Breaking In Louise (ZnT Discussion)

Just finished reading on the Maid RPG, and well...what if Louise summons Siesta?

On one hand, she could be Louise's direct line into the world of the commoners, but then again, she's been raised in Halkgenia, so that might pose a few problems here and there.


Oh, ps...as an added bonus...use this to build her beyond her canon self, if you feel so inclined.

Edit: Err...on another note...what about summoning Tiffania as her familiar? Bonus points for making her Windalfr ^.^y

I believe that has been mentioned several times already.

"How am I supposed to take down that construct!?"

Suddenly, Baneblade.

"Armored Support courtesy of General Creed."

"what."

Breaking Of. But it's hilarious, so I don't care. More 40K memes!

I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner. Most of the development would probably have to be on Louise's end first, Siesta isn't likely at all to get into the duel situation without some railroading. It would be interesting to see her make use of the "anything I think of as a weapon" version of the Gandalfr runes and make the Frying Pan of Doom among other such improvised implements of of death and destruction her primary weapon.

... or, perhaps she'll pull out a bunch of shuriken, or other traditional-but-concealable Japanese weapons, because her grandfather trained his children in the family Art before he died. Then again, improvised weapons are a very 'ninja' thing to use.

Just replace the cultist with someone else in the story, like Mott!

Ha! You wish.

Although the Zero and the tank are some things different. :drevil:

Also: Creed's title is Lord Castellan, not General.

I'd thought of that too.

I hadn't considered it seriously because it would make for an out-of-character Siesta if you tried to play it seriously, but if you accepted injecting just a pinch of crack into the concept and went with the above you could have something really awesome on your hands.

For one thing there probably wouldn't be a duel because Guiche/Montmorency would be too busy dealing with an unexpected bowel movement from that tainted tea they had at lunch. :drevil:

I made a suggestion a while back and made some dribbles based on it. I'm also not sure of the max post length, so let's hope I'm inside it. Characters are from Sins webcomic by Pip: http://sincomics.com/
Sins of Zero
The spring summoning had so far proceeded without problem, only one student remained to do perform the ritual of binding. “Look out everyone! Here comes The Zero!”
‘I’ll show them this time, I’ll show them all that Louise de la Vallière is a true noble.’ She went through the casting, putting more flair and pomp than even that fop Guiche had. In the end, her efforts resulted in only another explosion. As she waved her arms to clear the smoke, she noticed a weight on her left wrist that had not been there before.
Looking, there was a silver bracelet with a single red gem on the back she had never seen before. ‘This must be what caused the problem! Someone placed it on me without my notice, and it somehow caused the spell to fail! I’ll take it off and then my familiar and I will find this prankster. Probably Zerbst.’
As jeers from her classmates started over her failure, Louise struggled with the bracelet. “Look! She’s a Zero at magic, and now can’t even work the catch on her own jewelry!” “This isn’t mine! Now will someone get this off of me?” This lasted until she touched the stone upon the back. A flash of light and it was a bracelet no more: a gauntlet covered her arm from the elbow to the back of her hand where the, now larger, gem resided. There were three seemingly decorative spines along the outside of her arm, and a glove like portion on her hand that strangely didn’t restrict movement at all. Louise felt a spark of anger. ‘Now it will be even harder to get off.’ As she thought this, she failed to notice the tips of the glove became pointed like claws and the spines grew longer and wickedly sharp. Yet another series of bright lights now occurred; and seven…creatures was the only word she could think of, rose around her.
“Aw man! I thought we had another decade or two before we got a new one.” This came from a very large green thing. “Hmm… never happened in a crowd before either.” said a purple… woman? “Guys: huddle up.”
Apparently her summoning had been a success after all. But which of the seven was her familiar? She watched as they moved away and started talking amongst themselves. All save one were a solid color excepting their large eyes which were featureless white. That one was shaped vaguely like a dog, but it was blue with two white horns and claws on its feet and had pink tentacles where its mouth should have been, it had another tentacle for a tail. The brown one was tall and spindly with two long horns going backwards from its head and three “hair” spikes coming forward over its face. One looked like a dark blue jelly that had somehow come to life, as it passed it gave out a disinterested “Meh.” The green one was as stated before: large. It towered over Louise and probably had a good head or three over everyone else she had ever met. Its head was slightly dragon shaped, with two horns sweeping back, and its hands seemed to lack fingers: just thumbs and apparently flippers. The last three appeared to be beautiful women; purple, gold and orange respectively. None of the creatures except the dog-thing had legs, they had tails that came to a point on the ground, from there went straight to Louise’s feet. As she saw this, Louise noticed she no longer appeared to have a shadow.
“Where is my shadow!?!?” This was enough to get them to raise their heads. They saw the gauntlet on her arm and things became clear. The purple woman, apparently the leader, stated “Kiddo, as long as you wear that thing, we are your shadows. Okay guys obviously magic kids (“And they’ve seen our currently true forms.” She muttered.) “They’ll probably figure it out eventually: let’s introduce ourselves. I’m Lust. This little guy,” pointing at the dark blue blob,” is Sloth. He” gesturing now to the dog-thing, “is Anger.” “Greed.” Said the brown one. Next the green one introduced himself. “Name’s Envy little lady.” The orange woman now: “I’m Gluttony, nice to meet’cha.” The golden woman was now waving politely, if enthusiastically. “My name is Fortune, I’m Pride.”
“And we,” continued Lust, “are the Seven Deadly Sins.”

::Guiche Fight::
“Vallière! Your familiars have defamed my honor, stolen Montmormercy’s perfume and caused two beautiful ladies to cry!” Louise looked over, and sure enough, there was a smug looking Lust, Greed and Envy. Envy’s face didn’t look quite right though, it was red on both sides where Katie and Montmormercy had each slapped him.
“Oh? Off running to our Host little boy?” Taunted Lust.”I thought you said you were a real man.”
“I demand satisfaction! I challenge you to a duel in the vestry!” Guiche was shaking in rage now. If one had looked closely, they might have noticed his eyes glowing blue and gold. And seen Anger and Pride nod at one another.
“Wait! Dueling is forbidden.”
“Only between nobles, there is nothing in the rules against fighting monsters.”
-Osmand’s Office-
Mr. Colbert burst into the room. “Osmand! A student has picked a fight with one of Ms. Vallière’s familiars in the vestry!”
“Well, I don’t think there are any rules against it, and it will give us a chance to see what their abilities are. I’ll allow it. We’ll be watching to be sure of course. After this is over could you help me with something? Fouquet the Crumbling Dirt is rumored to be in the area, but I’m puzzled as to what he’d want with the entire contents of a tailor, carpenter and weapons shop”
-Vestry Court-
“Well creature, you came quickly to your defeat. My Bronze Valkyrie shall be your opponent.” A flick of his wand caused a bronze statue to form and it took a combat stance.
“Oh, two of you, shouldn’t there be two of us? Envy come here.” Guiche didn’t even contest this, he simply formed another. For each statue, a new Sin stepped up. Finally seven Sins and seven Valkyries faced each other.
The battle began when Envy threw Sloth at one of the Valkyries and it fell over and decided to take a nap. Envy and Anger charged forward and started dismantling the opposition. Gluttony began eating hers as Greed stuffed his into his chest. Pride was running in circles trying to stay away. The gathered students laughed at this until she tripped. How she could trip when she had no legs was a question that kept more than one student up that night. When she did the golem chasing her tripped over her and careened into a very surprised Guiche. He was knocked out cold when his head was introduced to the ground.

:: After Fouquet Fight::
Having used the tried and true method of Sloth tossing to take down the famed thief, Louise and company moved to secure her. “Greed! Use some rope to tie up this traitor! Let’s get back to school.”
-Osmand’s Office-
“Very good students! Now, where is the Staff of Destruction?” Looking around provided no clue to its location until a frustrated Louise screamed “Greed!”
“No!”
“Give it to him Greed!”
“No!”
“I order you to put all your magic weapons on the table Greed.”
Two spears, a wand made of elder, several axes, an over sized key, a scythe, and a confused rusty talking sword found their way to the table; but no Staff of Destruction.
“See? Greed not have magic staff!” He had a very self-satisfied look in his blank eyes as he said this.
“Wait. Where am I?”
“Alright Greed, I’m sorry for my presumption. You didn’t take it after all. Put those away.”
“No! Don’t put me back in the-“
As they left the office, Envy shot his buddy a wink.”Nice one.”

:: Writing the Blessing ::
“Argh! This is terrible. What should I do Lust?”
“Wait, you’re asking me for poetry advice? Hmm… I don’t know get out for a while? I know! You could go to our temples. See some of the world, recharge the batteries, get inspired, keep the universe from ripping itself apart…”
“What was that last one?!?!”
“…Get inspired?”
-Four days later, Vallière family lands-
“Either my family didn’t know this was here, or we didn’t care.”Said Louise as she looked over a field filled with what looked like large shards of glass, no: mirrors. Either many had once stood here, or one the size of a mansion.
“Okay kid, what you do is put your gauntlet into the hole in that pedestal over there and let the good times roll.”
As Louise did so, Pride moved forward and shrank into a little girl wearing a beige dress. She blew a raspberry at Louise as Lust carried her over to a stone alter. “Alright put your hand here and she’ll be good as new.”
A flash of light later, and the figure that sat there was closer to how she was used to Pride. A normal looking woman, with hair as golden as her whole body once was; beige dress with a brown vest; hair ornament, and long… pointed… ears…
“You’re an elf!”
“Huh?”
“Those ears! You’re an elf!”
“No, silly. I’m a Sin.”
Louise had to stop herself from starting to hyperventilate. Pinching the bridge of her nose to ward off a headache she stated “Alright, let’s go get the others done and this over with. Where’s the next temple?”
“Probably a day-and-a-half or so that way, if we keep to this pace.”Said Lust pointing.
“But that’s…”
“Over the Germanian border, my family’s lands.”Chimed in Kirche (though why she’d come was a mystery to Louise.) “Which one is it anyway?”
“Lust’s”
Turning a half-lidded stare at Kirche, who was now admiring herself in a mirror shard, “Why does that not surprise me?”
“Hey!”
“Okay, let’s get goiiiinnNNGGG!” Louise screamed as Envy tackled her to the side. A sword, as large as Louise, impaled the ground where she had stood. High in the air, a figure floated: arms crossed as though a god in judgment. Due to its long clothing, no part of it save its large feathered wings was visible; its head covered by a paper bag.
“Well,” growled Lust,” I was wondering if you’d show up Modesty.”

See, that makes me think of the Homunculi from FMA.

A group of young mages (and one maid) are gathered in front of a grizzled, mustached man who has a distinct scar across his neck.

"My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I'm putting together a special team, and I need me eight soldiers. Now, y'all might've heard rumors about the crusade happening soon. Well, we'll be leaving a little earlier. We're gonna be dropped into the Holy Land, dressed as civilians. And once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwhackin' guerrilla army, we're gonna be doin' one thing and one thing only... killin' Elves. Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the goddamn Smoky Mountains, cross di-mensional boundaries, fight my way through half of Halkeginia and jump out of a fuckin' airship to teach the Elves lessons in humanity. Elves ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a human-hatin', mass murderin' maniac and they need to be dee-stroyed. That's why any and every Elf son of a bitch we find wearin' a military uniform, they're gonna die. Now, I'm the direct descendant of the mountain man Jim Bridger. That means I got a little Injun in me. And our battle plan will be that of an Apache resistance. We will be cruel to the Elves, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the Elf won't not be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the Elf will be sickened by us, and the Elf will talk about us, and the Elf will fear us. And when the Elf closes their eyes at night and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us they are tortured with. Sound good?"

"YES, SIR!"

"That's what I like to hear. But I got a word of warning for all you would-be warriors. When you join my command, you take on debit. A debit you owe me personally. Each and every man under my command owes me one hundred Elf scalps. And I want my scalps. And all y'all will git me one hundred Elf scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred dead Elves. Or you will die tryin'."



Of course, the kids would have to spent quite a bit of time around Aldo to react like that rather than with simple terror. If anyone feels the urge to point out that "Elf" should be "Elves" in certain places...Aldo did use the singular "German" a lot during that part of the speech instead of "Germans". Then again, I just did this for $%*#s and giggles.

The only title he needs is "CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!" as cursed by his opponents.

Well... he wasnt always Lord Castellan. But I concede the point.

and duckman that's not a cultist that's Abaddon.

You know Abaddon the Despoiler, once named Ezekyle Abaddon, Warmaster of Chaos and the greatest Champion of Chaos Undivided in the galaxy.

Yeah. Creed is that badass. The next pic didnt show Abaddon turning around and nothing is there.

Here's an idea, Lord Zedd, after Super Legends, is trapped in the void between time. What if Louise's summons find him and he is now forced to serve this uppity little brat? Imagine the self proclaimed "Emperor of Evil" now being forced to obey her every command?

I believe the meme is "Tactical Genius Hurrr."

On a semi-related note them elves are screwed.

Well, that Eldar is. I plan on elves = abhumans/mutants rather than xenos. Speaking of which, stand-by today, I may whip up another snippet.

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"Corporal Rigan Saito, 332nd Cadian Regiment of the Imperial Guard. Now, who are you?"

The Guardsmen in question was actually just as confused as the juvies around him. He obviously wasn't on Gafgar-5 any more, the sky told him that much, but looking around he got the impression he was in some kind of fancy schola school, although the bizzare animals threw him for a loop... pets, perhaps?

The girl who he had answered glanced at the adult (a teacher?) who blinked, looked between the Cadian and her, and finally gave a nod. The girl stepped towards him, holding up the stick in her hand. "My name is Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière. Pentagon of the Five Elemental Powers; bless this humble being, and make him my familiar."

'What the-' Saito thought, now letting his confusion show as the girl (Louis, wasn't it) stood on her toes and... kissed him.

'WHAT THE-!'

He shoved her away. "What in the warp are you doing! Do I look like a juviephile to you?!"

The girl glared back at him and opened her mouth to say something, but the bald adult interrupted. "Congratulations Miss Vallière, you failed 'Summon Servant' several times but managed to succeed with 'Contract Servant' in one try."

"Alright, you know what, I am getting seriously pissed off here and-Gyah!" Pain and heat shot through Saito's body as he doubled over. On the edge of his vision he saw a glow appear on his left hand.

"Relax." Colbert said quickly, "The Familiar's Runes are being inscribed."

'Famili-Emperor's Throne! Their psykers!' Saito thought through the pain. Then another thought kicked in as the pain and heat began to fade: he had fought the followeds of Chaos before and had even participated in hunting down rogue Psykers and that had been different. When a Psyker used its power it felt wrong, and while this hurt his soul didn't feel like it was shriveling into its very core.

Still, better safe than sorry.

The pain died down with the heat and the middle-aged man approached. "That was quick," He remarked. "May I see your hand..."

Saito looked at the man, looked at the runes on his left hand(which were glowing faintly, but otherwise didn't seem to be doing anything else) and asked: "This one?"

The man nodded, drawing near for the inspection... and Saito punched him in the face. Faster than anybody else could react, Saito grabbed the man's hand holding the stick and twisted it just right. The man yelped in surprise and pain, blood dribbling down his broken nose as Saito yanked him in between himself and the younger psykers, placing his lasgun across the shoulder of his new human shield.

"NOBODY FRAKKING MOVE!" He barked.

One of the kids, a female redhead who seemed far too overdeveloped in the chest area began to raise her stick...

CRACK!

The warning shot slammed into the ground right at her feet, plowing up dirt and causing her to leap back. Saito glared at her, "Try anything else and I'll blast you in half."

"What are you doing!" The girl (Louise) yelled at him, "Release Professor Colbert!"

Saito blinked, what? Did the psyker just order him to do that? Maybe he should... his conscious self came down on the heretical thought hard.

"No." He said plainly, "I am going to ask you questions, you are going to answer them."

"Da ah he sahs." The psyker that Saito was using as a shield said, his words slurred by the broken nose, smart man.

The students, and their pets oddly enough, seemed to hesitate, than finally a blonde girl with utterly ridiculous curls finally asked: "What do you want to know?"

"Well, we can start with where I am."

"Your at the Tristain Academy of Magic..." The psyker named Louise replied, reluctance in her voice.

"Okay... now where is that?"

A moments silence... "Well, in the Kingdom of Tristain of course..."

"Of course." Saito said dryly, "I mean where in the Galaxy is that?"

They all looked confused. "Excuse me?"

"What planet and which Segmentum is it in?"

More silence, more confused looks. "What are you talking about?"

Saito wasn't sure who said that, but he still answered. "Okay, great, you have no knowledge about that. Please tell me you know of the Imperium of Man or, at least, the Emperor."

More silence. Dread fell in upon Saito and he didn't notice letting go of his human shield and staggered back in realization, legs suddenly felt weak so he fell into a sit, placing his lasgun which suddenly felt like lead on the ground. "Oh frak."

You sure that's dread and not elation? No orks! No eldar! No Nid! No Necrons!!!!

Though, maybe they still exist after all, so celebration would probably be premature.

Imperial Guard are (like most of the Imperium) religious fanatics. So yeah, not elation. (Plus, Orks are feckin' everywhere!)

ah, that was an interesting piece. I always like when the runes are shown working that early and it not being always "Super weapon awesome!". Nice hostage situation too

Say, are you giving Saito another name, or that's spell checker changing him to Rigan?

Heh. Saito's not going to be too pleased with Siesta's "mages/psykers are better than everyone else" defeatism attitude. This calls for a fiery rousing speech.

seconded.

This is the Imperium we're talking about, we would more likely see a fiery witch burning.

On an unrelated note, how exactly would blanks/untouchables (or God forbid, a Culexus Temple assassin) negate magic in the FOZ verse? Would magical constructs such as golems just fall apart? Would the magic lamps cease to work, etc, etc. I don't quite think I've seen a magic negating character in this whole thread so I'm very curious.

Please. Saito's an IG, not a space marine. His brain hasn't been completely fried by imperial dogma, if he has even a scrap of reason in that skull of his he'll make a note of how the psykers really do rule everything important on this planet and say something to the tune of "you're a human, don't you dare speak ill of yourself".

Space Marines aren't fried by Imperial Dogma it depends on the individual