Hot off the heels of my last brew, this is my final commission for this round. Thanks to everyone who’s commissioned something from me, it was great working with you all! I’ll be taking more on in the future once I’m in a better place to do so, so keep an eye out when I start again.
Like I said, this was a commission. It’s a conversion of the demon summoning mechanics from some of the old Shin Megami Tensei games and by Gond did it get complicated FAST. Still though, super happy with how it turned out. Now I will say, I would be careful with this one. It has a LOT going on and a ton of bells and whistles so it could be a little broken. I think I fixed many of the biggest problems with the first iteration but as always there could definitely be some unforeseen jank once it sees play. As always with anything I make, let me know if anything breaks and I’ll get it fixed when I can.
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Every magical girl’s relic has an ultimate summon. An entity that’s heads and shoulders above all other summons. The Heterodynes and the Trilobite Relic have always had Der Kestle, their terrifying castle summon. Gil and the Flying Baron Relic have the airship city, Castle Wulfenbach. The Wasp Queen Relic has the engimatic and apocalyptic Other, and the Great Tower Relic has the great city of Paris.
Now, it is a common fact that summons can be traded or stolen. Switched from one book to the other, willing or otherwise. There are many ways it can be done, depending on the nature and power of the summon in question. Sometimes it can simpy be a matter of the summon in question deciding it likes a different magic girl better. Such as the case with the Waspeater Weasels making an initially unnoticed migration from Gil’s to Tarvek’s book. Much to the amusement of Gil. Or it could be the case of Korsp, the mercenary cat summon who originally belonged to the Beastmaster Relic, but decided to go independent for undisclosed reasons.
The Book of the Flying Baron Relic is infamous for containing summons that originated in other books, and Gil has found entire sections that appear to have been spliced in. On the other side you have the Trilobite Book, which holds nearly all its original spells and summons, and is famous for the deep loyalty of its Jager summons. The Storm Queen relic on the other hand, has been ravaged over the centuries as people have fought over its power and the prestige it represents. Its summons and spells have been picked away piecemeal, and even its ultimate summon, The Legendary Muses, has been seperated into its component summons and scattered. When Anevka, and later Tarvek, first get the relic there is only one muse left, Tinka.
That, among all the indignities that have been visited on the Storm Queen Relic, bothers Tarvek the most. For all his conflicting loyalties and personal pressures, it is the restoration of the Muses that is closest to Tarvek’s heart. Of course being lost, he has no idea where to even begin searching. That changes when a hunt for a mechanical chest summon takes them to Mr. Paynes Carnival and Circus Museum. There they discover that the dusty replica in the corner is not a replica. When all is said and done, Tarvek has a new summon in is book, and the hope that maybe, he can actually do this.
The third muse they find, was one they had had all along. Agatha had summoned the Lady Von Pinn before, but the more they explore the mystery of the first Storm King and his supposed arch-nemisis, the more a suspicion starts to grow in her mind. Its not until the hoard of Fun-Sized Mobile Agony and Death Despensers hidden under the local amusment park wake up, that things start to crystalize, and she makes a gamble.
It is a commonly known fact that the first time a magic girl summons a new summon, that that summon is empowered by the new contract. This first summoning is often used as a trump card, as summons empowered this way can often fight well above their metaphysical weight class. So she send Von Pinn over to Tarvek and yells at him to summon her.
Otilia appears, restored and returned to her proper place among her sisters, as radiant as she was in the days before the Storm Queen Relic was plundered of its summons, and empowered with the strength of a first summoning. With her help its not long before Agatha is summoning Der Kestle and rounding up all the Agony and Death Despensers back into its depths.
Of course, the mystery as to how such a summon ended up in Agatha’s book in the first place, is not answered so easily.
