>>178176
Interesting... Dart isn't using the black stones to give orders.
Seal it and go rescue RJ. We're going to do some spying.
[Monitor Dart]

Dart 2010/05/15(Sat)22:57 No. 178182 ID: cf68aa
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>>178179

@ Master L: oh jeez oh jeez oh jeez he's at the school he's at the school. Maybe if we play dead he'll go away. It's motherfucking Dart!

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. DART IS HERE!!!

@others that aren't Dart

That Dart motherfucker is outside the building.

@Dart
[emulate Mizuno's voice]
I'm here.

>>178182
@All Dart's at the school. Drop everything, get to the entrance, retrieve Nari and Mizuno, then go back and continue work. L, if you can call in a favor from Fai now would be a good time

@I Shop: I don't suppose there's enough money in the world to pay you to kill Dart right now. So, you're the philosopher?

>>178182
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

@Party
DART IS HERE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE SCHOOL

@Alex
Can we cast a spell from the Red Stone through the black ones? I really want to freeze bomb his ass.

@I-Shop
Are you still near the entrance? We've got what you might call a bad customer right outside, if you can hide away the little girl asleep there we'll be so grateful I don't even know how we'd pay you back.

>>178188
[Bad idea. The speech patterns are just as important as the voice, and we haven't heard enough of her speech to pull that off.]

>>178193
[agree, hopefully he will just grab mizuno and leave.]

>>178195
[Stick to simple responses. Patterns are difficult to detect that way unless Mizuno never speaks with simple responses}

@All: Actually, new plan. Rush to the entrance, grab Mizuno and Nari, then head back to the collapse,cut a hole to the dark world, and hide there. He won't expect it since it's supposed to be impossible.

>>178199
What about Felix, RJ, Nari and Chel? Would you leave them behind for Dart to get his hands on? We need more time!

>>178199
no, we still have people trapped and he may find them, let him find mizuno while we get everyone out. if we get everyone out before he get's to our place we can cut a hole but not before then.

>>178199
@All: Oh, and Alex? Leave behind a Cell Stone with a contingency spell on it so we can destroy it remotely. Don't bother making it a huge one since it won't kill Dart anyway, just make it enough to render the stone completely useless.

@King Rai: We have Amy Sky. She's alive and her soul has been returned. We are inside the school and half of us are trapped in a collapse.
Dart is at the school's entrance. Little help?

>>178200
Nari's at the entrance. We're retrieving her.
@All: With Cecil, Alex, and L all working together we can rescue the others in minutes - before Dart finds us, hopefully. L, you go after Chel since she's most likely inside a protective bubble. Cecil, you head for RJ and clear a path for the others - you're best suited for that. Alex, you save Felix.
Gene, get back here before Dart kills you.
Everybody meet at RJ's location once your respective tasks are complete.

>>178202
agree, with calling rai, this is the time to call in the big guns.

My plan is this:

Leave Mizuno behind for Dart to find. He'll thaw her out and talk to her. We'll be speaking to her at that point as well. Hopefully we can goad her into resisting the punishment, or at least delay him long enough for us to dig the remaining people out and escape.

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>It's been a while since I came here.. Nostalgia.
>I remember teaching here.. Helping students learn the wonders of magic in hopes that they will use it to help others.

>And I saw it be abused by their 'teachers'.

>I hope Mizuno is okay..
--------------------------------------------
Master L

>DART!?

Everyone begins to panic

>"Shut up! I need to think! We need to get out of here fast!"

"But how w- OH! I have teleportation stones! They'll take us anywhere!"

>"Really!? Okay, this makes my life easier. Here, take this"

He pulls out a tiny shard of his Stone

>Voices, I can stall for time and maybe even take out Dart. It's a pretty tough to pull off spell but I think I can do it. Just gotta make sure everyone's outta here first though.

>"Guys, go find the others fast! Take them with you!"

Cecil and the party begin to spread out and quickly search for the others

>>178217
[keep watching Dart]

@everyone: if you can help look then start looking, if you can't then use your stone.

>>178221
... ow. i just got an anurism from shear stupidity. what's stopping him from thinking she is an illusion and just blasting her? he thinks amy is dead.

>>178221
>>178217
@L: No. I don't know what your plan is, but it's dumb.

@All: New plan. Amy, go say hi to Dart. I'm betting he'll be ecstatic to see you; he won't do anything to hurt you. That will give everybody else enough time to rescue the others - Amy, we'll meet up with you later, but no matter what don't lose sight of what actions are right and wrong, no matter what the goal may be.

>>178221
I... actually like that idea. Except... we'd have to tell Amy how we brought her back.

She could be our diplomat. Our negotiator.

>>178223
Simple. She has a soul, and he's smart enough to check before he blasts.

fair enough, second concern: are you SURE he wont? i mean REALLY FUCKING SURE.

>>178217
@Master L
Everyone who has thought that they could take him out has been violently disappointed, don't get cocky. And Nari is asleep at the entrance, for gods sake don't engage him until she's safe.

@Alex
Can we channel a red stone spell through the black cell stones?

@I-Shop
You by no means obligated to help us, but be aware that the dark mana master Dart is here. We're hoping to get everyone dug out and use teleport stones to escape in time. Act on this as you see fit, if you help us we'll owe you. The young girl Nari in particular is vulnerable and near the entrance.

@ Cecil: Master L is gonna suicide bomb Dart into pieces. L has only got a tiny bit of helpless souls to sacrifice left, so he hasn't got much time anyway. You should just ignore him and escape while he blows up Dart, the only teacher who could be your ally.

>>178229
Yes. I'm not sure enough to say with certainty exactly what happened, but I can say with certainty that we don't need to worry for Amy's safety.

>>178232
@Cecil: Yes, L is planning on a suicide attack. Also, he has about 5 years of life left on that PStone whereas we could get him an alternate source of immortality by the end of the day.
Tell him his plan sucks and to help you rescue people and escape, then give Amy an extra Cell Stone and get to work.

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The groups begins to gather everyone up including Nari and Mizuno. Master L reluctantly agrees to let Amy try to stall for time. He gives her brief instructions and sends her out with an extra Cell Stone

She goes outside and waves at Dart.


>Can it be...?

>"Amy?"

>>178245
[Switch to Dart via OUR cell stone network.]

Yes, which means she can't hear you. Hold on.
[Link Dart's hearing and understanding of sounds and speech with Amy's hearing and understanding of sounds and speech]

Ok dad, hopefully she'll be able to understand you now, and it'll help our attempts to teach her how to talk.

Also, she's alive because Cecil figured out how to revive the dead without horrible rituals or affronts to magic. Although I suppose you could technically call it an abuse of magic if you don't think people should return from the dead - in which case I would like to point out that she was being chewed on by a soulless, not at peace in the afterlife.

So, I suppose the real question now is "Why?".
Why are you trying to conquer the world?
Why are you using such horrible methods to do it?
Why are you keeping your motives secret?
Why did you turn from being a genuinely nice guy into somebody who would erase a hospital?

If we knew what your ultimate goal was, then perhaps we could help you achieve it without causing so much suffering along the way.

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>>178246
>.......





>"Shenjou"

>>178247
Ok, see, that? That was completely needless. She came here to talk to you, and hasn't taken sides. She didn't believe us when we said you turned evil, and she wasn't even alive when Cecil took-out Mizuno.
She's an innocent bystander here; she hasn't done anything against you.

We're here under a banner of peace, which is why we haven't attacked you. We listened to Mizuno's claims up until the point where she got pissed at us for insinuating you're not a nice person and started bringing the structure down, which forced us to neutralize her.
At any rate, she caused us to question some of our assumptions about you and thus we decided diplomacy was in order.
So, are you willing to talk?
Or would you rather not try to negotiate?

Perhaps a question that doesn't relate to you; who or what caused the demon incident that destroyed the school? Who or what ended it?

Oh, and in case you care:
Felix's memory was wiped to some point before he ever challenged you, and he seems to be doing quite well.
We know Master L has done some completely horrible things, and we're forcing him to set things right as much as possible.
We also know that Rai is far from innocent as well, although we haven't determined the details yet. We'll force him to fix the damage he has done once we've got enough information to do so.

@Rai: Dart just cast Shenjou on Amy.

>>178254
Dart could have used it on Mizuno. We weren't allowed to see.

>>178247
GODDAMMIT, why'd you have to go all super "why you doing this shit" in the middle of a goddamn emotional moment. We should have just opened communication networks between her and Dart and then he wouldn't have made somebody and freaking tranny mindslave.

It might have made him sorta good again. Hell, we go into his thoughts and see that he sorta believes in his own bullshit so he wasn't that far-off. Goddamn, it was the same with Alex.

Yoho, mister Ishop guy, mind redoing that over again with another time spell? No, everybody just gets one? Well goddamn son. Maybe if we go down to IHOP and get you some pancakes?

I KNEW IT!! I FUCKING KNEW IT!! i told you seven, i told you it was a bad idea and you were like 'oh, he would NEVER hurt amy' and i was like 'ARE YOU REALLY FUCKING SURE?!?!' and you told me you were sure. i knew it wouldn't work!!

also, from now one. no matter how big a sob story any of his minions spin we assume dart is pure evil and base what we think he would do on that.

>>178285
Good advice, he's just got a almost good philosophy and intention, but he'll fuck everyone up in the process for his to be spread and stuff. He's technically an Ubermensch. You don't assume an Ubermensch will do something completely different from what their currently doing with others because of some girl he cared for a lot in the past.

>>178273

You are right. I screwed up, and for that I am sorry.
Too bad nobody pointed that out before it was too late. :/

>>178279
You are wrong. She's fine, and will either continue to remain fine or be restored to fine.
While I was hoping that it wouldn't come to it, I did in fact plan for this possibility.
Perhaps you wondered why I instructed Cecil to store a sample of Amy's blood, then attempt a resurrection using a different sample?

At any rate, this advances several goals. Chief among them being providing King Rai with a personal stake in these events. Further, we can use this entire visit as leverage to coax Rai into granting us boons, such as carte blanche to use illegal spells, take prisoners, and pass judgement at our discretion, as well as mobilizing the royal army mages to sanitize the school ruins and start recovery and resurrection efforts.

Oh, and there's nothing stopping us from Banshing the Shenjou on her.

>>178308
we couldn't stop you because i was asleep, it was 4 am here.

>>178279
Well, if you feel that strongly about it then you can ask for a Rewind.
However, Amy being captured is better than L dying, or Dart recovering Mizuno and/or capturing one or more of the others.

>>178320
who says he isn't going to just grab mizuno as well?

>>178308
You planned for this? What are you doing, playing a game of Xanatos Roulette? Christ, your not a magnificent bastard, you don't get to pull those off.

>>178322
From what I understand, Seven means he just had a contingency set up in case anything happened to Amy.

I wonder what happens if we cast Zeroon on the blood when there's a larger corpse around? Do healing spells only work on the 'main' body? We might have to reduce Amy's main body to ash before we could recover her using the blood as a base.

>>178325
but it would result in an interesting experiment, would the amy made from this blood only remember up to her time of death or are the memories stored in the soul?

My god, your going to implement a MY OWN CLONE scenario in a quest.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OppositeSexClone

There's only one soul. We can't resurrect Amy while she's still alive, guys.

>>178332
well yeah, but since we have a sample if she tries to kill us we can go full force on her instead of trying to make sure her body stays intact.

>>178332
Technically, "Amy is alive" and "Amy's body is alive" are two different statements.

>>178333
> if she tries to kill us.
Heheheh.

>>178330
Don't be silly! Amy only has ONE soul.
Although...

>>178321
That's why I sent Amy out to meet him; to buy enough time to retrieve Mizuno and Nari, then dig the others out and escape to the Dark World.

Revisiting the Dark World has been part of my plans for awhile. Did you notice, by any chance, that locations in the Dark World equate to locations in the Light World but the relative distances are different?

Here, just in case it works:
@Cecil: Cast Miracle on the Red Stone. Quick!
[If Cecil can't cast Miracle on the Red Stone, then cast Miracle on the Red Stone]
[Cast Ol Rethono on Dart via the Red Stone]