2298/Dark Sun Meeting

Dark Sun Meeting
Date of Scene:	07 January 2017
Location:	Witchhunter Professional Services
Synopsis:	Hannah calls for a meeting of fellow Eclipseites. Clotho shows up!
Cast of Characters:	Hannah Sharpe, Unmei, Haruna Kurosawa

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Hannah Sharpe has posed:
It's meeting day at WPS! And not just monthly status reports that half the members skip out on or phone in emails about. No, today is the great part of the year where Hannah opens her doors to fellow Eclipse members as a whole. She has food, soda, beer, and wine set out like a proper Eclipse meeting. The board room is awash in a green glow.

Darkness and magitech light cast strange shadows everywhere. Only some of them are coming from the occasional robo-youma-guard so common in the building. There's an ominous feeling in the room, of ambition and recklessness and pure greed.

At least until Miss White opens her mouth. "Gooooood evening my fellow world ruling corporate tyrants and associates! Welcome to WitchHunter Professional Services! As all of you probably know, I'm Kasagami White! But you lovely people can call me Miss White. Nice to meetcha!"

The turn out is...well, about what she expected. Very, very tiny. Her methods, and relative success combined make her ill liked among all but certain members she's proven herself to. A recent meeting put that in stark relief, and today only adds to it. There's a few token members here that are basically not paying attention at all. A youma and an Evil Intern. They'll soon be both passed out in two corner seats.

Miss White can't help but try to be grandiose anyway. "Since there's a few of you here today..." Huge overstatement. "That haven't been introduced to us here yet, why don't you say hi and tell us a little about yourself! And most importantly, what you want to accomplish! And what we can help you with!" Hannah's dark snicker fills the room, even as a finger runs along the magitech display. It slides out the way. Light frames her, her grin is both welcoming and a little menacing all at once. She's all teeth and eyes and darkness obscuring most everything else.

Unmei has posed:
Magical Girl Clotho was mostly just here for the snacks. She'd been humiliated again and again and again and was now in full self pity mode. Which meant there was already a small stack of chips, cookie crumbs and jerky bags in front of her. Her hair was in complete blue mode and Pin hadn't even made an appearance, thinking this was a waste of both their time. Or at least its.

Upon that, she glanced up and sighed. "I'm Clotho. I'm useless," she grumbled darkly, before stuffing her face full of chips again. The good news was that glutton form turned the excess calories into magical power. The sad part was she looked like a total slob as she stuffed her face, living up to the lil piggie motif her armor currently had. She'd also taken one of the beers but hadn't opened it yet. But hey, how often could a minor drink the stuff? She best try her best now!

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Things Haruna Kurosawa isn't: Evil.

Things Haruna Kurosawa is: Ambitious and a Go Getter!

So that is to say she is entirely out of place in an evil board meeting and the only thing keeping her looking in place is her usual bussiness suit. She is sipping on a cup of coffee. /Office/ Coffee. She doesn't wanna give Mister Youma or Mister Intern-dreaming-of-being-'The Guy' ideas for attack targets.

She does look over to 'Miss White' as she sips her coffee and she asks everyone to introduce themselves.

"I'mmmm Haruna Kurosawa and I wanna punch more jerks." she insists.

Jerks is vauge enough because it covers from 'Mamoru Chiba' to 'Takashi Agera' in various shades and meanings.

Haruna Kurosawa is not touching any alcholol because drunken making out and/or drunken dancing isn't in today's cards.

She looks over to Clotho and head tilts. "Useless?" she asks with a head tilt.

"What, how." she asks.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Miss White similarly is laying off, instead letting Intern and Youma slosh themselves. That can only lead to better things for the mage. Less things to annoy the higher ups, the better. Instead she's crossed her legs, leaned back in her Big Comfy Office Chair, and rests her chin on her hands.

"Jerk punching, huh? Well there's plenty of that to go around! Hah! Not like we don't have enemies. Haruna Kurosawa, you have my blessing to punch some faces!" Grin.

Haruna beats her to the punch with Clotho, but the mage is definitely listening. She tilts her head just a bit. "Useless people don't last long in Eclipse. Clotho-san, huh? And why exactly do you think you're useless?" Comes the suited woman, unblinking gaze zeroing in on the piglet-mahou as she stuffs herself.

Unmei has posed:
Magical Girl Clotho grumbles darkly as she starts stuffing in some jerky in her mouth, before glancing over and sighing. "I'm Clotho. Not my real name, just my magical girl name. I'm here because I was, well... sorta..." She frowned. "It was the only way to get my dream. I'm doing my hardest, but I'm just... not as strong as the other girls, okay?" she said with annoyance. "I mostly just came to this meeting because there were snacks and i thought it'd be nice to meet people but then I got slaughtered the other day, again and now my stomach wound keeps itching and i swear it's infected but the doctor keeps telling me it's in my mind and I'm just so UGH!" And then took the beer, opened it, downed some and almost choked. She hecked and coughed, spilling half of it on the ground.

Someone was in a foul mood at least. "T-that's... a-a good... s-strong b-beer," she lied through the tears in her eyes. Then groaned and leaned forward. "Right. I guess I should say what I can do." She held out her right hand and golden threads lifted up into a little swirling ball from one of the rings. "I'm... not sure on all the finer details. Pin says I'm not smart enough to understand them. But basically I have control over the threads of fate. I can alter my own and, those who have no magical defenses or are weakened, I can mix the threads of sin with their fates to temporarily bind them to my will. Creating youma."

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa is now moving onto her second cup of coffee. She is possibly going for 'smooth vibration' levels of coffee imbibment today. So there will be many more coming. She listens to Clotho and head tilts.

Haruna Kurosawa has heard this story a few times. Heck. She lived this story for like half a year. 'make your dream come true but you also need to become magical and maybe do bad things to obtain your dream'. Basically, this reminder just reminds her that her and Hannah need to see if Kyubey makes good sausages if you shove him through a meat grinder.

A find out about those Puella.

Then she describes her powers. She does frown at that.

And if she wasn't here with Hannah she'd probably have a justice speech. Luckily. She is too coffe'd and tired that it doesn't well up and spout out.

She does say: "That sounds pretty powerful." she says softly.

"Do you not know how to use it right?" she asks.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Whump. Whump. Hannah does her best to ignore the sounds of their two A. Falling backwards in the chair and B. The other flat out falling asleep in their hands. Being overworked youma and interns doesn't make for good note-takers. Hannah's eyes roll. Two robo-guards find a comfy corner for them.

She falls silent, especially as Haruna gets her two yen in. Oh yes. The similarities strikes Miss White too. Scarily so. Her lips purse, then relax.

She stands up, and then just walks over to Clotho. She leans in just a touch.

"Haruna's right. That's a very strong ability. Not many people can directly tap into something like Fate." When Clotho leans over, she'll try to push her back up.

"Well, I don't create youma, but that doesn't mean you're useless. Creating a minion has it's advantages. I take it you're new to all this? Let me give you a free tip. Pity won't help you get stronger. Only desire to get stronger and hard work. Clotho. WPS trains magical girls. You're in Eclipse, so my services are free to you. Want to get stronger? Do you want your dream so much that you're willing to work harder than anyone to get it and keep it?"

Unmei has posed:
Magical Girl Clotho blinked a few times. "It's not as strong as it sounds. I mean it's cool. It lets me change my form. And um... I cant alter it that much. I only changed my fate once. apparently i was going too..." she trailed off.

"I have my dream now. I... I will do anything to protect it. I'd sooner die than lose it..."

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Miss White gives a chuckle. "Well, so you have your dream, and you want to protect it. Okay! That's a start, kiddo. You know what you can do. And, it seems, you know your weaknesses. Hmm. I think this calls for a demonstration. Go on. Change your appearance for me."

Out comes Raging Tempest, and the duo concentrate. A sharp breath. "Area Search." Comes the Device's british tones, and there's lines of emerald green spilling out and to the floor, only to sweep beneath Clotho.

"Just a scan. Nothing to worry about. Need to see what I'm dealing with here."

Unmei has posed:
Magical Girl Clotho yelped and jumped back. "What? Dont scan me!" she screamed in a panic. but too late. she had an odd register. Kind of as if she was two people. One of which was a lot weaker and almost dying.

She took a deep breath and then the threads surged from her rings to envelop her. when they did they changed her hair color each time. red, blue, brown, green, white, black and gold. "I can make soldiers with the threads as well as weapons. and ummmm... I can only really alter my own fate other than the youma. I can take... other fates. err like... umnn... if I play a game? I can play it as good as the best person to gave ever played it. but only the one who used that particular one. I used it to use a katana once. but... i could fight like a samurai but...." she shuddered. "I rrally wanted to kill when i was like that. it was loke i was that peraon."

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
The scan has Miss White slowly frown. For a brief second, one can almost see worry on her face. "Hey. Calm down. I don't know what your deal is, but I don't do blackmail."

Her face does light up in genuine interest though. "No kidding? Alright. That settles it. Clotho. When you're next free, I want to fight you. Don't worry, I'll go easy on you. The ability to take up the skills of strong people through that kind of weapon creation isn't bad. Along with youma? Well, I think you have potential even if you're weak right now. That kind of thing can be solved with experience."

She kneels down, and then, she'll just try to push up that chin a bit. "So chin up, kid. I'll help you out if you help me out, okay?"

A chuckle, and then, she's back to the display. A few waves of her Device, and pictures come up. One is of a Familiar pinned down by glowing rods, very clearly cut open in a surgical manner. Another is a diagram of a linker core, then a Grief Seed and a Grief Cube side by side.

"My turn. We're of course interested in gaining any kind of magical artifact we can here at WPS. We'll pay for them. Lost Logia in particular. You can hunt for Jewel Seeds too, but Miss Precia has a bounty out for them. I wouldn't get in the way if I were you."

A tap to the familiar. "I'm trying to unravel the mysteries of Familiars, Witches, and now Wraiths. How to use them for our purposes. How to kill them. How to weaponize them. Give me test subjects. Give me data on any you fight, and I'll reward you."

A hand wave. "Same thing with Cubes and Seeds. They can be sold or used to bribe Puella Magi. They're our main clients. I'm also interested in researching Linker Core Modification. Any leads you can give will help a lot."

Pause. "Questions?"

Unmei has posed:
Magical Girl Clotho shook her head. "Wait no. I don't retain the knwledge. once i put the sword down it was as if i'd never used one before. i do learn fast though. Pin says it's Clotho's influrnce. it gives me potential to be anything." She gulped. "I've been in a few fights lately. i... i can but. youll probably be disappointed. I'm sorry."

She listened to the talk nodding along. "so... errr... other magical artifacts right? Cause eclipse already owns mine. and i'll keep an eye out for them."

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
"Have you ever tried to really stretch what you can do with that? Judging from what you said, you could be pretty versatile. Good for adapting to changing situations. Hmm. I can work with that."

Miss White's grin looks way too amused. Clotho might be in for a rough time!

Back over, she sits down, and relaxes. "Alright. End of meeting. Someone get those dumps out of the corner. Clotho. You can stay if you want. Eat up. Drink. You'll be needing your energy."

A chuckle as the two sit-ins are dragged out presumably to a bed to rest. Or just tossed out the back in the case of the youma.

"Yeah. Anything. The more rare the better. Make sure if you find something dangerous to take precautions. We don't want any of my employees committing suicide because you brought in an Orb of Annihilation without at least slapping an anti-magic case on it."

Unmei has posed:
Magical Girl Clotho nodded. "Right! i ummmm... haven't tried really doing anything unless i was told. I'm just supposed to folloe orders. sorry. I think they have more testing planned. thank you."

Of course she was more than happy to eat up and even took sone to go. "i'll do my best though. i'm not slacking i swear."

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Arms cross. "Following your orders is one thing, but you need to learn to act on your own too. When you're in a fight, nobody but yourself and your partner can let you know what you need to do. Might be part of your problem. There's loyalty, and then there's just lazily letting other people run things for you."

Miss White gives a smile. "Careful out there Clotho. Sure, sure, I believe you kid, I believe you! See you then."