Looks like we'll be getting some good stuff in the new NyanType. Yagami-ke in the bath, Isis and Lily in the bath, Nanoha and Fate in the bath with Hayate and Rein in there too.
Oh, and Cypha showing off the goods on her motorcycle.
On the Megami side of things, it's two pics of loli!Fate in bed.
I'm sure that the Cypha pic will invoke a few "who gave you permission to be hot" responses.
Spoiler for Force:
Personally, I'm just disappointed that she didn't successfully manage to kill Signum.
Spoiler:
On the other hand, that means that the good guys that I actually like appear to be a little more safe.
Another Crisis #2 released here! Chapter 1 much smaller and now includes credits!
And a special surprise: Device info!
I'm sure you'll agree it's frickin' LOADED.
Spoiler for Origin:
Support Materials.
“The Crusher”
RAISING HEART DESTROY
In a different world a different device was created; a replica of an Ancient Belka-type armored device which was created by borrowing a magic increasing system. It wasn`t created by the TSAB; the economical weight and task of research and creation of the outer appearance of the device was put onto the shoulders of the sole device master.
Bol Scrya – scion of Scrya family, was a talented man with un-orthodox techniques. The creator of numerous excellent devices, he was a gentle and caring man and people adored him for that. But he was old and wreaked by illness; he could feel the approach of death.
So he gives in and took the TSAB's previous request. By request, Bol, admitting the usefulness of a cartridge system, made a device with built-in cartridges, and thought it would make process quick and convenient. He personally chose the talented members of his research team. They created a device that could limitlessly charge magic energy for its owner, equipped with a Built-in type magical charge system (Active Charge System). But the device continued to suck on its owner's magical energy even when he reached his/her limit, so the creators decided - the device needed flexible regulation. So they decided to combine it with a first-class Intelligent Device.
Now, the self-regulating system reduces magical energy consumption to a minimum, and now the owner`s control over device was hardly limited. Comparative experiments show that the Active Charge System is superior to the standard cartridge system. But for the Bureau this system was too complicated to support and wasn`t well-received. And in the end, the A.C.S was replaced by the more popular cartridge system.
Bol was furious when the Bureau rejected his invention, though on first sight he remained calm, he turned this weapon against its owner – he overrides the interdiction of full outer control and disbanded research team after paying them under terms of contract. Eventually Bureau admitted that very few people can use this device. After this statement every members of research team, who hold information was called back.
Almost every data was saved.
Bol, consumed by his anger toward TSAB, boosted the system. He improved the system that increased personal energy output of the wielder, as he wanted to get away from the TSAB's policies on relying on sheer numbers.
The anger drove the researcher forward, but the end of Bol`s life was near. Originally a kind man, he started to inflict fear even on his co-workers. But creation still wasn`t finished; he still wasn`t satisfied. The system research was stopped at half-way. He personally created his last masterpiece - the Raising Heart, the information about this project a secret. It was a heavy guarded secret put under password and no one was allowed to talk about it. The system was put under quarantine; the TSAB couldn`t remove the life threat for users if they didn`t fit two criteria – they must have a large amount of mana and they must have full compatibility with Raising Heart. After completing his most master-crafted Intelligent Device – the Raising Heart, Bol died. The one who obtained it was his distant relative – the genius young archeologist – Yuuno Scrya. The communication with him was lost just after three months.
Spoiler for Modes:
ACT Mode
Bol`s personal invention. Raising Heart Destroy`s (later RHD) basic form. The un-orthodox modification of an existing device. It was newly created as a basis for using the Active Charge System. The device`s core was built-in into its case and allowed user to regulate it.
As defense – it can hold most of destructive energy. Even though RHD research data was hidden, the most basic instruction is known – to find itself a special magic-talented owner and was programmed to no matter what prioritize his orders above all. But research was only half done, and annulations of the contract affected the system dearly, and pleas for renewal were futile; the only way to save the contract was to find the owner with maximum magical potential, so the last days of Bol were filled with bickering and conflicts.
When the research was halted, the suitable owner wasn`t found. As Bol made the last improvement, the owner that has a strong will should be able to change the flexible structure of device.
It has a shocking resemblance to the original Raising Heart`s Buster Mode, proving that two people can have the same idea.
Nightmare Mode
Bol left inside of the RHD core the message for “last possibility of improvement”. In the beginning he made the structure of the device flexible. RHD chose to cooperate with Nanoha Takamachi, going to the second stage and turning into her second form.
After activation, mechanism changes. The Device`s material has zero resistance against reconstruction and cylinders make ten revolutions. The Active Charge System mechanism becomes wider and start to fill with mana from its owner through linking, still regulating ultra-large magical energy output. The bloated frame has a strong skeleton and is prepared to meet any type of dangers and in addition has numerous protection mechanisms. The device is prepared to enforce its owner with overwhelming power and to make sure that owner will emerge victorious from every fight.
The current wielder, Nanoha Takamachi, mastered it perfectly in order to use her marksman skills. This mode is much different from ACT, whose sole purpose is pure magical blasts.
Moreover, this mode's “piercing power” is even stronger than the famous Strike Flame and makes significant demonstration of its spear-head`s power. This form can sprout energy wings; many common features can be found with original.
Spoiler for Active Charge System:
“The built-in magical energy super storage and boost mechanism”
Active Charge System
Device Master Bol Scrya developed it when he worked under the TSAB, the ultra boost system that drags mana from another dimension; we will call it ACS later.
Even though that Raising Heart's Accelerate Charge System has the same short name, that system in general makes a sharp boost from injection of highly compressed magical energy. This system simply lives up to its name.
The system, instead of cartridges have a built-in mechanism with cylinders. Those built-in cylinders are placed in chambers numbered from 1 to 2. Each chamber has 12 built-in cylinders. Cylinders are always connected with the device, so this mechanism didn`t need the cartridges like the cartridge system did. Moreover, the mechanism didn`t need additional parts for activation and despite its size it can find material for accumulation almost everywhere. This system is so effective that one cylinder has a capacity 1.4 times larger than Mid-Childa`s cartridge system`s cartridge. In standby mode a cylinder`s activation time is 0.1 seconds. To fully charge the entire mechanism you need only one cylinder`s activation. If the system wasn`t so complicated than it was a massive advantage over the cartridge system.
For example, you need five cartridges in an automatic cartridge system and 1 second in order to boost your strength, but you need only one cylinder and 0.1 seconds with an ACS. Those circumstances make a big difference in usage. However, instant overflow of mana is tremendous and the strain that device puts onto its wielder make the ACS very hard to use.
Since it's a completely built-in system, unlike cartridges, its didn`t need any time to reload. Rechargin is just like a magazine reload, but after using the entire chamber it just closes, so the owner didn’t need to spend any time or space to deal with it, just to bear the device with him. The owner didn`t need to worry about reserves, since the ACS has 34 times larger a reserve than the Mid-Childa`s cartridge system`s. At the same time the cost of manufacture of this kind of device for battle operations is ten times larger than a normal one.
The big flaw of this system – requirement of wielder`s own mana for the device`s support. The device, even while on standby mode, continues to suck a small amount of mana from the owner`s Core; in truth, the device sucks a micro-amount of mana into inter-dimensional void. To support the magical device, the owner was forced to always use a fixed amount of mana. It was only one way to switch the magical device to standby mode – to use the stored energy completely.
But, the owner should use all of the cylinders' stored mana in order to put the ACS to standby mode, but even in standby mode, the device required a buffer zone of data link and channel of mana supply. Again a little amount of “eternal linking” was necessary, and thus causes the mana-sucking effect to occur, and closing the channel was impossible. And, in order to use it, the owner should every day continue to feed the device with his magical energy even when it was on standby mode. It didn`t sound very hard, but it wasn`t small task either.
In the heat of the battle it became a large flaw of device, as the difficulty of usage and loss of mana was a flaw that was impossible to overlook.
If from the beginning an Ace-class mage used the device, then optimal adjustments would have been found and the system would get the same level of prevalence as the cartridge system, and deal with TSAB go into right way.
When Bol got the message about the rejection of the built-in system of RHD he personally made improvements of the device.
Those improvements were an additional two chambers to raise the count to three.
The first defect was a drain of energy outside the device.
Excluding the wielder` mana, the 1st chamber collects the thinnest crumbs of mana dissolved into natural surroundings. The mana that lay inside of plants and animals, it could drain and use any type of mana that was existing inside of various magical items. In addition, it was programmed to absorb mana from pure magical blasts; binds too. When they make direct contact with wielder, they start to rapidly dissolve and he is able to destroy any barrier as it drains mana from any nearby mages` magical devices.
RHD stores the sucked mana and normally is able to immediately use it. But still, it wasn`t enough to fill up all cylinders. Moreover, the device still needs to suck the wielder's mana for its own support.
The second chamber can store a much larger amount of mana.
In the creation of the second chamber there were used forbidden techniques of special class Lost Logia for energy storage. The environment of the mechanism was created from extra strong materials for its usage as the 2nd chamber`s cylinders stored 10 times more mana than the cylinders of the first chamber. After using all mana stored in the cylinders of the 1st chamber the owner could use the cylinders in the 2nd chamber. By their program cylinders should be used by the way of turn (in order). The 2nd chamber`s 12 cylinders have 10 times more capacity and if all cylinders were ignited at the same time they could instantly increase user's amount of mana by 132 times.
Just glanced through it cuz I have no interest in this series (art's not very good), but I wanted to see how the editing had changed compared to chapter one. I must say it's a lot better than that first chapter. Text is much easier to read here. If I were to make one suggestion, it would be not to double space the lines and use single spacing instead.
2011-01-28, 17:40
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