Mecha Mode is the current arc of the AlterNet. Enter through its opening week: seven everyday encounters across an extraordinary universe. No earlier reading required.
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01 AUG 24 Initiation: Systematic [WP] You and your party are charging into the rogue archmage's ritual room to stop them. You stop when a message appears in front of you, "System initiating... Calibrating user..." 02 AUG 25 Breezy. Uneasy. [WP] The Magical Girl's Help Network started as just a few magical girls of diferent parts of the same town exchanging contact information and has somehow grown into an association of magical girls designed to share information and help each other around the globe. 03 AUG 26 Royally Abandoned [WP] ”Now, I’m sure you’re wondering why you’re here” The principal said to a bunch of magical girl mentors. ”We value the performance of our students and ’hero work’ is never an excuse for skipping school, do I make myself clear? 04 AUG 27 Eph’n Heavy [WP] "Sir, are you aware that you are piloting a heavy battlemech in a civilian zone, and a light-only one at that? May I see you license and registration?" 05 AUG 28 Failed Victoriously [WP] You were supposed sacrifice yourself to hold them back to let your people flee, but you didn't die, you ended up killing all of the enemies. You were expected to die, so nobody told you were they were going, you're now alone in a city filled with the dead. 06 AUG 29 Time for Stellar Friendship [WP] You are the advanced intelligence of a military starship. You often assume the form of a human avatar to interface with the crew. A routine hyper jump goes wrong. Your avatar boots up before an old man. You sense your main body not far. "Chosen hero from another world..." The man begins 07 AUG 30 Royally Convinced [WP] You were always told that monsters were not real, that magic was only in books and movies. Now that you work in the hospital, you are convinced that there is a legitimate wizard and vampire working there with you.
Choose an opening-week moment Initiation: Systematic [WP] You and your party are charging into the rogue archmage's ritual room to stop them. You stop when a message appears in front of you, "System initiating... Calibrating user..."
Breezy. Uneasy. [WP] The Magical Girl's Help Network started as just a few magical girls of diferent parts of the same town exchanging contact information and has somehow grown into an association of magical girls designed to share information and help each other around the globe.
Royally Abandoned [WP] ”Now, I’m sure you’re wondering why you’re here” The principal said to a bunch of magical girl mentors. ”We value the performance of our students and ’hero work’ is never an excuse for skipping school, do I make myself clear?
Eph’n Heavy [WP] "Sir, are you aware that you are piloting a heavy battlemech in a civilian zone, and a light-only one at that? May I see you license and registration?"
Failed Victoriously [WP] You were supposed sacrifice yourself to hold them back to let your people flee, but you didn't die, you ended up killing all of the enemies. You were expected to die, so nobody told you were they were going, you're now alone in a city filled with the dead.
Time for Stellar Friendship [WP] You are the advanced intelligence of a military starship. You often assume the form of a human avatar to interface with the crew. A routine hyper jump goes wrong. Your avatar boots up before an old man. You sense your main body not far. "Chosen hero from another world..." The man begins
Royally Convinced [WP] You were always told that monsters were not real, that magic was only in books and movies. Now that you work in the hospital, you are convinced that there is a legitimate wizard and vampire working there with you.