The Alien Wars 6: Da Capo

Session 700

Session Start: Mon May 06 00:00:00 2024
Session Ident: #TAW-Session700
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<DeathStar> Date: 10-560.?.?
<DeathStar> Location: Cran Manor
<DeathStar> *Cran has a map of the city up, with strings all over the board, while John does push ups in the background*
<DeathStar> <Cran> I'll be honest, at this point in time, I think we only have a few options open to us as key points of interest
<Xantop> <Xan> Let's hear it.
<Dias`> *Chad looks at the map, his arms crossed*
<DeathStar> <Cran> Mega City itself, which is close by. The manor was built close to the city due to the city being a seat of power with politically and military, so the next key point is the military bases near and around Mega City.
<Dias`> <Chad> Well, I've been trying to look in to found persons, but I've been hesitant to do anything hacking wise. So it's been slow.
<Dias`> <Chad> If she came here, she should've left a trail somehow.
<DeathStar> <John> Well, all we can do is check it out with our eyes
<DeathStar> *Cran eyes the rune given to them by Taiga*
<Dias`> <Chad> Then let's get to it.
<DeathStar> <Cran> Do we go to the city or the military bases?
<Dias`> <Chad> Bases would compromise us the quickest. *He nods at Cran* But the city is going to be the biggest area to search.
<DeathStar> <Cran> Both have their pros and cons, yes
<Xantop> <Xan> I was like 5 years old in this time...can't quite remember what big thing happened around this time. Was this when you unveiled the dragoons?
<DeathStar> <Cran> To be honest
<DeathStar> <Cran> I was studying the stars for threats. We had enemies like the Ridiarums out there who could tear a man apart
<Xantop> <Kane> Keeping a low profile is important and should be our focus. 6* He notes, looking up from his datapad, having just been going through what little they have.
<Dias`> <Chad> If Erevis wound up here. *He looks at Xan* Where do you think she'd go first?
<DeathStar> <John> If Erevis is here, and you're a kid at this point
<DeathStar> <John> Wouldn't she just go after you?
<DeathStar> *he asks Xanatos*
<Xantop> <Xan> There's a park near the place we had our first winter together, she might go there, otherwise her other main link on Earth is Tokyo.
<Dias`> <Chad> We should check there then. People tend to look for something to ground them when they're out of their element.
<Xantop> <Xan> After kid me? I...don't think so?
<DeathStar> *Cran packs up their stuff*
<DeathStar> <Cran> Lets head into the city
<DeathStar> *Outside John has a vehicle for them ready*
<Dias`> *Chad nods and heads outside to the vehicle*
<DeathStar> *Cran gets into the vehicle with the tools and makes sure to relock the door after them*
<Xantop> <Kane> How did you get this? 6* He says as he and Xan get into the vehicle.
<Dias`> <Chad> We had John get us one discreetly.
<DeathStar> *John waves*
<DeathStar> *John takes them into the city*
<DeathStar> <John> You should have been there. We even lost Lunar getting it
<DeathStar> *As they arrive in the city proper, the rune seems to glow brighter*
<Dias`> <Chad> ...Think we might be on to something
<DeathStar> *John parks near the park and gets out*
<DeathStar> <Cran> It's a shame this thing cannot be more accurate
<Dias`> <Chad> It would make this easier. But, it's at least reacting. *He climbs out, glancing around*
<DeathStar> *The park seems to fairly busy with people about - couples, parents with children, but no sign of Erevis*
<DeathStar> Song 10: Glimpses
<DeathStar> *Cran leans on the roof of the car* I am seeing no sign of the woman.
<DeathStar> *Cran eyes the rune* Yet this indicates she is in the city
<Dias`> <Chad> Then let's keep moving until it get's dimmer or brighter and try to pin point her.
<DeathStar> <John> Wait, Chad's master plan is to drive around the city and see if it gets brighter or dimmer?
<Dias`> <Chad> It'll at least help us triangulate. Unless you've got some sort of super sniffer.
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<DeathStar> <Cran> No, let us drive away. *He turns to get into the car then pauses, sweating profusely and as he leans on the hood a moment*
<Dias`> *Chad moves to step in then stops, looking at Cran* You alright?
<DeathStar> <Cran> ... A moment of vertigo and nausea
<Dias`> <Chad> This reoccuring?
<DeathStar> <Cran> No. I would say this has just begun. *he eyes himself, holding out a hand as it shakes. He waits a moment, as if willing himself to stop*
<DeathStar> <Cran> ... Alright. I think someone else should drive around
<DeathStar> *He moves to sit in the back*
<Dias`> <Chad> John, take the wheel. *He moves in to the back, pulling out his datapad and begins scanning him*
<DeathStar> *John takes the wheel and begins to pull them out of the park*
<Alicia> <Lunar Girl> "I think I heard of something like this, but I forget where."
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<DeathStar> *John gets onto the high way*
<DeathStar> <John> Alright, I'm going to do large loops and make my way inward
<DeathStar> <John> Keep an eye on our runes, Lunar
<Dias`> *Chad makes a slight face and scans himself, then Kane, Xan, John and Lunar*
<DeathStar> <Cran> You're making that face, Chad
<DeathStar> *Cran seems to be doing a little better now, or is faking it*
<Dias`> <Chad> I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, Cran. *He shows him his datapad* I can theorize why you had that spell but, how this happened to you only....
<Alicia> <Lunar Girl> "Were any of us around for this the first time?"
<DeathStar> *Cran studies the result, then peers out into the city quietly, then leans forward* John, head for this address. *He hands him a datapad*
<Dias`> *Chad studies him for a moment* You know why?
<DeathStar> <Cran> I have a theory - this scan says I'm alive and dead in a chronological state
<DeathStar> <Cran> Yet no one else is
<Dias`> <Chad> Indeed. So unless you've become intertwined with your counter part and they're already dead.
<Alicia> <Lunar Girl> "Is it because you're a clone?"
<DeathStar> <Cran> No, it most likely means someone just killed me in the past and time has no idea what to do with me.
<Dias`> *Chad clicks his tongue* That would explain things.
<DeathStar> *Cran leans back, sweating*
<Alicia> <Lunar Girl> "Yeah... that... wait, that's really bad."
<DeathStar> <John> Poke him. Is he solid?
<Alicia> <Lunar Girl> "He's not a ghost."
<DeathStar> *John arrives at what looks to be a non-descript government building; there indeed seems to be something going on as people are rushing out and police are being surrounding the place*
<Dias`> *Chad looks outside at the scene*
<Alicia> <Lunar Girl> "My guess is whoever did the rune thing did this."
<DeathStar> -SHIFT-
<DeathStar> Date: 10-760.?.?
<DeathStar> Location: PAX
<DeathStar> *Cheryl glanes around the PAX that they landed in; so far no one has noticed them*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm... how do we handle this now?"
<DeathStar> *Chii sinks into the shadows and spies ahead while Ren and Selena look around.* <Andrea> That is a good question. This PAX seems intent on blowing up the world
<Seraphna> Angela> Get to the bridge and confront whoever it is.
<DeathStar> <Andrea> Even if it belongs to Xevil, that is a bit overkill
<Seraphna> Tabetha> Can we fight him though? He got real strong.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Quite right. Well... if we take the secondary bridge,, could we take over firing control?"
<DeathStar> <Ren> Depends on if the bridge allows us
<DeathStar> <Ren> They could lock us out
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "No hackers here?"
<Dias`> <Id> Hacking can only get us so far
<DeathStar> <Selena> I'm no hacker
<Seraphna> Tabetha> Engineer, but I know the system a hundred years ago.
<Dias`> <Id> But I can attempt to take control.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "I would also like to take a memo: have the empress give up the power to do this... whatever this is. We need to move, either way." *starts walking*
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "Not exactly a skill in high demand on Geyze..."
<DeathStar> *Ren heads for the secondary bridge. As they start walking, alarms start going off and intruder alert goes off*
<Alicia> <Sparkling> "Magic is pretty much my only talent, sorry."
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> You think that's about us?
<Seraphna> Angela> Probably.
<Dias`> <Id> Most likely.
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "Unless there are some other intruders."
<DeathStar> *Armored troops rush past in another hallway*
<DeathStar> *headed for some place*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...maybe Xevil's forces had the same idea."
<Seraphna> Angela> Or it’s not us and we’re still in the system as crew.
<DeathStar> <Ren> I can't imagine we won't be detected soon
<Alicia> <CHarlotte> "We should hurry."
<Seraphna> **Tabetha frowns and begins to head to what should be the access pathways**
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Agreed."
<Seraphna> Tabetha> This way I think.
<Dias`> *Id floats along*
<DeathStar> *As they head that way, they come across some of the armored forces* <Armored Guard> Intruders. *they draw a weapon and those with connections to spirits would immediately feel the power of the spirits in a large sword, as it's wielded. The sword gleams and as the armored soldier blocks their path, they swing and the power of wind blows, sending all of them flying*
<DeathStar> *Origin seems to pack at that weapon*
<DeathStar> *panic
<Jackieness> <Noire> *lashes out with her tendrils and tries to catch the team and steady them*
<Alicia> * Charlotte grabs at a wall with a tendril to steady herself, Sparkling uses wind magic to try to bounce herself back
<Dias`> *Id goes tumbling back, forming a hard light shield to protect itself*
<Seraphna> Angela> Was that the proper Rune Blade?
<DeathStar> *The wielder lifts the weapon again and begins to channel wind into, almost like they're channeling a spirit*
<Seraphna> **Angela claws a wall and Tabetha uses TK to steady herself**
<MobileAri> * Nicolette sweeps Origin under one arm protectively, "That definitely isn't spirit-tech."
<DeathStar> <Selena> What IS that?
<Dias`> *Id scans the sword quickly*
<Seraphna> Angela> A Spirit…?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...no." *raises a hand and then tries opening a shadow portal under the tropp's feet, with the egress on the ceiling*
<Dias`> <Id> I'm detecting a Spirit Core within the sword itself.
<Dias`> <Id> Interesting application.
<Alicia> <Sparkling> "Gross."
<Seraphna> **Angela forms her armor and calls her Holy sword** The fuck…? But you’d have to kill a spirit for that.
<DeathStar> *The troop flips and uses winf to right themself from the shadows, and practically flies at the team, sending hundreds of wind slashes at the group. Melodie tries to block for Sparkling*
<DeathStar> *Selena goes into half-spirit mode to defend*
<Jackieness> <Noire> *raises her hand, trying to raise a dark matter wall in their path*
<Dias`> *Id quickly shifts behind Noire, using her as a big dark one meat shield*
<Alicia> <Sparkling> "Well, I mean... there are other ways, but..." *tries to shield with magic*
<Seraphna> **Angela forms her Holy Barrier and moves to parry the blade**
<DeathStar> *The slashes strike the barriers put up*
<Seraphna> **Tabetha uses Ace of Spades to avoid then fires at the Soldier with guns**
<Jackieness> <Noire> *then gestures and tries sending her barrier flying forward at the trooper*
<MobileAri> * Nicolette uses earth magic to pull up a metal barrier from the floor, to block the wind slashes, and then open hand punches it and sends the shards at the trooper
<Seraphna> **Angela presses against the soldier’s blade**
<DeathStar> *as the team knocks down the other troopers and leaves the one with the weapon, the warrior seems to realize she's outnumbered, eyeing Angela and leaping back. They spirit warp out*
<DeathStar> *signs of blood on the ground left behind*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "We need to move faster."
<Seraphna> **Tabetha nods and moves on, guns ready**
<Dias`> <Id> I believe progressing forward is going to be tougher now. *Id pops out from behind Noire, scanning the blood*
<DeathStar> *Ren turns and sees what looks to be figures catching up* Enemy or friends are catching up
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmmm... I wodner if they ever uncovered some of the secret compartments we had been mapping."
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "We could try using them."
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...someone else is coming."
<DeathStar> <Andrea> I'll delay them
<Seraphna> Angela> Let’s find out later if they’re trouble. They’re coming the same way we did.
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "Don't do anything sacrificial."
<DeathStar> <Andrea> Sure sure. *She waves hand*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...be careful, mother." *turns* "Lead on."
<Seraphna> **Tabetha keeps leading on, keeping her danger sense at the ready**
<DeathStar> *the group arrives at the doors to the aux bridge*
<Dias`> <Id> While I can not pinpoint a person, I can at least confidently say that whoever ran away from us, is part Progenitor and part Spirit.
<DeathStar> *which are closed up and the wounded spirit warrior is there with two others*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...lovely."
<DeathStar> <Ren> I don't think they want us inside
<Seraphna> Angela> That’d be… Terra and Fae’d kid I guess?
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "Too bad."
<DeathStar> <Swords Person> Stand Down and Surrender.
<Dias`> <Id> That is impossible to say currently.
<Jackieness> <Noire> *adjusts ehr glasses* "Mmmmm... Striker business."
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> What are the odds one of us can warp into the Aux Bridge?
<Seraphna> Angela> Does it help if we say we are here in the behest of Empress Jaime and Jikuu?
<DeathStar> <Swords Person> ...... *they stare*
<Dias`> <Id> I imagine less than 18%
<DeathStar> <Selena> You know blowing up a planet is bad, right?
<Seraphna> Angela> You’re Terra’s kid right?
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "Why are you even doing this?"
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...mmmm...also against the Suisen charter. Sort of thing the Suisen Empire's enemies would do... the Serpent... Xevil for that matter..."
<DeathStar> <Swords Person> Because he is evil.
<Seraphna> Angela> We were sent through a time tear. Something that possesses people came through.
<Alicia> <Sparkling> "... oh come on! Everyone keeps thinking that gives them the excuse to ruin others lives."
<Seraphna> Angela> You might feel Chronos’ power on us.
<DeathStar> <Swords Person> We know you're not from this time. So?
<DeathStar> <Swords Person> Look at yourselves, you're not old
<Seraphna> Angela> This new Empress, is she acting strange?
<Jackieness> <Noire>
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "I'll take that as a compliment?"
<Jackieness> '...this is starting to annoy me."
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...this is starting to annoy me."
<Alicia> <Sparkling> "I always do."
<DeathStar> <Swords Person> I agree. *She begins to charge up her sword* You know, I never liked you. *she tells Noire*
<Seraphna> Tabetha> Miss, we could avoid a fight if you escort us to
<Seraphna> The Empress.
<DeathStar> Song 13: 100 Ways
<DeathStar> <Swords Person> ....
<Dias`> *Id slowly shifts to float behind Cheryl now*
<Seraphna> **Angela thinks, then pulls an Apple from subspace**
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm..."
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> ... *eyes the two*
<Seraphna> Angela> We come bearing fruit?
<DeathStar> <Ren> ....*The Swords Person begins to calm down her sword when Andrea arrives with the other group - another Cheryl, Zephyr, an older looking Ren and a few others. She begins to get riled up again*
<DeathStar> <Swords Person> Hey, you tricked me....!
<Seraphna> Angela> No we didn’t.
<Seraphna> Angela> We’re the good guys. You can feel it.
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "Okay, maybe we should refocus here. We didn't come here to mess with politics or anything... we came because we're trying to stop time from ripping reality apart."
<Seraphna> Angela> Spirits can tell. I know they can.
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "That might involve messing with politics, unfortunately."
<Alicia> <Sparkling> "I hope not."
<DeathStar> *the other Cheryl and Zephyr both mov forward, while the two are talking and begin to take the three down*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Politics defines a great deal of my adult life."
<Seraphna> Angela> If the beast is in the Empress, we can save her.
<Seraphna> <Tabetha> <Wait…>
<DeathStar> <Andrea> I brought distractions. And didn't get killed. *She notes, having not read the room ahead of time*
<Seraphna> Tabetha> Everyone chill a moment.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmmm...I can't fault you for staying in the parameters yiu were given, mother."
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "I mean... I can't either."
<DeathStar> <Ren> You want to break up the fighting?
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "That's the plan."
<Dias`> <Id> Should we make our break for it while they're taking care of each other.
<DeathStar> <Ren> That's what I was going to do
<DeathStar> *The Older Cheryl/Zephyr seem to be having trouble keeping up with the spirit warriors, taking more wounds*
<Seraphna> Angela> The girl could warp us if she’ll help.
<Dias`> <Id> She seems to be overpowering the two attacking her.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmmm... she does have her magic sword."
<DeathStar> *Ren waits until they're tired and breaks it up; both sides eyeing the other*
<Seraphna> **Angela starts healing them
<MobileAri> * Nicolette takes a deep breath, and whistles as loud as she can, amplified by wind magic. "Time out!"
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Ah, well done, Ren!"
<DeathStar> *The spirit warrior jerks at Nicolette*
<DeathStar> *almost scared*
<DeathStar> *her sword seems to get smaller*
<Seraphna> Angela> Oh my.
<DeathStar> <Older Cheryl> You all realize you should be helping us. Xevil or not, the suisen are raging an unlawful war that is killing untold numbers of people
<DeathStar> <Spirit Warrior> Xevil killed the previous Empress. <Old Cheryl> That was never proven.
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "People, we're in the middle of an incident that's going to be in the history books for decades to come, and we have an existential level threat cosmic terror roaming free causing rifts in time to rip apart reality itself!"
<Seraphna> Angela> We’re here to solve that actually. We think your Empress might have the Beast in her.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmm... what Nicolette means is that the past is in danger, and that means no future for you or us."
<Seraphna> Tabetha> In which case I can force it out.
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "If you're not doing something to help ANY of those issues, back the hell up and rethink your priorities."
<DeathStar> *both groups look at Nicolette* <Spirit Warrior> ... I'll take you to the Empress. <Old Zephyr> Right. Let us get the rest of our team and we'll join you. Assuming you'll call of your soldiers from attacking them
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Assuming their empress really is possessed by this thing."
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "We'll find out."
<Seraphna> Angela> If not she’s h
<Seraphna> Angela> Getting a stern talking to. We brought her grandma.
<Alicia> <Sparkling> "So... which Empress died?"
<DeathStar> *The Spirit Warrior gathers with others who all seem to have spirit weapons, all with different cores; at the same time, the older Cheryl is joined by an older Ren, Hotaru, Noire, Angela*
<DeathStar> <Spirit Warrior> ... The Great Jaime!
<Seraphna> Angela> Damn I age well.
<Seraphna> Tabetha> Well I will not stand for that nonsense..
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> So that should mean Jikuu became the sole leader
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "... ah." *doesn't seem to know how to respond to 'Great Jaime'*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...hah."
<Dias`> *Id floats along*
<Seraphna> Angela> Also begs the question where Adeline is.
<DeathStar> *the group is led along to the bridge, the coalition led by the older Cheryl following*
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "Good questions and all, but... reality crisis first."
<DeathStar> <Selena> I wonder. *She muses*
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "This may be clues as to how to fix it."
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmmm?" *looks at Selena*
<DeathStar> <Selena> Seeing how long so many of you can live, I wonder how long I can live, being half-spirit. I never really thought about it before. I suppose mother always said grandmother was around forever it felt like
<Seraphna> Angela> You get used to looking young when humans get old fast after a bit. **high fives the other her**
<DeathStar> <Selena> And these spirit weapons. They feel just like spirits.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmm...my people cheat."
<Dias`> <Id> They contain spirit cores, so that would be most likely why, Selena.
<Seraphna> Angela> Why do they have cores?
<DeathStar> <Selena> Hm. So are they the spirits, or just cores from the realm..
<DeathStar> *She seems afraid to ask*
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> ". . ."
<DeathStar> *As they step onto the bridge, the group would find even more spirit warriors as well as the Empress*
<Jackieness> <Noire> *looks over* "...is it pinging?"
<DeathStar> *The Empress seems to be wearing a veil over their face, wearing all black*
<Seraphna> Angela> This is certainly a direction. **subtly checks her rune**
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "Nice style, at least."
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...Charlotte, that is a mourning gown."
<DeathStar> *the rune is lit up like mad - this is definitely the location*
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "It's a stylish mourning gown."
<Dias`> *Id floats up slightly, just observing for now*
<DeathStar> <Andrea> Well. I can't say I don't hate the color
<Seraphna> Angela> So don’t take it as rude if we’re not addressing you all directly, but any chance you wanna come out Beast?
<DeathStar> *The Empress turns their head slowly toward Angela*
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...still... complimentign the style of a mourning gown is a bit insensitive."
<DeathStar> <Old Cheryl> You know she's just going to get pissed at that
<DeathStar> <Old Zephyr> Do we really care?
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "Ah, sorry."
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Also Angela and her tact."
<Seraphna> Angela> Mmm. **she eyes back, feeling out if this Empress has Dragoon coding**
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "...did you really just come up and ask the Empress if she wants to go beast mode?"
<Seraphna> Angela> Wasn’t talking to her.
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "Yeah... that's even more insensitive."
<DeathStar> <Empress> So. Who let you all in? *the voice sounds familiar*
<Seraphna> Angela> Libera?
<Dias`> <Id> We let ourselves in.
<DeathStar> *The Empress sighs and begins to remove the veil on their face, slowly peeling it back and tossing it aside, then shaking their long red hair down*
<DeathStar> *but it does not seem to be Erevis*
<DeathStar> <Jikuu> What can I do for you?
<Seraphna> Angela> I sense Dragoon coding… and Progenitor so… wait what the fuck?
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "...Dragoon?"
<Seraphna> Angela> Yeah… which Jikuu shouldn’t have.
<DeathStar> <Jikuu> Ah. I shouldn't?
<Dias`> <Id> Unless she chose to tinker with her DNA much like Jaime did.
<DeathStar> *she seems to have a sinister smile*
<Seraphna> Angela> Jikuu is the daughter of Erevis and Kyo and VI never got to her.
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "Explain how you got them."
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...mmmmmmm...she's emitting a wicked vibe."
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "I... is that really our concern here?"
<Seraphna> Angela> It’s part of it.
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "It's mine."
<DeathStar> <Jikuu> Granted, my lover was mostly Kitsune based. *She plays with foxfire between her hands*
<Seraphna> Angela> What did you do?
<Dias`> <Id> Tabetha said she could force it out of the person.
<Seraphna> **Tabetha frowns, quietly feeling for the beast while Jikuu is focused on Angela**
<DeathStar> <Jikuu> What? We just .... shared. One way.
<DeathStar> *Jikuu aims a hand of fox fire at Tabetha and cups it at her*
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "That had better have been consensual."
<Seraphna> Tabetha> Mmm. You got good at acting.
<DeathStar> *by now the lock on is finished and the charging is done. Jikuu turns to press the button*
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> We're out of time. <Ren> We're Victoire? She should be alive
<Seraphna> **Tabetha reaches out with her mind and pulls at the nervous system like they did before**
<Alicia> * Sparkling grabs the hand. "No. I can't let you do that."
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Ren's alive after all
<DeathStar> *the mind thing doesn't stop her, but the physical grab does*
<DeathStar> <Jikuu> Oh, I see you trying that old trick again?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm... and its about to begin."
<Seraphna> Tabetha> She… may be blocking the telepathy. But that is the beast.
<DeathStar> <Jikuu> There's only one way to win this time. You'll have to rip me to pieces.
<Alicia> <Sparkling> "You know this is wrong."
<Seraphna> Angela> No, there’s another.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Its crystal clear now... see? The beast took Jikuu... then killed Jaime."
<DeathStar> <Jikuu> Oh, you're spoiling the plot
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Its a cliche!"
<Seraphna> Tabetha> She’s lying about her strength. She covered that weakness but she is only 1/3rd her normal power.
<DeathStar> *Jikuu lifts arm up to lift Sparkling up, when Melodie and Aimee appear to punch at the gut*
<Seraphna> **Angela pulls a large injector out of subspace**
<DeathStar> <Ren> There's still the problem of being in Jikuu's body
<Seraphna> Angela> One step at a time. **she moves in, shield ready in her other hand**
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm...if the beast has already progressed this far, the real Jikuu might already be dead."
<DeathStar> *old Zephyr begins to charge up*
<Seraphna> **Angela trues to get her with the injector, using her protocol to mess with her at the same time**
<DeathStar> *Jikuu begins to charge up her hyperspace and pulls out something - the Emerald Sword*
<DeathStar> *she slashes at Angela's arm, bending reality*
<Jackieness> <Noire> *raises a hand and starts forming a swarm of dark matter blades*
<Alicia> * Charlotte grabs at it with a tendril... which likely melts anyway
<Seraphna> **Angeja brings up the shield and slips back**
<Seraphna> Angela> Gotta get her still.
<Seraphna> Angela> One poke of that thing abd you’re gone.
<DeathStar> *Charlotte grabs onto the Sword, but the Emerald Sword attempts to reject her*
<DeathStar> *reality bending and cracking around her tendril*
<MobileAri> * Nicolette stays back, concentrating on a delicate earth spell to break up the metal contacts in the controls in the room, to prevent future surprises.
<Seraphna> **Tabetha tries to Goddess TK hold Jikuu**
<DeathStar> song 12: TBA 2
<Jackieness> <Noire> *sends some of her blades to try to harass Jikuu to keep her unbalanced*
<DeathStar> *Cheryl whips around Jikuu to try to restrain*
<Seraphna> **Angela frowns** This stuff I have will kill get nervous system for a couple hours.
<DeathStar> *Ren slides in and begins to pummel*
<Seraphna> **Angela tries to move in again with the assists**
<DeathStar> *Jikuu begins to go full hyperspace*
<Alicia> * Charlotte looks for a weak spot in Jikuu's defences while trying to interfere with any use of the sword
<DeathStar> *burning downward into the floor*
<DeathStar> *Ren yelps and rolls away*
<Seraphna> Angela> Fuck counter it!
<Jackieness> <Noire> *raises both arms and then sends her Dakr Matter blades flying at Jikuu en masse*
<Seraphna> **Tabetha tries her stun attack with telepathy**
<DeathStar> *Charlotte would slowly be able to grab onto the Sword*
<DeathStar> *while the Dark Matter Blades stick into Jikuu as she begins to burn through to 1B*
<Seraphna> **Angela goes to try and inject her before it becomes impossible, taking burning to do so**
<DeathStar> *Jikuu grabs Angela in turn, aiming for the throat; both parties hanging onto each other*
<Dias`> <Id> Someone should attempt to stop this war while she's busy.
<Seraphna> **Angela empowers her armor and shield**
<DeathStar> <Selena> How would you suggest we do that? *she peers out at the Tsivrixsh ships*
<Alicia> * Charlotte pulls the sword out of alignment, trying to take it from Jikuu but being okay with just stopping the attack
<Seraphna> **Tabetha TKs the injector from Angela and tries poking Jikuu with it**
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...an excellent question..."
<Alicia> * Sparkling attempts to hail the Tsiv. "We can at least explain the situation."
<Dias`> <Id> Send a message from the PAX to all ships in the area asking for a cease fire because of what's happening here.
<DeathStar> *Jikuu's hyperspace dies down as Charlotte holds the sword. It poofs out out of the body into gas form*
<DeathStar> *And begins to zoom right for .... Charlotte with the sword*
<DeathStar> <Ren> 'ey 'ey 'ey! *She stumbles trying to get in the way, holdnig her burnt arm*
<Seraphna> **Angela falls back, and tosses one of their metal traps to Charlotte**
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Oh no, you don't." *opens a shadow portal in front of Charlotte and Ren*
<Alicia> * Charlotte attempts to put the sword into a shadow pocket, before catching the trap
<Alicia> * And then attempts to trap the creature
<DeathStar> *the shadow portal .. does nothing*
<Seraphna> **Tabetha frowns and sends a mental ripple at the fog to try and disorient it**
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...act fast." *drops the portal, then looks at the spirit warriors* "Do you now see the truth of the matter?!"
<Alicia> * Sparkling is still trying to explain the situation to the Tsiv, mostly asking for 'please don't attack while we're fighting the possessed empress'
<DeathStar> *The Tsiv stop their attack*
<DeathStar> *while the creature seems to curse losing the sword, it's then forced toward the trap by Charlotte, the gas being blown over it*
<Seraphna> **Angela picks herself up wheezing, working on healing her neck**
<DeathStar> <Spirit Warrior> *activates her sword and uses the wind powers to help blow it with Charlotte and keep it trapped *
<DeathStar> <Spirit Warrior> We saw.
<Dias`> <Id> It seems that most of this has been resolved.
<Seraphna> Angela> Sort of… **she croaks**
<DeathStar> *Ren holds her damaged arm. <Andrea> Lets hope so.... I'm sensing nebulous energy still
<DeathStar> *Cheryl helps angela to her feet
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Nebulous energy, mother?"
<DeathStar> <Andrea> It's not my department - time.
<Seraphna> Angela> A constant will have to stay behind. And when we leave this place may become a new reality.
<Alicia> <Sparkling> "Oh... right..."
<Dias`> <Id> I would suggest leaving the Emerald Sword here less us taking it causes another break in time/space.
<Seraphna> Angela> Meaning… no coming home.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...we already have an Emerald Sword. The beast is the problem we need to clean up."
<Seraphna> **Angela gives Jikuu treatment** She’ll need medical care and I imagine someone will have to take over for her. She’s gonna wake up knowing she killed her sister.
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "Yeah... not a trip for souvenirs."
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "...that's... going to be rough on her. At least she has Victoire... right?"
<DeathStar> *Ren holds her arm, taking deep breaths* <Ren> .. lets find out if she's okay... *goes to search*
<DeathStar> -SHIFT-
<DeathStar> Date: 11-660.?.?
<DeathStar> Location: Aquarius
<DeathStar> *Wind puts on some gear to head down to the planet*
<Dias`> *Dias eyes the gear Wind putting on*
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "Should I join the away team too?"
<DeathStar> *Sylph peers at Ellie* You want to go?
<Seraphna> **Sera accompanies him in humanoid form**
<Sara> <Ellie> Not a matter of "wanting to" but someone's gotta...
<DeathStar> *Yuki sits in her seat, monitoring the planet from above*
<Seraphna> **Kaelan grumbles** We have a telepath right?
<Jackieness> <Airym> "Wind, do you require a security detail to accompany you?"
<Dias`> *Dias scratches his nose and gets dressed*
<Seraphna> Sephie> I’m especially talented at possessions.
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "I'm more science than security, to be honest."
<DeathStar> <Wind> Come along
<DeathStar> <Wind> We can protect you if you need it
<DeathStar> *Wind slides into the pilot seat*
<Dias`> *Dias climbs in to the shuttle*
<Seraphna> **Sera, Kaelan and Sephie board**
<DeathStar> *Aya finishes getting ito the pilot seat*
<DeathStar> *co-pilot
<Jackieness> <Bella> *joins the ground team as part of the security detail*
<Dias`> *Id floats beside her*
<DeathStar> *Adeline sits in the back with a few devices and Cloe drags Cherie along, holding food*
<Seraphna> **Sephie assists her mother**
<DeathStar> *Cloé passes food out*
<Sara> <Ellie> Oh, it's food
<DeathStar> <Cloé> I made it based on recommendations from Dias!
<Jackieness> <Bella> "What did he say?"
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "Can he cook?"
<DeathStar> *Sylph takes a bite and immediately begins to flail, flames coming from mouth*
<DeathStar> <Sylph> Nyaaaa?!
<Dias`> <Dias> Of course I can cook. What kind of question is that?!
<DeathStar> *she looks for water all over the shuttle*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...no offense, but you killed Sylph."
<Dias`> <Dias> I think she liked it.
<Seraphna> Sera> That’s almost as spicy as Michiru’s cooking.
<DeathStar> *Falls over by Ellie, smoking*
<DeathStar> <Wind> If she offers you any, Ariel, politely turn her down
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Cloe, how could you fall for that?"
<Seraphna> **Sera splashes Sylph with a stream of water from her fingertips**
<DeathStar> <Cloé> I thought spicy was life!
<DeathStar> *she makes notes* I will make corrections
<Seraphna> Kaelan> That’s Pumpkin Spice, I think.
<Dias`> <Dias> It is young cook. It burns inside along side the burning passion of ones fighting spirit.
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "You need to learn restraint."
<DeathStar> *the shuttle soon lands on the gloomy palace; there is no sign of life it feels like as Wind keeps the engine running* <Aya> I am detecting life signs inside despite how it appears. <Adeline> ... maybe.
<Dias`> <Id> That is interesting. How many do you detect?
<Seraphna> Sephie> While thing is giving me the creeps.
<DeathStar> <Adeline> The scan point cuts off a point, but it claims there is hundreds if not thousands inside, but at the same time the life "energy" is so weak....
<MobileAri> <Ariel> "You ever wonder why trips into the future are always a horrific nightmare?"
<DeathStar> <Adeline> I am not sure if it is a state of living
<Alicia> * Ceilidh scans for the positions of all the life signs, using that as a map of sorts.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...I'm security, so I'll take point." *moves over to the hatch*
<Dias`> <Id> Hmmm. That is interesting.
<Dias`> <Dias> Well, best way to find out is to knock on the door and look with our eyes.
<Seraphna> Sera> I tend to just find them lonely cuz I keep living long enough for you to come back around again.
<DeathStar> *Ceilidh would find most of them around the palace throne room in a cluster, then seem to scatter outward less and less from there*
<DeathStar> *Wind, Aya, Cloe, and Adeline follow Bella with Cloe creeping along behind her*
<Dias`> *Dias walks along, resting his hands behind his head while Id floats along side Aya*
<Jackieness> <Bella> *heads out of the ship and then starts moving forward*
<Seraphna> **Sera, Kaelan and Sephie move along**
<DeathStar> *Sylph rides on Ellie's head*
<DeathStar> *As the team steps inside the palace, the lighting is so poor, it almost is hard to see*
<Sara> * Ellie follows with the others
<DeathStar> <Wind> One moment. Do you have a light?
<Seraphna> Kaelan> You can all see in the dark right?
<MobileAri> * Ariel holds her crystal sword like a torch, letting it glow with holy light
<Jackieness> <Bella> "There a light now."
<Dias`> *Id turns on it's light to assist*
<Alicia> * Ceilidh uses Dark One DNA to gain dark vision again
<Seraphna> Sera> You’d think Megumi was in charge of the lighting budget.
<Dias`> <Dias> Seem's kind of run down here...
<DeathStar> *the area lights up and the group can now see the life signs around them; people staring at them laying on the ground; some of them with half bodies like dragoons or reploids. It looks like some sort of war was fought here long ago and both sides lost terribly, as skeletons of Tsivrixsh are among them as well. The reploids and dragoons, bashed so bad that they can only observe them now, watch the group*
<DeathStar> <Cloe> EEEEEE
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...this is really ugly."
<Seraphna> Sephie> This is terrible…
<Dias`> <Dias> How are they still alive? *Id scans them as they walk by*
<Alicia> * Ceilidh looks them over
<MobileAri> <Ariel> "Horrific nightmare future."
<Sara> * Cherie looks unnerved
<DeathStar> <Wind> True, you think the dragoons at least would die due to the organic damage
<Seraphna> Sera> One day we’ll get the good future with Blackjack and his hookers.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Maybe somethign here is keeping them alive."
<Dias`> <Dias> Ya think?
<DeathStar> *As the group continues the trek through the bodies, they come across a familiar blonde - Cheryl among them*
<Alicia> * Ceilidh checks for anything that might be that
<Seraphna> Sera> **looks sad and quiet**
<Dias`> <Id> That's odd indeed. There's no way she shouldn't have rotted away by now.
<DeathStar> *Aya studies Cheryl, wondering if Zephyr and Hotaru and Mem and the others are among them*
<Alicia> * Ecne looks over the group, looking sad, despite not knowing any of the people here
<MobileAri> <Ariel> "...definitely unsettling. Is this... real? It doesn't seem possible."
<DeathStar> <Wind> I don't feel like I'm having nightmares, but who can say.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "We need to stay focused. Can't let this place psyche us out."
<DeathStar> <Adeline> Right. The throne is dead ahead.
<Seraphna> Sera> What we detected earlier. This is some kinda weird hellish half life.
<Dias`> <Id> Perhaps he's keeping them alive as trophies...
<MobileAri> <Ariel> "Wouldn't be the first time reality twisted to reflect nightmares, but... I don't know..."
<DeathStar> <Wind> Perhaps, in some odd way, this could be his nightmare
<Dias`> <Dias> No one to fight and entertain him? No empire to rule. Probably.
<Dias`> <Dias> I mean, I'd be bored out of my mind if I didn't have people to fight.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Being surrounded by everyone you got killed? Sounds like a personal hell to me."
<Seraphna> Kaelan> All the Galaxy under his fist but nothing to challenge him.
<DeathStar> *the group approaches the broken throne where Xevil sits, slumped against it; the sky overhead is overcast and there's water all around the ground, indicating the throne is half submerged from rain due to a hole in the roof and the planet's toxic rain. Thankfully there is no storms today*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Yeah, he looks pretty miserable."
<Dias`> *Dias lowers his arms, studying Xevil as they appproach*
<Seraphna> Sera> Throne and a shower all in one. The ultimate depressed boi chair.
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "Hindsight is 20/20, I guess?"
<DeathStar> *There's voices from the piles of bodies, female, taunting him about something, as the group approaches*
<DeathStar> *Wind studies the rune and sees it's lit up
<Seraphna> **Sephie checks their runes too, musing and starting to feel out for the thing again**
<MobileAri> <Ariel> "...you know, we've been to literal hell, and I'm not sure this is better."
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...easy. Dn't know what will happen if we disturb the scene." *looks at Id* "Could you scan?"
<Dias`> <Id> Yes I can. *Id scans Xevil and the pile of bodies*
<DeathStar> <Xevil> Ah, I have guests. I apologize for not rolling out the carpet. But you know how it is...
<Seraphna> Sera> Already very red?
<Dias`> <Dias> You don't have anyone to roll it out for you?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...Xevil, right?"
<DeathStar> <Xevil> Yes, I am he.
<DeathStar> <Adeline> You're in a sorry state
<Dias`> <Id> I see. That would explain my scan.
<DeathStar> <Xevil> You see the universe burn despite everything. I take it you are from the past.
<DeathStar> Song 14: 1000 Ways
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...let's get the obvious quesitons out of the way. What happened here?"
<DeathStar> *As Bella asks that, the water on the floor ripples, as if something was moving toward the group*
<Dias`> <Dias> Yup. *He rotates his shoulders a bit as he walks towards Xevil*
<Dias`> <Id> Xevil is clean. But I am picking up an anomaly from the pile of bodies over there
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "Watch out for the water too."
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...feel that?" *turns toward the pile*
<DeathStar> *gas rises up from the water and surrounds Ariel and Wind*
<Seraphna> Sera> **trues blowing it off them with wind**
<DeathStar> *Xevil just watches* That happened.
<Alicia> <Ecne> "You are unaffected?"
<MobileAri> * Ariel instictively tries to throw up a holy barrier, trying to spot the threat
<DeathStar> *the wind delays it from fully grappling onto them*
<Seraphna> Sephie> He’s all they have left for entertainment.
<Dias`> <Dias> ...Ah. It's that thing.
<DeathStar> <Xevil> Oh, it latched onto them
<DeathStar> <Xevil> But my god powers eventually allowed me to throw it off
<Seraphna> **Kaelan pulls traps out of her tails and throws them to the two**
<Jackieness> <Bella> "How many gas monsters are there?!"
<DeathStar> *The gas seems to flee into the one person it thinks can't shake it off - Cloe*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> I’d keep a trap for each everyone.
<Dias`> <Dias> Seem's you found a way to fight it off. That's impresive. *He pulls his fist back and slams it forward, sending a wave of air to blow it off course from Cloe*
<Seraphna> Sera> Well now it’s in our Spicy Chef.
<DeathStar> *Dias knocks it from Cloe and right toward Sylph, who sneezes*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Cloe!"
<DeathStar> <Cloe> *blinks* Uh?!
<Seraphna> **Kaelsn tendrils a trap at it**
<Jackieness> <Bella> *moves to get in front of Cloe just in ase it comes back*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Hold still Sylph, you’re technically gas too.
<DeathStar> >Sylph> ?!
<MobileAri> * Ariel relaxes the barrier now that she knows where the enemy is, and picks up one of the traps. "...so how do these work? That wasn't in the brief."
<Seraphna> **Kaelan tries to scoop it up like an air filter through Sylph**
<DeathStar> *Sylph grabs Kaelan's face suddenly and begins to pump air into her, trying to blow her up*
<Seraphna> **Kaelan turns shadow and violently tugs her to the floor**
<Dias`> <Dias> Do I punch out the spirit?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Looks like you're going to have to."
<DeathStar> <Wind> We need to trap some metal onto them and it'll trap them in the person. As for a 'trap', I have no idea.
<Seraphna> **Sera uses Ice Magic on Sylph**
<DeathStar> <Wind> It can only be trapped in a clone body with the metal on it. How do we do that?
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "How much metal?"
<Seraphna> **Kaelan flicks a tail and tosses one to Wind**
<DeathStar> <Wind> Bracelet amount is enough
<Dias`> <Dias> Word. *He steps forward, then dashes over to Sylph, his fist back as he prepares to throw an uppercut to knock the wind out of her*
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "Well, that shouldn't be too bad then."
<DeathStar> *Sylph rubs hre face in pain*
<DeathStar> *then begins to try to launch Dias away with her wind*
<Seraphna> **Kaelan shadow crawls away a bit and throws up**
<DeathStar> <Xevil> You know.
<DeathStar> <Xevil> If you really want
<DeathStar> <Xevil> ... *He motions at all the bodies laying around*
<Dias`> *Dias resists briefly then is sent flying back from the wind*
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "We can't put them on all of them!"
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Use anything damnit I’ve tossed two.
<Dias`> <Id> How do we force it in to one of those bodies though?
<Seraphna> Sera> You only need one body.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Maybe Dias can knock it out of Sylph."
<DeathStar> *Sylph begins to try to form a tornado and aims it at the group*
<MobileAri> <Ariel> "Actually... if this Dias can get it out of her, I think I can send it running."
<DeathStar> <Aya> Um
<DeathStar> <Aya> Can any of you disperse that?
<DeathStar> *She moves behind the throne*
<Sara> <Ellie> Sylphie...
<DeathStar> *Sylph lands by Ellie, holding out her hand to Ellie*
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "It's a bit strong for me, but if I can get close..."
<Seraphna> **Sera sends her own wind to counter**
<Jackieness> <Bella> *runs and tries to knock Ellie away*
<DeathStar> <Sylph> Ellie~. *she has a glint in her eye, but seems to be smiling, then scowls at Bella*
<DeathStar> <Sylph> ....
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Get out of her you little shit.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...we have some bait."
<DeathStar> *Sylph cranes her head toward Kaelan when Wind walks up, rears his hand back, and punches his fist way up into Sylph's gut*
<MobileAri> * Ariel pulls holy energy into her blade, but it's different this time. It's not merely infusing the blade with holy strength; The crystal seems to be almost melting as she does so.
<DeathStar> *Sylph staggers in surprise, gaping*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Oh yeah… it’s be in her core wouldn’t it?
<Sara> * Ellie jerks and her eyes go wide
<DeathStar> <Wind> Oh
<Dias`> *Dias lands and comes dashing back, coming in low, as he gets close, the ground below his foot groans as it strains and he launches himself, appearing above Wind and Kaelan. He locks his eyes on her and a wave of Killing Intent erupts out of him towards her in an attempt to drive fear in to her*
<DeathStar> >Xevil> Oh
<DeathStar> <Xevil> Speaking of cores. You could use THAT
<Seraphna> Sera> What?
<DeathStar> *Sylph staggers, peering at Dias, showing her teeth as she tries to get air and power back in her; Xevil points at a few bodies off in the distance that look like sort of warriors; weapons laying off to the side beside them*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Gotcha." *rushes toward the weapons on the ground and grabs a couple up*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Spirit… Cores?
<DeathStar> Xevil> Spirit cores turned into spirit weapons. To destroy me
<Dias`> *Dias quickly grabs onto her mouth, covering it to keep her from recovering her breath
<DeathStar> <Xevil> Actually the idea came up sooner if I recall.
<DeathStar> <Xevil> From an enemy
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Sweet." *rushes back and hands out a couple of the spirit weapons*
<DeathStar> *Sylph drops and the gas escapes Sylph
<MobileAri> * Ariel almost disappears as she moves forward with the light, slashing at the being with her blade of light, drawing upon the strength of the heaven's ability to strike intangible beings.
<DeathStar> *The gas is hit and is slashed through*
<Dias`> *Dias sets Sylph down gently now as he looks to follow the gas*
<Seraphna> **Kaelan tendrils a Dark core if one is nearby**
<DeathStar> *The gas actually begins to desperse*
<Alicia> * Ceilidh watches the gas, trying to detect where it's going
<DeathStar> *it seems to be breaking apart*
<Dias`> <Dias> Keep that up other Ariel.
<DeathStar> <Xevil> Ha ha ha... *he grabs his face* HA HA HA. Wonderful.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...did she just kill an unkillable thing?"
<DeathStar> <Wind> That she did
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "I'm not convinced yet."
<Jackieness> <Bella> "What about him?" *thumbs at Xevil* "Laughing mad."
<DeathStar> <Xevil> Yes
<Dias`> <Dias> To think we just needed her to do it.
<DeathStar> <Xevil> We stand at world's end
<DeathStar> <Xevil> What do you want to do now?
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Poor guy musta cracked after all this time alone with a ghost.
<DeathStar> *He lurches forward, a smile on his face*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Dunno, you up for becoming a constant in time.
<MobileAri> * Ariel turns to check if the being is still about, "Shame I never got to use that on big S."
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "Go back, and make sure this never happens. I'm not sure if I can, though."
<DeathStar> *Ariel no longer senses it*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Go home now, if we're done here." *looks at Wind* "Are we done here?"
<DeathStar> <Xevil> Ah. So you all plan to leave. *he plops in his throne* If you can leave. After all, the one who destroyed the world was me
<Seraphna> Sera> You want a video game system or something?
<DeathStar> <Wind> We should. But one of us will likely have to remain here to equalize the timeline. Lets return to the ship
<Dias`> <Dias> Well we don't plan on staying here.
<MobileAri> <Ariel> "It's funny... I've never seen a Xevil so thoroughly defeated, and by himself of all people."
<DeathStar> *Sylph rubs his stomach* He's depressing...
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "I'm not surprised. I'd try to warn him, but... I don't think he'd listen."
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Can you blame him? He was stuck here with an enemy that he couldn't kill, and that couldn't kill him... so they killed everything else around themselves."
<DeathStar> <Wind> It's one way to end things
<DeathStar> *Wind treks to the shuttle*
<Seraphna> Sera> And this kids is why immortality sucks ass.
<Dias`> <Id> And yet so many people try to achieve it.
<DeathStar> *as the group begins to return, a brief crack in time appears, even here*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "It wouldn't be so bad if the world didn't get destroyed around you."
<Seraphna> Sera> Yeah well a lot of people are dumb.
<DeathStar> <Wind> .... Time is still breaking down
<Dias`> <Dias> ...That doesn't look good.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "So what does that mean?"
<Seraphna> Sera> We need a constant. And hope the other groups were successful.
<DeathStar> <Wind> Does anyone here have a connection to the time spirits?
<MobileAri> <Ariel> "I just assumed those runes would."
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "Who'd be connected to this time?"
<DeathStar> *Wind looks at the runes* Lets see if this works. Chronos?
<Seraphna> Sephie> Sylph should be able to call to Chronos.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "The tiem guy went with the century team."
<Seraphna> Sephie> Terra can call any of the other spirits.
<DeathStar> *after a moment, Chronos appears, standing in the muddy water, hand on Sylph's head*
<Seraphna> Sephie> We killed ours. Chronos..
<Dias`> *Dias peers at Chronos, sniffing the air a bit*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Yeah, we found a way to actually kill it."
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "It's dispersed, at least."
<DeathStar> <Chronos> You did well. The other team also did well. I'm having a talk with them now as well. The only problem is ... the past. A problem has occurred there.
<Seraphna> Sera> Turns out you just hair my sister at them. **shakes Ariel**
<DeathStar> <Chronos> I apologize for not being able to forsee it. Time there is not as easy to check in on
<Seraphna> *hair -shake
<MobileAri> <Ariel> "Well, that was always the troubling location."
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Why? Its the past, so it should already have happened, right?"
<Dias`> <Dias> What happened back there with the old people?
<Seraphna> Sephie> They probably broke a hip.
<DeathStar> <Chronos> Let us just say that the past is being destroyed/overwritten faster than I can keep it together.
<Seraphna> Sephie> That’s not good!
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "... that's more than a regular time traveller can do."
<Dias`> <Id> And how do we fix that?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Well...crap."
<MobileAri> <Ariel> "And I suppose going further back to stop the thing that's causing the changes then, isn't an option?"
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "I want to say I can help, but I'm not a time Doctor, just a regular doctor. Kinda."
<DeathStar> *Chronos looks quiet* You can all think on what you would like to do. Going into the past will probably add to the overload of problems but you could go try. Or you could remain here where the changes will not affect things yet.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "LEt's get back to the Aquarius and discuss what to do with the others."
<Seraphna> Sephie> Wait, so is our home time being affected!?
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "Sounds good."
<Dias`> <Id> What do we have to do fix this point here?
<Alicia> <Ecne> "And what about... yes, that."
<DeathStar> <Chronos> At this point, fixing this point in time might be moot, so just hold on
<DeathStar> *Chronos vanishes*
<MobileAri> <Ariel> "So I guess we wait."
<DeathStar> <Aya> That didn't sound good. Lets go talk about if we want to go into the past or not then
<DeathStar> -SHIFT-
<DeathStar> Date: 10-760.?.?
<DeathStar> Location: PAX
<DeathStar> *Ren sits at the bridge, the group having found no sign of Victoire in this time period, when things begin to break apart with time cracks*
<Dias`> <Id> ....That does not look good.
<Seraphna> Angela> Why are things getting worse?
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Is it because we haven't picked who will stay behind yet?
<DeathStar> *Chronos appears, without being prompted* It is due to events in the past - time is breaking apart even more now
<Seraphna> Tabetha> **frowns** They failed?
<Dias`> <Id> Explain, please.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmmm? Yes, do elaborate."
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "I had a feeling that would be the big one."
<DeathStar> <Chronos> I'm afraid that the monster as you have dubbed it went after Cran and Venerator.
<DeathStar> <Chronos> So that the Dragoon and Weapon project will never get off the ground.
<Jackieness> <Noire> "...of course, it did."
<Seraphna> Tabetha> That would do it… Cran could replace himself but Venerator?
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "That sounds like it's a pretty huge change."
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "... don't look at me."
<DeathStar> <Selena> This is serious, huh?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmmm... as annoying as the Dragoons and Weapons are, they are still... admittedly... important to the world we know."
<DeathStar> <Ren> You know I'm part Dragoon
<Dias`> <Id> Why would it choose to remove something that would be what it's looking for?
<DeathStar> *Ren shows her teeth*
<Seraphna> Tabetha> We could try going back before they are killed and stop it. The beast would have committed itself to a timeline with these actions yes?
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "You do know Ren's a dra..."
<Seraphna> Angela> I think Noire finds everything annoying.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> So the plan is to what, try to go back and stop it before it happens?
<Xantop> <Marcus> We have any Ven clones we could replace the real one with?
<Dias`> <Id> Won't that cause an issue in itself?
<DeathStar> <Chii> That'd still break the timeline pretty bad, kiddo
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmm... I refer to how the various schemes exploiting them to threaten humanity on more than one occassion."
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "That feels like a bad idea in itself."
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "Well, since it's on the run, I expect it thinks destroying time is more advantagous for it."
<Seraphna> Angela> We did it before. We could stop and grab whatever one is skulking around in Prime on the way.
<DeathStar> <Chronos> I also have to announce
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmmmm?"
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "Haven't we dealt with something like that before?"
<DeathStar> <Chronos> That the monster was 'caught' after the deaths of the two - and was arrested. Erevis Zhenmei.
<Dias`> <Id> Hmmm. That would track then.
<Seraphna> Angela> Yeah, we need to go back before the kills. Only choice.
<Xantop> <Marcus> Erevis was the monster back then?
<DeathStar> <Chronos> It's in her body
<DeathStar> <Chronos> Or what's left of it
<Seraphna> Tabetha> We can still save her!
<Xantop> <Marcus> Ooof.
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "So, anyone got a time machine?"
<Jackieness> <Noire> "So go back to before it rrived and ambush Erevis?"
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> *rubs her head* "I hate time travel as a solution for time travel..."
<DeathStar> <Chronos> I will take you back.
<DeathStar> <Chronos> But you only have one shot
<DeathStar> <Chronos> ... since I will be the fixture here
<Dias`> <Id> And you can repair the damage done for that?
<Seraphna> Angela> Alright, quick ass kicking then home for tea… saywhat?
<Xantop> <Simon> You will?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Any word from the third team?"
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "If we fix the timeline, will you even need to?"
<DeathStar> <Chronos> I will monitor them and pull them where they want to go
<DeathStar> <Chronos> Their timeline is precarious to say the least
<Dias`> <Id> Yes because it's a branch that must be maintained regardless now.
<Seraphna> Tabetha> Time to save Johnny…! Again!
<DeathStar> *Chronos peers at Simon*
<DeathStar> <Chronos> You should join the others; this world is also precarious as you can see
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "Alright. Well... we'll know where to find you. We'll keep in touch!"
<Xantop> <Simon> ...I would rather stay.
<DeathStar> <Chronos> Are you sure? You'll become a fixture in this alternate future.
<MobileAri> * Nicolette pets Simon on the shoulder, "Do what you want to."
<Xantop> <Simon> I joined this with the intention of becoming a fixture. I was never meant to get the extra time that I did...it just feels like the right thing to do.
<Xantop> 6* Simon smiles and nods to Nicolette.
<Dias`> <Id> Are you sure about this Simon?
<Alicia> <Sparkling> "I won't try to talk you out of it, but... I do need to know that you know what that means."
<DeathStar> <Selena> ... *looks at the others Spirit Warrior* I wish we had more time to learn about those weapons but we're light on time. And I have a feeling after time is fixed, the Cleaners are not going to allow time travel. So we probably will not be allowed to see you again without their permission
<Xantop> <Simon> I understand, I will try to find a way to leave you notes and information, I appreciate all the sacrifice you all have made protecting all of reality and time, I wish you good luck on your next steps, trust in Chronos.
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "Well... I doubt I will. But... you and some of the others might. Once our time catches up to this point."
<Dias`> <Id> I will miss our talks, Simon.
<Dias`> <Id> Is there anything you would like me to pass on to Lana?
<DeathStar> *Aimee and Melodie look at each other, wondering what the big deal is*
<DeathStar> *Selena shakes their hands*
<Seraphna> Angela> Even if we could time travel there is no coming back here.
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "Gonna miss you Simon, but was pretty sure this was coming. You've had one real goal since I've known you, after all."
<Xantop> <Simon> Just a thanks for the friendship, the same thanks I extend to you all. 6* Simon turns fully and bows to them.
<DeathStar> -SHIFT-
<DeathStar> Location: 10-560.?,?
<DeathStar> Date: even
<DeathStar> Location: Mega City
<DeathStar> *John hurries past the police, getting shouts*
<DeathStar> *Cran lifts a coat to hide his face to hurry as well*
<Dias`> *Chad moves after John with Cran*
<Xantop> <Xan> This is attention grabbing. 6* He notes to himself before rushing past, Kane does so as well.
<DeathStar> *John hurries up the stairs of the government building; John pretends to flash a badge at them as they go up*
<DeathStar> *the police squinting at him*
<DeathStar> Song 11: Past Darkness
<Dias`> *Chad motions that they're both with John as he moves to keep up*
<DeathStar> *As they reach the top of the stairs, inside the government building, the team reaches what looks to be a slaughter - burned energy all over the room and two charred bodies on the ground. A burned woman - Erevis - is being cuffed and police are eyeballing her in fear, no one having seen anything like this before*
<Xantop> <Xan> ...ah fuck.
<Alicia> <Lunar Girl> "This is bad."
<Dias`> *Chad shifts his hand onto his hilton his back, being cautious*
<Xantop> 6* Kane looks from one body to the other and then around the room.
<DeathStar> *she is being led out the door, eyeing the ground, then eyes Chad, Xanatos and John, her eyes going from lifeless to an almost evil glint, then back to the ground as she has to be dragged almost due to the damage her body took from the core*
<DeathStar> <John> Well then.....
<Xantop> <Xan> Are these who I think they are?
<DeathStar> *Cran holds his chest, taking deep breaths*
<Dias`> *Chad eyes Cran, shifting an arm to keep him upright*
<DeathStar> <John> What are we going to do?
<DeathStar> *John eyes Erevis, then the others*
<Xantop> <Xan> It's in her, we have to stop it. Maybe save her, but stop it at least.
<DeathStar> *Avenir appears*
<Dias`> <Chad> We still have those two bodies to deal with....
<DeathStar> <Avenir> How far back do you want to go back?
<Xantop> <Xan> We can do that?
<DeathStar> Song 15: PAst Ways
<Alicia> <Lunar Girl> "I don't see why not."
<DeathStar> <Avenir> You can't keep doing it again and again, but you can try one time.
<DeathStar> *she pokes her fingers together, eyeing the ground*
<Dias`> *Chad rubs his face* We need to go far enough back that we can get here in time.
<Xantop> <Xan> When she arrives, we need to be there to stop it then and there before someone dies.
<DeathStar> <Avenir> Okay. *The two appear on the street, along with the other group*
<Alicia> <Lunar Girl> "...ah... is it okay if I go all out?"
<DeathStar> <John> The only way...is to go all out!
<DeathStar> *he thumbs up*
<Seraphna> **Tabetha pounces John**
<Dias`> *Chad sighs a bit*
<DeathStar> *Ren rotates her bad arm*
<Xantop> <Xan> ...we need to try to get it to leave her and then...Chad are you smart enough to trap it somehow?
<Jackieness> <Noire> "Mmmmmm... we have alot of versatility in power sets now."
<Seraphna> Angela> You have backup now.
<Dias`> <Chad> The only thing we have is that metal we harvested.
<Alicia> <Charlotte> "I'm here now. It's going to be really awkward but... I'm glad, somehow."
<Xantop> <Xan> Well that's the plan. Wait Cheryl's crew how are you here?
<Dias`> *Chad eyes the other group* ...Why are you guys here....nevermind. I assume you succeeded.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Chronos brought us
<Jackieness> <Noire> "We could trap it in Erevis' body then pull her back with us*
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "Magic."
<Seraphna> Angela> We saw your screw up and came back to help.
<Xantop> <Kane> Were you able to determine a way to defeat this being?
<Seraphna> Angela> We captured ours in a trap.
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "The whole magic metal thing worked out."
<Seraphna> Tabetha> This one is only 1/3rd of its normal strength.
<Xantop> <Kane> I see, well then let us try to replicate that success.
<DeathStar> <Ren> I do wonder where the last team is at though
<Xantop> 6* Xan looks around, scanning for hyperspace energy.
<Seraphna> Angela> I imagine they’ll come in as the cavalry for the endgame.
<MobileAri> <Nicolette> "You think they messed up too?"
<Dias`> <Chad> We should be here before they arrive to this time point
<DeathStar> *it appears Erevis is heading right for the target - faster this time weirdly*
<Seraphna> Angela> Nah they just travelled the furthest.
<Xantop> <Xan> Erevis is moving, fast.
<Seraphna> Angela> It remembers.
<Xantop> <Marcus> Yeah they might've messed up.
<Dias`> <Chad> ...Then we need to catch up.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> That's odd, shouldn't things be as before?
<DeathStar> <Ren> Clearly not. We got to go
<Alicia> <Lunar Girl> "Us being here so early changed things." *hurries over*
<MobileAri> * Nicolette calls upon the wind to lend speed to the party
<Dias`> <Chad> In theory yes, but it's not that way. Fastest people cut her off and try not to get caught
<Seraphna> Angela> It must have a temporal memory like the Time Spirit.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> Ah fuck
<Xantop> <Marcus> Super speed time. 6* Marcus kneels and then runs in normal mode since a wolf man would freak everyone out.
<Dias`> <Chad> We then need to get it somewhere secluded. *He looks over at Cran*
<Seraphna> **Angela looks about for options**
<DeathStar> -TBC-
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<DeathStar> *Sylph studies the spirit weapons they got back from the planet*
<DeathStar> *looking creeped out*
<Dias`> *Id floats over it the spirit weapon, scanning it thoroughyl*
<Seraphna> **Kaelan tugs assistance from her tails** Take a look at this Dark core.
<DeathStar> *Sylph looks at the core*
<DeathStar> <Sylph> You keep cores in her your tail?
<Dias`> <Id> To think that these were created from Spirit Cores. What would drive someone to develop this?
<DeathStar> *Sylph touches the weapon and jerks hand back*
<Seraphna> Kaelan> I was trying to tug Nocturne out.
<DeathStar> <Sylph> Nocturne dead in this time period
<DeathStar> ?
<MobileAri> <Ariel> "Wouldn't be the first time someone commited an attrocity to try to win."
<Seraphna> Kaelan> I mean my Nocturne? Not sure who this one is.
<DeathStar> *Sylph muses* Trying to touch the weapon... I feel like weapon is alive
<Seraphna> Kaelan> A willing conversion maybe?
<Dias`> <Id> That would be quite the choice to make.
<Seraphna> Kaelan> In my first life the Dragoons did similar. Becoming the Anima.
<Dias`> <Id> I guess we'll never find out. Unless Xevil knows.
<DeathStar> <Sylph> His name comes up a lot
<DeathStar> <Sylph> Should I go question him?
<Seraphna> Kaelan> Think of him like the Mal guy from your world.
<Dias`> <Id> That would deped on his level of sanity currently
<DeathStar> <Wind> I really rather not - it's a fitting fate not to - even if he does get his own empire, knowing in the end he's alone makes me smile
<DeathStar> <Sylph> Ah, um...
<DeathStar> <Sylph> I guess it can't hurt to ask a few questions. <Aya> I'll go with you. <Adeline> Same. Who knows what all we could learn.
<Dias`> <Id> Well, he does seem to be a thorn in the side of many.
<Seraphna> Sephie> I-I’ll come too.
<Seraphna> **Sephie moves closer to Adeline**
<DeathStar> *Adeline pats head* Alright, let us go question him
<Dias`> *Id floats to Aya* <Dias> I'll hang by just in case he tries something foolish.
<DeathStar> *Aya nods. Wind rubs eyes* <Wind> Try not to anger him or anything - he's still insanely strong
<DeathStar> *Sylph flies them down to the surface*
Session Start: Tue May 07 00:00:00 2024
Session Ident: #TAW-Session700
<MobileAri> * Ariel watches the others wander off, "... I hate to say it, but I actually feel bad for this Xevil. He didn't seem like he deserved this level of hell. I mean, he's an evil man that deserved a lot, but maybe not this."
<DeathStar> <Wind> I agree. *he muses*
<DeathStar> <Wind> I'll keep an eye on him once time reverses - I wonder - if he has God powers - does he retain knowledge of all timelines and possibilities, but then that's going beyond what I can guestimate because if so, when we can back, he might be broken. But I'll keep an eye and see if he keeps traveling down this empire path of his
<DeathStar> *Sylph walks up to Xevil on the chair; he peers down at them*
<Dias`> *Dias plops down indian style and rests his head in his propped up arm*
<DeathStar> <Sylph> Tell us all about the spirit weapons!
<DeathStar> *Xevil eyes them* What nonsense is this?
<DeathStar> <Xevil> I'll tell you the 1000 proverbs if you are so bored
<Seraphna> Sephie> Can just start with the spirit weapons please, Mr. Xevil.
<DeathStar> *Xevil pauses in the middle of the talk about his trip to the United Kingdom*
<DeathStar> <Xevil> Very well. I don't know much since it was a Geyze thing, but from what I know they were a popular weapon to defeat spirits and spirit tech and mages. Crossed over from the Mirror Universe to Prime
<Dias`> <Id> Interesting.
<DeathStar> <Sylph> Oh
<DeathStar> <Xevil> Now my life story...
<DeathStar> *he finisheson a strange story that makes no sense*
<DeathStar> <Sylph> Um
<DeathStar> *Aya and Adeline concur and ask questions about how the world "ended"* <Xevil> Oh that would be a combination of two things
<DeathStar> <Xevil> Nyarlathotep and the beast being inside me
<Dias`> <Id> Nyarlathotep?
<DeathStar> <Xevil> Yes
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<DeathStar> *Sylph returns to the ship*
<DeathStar> *slumping*
<DeathStar> <Sylph> ... he's so annoying
<Seraphna> **Sephie hangs on Adeline**
<DeathStar> <Adeline> After the singing broke out even I grew weak
<DeathStar> <Aya> At least he answered some questions and we learned that Nyarl had a hand in this
<Seraphna> Sephie> Thena might have enjoyed that singing.
<DeathStar> *Sylph issprawled out*
<DeathStar> <Sylph> Fruiiiiit
<DeathStar> <Adeline> I'll go hand Ceilidh a copy of the notes
<DeathStar> *she moves off with Sephie to find her*
<DeathStar> *Adeline slides the info into Ceilidh's room*
<DeathStar> <Adeline> Cafe, Sephie?
<DeathStar> *Sylph takes one of the weapons silently*
<DeathStar> *then heads off stroking it*
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<Seraphna> Sephie> Sure.
<DeathStar> *Adeline sits with some food, Cloe leaning forward
<DeathStar> *Watching them eat it*
Session Start: Tue May 07 22:49:49 2024
<DeathStar> *Adeline does reports*
<Seraphna> **Sephie noms a sandwich**
<DeathStar> <Cloe> How it taste?
<Seraphna> Sephie> Good!
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Yay@
<Seraphna> Sephie> **she noms and floats up a couple reports to review**
<DeathStar> *one of them is a report on Cloe's sandwich8

Session Start: Wed May 08 00:00:00 2024
Session Ident: #TAW-Minis
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<DeathStar> *Cloe cooks in the kitchen, creating new food*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Man...can't believe we are still in this crappy version of the future."
<DeathStar> *Cloe slides some food over to Bella - it looks like a nice lasgna*
<Jackieness> <Bella> *picks up a fork*
<DeathStar> *Cloe leans in, smiling*
<Jackieness> <Bella> *takes a bite of the lasagna*
<DeathStar> *it's good and not spicy*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "This is your best try yet."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Yay. *she sets hot sauce down as well* Since some people like it hot
<Jackieness> <Bella> *keeps eatting it*
<DeathStar> *Cloe ponders what to make next* They say people can think better on a full stomach. Maybe I should send food up to Yuki and those on the bridge
<Jackieness> <Bella> "I don't get what's to think about. We should just go back to the past now that we know how to kill the thing."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Ariel is probably one of the few people who can kill it.
<DeathStar> <Cloe> And not just banish it
<DeathStar> <Cloe> But from what I understand that era of time is squishy
<Jackieness> <Bella> "There was the other one that was 100 years in the future. The one there needs to be killed too."
<DeathStar> *Cloe thinks*
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Is it right to kill an enemy, even a monster, that is trapped already?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "If it is beyond any chance of rehabilitation, then yeah. I mean, eternal imprisonment could be crueler than death."
<DeathStar> *Cloe ponders that, preparing dishes for the bridge crew*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Besides... if the thing ever managed to escape..." *points* "...this is what the future will look like again."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Future is kind of lonely here
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Cause that thing killed everyone."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> I wonder if people hooked up to holovid stuff because people were depressed
<DeathStar> *she ponders that as she heads for the the bridge with more food*
<Jackieness> <Bella> *walks along* "Maybe the thing wans't interested in people who were trapped in a simulation."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Could be it didn't feel real!
<DeathStar> *Yuki can be found pondering the pros and cons taking the ship back to an unstable period of time*
<DeathStar> <Yuki> I wonder if it'll be possible to protect the ship if we went back...
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Makes my head hurt to think about."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> We could go check out one of the places!
<DeathStar> <Cloe> We have all the .. *pauses* time in the world while here!
<DeathStar> *Yuki turns her head slowly*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "What do you mean?"
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Well, Chronos said time won't likely break apart here for a long time due to us being so far in the future!
<DeathStar> <Cloe> So we have time to explore things before any time breaks occur
<Jackieness> <Bella> "But what is there to explore? I mean... everything is dead out there or jacked into a simulation."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Cloe is curious what is in the sim
<DeathStar> *She ponders* Is it full of fun?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...probably the time period where we came from since that would have been the last good tiem ebfore the beast thing wrecked the universe, right?"
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Probably
<DeathStar> *Yuki eats her food*
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Always want what you don't have
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Cloe bets they can fly in it
<Jackieness> <Bella> "I don't know... i you want to substitute for a real life, better to keep the simulated reality grounded in actual physical rules so the mind doens't reject it."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Aw.
<DeathStar> *Yuki nods at Bella, pointing*
<Jackieness> bel "That's actually one way you can tell if you are in the Net or in the real world. If you cna do somethign that you shouldn't normally be able to do, you are probably int he Net... unless you got some new super powers."
<Jackieness> <Bella> "That's actually one way you can tell if you are in the Net or in the real world. If you cna do somethign that you shouldn't normally be able to do, you are probably int he Net... unless you got some new super powers."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> The Blue Sky of the Net always makes Cloe feel a little dizzy
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Well, blue "everything"
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Well, yeah, the default Net UI is totally not realistic at all. You can mod your senses for a different look though."
<DeathStar> *Cloe gets a catty look and jots something down*
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Well unless one of us wants to plug into this sim, we can do scans. *She leans forward and has the Aquarius scan it* In the meantime
<DeathStar> <Yuki> I need to see if Mireille can think of protection ideas
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Probably wouldn't take much to hook a console to the sim that would let us take a look from the outside. Kind of like a window."
<DeathStar> *Cloe claps* Lets lets. *She eyes the scans* Wow it takes a lot of power
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Well, to maintain a realistic sim with that many simultaneous users... yeah..."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> I wonder who pays for the power/maintains?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Doens't look like there is any economy anyore, so that means no money. Probbaly just running on a bunch of old, oversized reactors."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Woooow. *She works on seeing what's in it*
<DeathStar> *Cloe soon gets fuzzy images*
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Session Start: Thu May 09 00:00:00 2024
Session Ident: #TAW-Minis
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<DeathStar> *Cloe looks at the images sleepily*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...you been at this a while." *yawns herself*
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Looking at the images; deciding what I see.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "See anything yet?"
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Cloe sees what looks to be people standing around a ... *squints* Park
<DeathStar> *she motions at the screen that Bella can look at*
<Jackieness> <Bella> *looks* "...looks like a normal life in there."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Almost too boring. *the screen seems to show people in places with extremely low tech, holding stuff that shows little to no information; kids playing with toys that looks to be even older than current era stuff*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "What were you expecting?"
<DeathStar> *Cloe puffs cheeks, looking confused at some of the stuff being shown, ears perked up* <Ben> It appears, on the surface level, they've set the era to 20th century Earth. You would think they would have set it to another era - it being 1000 years in the future
<DeathStar> *he leans over and studies the images himself* <Ben> Unless there is places with higher tech and we're just not seeing it
<Jackieness> <Bella> "HAd to be a reason."
<DeathStar> *Ben moves off to work on the shield proper with Yuki while Cloe crosses her arms* Inside looks so boring
<Jackieness> <Bella> "With the universe gone to crap out here, maybe everyone just wanted to retreat to boring and safe."
<DeathStar> *she flips through screens, coming across a creepy looking tower central town "hall" that rises up high over the area. Cloe tries to get more images of the inside but can't seem to*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...that looks weird."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> It does. I wonder if the bad guys live there! <Yuki> If by bad guys you mean their elected officals
<Jackieness> <Bella> "I think Cloe's point is that it looks creepy compared to the rest of the sim. Out of place."
<DeathStar> <Yuki> It is an odd town hall yes. <Mireille> Tallest building by my scans
<DeathStar> <Mireille> It might have higher levels of technology
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Question is 'why' given the rest of the setting."
<DeathStar> <Mireille> I could try to send you into the sim. But we're low on time
<DeathStar> <Mireille> Worst case scenario, your minds get stuck in there while your bodies remain on the ship or something
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Not worth the risk."
<DeathStar> *Cloe looks like she was considering it*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "You heard Mireille. We don't have time."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Aw, okay. You think of another way to peek inside then?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "We alreayd have a connection... maybe could hack together something to break through their security."
<DeathStar> <Mireille> We can attempt a hack; just know that it might alert them to us. *she small spirit begins to prepare something* Lets see what we can do
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Cool."
<DeathStar> *Mireille begins to attemept to send a hack through their connection*
<DeathStar> *the images on the screen begin to clear up a bit and they are able to see inside the building a little; the town hall's lower levels look much like the town, but there is one thing that stands out as odd. There is a type of camera system hidden in the walls. And there's a basement level and an upper level. As Cloe attempts to jump the tracking system upward first, it shows the town hall has a massive network of people working to monitor the town with cameras throughout the town and other stuff to alert them to outside the system if something happens. In this room they have the option to view through the room's various systems easier*
<DeathStar> <Mireille> It would appear if we remain connected too much longer they will detect us.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Pull back."
<DeathStar> *Mireille ejects them for now*
<DeathStar> <Mireille> I've downloaded what I can so that one day you all can create your own sim future
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Weird that they represent system security as a room of people with screens and consoles."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> I feel like they watch their own town so they can't have fun either
<Jackieness> <Bella> "This future was created because that thing was running rampant. Now we know that there is a way to kill it, so we can keep this future from happening."
<DeathStar> <Mireille> You don't think something else could cause this to happen? A Meteor? A plague?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "We were there when we found Xevil."
<DeathStar> <Mireille> I still will hold onto the data. With time being changed, it would be terrible if in 700 years it could be useful to stuff everyone into a sim if due to an outbreak - plus we don't know the condition of the Mirror Universe
<DeathStar> *Yuki's ears twitch, and she glances over* <Mireille> Note that the Prime technically still is alive.
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Now I'm really curious
<Jackieness> <Bella> "I guess its a good idea to get whatever data we can find. Maybe discoveries that won't be made because they weren't needed with things fixed."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> You think home is okay?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "We didn't even go looking for Yggdrasil."
<DeathStar> *Ben flips through stuff* Hm, I have to assume Yggdrasil still is around
<Jackieness> <Bella> "So maybe that might be worth going to."
<DeathStar> <Yuki> To Yggdrasil?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Yeah. Beats floating around in dead space, contemplating our navels."
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Plot a course; it'll give us time while we work on the shield problem. Maybe there's something there that can help. <Cloe> And we can see if the gate still exists back home
<DeathStar> *Mireille and Ben plot the course to Yggdrasil*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Exactly."
<DeathStar> *Cloe sways in place*
<DeathStar> <Cloe>
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Cloe?"
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Just impatient
<DeathStar> *Cloe paws* Want to be there already
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Have to wait a little longer."
<DeathStar> *Cloe paces around like a cat*
<DeathStar> <Mireille> We are arriving
<DeathStar> *she announces a bit later*
<DeathStar> *the ship comes out in front of Yggdrasil, which looks pretty much the same, if a bit larger and wilder*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...finally... Cloe is past twitchy."
<DeathStar> *Cloe leans forward and eyes the monitor, then tries to find the gate*
<DeathStar> <Cloe> ...
<DeathStar> <Cloe> No sign of gate
<DeathStar> *She peers back at Bella*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Maybe we can go down to Yggdrasil and try to find out if anything is there."
<DeathStar> <Ben> That could eat up a lot of time
<DeathStar> *Ben thinks* Give me a moment
<DeathStar> *He heads and grabs a few items, then returns with wrist watches, and straps it around Bella's wrist then Cloe's*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "What is this?"
<DeathStar> <Ben> Personal teleporters tied to the ship. It should take the three of us back if the group solves the issue with the time shields or we reach our destination and need to be sent back. Only problem - distance. We might go out of range once we enter the mirror universe
<DeathStar> <Ben> So lets hope the boost works
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Right."
<DeathStar> *He prepares to head down to Yggdrasil and Cloe bounces after*
<DeathStar> *Ben waits at the Aquarius' hanger*
<DeathStar> <Ben> You sure you want to do this?
<Jackieness> <Bella> *nods toward Cloe* "She needs to do this."
<DeathStar> <Ben> Alright then
<DeathStar> -P_
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Session Close: Fri May 10 00:00:07 2024

Session Start: Sat May 11 00:00:00 2024
Session Ident: #TAW-Minis
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<DeathStar> *Ben works on unlocking the pathways down in the bottom of the tree*
<DeathStar> *musing since they lack Kaori and Victoire*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "What do you think we'll find?"
<DeathStar> *Ben opens the pathways* <Ben> Your destiny
<DeathStar> <Ben> .. Movie quote
<DeathStar> *he steps into the portal*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Corny." *steps through after him*
<DeathStar> *Cloe follows; the pathways looks dusty due to lack of anyway ever returning*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...looks like no one's been down here in a while."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> ....*sneezes*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Should have brought air masks." *looks around*
<DeathStar> *Ben eyes the datapad* It's fine
<DeathStar> *as they navigate the maze they arrive at the computer area which is powered off*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "If Cloe catches a sinus infection, her mom is going to let me have it."
<DeathStar> *Ben kneels and studies the Miyu computer*
<DeathStar> <Ben> Offline for a bit
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Can you get it powered on?"
<DeathStar> <Ben> You need to be part of the their family
<DeathStar> <Ben> Which means at one point she recognized family members besides Kaori or Victoire
<Jackieness> <Bella> "We don't have any of their family around though."
<DeathStar> <Ben> No. Let us continue then
<DeathStar> *he stands and moves onward*
<DeathStar> *Cloe rubs nose as they move along; soon coming up to the Mirror World exit*
<Jackieness> <Bella> *looks it over*
<DeathStar> <Ben> Ready?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Ready."
<DeathStar> *Ben opens it up and the group finds themselves on Centerpoint*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...this doesn't look right..."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> How so?
<DeathStar> *Ben kneels, scanning the structure*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "I expected... you know... *our* Yggdrasil."
<DeathStar> <Ben> It was a Centerpoint tree. *he taps the crystal underneath*
<DeathStar> *then begins to move along*
<Jackieness> <Bella> *follows*
<DeathStar> *Cloe points out at the two Geyzes and Kumen in the distance
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Worlds still there
<Jackieness> <Bella> "But soemthing happened to this place..."
<DeathStar> *At the main center, it becomes more branch like, with lots of strange terminal devices floating, most of them dim and showing nothing; one shows Prime* <Cloe> ... *tilts head at everything*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "What does this mean?"
<DeathStar> <Ben> You used to, from mom's notes, could view and enter other realities from Centerpoint
<DeathStar> <Ben> I'm guessing them being dim would mean..
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Change the channel?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "I think he means they are dead realities."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Was hoping you wouldn't say that outloud
<DeathStar> <Ben> Still, it doesn't help us get over to Geyze unless this place stores information
<Jackieness> <Bella> "What? Everyone was thinking it."
<DeathStar> *Ben plugs a datapad into a terminal and tries to download info
<DeathStar> *A portal undims* Okay, lets step through
<Jackieness> <Bella> *heads through the portal."
<Jackieness> *
<DeathStar> *The three appear in overgrown jungle; up in the sky Kumen can be seen*
<DeathStar> *Cloe coughs on a bug* We in Ent forest?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Maybe... who knows how much ahs changed."
<DeathStar> <Ben> ... *Studies his datapad* .... Strange
<Jackieness> <Bella> "What?"
<DeathStar> <Ben> I am getting conflicting readings. Spirit energy is drastically low on the planet, but at the same time, I'm detecting massive spirit beings.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...oh...crap..."
<DeathStar> *Cloe looks at Bella, frowning*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...you thinkign what I'm thinking, Cloe?"
<DeathStar> <Cloe> No chance our spirits got buff? <Ben> Our spirits are tied to the well being of the planet. That's why it's paradoxical for there to be massive spirit beings and Geyze to have such weak spirit energy
<DeathStar> <Cloe> .... *she nods at Bella, ears flat*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...it means the super spirits invaded and won."
<DeathStar> *Ben hmms* That is a highly likely conclusion
<DeathStar> <Ben> Since none in our party are spirit based, we should be able to get closer if you want
<Jackieness> <Bella> "We need to try to find out when they arrived and how they attacked..."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Mana seems to be ... *She feels it out* weaker too. If we get into a fight, I will be in trouble
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Then we try to not get into any fights."
<DeathStar> <Ben> Then avoid fighting
<DeathStar> *Ben treks them through the forest; it seems to have once been the Ent forest, but strangely no Ents seem to remain*
<DeathStar> *or at least, none show themselves*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...wonder if they hit Kumen too."
<DeathStar> <Ben> I have to imagine both planets were struck at the same time; else Ymir would have come to Geyze's aid. *As the team comes across an ancient, village of what could have been the Ents once upon time, now taken by the jungle, there's sounds of movement. Ben shifts to slide into one of the huts that is barely standing still*
<DeathStar> *Cloe climbs a tree*
<Jackieness> <Bella> *ninjas into a hiding place*
<DeathStar> *A group of men with spirit energy, and holding those strange spirit weapons they found at Xevil's place, move through the jungle, scanning it for something*
<DeathStar> *they begin to pass the village, then pause*
<DeathStar> *the weapons aiming and they launch and nail a bunch of lesser spirits, the tiny little things used to power things or various summoners would call forth to drastic people*
<DeathStar> *the weapons greedily consuming it to power itself*
<DeathStar> *distract
<DeathStar> *the men then seem to move on out of sight*
<DeathStar> *Cloe soon hops down and sits on butt*
<Jackieness> <Bella> *lands next to Cloe* "...who were those guys?"
<DeathStar> <Ben> I am unsure, but it seems strange they were using such weapons to consume little sprites.
<DeathStar> *Ben uses his datapad* Those men were attuned to the giant spirit energies. As if they were servants
<DeathStar> <Ben> This way. *He moves away*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Those were like the old weapons I grabbed at xevil's palace." *follows Ben* "The ones I grabbed had full spirit cores in them."
<DeathStar> <Ben> They must have something to do with spirit energy consumption then
<DeathStar> <Ben> Maybe the weapons gather them? Put them in the core? Hm. Questions on top of questins
<Jackieness> <Bella> "I don't know... I justw ant to find out enough info to stop this bad future from even happening..."
<DeathStar> *as they emerge from the jungle, a massive city can be seen, almost alien in nature; nothing like what is seen in Geyze today. Ben points* Nearest spirit is there
<Jackieness> <Bella> "What is this place?"
<DeathStar> <Cloe> A hive of spirity and villainy
<Jackieness> <Bella> "I wonder if they have any computers we can download from."
<DeathStar> <Ben> I'm not sure. *As they get close, the walls seem to be made of unknown materials and rise high, making an attack on it nearly impossible. There seems to be only one way in, a large gate that is currently down, with guards protecting it. People seem to be walking into the city and leaving it just fine*
<DeathStar> <Ben> Let us go in and find out
<DeathStar> *As they walk inside, they would find beggars on the streets, asking for coin*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Not that different from normal Geyze..."
<DeathStar> *Ben looks around and points at a building that has Info Center*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Convenient."
<DeathStar> *As they step in, though, it's all books*
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Boo
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...this is a library..."
<DeathStar> *there is one terminal in the back wall and a kid is using it*
<DeathStar> <Ben> I'll gather some books
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Can't we just take the terminal?
<Jackieness> <Bella> *eyes the kid and grumbles*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Are you really going to bully a kid?"
<DeathStar> *the kid seems to be looking up familiar porn*
<DeathStar> <Cloe> ... Yes?
<DeathStar> *Ben sets down several books on a table*
<DeathStar> *Cloe joins Ben and begins to flip through them*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...wait...he's porn-surfing. Screw this, I am bullying the little perv." *heads that way*
<DeathStar> *The kid tries to switch back to a report on cats when Bella gets near*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "I saw that, you little perv."
<DeathStar> *The kid jerks and looks around* Uh, uh...
<DeathStar> *he grabs his bag and trips on his way for the exit, glaring at Bella once*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Yeah, just mad cause he got caught." *tries the terminal*
<DeathStar> <Cloé> *appears behind Bella*
<DeathStar> <Ben> Not bad.
<DeathStar> *it seems the terminal is hooked up to all the books in the library; to get onto the online system or connect with Kumen, you need to give your ID and identify yourself to the system so they can track what you're looking at*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...crap. What happened to open library terminals?"
<DeathStar> <Ben> Did the boy log onto the online portion or was it just the library books?
<DeathStar> <Cloé> He was looking at familiar porn. Of course he was online. <Ben> Did he log off?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Definitely was online, unless they keep familiar fetish porn in the collection."
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Good question... let's see..." *tries to see if its still online*
<DeathStar> *it looks like they're still connected under the boy*
<DeathStar> <Ben> Alright. You're in the driver seat, but I would check history information first.
<Jackieness> <Bella> *nods and checks the history of Geyze* "Just a kid doing a history report for school..."
<DeathStar> *The history report looks a little odd; history events that the team knows goes one way has been altered greatly, stating things like the Hapian Dynasty's leaders and the Alliance were bad guys and tried to lead the people into the dark ages, especially when they caused both worlds populations to die out it in the Reckoning*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...ok...so totally unbiased here. OK, cross-reference the Reckoning."
<DeathStar> *The Reckoning - was an event some 1000 - 900 years when the Alliance and the Visage met each other. The Alliance at first claimed to welcome the Visage due to their power and knowledge of the spirits, but attempted to steal it (cont)
<DeathStar> *This led to a terrible war that destroyed most of the two worlds, until one of the spirits of geyze betrayed the others to end it and save both worlds. since then the Visage has taken over ruling duties and protected both worlds and been healing them*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...that doesn't sound like the Alliance that I know."
<DeathStar> *Cloe thinks*
<DeathStar> <Cloe> All of it seems like fuddy duddy
<Jackieness> <Bella> *cross references the Visage*
<DeathStar> *Visage - were a group of peaceful spirits from the unknown regions of space that came seeking shelter at Geyze and Kumen. They brought with them new ways of using their abilities and new ways of thinking. They are the current rulers of both worlds as they help our people get back on their feet. *images of the Visage begin to appear on the monitor - but unlike your typical elements, glancing at these seven give no hint at their power*
<DeathStar> *And there's no bio on what they can do*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "I think these are the guys that everyone back home have been afraid of."
<DeathStar> *Ben studies*
<DeathStar> <Cloe> It's possible. *She nods in agreement*
<DeathStar> <Ben> But who agreed to help them?
<DeathStar> <Ben> And why?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Let's see..." *tries to find out information on the spirit that changed sides*
<DeathStar> *the page begins to load up stuff on the hero spirit that helped end the war; as it slowly begins to load up, suddenly it cuts off and it states "Timed Out - ID No Longer Valid, Use Again"*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...seriously... a timer?"
<DeathStar> <Cloe> .... *Flops*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Also there was a logical discrepency in their 'history'."
<DeathStar> <Cloé> I feel denied.
<DeathStar> <Ben> There was a few, but?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "It said the Alliance got everyone both planets killed... but then the Visage helped them to rebuild? So everyone dead or not? Which is it?"
<DeathStar> <Ben> True. *He taps one of the books he got* I could try flipping through these, but this could take hours
<Jackieness> <Bella> "What we need is to find out which spirit switched sides and why... if we can find it."
<DeathStar> *Ben flips through the book, seeing what he can find*
<DeathStar> *Cloé tugs on Bella* What should we do?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "I don't know... like ben said, we cna't stay *too* long. I also don't want to go wandering and risk gettign discovered."
<DeathStar> *the familiar thinks while holding on*
<DeathStar> *Cloe pulls up cloak and hood and begins to sneak off*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Cloe. Freeze."
<DeathStar> *Cloe jerks*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "You are, like, the most in danger of being discovered."
<DeathStar> <Cloé> Aw.
<DeathStar> <Ben> Alright, it looks like
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Mana here is down too, so you could get scanned or something."
<DeathStar> <Ben> The Reckoning was mainly the Alliance members being wiped out. And Alliance allies
<DeathStar> <Ben> Their territories were heavily damaged afterward
<DeathStar> <Ben> Except one's
<Jackieness> <Bella> "The forest. Terra's?"
<DeathStar> <Ben> Actually, no. The Dark Lands. It suffered the least amount of damage.
<DeathStar> <Ben> I'll see if it explains why
<DeathStar> *Cloe paces around the table, then rolls along the chairs, bored*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "so maybe Nox?"
<DeathStar> <Ben> It is possible. It could be also that their leader pulled them out of the Alliance to protect them. *Ben after a bit tosses the book* It just mentions the heroic spirit that changed sides and saved the war, but it does hint they were probably from the Dark Lands.
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Sounds like they are suppressing that information..."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> Why supress it when they won?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Best guess is that its not completely true."
<DeathStar> <Cloe> So it's the Light Spirit that betrayed
<DeathStar> *she gasps*
<DeathStar> <Ben> Or none of them did; or something else
<Jackieness> <Bella> *looks flatly at Cloe*
<DeathStar> <Ben> Either way we should keep an eye on Nox if a group called the Visage appears
<DeathStar> <Ben> ... *he pauses* And Mireille.
<DeathStar> *Cloe tilts head* Our ship?
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Why Mireille?"
<DeathStar> <Ben> Nox has gotten close to Mireille and is probably her first adult relationship. If something were to happen to Nox - say she was in danger or her world was - I cannot calculate what Mireille might do to save her
<Jackieness> <Bella> "What about the other way around? Aquarius would probably be on the frontline."
<DeathStar> <Ben> Well that's the dangers of being with a ship spirit; Sparkling should consider the risks too, I suppose. I should warn her before she goes too far as well. You're connecting not just connecting with the spirit, you're being drawn into the spirits many functions and becoming part of the ship
<DeathStar> <Ben> Nox could become compelled to want to do more for Mireille than normal
<Jackieness> <Bella> "She's already climbed into the tube before."
<DeathStar> *Ben rubs his forehead* That is true
<Jackieness> <Bella> "But... given the low spirit energy... I doubt either one of them is still on Geyze."
<DeathStar> *Cloe thinks*
<DeathStar> <Cloe> If they are still around, they would be near one of the Visage - or where-ever the Aquarius is
Session Start: Sun May 12 00:00:00 2024
Session Ident: #TAW-Minis
<Jackieness> <Bella> "How would we even find the Aquarius? Hell, we still have a time budget too."
<DeathStar> <Ben> True, we don't have a lot of time left. We could try to find high ground to do a search for the Aquarius itself, but that would draw eyes
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Assuming its even visible."
<DeathStar> <Ben> mm. *he steps outside, glancing around at the beggars and others. A tiny little girl eyes them ruefully, perhaps hoping for coin*
<DeathStar> *Cloé tries to hide behind Bella, like you do when you have no coin*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...yeah... we don't have the local money."
<DeathStar> *Ben points at a location* Lets see if we can get a signal up there. Come on. *it seems he's pointing up where some housing has been built up high*
<Jackieness> <Bella> *nods and heads that way*
<DeathStar> *it's surprisingly crowded up in the fortress like city, people moving around up there and there's even guards moving around keeping the order. Cloe keeps an eye on them as Ben finds a spot in the corner of two houses and begins to scan*
<DeathStar> <Ben> .... *he turns to Bella as the guards circle closer* Well
<DeathStar> <Ben> That answers that
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...great. Did you at leats pick anythign up?"
<DeathStar> <Ben> Yes; wreckage of the Aquarius. It doesn't mean Mireille couldn't be alive, but she is tied to the ship so it could be difficult
<DeathStar> *would
<Jackieness> <Bella> *looks for an escape route*
<DeathStar> *the group could jump over the edge Assassin's creed style and fall - fall - fall down the side of the fortress to a conviently placed stack of hay, assuming it's full enough*
<DeathStar> *or you could try to work your way back down to the ground level past the guards to the beggar girl*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "I might be able to make the jump to the hay... but either of you..." *looks at Cloe and Ben*
<DeathStar> <Cloe> I can follow~
<DeathStar> *Ben urks*
<DeathStar> <Ben> I'll uh... make my own way
<Jackieness> <Bella> "We shouldn't split up. We'll take the long way down. Come on." *tries to navigate past the guards*
<DeathStar> *The guards eye the team and are about to approach and question their strange clothing when they are distracted by someone jumping into the hay and are forced to chase them down*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...we dodged a bullet there." *moves on*
<DeathStar> <Cloe> It was a hay trap!
<DeathStar> *one they're further away, Ben looks at the two*
<DeathStar> <Ben> Are you two ready to return to the ship?
<DeathStar> <Ben> We're starting to stand out a bit
<DeathStar> <Cloe> If Aquarius is blown up. Then if Mireille is alive locating her is nearly impossible
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Yeah, we should head back while we have a chance."
<Jackieness> <Bella> "We cna't risk gettign caught and not beign able to report what we learned."
<DeathStar> *Ben checks if the return watches work
<DeathStar> <Ren> Alright we need to get back to Centerpoint or the Pathways to pick up a signal
<DeathStar> -Time Hop-
<DeathStar> *The three return via warp*
<DeathStar> *Cloe sprawls on the floor*
<Jackieness> <Bella> *reports their findings to Yuki*
<DeathStar> *Ben removes the book he stole from the library and sets it down*
<DeathStar> *Yuki's ear lifts*
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Sounds crazy. You should get some rest. We've got the time shield problem fixed for the most part so we'll be going soon
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Alot of the details have been scrubbed clean, so we're not sure how much is true and how much is just propaganda."
<DeathStar> *Yuki thinks*
<DeathStar> <Yuki> They say whoever wins writes history
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Makes you wonder how often we do that
<Jackieness> <Bella> "Yeah, but what we know for a fact is that the Aquarius is gets wrecked in the war, and one of our spirits supposedly switches sides."
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Well. We'll have to keep an eye on our ship. But fun fact that the little story book doesn't mention
<DeathStar> <Yuki> Well, I'll let your mother surprise you
<DeathStar> *Yuki runs her hand along the ship quietly*
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...what?"
<DeathStar> <Yuki> She's bust right now with Ymir and lets just say my mom will join her assuming time is fixed
<Jackieness> <Bella> "...ok..."
<DeathStar> -END-