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Re: Dark General Quest: Corrupt the Word!
As Ophelia's singing stops, you decide you've had enough brooding. It's one thing to be upset at a setback, it another to let it rule your life. You've just become a Dark General and you're not going to let a lapse in judgement kill you. Pondering your situation, you figure out the best way out is to simply do as normal Youma do and raid the material world and drain humans. It's simple, and really the only option. You could starve any day if you're not careful.
The next thing that comes to mind is the sexpot currently in your lap. Dark green eyes, slightly puffy lips, wavy light-brown hair, smooth tanned skin, toned waist, yet large breasts, and wide hips. Her pinstripe skirted suit is ruffled and wrinkled from the abuse of being put on a taken off again so much recently, but she still manages to make it look good. And from the look she's giving, you are certain she wants to take it off again.
While you enjoy her company (and body, hum yum yes!), Bambi isn't contributing anything to your cause but the mana she makes everyday. You like her, but having women around only to look nice and provide sustenance isn't why you learned how to twist their minds into being loyal to you. You want to be surrounded by the best types of women; the talented and skilled. You could just attack random people for mana.
"I've come to a decision," you declare as a tonned tanned tall woman with an extra pair of arms walks in. Her crimson eyes hold a smouldering sultry look. She's wearing her favourite outfit, some see-through harem pants, a plethora of golden bracelets, armlets, necklaces, and a large headband holding up her long dark-red hair, no top. A wave of warmth emanates from her.
"Ophelia," you greet warmly. It is always a pleasure to watch her walk, especially from behind, but you appreciate the view from the front just as much. "My lord," she says warmly with a bow and pressed palms.
"I can still go out with my shadows and gather mana, but it will take time, maybe a week or two, to gather enough mana to form an exit gate. While we're stuck for now, that doesn't mean that we can't do anything productive. To that end, we'll both work to tutor Bambi here into learning basic mage craft."
"Ugh," Bambi exasperates, learning back over your arm and thrusting her breasts up. "I didn't go to college because I was done with school. Can't we just fuck the whole time?"
Ophelia crosses her arms and grunts, but you continue. "Call it training for a promotion. Besides, think of the fun things you can do with magic."
"Yes, like my clothing," chimes in the four armed dancer. "I regularly manifest new outfits using mana, and I've heard you complain about the costs of some of your clothing. Your bras are expensive aren't they?" Bambi blushes at the comment, then the demon holds our and shakes her arms to make her bracelets jingle regaining the human's attention. "Besides clothing, higher end alchemists can make gold and gems from less valuable materials."
Bambi stretches and runs a hand through her hair as if in thought before smiling. "All right, I'll do it. But you're going to have a good reward system for me."
"I'll get some of those treats you like." You grin at Bambi's pout. You're aware that was what she meant. From one of your shadow clones that just entered you notice the same grin on Ophelia. It holds a book you retrieved from you chambers, opening and handing it to Bambi before walking into your laboratory. "Start with the middle of this book and skip every four pages." You chuckle at her bemusement. "Magical knowledge is always hidden, encoded and split up like a sort of puzzle. It's to make sure some idiot doesn't blow themselves up or turn heir house into key lime pie." The rest of your clones start slinking out of your domain and heading to the material world.
"What the shit? What math is this?" Bambi exclaims, staring at the book in horror. "How does that even work?"
[hr][/hr]
Lesson one involved teaching Bambi how to feel her inner energy. It took a while, but she managed to do it. Mostly, she tried to play up a naughty school girl act. Ophelia didn't care for it, but you found it amusing.
Lesson two required teaching Bambi how to gather and mould her own mana. The point wasn't to cast a spell, but to get a feel for what it would be like to do it safely. Bambi says she thinks she managed it, but isn't sure.
Lesson three involved teaching Bambi the most basic magical spell: One Sparkle, a light element spell that anyone, even a shadow youma or fire demon, can do that created an area of glitter around the palm of their hand. Bambi failed to produce glitter in her hand, but instead managed to make appear above her cleavage. She didn't notice and thought she was failing, but Ophelia did find it amusing until you pointed it out.
The end result; Bambi's Magic Score has gone up by 2 points! Her mana capacity has also increased to 13!
Learning to use magic required Bambi to keep some of hers. You were only able to drain 67 mana from her this week.
[hr][/hr]
While this was happening, you used a shadow clone body to try and learn to cast Shadow Gate Level 1. This did not go well at all. Your shadow clone bodies can only hold 50 mana, but the spell required 100 mana. Your fumbling did manage to produce for you an new variant of the Shadow Trap spell. Big Shadow Trap. It costs 50 Mana to cast, but can affect a large area. It is indiscriminate, but your shadow clone wasn't affected by it, and you're certain it is because of the Shadow Walk ability.
You spent 50 mana accidentally learning this new spell. Meanwhile in the material world, a van full of produce fell speeding into a huge shadowy hole that suddenly appeared. The driver wasn't hurt, but all the cabbages fell out and into the hole, never to return!
Deciding not to waste your time, instead of trying to force yourself to learn Shadow Gate Level 2 with a lowly shadow body, you instead skipped to designing a training room for Ophelia. You go trough several sheets of paper, but manage to come up with a design that would be affordable. You have two versions, one where you conjure everything with alchemy, or a bare room that you can acquire solid stuff from the material world for. The first will require a total of 600 Mana and regular conjuration work, the latter would only require two castings of 100 Mana and a trip to the material world with a Shadow Gate Level 1 open to bring large items in.
You make a second attempt to learn Shadow Gate Level 1 with your shadow clone, and while you fail to actually perform the spell, you're certain you could do it with your main body if you tried to. You didn't lose any mana with your second attempt thankfully.
[hr][/hr]
Throughout the week, you use your clones to ambush people at random and drain their energy. Yourhad to cast Shadow Trap three different times to stop people from escaping and getting help, but in all you manage to bring in 177 Mana. You didn't encounter any Magical Girls or other youma, though you are certain that you've caught some attention.
You don't feel this is a good haul, though. Perhaps doing a more organised raid would yield better results?
[hr][/hr]
Your single shadow clone can't listen to the words on TV or Radio, but you do manage to steel a bunch of newspapers and tabloids. It's super boring perusing through everything, but you manage to learn that your domain is closest to Mega Neon Tokyo Prime, a massive and prosperous city with a booming economy and bouncing night life.
There are three established groups of magical girls nearest two you, and likely possibly two groups of youma.
[hr][/hr]
You manage to find a store with vinyl records of the type Ophelia likes, but all the record players use electicity. You steel one of each record, but you leave without a purely mechanical record player.
[hr][/hr]
Resources: How many cabbages?
Mana Math: Upkeep 91, Expenses 80, Income 244
All your youma have full mana and you have 73 in a Mana Battery
Forces: 10 Shadow Clones
So what do you want to get done this week?
[]Name your plan
-Create Youma:
--[] Write-in:
-Build Structure:
--[] Write-in:
-Go tResearch:
--[] Write-in:
-Missions:
--[] Information Gathering: What are you looking for?
--[] Mana Gathering: Where do you do it? How many do you send?
-[-] Try to Capture: You'll need to use a Shadow Gate Lvl1 to bring people into your domain.
Requests:
Moving in! Bambi wants to completely move into her room in your domain and that means getting her belongings. You can either send shadow clones to get her stuff, or learn Shadow Gate lvl2 so that she can do it herself. You may want to hurry and get on that before she's evicted and/or reported as missing. (0/10) if you send just Shadow Clones, (0/2) if you have a Shadow Gate open.
The Lost Tapes: Bambi feels that she may not have gotten the best deals from her previous porn shoots and wants a bit of revenge. Retrieve the original materials such as camera memory cards and film negatives. (0/10)
Hunger for Battle: Ophelia wants to go to a sporting event to feed. While mana from Bambi's blood is fine, mana from acts of violence or competition is better. Learn Shadow Gate lvl2 and send her out on a mana retrieval mission at a sporting event.
Time to Duel! Ophelia also wants to fight a magical girl. That will require sending her out on a mission and hoping for an encounter.
Training Room: Ophelia is happy with her bedroom but wants a different room to practice fighting in. Build her a Training Room. You could build one now if you had 600 Mana. Or you could send out your minions and use a Shadow Gate to steel stuff. The room would only take 200 Mana and another 100 for the Shadow Gate.
Music for Ophelia: She wants to listen to some music. You have a whole bunch of vinyl, but no record player. Keep searching for a clockwork player, or figure how to get electricity.
Notes: New lines of research:
As Ophelia's singing stops, you decide you've had enough brooding. It's one thing to be upset at a setback, it another to let it rule your life. You've just become a Dark General and you're not going to let a lapse in judgement kill you. Pondering your situation, you figure out the best way out is to simply do as normal Youma do and raid the material world and drain humans. It's simple, and really the only option. You could starve any day if you're not careful.
The next thing that comes to mind is the sexpot currently in your lap. Dark green eyes, slightly puffy lips, wavy light-brown hair, smooth tanned skin, toned waist, yet large breasts, and wide hips. Her pinstripe skirted suit is ruffled and wrinkled from the abuse of being put on a taken off again so much recently, but she still manages to make it look good. And from the look she's giving, you are certain she wants to take it off again.
While you enjoy her company (and body, hum yum yes!), Bambi isn't contributing anything to your cause but the mana she makes everyday. You like her, but having women around only to look nice and provide sustenance isn't why you learned how to twist their minds into being loyal to you. You want to be surrounded by the best types of women; the talented and skilled. You could just attack random people for mana.
"I've come to a decision," you declare as a tonned tanned tall woman with an extra pair of arms walks in. Her crimson eyes hold a smouldering sultry look. She's wearing her favourite outfit, some see-through harem pants, a plethora of golden bracelets, armlets, necklaces, and a large headband holding up her long dark-red hair, no top. A wave of warmth emanates from her.
"Ophelia," you greet warmly. It is always a pleasure to watch her walk, especially from behind, but you appreciate the view from the front just as much. "My lord," she says warmly with a bow and pressed palms.
"I can still go out with my shadows and gather mana, but it will take time, maybe a week or two, to gather enough mana to form an exit gate. While we're stuck for now, that doesn't mean that we can't do anything productive. To that end, we'll both work to tutor Bambi here into learning basic mage craft."
"Ugh," Bambi exasperates, learning back over your arm and thrusting her breasts up. "I didn't go to college because I was done with school. Can't we just fuck the whole time?"
Ophelia crosses her arms and grunts, but you continue. "Call it training for a promotion. Besides, think of the fun things you can do with magic."
"Yes, like my clothing," chimes in the four armed dancer. "I regularly manifest new outfits using mana, and I've heard you complain about the costs of some of your clothing. Your bras are expensive aren't they?" Bambi blushes at the comment, then the demon holds our and shakes her arms to make her bracelets jingle regaining the human's attention. "Besides clothing, higher end alchemists can make gold and gems from less valuable materials."
Bambi stretches and runs a hand through her hair as if in thought before smiling. "All right, I'll do it. But you're going to have a good reward system for me."
"I'll get some of those treats you like." You grin at Bambi's pout. You're aware that was what she meant. From one of your shadow clones that just entered you notice the same grin on Ophelia. It holds a book you retrieved from you chambers, opening and handing it to Bambi before walking into your laboratory. "Start with the middle of this book and skip every four pages." You chuckle at her bemusement. "Magical knowledge is always hidden, encoded and split up like a sort of puzzle. It's to make sure some idiot doesn't blow themselves up or turn heir house into key lime pie." The rest of your clones start slinking out of your domain and heading to the material world.
"What the shit? What math is this?" Bambi exclaims, staring at the book in horror. "How does that even work?"
[hr][/hr]
Lesson one involved teaching Bambi how to feel her inner energy. It took a while, but she managed to do it. Mostly, she tried to play up a naughty school girl act. Ophelia didn't care for it, but you found it amusing.
Lesson two required teaching Bambi how to gather and mould her own mana. The point wasn't to cast a spell, but to get a feel for what it would be like to do it safely. Bambi says she thinks she managed it, but isn't sure.
Lesson three involved teaching Bambi the most basic magical spell: One Sparkle, a light element spell that anyone, even a shadow youma or fire demon, can do that created an area of glitter around the palm of their hand. Bambi failed to produce glitter in her hand, but instead managed to make appear above her cleavage. She didn't notice and thought she was failing, but Ophelia did find it amusing until you pointed it out.
The end result; Bambi's Magic Score has gone up by 2 points! Her mana capacity has also increased to 13!
Learning to use magic required Bambi to keep some of hers. You were only able to drain 67 mana from her this week.
[hr][/hr]
While this was happening, you used a shadow clone body to try and learn to cast Shadow Gate Level 1. This did not go well at all. Your shadow clone bodies can only hold 50 mana, but the spell required 100 mana. Your fumbling did manage to produce for you an new variant of the Shadow Trap spell. Big Shadow Trap. It costs 50 Mana to cast, but can affect a large area. It is indiscriminate, but your shadow clone wasn't affected by it, and you're certain it is because of the Shadow Walk ability.
You spent 50 mana accidentally learning this new spell. Meanwhile in the material world, a van full of produce fell speeding into a huge shadowy hole that suddenly appeared. The driver wasn't hurt, but all the cabbages fell out and into the hole, never to return!
Deciding not to waste your time, instead of trying to force yourself to learn Shadow Gate Level 2 with a lowly shadow body, you instead skipped to designing a training room for Ophelia. You go trough several sheets of paper, but manage to come up with a design that would be affordable. You have two versions, one where you conjure everything with alchemy, or a bare room that you can acquire solid stuff from the material world for. The first will require a total of 600 Mana and regular conjuration work, the latter would only require two castings of 100 Mana and a trip to the material world with a Shadow Gate Level 1 open to bring large items in.
You make a second attempt to learn Shadow Gate Level 1 with your shadow clone, and while you fail to actually perform the spell, you're certain you could do it with your main body if you tried to. You didn't lose any mana with your second attempt thankfully.
[hr][/hr]
Throughout the week, you use your clones to ambush people at random and drain their energy. Yourhad to cast Shadow Trap three different times to stop people from escaping and getting help, but in all you manage to bring in 177 Mana. You didn't encounter any Magical Girls or other youma, though you are certain that you've caught some attention.
You don't feel this is a good haul, though. Perhaps doing a more organised raid would yield better results?
[hr][/hr]
Your single shadow clone can't listen to the words on TV or Radio, but you do manage to steel a bunch of newspapers and tabloids. It's super boring perusing through everything, but you manage to learn that your domain is closest to Mega Neon Tokyo Prime, a massive and prosperous city with a booming economy and bouncing night life.
There are three established groups of magical girls nearest two you, and likely possibly two groups of youma.
- The Dino-roar Squad (according to the tabloids) are a group of four magical girls of various ages that have been in the area battling youma for quite some time. Their motif is dinosaurs, they wear elaborate cheer leading outfits, and they are pretty powerful. The tabloid claims they are looking for lost technology invented by super-intelligent alien dinosaurs.
- The Super Pastry Chefs are a new group of seven young magical girls. They wear overly elaborate chef uniform dress-things, and of course chef hats. Each of them uses a fruit as a code name. They also use their powers to feed the homeless.
- The Lovely Angels (according to the tabloids, they haven't named themselves) are a group of magical girls wearing big white robes that hide their figures. They all have wings and can fly, and one author believes that there may be eight of them based on the random spotting, though never more than three have ever been seen together.
- In addition to five independent magical girls that you don't get much info on, there used to be a fourth group of magical girls in power armour that fought all the local youma frequently enough that there was little for other magical girls to do. They've since disappeared.
- You don't get much information about Youma, however there are two themes that stand out to you. Bird women with random song based attacks and a hatred for power-lines, and big ugly beast men-with the features of pigs, cows, or goats.
[hr][/hr]
You manage to find a store with vinyl records of the type Ophelia likes, but all the record players use electicity. You steel one of each record, but you leave without a purely mechanical record player.
[hr][/hr]
Resources: How many cabbages?
Mana Math: Upkeep 91, Expenses 80, Income 244
All your youma have full mana and you have 73 in a Mana Battery
Forces: 10 Shadow Clones
So what do you want to get done this week?
[]Name your plan
-Create Youma:
--[] Write-in:
-Build Structure:
--[] Write-in:
-Go tResearch:
--[] Write-in:
-Missions:
--[] Information Gathering: What are you looking for?
--[] Mana Gathering: Where do you do it? How many do you send?
-[-] Try to Capture: You'll need to use a Shadow Gate Lvl1 to bring people into your domain.
Requests:
Moving in! Bambi wants to completely move into her room in your domain and that means getting her belongings. You can either send shadow clones to get her stuff, or learn Shadow Gate lvl2 so that she can do it herself. You may want to hurry and get on that before she's evicted and/or reported as missing. (0/10) if you send just Shadow Clones, (0/2) if you have a Shadow Gate open.
The Lost Tapes: Bambi feels that she may not have gotten the best deals from her previous porn shoots and wants a bit of revenge. Retrieve the original materials such as camera memory cards and film negatives. (0/10)
Hunger for Battle: Ophelia wants to go to a sporting event to feed. While mana from Bambi's blood is fine, mana from acts of violence or competition is better. Learn Shadow Gate lvl2 and send her out on a mana retrieval mission at a sporting event.
Time to Duel! Ophelia also wants to fight a magical girl. That will require sending her out on a mission and hoping for an encounter.
Training Room: Ophelia is happy with her bedroom but wants a different room to practice fighting in. Build her a Training Room. You could build one now if you had 600 Mana. Or you could send out your minions and use a Shadow Gate to steel stuff. The room would only take 200 Mana and another 100 for the Shadow Gate.
Music for Ophelia: She wants to listen to some music. You have a whole bunch of vinyl, but no record player. Keep searching for a clockwork player, or figure how to get electricity.
Notes: New lines of research:
- Elemental Coating: Is there a way for someone to add magic to their regular attacks? Theoretically, setting your fists on fire would make them more dangerous. Can you set your fists on shadows? Would that help?
- Easy Mana Gathering: Looking back, there's no way you could have gathered enough mana to break into the shadow realm, transform yourself, and manifest the structures of your humble domain. You were merely a (prodigiously talented and skilled) human not long ago and there was no way to you had that much power before. Especially since you have less now! Perhaps you got the energy from the environment? Is there a way to harvest that energy now?
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