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USER: #A5211F - Defense Force

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Any of you who were able to go to the town meeting organized by Mitsuru will know that we discussed a designated defense force for the town. For those of you who weren't, or for anyone who wants a recap, I'll go over this as briefly as I can.

We know the forest is full of creatures not everyone understands, and that those dangers— or something similar— can leak into the town and cause trouble here, too. Those shadows were a perfect example, just like the speaking furniture. We're not always safe, and while there isn't always a threat that we can deal with physically to overcome it, having a defense force would make a lot of people more comfortable. Having people that are physically capable with someone at the top to organize them would be helpful to everyone, I think, especially those who aren't so combat ready.

So, I'm stepping up as leader. I didn't hear any opposition to that at the meeting itself, but if you want to know more about me, you can ask me whatever you want. Here's what I'm going to ask of all of you.

If you're interested in helping and capable in combat, no matter what methods you may use, then I'm asking you to sign up here. I'll keep a list of everyone, including their abilities and strengths/weaknesses, and organize this in a way that's most efficient. In order to do that, I also need suggestions.

Izuku mentioned patrols near the forest. That's one idea, and I want to hear any others that are out there, but here's the basic rundown:

I'll organize people by their strengths and put them in charge of certain activities or areas. How I do this depends on the number of people that sign up. If enough people sign up, I might assign ranks just enough for people to be able to report to someone even if I'm unable to be contacted or out of reach somehow. Once everyone who has wanted to has signed up, we'll schedule meetings and discuss what to do in case of an emergency, or other situations. Basic things like that are what I'm looking into, and most of it will come after I've heard from all of you, but let me know if you have any questions on any of it.

Before I end this, I have another quick question. What do you think our biggest weakness has been in all of this? What has caused the most harm, and if there was a drug that could aid you in this place, what would it be? A first aid or pain reducer? Strength enhancers? Magic resistance?

That's all. I'll answer any questions at any time as soon as I can.

- Guren Ichinose

(ooc: Gosh this got so long, but okay!! Like discussed at the town hall meeting, here's defense force sign ups and discussion!! This is just another great opportunity for CR and branching out thanks to IC discussion from characters (and thanks, Mitsuru, for bringing it up!), so feel free to suggest any and all things! Also, if your character wants to sign up but you don't want to tag this, just let me know oocly! You can hit me up oocly, too, if you have any questions or concerns with anything. PM me, or my plurk is

zeloser!

edit: just a minor edit, but sorry I'm slow! I meant to boomerang after work but I'll have to wake for my weekend mid/late saturday and on. I'll also throw up an ooc post/discussion thing for this at some point!)

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[Suppression drugs. That rings close to home, and he's quiet, ignoring the women joke to focus entirely on this. ESP suppression...]

I'll need more information. What exactly does it suppress? Input or output? What parts, exactly? Tell me the side effects of what they had, too.

[That's a lot of questions...]

I need to limit the output only...I'm a pure psychokinetic so there is no input for me. [She thinks. She's not sure, actually.] It'll need to be something that targets my psychic centre.

And I didn't really...take them back home. Minamoto avoided it as much as possible, but I guess it'd be the sort of side effects you'd expect from a drug that affects your brain functions? Mood changes, confusion, lightheadedness...that sort of stuff? I know some of the stronger stuff can have nastier side effects though I don't know what they are. [It was enough to know that Shiho hated them.] That's why the preferred method is to use technology like Limiters and ECMs instead. [But she only has one of those available...]

[You gotta be sure with these different world issues!!]

So you have a limiter now? [He's familiar with all of these terms, and that's interesting. She wants to make sure she doesn't get out of control. That's fair, and he's just as worried with himself. But...]

I can do my best to look into it, but I don't know if I have the supplies to be able to do it correctly. Suppression drugs require testing, and I don't want to test it on you if I'm not positive it won't be life threatening.

But I'll see what I can do.

[She holds up her left hand, mostly yo show the bracelet she wore there.] It's here. As long as I wear it and it's working...but I don't have a spare here and I haven't found anyone who could build me an ECM. I can control my powers, but they're constantly growing. If there's a sudden spike I might lose control of them.

[So even though every part of her didn't want the drugs have become the best insurance in case of an emergency.]

Thank you. And I'm sorry for asking you to do this.

[Because goodness knows, it's not something she'd wish on anyone. But needs must and all that.]

[He reaches, if she'll let him, and touches the bracelet. He won't remove it, he's just curious if he can see any writing or magical inscriptions, or if it's strictly technology. Maybe it's like a vampire's UV bands.]

Don't apologize. It's good to bring this to my attention before anything happens. Has a spike happened with you before? What sort of damage occurred, if you don't mind me asking?

[It is strictly technology, but there are some star decals here and there and it was colourful. These things served no purpose besides to make the Limiter into something a young girl would actually want to wear.]

They weren't spikes, but I've lost control of my powers when I was younger and it was always like...an explosion, I guess is the only way to describe it. Things around me gets destroyed and torn up and thrown around...or even crushed. I got a cold a couple of months before I ended up here and it was about the same once I started running a fever...

[Ah, but...she looks vaguely embarrassed.]

...and it happened sometime after my shadow stole my Limiter too due to a combination of stress, anxiety and lack of sleep. But you know! [She says like she's trying to change the subject. She's just...he told her not to get cocky and she'd gone and gotten herself into that mess anyway.] The spikes themselves aren't the real problem. As long as I get somewhere where there isn't anyone else it's not that bad and I can usually manage not to limit the damage to myself.

It's just that...recently my powers have outgrown my body's ability to handle them and I can only use my powers at full throttle for about 20 minutes. If these fits last longer than that it won't just be me or anyone immediately around me that's in danger.

According to the simulations Minamoto ran...if I reach my limit my body will collapse and everything within a 15m radius will be destroyed.

[This sounds so depressing when she says it out loud...but it was something she had accepted as her reality. Though without even a spare Limiter it was a bit--

--but that's why she was here, wasn't it?]

It's a worst case scenario but even if the chance of it happening is low I want to do everything possible to prevent it.

[So she's a potential time bomb. He gets it, and he looks serious as he considers all of that, focusing, thinking.]

Got it. I'll see what I can come up with, but it'll take a little bit more... But in the case of something like that, you should have an automatic response. You said that if you're not around people, it's fine, so does that mean you have the mindset to move?

If so, I want you to always try to go into the basement of any grey building to avoid as much damage as possible, if you think you can stay safe in a place like that yourself, too.

Aside from that, let's go outside right now. I want you to attack me.

I think the forest or near the shore would probably be better. I don't exactly want a house to fall on me and it's hard enough keeping my powers from breaking my bones. I don't need to worry about hitting my head too.

[Because that could either make things worse or make her power stop working. Either way it's no good because it either ends with a worse loss of control or she's buried in rubble.

But uh. She's not sure she understands how this conversation suddenly switched to this...]

Attack you? [Pause.] Guren-san, this isn't some kind of fetish, is it?

The forest isn't a safe place to mess with. The shore, then.

[Trees could fall, too, anyway... And technically, ground and docks could break and knock her into the water, but that seems the safest out of all of them.

He's very serious thinking about all of this until she asks like that, and then irritation flashes quickly across his face. He places his hand right on the top of her head, turning her around to go outside.]

No. The only one focused on fetishes is you. Get outside.

[Water was slightly better...maybe. Either way, still safer than a basement. (She has no idea, really. But the contingency plans Minamoto had come up with had said, open spaces uninhabited by humans.)

Also: rude.

She lets herself be turned around but she's titling her head back to frown at him.]

Well it came out of nowhere! What else was I supposed to think?

Something normal!

[Agh, he doesn't want to argue about fetishes. They're outside, now, and he lets the door shut behind them as he walks out into the middle of the street and draws his sword.]

I can swallow certain attacks with this blade. If it works on your abilities, it would be good to know, don't you think?

So a demon sword that can swallow attacks is what you consider normal?

[But she understands why it would be something he'd bring up.]

Should I aim just for the sword or is it okay if it's less precise than that? [Because she can do both but focusing her power into a point increases its potency and she usually aims those for walls and barriers not people.]

Shut up.

[He's not here to debate normalcy!!] Just aim for me. In the case of an emergency, you won't be aiming precisely, will you? Just try to attack me normally.

[So he doesn't want to argue about fetishes or debate normalcy...how many more conversation topics are going to be vetoed until there's nothing to do but awkwardly staring at each other?]

Guess that's true... [It wasn't as if she'd never used her powers on people before. She had had to use her powers on criminals or terrorists so she knew how much power to use to incapacitate without doing serious damage. Though this was the first time someone actually asked her to attack them.

She holds out one hand.] Psychic Level 3 Strike! [As the name (she just made up) suggested, she only applied enough power that it would push him back a little if it did hit. After all these years of tests and having her powers measured she could tell with some confidence what level of power she was exerting and Level 3 seemed like a good place as any to start. They can work their way up from there if it worked. She'd rather not accidentally hurt him if it didn't.]

Swallow the attack, Mahiru-no-yo.

[He swings his blade, feeling for the energy if he can't outright see the aura, and with such a small impact, Mahiru swallows it whole. Guren is left standing completely still, casual, weight more on one leg than the other and free hand in his pocket.]

Do it again, but stronger. Don't work it up too slowly. Try double.

[If it really was absorption then that was...amazing. Psychic powers could only be nullified back home, not absorbed. Psychic waves could be stored in raremetal, but that wasn't the same thing as what was happening here.

(Unless the sword was actually made of something like raremetal?)

She wasn't Minamoto who would be excited at the possibility of something new and different, but she was definitely impressed.

She grinned.]

Well, you asked for it.

[And since he had been willing to not question her when she talked about her powers she would trust that he knew what he was asking for in return. So she does push harder, bringing her power past what would be normally safe for a regular person, throwing it towards him.]

Heh.

[It makes him grin. He can feel the difference in power, but he doesn't need to change his stance. He does grip his sword firmer, though, keeping his weight in the right place as he swings out with more force this time. Depending on how strong her "above normal" hit is, maybe there's a force like wind on either side of him as Mahiru-no-yo takes the impact, or maybe the ground cracks a little, but Guren seems completely fine.

He's sure the point where he can't just keep staying in one spot is close. A point where Mahiru can't swallow all of it, only most of it.]

Is that all you've got?!

Not by a long shot!

[But she drops her hand.] Is what I want to say but I'd need to release my Limiter...and I don't have the remote for that.

[She puts her hands on her waist for a moment, thinking.] I had an exam done earlier [Nothing about where or who conducted said exam.] and my brain activity is normal so it should be safe to take off my Limiter as long as it's not for too long...

[As in, less than 20 minutes. After last time she wasn't exactly jumping to do it, but it would be pointless not to check what happened if she was using her full power when that was the emergency they were testing for.

Besides, her Limiter would just be off not lost this time so it should be...fine.]

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I don't want you to mess with it if you don't have to.

[He's quick to say that, lowering his sword a bit.] Give me an approximation of how many times more strong your attacks would be at full force compared to that last one.

...yeah. That's probably the better idea.

[Since releasing it meant all the failsafes were still there and ready to kick in should anything go wrong. Damn it. She wishes she had Minamoto's phone...or even his glasses or one of his buttons since he hid emergency release remotes all over his person.]

A lot.

[Which wasn't...even her being cheeky. Measuring her powers had always been tricky as in her power had surpassed any equipment's ability to measure it since she was five.]

Enough to hold back two major mudslides at once but not a third one...?

[Which is the closest she can come to defining it. Except when they have to use to the Boost and the Force of Absolution she doesn't often have to tap into her full power even before this. It's not like pure raw power's ever been the thing to help them win in an esper fight or been very useful in most of the situations they found themselves in.

It was always the right amount of power applied to the correct places so her only reference was that one time they had to deal with a literal natural disaster.]

[Hmm. Well, his sword can't erase that much, of course. At the very least, with her limiter on, he can handle it completely. Without?]

I might be able to approach you in a situation like that, but I guess it depends. [He just wanted to know how much he'd be able to help in a worse case scenario.] Either way, let me know if anything seems off, and in the meantime, I'll do my best to look into a fix.

What were you saying about an exam, before?

[Honestly? She'd rather no one approached her in that situation. But as she already knew one other person who she couldn't stop from trying (which was what worried her).]

Guren-san. [She says this with the eternal patience of a sixteen year old.] I don't want anyone to approach me if something goes wrong. I don't want anyone to be hurt because of me.

[She'd rather die completely alone if that was what it ended up being.]

We used to do regular exams at BABEL in case of any irregularities or injuries. We don't have the equipment here but we have something just as good...I'm not going to tell you more than that. [She was smiling apologetically.] It's not my secret to tell.

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If you don't want anyone else getting hurt, then you'll understand that sometimes one or a few people have to in order to save the rest.

[He moves closer, resting his blade in his free hand as he does.] That's fine. You don't have to tell me more than that. Just look here.

[He slices a good cut across his palm as he pulls his sword away from it. It bleeds, and it's crazy, but saying "I can heal" isn't as good as showing her just how quickly it happens. A few seconds pass while he reaches into his pocket for a handkerchief, and when he lifts it back up to wipe the blood away, she can see the wound close up.]

[She was already reaching out for his hand, ready to shout questions at him like what are you doing? but then...well.

So she comes from a world where the preserved brain of a psychic dolphin can predict and unavoidable apocalypse. Even then: that's some crazy shit, Guren.

She blinks.]

Oh.

[And really, that's all she has to say. She'll get back to the rest of it in a moment.]

[Yeah! He's reattached arms, been stabbed through the heart... He could list these off, but the truth is that it's all very unreliable and depends on his demon's strength. He doesn't want to go into the detail. He just wants it to look like he can handle it.

He sheathes his sword and wipes the rest of the blood away. It's like there was never a cut at all.]

I'll be fine, alright?

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