i.imgur.com/lL4d4PL.pngWow, that's blunt.
i.imgur.com/EqXdvyP.pngWould that look better in red, do you think?
i.imgur.com/RvAOUSs.pngThis, as well...
Oh! Alura is an anagram of Laura. I was pretty silly not to notice that sooner.
i.imgur.com/vhefHC4.pngI'd play that.
The Diabolist's Blood Stone might be a bit too powerful. The 1/4 MND is a major drawback, but not crippling; if you really need the user to spam spells (and you probably will), you can just have someone else toss her a juice box every turn, so long as her reduced MND isn't so low she can't afford the spell. Meanwhile, the x4 BDY is just absolutely nuts, especially with 10% or 15% BDY regen:
i.imgur.com/73LOycq.pngHaving said that, fighting all those sword-mikos with WPN double-buffed to 160+ would have been insane without it, so...
i.imgur.com/lWWdiAZ.png...I want to play a game of 'count the references' now. In this chapter:
- InuYasha (Archer bounty name, Kikyo bow)
- Love Live! (The entire mentioned Lust Live subplot, but I don't think we ever ran into the idol miko)
- Queen's Blade (Swordsman bounty name, and maybe the Tomoe sword, I'm not good on Queen's Blade characters)
- Sailor Moon (Oracle bounty, and I'm guessing the Rei ofuda is named for Hino Rei)
- Fate/anything (calling Arthur Saber)
Did I miss any?
i.imgur.com/d7o6DTg.pngShizuka's mother is a crazy person.
But, related to this, I have a prediction:
Kamiko doesn't like Aika's mother because she's lazy and lacks honor.
[Later:
i.imgur.com/Pu2KDIQ.png ]
That's... it?
i.imgur.com/7pQLJX3.pngOh. Yeah. That makes more sense then.
I find the way Hermina alternates verbal abuse and first name basis to be hilarious.
i.imgur.com/p1ZdK2u.pngI was half expecting this to cut to a battle.
i.imgur.com/lLULdCr.pngMight want to give the Sacred Swords(wo)men some kind of weak short-range magic attack to stop Aika from doing this with TOTAL impunity...?
Ai is a wind mage, but can't Float. Is she just too lazy?
i.imgur.com/5ZWPZVF.pngThe way she says it implies this only happened once, which surprises me.
i.imgur.com/eFGf88V.pngNext time on Witches of St. Sayuri...
i.imgur.com/xlX0KnA.pngHonestly thought she was talking about Shizuka's sister for a second there, and wondered what the problem was.
i.imgur.com/Q5xsHHa.pngOkay, you got me, that was kind of funny.
i.imgur.com/KczLB7Q.pngI get the strangest feeling that someone has hijacked Susano'o's connection to Kamiko...
[Edit: Still not clear on whether Susano'o actually had any part in this plan]
Did you specifically script Kamiko to use Greater Blade of Lightning on Shizuka if possible? Because she did. On the very first round I got into melee range. And the paralysis worked. Which was beautifully appropriate for the whole "I'll kill her first and make you watch" thing but also utterly infuriating. My entire team got wiped out apart from Shizuka and Arthur before I remembered Muscle Relaxant exists. Then I walked around behind her and hit her for 744... I'm guessing she's not actually supposed to be beaten in round 1? You might want to raise her stats a bit higher (and maybe get her to use Bujin's Blessing less, which would make her more aggressive?)... I was almost able to beat her with just my un-boosted Arthur (Arthur's second light spell is super strong, to be fair) while Shizuka was paralyzed, let alone my super-buffed Shizuka...
Admittedly, stacking stat-ups on Shizuka has kind of a multiplying effect so it's really hard to tell where I'd be without them...
i.imgur.com/m4suoYY.pngBest kami.
i.imgur.com/WoJtHuU.pngHoly cow, those stats. I beat Kamiko by hitting her for *2104*.
Edit:
i.imgur.com/ZI8S6KU.pngI think I could do a bit more if I got a second stack of -LOV on Kamiko, but I lost Hermina trying to set that up. Anyway, yeah... Greater Blade of Stone is crazy strong,
Kind of disappointed Shizuka doesn't get new active abilities from having her kami summon active... I'm pretty sure there's an option to have status effects add abilities... I guess maybe if it's even more of a balance issue, you could have it remove the possessed status?
i.imgur.com/gMcq1kz.pngI actually had this thought as well; Shizuka's upbringing (taught to use a naginata, then packed off to St. Sayuri) seems weird to us at the start of the story, but it's pretty much the same story as all the other seven main girls-and-Arthur.
i.imgur.com/LMAU7WS.pngThis strongly reminds me of Ayaka and Yurine from the yuri manga A Kiss and a White Lily, except that it went in an entirely different direction. Have you read it?
EDIT:
While I'm here... If you're reading this, it's been way too long since I saw the Underground Pool discussion and now I'm confused. This is my understanding of the witch types:
Type A: Born from a Type A or C witch and a human
(or a warlock)
Type B: Born from magic
(see: Aika)
Type C: Born from two non-magical humans
I assume I'm misunderstanding some part of the A/C distinction, because if not, wouldn't Shizuka be a Type A witch? Kamiko and Hikaru
both have magic (They're not necessarily witches in the sense, say, Bianca and Amara are, but Kamiko at least
did attend St. Sayuri)... What am I missing here? Is it an upbringing thing? An ancestry thing?