The pool of blood remembers Chad.
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Are you people going to explain what events have you all disgusted or am I going to have to look it up myself like some peasant?
Tell us exactly at which point you dropped to know exactly how much we have to say, although be warned I'm about to go sleep anyway.
Remember the Quincy? Well, they went to war with Soul Society. Apparently they can steal Bankai, which 4 captains stupidly all allowed to see how it works, rather than just have one captain do it so they can learn it. BUT SOUL SOCIETY'S MILITARY SUCKS AFTER ALL!
Anyway, the leader fights with Yamamoto (oh, but that's only AFTER curb-stomping Kenpachi). Yamamoto reveals his bankai, kills the leader, turns out the leader is a fake, and we learn the chapter afterward it was actually the leader's twin brother that was not foreshadowed at all, the REAL leader shows up, finishes off his brother, and kills Yamamoto.
Oh, and Byakuya dies. To a mook. And the mook died about a chapter afterward to Kenpachi who was walking by.
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Don't worry. I did it for you!
edited 4th Oct '12 9:12:37 PM by NoLimit
The "NOBODY DIES IN BLEACH" meme no longer applies. Very sad.
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"EEEEK!!! CATS!!" "Setsuna? Chill out."
Sounds like I should be happy that I didn't get that much into Bleach in the first place.
Lucky OM, you get to go to bed while I drive 3 hours to grab a load, then drive about 3-4 more to deliver it. Whee.
This driving at night/sleep during the day is going to get old if work keeps this up. But the sciatica isn't being annoying, so that is good news.
Edit: Right. I'm out of here in an hour. Lovely part is that I am very familiar with where I am going to pickup and deliver. Annoying part is I will have no Internet where I deliver, even if the guidebook says there is Internet. Bleah.
I really need to work on one of my ongoing projects, but I'll be darned if I want to. It's like I am just stuck on each of them. Again, bleah.
At any rate, I am off here. Back when I can. Hopefully I will have a snippet to post here and on Iridia.
edited 4th Oct '12 9:30:21 PM by UberNimrod
Madman with a box? I'm a madman with a semi, a pretzel bender and a Heart of Gold!
You just know the epilogue will feature Orihime bringing them back again.
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The Quincy are the archer guys, right? The ones who have a completely different power system? And they can only steal the super moves, not the regular special moves? How very bizarre. I assume the Soul Reapers can't steal Quincy abilities, and the irregulars like Orihime and Chad aren't involved in the ability black market.
Why are they even at war? Did hollows stop being a thing that is bad and should be kept in check by not killing people who help keep them in check?
edited 4th Oct '12 9:51:30 PM by rikalous
...Honestly, I'm not sure. Because Soul Society tried to wipe them out, I think?
They haven't been given a motive IIRC.
I thought it was revenge?
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I'm going to assume it started something like this: "Hey guys, through a series of unlikely events I just discovered that we can steal the superspecial moves of those bleeding-heart sword jackasses."
"Sweet! I want a superspecial move!"
"Me too! Let's rush them!"
*general agreement*
Considering Bleach right now, that sounds plausible.
You know, I was going to try Bleach, since I think Rukia's design is pretty cute, but…
I think they sort of lost track of the concept.
Yes, that's another reason. Honestly, from what I hear that series turned into a bigger sausagefest than DBZ. I count the swords as male, since of COURSE they are...
edited 4th Oct '12 10:43:01 PM by SCMof2814
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RE Bleach developments: The Quincy already clashed with Soul Society around 1000 years ago after the latter's attempts to negotiate with the former over their methods of Hollow hunting (which threatened the delicate supernatural balance between the Living Word and the Soul Society) broke down rather nastily, and the result was widescale genocide of the Quincy. I figure that the current war is out of revenge for said genocide, though they also appear to have gained Church Militant-style Knight Templar zealotry over the centuries.
Oh, and for the record, this arc gaves us the unexpected whammy that there are way more Quincy out there than just the up-until-recently self-proclaimed last two Quincies Ryuuken and Uryuu.
edited 5th Oct '12 4:12:38 AM by MarqFJA
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Unequally/2814 Nuttiness. Enjoy!
As one, Ala Alba turned to the other Chao, who smiled brightly. "What's everyone looking at me for?" she asked glibly.
Kuro snorted. "I've reason to believe that this person might exist on this world. I can't really tell you any more details, since that will likely bias your view should the time come, but I can advise you to keep him away from her until you save the world together at least once."
She pointed resolutely at Negi.
"Eh?" he asked, confused and a little hurt. "Why not?"
Kuro gave him a bland look. "Her harem won't appreciate you horning in."
"EH!-?-!-?-!"
"You seem very certain it will come to saving the world," Batman said accusingly.
"It always does," Kuro shrugged. "After all, don't you meet people when the world needs to be saved from, say, purely as a theoretical example, power-stealing, vampiric, tripod-riding shape-shifters from Mars who might or might not kill and replace a prominent US astronaut-turned-politician and use him to trick Superman to disarm all the world's nuclear weapons as they sabotage several deep space monitoring stations around the world, thus setting the world up for invasion?"
There was a beat.
"That was oddly specific," Batman said.
"Ah, it was just a random, theoretical example," Kuro said innocently. "I'm sure that your world won't be invaded by power-stealing, vampiric, tripod-riding shape-shifters from Mars who might or might not kill and replace a prominent US astronaut-turned-politician and use him to trick Superman to disarm all the world's nuclear weapons as they sabotage several deep space monitoring stations around the world, thus setting the world up for invasion who are vulnerable to sunlight. Next image, please."
The image behind her shifted into a beautiful blonde woman with shining green eyes, her hair up in a bun, clad in a blue dress and plate armor. A beautiful sword, as much work of art as weapon, was was held in her gauntleted hands, and she had a determined look on her face. The image was next to a picture of another who might have been the woman's twin, except her skin and hair was paler, seemingly washed out, and her dress and armor was black veined with red, with lots of menacing spikes added, giving her an overall gothic look. This time, there were other pictures, mostly of the gothic one is severe dark dresses, bathing suits, a soccer uniform, and other fan services pictures. Some had her half-naked wearing only an oversized shirt.
"HAWT!” Haruna and Chamo cried, whistling loudly again.
"This," Kuro said, an edge of annoyance in her voice, "Is Servant Saber. She has the distinction of having been summoned in both the Fourth and Fifth Wars. Generally, the Saber class is considered the most-balanced class, with good stats in all fields and all have generally high levels of magical resistance, meaning your magic needs to be at least Erebus-level to put a proper dent in them. They wouldn't even notice Yue's level of magic."
"Thanks a lot," Yue muttered in annoyance. Psycho Purple patted shoulder her reassuringly.
"She has a natural talent with fellatio, and is apparently very good in bed. Her preferred positions are—" was as far as Kuro got before Chisame, Calculator and Twilight Red, all with strangled sounds coming from their throats, leapt at her, to Haruna, Misa, Deathnote and the ermines' cries of disappointment.
"What's fellatio?" Negi asked in confusion, and the three girls piled up on top of Kuro froze, staring in horror.
The room was suddenly filled with an aura of purest terror as Batman, suddenly looming above them all and looking like a demon out of hell said, in his deepest, most unearthly gravel, said, "Don't think about it."
"B-but—” Erebus ventured.
"DON'T THINK ABOUT IT!” Batman roared.
With a pair of Rina Sato-sounding girlish screams, the two Negi twitched and collapsed in a dead faint.
There was a brief mad scrabble as they tried to revive the two. When they came to, both had absolutely no memory if the preceding thirty seconds. It was decided not enlighten them, and Kuro resumed her lecture, a comical bandage on her head as everyone moved a teensy bit farther away from Batman.
edited 5th Oct '12 4:19:50 AM by SCMof2814
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Good to see Batman still has his Papa Wolf streak. BTW, you wrote "starring" instead of "staring".
... Are they going to be told of Saber's true identity?
edited 5th Oct '12 4:18:29 AM by MarqFJA
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I don't think so.
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Pity. I've been running a hypothetical scenario in my head last night about such a revelation, where Kuro challenges the URAE-verse characters to guess Saber's identity based on appearance and a non-spoilerific description of her life (raised as a commoner, rose to leadership, led armies, got killed through betrayal), and they keep getting it wrong (Joan of Arc is their first choice, of course), until someone decides to joke around by suggesting that she's actually a Knight of the Round Table who cross-dressed as a male (technically correct, as King Arthur is technically a Knight of the Round Table), and Kuro applauds her for being correct; surprised, they run through the entire Round Table's membership sans Arthur before they give up, and then Kuro points out that they're forgetting one last Knight in the roster (referring to the aforementioned technicality). Cue bug-eyed expressions and an outraged URAE!Chisame calling bullshit on the "King Arthur is a girl" thing.
edited 5th Oct '12 4:33:32 AM by MarqFJA
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If you write it out, we can add it as an omake.
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No promises.
Hey, Lu's last post in the main thread reminded me of something: Didn't one of us here write a one-shot comedic ficlet where Al is the one tasked with raising baby Negi?
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Speaking of which… hey OM, I'm not planning to tell who Saber is, but is it okay to tell them who 5th Lancer, Caster and Rider are?
I'm thinking at this point disappearing from Bleach is actually a blessing.