We Wake Up Magical Girls (Maid the RPG system)

????'s Luck [4] x Dice [6] = 24

Various energy beams and projectiles fire out of the Aqua-Taine. Only one of the projectiles actually heads off to the direction of the first fighter, which nimbly dodges out of the way. The second fighter, flying right behind the first fighter, doesn't dodge and explodes in a massive fireball; a fireball large enough to engulf and destroy the first fighter.

MARION at the wheel reports "Good work! Only three fighters left!"

 ???? earns 2 dice of favor! ???? gets... [1] + [1] = 2 favor! 

???? grins viciously. "Well that worked out well," they say, preparing to push the same buttons again.

Buttons are jabbed, joysticks are pulled, and ???? somehow finds a cupful of a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea dumped on their lap.

"Our situation has not improved." reports the MARION at the captain's wheel. "However, we do now know the gunner's drink dispenser is working."

Edited by Nodrog on Jul 21st 2021 at 8:16:54 AM

"... Don't know why I thought that'd work twice." They push buttons methodically and try to figure out what they do through experimentation.

???? finds which buttons control the drink dispenser and the cup dispenser... unfortunately, they find those buttons in that order.

The first MARION turns the wheel, causing the ship to swerve. "The fighters are still tracking us... Should we divert power to activate the Aqua Taine's invisibility field?"

Edited by Nodrog on Jul 21st 2021 at 8:21:50 AM

Samuel

"Oh for the love of— let me try!" Samuel pushed [ERROR: NAME NOT FOUND] aside, moving to methodically work the controls. "And if you think invisibility will help, do it, but I don't think it's going to work since they already know where we are!"

"They know where we are now, but if we change course, invisibility might help us evade them... Let's try that, I think, unless someone has a better plan." Someone gets to work on that.

Samuel manages to fire a stream of energy blasts at the oncoming three fighters. The three fighters break formation, dodging the blasts, and then the ships fire on the Aqua Taine. The ship bucks as it gets hit.

The two MARION run over to a previously ignored station and, working in tandem, begin pulling levers and typing in commands.

"Power diversion successful... stealth systems coming online." reports one MARION.

The ship suddenly tilts suddenly to one side, banking. The three fighters fly straight on, firing at empty air.

"Port engines offline." the second MARION reports. "Insufficient power."

The ship tilts forward, displaying the ground below.

"Starboard engines offline." the first MARION reports. "Insufficient power. Altitude at 36,000 feet and falling. Emergency landing protocols advised."

"Warning, emergency landing protocols requires use of human intervention." adds the second MARION.

The two MARION look at Samuel, still in the gunner's seat, and ???? near the ship's stearing wheel.

The two MARION scream in panic and grab each other as the ground comes hurtling closer.

Edited by Nodrog on Jul 21st 2021 at 9:25:54 AM

"Who designed —" Someone dives for the console and attempts to mash their way to a successful emergency landing. This is a plan without flaw nor possibility of error.

Samuel

"AAAAAAAAAH—" Throwing all caution to the wind, Samuel lunged for the console, joining [ERROR: NAME NOT FOUND] in button-mashing. Maybe, with the two of them working together, they would avoid certain death at the hands of gravity.

The two MARION stop screaming. Still clutching onto each other, they begin alternating making reports.

"Maneuvering thrusters online."

"Air foils deployed to maximum."

"Radio presets changed."

Samuel grabs the ship's wheel and pulls on it as hard as mermaiddly possible.

The ship's nose slowly pulls up, so the ship is still rapidly descending but now it looks like a landing you can run away from screaming instead of a crash.

The two MARION quickly separate apart and adjust their uniforms.

Favor is a resource players can use to modify stats, either for one time effects or for permanent upgrade. To remove X stress, pay X favor. To temporarily boost stats for an upcoming roll, indicate you want to pay 1d6 (random number from 1 to 6) favor for that roll. To permanently upgrade a stat costs 10 favor times the value of the new stat, so to go from a 1 to a 2 in a stat would cost 20 favor, to go from a 2 to a 3 would cost 30, etc.

Edited by Nodrog on Jul 23rd 2021 at 8:05:59 AM

The first Marion moves to another station. "Altitude at 12,000 feet.... 11,000 feet... still descending fast enough to require human intervention. Searching for possible landing sites."

The second Marion goes back to adjusting controls. "Maintaining stealth." she reports. "The Stygian fighters are separating and running search patterns."

Samuel

"G-got it!" Samuel gave a quick salute, then hurried over to the console to...to...to do whatever it is you had to do to slow down a crashing aircraft's descent. Alright, Samuel, if you can get an A+ in Calculus, you can figure this thing out.

Someone attempts to help Samuel by pushing the blinkiest buttons they can spot, hoping that this somehow happens to correspond to useful functions.

Samuel lets go of the ship's wheel, saluting, then begins pulling levers.

The ship tilts slightly more forward.

"Fall rate accelerating" MARION reports.

"You have selected: Casual bongos." the other MARION reports.

Music begins to play over the speakers.

Both MARION report "Launching fireworks." in unison.

Several brightly colored lights launch from the ship, arc in the air, and then explode into star-bursts of light and color.

Two of the enemy fighters, blinded by the sudden pyrotechnics, swerve and crash into each other to produce a new blast of light.

Looking through the window, you now can see the ship is headed toward the middle of a large lake. One side of the lake is a small, well lit city. On the other side of the lake is a lightly foested area with several small clearings.

The final enemy fighter turns, turning toward the source of the fireworks.

Edited by Nodrog on Jul 25th 2021 at 2:30:44 PM

Samuel

Well, that had gone badly. And now the fighter had caught onto them. Wonderful.

Time to be either really brave...or really stupid.

Samuel lunged for the wheel, veering the ship towards the forest. With any luck, they'd land in one of the clearings. Or crash into one of the clearings. Better than crashing into the lake or the city, at any rate.

Hey, if you were going to fail, might as well give yourself a chance to get back up again.

Samuel grabs the wheel and tries to force the Aqua-Taine toward a forest clearing...

The Aqua-Taine, still firing fireworks into the sky, angles toward a forest clearing.

"Assume crash positions!" The first MARION shouts out.

"Brace yourselves for impact!" the second MARION shouts.

Both MARION grab onto chairs, clinging tightly.

MARION one says "I hope this hasn’t put you off of flying."

MARION two adds "Statistically speaking, it’s still the safest way to travel."

Someone braces for impact, hoping beyond hope that their weird super luck keeps them safe.

Someone sits down in the gunner's chair and presses several buttons. Straps wrap around someone's body, holding ???? securely.

Small nozzles emerge from the ceiling of the bridge and begins spraying rapidly-hardening foam all the bridge.

There is a loud thump as the Aqua-Taine lands in the middle of the clearing. The lights go out for a second, then emergency red lights turn on.

After a moment of silence, the MARION speak.

MARION: Are we awake?

MARION: That depends... are we red?

MARION: Yes, we are.

MARION: Then we're awake, but very puzzled.

The two MARION manage to stand up, brushing the now flaking foam off their bodies. They begin examining various stations.

MARION: "Weapon and fireworks systems are offline. Stealth and scanning systems are still online."

MARION: "Engine room reports several cracked crystals and we're leaking fluid."

MARION: "Which fluid?"

MARION: "They say, all of them."

Edited by Nodrog on Jul 28th 2021 at 9:38:53 AM

Samuel

Thankfully, Samuel had managed to land the ship without serious injury or completely wrecking it.

He let out a relieved sigh as his shoulders slumped, already tired despite only being awake for...what, ten minutes? "Let's never do that again," he muttered, wiping sweat from his brow.

He then turned to the MARIONs. How long will this take to fix?"

MARION and MARION look at each other, then at Samuel.

"If we work around the clock...."

"and cannibalize some of the secondary systems..."

"and cannibalize ALL of the tertiary systems..."

"right, those, AND if we don't take any more damage..."

"and nothing else blows up...

"Oh, yeah, if nothing else blows up..."

"The Aqua-Taine should be good in an estimated... ten thousand years."

"Years?"

"Oh, sorry, minutes. Ten thousand minutes."

"Or about seven days, rounding up."

"Seven days..." someone says. "Okay. What should we be doing in the meantime? Is there anything we can do to speed that process up?"

Every MARION on the ship, in unison: "Save the Princess!"

Samuel

"One question. How the hell do we do that?"

One of the bridge MARION speaks up. "The Princess was captured when investigating the Ebenezer Vilus Institute of Learning. If you were to search there, you might find out where the Princess was taken."

The other MARION adds "However, given the fact that the Princess and her companions were captured on their first foray, you might want to try something more surreptitious."