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Ultimate Furry Crossover: An Adult Choose Your Own Adventure

Entry 2

By Gideon Kalve Jarvis

Vote Tallies

* Power Levels:

Protagonists (high/medium/low): 8/15/3

Antagonists (high/medium/low): 3/21/2

An almost overwhelming majority vote for Medium power levels for both sides of all conflicts. Remember, though: anyone can call for a new vote on power level at any time. Whether there actually will be a change, of course, rests with you, the readers.

* Anthro/Feral ponies: Vote cancelled – see below

A few readers suggested that the Ponies (capital P to differentiate from non-speaking equines) might shift between four-legged and two, based on resident magic levels and needs of the situation. Based on this idea, and the nearly equal advocates for both anthro and feral ponies, I rule the following: My Little Pony characters are feral by default, and find this state most natural, hence making use of it on their own world almost exclusively. However, they can take on anthropomorphic form (a very equine head, with humanoid hands), and usually do so when they are using facilities made by other non-feral races (such as spaceships). Ponies require a rather sizable initial magic expenditure when changing shape, and though any Pony can make such a change (it is not limited to unicorns, despite the magic requirement), the change takes a lot of time and is very uncomfortable, so Ponies do not change between forms unless they intend to stay in a selected form for an extended period. This process is almost useless for creating disguises, except for fooling those completely ignorant of Pony changes, since (besides the time requirement) the resulting Pony is still very much identifiable in whatever form is taken, barring additional disguise. Truly humanlike ponies (those without equine features at all – ala “Equestria Girls”) sometimes also occur, but usually as the result of magic overloads, or mutations resulting from travel to alternate dimensions; they are not usual.

To save readers the time and effort of reading the vote breakdown below, here is the final winning lineup of our passengers and crew:

Princesses:

Amaterasu Okami

Kiara

Krystal

Captain:

Red Savarin

• Chocolat Gelato

• Elh Melizee

Bodyguards:

Brooklyn

Carmelita Montoya Fox

Jonathan Talbain

Master Tigress

Renamon (herm, no Rika Nonaka)

Samus Aran

Cadets:

Angela

Bambi

Kim Possible

Kovu

Miles "Tails" Prower

Raven

Two more cadets than were officially listed as being allowed have been included, due to a three-way tie, and my general liking of the three characters in question.

If you wish to see the breakdown, it is below. All winning votes below are marked with an X

* Princesses

X Amaterasu Okami – 10 – choice #2

Belle (and Beast) – 6

Eilonwy – 1

Elsa – 3

Fa Mulan – 9

Felicia (Bucky O’Hare) – 1

Jasmine (anthro Raja requested) – 2

X Kiara – 10 – choice #3

X Krystal – 11 – choice #1

Luna – 6

Maid Marian – 3

Midna – 1

Marle – 2

Nina – 1

-black wings – 1

Peach Toadstool – 1

Pocahontas – 1

Therria – 2

Tiger Lily – 1

Snow White – 1

Tiana – 1

Twilight Sparkle – 3

Sally Acorn – 1

Zelda – 1

* Captains

Allo – 1

Baloo – 2

Balto – 1

Captain Claw – 3

Hunter – 4

Pepe Le Pew – 1

Ratchet – 4

X Red Savarin – 6

Ursa – 3

Usagi Tsukino – 1

*Bodyguards (6 selections)

Ace Bunny – 2

Allo – 2

Applejack – 2

Balto – 2

Bianca and Bernard – 1

Big Macintosh – 3

Black Orchid – 1

Bolt – 3

X Brooklyn – 5

X Carmelita Montoya Fox – 6

Chun Li – 1

Contessa – 2

Cover Girl – 1

Danger Mouse – 2

Falco Lombardi – 2

Fara Phoenix – 1

Felicia (Darkstalkers) – 2

Flamedramon – 1

Fox McCloud – 4

Foxy Roxy – 1

Freya Crescent – 2

Garrus Vakarian – 2

Jackal (Gauntlet) – 1

X Jonathan Talbain – 4 – won by a coin flip with Fox McCloud

Katt Monroe – 1

Kendo Coyote – 1

Kimahri Ronso – 2

Kitty Catswell – 1

Krystal – 1

Lifts-Her-Tail – 3

Lola Bunny – 1

X Master Tigress – 7

Nanaki – 1

Ninjara – 1

Ratchet – 1

X Renamon – 9

-herm – 5

-male – 2

-female – 1

-Rika Nonaka Y/N – 4/5

-merged with Rika – 2

Sabrewulf – 3

-cybered – 2

Rainbow Dash – 5

Rhei Rat – 1

X Samus Aran – 9

She Hulk – 1

Splinter – 3

-2003 version – 1

-2012 version – 1

Steele – 1

Teela – 1

Tigra – 1

Wolf Link – 3

*Cadets (4 selections)

Alice – 1

X Angela – 6

Applebloom – 2

Babs Bunny – 2

X Bambi – 6

Cream – 2

Dawn – 2

Diana – 1

Dizzy – 1

Fievel Mousekewitz – 1

Fifi Lefume – 1

Jubilation Lee – 1

X Kim Possible – 7

Kit Cloudkicker – 1

Kitty Pryde (Lockheed included) – 5

Klonoa – 5

X Kovu – 13

Mattimeo – 4

May – 3

-male torchic – 2

X Miles “Tails” Prower – 10

Misty – 4

Penny Gadget – 1

X Raven – 6

Sabrina the Teenage Witch – 2

Scooby-Doo – 4

Starfire – 2

Supergirl – 2

Sunni Gummi – 1

Tanya Mousekewitz – 1

Tatyana Tuschenko – 2

Tess Churchmouse – 3

Uni – 1

Wilykit/Wilykat – 5

Wilykat – 1

Yuffie Kisaragi – 2

As there were numerous calls for asari characters as cadets, I have decided to include the four listed asari characters. They will fill the role of “bridge bunnies,” and will be the female equivalent of Star Trek redshirts until further notice. “Further notice” may arrive whenever readers think one of the asari bridge bunnies merits advancement to more permanent characters. They are young, inexperienced, and are overwhelmed in combat easily.

The names and Mass Effect classes of these four asari are as follows:

Aadhira, Adept

Riva, Adept

Sasfin D'rasan, Sentinel

Shianne Dallari, Sentinel

Additionally, there is an equally young and inexperienced female charr engineer who also fills the role of redshirt, though in the maintenance section of the ship (and with a charr’s somewhat greater combat ability, though not as much as a full-fledged character). She is, as yet, unnamed.

Additional characters suggested, that don’t violate the new rules listed in the Author Notes (below), have been moved to a separate file so that I can mull over them at my leisure, and try to work them into the ongoing series as possible. They will be listed for later voting.

Author Notes

In case it was missed, as I mentioned this before in the comments section of the last entry, I do not count “likes” as votes. If you want to have your vote counted, and you agree with someone else’s vote, then please make a reply to that vote, with something simple, like “I agree,” or “I second this,” or something similar.

A ruling on Pokemon: Pokemon themselves are feral. However, they can interbreed with humans, and a good number of other species, thanks to their strange genetics. Thus, there are pokemorphs as well as “true” pokemon.

Now for some news. Due to the wide range of original characters proposed, I will try to work such characters into the story where it is convenient, and may offer them up for an inclusion vote at a later date. Characters that have already been suggested have joined the other suggested characters in their own separate file, and will be listed later as possible inclusions.

It is with great regret that I am afraid I will have to put a few limitations on characters and series that can be requested to be a part of the Ultimate Furry Crossover series. The limitation in question (and there is only one so far, though it is a big one) is this: no characters portrayed by visible, on-screen, live actors. Movies and television shows are similarly included under this general rule. If a live action character is requested, then I am going to say here and now that the request will not be fulfilled. I just don’t feel comfortable portraying specific characters portrayed on screen by a specific live actor, so I will almost always refuse to do so unless given an overwhelming reason to do otherwise. On the other hand, I feel no such restrictions on portraying characters brought to life via voice acting, art, and animation, or even through extreme costumery (such as the Predator and Xenomorph species) so most such characters are perfectly acceptable.

To keep it as simple as I can, here’s the rule restated: if it’s a specific live action human, from a live action series, then the character is almost certainly going to be left out of the Ultimate Furry Crossover. Please don’t ask for such characters to be included; unless there is an overwhelmingly good reason to make an exception to the rule above listed, then I won’t portray the character in question.

Can this rule get fuzzy on its edges? Of course. Most cases should be pretty cut-and-dried, I think, but in the borderline cases (such as the Harry Potter series, which were books first, or the movie Immortal, based on the Nikopol Trilogy comics), I’ll go by what feels comfortable to me. If I just don’t feel comfortable portraying a character, then I’ll say so and we move on.

Please don’t take offense from this limitation, as none is intended: I’m putting it up because I’m doing this series for my fun, as well as for your fun. Hopefully the limitation I’ve imposed will keep writing the series fun for me, so I can keep it fun for you as well, without having to constantly turn down character requests.

Oh, and incidentally, compiling all those votes for characters, and then deciding which ones would finally make the final cut was kind of exhausting. Hopefully, though, that’s the end of the really hard work. It’s all playing with the characters we’ve selected from here.

UFC Entry 2

Fidgeting in his seat, Red Savarin glanced at the datapad on his lap, scowled as he clenched his sharp teeth on the bone in his mouth, and then did his very level best to stare resolutely out the front viewscreen of the bridge. This was by far the worst job he’d ever taken, and not at all for the reasons anyone might have expected.

Red might have been young, but he was already an accomplished hunter, doing all sorts of odd jobs for everybody on his homeworld. As par for the course of being a heroic type, this also included saving his world…but then, there were lots of people who did that, apparently. He’d discovered this shortly after the Aniverse authorities, headed by S.P.A.C.E. came to his world, looking for likely candidates for officer training. Naturally, Red was a cut above, and quickly got a commission…but not a spaceship. The Aniverse authorities, apparently, weren’t completely sold on the idea of getting together a decent-sized space fleet, so Red was one of a great many talented young people who had all the training but none of the needed equipment in order for him to do his job.

Mostly resigned to staying planetbound, Red had dealt with his disappointment in the most rational fashion he knew: by going back to work. Hard work was a lathe for the soul, and it certainly kept his adoptive sister, Chocolat, and their new friend, Elh, happy when Red stayed busy, rather than moping around their airship, the Asmodeus, all the time. So long as Chocolat and Elh were happy, Red had found out early, he would be happy, too.

Right now, though, he’d discovered the first and only time when that statement was false. Right now, Chocolat was definitely happy, her fluffy pink Pomeranian tail wiggling almost constantly as she went about her work on the bridge of their new starship, and Elh was about as happy as she ever let on (secretive little felineko that she was). They were happy because, not only had S.P.A.C.E. finally come through with a ship for Red, they got to transport three of the most beautiful females the two girls had ever seen. Beautiful, and quite friendly.

Honestly, Red didn’t know when his two friends, adoptive family members, and crew had started sleeping with each other. He guessed it had sort of just come about because of typical teenage experimentation. Actually, the ruddy-furred caninu had only found out about what his two friends had been up to when he walked right into the middle of one of their lovemaking sessions, having gotten home early from a job. There had been girlish squeals, the hasty tugging of bedclothes for makeshift cover, and the throwing of a pillow or two – at least on the part of Elh; Chocolat didn’t seem to mind at all – but eventually the three teens got everything sorted out. Red even got to join in, when he wasn’t working to support his little family. Still, it was no surprise to him when he discovered that Chocolat and Elh had developed serious girl-crushes on their passengers. Naturally, both girls felt it was perfectly all right for them to ogle the three gorgeous royal females, but they also felt it was their duty to keep Red from having anything to do with them, beyond basic politeness. Needless to say, the young and healthy caninu captain was a little bit pent up now, after almost two weeks in hyperspace.

The problem Red was facing, which made this cruise – his first official spaceflight as a captain of a starship, in fact – was compounded by the ship itself. S.P.A.C.E. hadn’t been willing to foot the bill for the ship Red was captaining. Instead, it was bought and paid for by a coalition of planets, and thus put together by the lowest bidders from a dozen different starsystems. The air recyclers, as it turned out, weren’t especially good at filtering out scents, so Red was constantly forced to endure the smell of his passengers. And that smell was heavenly.

In the case of at least one of the three passengers, Red was pretty sure he wasn’t being metaphorical.

She’d introduced herself as Okami Amaterasu, a stunning white wolf with streaks of stark black and red running through her fur, wearing a sheer silk kimono over her lovely form. Naturally, this kimono did nothing to conceal her obvious and very extreme beauty, or her delightfully curvaceous, while fit, figure. As far as Red could tell, Amaterasu was, for all intents and purposes that he could determine, a goddess. Apparently not as powerful a goddess as she might otherwise be, due to the complications of taking a mortal form – the only way she could interact with mortals, according to her – but a goddess all the same. And she looked it!

Not to say that the other two passengers weren’t attractive, either. Well, one of them, Red wasn’t too worried about, even if she was pretty hot, and very flirty, and tended only to wear a leather loincloth and halter most of the time. Kiara was from a world that was fairly primitive, but also rich in natural resources, and her father was the ruler of all but a few parts of that world. Her father was interested in making some headway into galactic culture, and finding new markets for the resources of his world, and so Kiara found herself on board Red’s new ship, along with a young lion by the name of Kovu. Apparently this Kovu was from one of the dissident groups on Kiara’s homeworld, but had developed a crush on the young princess, which had led him to seek employment in the space service.

The other passenger, though…yeah, Red knew he was in trouble the moment he caught sight of the white tribal markings on those shapely blue-furred legs, clearly visible due to the ceremonial loincloth and halter top Krystal insisted on wearing. She claimed it was because of ritual reasons, since she was acting as a diplomat on this voyage, but Red had some serious doubts. Kiara mostly spent her time around Kovu, so Red wasn’t so worried about her. Amaterasu, well, she was smoking hot, but at least she didn’t seem to be intentionally sexy – it just came naturally to her. Krystal, though, Red was convinced she was deliberately teasing him! Every time she spoke to him, she almost invariably bent over a little, showing off the cleavage of those perfect, white-furred breasts. Every time she was around him, that sassy blue vixen almost invariably would find some excuse to bend forward, or sway her hips just so as she walked, her tail almost always swishing just the right amount to almost show something off, but not quite.

As a young and healthy caninu male, of course Red had urges. Perfectly natural, healthy urges! Urges, however, that were unfortunately played upon by his bridge crew. S.P.A.C.E. had insisted on several cadets accompanying Red on his maiden voyage, and while most of these cadets had the sense to keep themselves confined to their tasks on the rest of the ship, four of them were almost always there on the bridge, right where Red could see them. And they were asari.

Apparently it was standard operating procedure for asari – a race of very beautiful, blue-skinned women with petal-like tendrils instead of hair – for the length of their skirts to indicate the rank of the asari in question. At least that’s what the four bridge crew told Red, and who was he to dispute an alien culture, especially one where everybody was a gorgeous babe. So he’d quite regularly simply be doing his usual work of supervising the bridge, glance over, and almost immediately get a nosebleed as one of the red-clad asari would bend over a little to do her work, and he’d catch sight of the heart-shaped swell of a perfectly-sculpted blue bottom.

And Red wasn’t allowed to look!

Both Chocolat and Elh had taken it upon themselves from day one of the voyage to smack Red every time they caught him peeking at any of their passengers. Which was frequently. In the confines of the ship he’d been given (and he so longed for the Asmodeus again), Red never got a chance to have any alone time with his two friends. He didn’t even get time for a date with Rosie Palms and her five sisters! There just wasn’t enough privacy on the cramped ship for it. There was plenty of room for the engineering section, of course, but as for personal quarters…grr! With the scent of so many gorgeous women around – to say nothing of the sight of them – and (though Red didn’t know it) the constant psychic emanations from the asari, which caused arousal in most other races, Red was rapidly becoming a wreck.

Red just hoped this voyage would end soon.

Of course, it was only natural that the caninu would be distracted. So distracted, in fact, that he didn’t even notice the slender, redheaded human girl, or the slender cervine boy who slipped onto the bridge, and approached his chair from behind – two of the six official cadets on board. At least, he didn’t notice them until the girl cleared her throat loudly.

“Hey,” she said, apparently not terribly interested in protocol. “Hey, captain? Bambi and me came across some funny readings when we were checking the sensor arrays. We think they might be important.”

That was mostly what the cadets did on this flight, of course: routine checks. Red suspected they were about as bored out of their skulls as he was, at least when he wasn’t dealing with his frequent nosebleeds.

“Miss Possible, right?” he asked, and got a nod from the girl, before taking the pad offered to him by the deer boy…who was actually kind of cute, with those big eyes, and slender hips, and…gah! No! Bad dog! “Thanks,” was all he said, before turning his gaze down onto the pad. Then he frowned.

“These are right?” he asked, forgetting his many teenage troubles in an instant as a potential threat suddenly loomed. “No mistakes?”

“Bambi here checked twice,” the redheaded human confirmed with a nod, before making the cute young deer blush with her next words, “and he doesn’t make mistakes. Smartest one of you animal people I’ve ever encountered.”

Ignoring the racist jab – common among humans, really, and actually pretty tame compared to some of the real racism to be found out there – Red worked the bone in his mouth around until it was sticking out of the other side.

“This is bad,” he declared finally, then rose to his feet. “Battlestations, everyone! We’ve got incoming vessels on an intercept course, and my gut tells me they’re probably not friendly!”

Instantly, Miss Possible (Kim, that was her first name, Red suddenly remembered) and Bambi raced from the bridge, ready to put their training into action, first by alerting the rest of the (rather sparse) crew to the situation. The bridge girls, meanwhile, promptly went to their stations, and stayed there (and Red thanked whatever Powers might be watching over him that the backs of their seats weren’t see-through). Chocolat made ready at the pilot’s chair, while Elh ushered Amaterasu and Krystal off the bridge and toward their quarters as fast as possible.

When Red glanced toward the door to the bridge, to catch a last look at the two princesses who’d been there at the time – and Elh as well, of course – he blinked, then gulped despite himself as he saw who came in as they went out: it was Samus Aran.

Red didn’t really know much about Aran. Nobody did, except that the armor-clad individual was one of the best bounty hunters in the Selected Universe…if not the best. He didn’t even know if Aran was a human, an alien, or an android, and the voice distortion on the suit’s speakers made it impossible to tell that way. Most people assumed somebody so dangerous was a man, and Red (having had a hard time telling that Elh was a girl on their first meeting) simply accepted this assumption without question.

“Those are Space Pirate signals,” said Aran as he approached the captain’s chair. “But they’re not being used by Space Pirates. You can tell because of the chatter.”

“What?” was all Red could think to say, not questioning that Samus Aran would be able to hack into signals that his own ship’s sensors had only just picked up. “Wait, that’s not right.”

“No,” agreed Aran. “It isn’t. It means the Space Pirates are working with someone, letting them use their secure communication channels. And Space Pirates never work with others with that degree of trust. Ever.” The armor-clad bounty hunter took a few steps forward, facing the viewscreen. “Give the order to magnify quadrant eight-four-one, Captain, please. My visor’s magnification isn’t enough.”

Red gave the order, and immediately the section of space popped into view. Not a hard feat, of course, since the viewscreen was, in fact, just a screen, and not a viewport. After all, what was the point in having windows on a starship? Immediately numerous vessels, including one rather large one, popped into view. Red blinked in surprise at the sight of the vessel – it looked like some sort of streamlined bird of prey, complete with a dangerously-hooked beak at the front, all colored in sinister black and purple. Around the primary ship, numerous smaller craft swarmed, with more launching from the open “mouth” of the ship’s bird-of-prey beak all the time.

“Don Karnage,” said Samus Aran after a few moments, apparently calling up a dossier on her suit’s viewscreen – a standard feature for bounty hunters. “I’ve faced kilrathi before, and even snivelaks, so no surprises from those ships with him. To know about Karnage, though, I’ll have to go get Detective Fox. By your leave, captain.”

Immediately after Red gave a slight nod of assent, Aran turned and started to walk from the bridge in search of Detective Carmelita Montoya Fox. Before the doors closed, however, the copper-armored bounty hunter turned back to Red.

“We can’t let those pirates on board this ship,” she said firmly. “They take prisoners.”

As though that explained everything, Aran let the bridge door slide shut behind him, leaving Red with Chocolat and the bridge asari.

“What should we do, Red?” asked Chocolat, doing her best not to let fear dampen her normally indefatigable cheer, even daring to put on her usual bright smile as she looked at her “big brother,” and awaited his orders.

Choices

We have two immediate options, though other choices can always be proposed by readers at any time – feel free to be creative, though do bear in mind that the options provided by the author are usually the ones voted on most. For those who are new to this sort of story project, a bare majority is all that is needed to carry a vote, so every vote counts – just go with what you actually want to see, and darn the consequences. As for dice rolls, these are based on percentages, rolled by the author and listed as they occur in the course of the story, using either real dice, or the following dice program: https://www.wizards.com/dnd/dice/dice.htm - since these are largely random numbers, there is no real way to completely predict what will result when the dice start rolling. That dice roller also allows the generation of custom dice nor normally possible with typical polyhedrons.

Our choices, barring reader suggestions, are as follows:

1) Stay and fight

2) Run away

Each vote will have the following consequences:

*Stay and Fight:

If we choose to stay and fight, we will have to face off against a superior force of kilrathi and Thugs-4-Less small fighters, which will try to cripple our ship, before Don Karnage’s ship, the Iron Vulture, will close and swallow the ship, leading to boarding action.

Chocolat is a good pilot, but not as good as some, like Baloo or Fox McCloud. She’s also dealing with a less-sophisticated ship, intended more for conveying passengers than for fighting, against dedicated fighter craft. She will have to roll at a 30% chance of success, and will keep rolling until she either gets three successes, or two failures. If she succeeds, she manages to escape to hyperspace, and we progress to the next stage of our journey. If she fails, Red’s ship gets swallowed by the Iron Vulture, and we move to combat.

As the pirates board she ship, we will have to make several rolls, at a starting 40% chance of success. Every time we succeed or fail increases or decreases our chance of success on future rolls by 5%. We keep rolling – and the author keeps describing what those rolls mean – until we either get a running total of ten successes, which will let us seize control of the Iron Vulture, or until we fail six times, one for each bodyguard in our present party. Every time we fail a check, one of our present party (determined randomly) will be taken prisoner by the pirates. Unless we achieve a total victory and take the Iron Vulture, these prisoners will suffer the sort of fate that might be expected at the hands of a lusty crew of vicious outlaws who haven’t seen a female in months, and are suddenly in possession of several very attractive captives.

If we win, we progress to the next stage of our journey, heading to the Limbo sector of space. If we lose, anyone who isn’t taken prisoner by the pirates will use the escape pod to punch through the hull of the Iron Vulture, and make their way to a randomly-selected planet, chosen by random dice roll from the planets under the Run Away section.

*Run Away:

If we choose to Run Away rather than try to outfight the pirates, we can choose to head toward one of the planets listed below. If we end at this course after failing in the Stay and Fight option, our destination will be random instead.

A) Pony Planet – what could be nicer than a planet filled with friendly, unassuming, peaceful My Little Ponies? Except their protector, Princess Celestia, is regularly busy these days with intergalactic business, so we’ll have to make do with whatever help we can get if any badguys find us here.

B) The Jungle – a hellish jungle world. There is a small outpost here, populated by humans, but they aren’t very friendly to outsiders, due to the constant dangers of their world. Still, as long as we don’t crash in the jungle itself by mistake, we should be all right, especially since the jungle makes sensors almost useless, which means we can’t be readily found by those pursuing us.

C) Water world – a world mostly covered with water and a few archipelagos, which is where most civilization is located, though there are a few mid-sized continents, and a great many places where old civilizations once thrived. This planet is home to the TaleSpin characters, as well as Captain Claw, and the more civilized areas are home to the DuckTales and Darkwing Duck characters.

D) ToonTown – hmm, maybe we shouldn’t go here. This is a planet mostly inhabited by the more zany cartoon characters, rendered semi-immortal thanks to being so close to the Magical Realm, along with strange emanations from the planet itself that have only begun to be investigated. We’ll be safe from pursuers here, certainly, as long as we don’t run afoul of the local underworld, or the weasels of the Toon Patrol. Still, we’ll have to deal with a world full of nutcases, where almost anything can very literally happen.

E) Dark City – this world is a lot like Earth, circa the Prohibition years of the United States, except it’s in Aniverse territory as it borders Limbo. Three-piece suits, tommy guns, and made fellahs are all part and parcel of the planet. The notorious criminal, Sly Cooper, can be found here, and he seems to do quite well for himself. Since we have Detective Fox with us, we’ve got someone who knows this place quite well.

F) Warworld – what an awful place; nothing but fighting! It looks as though we’ve stumbled on the world where the dark gods of the game Primal Rage make their home and lord over their subjects. It’s also the world where such games as WeaponLord, Mortal Kombat, and similar more brutal fighting games take place. There’s plenty of magic here, and plenty of places to stay safe from anyone who might be after us, but there’s also plenty of ways to suffer terrible fates, and the strong delight in enslaving the weak.

G) Mobius – post-Robotnik, the planet Mobius is still only just starting to recover from its recent worldwide devastation (as see in the SatAM version of the Sonic the Hedgehog show). Thus, the place is still pretty primitive, and while there is high technology, a lot of it is broken or in various ruins. Megaman X characters can also be found here, especially the animal-like reploids, but most of them seem to be trying to set up their own petty fiefdoms, so dealing with them might not be wise.

H) Great Forest – a nice enough planet, actually, very sylvan and green. Home to the vulpine Robin Hood, who still holds out reasonably well, despite the recent ascension to the throne by King John. Hood is hoping to establish something called the Magna Carta before John gets too much out of hand, and has several other lords on his side in his efforts.

*Additional vote:

Shall we have a scene of what the real villains are up to? Yes/No

If we choose yes, bear in mind that this will sacrifice some of the princesses that weren’t voted onto our present party, as well as some bodyguards that weren’t voted in. Only characters that received no votes at all will be included in the selection process. We, the readers, will then get additional information, which may help in making later decisions (I am totally fine with metagaming), not least of which will be learning who some of the controlling bad guys actually are. But bear in mind: doing so will doom the characters in question (who will be selected only after the vote is tallied) to a horrible fate involving bondage, rape, impregnation, and enslavement, all of which will ultimately further the cause of the villains.