds. If 13 are gathered, a wish can be granted, within reason!"
[16:43] <&Genshuku> "...As much as we'd like to wish the youma away, it's things like that which don't end up happening."
[16:51] * Yuna_Fujiwara is pulled out of her thoughts by Fate's statement about the youma. "So we team up with other magical girls and fight these... youma...?"
[16:53] <&Genshuku> "Yes. There are many youma, and the numbers in which they appear, as well as their power, have done nothing but grown. Even though recruitment has had a recent spike, we remain in a desperate situation."
[16:59] * Yuna_Fujiwara "So what does becoming a magical girl entail?" she asked. She had a vague idea, but more often than not reality differed from fiction... then again it could be exactly like in the anime...
[17:05] <&Genshuku> "Entail? Well, naturally, overuse or misuse of your power can have certain consequences, for what truly limits your power isn't you, but magic itself. ...And naturally, with this power, you'll have a responsibility to defeat the youma, which I imagine can get rather pressing! Aside from that, I don't believe there's much out of the ordinary, aside from the fact that you'll keep your newfound ability to realize the things that youma do...and if you were to refuse, you would probably forget that this meeting happened, as well as most of what you heard in it." It's sure good at stating the facts!
[17:12] * Yuna_Fujiwara thinks about what Fate had said, idly fanning the pages of the book she was reading as she did so. "So if I accept, I gain magical abilities and have to defeat the Youma along with other girls... and if I decline everything continues as if this never happened..." This was quite a situation...
[17:12] * Yuna_Fujiwara had found herself in. On one hand, awesome magical powers... On the other, the knowledge that life might never be the same... Then a thought occured to her. "Wait a minute, you're not a youma yourself, are you?" Having never seen a youma before, she had no idea what they might look like.
[17:14] <&Genshuku> "I am a tsukaima. If I were giving you the tools to beat the youma while being a youma, I would not be very bright!"
[17:18] * Yuna_Fujiwara nods. Fate did have a point there. "Makes sense..." then again, who knows? Dumb Youma might exist... "Well I guess if you need all the help you can get..." she says, standing up from the bed and running a hand through her shoulder-length brown hair, "...then I accept..."
[17:18] * Yuna_Fujiwara always 	did	 want to use magic... and who knows? She might make some friends with the other magical girls along the way...
[17:20] <&Genshuku> "Then, with your acceptance in mind, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and relax!"
[17:22] * Yuna_Fujiwara takes a deep breath, holds it in for a few moments, then closes her eyes and lets it out, relaxing every muscle in her body. She had no idea what was about to happen, but figured it would just be best to go along with it.
[17:29] <&Genshuku> And then, as she closes her eyes, the gear on Fate's head begins to glow. As Yuna's eyes remain closed, even if she desired to open them to peek or whatnot, it began to glow brighter still! While it would go entirely unnoticed normally, as her eyes were closed, the brightness only intensified. Honestly, if you were asleep, this would have woken you up, so perhaps you're not dreaming after all. But even from there, it continues to get brighter. Brighter, brighter, so bright it's almost like you were staring into the sun as if your eyes were open, even though they were closed! But at the moment it would be compared to the sun, it goes dark. ...And in this darkness, eyes still sealed, you begin to see...something. Yet, despite seeing what you are, you don't feel like you're in the place you're seeing at all...
[17:33] <&Genshuku> ...which begs the question, what ARE you seeing? It's hard to adjust, but taking it all in, you're sure you're seeing ruins. It takes a while, because these ruins are seriously ruined. You would expect the decayed tatters of buildings in a ruined city, but even those are destroyed. It's nothing but rubble. And in this scenario, a fight seems to be playing out in the air. A fight against a large, behemoth being, a surreal sphere that would blow the mind of someone that doesn't play JRPGs, a thing with many eyes of various iris and sclera colors, squaring off against a girl (perhaps a bit older than girl, but not by much) clad in silver armor, with black hair!
[17:41] <&Genshuku> The fight is...clearly intense. As the many eyed one lays havoc on the battlefield with far too many homing laser visions than ought be put on a single screen, she blocks by somehow twisting their path--perhaps the air itself?--so they miss at the last moment before crashing upon the ground with a deafening force, a power so great in each blast that you're not sure if what you're seeing could even pretend to be reality. And as she makes her defense, she goes on the offense, charging forth, materializing a spear imbued with both lightning AND fire. The thing, focused on the lasers, couldn't defend, and an eye was impaled! The very force of the blow could be felt, further cementing that both sides are on quite a ridiculous power level...but, it is the one clad in silver armor that triumphs in the end. The fight goes on for a while longer before a final stab causes the eyes to spasm, and then grow still.
[17:45] * Yuna_Fujiwara could see the glowing through her eyelids, to the point where it was painful. It was at this point that she determined that she was not dreaming. As the scene thus described previously came into view before her, she was in awe at what she saw.
[17:45] * Yuna_Fujiwara 	"Is THAT a Youma?"	 she thought to herself. "	It's so big! There's no way I'm going to be able to fight these alone..." 	her eyes then fell upon the girl fighting it. "	That doesn't look the way I thought a magical girl would...	"
[17:45] * Yuna_Fujiwara thought this and other thoughts as she watched the fight go on. Eventually the fight came to an end as the creature was finally slain. In her mind, this was incredibly realistic, but in reality she was still in her room, being initiated by Fate.
[17:47] <&Genshuku> The thought might occur to you that if such a fight were to happen in the city, that there wouldn't be a city left after it.
[17:50] * Yuna_Fujiwara did indeed see that there wasn't much of a city left, if anything... A few empty shells of skyscrapers could be seen tilting at precarious angles, ready to collapse at the slightest tremor.
[17:52] <&Genshuku> ...But yet, it doesn't seem entirely over. With the spear still embeded in the youma, it begins to...something. Is it...absorbing that thing? ...It seems to be! From the spear to the girl wielding it, the very being of the youma was being absorbed. It is...quite the lengthy process, but what remains is but a single girl, clad in silver armor...with quite the manic expression on her face, and quite clearly radiating both the power she used to slay the beast as well as the beasts own power. This power is tested on one of those skyscrapers, and it is almost as if reality itself had been torn asunder, a power that defies explanation.
[17:53] <&Genshuku> ...And one so strong, your vision starts to cease as it happens. You get the feeling she might be a worse problem than the thing she got rid of, at least by the expression on her face as you return to your own body and mind, with complete control over your eyelids!
[18:03] * Yuna_Fujiwara 's eyes shoot open as the scene ends... "I... what... what did I just... was THAT thing a Youma?" She was a little dizzy from what she just witnessed. That creature was MUCH bigger than most of the creatures in the anime...
[18:05] <&Genshuku> Fate's expression is one that fits his confused words. "...That normally isn't supposed to happen. ...This has happened before, though. The person thought they were seeing the future. Could you tell me what you saw?"
[18:10] * Yuna_Fujiwara sits down on the bed, leaning up against the wall, "I.. I saw a giant creature... with multiple eyes... and there was a girl in shining armor... with a massive spear... she defeated the creature, then... then absorbed it..." Her hands were shaking a bit. This was quite a lot to take in all at once.
[18:14] <&Genshuku> "...The creature, would you describe it as something that could end the world? I probably should have pressed the one that had the vision before for more details. I'll have to do that later."
[18:18] * Yuna_Fujiwara nods, "I... it certainly seemed like it had that capability," though upon thinking it through, the other thing that worried her was the girl... She seemed like she had gone mad with the massive amount of power she had just gained. "The girl in there seemed quite... crazed... like she was going insane..."
[18:23] <&Genshuku> "...In silver armor, huh? ...Then, let's say that what you saw was the future. But yet, the other one seemed to imply that the youma had won. ...How...strange."
[18:24] <&Genshuku> "Rest assured, when such a power arises, we'll be the first to know, and we'll tell as many people as we can." There sure was a lack of other people in that confrontation. "In the meantime, you might be happy to know that most youma don't have world ending powers. Strong, yes, but not quite like that!"
[18:25] <&Genshuku> "We'll...keep a close eye on armor-clad magical girls. Any further details would be welcomed!"
[18:33] <&Genshuku> "...Also, considering you shouldn't be showing off your magic, the question of how you could meet other magical girls might spring to mind. But, we have an answer for that, as well! People don't go to the town square at 4 PM due to a youma attack on the area having lasting effects on the area, and as such, it's a perfect magical girl gathering place."
[18:35] * Yuna_Fujiwara considers Fate's words, "Yeah, I remember that being announced on the news a while ago... Something about a terrorist attack on the area..." she says, "Those weren't terrorists, then..."
[18:46] <&Genshuku> "Indeed. Then...well, I forgot to really say it in light of recent events, but you're a magical girl now! There's at least that to look forward to, right?"
[18:50] * Yuna_Fujiwara blinks. Oh yeah, there was that little detail, "So that's that then?" she asks, "I'm a magical girl?" She wondered if there was a costume that came along with it. Would she get to pick her own outfit, or would it be decided for her in some way? So many other questions circled through her mind as she cast a glance to her closet.
[18:53] <&Genshuku> The enigmatic rabbit offers no answers, save the one to the question spoken. "That's right! And tomorrow, you'll be with other magical girls in pursuit of the youma menace that plagues us still. 4 PM tomorrow, don't forget now!"
[18:54] <&Genshuku> "If you've further questions, or would like to elaborate on what you saw some more, don't hesistate to let us know. Or, if you don't, I'll be going!"
[18:55] * Yuna_Fujiwara hestitates in asking the next question, but decides to go for it. "Is there some sort of outfit we get to wear...?" That was really the only question she felt like she needed an answer to... "
[18:58] <&Genshuku> "That happens when you transform. Your appearance generally reflects yourself in some way, and the powers you possess tends to do the same. You can try that out now, if it pleases you, or you can wait until tomorrow to transform with your group-to-be!"
[19:04] * Yuna_Fujiwara ponders for only a moment... "Let's see what it is now... I'd hate for it to be something embarassing..." she closed her eyes and willed herself to change... She felt a slight tingling sensation as magical energies gathered around her. To the outside viewer, she had gone through a flashy 30-second transformation sequence, but to...
[19:04] * Yuna_Fujiwara ...everyone else, one moment she was in her regular clothes, the next in her outfit. Her outfit was a white top, and a long flowing blue dress with floral designs on it. A large yellow sash was tied around her midsection, and she had detached sleeves that were white as well, but faded to a pale pink at the ends. A long staff that had a...
[19:04] * Yuna_Fujiwara ...circular design on the end of it appeared in her hand, and at the top of the staff, three petal-shaped bits extended out past the edge of the circle, appearing almost flower-like as well.
[19:05] * Yuna_Fujiwara ...and, if one were to look at her eyes, one would notice that they were of different colors, with one being a deep azure blue and the other being a brilliant emerald green.
[19:09] <&Genshuku> "Good, good, I didn't have to explain it!" It...seems impressed! "You seem to figure things out quickly, and that's a good thing for magical girls to have, for the situation can change in an instant in battle."
[19:10] * Yuna_Fujiwara looks at herself in the mirror, "Oooohhh... I quite like this..." she says, turning around in place, twirling the dress around a bit. "I always was one for flowers..." as evidenced by the floral-print blanket on her bed.
[19:13] <&Genshuku> "I suppose I should leave you to admiring yourself, then! Try not to be seen as a magical girl by others, of course. I imagine that would be hard to explain!" It begins to hop out!
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[19:27] <&Genshuku> And so, in the year of our Lord Fox 20XX--er, the year 2015, another meguca was brought into the fold. Would this amount be enough? Heavens no, they need more. They always need more, certainly if they want to combat the thing that seems to lie in wait! Everyone's battle has yet to truly begin! Not even the ones in the distance, getting thrashed by a golem.