The Alien Wars 6: Reality Strikers

Tareh Session 4

Session Start: Sun Dec 18 12:15:43 2022
Session Ident: #Tareh-Session4
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<DeathStar> Date: 8.4.3170
<DeathStar> Location: PAX
<DeathStar> *The PAX has added a dance floor in addition to the food court. CHIP plays tunes from the 70's, making it sound almost pornish*(
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Is this music the in thing here?"
<DeathStar> <Rachael> .... what am I even hearing
<DeathStar> <Lenny> ... I do not like it.
<DeathStar> <Lenny> It's not heroic
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Play one of Mom’s hits.
<Xanatos> <Valen> This music makes me feel things...sleepy being the main thing.
<Alicia> <Asha> "This music makes me feel embarrassed for whoever selected it."
<Jackieness> <Moira> *goes on to the dancefloor and dances to the music*
<DeathStar> <CHIP> *flahses music from a ball for Moira*
<DeathStar> *lights even
<Seraphna> **Karaln joins Moira for some dancing**
<Jackieness> <Moira> *goes disco style in heels*
<DeathStar> <Rachael> Wait we're actually dancing to this?
<Seraphna> **Kaelan matches her dance and dances close**
<Seraphna> Michelle> Those two can’t resist.
<DeathStar> *Lorelei steps in and pauses*
<Jackieness> <Moira> "You just need to change your 'tude."
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> We've ... arrived at our destination
<Alicia> <Asha> "My 'tude is perfect."
<DeathStar> <Lenny> Thank goodness.
<DeathStar> *She leaves, dragging Celeste with her*
<Seraphna> **Kaelan nods and decides to just shadow hop down, dragging Moira with her**
<Xanatos> 6* Valen snores
<Jackieness> <Moira> "I can walk!"
<DeathStar> *Rachael pulls Valen with her*
<Alicia> * Asha walks after the others
<DeathStar> <CHIP> *As they leave* What is a tude? A bodily function?
<Seraphna> Michelle> A kind of jam donut.
<DeathStar> *As they arrive in the Daemon Realm, they find the underground cities to be basially the same as before, with various demons moving about and doing their things*
<Jackieness> <Moira> "So are they light sensitive too?"
<Seraphna> **Sia and Lia take notes and selfies with a vampire**
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> Good question, I imagine any one who stays down here long enough might be. Especially elves that stay with them
<Alicia> <Asha> "That seems rude."
<DeathStar> *As she says that, a familiar face joins them - Nami. She bows, being part Demon and Kitsune* Welcome. I take it you got Deus' message.
<Seraphna> Sia> Invisible! <Lia> So cool~
<Xanatos> 6* Valen snorts and rubs his eyes, looking around with a squint
<Seraphna> **Kaelan wraps around her** Yep! How are things?
<Jackieness> <Moira> "I'm light sensitive, so I'm curious. I could sunburn to death."
<DeathStar> *Nami studies Moira at that* You know we have tonics here that could help with that
<DeathStar> *she begins to lead them along*
<Alicia> <Asha> "You are?"
<Jackieness> <Moira> "Yeah, I'm half Famfr-... I mean 'elf'. Moon type."
<DeathStar> *As they arrive in the palace area, they find Deus and Eliya, who stands there in a traveler's like outfit. She gives off a Billy like vibe as she glances at the group*
<DeathStar> <Deus> Ah, they arrive
<DeathStar> <Eliya> Children. *Nami takes her spot with the other two*
<DeathStar> <Rachael> So what were we called here for? Tonics for Moira?
<Xanatos> <Valen> I'll take two
<DeathStar> <Eliya> *Reaches into her cloak and pulls out two vials of something, jiggling them and holding them out* Oh sure, here.
<DeathStar> *Lenny looks dubious*
<Seraphna> **Kaelan sniffs them curiously, curling tails around the three**
<Jackieness> <Moira> *takes them* "So just rub myself down?"
<DeathStar> <Eliya> Exacly. *Eyes Kaelan* You just put your tail where-ever dontcha? *she takes on a bit of an accent*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Mmm, where I feel like yes~ **she smirks**
<Alicia> <Celeste> "I wonder if all Dark Ones are like that."
<DeathStar> <Eliya> It's a good way to get it chopped off. *To Celeste*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Uninhibited and reveling in their vices? **She smiles, the tails turning into tendrils** They grow back fast.
<Xanatos> <Valen> ....why are we here?
<DeathStar> *her own fox tails appear and whap Kaelan's away* Anyway. *she turns to Lorelei and Valen* This way.
<DeathStar> *Deus nods* Someone asked Tsukiyomi's daughter to begin a ritual to open the shrine
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Yes... has it really taken this long?
<DeathStar> <Eliya> The shrine was meant to seal... some important things away.
<Jackieness> <Moira> "OK, I'll ask. What things?"
<DeathStar> <Nami> Well, Tsukiyomi made the seal very powerful you see. The Demon Realm rests on top of.... Well, during the final battle before things were split, this was kind of a focal point
<DeathStar> <Deus> Needless to say it's better to see it with your own eyes than try to explain it. We'll accompany you.
<Alicia> <Asha> "I feel like this is an important thing to note."
<Seraphna> **Kaelan muses** I can take us there fast enough.
<DeathStar> *Lorelei frowns in thought as Deus pauses, about to take the long walk down to the shrine, then shrugs* Sure, whatever, just becareful
<Seraphna> **Kaelan nods and takes her usual way to Tsukiko's area**
<Jackieness> <Moira> "Seriously, Kaelan... how do you know this stuff?"
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Well... she's married to me for one thing.
<DeathStar> <Rachael> Of cours
<DeathStar> <Rachael> Just four-five years and you couldn't take it
<Seraphna> Kaelan> I'm glad you think I'm goddess material~
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Mm, could still be decades. I'm just not pausing life for it.
<Alicia> <Asha> "You'd need to?"
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...what are you talkign about?"
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Well, I get lonely. My other wives are back home.
<DeathStar> *Deus and Eliya just keep out of it as they check Tsukiyomi's shrine. Tsukiko, the daughter of Tsukiyomi is resting with her attendants, in another part of it after doing the ritual for days*
<DeathStar> *a massive statue seems to have been broken by the ritual*
<Xanatos> <Valen> That supposed to be broken like that?
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Mmm, seems whatever is inside didn't come ripping oiut all supervillain stile.
<DeathStar> <Deus> Whenever I visit Tsukiyko and her daughter down here it's usually intact
<Jackieness> <Moira> "So... what was the statue of?"
<DeathStar> <Deus> You see, this is the core of the planet
<DeathStar> <Deus> She was trapped here for a long time and used as fuel for it.
<Seraphna> **Kalean grumbles** Yeah that was part of the concern.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "But who, and what was the statue of?"
<DeathStar> <Eliya> Tsuki had a statue of herself made to block the stuff down there
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Ah, 'the stuff'."
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...just what stuff?"
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Is this a she who must not be named situation or somethingg?
<Xanatos> <Valen> Why are we being vague?
<DeathStar> <Eliya> We're in the hollow center of Tareh.
<DeathStar> <Eliya> Where the God Machine ran.
<DeathStar> <Eliya> You're going to see the remains of that.
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...and that was...?"
<DeathStar> <Deus> We told you it was better to see than us trying to explain it
<Alicia> <Asha> "Surely Gartareh was not sealed there."
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Even I'm a bit vague on that one.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> No... I felt his last heartbeat myself.
<Jackieness> <Moira> "Yeah, we already killed that guy in our time."
<DeathStar> *Deus begins to work her way down into a crystal like chamber*
<DeathStar> <Deus> This way
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> Hm. Taiga said this heart might have to do with a place or a person, keep that in mind
<Seraphna> **Kaelan muses and moves downward** We still haven't heard from Tsukiyomi herself?
<DeathStar> *she reminds veryone as she follow Deus, Eliya, and Nami into the underground, with glowing crystals running along the walls*
<DeathStar> <Deus> Not yet. She might have come down here to check something out
<Alicia> <Asha> "Why am I reminded of the spirits?"
<DeathStar> <Nami> But the statue was intact
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Mmm, yeah, when Nocturne and I tried to reach her something kept us at bay.
<DeathStar> <Eliya> Until her daughter broke
<Jackieness> <Moira> "No offense, but my head is spinning."
<Seraphna> Kaelan> We were a tad worried whatever was in here got her.
<DeathStar> <Deus> Need tonic for your head?
<DeathStar> *The stairs soon seem to end, turning into a dirt path that Deus keeps leading them along, the crystals running onward, glowing and looking twisted*
<Jackieness> <Moira> "Not literally... I mean... like... I don't have any memories of the past here, so I'm just confused by everything."
<Alicia> <Asha> "Most of us don't remember much anyway."
<DeathStar> <Lenny> Memories just get in the way anyway
<DeathStar> <Lenny> Following instinct usually serves one better
<Xanatos> <Valen> I'm lucky to remember yesterday, let alone another life.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "So, when are we going to find out who or what was down here?"
<DeathStar> <Rachael> We need to take Valen in for repair
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> These crystals are concerning me.
<Jackieness> <Moira> "why?"
<DeathStar> *She murmurs as they soon reach a massive chamber where the crystals seem to be trying to grow into a structure, right over a leyline*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> They do remind me of a few things we never enjoyed. Like the Ilium.
<DeathStar> *the glowing nature due to it*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> ...Oh.
<Xanatos> <Valen> These are looking pretty twisted, they always been like this?
<DeathStar> <Eliya> These crystals are the remnants of a battle from another world.
<DeathStar> <Eliya> But have become more twisted of the years due to the leylines
<Alicia> <Asha> "Okay...?"
<DeathStar> <Deus> From your world.
<DeathStar> *she carefully slips into the structure*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Yeah... hey Lore? Think an Ilium insurgency gate would cause enough interference to keep us portaled out?
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Next you'll be telling us this is part of Yggdrasil or something."
<DeathStar> <Nami> Never heard of that
<DeathStar> <Nami> Why would the Illium do that? *She asks Kaelan*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> The Illium I'm talking about are from another reality, they use these crystal portals to try and break into realities and take power. They're like a mean version.
<DeathStar> *Lorelei carefully moves into the structure* I cannot comment on that
<Seraphna> Kaelan> I think they're crystal nature came from something to do with Centerpoint, which was also like this... wait... umm... **eyes the twins**
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Where is Tareh.... location wise in the solar system now?
<Seraphna> **The two eye each other**
<Seraphna> **Then start calculating**
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Is it possible that Luna was shifted into the location Centerpoint is supposed to be? That would explain what the God Machine is.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Oh no."
<Xanatos> 6* Valen begins to climb up the crystals, trying to get up closer to where they converge.
<DeathStar> <Deus> I cannot begin to answer of that. But...
<Jackieness> <Moira> "We could use the nav system ont he PAX to figure out where we were."
<DeathStar> *she motions at the lower levels, which have become fully tainted with the leylines, and in return the leylines seem to have become more twisted*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> So this is why you said things and not people.
<DeathStar> <Eliya> The two seem to have formed a symbotic relation. We've tried to cut the leylines off that run to the Demon Realms
<DeathStar> <Eliya> But that also causes problems
<Alicia> <Asha> "... I... normally wouldn't like that, but..."
<Jackieness> <Moira> "They must be why the leylines act so weird now."
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Did her seal actually stop this from happening, or did it just keep people out?
<DeathStar> <Deus> IT was to slow it down and keep people out. If you trace the underground leylines, we fear that this crystal growth appears elsewhere these days
<DeathStar> <Eliya> It was spreading worse before the seal
<DeathStar> *Lorelei muses* If these are crystals of Centerpoint then it might be using the leylines
<Alicia> <Celeste> "So... does this actually connect to other realities?"
<Xanatos> 6* Valen tries to sense out as he gets close if there's any sort of transference between the crystals and the leylines.
<Seraphna> **Kaelan nods** Well worst case we find My Moon and we get this resealed, but this may be the time for us to do something about it instead.
<DeathStar> *oh definitely. As Valen is trying, the leyline bubbles and some of it seems to splurt up at him. Rachael jerks*
<Xanatos> 6* Valen yelps and falls back, scrambling to catch on.
<DeathStar> <Deus> We never tried to see if it could connect to other realities
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...whoa, Valen, you alright?!"
<Xanatos> * Could Valen tell if the energy transfer was in one direction or just that there IS a connection.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> If it's Centerpoint the n that's the easiest funtionality.
<DeathStar> *it seems to be oging back and forth, feeding into each other
<DeathStar> *Amazo lands, picking Valen up; he is wearing a bandit mask*
<DeathStar> <Amazo> Amazo is here to save the day - and rob some crystals.
<Xanatos> <Valen> ....I'm saved by a hero.
<Jackieness> <Moira> "Amazo!"
<Seraphna> **Kaelan muses** I wonder if the Leylines were made from Centerpoint's energy with how they're reacting.
<Alicia> <Asha> "Nice mask."
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Likely."
<DeathStar> *Amazo poses, picking up a tainted crystal and leaps away; the three guides stare, flabbergased while Lenny chases*
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...were we just robbed? By Amazo?!"
<DeathStar> <Rachael> ... what the hell
<Seraphna> Kaelan> He had the permits. **holds up paper** Plus he was in uniform.
<Xanatos> <Valen> ...well that ruined my chance to tell you all that the leylines and the crystals are transferring energy back and forth. Almost like it's communicating or something.
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> That's disturbing
<Xanatos> <Valen> Oh wait. Recovered it.
<Alicia> <Asha> "Is that a problem? That Amazo grabbed a crystal."
<Alicia> * Celeste races off after Amazo and Lenny
<DeathStar> <Rachael> I mean, if we're lucky it'll poison him. But Lenny and Celeste have it in them to stop crime
<Xanatos> <Valen> Yeah if you think about like holovid stuff, you stream something and there's like a back and forth communication of your device telling the net updates about what you're doing and the net is in returning content and stuff. So...maybe something like that.
<Xanatos> <Valen> No clue how we would interpret that. We need a nerd on the team.
<Seraphna> Lia> Yeah.
<Seraphna> Sia> Nerd.
<DeathStar> <Eliya> I think we also buried a few other things down here that we felt was dangerous
<DeathStar> <Deus> Did we?
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Any delicious looking seeds of darkness?
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...like?"
<DeathStar> *Eliya moves slowly past the crystal location*
<Seraphna> Sia> Magic tomes? <Lia> Cool anima?
<Alicia> <Asha> "You probably shouldn't eat seeds of darkness, especially here and now."
<Jackieness> <Moira> *follows*
<Seraphna> **Kaelan follows, a tail gently whapping Asha’s butt**
<Alicia> <Asha> "No, seriously!"
<DeathStar> *They soon come across two bladed weapons in the back - a Rune Sword and the Emerald Sword, on pedstals along with various objects that look cursed*
<Xanatos> 6* Valen look at the side of hsi arm where the bubbling got him, it looking all red.
<DeathStar> <Rachael> You okay there?
<Seraphna> Kaelan> **tendrils pull the Rune blade up curiously**
<DeathStar> *Kaelan's hand begins to burn*
<DeathStar> *well, tendril*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> This could be the answer to our spirit prooo… ow! **puts it back**
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Booooo.
<DeathStar> <Deus> It's protecting cursed items along with a gateway to hell I believe.
<Xanatos> <Valen> Think I'm okay, just burt a bit.
<DeathStar> <Deus> It's been a long time
<Xanatos> burnt*
<Jackieness> <Mira> "Swords?" *looks over* "...say what?"
<DeathStar> <Eliya> One would have to really purify the items to take the weapons
<DeathStar> <Eliya> And hope nothing comes out
<Alicia> <Asha> "To hell?"
<DeathStar> <Deus> To hell.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> This is the Rune Blade and the Emerald Sword. The can help a lot…
<DeathStar> *She nods*
<DeathStar> *She says is so casually, that Rachael just stares*
<Xanatos> <Valen> Is there a gateway to heaven too?
<Alicia> <Asha> "...hell is real?"
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...the green sword seems familiar to me." *scratches at ehr hand she sghe says it*
<DeathStar> <Eliya> Hm.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> It should be. You probably put it here if it was placed in ritual.
<DeathStar> <Eliya> If you two want the weapons that badly, we'll try to mass purify them
<DeathStar> <Eliya> Give us a bit of time.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> I’m willing to hold off.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Or just get the Dark Rune.
<DeathStar> <Deus> I'd becareful with that one
<Alicia> <Asha> "...I feel like keeping a gateway to hell sealed is more important than getting some swords."
<Jackieness> <Moira> "OK, so if the green sword as past me, did the rune sword belong to Kaelan or someone else?"
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Oh I had it for quite some time. But I didn’t know what it was.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Bought it off a junker merchant early in our first story.
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...right.."
<DeathStar> <Rachael> Did he WANT to kill you?
<Seraphna> Kaelan> You called the Emerald Sword… Whispered Grass.
<Alicia> <Asha> "... the rune or the sword?"
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> Alright lets head back
<Jackieness> <Moira> *nods*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Oh I figure we can feed the Rune to Noctune. Unless Kyouki is still in this one.
<DeathStar> *As they trek back and get to the surface*
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> Okay, while the purification happens, lets figure out our next course of action
<DeathStar> *in the background, Lenny and Celeste are battling Amazo the Bandit*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Find Tsuki in case we need to restore the seal?
<Jackieness> <Moira> *points at the fight* "...what about them?"
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Also because I’m worried about her.
<DeathStar> *Lenny is stabbing repeatedly but doing little damage while Amazo laughs*
<Seraphna> Sia> Boring. <Lia> Politics.
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> Alright lets beam up. Kaelan?
<Seraphna> **Kaelan takes them up**
<DeathStar> <Lenny> That bandit
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Why did you take the crystal?"
<DeathStar> <Amazo> Amazo poor. Fell into gambling debts. Poor Amazo
<DeathStar> *he looks around the ship for pricey things to take*
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...why does the god of war need to gamble?"
<Seraphna> **Michelle whaps him**
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> While CHIP does that location thing, what would you all like to do next?
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Don't take leyline crystals! You have no idea what'll happen!"
<DeathStar> *Amazo hangs head* Want to collect all the cute little plush toys. *Shows picture of them - it is Angel plushies*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> I could have gotten you those.
<DeathStar> <Amazo> Little Dark Fox is true friend
<DeathStar> <Rachael> Okay so we're out to find Tsukiyomi and then what?
<Seraphna> Kaelan> So who do you owe and why aren’t we simply eating them?
<Xanatos> <Valen> Do we have anyone smart enough to figure out what's going on with the crystals and the leylines?
<Xanatos> <Kellin> Maybe we could send Id down there to mess with it.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "... it could be something trying to move between realities."
<DeathStar> <CHIP> According to my data
<Jackieness> <Moira> "Yeah, we do have CHIP."
<DeathStar> <CHIP> The leylines were last majorly affected, and practically shut down - when the male mages were affected. The leylines were used to purge them if my data was correct
<Seraphna> **The twins just shrug at each other.**
<DeathStar> <CHIP> And magic was practically lost almost due to it
<DeathStar> <CHIP> Clearly magic has restored itself and the leylines are back to normal now
<DeathStar> <CHIP> Relatively
<Xanatos> <Kellin> Relative is a good word for it.
<DeathStar> <Rachael> Deus said something about these crystals being from our world
<DeathStar> <Deus> Yes, I scanned them while the statue was gone
<Jackieness> <Moira> "And someone suggested Centerpoint or Illium... and other stuff i don't really know about much."
<DeathStar> <Deus> They are pieces of it. But.
<DeathStar> <Deus> I think the leylines have been regrowing them.
<DeathStar> <Deus> Like a seed. Like someone wants to eat
<DeathStar> <Deus> Should I bring a piece on board to eat?
<Xanatos> <Kellin> I'd like a piece of it to study, yeah.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Is... Centerpoint... regenerating?"
<Seraphna> Kaelan> How would those taste…
<Jackieness> <Moira> "Right CHIP, please use the nav computer to show us where Tareh is on a star chart from our own time period."
<DeathStar> *While CHIP works* <Lorelei> Did we mention to Deus, Eliya, or Nami we are after the Heart? We were so caught up
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Nope.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Should we have?"
<Seraphna> Kaelan> **vanishes and returns with Nami** Here, tell her.
<DeathStar> *Nami blinks* Excuse me?
<Jackieness> <Moira> "They might not know... ... ...did you just kidnap her?!"
<Alicia> <Asha> "She did."
<Seraphna> **Kaelan sits Nami in her lap** Borrowed.
<DeathStar> <Nami> ... *Ears flatten a little,* We were working on purifying for you, you know. *She sighs, shrugging* What can I do for oyu
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Ever heard of anything titled a Heart? Or a someone?
<DeathStar> <Nami> *thinks* Deus or Eliya likely would know more, being that they lived during the time of the Angel - she would know even more, being that the Angel went on the adventures. But...
<Seraphna> Kaelan> I can borrow them next.
<DeathStar> <Nami> In my studies back with the Illium, I recall that there was mention of Tsukiyomi and the Hearts.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Has anyone noticed that Kaelan just goes ahead with things regardless of whether they're a good idea or not?"
<DeathStar> *Lorelei pauses, lifting her head*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Again back to Tsuki.
<DeathStar> <CHIP> It does not appear that Tareh has moved much from it's original location that it would be much to write about.
<Jackieness> <Moira> *whisper to Celeste* "I totally have. Maybe its the leylines affecting her."
<Xanatos> <Valen> So searching for Tsuki seems to be out plan.
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> Do you remember more about the Hearts?
<DeathStar> <Nami> I do not. Someone else might
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Centerpoint was originally located parahelion to Earth and the Moon, CHIP. Any chance it moved that far?
<DeathStar> <CHIP> Not in the space of time needed.
<Alicia> <Celeste> *whisper to Moira* "We can't let her start eating crystals."
<Seraphna> **Kaelan muses and pops away, coming back with Deus instead of Nami**
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...yeah. We might need an intervention or something."
<DeathStar> *Deus pauses, wearing garbs for purification, demon eyes narrowed* You needed more tonics already?
<Jackieness> <Moira> "Seriously, Kaelan?!"
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Tsuki and the Hearts.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> What I’m saving us time.
<Xanatos> <Valen> Couldn't you just go there and ask them? Why you gotta keep bringing them here?
<DeathStar> <Deus> Hm. *She pauses, rubbing a horn* Let grandma think. *she notes, despite looking in her twenties*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> And force a scene change!?
<DeathStar> <Deus> Right. I remember.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "We're not a holovid!"
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...seriously, you have a problem or something."
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Do tell Deus~
<DeathStar> <Deus> The Heart of Magik which was connected to the leylines. The old group was seeking it to help purify the men who were corrupted due to magik back in the day and try to fix/use the leylines to cure them.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Could that be it? Like a heart for every major power?
<DeathStar> <Deus> The Heart of Mana. Which Tsukiyomi was trapped in, if I recall, a sea of mana. It was a powerful location, more mana than one could handle. It almost beat with energy
<Alicia> <Asha> "Oh yeah, these are important."
<DeathStar> <Deus> And finally the Heart of Tareh, which Tsukiyomi is half of - being the core of it.
<DeathStar> <Deus> IF she died Tareh would be in bad shape.
<Jackieness> <Moira> "..so what's the other half?"
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Who is the other half?
<DeathStar> <Deus> The location of the core. Which is where her shrine is and down below has that crystal infestation these days
<Xanatos> <Valen> That doesn't sound good.
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> Any chance Taiga is off base and all the Hearts are here?
<Seraphna> Kaelan> So I, Kaelan the Darkly Awesome, have verified that we need to save my Goddess’ perfect bottom to save Tareh.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Well, I don't disagree on that."
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Maybe, unless there’s like a Heart of Prime, Heart of Wind and a Heart of Hyperspace or something.
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...Kaelan... you feeling ok?"
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> That'd be a lot of Hearts.
<DeathStar> <Rachael> *to Moira* We're the hero in the story in our heads
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Worried sick about Tsuki why?
<DeathStar> <Lenny> Alright, Let us look for Tsukiyomi and try to find information on these Hearts.
<Jackieness> <Moira> "Just wondering..."
<Alicia> <Asha> "I was expecting a Heart of Fire."
<DeathStar> <Deus> *dusts herself off* If you are looking for Tsuki and the Hearts, I'd focus on one of them at a time. The Heart of Mana is a physical location and you know where the Heart of Tareh is
<DeathStar> <Deus> I'd look for the Heart of Magik. Maybe the Masons can help you
<DeathStar> <Deus> We'll try to get the wepaons to you
<Seraphna> Kaelan> If it strains the barrier too much let them be.
<Xanatos> <Valen> Yeah they don't need swords that bad if it could rip open a gate to hell.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> That place opens up right in my wife and cutie’s home.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Even if it didn't, we should leave them where they are."
<Jackieness> <Moira> "I'll just use a normal sword..."
<DeathStar> <Deus> We plan to replace the weapons with another standby relic
<DeathStar> *Deus grabs Amazo*
<DeathStar> <Deus> Come on
<DeathStar> <Amazo> Noooo
<DeathStar> *He's dragged off*
<Jackieness> <Moira> "Wow, Deus just manhandled Amazo."
<Xanatos> <Valen> You get swords and we get rid of Amazo? Win win.
<DeathStar> <Rachael> Should I feel bad he has to stand around forever as a standby relic?
<Alicia> <Asha> "I don't think he's the relic."
<Seraphna> Kaelan> I’ll bring him his angel dolls for company.
<DeathStar> <Lenny> He must pay for his crime
<DeathStar> *she nods*
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Standing guard is payment enough."
<Jackieness> <Moira> "Seriously, who could Amazo owe money to?"
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> To the Mason Guild HQ
<DeathStar> *The PAX sets off*
<Alicia> <Celeste> "As long as he's being a guard, make them cancel his debts."
<Seraphna> Sia> Mason Guiiiild.
<DeathStar> <Lenny> You know, after this final quest, we will likely return home.
<Seraphna> Lia> Guildwork is the dreamwork?
<DeathStar> <Rachael> *eyes Kaelan* And someone has a wife here.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> An immortal one I can easily come visit.
<Jackieness> <Moira> "And if the gate clsoes forever?"
<Seraphna> Kaelan> We’ve made our decisions about it. **she drops the cheer a bit**
<Alicia> <Asha> "Mmm..."
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> Mercy has informed me of her desire to remain here
<DeathStar> <Rachael> *blinks in surprise*
<Xanatos> <Valen> Really?
<Seraphna> Kaelan> But I believe in the motto that having love and losing it is far better than to never have it.
<Xanatos> <Valen> I'm counting down the days we can get back home. Guess this place fits her style better.
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> She notes that this era suits her better.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Yeah, she found her heart here.
<Alicia> <Asha> "As long as she doesn't regret it... but she might regret it if she leaves."
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> We all have to make decisions. We've been here for sometime. And it's almost over.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Yeah. **she looks thoughtful**
<Jackieness> <Moira> "Let's just see where the path leads and worry about it later."
<DeathStar> -TIME HOP-
<DeathStar> Date: 8.5.3170
<DeathStar> Location: Capital of Neer
<DeathStar> *Mercy stands in her maid outfit to greet the group as they arrive*
<DeathStar> <Mercy> This way. *She leads them toward the Masons*
<Seraphna> **Kaelan sniffs curiously at Mercy as they walk**
<Seraphna> **The Twins March wearing the primo Mason Style**
<DeathStar> *They arrive at the Mason School, which is even larger in Neer since they are situated here. Mercy leads them right in and past the various students toward the head Mason leader*
<Seraphna> **The Spectres of the Founders skip happily along**
<DeathStar> *There they find a certain sexy witch, complete with hat. Roxanne. Rachael stops, blinking*
<DeathStar> <Rachael> Weren't you back in that other city?
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> ... *tilts head*
<Jackieness> <Moira> "There a rule that she can't come over here?"
<DeathStar> <Roxanne> Welcome. *she uses magik to bring chairs for them to sit in* <Rachael> I-I guess so. Just we should be much faster...
<Seraphna> Sia> Teleport Spell?
<Seraphna> Lia> Fly spell?
<Xanatos> <Valen> Clones.
<DeathStar> <Eoxxane> A mage never tells their secret
<DeathStar> *Roxxane tosses candy at Valen*
<DeathStar> <Mercy rolls eyes8
<Seraphna> Sia> Anti-Lufe
<Seraphna> Ti
<Seraphna> Lia> Anti-Fluff
<Xanatos> 6* Valen ooos and eats the candy
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> So what brings you here today? Come to see the frozen body of the first Mason on display?
<Seraphna> Sia> I’m here?
<Seraphna> Lia> Eeep?
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...what?"
<Alicia> <Celeste> "While that would be interesting, no."
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> We wish to know more about the Heart of Magik I believe it is?
<Seraphna> Sia> Kinda wanna see me. <Lia> Soooo weird. Not happened yet!
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> Hm. *She moves to grab some books* I take it you heart about the Heart of Tareh and Mana too?
<Alicia> <Celeste> "We have, though more information would not go amiss."
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Been to one. Married into the other.
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> Essentially, The Hearts are a bit misleading.
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> The Heart of Mana is or was, I'm not sure if it was used up long ago by Tsukiyomi, but the Mana was ...essentially a massive pool of mana left behind by the Angel when she and her partner made a wish for Tareh to change after defeating the gods.
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> The Heart of Tareh was Tsukiyomi, half of it at least, as you were told. And the Heart of Magik was in a sense the other half - the core of the planet. But you've probably seen the core chamber is now just something Tsukiyomi guards.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Yeah, like that.
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> The Hearts are sort of... burnt out unless someone tried to make new ones.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "That doesn't bode well."
<Alicia> <Asha> "Tsukiyomi herself is fine, though?"
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Think someone might do that by say… feeding off a ritual being performed on a volcanic leyline?
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> I've heard no reports of her being ill.
<Seraphna> **Kaelan sets down the badges they too off the mages**
<DeathStar> *Roxxane thinks* Well, the leylines have been acting off. *she takes them* If you were to consider Tsukiyomi as the planet - which this is the moon I'm told
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> And the leyline are her blood
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> Someone or something could be trying to make Tsukiyomi herself sick.
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> With what I couldn't say. But studying these...
<DeathStar> *She moves over to grab something from her desk*
<Seraphna> **Kaelan flicks a tail, watching her**
<DeathStar> *She eturns and sets down a book for the team*
<DeathStar> *Lorelei and Rachael leans forward. It talks about an entry about an organization that appeared out of nowhere called the Black Hand using the Mason Guild to further their agenda. It appeared as if they were from another world and managed to brainwash and take over many guild members, many quitting to join this Black Hand* This was a few decades back before the Elf stuff happened under that one guy - Harbringer disrupted things.
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> And the barrier went up
<Jackieness> <Moira> "So did Harbinger udnermine this Black Hand group with his own agenda?"
<DeathStar> <Rachael> It sounds like it. Maybe they were trying to find these Hearts.
<DeathStar> <Rachael> Or bring them back if they were really exhausted
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> I'll make a report to Taiga; maybe she can look into these Mages on her end
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> If you want to try to find them, I can try to help with some spells.
<Xanatos> <Valen> Black Hand. There any pictures of their members?
<DeathStar> *Roxxane nods* One moment
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Black Hand huh…?
<Seraphna> Sia> So why am I frozen anyways? <Lia> We don’t like the cold much.
<DeathStar> *She moves over to a book of Masons who left and hands the book over to Valen*
<Jackieness> <Moira> "don't let the frozen thing get to you, no matter how weird it is."
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> Oh, you tried to do the ultimate food spell
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> And it backfired. They froze you afterward to keep your legacy for all to see
<Seraphna> Sia> Oh my… <Lia> The prophecy!?
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...ultimate...food spell...?"
<DeathStar> <Lenny> Do not engage.
<Xanatos> 6* Valen starts flipping through it, just wondering if they look familiar or significant from their time.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "To create, or cook it?"
<Seraphna> Sia> Hopefully I prevented future generations from trying such deep arcana.
<Seraphna> Lia> The prophecy!
<DeathStar> *Rachael leans over; many of them look like high level mages that would fit in during this time period, but a few of them stand out as being oddly well cut and looking a bit too perfectly groomed*
<DeathStar> *Roxxane has some mages bring in the Mason's creator; hands stretched our as the spell backfires, eyes widened, feathers flying about her, caught in the freeze spell, a fish flopping about her statue in the background.*
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> Behold, the Mason
<Jackieness> <Moira> "...th...that's how you immortalized her?! She looks all derped!"
<Seraphna> Sia> Looks like it partially worked!
<Alicia> <Celeste> "...something tells me that spell isn't worth it."
<Seraphna> Lia> See birds and fish.
<Seraphna> Sia> Musta been trying to end kitty world hunger.
<Seraphna> Lia> The noblest cause.
<DeathStar> <Rachael> ....
<DeathStar> <Rachael> We'll ... always remember that
<DeathStar> *She turns back to the book*
<DeathStar> *The statue is set up in the corner for the team to admire*
<Xanatos> <Valen> Shame these dudes aren't like famous jackasses in our time.
<Seraphna> **Sia and Lia paw Ice Sia**
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> Well they had to move fast to freeze her
<DeathStar> *Mercy studies the pages*
<DeathStar> <Mercy> I think I recognize some black market people from my Cartel days
<Xanatos> <Valen> Really? Cartel fuckers? They're always dipping their hands into everything.
<DeathStar> *Rachael points at a cloaked figure with burn marks* He looks fanatical
<Xanatos> <Valen> Fanatically....unstable.
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> Yeah, a few in the Black Hand people who mind warped had a ... certain feel to them.
<Alicia> <Asha> "He needs to learn how to properly handle fire."
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> They managed to get around even some of my strongest magiks like they weren't there
<Seraphna> Sia> They sound mean.
<Seraphna> Lia> And stinky.
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> Do you have any leads on where to begin our search for the Hand?
<DeathStar> *Roxxane nods and grabs their map, marking it. Mercy eyes it, then stands up, moving to go to their ship*
<Xanatos> <Valen> She got serious quick. What's up with this spot?
<DeathStar> <Lenny> It's where Templars held a lot of territory back in the day.
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> IT's mostly just ruins right now
<Jackieness> <Moira> "so why would the Hand set up there?"
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> Good places to hide if they hear you coming
<DeathStar> <Roxxane> Templar strongholds, even to this day, have hidden passages
<Xanatos> <Valen> Cool, thanks for the candy. 6* He waves and moves to follow Mercy
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Right, tell CHIP to use the soft rock flight tracks.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Soft rock?"
<Jackieness> <Moira> "Kind of hard to snake anywhere with the PAX."
<Seraphna> Kaelan> It’s soft.
<Alicia> <Celeste> "Chalk?"
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> We'll stay here for the night
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> And I'll get in touch with Taiga about how there might be more to the hearts here than we realized.
<DeathStar> <Lorelei> See if we can learn more about the area were we're going tomorrow
<DeathStar> -END-
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Session Close: Sun Dec 18 23:06:55 2022