3/11 Questing Beast 2017/12/02(Sat)06:03 No. 849238 ID: 2efb36
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>We've got a ball that needs saving. We've got a gal with a hammer. I think it might be time for croquet! She's on Deem rescue duty.
>Also Moriko show that you respect Deem by asking permission before carrying her core/fragment to safety. We are well aware of how jarring it is for someone to move her core without her being prepared for it.
>Definitely do not strike it with your hammer I mean c'mon.

Deem plucks Moriko out of the scrum.

"I said I don't need your help, but that doesn't mean I should have to rescue you instead!"

"I am growing tired of being rescued myself. This is a nightmare..."

"Well all dreams must end, even if I have to tear them to pieces myself!"

"Deem, the only exit from here I know is the same way we came in, up in the sky! If it's still open. We have to move your Heart out of here before it collapses completely."

"Not if I destroy here first!"

What Moriko needs is someone whose words can get through to people...

4/11 Questing Beast 2017/12/02(Sat)06:04 No. 849240 ID: 2efb36
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Moriko uses Dere Technique: Shadow Spirit
Moriko amplifies with Yan!

"Moriko, I knew you'd need my help! Deem's right in front of you. Remember, the difference in your heights is only seventy-four feet! You can climb that mountain!"

"That's not helping. Why do you look different?"

"I don't know!"

"Never mind then. We need to convince Deem to let us move her Heart."

"No you don't."

"Wait!"

"Wait!"

Deem uses ??? Technique: All the World's Evil

5/11 Questing Beast 2017/12/02(Sat)06:05 No. 849241 ID: 2efb36
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Forbidden magic. Something to soak in power from the curses that are proliferating here.

A random imp benefits from it instead.

6/11 Questing Beast 2017/12/02(Sat)06:07 No. 849242 ID: 2efb36
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Deem's attempt to cast a spell sets off another surge of unstable magic.

>+e|eport them inTo the gro|_|nD.
A freakish intrusion of alternative geography surges and threatens to engulf Stargazer as she hops between columns above a cursed (jelly) sea. It inexplicably fizzles out and a cinnamon bun drops to the floor nearby instead.

Stargazer ignores this nonsense.

>|=ri??dsh?? thr??gh super?or fIREpov/er.
The air around Moriko's shadow almost bursts into flames but instead she gets a cake.

>Hvgen=ss is goOd.
Magic focuses on Moriko but then swerves off and affects Deem instead.

Deem grew one inch taller! And so did everyone else!

>F?r sta???rS, goTta enh?nce knOc|<ers.
Deem's chest threatens to unleash an avalanche... but Moriko's shadow becomes more of a handful instead.

"Moriko, try some of this cake!"

7/11 Questing Beast 2017/12/02(Sat)06:09 No. 849243 ID: 2efb36
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"That should have worked!"

A monster bites Deem.

"How dare you! You're supposed to be my servants!"

"We're supposed to be your servants! Let us help you! We have to get your Heart and then carry it to the ceiling somehow!"

"You know it's very previous to me! I won't let just anyone touch it! ... Maybe if it's you, Moriko."

"Deem, the earth pulse is holding it in place. Can you force it to release? How can we dislodge it?"

"Well hit it with your hammer or something!"

8/11 Questing Beast 2017/12/02(Sat)06:11 No. 849244 ID: 2efb36
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>Stargazer should drink raw magic, grow super huge, and blast her way out with an eye beam. THE eye beam.
>Yeah, that's the magical girl way!
Finally a good idea, Stargazer know. She's navigated to where Deem's Heart rests and now she drinks in the plentiful raw mana spurting from it.

9/11 Questing Beast 2017/12/02(Sat)06:11 No. 849245 ID: 2efb36
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The Starry Eyed Apocalypse Maiden expands to apocalyptic proportions.

10/11 Questing Beast 2017/12/02(Sat)06:12 No. 849246 ID: 2efb36
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Stargazer uses Tsun Technique: Gazerbeam
Stargazer boosts with Yan
Destroy, destroy, destroy everything.

A beam of ravening annihilation stabs through the clouds to crack open the sky.

But it creates cake instead of cracking the boundary of the labyrinth.

11/11 Questing Beast 2017/12/02(Sat)06:13 No. 849247 ID: 2efb36
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Instead of opening the barrier, the clouds open like an oven door and cake tumbles down into the jelly sea. This is no mere trifle.

"..."

Stargazer is fed up with this. Stargazer is unlikely to follow any more commands!

"Uwah, that's really impressive! You actually made things worse. you'll need to act quickly to salvage things! You've only got one more chance to act!"

>>849247

Your wings are not for show, Moriko. Fly to the heart, grip it carefully, and calm its raging pulse for long enough to free it by channeling your best Kuu meditative stance - do not attack it, or the attack will turn to cake! Then fly to the roof, carrying the orb! Or ask Deem and Stargazer to help you lift it up. It's... kinda big.

>>849247
Quick, consume all of the cake! You're big enough to do that now!

Also enhance knockers for everyone, the situation looks screwy enough for that to work.

Ignore the stupid and CLIMB OUT OF THIS NUTHOUSE! Thank you.

>>849249

>It's... kinda big.

Oh! Oh. Deem has a big heart. That is bleeding. It figures.

It figures that she is a magnificent and powerful dungeon to have such a big heart! Clearly, that's what this means, in this magical dream-logic realm!

Hhhhh... Deem. It's gonna be okay. You're gonna be okay. You didn't have to end up like some carto--stylish villain, just to achieve the power to protect your frie- your interests. That's not what you really want, and you know it. Else we'd not gotten through to you at all. This is your dream, Deem. Calm those raging, contradictory emotions. Save the day.

C'mon, folks. Solution is obvious.

Moriko, use the ultimate Hammerai Tsun technique, "It's not like I like you or anything, baka!" to launch Deem into the sky, leaving a Deem-shaped hole in any intervening walls, no matter how sturdy they might otherwise appear. Can't be converted into cake because it's not actually magic, just a really good hammer swing.

Moriko can then fly through the same hole using those wings. Stargazer's gigantic form can simply climb out to safety.

>You've only got one more chance to act!
If this is the last update it's probably time for Stargazer's ultimate technique where she opens her second eye. (Or reveals whatever other starry horror is hidden back there, as she only has one).

>A random imp benefits from it instead.
>definitely_not_going_to_cause_any_trouble.png
We could use the overcharged imp as a grenade or something.

>"Well hit it with your hammer or something!"
You heard her, Moriko. You slam her secret spot with your big hard hammer.

>drinks in the plentiful raw mana spurting from it.
>The Starry Eyed Apocalypse Maiden expands to apocalyptic proportions.
I wonder how this is going to translate to Reisarf when she comes off him. Make him taller? Make his dick huge? Inexplicable gender swap?

Either way he's probably going to be wearing a cake instead of clothes.

>>849251
It'll just keep hitting random targets, but sure.
Stargazer, here's a simple command: Use physical force to rend the barrier before any more of your skin- I mean, clothes- falls off!
Moriko, you must make your appeals to the heart. Deem doesn't keep that close to her chest, remember? Another alternative is to give Deem a nosebleed with something lewd and direct the shower of raw mana downwards to create thrust.

Moriko, tell Deem to throw you to her heart. Then smack it with your hammer to dislodge it, and carry it up and out.

>>849247
Stargazer, Deem, YOU'RE KAIJU, JUST RIP THE HEART OUT OF THE GROUND WITH YOUR GIANT MONSTER HANDS AND SHIELD IT WITH YOUR BODIES.

Questing Beast 2017/12/03(Sun)01:35 No. 849481 ID: 2efb36
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Hiiiii. Since there's a lot of things to keep track of of, maybe I should remind you, uhuuu.

You should think very carefully about what needs to be done, what resources you have and what the possible pitfalls are.

Any magic that causes harm will instead make delicious desserts, any beneficial magic will randomly affect a valid target and any magic that affects Deem will affect everyone. You've changed the terrain, changed Moriko and Stargazer and the power of magical girls is amplified but the proof of their status, their cute clothes, are being consumed by it! How scandalous! Huhuhu, I won't tell them that last one was your fault.

Deem is still not thinking clearly and Stargazer doesn't want to listen to you any more. They both might need some convincing or extra motivation! Also there's imps. I think some of them are cute, but don't get distracted by them, ne? And for another thing, might something cause another surge of unstable magic in the middle of all your hard laid plans?

Deem's Heart is locked into its current position by the earth pulse. That burning halo of curses around it is big, isn't it?

After you can move it, you need to remove it from this distorted space. Where are the exits? Moriko and Stargazer came in through a hole in the barrier in the sky. Is it still there? What if it's not? Also, so you don't forget, the sky is very high in the air!

The collapse will be less harmful without the Heart present, but you probably don't want to be here for it. How can people get out too?

Good luck~

>>849481
I see..
Then I would like to rescind my previous suggestion >>849251
and just have deem enhance her knockers.

>>849481
take the ALL THE WORLD'S EVIL imp and stick it in the curse aura

Deem's ring has smaller rings on it. Can we remove the ring representing Alkaline and stick it in the curse and/or jello? Alkaline is good against curses and Jello may be used as a summoning medium.

Also, it's okay Stargazer. Just bad timing. Should have worked but the cake thing kicked in. You did your best.

Also maybe use a hunger spell on deem. She can't eat but the imps can.

current problems:
heat- heat= explosions maybe? maybe we can prevent explosions by reducing the heat?
Curse: curses are bad. Moriko had a sorta shrine maiden thing going on- use a dere purification ritual?
Imps: Now that two members of our part are giants, presumably the imps are less of a danger. However I've got the feeling that they may be solidified clumps of curse- they may be able to purge the curse by using them to soak up curse and then defeating them.
Crazy magic: We can't buff and we can't attack. We can only use neutral magics- and neutral magics can be magnified by casting them on deem.
Power: Too much power! We need to either vent it or use it up.

oh and
Earth pulse: we have to either bring it to a climax (may explode) or calm it down. Smacking the orb with a hammer seems inadvisable.

>>849481
that sounds like a hassle, let's just do cute things and wait for everything to work itself out.

>>849485
Or just have Moriko wear the ring as a hat. Important thing- Jelly techniques.

Excellent advice from a completely trustworthy source.
Okay, new plan: Throw the unstable imp absorbing curses from the air at the heart to free it from the pillar.Kuu Technique: IMPromptu Missile! Then Moriko can swoop in and get her hands all over Deem's most private part.

As for getting out of here - Hello! Moriko has wings, and Deem and Stargazer are both titanic! Moriko can flap in an ungainly fashion to achieve altitude, and the twin titans can just jump. Survival is enough motivation, right? Deem might get less air with her legs submerged in jello, but she can use those spider legs to help traverse the walls of the cavern. In brief: Yan Technique(s): Coiled Springs of Thunderous Ascent!
QB... QB can just appear out of nowhere at the top if it wants. We don't really mind either way.

>>849247
Stargazer use Kuu technique- frosty pout. Everyone is trying all these things are they're ridiculous and blowing up in our faces. Calm down and chill out, get cool enough to beat this heat and think of something.

Moriko, use Dere technique- Pure handholding. Hold deems, uh, finger and promise her that you will ever be her faithful hammurai servant. These imps are merely false servants conjured by the curse- would she trust them enough to touch the orb as she trusts Moriko?

Deem, use Kuu technique- I all I see is mine. This is not your dungeon, these are not your imps. They are things the curse forced upon you. But you are a dungeon. Claim them. Any structure a dungeon resides in is a dungeon! Any monster that enters a dungeon can be claimed by that dungeon! Do not flee the situation- exert your control! Make the curse YOURS!

If Stargazer can be persuaded to listen, how about Kuu Technique: Three-Point Perspective Shell Game to link Deem's Heart, the evil-absorbing imp, and the highest accessible spot in the cavern (since those three things are perpendicular focal points, in some metaphysical sense), and then rapidly swap them around? Neither beneficial nor harmful since it's strictly a matter of equivalent exchange.

Imp disconnects heart from earth pulse due to pre-existing curse absorbtion effect, or even if it doesn't, every time the shell-game effect attempts to move Deem's heart to the top, it instead moves everything in the cavern upward. Wild magic effects can't extend beyond the area of surging earth-pulse to relocate the entire mountain, so up and out means we all escape by surfing on an erupting jelly volcano.

Ok, so... the only magic that will work reliably is magic that isn't beneficial or harmful? Oh dear, what counts as beneficial?? Will a beneficial spell targeting everyone redirect to everyone, or will it bounce around randomly to multiply on some and miss some others? But a spell affecting Deem will affect everyone. So, if a teleport was cast on everyone, it would have a good chance of hitting Deem, and if it hit Deem it would hit everyone. So... mass teleport escape?

>>849247
Maybe Deem would be more successful in her endeavours if she didn't have to dedicate half her arms to boob management.

Deem, you are thinking like one of these simple, constrained beings. You are not a body. You are a world! This chaos, the curses and confections and confused cohorts and chaotic charms, are not surrounding your heart, they are within your heart, and to your heart, they are petty. Food and friends and fascinations, not threats. There is too much power about you, Consume it! Your denizens are misbehaving, they simply have not found their proper place, Build it!

Dere technique: Universal embrace! I am all and all is I.

Take all the power around you and use it! Mend the corridors, reinforce the mountain, build that martial school/orphanage and observatory they always wanted, build a small theme-park/child-care for adventuring families to leave the kids at, overwhelm the questing beast with your magically-enhanced will and bind it to your employ at a help desk to be public relations to worried parents and bratty children and irritating team mascots, build a small settlement for the unruly imps to inhabit and defend in waves, mutate the overloading imp into a miniboss, raise a dark-and-foreboding-tower to issue a challenge to all the world, breach a water-table and flood a labyrinth, everyone loves water labyrinths! rip those curses off of you and stick them onto treasure chests, Crush that confection curse into a cramped corridor crawling with consumptive slimes, let intruders try firing furious flames to fight flowing foes to face the fear of frightening fiends feasting ferociously for fattening and flinging their false forms! Tear minerals from the depths, bind lava to your service, draw the monsters into your will. This mountain will serve its own interests, and the whole mountain is you!

<insert maniacal laughter>

Deem: You must ascend to the heavens to seek your vengeance! Raise this altar with your heart upon it up to the very top of the chamber with all your geomantic might!
Moriko: Use your shadow clone technique to make a dark copy of the dispelling ring upon Deem's finger, and slip it on the heart itself!
Stargazer: Just hang onto that pillar tightly. If you do manage to snap off the pillar between your thighs, well that just makes the heart more portable, doesn't it?
We've got a slight problem if the barrier is sealed: none of you have drill hair! Or actual drills! Perhaps Moriko's incorporeal shadow can pass through, and trigger its opening once more from the outside.
Cast a spell of Knocker Empowerment on Deem. Boosted Imps are still nothing compared to twin enhanced titans.

Cast the curse absorption spell again and again, hoping for that lucky Deem redirect, and channel the power into continuous growth. Then, have Deem climb on top of Deem/Stargazer's shoulders to double the effective rate of growth! As Deem races to meet the ceiling, Deem's might will allow Deem to pound on the barrier with Deem's many fists and break free as one/Deem. If you use up all the curse energy in the process of everyone and their pet familiar absorbing curse energy, that's a bonus! The heart itself should grow out of its restraints once targeted, don't forget to pick that up before you go - but maybe after it rolls over all the imps first. This would be better facilitated by a neutral spatial warping spell that reshapes the terrain into a furrowed ramp downwards.

1/8 Arhra 2017/12/08(Fri)20:54 No. 850485 ID: dab122
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>Moriko, use the ultimate Hammerai Tsun technique, "It's not like I like you or anything, baka!" to launch Deem into the sky, leaving a Deem-shaped hole in any intervening walls, no matter how sturdy they might otherwise appear. Can't be converted into cake because it's not actually magic, just a really good hammer swing.
"If it is to enhance one's abilities, would it not affect a random person?"

>Moriko, tell Deem to throw you to her heart. Then smack it with your hammer to dislodge it, and carry it up and out.
"Simple then. Deem, can you throw me to your Heart?"

"I know you have to dislodge it, but after that, when you're carrying my Heart, be gentle with it! I am a delicate maiden!"

"Go on, steal her Heart, Moriko!"

>Take the ALL THE WORLD'S EVIL imp and stick it in the curse aura
>I've got the feeling that they may be solidified clumps of curse- they may be able to purge the curse by using them to soak up curse and then defeating them.
"Wait, that might help. Deem, throw that imp first!"

2/8 Arhra 2017/12/08(Fri)20:55 No. 850486 ID: dab122
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The imp flies through the air, rebounds off the cursed aura, lands upside-down in Deem's throne then springs back up and tries to gnaw on it. The aura rapidly loses strength. The imp's body grows and warps as it feeds off the aura.

Stargazer is poised to squish the imp the moment it looks like it's getting too uppity.

3/8 Questing Beast 2017/12/08(Fri)20:57 No. 850487 ID: dab122
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Moriko flies through the air, drop kicks the back of the imp's head and Stargazer yanks it aside. The turbulent around Deem's Heart

>You heard her, Moriko. You slam her secret spot with your big hard hammer.
"I won't dignify that with a response."

>Moriko: Use your shadow clone technique to make a dark copy of the dispelling ring upon Deem's finger, and slip it on the heart itself!
"That may end up 'gentler' I'll make the attempt."

Moriko uses Dere Technique: Phantasm of Memory

A shadowy copy of the ring appears and Moriko carefully slides it around the Heart. The Heart falls out of its position. Moriko darts forward to catch it.

"Haah?!"

"..."

Stargazer quietly exterminates the imp.

4/8 Questing Beast 2017/12/08(Fri)20:59 No. 850489 ID: dab122
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Deem slumps as she loses her connection to the earth pulse.

"Just get my Heart out of here, that's the important thing. We'll follow!"

"..."

Stargazer moves to help Deem stand. A human(?) crutch.

"Don't worry, I'll protect her!"

Without a word, Moriko finds the shrinking hole in the sky and vanishes.

The entire chamber shudders violently.

5/8 Questing Beast 2017/12/08(Fri)21:00 No. 850490 ID: dab122
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>Hhhhh... Deem. It's gonna be okay. You're gonna be okay. You didn't have to end up like some carto--stylish villain, just to achieve the power to protect your frie- your interests. That's not what you really want, and you know it. Else we'd not gotten through to you at all. This is your dream, Deem. Calm those raging, contradictory emotions. Save the day.
"Before you can do anything else you need power. I can't even stand by myself. I'm pathetic, aren't I?"

"..."

"What's that supposed to mean?!"

>Deem, use Kuu technique- I all I see is mine. This is not your dungeon, these are not your imps. They are things the curse forced upon you. But you are a dungeon. Claim them. Any structure a dungeon resides in is a dungeon! Any monster that enters a dungeon can be claimed by that dungeon! Do not flee the situation- exert your control! Make the curse YOURS!
"What do you think I tried just before? Seizing the spilled power of the Earth's children, that is the essence of a dungeon!"

>Also, it's okay Stargazer. Just bad timing. Should have worked but the cake thing kicked in. You did your best.
That's OK, because Stargazer knows she is the best.

"..."

"I don't want to rush you but that hole's closing!"

6/8 Questing Beast 2017/12/08(Fri)21:03 No. 850491 ID: dab122
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>Deem, you are thinking like one of these simple, constrained beings. You are not a body. You are a world! This chaos, the curses and confections and confused cohorts and chaotic charms, are not surrounding your heart, they are within your heart, and to your heart, they are petty. Food and friends and fascinations, not threats. There is too much power about you, Consume it! Your denizens are misbehaving, they simply have not found their proper place, Build it!
>Dere technique: Universal embrace! I am all and all is I.
>Take all the power around you and use it!
"You're right, I won't let things end like this. I won't give anyone the satisfaction being defeated like this. I will not give up. I will rise. Good or bad, it doesn't matter. I'll take in it all!"

Deem uses K?u Technique- I all ? see is mine?
Deem uses Der? Techniq??: Univer?al embrace! I am a?l an? al? ?? I?
Deem uses ??? T?chn?qu?: ??ta?'? W??l

Deem tries to lay claim to everything in her sight, to soak in all the curses and dreams and bent magic.

Deem sets off another surge of out of control magic.

>?l?? enhance knoc|<ers for ev=ryOne, th= situa=ion looks s???y enoug|n for th@t to ??rk.
Huhu, you know, I am beginning to wonder how random this random magic really is.

7/8 Questing Beast 2017/12/08(Fri)21:04 No. 850492 ID: dab122
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>I w??der ?ow t??s is go??? +o translat= to Reisarf w|nen she comes off him. Make him tal|er? Make hi5 d|ck huge? Inexp|icable g=nder swaP?
Something's happened.

"!"

What have you done, what have you done?! You eyeless stupids, you fumble tongues, you sponge brains you, you, you...

Never talk to Stargazer agai-

>5o, if a +eleport wAs cast on ev=ryone, i+ ???ld have a goOd ??ance of hit???g De??, and ?f it ??t D??m it ??uld h?+ ev=???ne. So... ma5s te|epo|-t =sca|oe?
Out of bounds. Connection lost.

8/8 Questing Beast 2017/12/08(Fri)21:05 No. 850493 ID: dab122
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"Uwae? why are you still here? Everyone's gone, so I guess that means you win!"

>It's probably time for Stargazer's ultimate technique where she opens her second eye. (Or reveals whatever other starry horror is hidden back there, as she only has one).
"Hoeh? Oh no, no she's just not used to binocular vision."

...

"..."

...

>QB... QB can just appear out of nowhere at the top if it wants. We don't really mind either way.
"Well, I suppose I should go."

"Thank you for playing!"

>>850493
We need an end scene! An omake! (almost) Anything to wrap this up properly!

Eat sticky bun.

>>850487
>"I won't dignify that with a response."
But you just did! Saying, "I won't dignify that with a response." counts as responding to the thing you said you weren't going to respond to!

>>850493
Hey don't just leave us here!

>>850495
the omake is a transition to deem waking up post ghost-attack probly