Moments

Pineapple Cup ’23 · a good first moment

Dreaded Outing

Content note: Gender identity and transition.

Writing prompt [WP] In a world where magic exists, some use it to change people's sex to fit their gender identity.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Initiation: Systematic

Content note: Fantasy combat/threat (brief, non-graphic); robotic skeleton imagery.

Opening week · August 24

Writing prompt [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..."

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Breezy. Uneasy.

Opening week · August 25

Writing prompt [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.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Royally Abandoned

Opening week · August 26

Writing prompt [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?

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Eph’n Heavy

Opening week · August 27

Writing prompt [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?"

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Failed Victoriously

Opening week · August 28

Writing prompt [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.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Time for Stellar Friendship

Opening week · August 29

Writing prompt [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

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Royally Convinced

Opening week · August 30

Writing prompt [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.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Keys to a Bonus

Writing prompt [WP] You are a shapeshifter charged by a dark entity to infiltrate adventuring parties. You sabotage them from the inside, ensuring they all die inside the dungeon. You then take on the form of one "lone survivor." This recent party has one member that is abnormally sharp who is catching on.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Royally Fashionable

Writing prompt [WP] You just became a magical girl, and the organization gave you these limiter bracelets to keep you capped while not transformed... Oh. Oh dear. These are the same bracelets your sister wears.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Stellar Invasion

Writing prompt [WP] So, the bad news, my lord, is that the castle is infested with goblins. The good news is, thanks to how adaptable goblins are, they have already developed a symbiotic relationship with the castle itself, assisting the staff in their tasks, alerting the guards to threats, and clearing out pests.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Royally Uninterested

Writing prompt [WP] A mundane is discovered to have the greatest aptitude ever recorded for magic, with a specific and exclusive affinity for technomancy. While happy to join the magic world, this person has always been kind of a luddite.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Monday. All ready.

Content note: Game-world deaths and scavenging of abandoned equipment are discussed without injury detail. A future event named Spider Survivor is mentioned; no spiders or Araña appear in the supplied scene.

Writing prompt [WP] You run a convenience store inside of dungeons, not just one dungeon but several; you even have one in the demon king's castle and your regulars are usually the mobs and rarely the actual heroes/adventurers

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Rainbow Reasoning

Content note: Discussion of a death certificate, faking a death, and concealing someone's identity; no actual death is established.

Writing prompt [WP] Rummaging through your parents' old documents, you find your death certificate. It says you died in 2012.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Stellar Surprise

Writing prompt [WP] Most of the universe is connected through an interplanetary network of portals, cut off from Earth as to isolate the civilized world from the incredibly dangerous Humans. No one anticipated the Human invention of spaceships.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Purification on Track

"Magical Girl Redline Express at your service!" Brooke beamed as she introduced herself. She still took every opportunity she could to use the title; it'd taken her a lot of work to earn it. "How…

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Parenting on Track

Content note: Physical violence and destructive power demonstration (depicted, non-graphic); family expectations around a child’s future (discussed).

"Did you say 'ow'??" Brooke reined back her fist and even took a few steps away to give the villain some space. He was an old, retired villain, and she tried to hold back. She…

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Realization. Reality.

Ryan opened his eyes while he was still in bed. He was awake, but he felt as if he'd been awake for hours. He wasn't even remotely tired; instead, he felt like he could think…

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Institutionally Magical

Steven was human again, and sleeping at last. He’d had a rough night of body aches, chills, fever, and anxious energy making him want to do SOMETHING, anything to put his jitters to use. The…

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Smithing. Smitten.

“Sharp Development?” The revelation was unexpected enough to give the partners pause. Nicollette and Kiera stood behind the counter as the client introduced herself as Bijou. Each of them suspected Bijou’s employer based

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Stellar Savior

"We were making progress... but we've hit a wall...," Nathaniel did his best to sound positive, but it was difficult. "The good news is that Cthulhu has been contained in a mortal vessel," he was…

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Missing Person. On Track

The earth shook, and Isaiah lost his balance. He'd been hiking the trail from his home down to the mailbox, and he'd never lost his footing on the steep incline, but the world had never…

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Education on Track

Content note: Accidental displacement and insecurity about age/life circumstances (discussed, non-graphic).

Writing prompt [WP] You have decided to major in Theoretical Physics with a focus on Arcanaology - The scientific study of magic and sorcery.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Stellar Playfulness

Writing prompt [WP] You are on a hunting trip with your friends in the woods, when you encounter a massive wolf. You prepare for it to attack you, when it bows before your feet and begs for mercy.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Stellar Serendipity

Andie saw the girl headed toward her, and she was sure Tessa saw her as well. It was mid-afternoon, and most kids Tessa's age were in school. She was never particularly open or friendly. But…

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Stellar Accomplices

"So, you two are married...," Aries started the conversation with a simple statement of fact, and the two women glanced at each other. Miriam and Kendall were invited to the Guild Master's office without their…

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Whimsy on Turbo

The garage was brightly lit and loudly active. It was a maintenance day for the team, and each member was tending to their vehicle, trying to wring out optimal performance. The Sharp Rider garage was…

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Token Warning

Writing prompt [SP] "I'd wish you good luck, but honestly nothing short of divine intervention can save you."

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Stellar Rehearsal

Writing prompt [WP]"Hero?" The Tavern Matron looks at you and pity enters her gaze. "By the Makers, You believed every word they said. Come on." She drags you to a Chair in the Back. "Sit, Sit. Time for a Common Sense Lesson for the Summoned Child. HUSBAND! Bring Food and Drink. We got another one."

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Mecha. Lit.

"All of you have Slates too...?" Dennis had spent his first few days learning how to use his system Slate, and survive the new world he found himself in. He kept himself hidden away in…

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Breezy Bonus

Writing prompt [WP] The CITY is perhaps, the greatest feat of engineering all of civilization has ever known. Capable of supplying and recycling its own resources, able to slowly convert surroundings into more of itself, the CITY is the unending urban sprawl.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Fox & Friends

Writing prompt [WP] You are a member of a specialized strike force that targets supernatural threats. There are four trained soldiers in your group, and one Magical Girl; brightly colored outfit and all.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Beans. Breezy.

“Is this a joke?” Eph asked the question before his hand was completely raised and gave up the motion. He was sitting among five other peers, but only one was on his team. He'd attended…

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Chroma Courtesy

Content note: Mental-health treatment and fear of losing medication access (discussed). Intimidating clinical encounter and exposure of concealed identity (depicted, resolving reassuringly).

Writing prompt [SP] An immortal with severe ADHD

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Spidery Guy

Content note: Spider themes: a past spider bite is discussed and spider-themed wall adhesion is depicted. No live spider attack is depicted. Professional rejection and unsettling identity revelations (discussed).

Writing prompt [WP] A man in his mid forties discovers he's got the powers of Spider-Man. Trying to investigate how he realizes he got bit by a spider on a high school trip, and hadn't really noticed/registered the differences.

Toku-high: Mecha Mode

Monday. Morning.

Content note: Zombie apocalypse and military resupply (prompt background/discussed, non-graphic). A teenager's work and sleep obligations amid crisis (depicted/discussed).

The sun hadn't risen yet, but Colonel Hale was already having a stressful day. At 0310, he received a manageable request for a thousand Rank 1 Fireballs and approved it, feeling comfortable with his supply.…

SUMMARY · Aurelio's Sun: Moonlight Jubilee

Totally Rude

Willy waits on insurance after berating Mr. Majesty and Lightning Strike for damaging his vehicle. His carpool companion Gena explains that Supers normally repair or replace what they break, and she and Chloe received pr

SUMMARY · Aurelio's Sun: Moonlight Jubilee

Regal University Mage Attention

At Regal University, Darcie and her friend Francine encounter a campus culture in which mages ask directly and treat rejection as useful information. Luke explains that continued asking must remain respectful, and an exi

SUMMARY · Aurelio's Sun: Moonlight Jubilee

Super School Nano Salve

This summary concerns a proprietary Star Academy nano-salve: a gold liquid combining nanos and magic.

SUMMARY · Aurelio's Sun: Moonlight Jubilee

Goose Moon Mission

Goose represents Chroma Corp. in a meeting over a werewolf officer’s refusal of a moon assignment. He frames Lt. Col. Steven Jackson’s refusal as a workplace-rights issue, challenging Commander West’s institutional bias.

Stellar Tour: Jenny's Rainbow

Sunny Trend

Writing prompt [WP] A new trend among young heroes is live-streaming their patrols and general heroics, for better or worse.

Stellar Tour: Jenny's Rainbow

Random by Chance

Writing prompt [WP] A random woman in a black robe walks up to the cleric and slaps them, “That’s for helping so many people cheat me!”

Stellar Tour: Jenny's Rainbow

New by Moonlight

Content note: Memory disruption and imposed behavior (depicted, non-graphic); threatened gun violence and restraint (depicted); death imagery in a holographic gallery (mentioned/described, non-graphic).

Writing prompt [WP] The villain monologues for twenty minutes. The hero has heard this speech before, word for word, three timelines in a row. They're not going to stop it. They're just going to wait for the part where he accidentally gives them the solution.

Stellar Tour: Jenny's Rainbow

Sharp Reality

Writing prompt [WP] In a relatively mundane world where people are frequently "Isekai'd" to other dimensions to have adventures, you are part of the organisation responsible for dealing with what happens when they come back.

Stellar Tour: Jenny's Rainbow

Chroma Banking

Writing prompt [WP] As a banker you've seen all sorts of things in vaults. Gems, skulls, the flesh of zombies, suspiciously many copies of the high priest's staff. But after being handed a bloody decapitated head to store "until I get around to collecting the bounty", you've had enough.

Stellar Tour: Jenny's Rainbow

Monday's Move

Monday and Riot investigate rainbow liquid leaking from Richie Montes’s sink in a Sharp-owned apartment-dungeon complex. Monday offers relocation but compels consent with a rainbow crown. Her highest-level credentials th

Stellar Tour: Jenny's Rainbow

Rocked by Moonlight

Arlene’s Paragon Project is dismantled and its staff are offered jobs with Sharp Development. Aurelio Luna demonstrates that Paragon is a nano-scripted NPC stored and redeployed through a transparent card. A deactivation

Stellar Tour: Jenny's Rainbow

Stellar Vision

Content note: Family rejection and emotional neglect (discussed through a character’s account); estrangement. Death/ghosts and possible violence (brief supernatural premise and dialogue mentions, without depicted injury).

Writing prompt [WP] You were born into a superhero family with exceptional powers. They all believe you are powerless because no one believes you can see and talk to ghosts.