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Noriko and Yuki
"<That bad? Do you know have any idea where it might be now?>"
You really don't like the sound of that '<now>'.

Noriko and Yuki
The train ride was mostly uneventful. It's smoother yes, quieter too, scenery wasn't too hard on the eyes either, but no matter how much you magic it it's just a train ride. The only real curveball took the form of a few people who wanted to take photos.

Guild's not too far from the platform, the building looking shockingly mundane all things considered, a fairly corporate looking building with wide open gates jammed between an assortment of shops and restaurants. The only particularly odd feature being the quest pylons outside. Adventurers wander in, out, and generally around the building.

The interior is cozy, warm, somewhere between lounge and hotel lobby with some jaunty tune playing overhead. Adventurers browse quests from the pylons and turn them in at th desks. There's also a group of weirdos hanging by the door looking like a buncha Pokemon villain rejects.

The moment you enter the door they're upon you, two dozen firearms leveled at your face.
"<The boss sends his regards.>"

Shef
You arrived a little while after the pair. Coupla social media posts gave away their position when they disembarked. A coupla more gave away half their damn movesets, these all by an account speaking in that classically lcsonoc Twitter-y "as it happens" kind of manner. An account only created a few hours prior, the only posts to its name their running commentary of the fight you left.

So, they know Yuki has those arrows, that teleport, and that awfully threatening mix of shielding, regeneration and raw unbridled force. They know Noriko has scarily accurate homing spears, the power of flight, a spell-eating flame, and something about going all Old Country For Old Men on a motherfucker. Who they are, you find also intermixed amongst gossip articles with such wonderful titles like Is Patricija's Girlfriend A Brocon? Apparently, the people who attacked them were students of the military academy here. By the sounds of it, there's practicals going on, and the test is to try and beat both the girls. Well, you know their foes at least, even if you're still not 100% on your own.

You're outside the guild right now. The trio are working within. Baghead and co are watching from afar outside the building. Red is there too, doing her damnedest to appear distracted by all the cops and medics inside the building. You won't be recognized should you enter, Sakurako will however.

Noriko and Yuki
With an awful lot of poking and prodding, the officer finally gets the henchman off the chandelier. Their belt had been caught when they got launched up there, and with the beating they just took, they weren't really feeling up for resisting arrest. The rest of the mob's scattered and strewn across broken furniture, nursing some broken bones and wounded pride. No blood though. Yuki had been so kind as to use the reverse edge of her chainsaw. Noriko, simply had no need to stab them after the first wind blast. They went down like complete bitches. Turns out standing right in front of the people with the windblasts and black murder tide is a terrible fucking idea. Who'd have thought?

With that mess sorted and Noriko well salted, the trio approach the dark spectacled receptionist.
"<Ah greetings Miss...>"
He glances down, checking his terminal
"<Master of the Holy Flame, and... Miss Harbinger of the Divine Wind.>"
He leans forward ever so slightly.
"<Do you have the package?>"

-snip-

"Jarvis was it? You sound rather exhausted by this day's events, would you care for some tea? There should be a kitchen around here."
"Shoes, mind coming along? They're bound to have sugar cubes in there."

Marcia promotes to Knight!
(C) Hacking, (D) Axe
5% in STR
Personal Skill - A Servant's Duty: When this unit crits, they regain 5 HP

HP	STR	MAG	SKL	LUK	DEF	RES	SPD	CON	AID	MOV
+2	+1	+0	+0	+0	+4	+	+0	+4	+4	4

Just a table to track possible hexes Faith can take for her rework. I'll be making a similar one for new skills Shef can learn once he actually has a few more fights.

I've omitted hexes she either has no idea how to replicate (e.g. Soul Resonance - March Au Supplice) or too similar to what she has already (e.g. Bankai - Godslaying Crimson Thorn).

Essence		Source		Compatibility Rank		Details
Essence of Wither		Harvest, Nico		C		Obtained from observing Harvest's ability Sanctuary Inversion - Killing Fields. An inverted sanctuary with a barren earth that leeches the lifeforce of those who tread upon it, like an ancient libertarian burial ground. Recalling Nico's weaponization of Doki Doki energy, you wonder if you could leave a similarly entrapping field using radiation instead.
Essence of Frost		Harvest's Familiars		C		Obtained from observing the familiar spell Frost Arrows. Arrows of frost debilitate and immobilise foes with tendrils of frost. Your spells are currently more exothermic but with your energy manipulation maybe you'll be able to leech heat out of objects too?
Essence of Madness		Luna		B		Obtained from being struck by Luna's spell Light of Madness. A moon-turned-wrecking ball that bathes its surroundings with insanity, twisting reality and inflicting psychological damage. Perhaps if you could further infuse your spells with your feelings you could replicate the mental damage, or at least make sure your foes are about as miserable about the whole situation as you are.
Essence of Expeditious Discharge		Sol & Luna		D		Obtained from being struck by Sol and Luna's spell Minuteman's Curse. A timebomb-like cursed utilized by the twins. Exactly one minute after infliction, the victim's body is forcibly purged of spirit energy, leaving them weakened and vulnerable. Apparently it's fairly unreliable but your low magic resistance combined with their time magic makes it a dangerous combo. Maybe you could leverage your energy manipulation to siphon away people's spirit energy?

Consume shrooms with response or without.

Day turns to cavernous night and mushrooms begin to sprout from in the corners and edges of the room. A rhythmic pulse ripples through them, a wave of light traveling through the fungal masses, the shrooms glowing a ghostly blue before disgorging their light as clouds of drifting spores. Judging by the direction it's coming from, the source of the pulse must be coming from outside the room, traveling inwards. Maybe from somewhere in the building, maybe from outside, definitely not here though.

-snip-

You cannot see the world through Jin's eyes. You cannot see her hallucinations, you cannot bear witness to the world she finds herself in now. Oh wait, you totally can. You open a link to her avatar's sensors, hardly a difficult matter given that you two, your real bodies are in the same office after all.

Huh, more mushrooms, trippy.

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Ptw does yjis have an OOC thread?

((No. Didn't think this would need one since it's just a system test.))