Location: Battleworld
Lorelei's group has been on this planet named Battleworld - Tsh'rald - for weeks now, being well treeated and fed, coddled in one of many rooms, seperated from Durt and Moira; every few days a group of Tsivrixsh come in and ask for a group of volunteers to fight and sometimes they get it and sometimes they do not, but that group never returns when they leave. So far the team have been sitting in this room, living in this state of existing. They decide to plot how to get out, especially with Rachael having run out of medicine ages ago and getting a bit off more and more, and groups like Vesper and the twins having trouble operting in such a place as they serve food to the prisoners. Vesper tries to get information by offering to serve food elsewhere and bring information back to the group the next day while Kaelan tries to see if she can use her powers to warp to one of the Dark Ones and use her other powers, but it fails and she gets stuck between forms.
Date: 10-642.3.11 and 12
Kaelan is missing the next day and while Rachael is even more bitchy, the others hope Kaelan is just in solitary while Lorelei uses the mark to assure them she is fine. The next day after nothing happens again, Rachael looks even more unstable of being in her room all day for the most part outside lunch and the occasional Tsivrixsh trying to get volunteers; Kaelan tries to keep her focused now that she is back and Lenny informs Celeste about the Proto Half-Famfrit Disease and how it is believed to be a precursor disease to what appears in the future with the half elves (half-famfrits) that drives them insane. Kaelan and Vesper goes over what it is like on the other area where the fights are taking place, Vesper having taken sketches - they learn that there is an one on one fight to move on to another building. Their plans on if they should partake of the battles to move on and get out of there, along with Vesper having the building plans, draws the attention of two guards who plans to punish Vesper, but Valen draws the aggro for her; the team decides to stand up with him and they all get the brig before being taken before Amazo. They speak to the God of War and he agrees to allow them to go into the preliminaries of the battle tower of as a group, noting that Vesper, Sia, and Lia can be their support staff.
As they arrive in a broken down looking tournament they each are given a choice of weapons and then have to fight one by one against beasts before they can arrive at the battle tower. Lenny utterly destroys her's, then Rachael goes second and manages to defeat the beast surprisingly easily. Celeste steps up and then has some difficulty, as the group begins to notice the beasts are getting harder per fight as each one defeated leaves the next one stronger; perhaps a draw back of being in a group, but in the end Celeste destroys her own. Valen then does his battle and after a bit of struggles he too takes his down leaving Lorelei to go after him. Being unable to use her powers due to the collars, she has to use Stigmata for once, otherwise it is clear she will lose; in the end using the power it allows her to win - barely. Finally Rachael goes and wins after some work, allowing them to be taken to the Battle Tower where the are told the rules: they can use their powers on Rank 3 and they will 2 fights on Rank 1, 3 fights on Rank 2, 5 Fights on Rank 3, 7 on Rank 4 - and you can leave if you want, 10 on Rank 5, and then Amazo.
The group finally has a run down room to stay in and learn that Moira is on Rank 3 already and learn that she already started doing fights right away, so they go to visit here, seeing that her room looks amazing. The groups stay and get moment together and make plans together about what to do next and Moira notes she will continue to move ahead alone and the others note they will plan to go together to catch up and try to find Durt.
Date: 10-642.3.14
Location: Vril's Fist
On an asteroid turned into a base complex complete with homes and other locations, the group follows Ka'pla's instructions and looks for the item to get Kyun back to normal by visiting the black market dealer. Haggling with the dealer, Michelle soon whips a gun on him and after Asha haggles the price down; after paying for it, they leave with the cihp. As they arrive back at their ship, however, they learn the dealer has been insulted due to the gun situation and placed a tracker on their ship and who knows what else as they get off the asteroid - hoping that there aren't other traps ahead.
Timeline: Winter? 19,966 2.10 Croza Era
Session 502: Far Reaches of the Croza Empire
Location: Planet That Could be Called the Spirit In Each of Us (roughly Translated)
On the Planet that Could Be Called the Spirit in Each of Us (rough translation), the group has spent time attempting to research whatever they can while with the Croza after their narrow escape from Kumen, however, without any actual travel they aren't garnering much information. After some debate they summon a Croza to them to ask about travel, and with some of what they are trying to say lost in translation while speaking to beings normally used to speaking with their thoughts, the group gets them to agree to send them to "safe" worlds to meet other spirits.
They come to a planet with a very low population and two spirits. Here they meet a Gravity Spirit and an Oxygen Spirit, coming to learn that the elements they thought were key to everyone vary wildly from world to world. Neekito starts to show signs of fading and the group works to give her energy, their new spirit acquaintances helping somewhat before the group decides to stay a bit to learn more of this world and the alternate spirits.
Date: Whatever. Who knows the Season. (Catoberween) 19.666. 2.15. Croza Era.
The group readies to explore a few different targets as they try to decide the season. Talia decides to name it Catoberween, and backed by BIX, this becomes canon law. No one can challenge Talia as she took over this summary. Striking out, the group finds themselves sans on Lana as she is kidnapped by a strange ape like being. They persue the kidnapper to find Ceilidh also kidnapped. Finally once they track them down they come to a village where the creatures are being scolded by the new world's Spirit, who seems to be the only one. Hunh'uhha'oo as she is referred to, regulates the entire world and mostly nature.
Neekito becomes depressed, starting to realize that unlike naturally created spirits, she seems to have no particular purpose or reason to exist. The group assures her that she does indeed have a purpose, and that she is doing quite well with it. The group stays to study this world and its primitives a bit more before heading back.
Session 503: The Other Dark Ones
Location: PAX
After the The Battle of the PAX, the group monitors the damage done to the ship with holes throughout it, including a massive tendril shaped hole that is half a mile long, and two of the 4 major progenitor battery cells running low and two depleted from the battle despite Drasek and Ao's efforts to keep them charged; The Empress informs them that the PAX is an ancient ship and they are pushing it to it's limits and there are no chances of building a new one like it. The group decides to focus on removing the tendril from the side of the ship lest it cause more trouble for the team, which Xanatos handles, meeting up with Ao who is wrangling the crowds that are in a frenzy post battle. After leaving Aonee to deal with the crowad, Ao, Hotaru, John, and Xanatos move to deal with the problem; meanwhile Andrea is still in the hospital while Reikana and Noire are by her side in medical until Noire is fed up and leaves. Reikana notices one of Andrea's special ritual books that contains Dark One dark arts after Noire is gone; meanwhile Jaime tries to find replacements for the batteries by calling Lumi hoping the temples used for the wish in 450 might help.
Xanatos and the others reach the area of the tendril and Ao and Aonee work on destroying it floor by floor, forcing Xanatos, John, and Hotaru to leap into action to defend the ship, soon joined by Noire as she aids in destroying the waves of Dark One. Back in medical, Yuki and Andrea are about to be attacked by a shadow when Reikana, who was lured out with the book, warns CHIP to sound the alarm and Jennifer attacks it; it manages to throw down an attack before it's destroyed, damaging Andrea even more instead of Yuki since Jennifer protected her. Since Xanatos and the others managed to clear out the Dark Ones, the ship has been cleared of the infestation from the tendril.
Date: 10-642.3.1
Location: PAX
The group has a meeting going over Xanatos' heroic efforts as well as the attack on Andrea, as well as the fact she has been running herself rugged for months now and the fact she might wind up like her future counterpart but sooner at this rate. The team glances at the Dark Ritual Book that Reikana found, but none seem able to make heads or tails of it since it's in the Dark One language so they have Kyouki glance at it since she is tied to the Dark Ones; she is able to make out some words like rune magick, sacrificial rituals, and the creation of homonculi as well as one of the spells being tied to reality. Now that the Prime spirits are back in the runes lately, the Rune Sword has been back on the bridge until it's been needed, making it possible the rune magik might be tied to the runes on it. And Noire reveals that Andrea used the book to split herself Reikana awhile back; they also wonder if they might use the reality spell to take Kaori's reality powers, so they decide to put a guard on her for the time being.
Using the tracker Chad has on Kaori, Ao arrives with her at the meeting, much to her confusion, when CHIP informs the group that they have Dark Ones wanting to meet with the team; the Empress leaves Kyouki in charge of her for the time being while they go meet with Bobbi (Session 475), who has returned from meeting with her clan; looking a little stronger compared to last time with a more powerful aura, Ao immediately is put on guard as she notes she is heard to make that alliance with the PAX. When asked about the rituals, she notes she can teach them about it but she wants something in return - her own area of space for the Dark Ones. While Ao and Noire ponder if Bobbi was part of the Dark Ones the team recently defeated in (Session 500), then consumed their power like Andrea did, she does a ritual, putting the blood symbols on Kyouki and Kaori so that her power cannot be stolen so easily while Xanatos goes to deal with the symbols in Kaori's room that was made.
Date: 10-642.3.5
Location: PAX
The team meets with the Templars next as Leon comes with Cersei this time, studying Kaori intently before the meeting starts knowing about her power. Leon lays it out that he is fine patroling with the other ships to help build up relationships but admits that the other Templars will become a problem due to their beliefs about the supernatural becoming more prevailant overtime and will one day overtake the natural. He informs them that the Dark Ones in the unknown region are coming together and he believes they have been inspired by the Dark Ones here for some reason. During the meeting CHIP calls to them the bridge where another PAX appears from an alternate reality, heading for their PAX; it seems Taiga's group has returned and due to their small crew they are having trouble piloting it. They barely avoid an impact and tensions begin to rise as some on the ship believe it will spell trouble, while some like Erevis wants to keep it and use it to repair their PAX.
Taiga plays messages from the Erevis of the other reality where it looks like there were people of that reality who wanted the PAX and she had to hide it away where she found it; it seems the PAX was never outfitted to the mighty ship it would one day, leaving Taiga and a few others baffled at what point in time this reality would be since the multiverse was rebooted recently, but Adeline seems intent on poking through the files. The Empress finally relents, oddly, noting it will be on Erevis' head on whatever happens next, so she has Taiga begin to work to remove pieces of the alternate PAX to fill in the missing pieces of their PAX.
Date: 10-642.3.10
Location: Geyze
Tora and Chelsea finish their repairs on the remains of the Aquarius to transform it into a type of brand new ship while Caesune watches over Mire in the back of the workshop; Geyze itself is still suffering the aftermath of the brief war that went on and who to blame for what went on during their little spat. Selena notes their populace needs to be reassured this time about their leaders - noting Shinobu seems to have her's under control, but Qui is having trouble picking herself up and might lose control and makes a jab that the Legion seems to have a war break out there every other year, sending Luci there to settle things down, especially with Ardea missing. As Caesune watches over Cherie as Tora takes Mire to the ship, Airym and her team moves into the ship while Asarar and her team heads to check on Qui.
The ship mainly keeps the Aquarius design, since it was built from the Aquarius, but Tora has updated and made it prettier and nicer, with cool lighting like blue lights; the Captain's room is off to the left of the bridge so they can get in easily, the bridge has a circular room feel, with the captain and XO in the center, the weapons and an all that on the left, Airym's old spot on the right and navigation on the right, the pilot's seat is also in the front of the captain's seat, but lower so the captain can also pilot the ship. And also the middle of the room, down front of pilot/captain, is the circular chamber spot where the spirit residues. The crew's rooms is one floor down so they can quickly get up to the bridge, the kitchen and other stuff like holo deck, is on the floor with the bridge and aux bridge is two floors down, and the hanger is in the back of the ship.
Airym decides to stick with the name Aquarius and they place Mire inside the chamber; a few moments later she seems to awaken once again, but she seems to be more like she was when she first began to help pilot the ship. However, she does seem to retain her memories. Tora notes that time around Erica will probably help her regain her old personalty, but since she is busy with her daughter and Yuki, it might take a while. They also hear rumors about Yggdrasil and the fruit of life and it's healing abilities, considering it.
Timeline: 10-642.3.12 - 2 days after Session 503
Location: PAX
Date: 10-642.3.12
While the PAX is still under repair, many sections are still offline which means the Club Room is temporarily out of order. As per TAW Standards, this means that the Fumoffu Club meets in Katrina's Bar. Jikuu and Victoire have joined the club and the group gets a call to track down a mysterious being with a long white mane. The group goes to Kitty's house to use as a base on Earth, much to X's usual level of lacking tolerance.
Si is sad to learn that the bunny with swords robe X wears does not carry the fangirl significance that she hopes, her new favorite anime, Samurai Usagi! (This will suredly become a thing she mentions a lot.) Jaime takes unusual interest in X's Dragoon Powers, and the rest are focused on the actual case. They look over reports of a white creature in the European State Wooded Areas that seems to be kidnapping women. Everyone makes Ren stay behind due to being pregnant. Much to her pouting.
Location: European Village
Arriving at a sterotypical village out of something from the 1700's, they group prepares to search for clues with John even joining since Michiru has decided to become part of the group. After having trouble getting the villagers to answer questions, Taiga uses her more kitsune nature to force answers out of them; they learn there is a clash of ideaologies between the old generation and newer generation about there being something in the woods which holds up construction into it and keeping pure women away from the forest because something takes them away if they are pure. Since there is two other villages, Taiga checks out the other village while the group goes into the forest where they find it to be clean, pure, and wonderful to be inside. Kitty even finds plants blooming that are extinct or shouldn't be blooming in this part of the world - or time of the year - yet.
As they begin to hear sounds deeper into the woods, Ren sets up cameras to catch sight of it, however right as Kitty's scans begin to come back with whatever it is, Jikuu takes a guess with what she thinks it is and guesses right just as the creature nabs the 13 year olds. A unicorn runs off with the two due to their maidenhood, forcing John, Kitty, X, and Michiru to chase after it. Using X's ripples and rushing forward, the unicorn knocks John away, the unicorn hating men, but Kitty soon manages to get onto the unicorn and forces it to heel, making it obey her. Taiga soon arrives and informs her about a crisis in a second village as they finish up and she shows a drawing of a dragon like creature with antlers; Jikuu and Victoire guess correctly once again that it is a Kirin.
The team tracks to the second village where they find the second forest much less friendly, Kitty riding the second unicorn, and they find themselves doing unfair tests along the way. They soon arrive at the creature where they have to deal with it's trials and Victoire threatening it if it tries to eat Jikuu. Soon Kitty throws shade and undermines what it is trying to do resolves the situation; they release the unicorn back into the woods and Taiga decides to hold future club meetings at X's.
Timeline: 19,966 2.28 Croza Era
Session 504: Corrupted Spirits
Location: Planet That Could be Called the Spirit In Each of Us
The morning dawns with Celes working on her martial prowess with Talia cheering her on and some of the team watching. Gwen gently takes Talia away as she gets more and more... instructive, assuming Celes is training to be a super cool Familiar like she is. (This part was edited by Talia.) The group begins to discuss trying to see the actual war as the Croza have continued to keep them away from the front lines. They also learn that the act of proxies has not yet come into use and the only spirit manifestations are the true beings.
Neekito attempts to season the nourishment cubes as a Croza comes to check on them, Simon and Alita talk to their visitor and between them, Lana and Ceildh, they manage to convince the Croza to allow them to visit a threatened world. After prepping to go they are sent to an unprotected world which supposedly is looked after by but a single spirit.
This spirit turns out to be a Lightning Spirit, and it's at this time that they learn that only Geyze Spirits are given names beyond their capabilities. A trap the Spirit set goes off and he and the Croza guiding them move to persue, only to find a GIANT Earth Spirit attacking, easily overcoming the Lightning Spirit. While Lightning is kept busy with this, a chibi Spirit is brought towards the team with an enemy Crowza. They begin to hold them off, only to discover the deceptively small spirit is a Nuclear Spirit beyond any of their capabilities.
The team, with the late help of the Croza Guide, manage to hold out long enough to strike down the enemy Crowza and begin to flee through a portal as the Nuclear Spirit goes... Nuclear. Neekito shields them as they strike and Simon uses Chronos to let them cheat fate and bring Neekito back just before her death. Unfortunately she has successfully copied the Nuclear power and of course, Nuclear's corruption. The group, safely through the portal is left to recover and think about how easily that world was lost, while they tend to Neekito and hope that she's not so corrupted it effects her true self in the future.
Timeline: Date: 10-642.3.1 - a little back in time
Session 505: Honorable War Part I
Location: Erusia
Warren monitors the damage the Erusian forces have been sustaining during the war so far holding back the Tsvrixsh all these months and helping out with the Dark Ones when they can, reporting to Arhn that they have a choice coming up. He notes to her that with reports of a massive Dark One force approaching from the Unknown Regions and the Tsivrixsh behind them, they can only focus on one force with their remaining forces; the two opt to focus on the Dark Ones so Warren heads to report the Ascendency plans to the Suisen Empire and learn what he can for Arhn, noting he has special agent trying to find the missing ships that the shapeshifters took long ago.
Date: 10-642.3.20
Location: PAX
The PAX Council shows it's displeasure with the Empress about the teleportation grid being down since the The Battle of the PAX, each race bombarding her with high octaine statements on top of each other; meanwhile, the Iron Paw assists Taiga in trying to remove pieces of the second PAX adding it to the first PAX. Due to materials of the ship, it is a pain-staking process that takes up an entire day to remove a piece off and then several more to reattach it the original PAX, however the giant gash caused by the tendril might be beyond their repair capabilities, though it is hoped it can be decreased as well as some of the larger holes. The teleport system has removed off line even though the Dark One hack has been traced and plugged in for now, allowing only brief windows for military usages and travels of importances, as well as travels planned at certain dates as not to grind the entire Empire to a halt.
While Adeline studies objects and logs taken from the second PAX, Ao and Drasek deal with the depleted batteries of the PAX, and the Empress deals with the council on the teleportation matter. It is clear that Adeline seems fascinated by the fate of the second PAX, having taken anything on the ship to learn why the ship's fate became as it did; meanwhile while the PAX has been given the second PAX's batteries and is now back to full charge, Drasek seems intent on recharging the batteries despite not needing to which worries Ao. Ao jokes that he doesn't know shit about repairing or building batteries from that age of existence, leading to Drasek to move off to maybe find out how to do such a thing. The Empress, being Erevis as usual, is in the council with Lenneth listening to the complaints about how the teleportation systems being down is ruining the planets and they must come back on immediately. Even though Theron tries to talk sense into them, they turn on him as they point out they use the teleportation still for them in times of need; and they seem even less pleased when Fox joins in.
As things begin to heat up, the Empress explodes at them in a way Erevis never would before storm off, leaving the council reeling back and Lenneth scrambling to try to cover for her. Finally Xeres and Theroin come up with a solution that benefits both the Ascendency as well as the races by using their merchant fleet to aid the smaller fleets. Noire shows up to represent the Dark Ones, leading to the councilers to flee for the time being. As the Empress joins the command room, fuming about the councilers, she brings up the galactic map and notes that the Cartel have been left alone for the most part by the Tsivrixsh, pointing out that beside the Dark One forces that have retreated to a part of the Cartel space that invaded in the beginning, the Cartel have been left alone for the most part despite the Tsivrixsh filling in the power vaccum the Dark Ones left in various places. Warren informs them he has an agent looking for the stolen Erusian ships and the location of the shapeshifters; Taiga's report tells the team it will take months to repair the PAX, which means remaining stationary the entire time.
The Empress still advocates blowing up the second PAX to end the war if at all possible, despite Noire's protests, and it seems some of the team are against having the second PAX around in general. When Xanatos asks why the Empress points out that taking something so significant from as a PAX from one reality will always have consequences and Taiga promises to try to work faster, seeing if she can get Ao and Drasek to use their hyperspace like blowtorches. The Empress asks who on the team are prepared to do battle with the Tsivrixsh, showing the Tsivrixsh working their way toward Earth while the Dark Ones are nestled in Cartel space. After being summoned, Bobbi shows up and goes over the ritual spells she has been teaching Kyouki as well as other spells in the book. With Erica being down due to Yuki, Xanatos is made the new fleet commander in this instance and he heads to Earth to see how battle ready they are there.
Katrina and Marcus have a moment where they talk as well as Elwyn and Reikana about Andrea as Bobbi joins medical with the ritual book having Reikana prepare some of her blood to heal Andrea along with Charlotte and Kyouki. The Empress also contacts Red Fox to use her company to prepare shipping lanes and deals for her with the teleport system down and when they are briefly open. After Elwyn tells Reikana she can do it, the ritual is prepped.
Location: Earth
As Lemon stuffs cake down Xanatos throat to try out various cakes for Cheryl's upcoming birthday, they go over Tsivrixsh battle plans and Chad thinks they are going to attack the tree while Xanatos believes their focus will be Earth. Lemon cites Earth's orbital defense system as well as 25 smaller ships and 14 major cruisers that are constantly here protecting the planet. They discuss asking if Tora from Kumen could help expand their ship forces since they have a shipyard and Taiga looks annoyed that Aquarius was able to be repaired in a month under her. Taiga checks for the group and they learn that Kumen has 8 Aquarius level ships and 2 older model Aquarius ships from the days of the original Aquarius. The group decides to prepare for the upcoming attacks.
Date: 10-642.3.23
Location: PAX
Cheryl is in medical watching over Yuki who is still in coma when Lemon and Kane show up to cheer her up with cake when she begins to talk to her about something serious; on the command bridge, the Empress informs them that a Tsivrixsh fleet is headed for an Earth space colony.
She informs him that Xanatos will lead the fleet with the Aquarius part of it to stop them and protect the colony. At the time time Cheryl tells Lemon and Kane that she heard about a fruit on the tree and wants permission to get it to heal Yuki, who was dosed with massive radation overuse of her reality power that has broken her body down, but will need permission to seek and take such a thing.
Location: Battleworld
Lorelei's team has reached floor 3 finally and granted special rooms where they fall onto their beds and they see that Moira has reached Rank 4 already. Some of the team wonder if this is a process for Amazo to get the strongest body of whoever reaches him at the end and Lenny orders Celeste to walk out when they are able to do so. She admits that he is a hard one to pin and they should defeat him as soon as possible when they reach him.
Timeline: Date: 10-642.3.22 - 1 day ago
Session 506: Honorable War Part II (2400)
Location: Kumen
Xan meets with Ymir on Kumen, showing her the current situation and having a simple request, for Kumen to develop a small fleet of Spiirt Ships for use in the war effort. Ymir seems hesitant, but ultimately agrees to at least consider the proposal.
Date: 10-642.3.23
Selena is meeting with Team Cypher, it seems that Qui has started to slack in her duties lately due to what's probably depression from having been taken over for so long and made to do things she did not want to do. Jaime insists she needs a good shaking and Asarar also reports that half the defense force has joined the Suisen War Effort. The team pauses to go over the fact that the Suisen are still guarding the planet too and the station in space is made to detect intruders. Which is exactly what it does as they are discussing that, a crash in the distance as something falls to Geyze.
Jaime rushes that way, possibly offended that something would crash into her wife's precious dirt. The others follow only to find with some effort, and Jaime ripping apart the ground more, that a stealth Tsiv ship has burrowed under the ground. After taking out a guard dog set to guard it, they breach the ship and discover that the scout is missing, and seems to have headed into Amazon territory. This instantly seems to galvanize Qui, returning to her a sense of duty and purpose as the group tracks the sneaky Tsiv.
Meanwhile on the Aquarius, the crew observes 8 Spirit Ships joining their fleet. An extra Suisen Battle Cruiser also joins their compliment making Xan's little fleet 10 strong. As they arrive at their destination, they see a large Tsiv fleet surrounding a space station, but something seems entirely off. The sweaty man yelling at them to destroy the Tsiv seems more nervous than anyone should expect, and Airym mutes him, switching to their second hail, coming from the Tsivrixsh commander Kru'ul. He informs them that the station is being used to engineer a virus that will wipe out all Tsivrixsh life, and that they do not intend to do anything except stop this. The crew agrees to help the Tsiv on the agreement that they don't hurt any civilians, heading over to the station to investigate while some stay behind to keep the soon to arrive EarthGov fleet from making things worse.
Back on Geyze, the team begins looking for a big blue thug however the trail seems to have run cold, that is until they spot an Asmodean merchant who's acting a little weird. Logan tries talking to him and making a deal with him and somehow manages to get the Asmodean to cut himself in an offer, this breaks the disguise the Tsivrixsh was wearing and exposes him. He tries to break for it but Jaime cuts him off with a wall of stone and he runs into it, collapsing. A bit surprised, they check him to find he's swallowed a suicide pill. Jaime disturbs the rest by attempting to read his dying thoughts and only really manages to get a revelation about the disguise tech he was wearing.
And back at the colony, the team makes their way through the station seeing with their own eyes that the Tsiv are treating their human prisoners well, merely enforcing a lock down while the team investigates. They continue their hunt and Cookie tracks the Commander's mind as they go, it seems he's going to set off the weapon. Adeline and Chad work together to hack the station's systems to override the weapon while Cookie puts the commander in a stupor, making him confused after they figure out where the weapon tanks are. Pepper valiantly faces the defense turrets, and Cookie blasts them away. Xanatos meanwhile comms Dias and asks him to stop the EarthGov vessels that arrive from starting a needless battle. His orders thankfully seem to go through, but not in time to stop two of the ships from taking each other out. Thankfully the Tsiv do not declare battle in response.
Adeline and Chad finish in the nick of time while Adeline pockets a sample of the chemical. Dias and the Tsiv commander Kru'ul negotiate over the station as Xan's fleet leaves with the station personell and civilians, as well as the now blunted weapon trigger, the inert chemicals given over to the Tsiv. Xan is berated for teaching Mirei to use cuss words.
Date: 10-642.3.25
The group meets back up to discuss things. Luci back from taking over the Legion and restoring order, wearing a Legion helm. Apparently being able to breathe fire is a very popular talent in the Fire Spirit's nation. Selena meanwhile is signing some kind of contract with Ymir, believing it to be best for her Kingdom. Logan and Jaime teleport away to check up on Shinobu with all that has happened.
Session Fumoffu 31: Fatal Frame
Location: X's Place
X finds her place has been taken over by the club while the PAX is still being repaired. The group starts with their usual snacks, almost denied cookies by X when Thena usurps the power by bringing them in. The team gets word of the secret society moving again, this time in a place known for being a haunted village. Kitty presents a camera that will supposedly help out with the situation.
The group heads out to find a manor that feels all wrong. Here they find several ghosts and the camera appears to repel them, the group is able to make quick work of the ghosts but find that the troopers have moved on to the village beyond. Here they find that the village is... strangely empty. As the group enters the village mists they become somewhat seperated, Noire finding herself running solo while most of the group is left to defend themselves from a village of angry ghosts. Si's fire proves very effective at warding them, and the Camera helps the group located Noire in a basement where Reikana has shown up, a sit in sacrifice for the villages prosperity, the length of time to meet this demand however has rended the village cursed.
The group manages to reunite after Noire breaks the ritual by stealing her twin sister back. The Camera proves to have another use as the group is able to use it to make their way back through the mists and to their shuttle to escape. They find that there was a van watching them the entire incident, now some of the group don't just want to solve this problem, they want revenge.
Timeline: 19,966 3.7 Croza Era
Location: Planet That Could be Called the Spirit In Each of Us
As the group pines over Neekito being gone while they do their various activies, they discuss the time portal and if Simon will be able to actually put it together once they return to Geyze despite having all the parts. Lana makes a guess at how the final days for them will play out: they will barely have time to put the time portal together and Bix will have to buy them that time, hence losing his head; though such talk has led to Bix spending most of his time with the Croza these days. Their Croza guide arrives and invites them close to the war front as it goes on a mission; they soon arrive on a planet full of catgirls, tigermen and so on, but also full animal people that seem to have animalistic instincs as they eye the group like a meal. Talia is recognized as the leader of the group due to her being part cat and show respect as they move through the city with the Croza guide. The cat person leads Talia and the others to a pyramid shaped building where they meet this planet's summoni who appears to be a wolf girl.
The wolf girl taps into spirit gems like what are in the cave on Geyze and soon call forth a literal cat spirit and wolf spirit, but the fox spirit remains hidden for now. While Talia gets along with the cat spirit, the others seem floored that their spirits are animals. Id and Simon show interest in the gems, due to their nature of being close to the cave gem, over the spirits and ask if they can have some, so they are taken to a volcano where they created - the fox spirit joining there. The three spirits and Bix head deeper inside while the others trudge after them, passing animals digging for minerals in the tunnels. When they arrive lava, Celes and Lana soon reaches their limit due to the heat while Bix and Gwen head along to get the gems across the way, however this aggros the creatures in the volcano; Liana and the Croza dealswith the creatures giving them time along with the animal spirits. As they all re-gather, the creatures begin to blow up, Alita and Liana having to knock their's into the lava as they begin to blow up due to Lana's warning.
As they begin to leave the volcano, the lava begins to rise up due to all the explosions knocked into it and so they are forced to rush out of the tunnels until they find it caved in; the animal spirits abandon them except the cat spirit who joins Talia. Bix and Ceilidh dig/shoot their way through while Id uses a spiritual wall to block the flow of the lava which will cause pressure. The three spirits head off to warn the town to evacuate since the lava will build inside so the group decides to head back home.
Date: 19,966 3.8 Croza Era
Location: Same
The team was allowed to keep two of the spirit gems they retrieved as well the various minerals Celes grabbed along the way in the tunnel, leaving the group figuring they can at least study the gem beforehand. Talia accidently makes a comment about BIX's head in front of him that upsets the Biotect enough to leave the group to do his own thing (helping the Croza). While they are talking Celes receives a request from the Croza, informing them that they made a prototype of the spirit boxes found on Geyze she believes based on their description, and they want to use it on Neekito Claiming they can only keep her "asleep" for so long before she asserts herself, the Croza went to that planet for the spirit gems themselves. Alita ponders if this was meant to happen if the group inspired the spirit boxes, but Celes notes she doesn't know how Ellie will react at the idea of trapping Neekito inside one. They decide not to do it and so Celes brings Neekito home and puts her in bed upstairs; afterward they go meet with their Croza guide who is leaving on a mission and join him.
On the mission, things seem to be normal at first until their forces begin to get high pitched, almost balloon like as they talk. Lana deduces there is a hellium spirit about as only the Croza is unnaffected by it. It moves within the group and begins to make them lightheaded and their attacks prove useless as the Croza perpares the spirit box to use on it, deciding to use it on this spirit since Neekito was not chosen. Neekito joins them having woke up since she was no longer being put under and aids them - though it's clear she's not quite right as she almost uses the bomb move she got from that one spirit; their combine attacks with Simon, Talia and so on allows the Croza to trap it finally and call the spirit boxes a success. As they arrive back they find the cat spirit from the other planet there - learning it's world was attacked and the other two spirits corrupted. Talia adopts the spirit into herself to keep it from dissolving while Neekito goes to Ellie, appearing to only be gentle around her.
Timeline: 19,966 3.15 Croza Era
Session 508: The Spirit Within
Location: One of the Croza Planets
After Celes delivers her theories on why the Spirit War has broken out, some accurate, some wrong, but all pointing to an interesting theme that says the universe once reached a critical spiritual point as modern times it comes to a technological head, their Croza companion fills in some blanks for them by taking them to another world.
The Team comes out on a relatively safe planet, here to meet a group of natives who supposedly claim they can create and command spirits. Talia plans the rise of the Fish Spirit so that she and the Cat Spirit may eat it. What they meet are a group of savages who attempt to bind and kidnap them all. After determining that they use blood magic, the nearly captured Talia and Gwen are freed by rite of Alita and Simon's ice wall blocking the path and Talia teleporting to safety. A blood mage that looks... smarter than the others comes out to challenge them.
The duel winds up being between Talia, the Mana Cat and this Blood Mage, the two working their abilities, Talia's ability to absorb and redirect Mana however a huge advantage over someone dependant on it to work their own abilities. Talia gets through the mage's shield and clips the mage, first blood seeming to be the terms of the match. Gwen is freed from custody and the group allowed to talk with them.
After examining Neekito and discussing how their magic works, the Blood Mages offer to try and heal Neekito of her corruption, guiding them to a flower that could treat it after they agree to give some samples of their blood for study. Successfully climbing a cliff to get to it, the group returns to base with their bounty, and hope for Neekito.
Session 509: Beyond Thunderdome
Location: Battleworld
Lorelei's team is on the final fight of Rank 3 before they can raise up to Rank 4, leading to them to choose who will step up to do the last fight for the team. Celeste volunteers and is put into the ring against an unknown alien in a ring of spikes where they fight to the death as always; the battle is intense and they note that Celeste still has trouble with killing her opponents as they try to do so to her. A hooded figure watches the battle and despite knocking the alien out at one point, since they weren't killed they rise back up and almost take Celeste out until she fully takes it's head off and advances the team to Rank 4. As Valen heals Celeste afterward, they are brought to the fourth floor where they find their personal rooms to be even larger now like mini palaces complete with servants and the floor death trap seems to be acid in the arena; Vesper, Sia, and Lia note they no longer seem to have a job now with serving the team stuff.
They check Moira's status and find that she has completed 5 of 7 of her fights for this floor, but she is in a contested status due to having been thrown into the acid by another fighter and somehow surviving past the point when it was believed she was dead. The judges are debating what to do with right now while Moira recovers. They decide to check on the person who managed to "defeat" Moira and find the hooded person who watched Celeste earlier fighting a puppet fighter; they do battle and soon the hooded figure manages to impale them with her large scythe. The group assumes it is none other than Mercy due to her weapon type which annoys Zegretta just seeing her and hearing Kaelan talk about how Mercy remembers everything about their past life.
The group as a whole goes to Mercy's room, who has changed into a maid outfit, and invites them in for cookies when they talk to her. She brings them up to speed that Gartareh is dead by the hands of the Geyze people and they bring up their belief that Amazo is doing this battleworld to get the best body possible. Revealing to the group she wishes to speak to Amazo about stuff regarding a certain God, mainly Harbinger, which Kaelan strictly refuses to believe since he is dead, she soon dismisses them and notes she is not hireable since their paths are different with Lorelei out to kill Amazo. As they leave, Zegretta just flatout tells Kaelan she doesn't kill if she had a relation to Mercy once in some past life, the only life she cares about is the one here now. As they meet back up, Kaelan reveals that Mercy has worked with Harbinger before and Lorelei informs them she will not let Amazo escape her grasp. Lenny tells the group as they discuss the memory situation to not trust the Gods, especially Amazo, noting he was self-serving in all things and only cared about battle; when asked if they could trust her, being the God of Heroes, Lenny noted she is a faux, created hero, but not to trust her either and that she would prefer it, being a copy of Lenneth's Goddess. And with that the group moves to get Vesper, Sia, and Lia out of there since they are able to leave at Rank 4.
After Vesper and company are gone, Valen goes to see Moira with Celeste and Kaelan tries to convince Mercy one more time. Finding Moira completely covered in bandages and unable to talk/move, Valen works on healing her with his powers while they talk and Kaelan and Mercy go over what they talked about once again much to Mercy's ire. While Valen, Moira, and Celeste discuss how Moira survived Mercy's attack and that she should join the team for protection of the judges and how she used to bone Mercy in another life, Moira seems rather down on the fact she has to rely on others for her fate; Kaelan seems to still be in denial at Mercy's belief that it is harbinger, but then wants to help if he is alive, leading to Mercy to be dubious with her two mood wildly different reactions. As Moira nears her healing completion she is given a note from Lorelei encouraging her to join the group and if she does not want to hoping they will not have to fight. Mercy promises to consider joining the team if Lorelei does not killl Amazo and Kaelan thinks she can get Lorelei to agree to that; Lenny in the meantime drags Celeste off to train and get her ready for the upcoming fights.
Location: Unknown Tsivrixsh World
The group is at a bar post Shion having done the treatment on Kyun, but all there is now is wait and see if there will be a response; however their skin is beginning to look washed out blue, indicating their treatment is beginning to come to an end. They joke about having Ka'pla be their owner when the word PAX seems to jog a response out of him, so Michelle tells Ako to do her best Athena impression. This leads to a horrendously cartoonish impression that Kyun actually begins to watch, but also draws eyes from the other patrons in the bar. After Michelle begins to name a few more names, the name Shretrav seems to truly get a reaction out of him, leading to full sentences now as he talks about her and Kre'trav being agents of his and soon seems to recognize the team. After they properly introduce themselves, Kyun seems to react violently at Ka'pla being there with them, but before they can get into it the group is forced to leave the bar as they seem to have drawn too much attention.
As they get back to the ship, he reveals Ka'pla is the daughter of Xevil and that she has connections to shady organizations and groups. When Michelle points out him being Xevil's son, due to his alternate reality origins, he gives a glare and not enjoying being reminded of that very much. The ship is surrounded by goons and the group has a mini battle to clear them out to retake it. They bring Kyun back up to speed on events - like the Galactic War and his doppleganger - and have to decide what decide what to do next. They also find it weird that Kyun wasn't in the strange goop material that the other shapeshifters kept their people and instead put him on some farm with his memories wiped. Kyun soon points out he has an idea to turn this war around, but he has to meet up with Shretrav and Kre'trav at their meeting spot, which is a location that others avoid due to it's very nature.
Date: 10-642.3.30
Location: Sector Some Tsivrixsh Name Here
The ship arrives in a spot of space that the rules do not seem to make sense; sensors telling them stuff backwards and equipment shutting on and off. At the same time, a message from Vesper comes in informing them that Lorelei's team are still trapped in Amazo's Battleworld tournament, trying to reach him and defeat him, before sending their coordinates and how to contact them back. Kyun warns that this place messes with people who come in and that they sometimes come out with strange abilities or having lost their mind as they meet up with a Tsivrixsh Battlecruiser. While Asha avoids a golden orb floating around in their ship, Kellin sends a message back to Vesper as they dock with Shretrav's ship and can finally work on undermining the Tsivrixsh Empire as part of Kyun's plan and gathering allies.
Fumoffu Session 32: When Pigs Fly
Location: X's Place
While Ren is unable to find anything for the group to do while the team is at X's home, Taiga is studying things on her datapad and notices it is Galactic Pig Day; at that moment a cute pig comes falling in from the ceiling. Taiga recognizes it as Hans - the bravest sandwich while the others, including Hess, seem to be confused on it's identity and Hess reports back to 'Lorelei' that she has found it, even though Lorelei is out of range to receive messages. While X gives the pig some food, Ren finds a contest being run about pigs on a galactic scale and when no one else can provide an idea for a case, they decide to look into it since it's close to the war front, to make sure the Tsivrixsh do not attack it or that the contest is not a scam of sorts; though Ren does have to agree to provide the group with a stop by a resort planet for all their hard work afterward, mainly at Noire's insistence.
Location: The Contest World
Lemon, Aurica, Locket, and Michiru join Ren, Taiga, Hess, Charlotte, and Noire on the planet that has tons of pig statues all over and various booths set up to spend one's money. While the team marvels at how popular pigs are throughout the galaxy, they sign Hans up to become a contestant while Charlotte fears being part of this will get out and people will make fun of her - especially Adeline. They need to win four rounds, with three of them being known to the group and the fourth being hidden, as they enter their tent. Lemon prepares to work on the first round - bringing out Hans beauty, so a few of the group heads out to get some food and take seats; as Lemon, Michiru, and Locket dress Hans up in a tuxedo and fake hair while Aurica works on her datapad, looking into one of the hosts of this event to see if he has anything shady to his name, using Lorelei's information oddly.
Hess, Noire, Ren, and Charlotte check out the booths and soon settle on an assortment of food as the first round begins. As they take them with their food, they notice various galactic species like Ridiarum even watching the event surprisingly as Hans takes the stage and wins a multitude of points along with one other pig in a mexican outfit. As for the character round, the mexican dressed pig shows himself off to be a lady's killer while Hans goes for being a heroic pig and they seem to be rather even in the points going into the third round - the race.
Charlotte is relaxed by the emojis, for they lack Spiders. And those are Nope. hans begins to show his acting chops and his amazing grace in the contests to follow thanks to many guiding hands. He wins so spectacularly that the sponsors wish to contract Hans as their official pig! They give him a pig size jetpack as a prize, a natural trophy for such a galant soldier.
The team then heads to an Earth Vacation planet to celebrate their victory. Without getting to experience much, they are accosted by brigands who seek to kidnap the amazing Hans. His personal squadron of badass ladies battle the brigands and Hans rockets to safety like a hero, at least according to Taiga.
The group regroups at X's place, the unofficial base for now. Taiga announces she'll take Hans to the keep her company at the PAX while Cheryl is out of it. X continues to muse on how she's lost control of her life. Everyone heads home, Hess who already is sits down to a good meal.
Fumoffu April Fool's Special: A Foolish Heckling, Hey?
Location: X's House
While Taiga plays with Hans as her pig, Ren decides to find something for the group to do that is more in line with what they really do when they get together; as they all sit around and snark with each other, Ren pulls out an amusement park and informs them she learned about there might be a supernatural situation with people going missing, listing the rides like the big top, the fun house mirrors, a ride through a clown roller coaster that begins to freak Jaime out. They take the van and arrive at the park where a Jester hands them their tickets and wishes them a great day, even getting a Thena CD as they leave.
After they get their food, they head to the "clown ride" and find a tunnel of love ride, where Ren informs them that apparently turns into a clown ride for some people part way. Taiga and Si take one boat down the tunnel while Jaime, Noire, and Ren take the other boat; they three reach the end and are offered pictures of themselves and see no sign of the other two. They circle the building and find a way inside after Ren rips the emergency exit door open, and find themselves in an employee's booth; Noire checking the cameras finds a hidden scary tunnel with a clown face eating Taiga and Si, then resealing itself as the three came up. Ren feels Charlotte arriving in the park, having left a note for anyone who arrived late to the meeting, and Charlotte begins to follow the bond to the tunnel of love building, joining the three as they arrived at the tunnel where they force it open; they discover what appears to have been once a haunted clown tunnel to scare customers before being converted to the tunnel of love. As Jaime freaks out in the area, blasting clowns, they soon find Taiga and Si's missing boat at the end of the tunnel.
Due to Jaime's rampage, they see cables leading from the clowns that lead them to a employee backroom with an exit door that leads to a series of underground tunnels. As the explore the tunnels they encounter employees down here resting about as well as stored outfits, but Charlotte takes note of a map and how all the attractions are connected together. The group heads to the hall of mirrors and takes a ladder up to an employee area that is empty; Ren explains the rumors of the place to them, about odd reflections once one goes inside. As they exit into the hall of mirrors from the employee booth, Jaime encounters a Bimbo in a mirror while Ren thinks she sees Taiga in the hall of mirrors. As Bimbo vanishes on Jaime, Noire sees Si briefly in a mirror; after more Bimbo encounters and seeing versions of themselves in the mirrors, they opt to break a few to reveal a passage.
They arrive at an employee work room where they find Taiga and Si tied up together and free them when Bimbo returns and Jaime destroy him, blowing him up which causes confetti to fly everywhere; as the fire alarm goes off and makes everyone wet, they teleport out to the park itself and wonder if this was some sort of prank. While Jaime remains traumatized as they leave, the Jester thanks them for coming and hopes they have a nice day. As they get into the van, Taiga notes it doesn't feel like Bimbo's M.O though while Jaime notes to everyone that Bimbo is definitely dead now. Taiga promises to look into it while they all leave to go back home.
Location: PAX
The team faces it's worst enemy every, an enemy so terrible they are told they can't just go out and beat it up. Commenters on the Holonet. It seems many are questioning the sudden appearance of a second PAX and creating all sorts of deep dive theories about it, all of them wrong, and many more calling for demanding the PAX give over more of it's technology if it has so much to spare. Ultimately the group agrees they can only monitor the chats and ignore it for now, the war having far too much to worrk over without such useless debating to be carried on.
Angela suggests though that Lenneth and the Empresses hire out people to handle their PR and social media, giving a less from her time as EarthGov President. Lenneth agrees and in other topics, Bobbi asks that Noire, Kyo or Reikana act as the Dark One ambassador for the PAX. It seems that the position falls on Reikana by elimination and talent for charming people.
Erevis points out Cheryl's continued wishes to go to Yggdrassil to find the Tree's Fruit in order to save her daughter. There's some debate but it seems the group accepts that there's not really going to be anyone stopping her if she follows through with it. Athena announces her Idol Machine is ready for testing and the idol girls, Reikana, Victoire, and Thena head off to help her test it.
Date: 10-642.4.10
The team checks in with Warren in Erusia, where he places skepticism on Bobbi's claim that there will be a Dark One Attack on the 20th involving a powerful ritual spell. He has his scouts looking for all the missing ships from the recent attacks, but agrees to rendevous for the possible (or he feels, impossible) event.
Date: 10-642.4.18
Aboard a Suisen Cruiser, Xanatos plans out their counter attack with a bunch of fancy Progenitors and Noire, who is amused by the ships sexy Erevis voice. Xan with his small fleet of ships get readings that they are indeed two days time from a massive Dark One fleet, setting them on course to interrupt a ritual in two days time.
Date: 10-642.4.20
The awaited day, Xanatos and the small fleet begin to engage the Dark Ones as a ritual is detected on the nearby planet's surface. Jaime and Ao teleport people down to the surface where they find a naked Dark One Priestess sacrificing Erusians to power a spell. After breaking down the dark barrier protecting her, thanks largely to Dias and Drasek taking on her guard support, the rest are able to rescue few of those set to be sacrificed and stop the Priestess, who teleports away and orders the Dark One Fleet to bombard the location.
At the last moment the team teleports to safety with the survivors and destroys the ritual site, flying to safety thanks to Xan's piloting. Then they break through the fleet to escape as Jaime blasts them a hole with Hyperspace Imbued Meteorites. Xan gets them through once again and into Hyperspace, the battle won for now.
10-642.4.24
The group returns safely and is given time to rest. However they learn that while they were gone, EarthGov reclaimed a colony from the Tsivrixsh, but with a terrible tactic, unleashing a virus the Suisen thought was destroyed on the colony, killing all the Tsivrixsh. The colony free, but at the price of further enraging the Tsiv war machine.
Timeline: Date: 19,966 3.20 Croza Era
Location: Ancient Ship
The group has been flying through space on one of the Croza Temple Ships, limited to one of the rooms for their safety, for the past few days where they have been tinkering with the equipment inside it, learning what they can about the Temple. While Bix continues to get closer to the Croza by aiding them, Lana and Id work at the terminal that is mostly connected to their room to run their experiments. As she plays around with it, messing with lights through her terminal using mana power, it soon causes a failure of the light systems due to low spirit energy. A Croza engineer soon repairs the terminal while talking to Ceilidh before it leaves, revealing itself to be a rather chatty Croza unlike most of the others.
Date: 19,966 3.25 Croza Era
Location: Ancient Ship
Since learning they are not confined to their rooms, several in their group have begun to explore the ship like Bix already has been doing so far; Gwen and Talia decide to explore the ship while Lana and Id play with the terminal in the room, with Celes following them as they explore the ship. Alita gathers what information she can collect and store from their room, a mission she will continue as she leaves and uses other terminals with permissions from other Croza using Ancient devices, while Lana and Id continue their plans to use Id with the ship/Croza technology. As those who explore the ship, they discover the layout is much like the modern Temples, though they find hidden passages are opened up revealing more of the ship compared to the present day where there are terminals and weapons that have been hidden all this time that are current active. The bridge also has been expanded greatly compared to the ones in the present where Celes, Gwen, Talia, Bix, and Simon find the Croza are in the middle of a battle with the enemy Croza, realizing they have likely been battling them this entire time they been traveling in their room. Their guide agrees to allow Simon and Gwen to aid them in using the weapons next time their is a battle, to help the Croza rest.
Date: 19,966 3.30 Croza Era
Location: Ancient Temple
After fending off more battles, Gwen and Simon have been aiding the Croza so far as they prepare to land on a planet; as the group has gathered on the bridge, their guide informs them that this will help them counter attack the enemy Croza forces and help them get near Geyze, where they are in contact with the Geyzian Spirits. Enemy temple ships rise from the jungle planet as they descend upon it, along with a spirit that can tap into various power types by flickering different colors, and a battle breaks out as the two forces engage each other. The spirit begins to ram their temple and tries to enter it with their power, forcing Alita to use meteor to force it away into the jungle, even as this planet's portal is destroyed. As the two sides engage in battle, Gwen and Simon help out with the gunnry as both sides numbers slowly deplete over time, even with the spells cast by their casters to help out; as this goes on, Ceilidh hears a voice from her pocket, the same she heard back in Session 500 after she went through Lana's belongings, offering her power to help fix this situation, directing her to some Croza devices down below.
As Lana and Id try to convince the Croza to allow them to use what they've been working on - tapping Id into the system to use Lana's magic systems to try to hack the Croza ships, Lana notices that Ceilidh is missing and goes looking for her even as Id is left to try to convince them alone. As the spirit arrives once again, Lana finds Ceilidh contemplating the device and leads her back to the bridge; however the strange object in her pocket is now gone, leading to Lana to panic when she learns that Ceilidh had it. While this is going on, the Croza power down so Id can do his thing, allowing the spirit to get in, but Bix intercepts and the two begin to fight it out with Neekito joining in to help him. As Id does his thing to the other Croza ships, allowing them to be open to attack from Talia and Alita, Bix and the Spirit wear each other down, but all this leads to Id getting himself hacked by a Croza computer, drawing Lana back to him. As they wrap up destroying the remaing templar ships and the croza computer evades them until it shuts itself off, "apparently destroyed", Bix confesses he finds the spirit who changes appearance everytime it changed it's powers cute. The entire team joins Bix outside and helps capture the spirit, where the Croza move it off to be placed away for the time being, though they ask the spirit be stored in the cave for Bix.
After securing the planet, the Croza ships that don't remain move off to begin their war on securing other worlds while one planet heads for Geyze; during this, the spirit trap of the mysterious spirit is given back to Simon to hold onto for the time being.
Date: 19,966 4.4 Croza Era
Location: Geyze
They arrive with the three worlds visible and begin to land on Geyze since approaching Kumen would be dangerous at this time; landing outside the Ancient City, the group gathers their stuff and begins to step outside. At that moment, an attacker strikes the Temple and does massive damage to it and the Croza who have stepped outside, killing their Guide since he no longers has his angelic suit and has been there in person. It turns out Frost is the attacker and Bix and Alita use their fire powers to drive off the modified Ice Spirit, allowing the group to look over the scene of carnage; as Bix blames himself since he looked away from scouting momentarily the Croza lift off after giving them a spirit trap, promising to return as soon as they can to aid in the battle. The team decides to head for the city to learn how much things have changed in the past few months and marches toward it.
Timeline: Date: 19,966 4.4 Croza Era
Location: Geyze
The city has now had defenses built up since they were there last, as well as trenches and other traps, with patrols moving about the city. As they near the city, the captain of the guard has them identity themselves and when he learns they work for the Croza that has allied with the spirits, he brings them into the city and brings them up to date that Mal'oy has been run out of the city as well as the King. He escorts them to their manor that has seen better days, but compared to Mal'oy's place that has seen the people's wrath, it only needs some cleaning and light repairs. Neekito prepares the team real food with the supplies she has and they discuss the future and other things; meanwhile Bix notices someone living in the Mal'oy manor, which turns out to be Sophia though he never encounters her, leaving out food for her. The group decides to rest and save their strength for when they meet with the spirits the next day.
Date: 19,966 4.5 Croza Era
Location: Hapian Manor
Neekito cooks a proper breakfast for Ellie - and the team - before they set out for the castle, where they find a bunch of nobles are fighting on the top floor where the king was once ruling and are now trying to become the next ruler of the city and the spirits have situated themselves on the first floor. Sophia joins them as they meet with the spirits and it is clear Aska is being strained by the corruption situation and when she learns they are there to offer help as well as having pacts, she agrees to allow them to do so. Aska orders the other spirits to remain at this city for the time being until she learns how Frost was taken from them so easily, but gives her blessing to allow the group to poke around and try to find out about the enemy, who have situated themselves up north where Mal'oy and the King have fled to after being run out of the city, joining the Croza there.
After the meeting the group debates what to do as Chronos and Iva joins them. The team decides to do some side quests first, arriving at the cave where the time portal will be built. As most of the team goes down below to check out the location where Simon will build the time portal, a corrupted spirit soon arrives and attacks those still on the surface leading to Celes and Talia to do battle with Chronos against it. After sending Talia to warn the others after a battle with it, she warps them to their second locations - Shade's future grotto, though it seems she might have been corrupted a bit, though she shows no sign. Id convinces Autumn to aid them in providing a distraction at the northern city when they go there and Autumn is soon convinced, before borrowing Alita for her experiments with the monsters/daemon links she is attempting. They return back to the manor where Neekito provides Iva a room and the team gets to know her a little better.
Fumoffu Session 33: Animal Madness
Location: X's House
While Hess chides Ren about spreading her papers all over the floor and Angela now showing off Meth Gorillas in her pile, leading everyone to wonder what is with her and the meth thing, but after a joke by Taiga about labs that do product testing on animals, Ren once again loses protests that they are a supernatural squad as they begin to head out. Taiga takes them to a run down lab testing building and Ren chides her for wasting their time, but the building has a very high tech security system for a run down joint. Hess ripples them inside and the atmosphere immediately feels heavier as they move along; soon though Ren is yanked through a door that then shuts itself behind her. Charlotte smashes the door open as Noire attempts to scare the door; spotting a tiny figure dragging Ren through a trap door, they hurry over to it. As they enter an underground lab area, cameras watch them as they walk along and are suddenly attacked by a comically large panda bear and two others. The two deals with them since they have controlling devices on their heads and as they get them off, Hess studying one to see a chip and a camera on it, they move along as they return to normal pandas.
Hess uses bad luck on the mind controlling devices, breaking it but it also reveals VI made the device. Kaori, in the lead, comes across monkeys with rocket launchers, who try to blow her up. Hess tells Taiga to go fox form to talk to the animals as they fire and blow things up; as they manage to knock the helmets off the group, Taiga talks to the remaining monkey with his weapon but Noire soon knocks the monkey over so Taiga returns to normal, informing them he was about to take them to Ren when Noire did that.
Hess hands the device she badlucked to Si while the monkeys do monkey things, leading to it putting it on; during this Noire really wonders if this is a V.I plot and not some of their equipment left behind as the monkey reveals a passage where birds with helmets are waiting. The birds attack one of the Thenas, poofing her out of existence, leading to her to hyperspace the birds for dinner later as they continue down the secret passage. They find what looks to be VI scientists working on the helmets on animals to be used on alien animals later and Ren can be seen doing battle with a squirrell who is trying to put a helmet on her. Kaori destroys the window and allows the group into the room to rescue Ren as the squirell retreats through the door and scientists rush in as they untie Ren. After easily defeating the scientists, they begin to suspect foul play and find chips in their necks akin to the helmets for the animals. When asked if they were giving meth to the animals by Hess, the scientists deny doing such horrible things and but claim they were trying to lie low - until Adeline threatens to rip the information out of them.
They soon tell the team about the chips to control people when ancient project they scrapped long ago - the squirrell - began to cause problems. Taiga leads them in fox form to the hanger where the alien squirell in a shuttle attacks them and Thena attempts to be it's friend. The team works together to take out the shuttle, even as it destroys Thena after Thena, and soon it is forced to leave the shuttle and it stupidly grabs Thena as a hostage, leading to Thena getting what it wants - the team leaves the two to their fates, going out for food. Adeline gives Charlotte her report on Venerator even as she casually pockets a mind control chip for herself.
Fumoffu Session 34: Cannibals and a Hunted Fox
Location: X's House
The team is at X's house where Ren is cranky she can't find supernatural cases for the team to tackle and the group talks about the evil of Xevil while they try to figure out what to do. Eventually Ren offers to get everyone a meal and when Taiga tries to drive, Noire takes over due to Taiga's height issues. As they arrive at a fast food place, the group encounters a mascot that looks like Xevil outside due to the place being called Galactic Conquest. Soon though Thena is missing and the group goes to look for her in the back, where they find everything is completely normal and no Thenas are being made into meats. After Noire demands to talk to their manager and Juan is brought out; after some talk they view the camera footage where a hand grabs Thena from under the table and drags her out. Juan apologizes for the people eaters taking her, claiming they are good customers, and gives them a map to their location as way of apology.
While this is going on, the cannibals have Thena in their cave and demand her make more copies of herself so they can have an endless supply of food, despite her claim of them being carbon; but they inform her she is not carbon. As the others track through the hills, Charlotte senses the cannibals' hunger and Jaime tracks with hyperspace to locate Thena with the map. They soon find her being chased by the cannibals, one chewing on her arm, until Noire screams and makes eveyone freeze. When Charlotte exudes scary Dark One power and Thena uses her charm powers, the Cannibals decide to flock to Thena out of fear for the time being; right as Noire is about to lose her cool, Taiga's datapad beeps, informing her about a situation with Fox's convoy being attacked in space. Thena gives the cannibals a teleport code to join her pirate fleet and sends them on their way. They decide to use Thena's pirate fleet to find Fox's fleet as well since none of them have ships on hand when Juan drives up in a monster truck to take them back to their vehicle in order to raise his rating.
After arriving on Heaven's ship in space, she takes them to where they find the remnants of some of Fox's convoy ships while Noire and Thena argue about it not being Thena's ship or not if it's Heaven's. Cargo floats in space belonging to Kumen and Geyze which includes spirit tech while Thena contacts people to salvage the goods. Heaven brings up 3 possible worlds the ships could have jumped to and Charlotte selects one; as they leap they find Fox and the rest of the ships with her battling an unknown vessel. It is clear they are after Fox when Thena uses their weapons to hammer away and the cannibals' ship arrives, smashing into them as they begin to retreat from the fire power, causing the cannibals' ship to explode. The unknown ship limps away damaged and hyperspace away; the group gives chase, leaving Fox behind to sort out her ships. The group arrives at a point closer to Earth where the damaged ship prepares to do another jump when Thena crystals it and stops it from escaping.
Boarding the ship they find an unknown race of red colored aliens with crackly skin and strange colored eyes who informs them it was a job to take out Fox. The aliens agree to work on betraying their client after the war, since it was paid half up front and half afterward. Back at Fox's convoy, a cannibal attaches to Fox's ship and gets inside, vowing to get revenge on Thena and her succulent meat. Back at X's house, Taiga promises to look into who is after Fox and they all go out for mexican food.
Location: PAX
The PAX Crew meets for yet another meeting, but in attendance today are Leon and Cersei on behalf of the Templars. There is good and bad news as the Templars are able to lend half their forces to help, but the bad news is one Templar General in particular, Titus McKeenan, has a bigger fleet than even Leon's and a personal mission to go after anything supernatural in their galaxy, not just the Dark Ones. He describes that each of their command ships as a device built from a meteorite that reacts to the supernatural and allows him to find them in space.
Agreeing they can only do their best to hope he doesn't strike inward, apparently distracted with the Guardians and the Maka, and attack Earth and the rest while they are vulnerable to the Dark Ones. Many remark that this essentially makes Titus on equal footings as an enemy, as he is actually helping the Dark Ones and Tsivrixsh by occupying some of the Suisen's most powerful allies, there is not much to be done about him for the moment, though some seem to be cooking up plans.
They return to the matter at hand when they are done speaking to the Templar forces, the driving need to repair the PAX after the last battle, gaping holes in it's defense.
Date: 10-642.5.1
On Geyze, the nations leaders and their representatives meet. A noted absense from Shinobu leads the team to decide that they need to check up on her and make sure there isn't some other deep trouble brewing on their world.
Date: 10-642.5.2
Myria has been placed in charge of the PAX repairs and the team discusses different methods to patch the holes, ultimately they decide to scuttle the alternate PAX to rebuild. Ao and Drasek are assigned to the task and Jaime continues to assist Adeline on uncovering as many secrets and systems from the Alternate PAX as possible to augment their own.
Cheryl, Angela, Si and Taiga get ready to head to the Yggdrassil, now that permission has been granted by Geyze for them to head there.
Date: 10-642.5.4
The PAX comes alive to an alert that Titus' forces have entered Maka Space, and the Guardians are sent to assist them in repelling his forces. Time will tell if McKeenan actually heads to the real war or instead attempts to invade allies against the Dark Ones, but no one has any true positive belief that he's here to help anymore.
Back on Geyze, Asarar's team arrives at the Demonic Tower and begin to plan how to see the Empress.
On Yggdrassil, four Dragoons leave a teleporter behind in search of the Tree's Fruit and a mission to retore Yuki back to perfect health.
Session 514: The Cartel Cashes Out
Location: PAX
On the PAX, Empress observes a working yet misshapen battery made by Drasek and Ao which may be the key to keeping the PAX powered through the next battle. Battle Data says that Titus' fleet has thankfully mostly moved on, but left a force keeping the Maka and Guardians from joining the war effort. His trajectory however, does not seem to lead anywhere that anyone can tell. Jaime suggests the tree, but there are no signs to be had of Templar forces there. The mystery of where Titus' fleet is headed becomes, and will remain, a mystery for now.
They then get some horrible news, the Dark Ones have finally done something to break the Neutrality of the Cartel... by destroying the very famous commerce and vaction world of Jarivan. It's people and property gone. Sommelier, having been hiding there, apparently used some sort of terrible ritual to move his troops away and left nothiung in their wake. Without much time to grieve for lost business ventures and homes, as well of course as the billions of occupants, the team realizes there is one silver lining: Now is the time to bring the Cartel into the War Effort.
Date: 10-642.5.11
The team arrives on the Cartel Homeworld, Xanatos in charge, accompanied by others of influence and Cartel connections. Here they meet with most of the Cartel Leadership, Shiva, Loki and others in notable attendance. The subject first goes to retaliation, which the Cartel seems strangely hesitant about, but when provoked and reminded that they hold a collection of super weapons and ways of striking back, the bargaining truly begins.
Meanwhile Adeline comes up with a theory about how Sommelier and his troops have vanished, an alternate version of Hyperspace occupied by the Dark Ones, this Dark Space may be something Billy can help them with. She gets to work looking into it and doing some shopping while the others are occupied.
Some traction has been set, on at least getting the Cartel to mobilize and protect themselves, as well as an open agreement of trade and possible future territory for their help. The subject of this Dark Space is explored more and the group agrees they should ask the Dark Ones that keep somehow popping between places in the Galaxy seemingly without effort.
Back on the PAX the crew visits Billy in medical to ask about the subject and she is able to show them how Dark Space works, a slip between shadows, rather than teleportation, in one end and out the other almost instantaneously. She however cautions that it takes Dark Ones far more power to do this than their normal travels. She suggests seeing a Spirit or another powerful Dark One if they want to use it.
Date: 10-642.5.4
Asarar's team enters the Tower and thanks to Luci's Dragon form and a not so firm understanding of the elevator, the group manages to make it up to the top of the tower. There they find Shinobyu, but also a restored Neophyx who has in fact been resurrected somehow and taken charge again, though she seems somewhat unstable. Still finding that they are okay, they agree to not go public with the information that Neophyx is now in charge once more. They head back to make their report that Shinobu is okay.
Timeline: Date: 19,966 4.10 Croza Era
Session 515: What Will Be, Shall Be
Location: Ancient City
The team gathers their supplies for their trip up north as Sophia arrives with a carriage to take them there, bringing with her a man named Al who seems to be the Fire Hero of this era, meaning that there are two heroes - the Wind and Fire Hero. Celes and Simon decide to stay behind, Celes wanting to work with Aska and the nobles to make changes in the city and bring it together, while Simon wishes to work with Chronos and the time portal and hopefully complete it before the team returns. The team then sets out and begins to set out over the next few weeks up north, crossing various things like rivers and using Leviathan to aid them in the process, which leads them to meet; they learn that she does not have a hero nor have heard of a champion before when asked about such a thing before leaving them, though she does follow at a distance.
Date: 19,966 5.1 Croza Era
Location: The North
The group sits around a campfire and Gwen informs them what to be prepared for when they reach the city when someone steals their fish off the fire. After hunting the culprit down they find a woman in amazon like garbs that could pass for a proto amazonian and after being captured, seems unable to speak much. As Leviathan is brought in, she simply brings the girl behind after they bring up the hero business again to inspect her for herself, leaving the team to sleep for tomorrow's raid.
Date: 19,966 5.2 Croza Era
Location: The North
The team wakes up to monsters raiding the city as Autumn provides the distraction she promised last time to them as the Croza's forces and even the temples help out a bit to repel them. The team decides it's now or ever and they creep to the other part of the city not being raided and Bix climbs up and knocks out the guards in the tower, raising the gate so they can get inside. However, once inside, they find the city lifeless and repressed, even more so compared to last time, due to Mal'oy and the King's laws and paranoia, even though the City of the North was already a cuthroat city that ran them out last time, leading Gwen to warn them to becareful who they spoke to while inside. The group begins to debate how to approach tackling this problem with such a complicated situation from getting the people to rise up and help deal with situation with them to trying to stealth sneak in and learn more about what is going on all the way to Neekito's suggestion of assassination of Mal'oy due to her dislike of the Malfot family line in the future.
As the city begins to calm down to the monsters retreating, Neekito leads them to a store that has been abandoned due to everything going on lately and they resume their debates on how to approach this when Id suggests using Gale to help get the people to join them due to Spirits being revered. At that moment Leviathan returns and chides the idea, saying she would take the risk due to Croza here capturing and corrupting spirits; she presents the amazon girl, calling her Ara Sa, as her hero, with the team now having 3 heroes in one spot. The group prepares to settle in and take shifts keeping an eye on the city, deciding to remain in it and try to get the city to turn on the King and Mal'oy before tackling the Croza; they also begin to send Alita out to use her phermones to change the people's mindset against the enemy.
Date: 19,966 5.3 Croza Era
Location: Northern City
A few hours later as morning begins to come and after Alita's return, Gwen wakes and begins to hand out food and Lana sees they are a in a clothing store from her exploring, they find a commotion going on outside and that Neekito is missing. A massive explosion has occurred at the government building and seemingly killed Mal'oy and almost taken out the King as Croza move about and deal with the situation. The King gives a speech about an attack from the south and sounds off war against the Southern City soon. As Neekito is missing since her attack on the building since using the nuclear spirit's power, Gwen comes up with the idea of gathering all 7 heroes and having them gather the people and rally them as one since they are meant to do it, before and after the war. So the group prepares to find the remaining 4 heroes.
Timeline: 19,966 5.7 Croza Era
Location: Northern City
The group has taken over an abandoned store to stay in and are managing dwindling supplies as they look over their notes, trying to determine who each of the Elemental Heroes could be. The most obvious being Sophia at this point, however it is obvious to all that Talia is the Cat Hero. Alita casually points out that the hero of the Dark Spirit was an Asmodean, and the only Asmodean around was the one Autumn brought with her... her own body. She also, to some folks denial, suggests that Celes is the obvious Holy Hero.
Chronos then informs them that Leviathan has agreed to distract the enemy so that Chronos can return the party to Aska. As Leviathan goes full in on the Croza the team scrambles their stuff together and join Chronos for a teleport. They find themselves quickly wisked through time and space back to the city, where in the weeks that have been passed fortifications have risen and the city is on full alert, the heroes who have been found present, and others soon to meet their destiny.
The group begins to explain the concept of the heroes to Aska and the other spirits, and as such wisdom is imparted they begin to seek out their heroes. The group agrees to search for the remainig heroes, all except seemingly Void and Chronos. Though as they discuss the identities of the heroes, an apparent crush on Void becomes evident from Alita.
Date: 19,966 5.8
In the Southern Castle, Sophia, Al and a man with a Bo Staff that is clearly the Ice Hero have been gathered. With Celes taking the role as the Holy Hero, the numbers have begun to come together, however they learn that Leviathan has fallen to the corruption as well. With their time running out, Aska asks if they've determined who is left, and Alita suggests they go to Shade's Grove in order to find one.
Here they find Autumn, and Alita convinces the Goddess that she is the proper Dark Hero. She pacts with Shade and they find the connection sound. With Holy, Wind, Fire, Water, Ice and Darkness found, all that remains is the Earth Hero. They determine Ceildh is just the person for the role and she winds up a perfect match as well, recieving the Earth Hero's Hammer as a reward. Once all are found, Aska takes the final step, initiating a Blood Pact with Celes which will carry through generations to one day make the Hapian Royal Line.
Conversations turn to trapping the corrupted and seeing what they can find of Neekito, who so far still seems to be keeping her distance.
Session 517: Dishonorable War Part I
Location: PAX
The Tsivrixsh and Sommelier's Dark Ones have begun to move their war engine again, prompting Bobbi's Dark Ones to begin destroying non-populated worlds the Tsivrixsh have taken over in order to wipe them out; during all this, the Outer Region Dark Ones are almost on the Erusian doorsteps, about to wipe them out and the Cartel have set out to aid the Maka against the Templar Titus due to the promises they were given, even though Titus' main forces remain unknown. Lenneth stands in the place of the Empress during the meeting as they go over the situations, with Lenneth noting the Maka situation should be resolved soon with Darien and the Cartel arriving on the scene, but the Erusians are likely to be in trouble any day. And finally she shows them that the Tsivrixsh seem intent on pushing forward toward the Sol System with Sommelier, leading to some to wonder if they want Yggdrasil, but most seem to believe Earth is their goal.
Chad tries to question Jikuu about what might be happening, but the only thing she can give is that if anyone goes after the tree, it should be their top priority. Xanatos goes over what they know of Sommelier (See TAW4 - Season 15-16 era). After they are caught up, Lenneth informs them that the Empress and Erevis will be MIA for the time being as the Empress is putting Erevis through the ringer to get her caught up to where she feels she should be and so Lenneth will be in charge in the meantime. Right as they are wondering where Fate is lately, Lenneth informs them that someone gave the order to take back the EarthGov station the Tsivrixsh had taken over (Honorable War). Due to the skirmish to retake it, part of the station was destroyed and both sides suffered casualities.
Lenneth promises to look into who gave the order for Noire when a Fleet Offiver informs Xanatos that the Tsivrixsh and Dark Ones have begun to push the battle lines looking for the PAX and are headed their way with the majority of Sommelier's forces and some Tsivrixsh armadas. Looking into what help they can expect, Xanatos sees that with the Cartel tied up at Maka and the Erusians tied up with the Outer Dark Ones, that just leaves EarthGov with a possible ally. Xanatos decides to use the second PAX as bait at another planet to draw the enemy in, then bring out their force in a U shape to try to crush them, even if it means losing the other PAX. Lenneth orders the speeding up of ripping the hull off of the other PAX with what time they have left as they move their ships into position, only having about 65-70% of the hull replaced and still having holes in the PAX while everyone panics that Xanatos cannot find the blackhole gun Megumi made for Xanatos.
Location: Erusia
Warren, Jennifer, Arhn, Idlet, and Leon observe the Dark Ones appear every few seconds on the screen, forming a swarm that even catches Leon off guard. Pulling Jennifer aside and giving her some sort of warning before the attack begins, Warren prepares as the swarm attacks everything by just overwhelming it with sheer force; the Templars returning to their ships to try to hold them back as the Erusians, even with their fleet returned, struggle to maintain the enemy.
Location: Tsivrixsh Capital
Kyun and Shretrav have brought the team to a world that has dark skies, light acidic rain with dark clouds in the sky that rarely offers sunlight, and dark structures that offer little in sights. The team's skin have begun to slowly return to normal, the blue tint fading now as they search for the 13 Council Members that make up the other half of the government; Ka'pla points out even if they manage to put Kyun back on the throne, little will change due to the people wanting war so badly. His hope if that maybe he can direct them at the Dark Ones, but fears the loss to EarthGov is something they never truly got over. The group decides to hunt for a way to get in touch with the 13, moving into the catacombs beneath the city to get into the palace; once there, he uses the offical documents of the Emperor to send a message to the 13 to meet him at a location away from the palace so they can spring their trap.
Location: Battleworld
Lorelei's team is now on the 5th tier and are down to their final few rounds before reaching Amazo himself; Lorelei admits she needs to bow out, having almost lost it all for the group in her last fight, leaving it to the group to decide who will fight it out since each fight gets harder after one wins the last one. They try to narrow it down based on what fighters are left in the fighting pool before Mercy steps up, done with waiting around, and fights against the strange alien who's power set is unknown. It darkens the arena so no one can see what is happening and begins to drain her life force in the darkness. It begins to go badly in the darkness as it drains her to the point of dying when Mercy uses her scythe to stab the alien and kill it, winning by default, but Mercy only survives due to the team healing her with everything they have in them, especially Kaelan and Valen.
Kaelan goes next, using her anger of what happened to Mercy to fuel her, and battles a spidery alien in the arena; Kealan summons Nocturne to aid her and the two have to deal with it's webs trying to tie them up and slow them down. The two continue to gang up as Nocturne uses her powers and Kaelan uses foxholes until it dies, leaving Rachael to wonder if it'll be forfeit to bring in Nocturne, but the group advances. Moira goes for the last round and faces the hulk alien, where she is outmatched due to damage making it stronger. The two go at it as it damages the arena making hills and what damage Moira does do seems to just strengthen it; soon they fling at each other as it prepares to spike her into a hole to end the fight.
Location: Earth
Lemon sits at the console with Vesta and Kane when alarms go off, showing the Tsivrixsh Fleet has engaged the EarthGov Fleet. As Kane pulls it up, it shows that majority of the Tsivrixsh Fleet is here, with the Kumen Fleet aiding EarthGov in slowing them down from reaching Earth. They Geyze Station also shows some armadas approaching Geyze and Kumen to secure the planets; Kane goes to contact Xanatos about the situation while Lemon does the same for Geyze and Kumen.
Location: The Academy
Rain gives Sasha a message from Selena about the situation going on with the Tsivrixsh and that Ymir cannot aid them other than give them control of the Geyze Station, so Selena is offering sanctuary at Hapian Castle. At that moment the Tsivrixsh begin to invade the school and so Rain begins to work on getting them to shelters all over the school while Sasha tries to get in touch with the Alliance but they are also being attacked before they are cut off. Rain and Sasha make plans to go to the Magi Tower since Linnet was one of those being cut off in mid-speech while Sylph is seen being caught by the Tsivrixsh while she was battling the ships in the sky in front of Asarar and Logan while they were trying to get the Mew Mew ready. As Sylph is taken, the Tsivrixsh contact Commander Kru'ul, the Tsivrixsh who was sympathic to the group in (Honorable War), informing him of Sylph's capture, and that they are after the other spirits.
Session 518: Dishonorable War Part II
Location: Yggdrasil
Cheryl, Taiga, Angela and Si continue on their journey down the branches of Yggdrassil. Having left Kiori in the last village, they continue to make their way down, taking turns with their Dragoon Bonds to fly their way down with Montana Spotting them.
Meanwhile on Battleworld, Moira steps up to do battle with a powerful foe, but even more dangerous is the lava laden floor that begins to vanish with their attacks. Despite overwhelming odds, Moira wins her fight but suffers a terrible injury. Still she insists on walking it off in the face of the Tsiv.
At the Tsiv Capital, the team helps Kyuun as he meets with those of the 13 that will answer his call. Mostly convinced that Kyuun is himself, they agree toi come to his aid and begin to devise a plan to overthrow the decoy, though the group has their doubts that each of those contacted are actually on board with the plan.
On Geyze, Tsivrixsh attempt to take Sylph using strange tech designed to capture spirits in devices. The team stops and destroys the Tsiv attempting to take Sylph and free her, and begin to get the word of warning out as to what the invaders are after. Meanwhile others head to the Magi Tower, intending to turn their Mana Canon into planetary defense.
In Erusia, Warren looks over the damage as his teams have beaten back the first wave, but at heavy costs. Keeping the teams at high alert as he signals Jennifer to take Thena and Celcius and follow his orders, the rest dig in for the long haul.
Back on Yggdrassil, the Dragoon family has hit the bottom and feel their powers weakening. Soon they may reach the fruit.
Session 519: The Final Days of Geyze
Location: Northern City
The 7 heroes have been attempting to establish themselves among the city's citizens without getting caught by the soldiers and city guard, trying to undermine the influence of the King and the other Croza here. While the heroes try to rally the citiizens into a sort of rebellion force, the others have been examining the device of the spirit trapper they were given, learning it is made of materials much like the ancient materials made creating the temples as well as ancient tech, meaning it is far beyond their ability to replicate a proper version of it, only a shoddy version. While the Northern City forces prepare for an assault any day, the team ponders using crystals to try to replicate the parts of the spirit trapping device. Celes and Ceilidh arrive and they inform the group that the streets are becoming more chaotic as the guards/soldiers are clashing with the citizens, but due to the nature of the citizens, it makes it harder to figure out who to trust into the rebellion. This soon leads to talk about no one learning about their hideout and the fact Neekito hasn't given up their location yet despite being captured days ago.
The group wants to try to attack the government building/castle where the King is located in the hopes they can rescue Neekito, but Celes points out that they don't have the man power without the spirits, who would be detected if they tried to teleport in. It's decided to use the resistance to try to take the building so Ida, Ceilidh, and Celes head out to meet with the other heroes who are overseeing the resistance that is spread out across the city to prepare for an assault. While they do that, Simon uses the extra crystals they got during their adventures on the other world to make a makeshift spirit trapper, giving them two, though Simon points out they might have to use it on Neekito if she has become corrupted by now.
Date: 19,966 5.15
Location: Northern City
Simon and Lana have designed a make-shift spirit trap that can hold a spirit for a time and the heroes have the resistance ready as the Temple Ships land on top of the castle today to do whatever it is they do every now and then, allowing the team to try to board one. As they move to the streets, they find it in pure chaos as the other heroes have already begun to have the resistance begin their distraction, leading to people attacking the guards and soldiers in the streets. The group avoids the conflicts and arrives at the building Neekito blew up a while back, which sports a major chunk of it missing now when she blew up Mal'oy. Gwen, who scouted the building the other day, leads the team to the side door for the servants and Alita uses her seduction abilities to warp their minds of the Knights guarding the door; the Knights then lead the team inside and point upward when asked about Neekito before being sent away.
As they explore the building looking for Neekito and a way up, they come across more Knights and a conference room with maps of the Kingdoms. The maps show the battle plans of the King and the Croza and how they could easily wipe out the Southern City, but it would mean losing the spirits if they just bombed the city. Lana points out they should not summon the spirits here because they are the only thing preventing an orbital bombing of the city, so Simon uses his connection to inform Chronos by summoning her and then rewinding time 15 seconds so they don't detect her. The group uses the secret room the Knights revealed during their fight but it leads to a wall; Id manages to scan and open it for the group, revealing massive chunks of the floor missing due to Neekito's attack. After some struggle, they manage to avoid the gaping holes and work their way to the temple that has landed nearby and deal with the Knights; Talia summoning cats to attack them with her Cat Spirit, which freaks the Knights out due to the lack of cats in this time period.
The commotion of the cat attack leads to the temple beginning to take off, so the group is forced to leap into it before it leaves; the ship is a bit different from the good Croza ships, but the layout is mostly the same. They come across barriers on the ship to slow them down and Ceilidh uses her heroic weapon's hammer mode to take it down, creating a tube for them to get through it. Id is suddenly attacked by the virus once again, being in the ship seemingly reactivting it, but he manages to force it off and help drop the barrier. They encounter no Croza oddly and soon find Neekito who is dragging herself out of her room, having devices on her head as she fades away and not able to communicate; Simon takes the device and they manage to give her enough spirit energy to survive for the time being.
As they head to the bridge to put the ship on land to scrap it for spirit traps, they find a single Croza piloting the ship into deep space. It seems to know they are from another time period, and does not put up much of a fight as Simon stabs it and freezes it. With the ship locked out, they continue to drift in a crash course for the Spirit Realm World. Id and Lana work together and manage to get inside for the controls as they get closer and closer to the planet; Talia and Alita begin to use their spells to try to help the ship not crash into the planet while Lana tries to pull them up from crashing. All working together, they indeed manage to just skim the planet without smashing into it. The group prepares to get what they need materials wise when the temple powers down. Meanwhile, the fighting in the northern city comes to an end as the temples fly off, leaving the 5 heroes staring as all the enemy armies have left suddenly.
Session 520: The Realm of the Spirits
Location: Spirit Realm
The ship crashed and stranded in the Spirit Realm, decides without a plan to fix the ship they may as well explore and try to find a way back on their own. As they vacate the ship it self activates and sends some kind of code while the rest begin to move or rest and recuperate in the grass.
On Geyze, Sophia, Laian, Ellie and the other heroes head south, but notice the deep quiet that signals that the attention of the enemy fleet has left the south for some reason. Aska appears to inform them that Celes' team has gone missing, but strangely feel close by. Aska promises to keep looking for them.
After wandering for some time, Celes' team finds an area that seems to conform to Kumen instead of Geyze. They then notice the fleet building on this side and decide to head back to their ship and try to find a way to stop them from taking the Spirit Realm, or using it to get to Geyze. When they return however the ship appears to have vanished, and Neekito is MIA. As they head into the forest they find Neekito is defending a rising ship from spirits.
It is at this moment that Aska arrives with the heroes and the rest of the Spirits to join a quickly upcoming battle. Id takes back control of the ship giving the team a weapon as the spirits face their corrupted counterparts and the moving fleet. The team targets the portal to stop the fleet and makes their way onward while the Spirits fight the enemy. The team disables the portal and gets away, having to retrieve those of their team helping the spirits as they blast through and away from the fleet as the Elders and the Spirits go all out on the enemy fleet.
They flee back to Southern City, and Aska reports that the Spirits won their fight, however this left many of them drained and weakened, meaning the battle to come tomorrow will be all that harder. The team brainstorms on ways they can help end the fleet and prepare for the coming day, the end of days for the Ancient War.
Session 521: The Battle of Kumen
Location: Hapian Manor
Neekito prepares full course meal for the team and hands out the food people want to eat while Sophia notes she should probably leave to meet with the other heroes now, saying her goodbyes to everyone, especially Ellie, indicating she feels a connection to the woman before she leaves. Simon announces he finished the anti-technology device last night incase it is needed for the future and soon Gale appears before everyone, taking them to meet with Aska, Shade, and Void. It is clear the strain is getting to Aska, who seems to be getting grimmer by the day as she eyes reports; asking after their ship, she gives them a mission to take the ship up to Kumen with the resistance and other heroes, where they will provide a distraction since the spirits would be detected if they teleported up to Kumen. While doing so, they are to learn what they can about Kumen and maybe even find the Ancients and destroy their real bodies. The team accepts and steps out, but not before Alita asks to pact with Void, who gives her a temporary one.
Lana seems intent on trying to get the information off of Kumen that they can before it's all gone and Ceilidh agrees with her. As they arrive at their temple ship, they find the resistance being loaded into it by the other heroes already; they find the top bridge floors untouched by the masses as they take off to Kumen. Ceilidh downloads what data she can from the computer, just to be safe, though Alita has a lot of data on her from when she had access to the friendlier Croza ship. Once in space, they find it covered in enemy ships and Kumen surrounded by temple ships. As they talk about what to do, the enemy soon begins to approach them, having sent in 20 ships; Alita uses her asteroid spell to defend them and as they get closer they open fire, with Alita and Talia powering the shields to protect them. During all this Lana works on calculating a slingshot escape jump and right as the ship is hit and sparks, they jump away and approach Kumen as more enemies pick up their trail. Lana brings them down on a landing pad with a jolt and everyone on the ship, including the other heroes and resistance, scramble out of the temple; moments later the entire landing pad explodes from the enemy fire trying to destroy them.
The city of Kumen is massive as it is designed with Ancient technology; the buildings are often 6 stories and their designs are a lot like the ships in some ways. The streets are orderly and nothing like Geyze, making it harder to hide in, as well as devices to ride in on them; everything here is very high maintence, almost like spirit-tech, but it's clear this is older technology and somehow seems to do more at the same time. Celes gets them into one of the riding devices and using the screen they are given a list of choices to be driven to, including uptown, downtown, mid-town, and Archives among other choices. As Id tries to access places, Angels appear a moment or two later, forcing Gwen to randomly pick a location which turns out to be the Archives, where there are more patrols and students moving about if anything. While Id wonders if this may lead to information on where there bodies are located, Celes dismisses that, telling him this is where students learn about subjects like spirit related topics.
They debate and soon choose Mid-Town since it's not a place students typically go to, being an industry section, and they soon arrive to find here is large devices, almost spirit-tech in nature, building other devices; being all automated, the devices build each other, then build buildings, that then help the city grow. Whatever ancient tech is being used to build all this up, it is likely how the Croza Empire rose up so fast and is clearly leagues above today's spirit-tech. In the center of it all is a massive building, a dome like structure; as they take note of it, Sophia and the others begin their attack on Kumen as alarms go off due to explosions in the distance, causing a brief pause in the automation. The team votes to approach the dome building while the other heroes are doing their thing; they have Lana hotwire the driving device and take off toward the dome where they find it's most likely the center of Kumen City in the future. They find a single door that needs an ID to open so they use Lana's student ID and Simon uses his time powers to figure out which way to hotwire it properly without setting off the alarms, getting the door open. As they stand before a large hallway, they swamped with large amounts of Spirit Energy before they step inside.
Date: 10-642.5.16
Location: Yggdrasil
Cheryl is attacked by root and has her arm shattered, avoiding a few more root attacks; Angela uses her shield ability to protect the group from more attacks and in the far back are golden fruit that they are after. Angela touches Cheryl's arm and has to put effort into healing it while they come up with a battle plan to get to the fruit, involving sacrificing Betas while Taiga goes for the fruit, who notes that she hopes they haven't missed too much while being down here.
Location: Kumen
The previous day, the Aquarius team defended the planet while the other team protected the spirits from the Tsivrixsh, but with Kumen's fleet reduced to help bolster the Earth Fleet, the Kumen fleet has taken it's hits; the city has been damage and with little sleep, the Aquarius has been put on almost 24/7 call to patrol the city from the Tsivrixsh threat in the sky until they get reinforcements from Geyze. Ylva, the President, is MIA after one of the bombings and Ymir is now running both President offices and no one has stepped up to stop her. The Aquarius crew sits on the ship trying to keep themselves awake when two Tsivrixsh bombers and two trooper ships make a run for the city; Caesune Guane appears on their screen to inform them of the situation and that Ymir hasn't finished her plans yet. They are sent off to intercept the enemy who are targetting Ymir's building and they stop one bomber and the bomb it dropped, but part of the roof is damaged; afterwarf they utterly decimate the second bomber, but during this the trooper ships have had time to drop their troops. They take out the trooper ships even though the Tsivrixsh have already scattered and are about on Kumen.
Caesune has them land on Ymir's roof and once downstairs, they meet up with Selena, Asarar's group, Rain and Sasha, and others from Geyze. Selena informs them that even though they used the Magi Tower, the Tsivrixsh still have a grip on Geyze and that they have found the time portal cave. The only thing slowing them down right now is someone with monsters is getting in their way, but they also unleashed a feral corrupt spirit from the time portal cave and it's roaming about Geyze causing trouble. Ymir announces she has an idea how to wrap up the problem on Kumen and deal with Tsivrixsh using all the spirits abilities; using an invention she created studying the spirits all these years, it will send out a spirit attack wave through the planet and destroy every one of them since the Tsivrixsh are weak against spirit attacks. She notes she could do it on Geyze, but admits she is unsure how it could affect the planet's spirit balance. With only a 5% - 10% risk on the spirits, everyone agrees to go for it, minus the younger Spirits.
They gather the Elder Spirits, who note they lost sight of the feral spirit, and Chronos is also present, floating and observing the city as if she is peering into the past while those who the spirit wave might damage like Airym are moving into Ymir's building to be protected from the wave. When asked what she is doing, she comments that she is keeping an eye on those in the past who are fighting at this exact moment as well. The Tsivrixsh show up to try to stop the spirits, coming with spirit traps, as they fly in with bombers and trooper ships; as the spirits are drained by the machine, those on the roof have to defend the machine and the spirits. After a fierce battle, the spirit wave shoots off and the Tsivrixsh "vanish" due to being destroyed, wiping them out all over the planet, even reaching some in the space around Kumen. Asarar and Logan decide to go after the feral spirit that is MIA right now causing havoc on Geyze, so Luci asks Ymir if she can make a spirit core, which Ymir agrees if she can find the time to do so, she will, since Ylva will likely be injured pretty bad if she is found.
Location: PAX
The PAX is almost in position for the ambush and Lenneth announces it will be sometime this evening or tomorrow morning. Lenneth tells them she's brought over more pieces of the other PAX to repair this one but at the end of the day they've done really what they can for this ship repair wise and they can use lesser materials to try to patch the ship up. A transmission comes in from Geyze with someone using monsters, saying they defeated the Tsivrixsh guarding the time portal, before handing it to Chad since the rest is for him alone. At first Thena thinks it's Autumn but all Chad says is that it's not her.
Location: Yggdrasil
As the Betas throw themselves at the roots, Taiga dashes in with her eyes going golden, followed by Si doing her flame thing. Using her probability reality powers, Taiga reaches the fruit as Si protects the two from the roots; as Montana is crushed, Taiga and Si make it back to the others with the golden fruit. Turning into a dragon with Si, Taiga flies them upward toward the last village on the one branch where they left Kaori.
Location: ????
Commander Kru'ul tosses the report of the fleet on Kumen being wiped out to the man and seems enraged at their tactics of using these moves to wipe out his people. Informing his people he will be transferring command to the new flagship, he announces they will be flying for Earth and that they are destroying anything that gets in their way.
Session 522: The X'vash Dreadnaught
Location: Tsivrixsh Capital
As a storm beats upon the capital, those who have changed their appearance to look Tsivrixsh have returned normal now when Kre'trav arrives to inform them that the Second has left a map at the drop box. Shretrav and Kyun study the map of the catacombs and believe they can get inside the inner palace chambers. They decide to tackle the problem tonight and take to the streets and after encountering some patrols and Michelle flashbanging them, the group breaks off into a run into the catacombs. Once in there they are ambushed by more Tsivrixsh at the last leg of their journey and after a fierce battle where Shretrav is xvashed and poisoned, the group comes out on top. Ka'pla arrives and takes Shretrav back to their base and warns Kyun might be in trouble if they were ambushed as the group heads on to the palace with the map.
Location: Yggdrasil
Taiga, Angela, Si, and Cheryl arrive up top on a branch where Wind is training Kaori to use her Reality Powers as Taiga collapses on the branch tired; after some small talk and Wind calling Angela "Sera", he warns that the fruit might be dangerous or something more. He notes they should take Kaori with them since the tree isn't safe anymore and uses his hyperspace to take all of them to medical. As they arrive and Cuddles takes the fruit to give to Yuki, Xanatos updates Cheryl on the situation while Jaime and Adeline work together to download data from the other PAX and bring important parts from the ship over to their PAX. As this is is going on, the Tsivrixsh and Sommelier's Dark Ones arrive to attack the PAX and everyone begins to get into battle situations - Athena with her idols such as Victoire, Thena, and Reikana to use the Idol Machine, the main group onto the bridge or war room, and others to the hangers.
The Dark One ships begin to use a super move that vaporizes the other PAX that Xanatos set up as bait, which allows the Suisen Empire's forces to get in range. The group unleashes all their fire power upon Sommelier's Dark Ones while Angela uses her Beta army to keep the Tsivrixsh at bay. Soon the Dark Fleet retreats behind the planet after taking losses and begins to use dark magic; when investigated by the Iron Paw, it gets torn to shreds. Andrea goes out into space to use her own dark magic to help free the Paw from the dark magics/mine so the PAX can tractor it in. The PAX flies in and manages to avoid the mines left behind by the Dark Fleet with Xanatos' skill and Chad's back up, allowing them to get near the planet; this allows the Idols and the PAX to take out his fleet but they learn he's not on them, but in the atmosphere of the planet. Noire takes a shuttle with a small team down to the atmosphere to go after her arch nemesis, along with Yuki who steals a shuttle to follow. But this leaves them with dealing with the Tsivrixsh fleet while they're on the planet.
Location: Lemon's Manor
On Kumen, Ymir informs the Aquarius crew that the Time Gate might be MIA as the Aquarius moves to help out with Earth's invasion and that she will be looking into it. Cypher takes the Mew Mew and also powers it up to leave as well. At the manor, Lemon eyes the entire Tsivixsh Fleet arriving within the hour so they inform President Dias by going to the Presidental Tower. Stacey is running around trying to deal with all the Admirals and Generals of Earth while Dias is his typical self as the Aquarius and the Mew Mew arrive on the rooftop. They begin to call in all the Dragoons and Weapons they can for the battle that is coming up. And soon the battle begins with EarthGov taking heavy loses as the Aquarius draws aggro and takes out many ships. Also during this, Cran's reploids Blue and Cole fly a ship in space while Kane, Angel, and Zephyr are on the ground.
With the Tsivrixsh having Dark Tech and sounds beating the crap out of EarthGov outside the Aquarius, they soon have Kyouki brought in to help as a massive Tsivrixsh ship begins to tower over Earth. As Kru'ul demands their surrender to avoid further blood shed, it begins to aim at the planetary defense system. Angel teleports and uses the Dark Rune on it, since the Runes were split off from the Rune Sword recently by Erevis. This leads to the Dark Rune taking the brunt of the super blast and being warped beyond use and taking out 40% of the defense systems. Somehow, Angel manages to survive the blast and the group turns to Kyouki to help survive another blast, with Lemon offering to take her up there.
Session 523: The Chronological Theorem
Location: Kumen, Mid-Town
The goup, after some debate, decide to go inside after leaving some of their number behind - Neekito, Liana, and Ellie, while the resistance keeps the Croza busy in the distance; however as they begin to move down the hallway, the door shuts behind them, sealing them inside and soon a beam of light seems to scan them, causing the lighting to turn red. The door out of the hallway, being made of the same material of the Ancient materials for all their stuff, blocks them from exiting, so Bix punches it, damaging his hand but gives a foothold for Simon to use his spear to wedge the door open so everyone can lift it open and slide under it and escape. There they find a room with star charts hovering in the air and lots of terminals, as well as multiple room exits, but no labels as to what they might be for, as well as warnings on each screen. As they get rid of the warnings, learning it is for intruders, Ceilidh accesses the terminals to learn about the device in the center of the room, finding out it is device for creation: it is used to make more of the building; it is a mini ancient device much like they saw on their way in where buildings were being created.
While Lana works on bringing down the lock down, Gwen and Talia move down one of the hallways to explore it and Alita hears someone sneaking down another hallway. As Lana works, she barely avoids being attacked by an invisible spirit that tries to stab her in the back, then tries for Ceilidh. Bix gets a lucky strike and a male assassin spirit forms for a moment right as Lana brings down the lock down so Id can join them. The assassin tries to get away before their spirit trap they made with spare parts traps it, but who knows for how long; Celes places it somewhere in the room and places things on top of the trap for the time being. At that time, Alita senses something is attacking Gwen and Talia, interrupting Simon's study of the Constructor, forcing them to follow Alita after them in a honeycomb like structure, with machines seeming to be automated here.
As they arrive where Gwen and Talia were at, they find a room where there is a terminal on the bad Croza's plans on the Spirits called the Next Phase, but a Slime Spirit is there causing problems with it's various abilities and shapes. As they use ice abilities to slow it down, it moves over to slime Lana and tries to take over her body; Ceilidh then uses her hammer to create the salt of the earth to use on the spirit. It retreats from Lana, getting away from the salt, and prepares it's ultimate attack right as Talia tries to use soap cats on it. The ultimate slime attack begins to consume consumes the cats, then Gwen and Talia, and part of the equipment right as the salt hits the slime girl and Simon uses ice, stopping the slime girl in her place. However the equipment is gooped and no longer works, but Gwen assures them the goop will dissolve in time, just like their clothes have already done.
They arrive at the center of the complex where there is another bio-scanner like what they found to get inside, but this time above them, indicating the door leads to a chamber above them. As they plan how to get through it, they encounter a cute spirit of about 4 feet, that seems to corrupted, but then comedically sends Gwen flying with her overwhelming power, but at the same time is friendly when Bix is as well. While Lana, Simon, and Id work on getting through the door, the others deal with the spirit, trying to distract her with games or talking to her, barely keeping her from attacking them anymore, until finally they manage to open the door and get through it, even when it begins to attack them as they begin to try to leave.
As they finally escape the spirit, ignoring the banging on the door, the team finds themselves in a chamber full of Angelic bodies that the Croza use in docking chambers all over and in the center of the room are the Croza themselves, in an area where it allows them to link up to a mass number of the bodies to wage the war. It seems to allow them to monitor the situation and link them with multiple bodies at once if needbe. As the team debates if they should call in Aska and the others like the Light Spirit wanted, they decide to honor her wishes and the group calls in Aska, Shade, Void, and Chronos to deal with the Croza and try to wipe them out; right as they do that, the good Croza can be seen on the screen finally arriving to provide reinforcement, battling their evil brethren. An all-out battle occurs, with even Neekito, Ellie, and Liana arriving, but it doesn't go all that smoothly as other corrupted spirits arrive to provide assistance to protect the Croza, and both sides take damage and the Croza manage to escape in their Angel bodies and are not fully wiped out.
Leviathan and Frost stay behind to try to stop their fellow spirits and begin to combine to do a super move, so Aska prepares to destroy them, not knowing about the spirit traps. Alita uses a meteor attack and strikes Frost, causing the move to fire off earlier and it strikes Void, but due to it firing off early it doesn't do too much damage to him. Shade and Aska due to their own combination move, light and dark, and fire at Leviathan and while Simon is inititally reluctant to use their true spirit trap, Gwen and Lana point out that they can get more if the Croza are back and Id should have the knowledge in his memory. As the attack fires off at Leviathan, Simon throws the trap and manages to trap her just moments before the combination beam would hit her, and Aska sags in relief at not needing to have to destroy her fellow spirit as the other corrupted spirits book it.
Chronos borrows Simon for a bit, claiming she needs to talk to him about something, leaving the group to their own devices. Shade offers to do one thing for the team while they have time and they opt to go to the console that was slimed; teleporting them back to the one room, they begin to examine the the console and find it no longer slimed. As they boot up the console, they learn that they began to experiment with the Spirits and discovered there was something when introduced with and an "unknown Ancient term", it changed the spirits, making them stronger, but also changed their personalities. There is video evidence of it changing power and transformation abilities, but also causing personality to become erratic. The data goes on to state the transformation, which the team calls the corruption, could induce almost any sort of transformation and power in spirits, and it's believed by the Croza to be the next step; however the other Croza did not believe it, leading to their falling out and civil war. While working on copying the data, the young spirit begins to get closer again, leading to Talia having to try to distract her since she seemed to be interested in her last time, slowly walking toward them, causing the other spirits to debate destroying her. Lana notes that if they could find the substance that was part the Croza experiments, they might could help with a more permenant cure in the long run, so Bix offers to stay behind and look for it; after a brief little spat between Aska and the girl spirit, Shade warps the group out of the building to where Sophia's resistance is at.
The resistance is mostly decimated and Sophia and the amazon hero are no longer moving on the ground until Alita and Ceilidh help them. Chronos returns with Simon and Aska tries to get into one of the Croza ships - the Good Croza ships - that has crashed into a Kumen battle nearby, leaving them only 9 ships to the hundreds of ships left for the enemy, hoping to find some traps for spirits and check on the Croza. Shade makes an offer to take anyone back to Geyze if they want to leave this battle and go home, knowing their situation, when she senses Gale and Gaia battling the Croza, their powers attacking the ships and moves off to find them, promising to return to see who wants to take up her offer. Simon encourages Lana to take the offer as Talia pressures Gwen to go with Lana and herself back to Geyze as Simon hands Lana what she'll need for the time portal. Aska takes the rest who are ready to continue seeing the rest forward and warps them into the heart of it.
Session 524: The Galactic Conflict II
Location: Tsivrixsh Capital
Ka'pla leads the way with Shretrav after she was poisoned as acidic rain pours down into the catacombs. Asha and Michelle manage to save the map after a gust of wind takes it away and they use it to solve the symbols to open the passage and climb up a ladder. As they arrive in the upper palace, they slide their way down to the council chambers below.
Location: Battleworld
They are brought before Amazo while Mercy talks about how Harbinger has become dangerous and they'll need Amazo's help down the road. There the two sides begin to talk and even learn that Gartareh was destroyed by people on Geyze and they make the offer of joining them to defeat Harbinger. Durt brings up the idea of this all being a plot to find a stronger body which Amazo notes is not a bad idea, but in the end he agrees to join them without much fuss, surprising the group. The group gathers upgraded wepaons and armor and steps out with Amazo. As Amazo sets his place to blow up in a day, they all step out to be picked up Vesper, who us acting "Dusk" like where Sia and Lia have fake drawings of vampire bites on their necks and a dark aura from Vesper emitting due to how long the group was in there without contact. After clearing everything up and Vesper returning to normal, they set out.
Location: Sommelier World
Ren's group manages to catch up to Noire and Jaime who went ahead, leading Yuki, Charlotte, Si, Marcus, Idlet, Tabetha, and Ulieah along the dark aura filled ground as they soon find the two battling trees and the ground itself. Even the grass joins in on trying to get rid of them as everyone repels the world trying to get rid of them. Charlotte calls out for Sommelier, leading to multiple Sommeliers appearing and trying to skewer her. After dealing with the Sommeliers they head forward and soon come across Andrea gathering dark power that she attacks with the team with her powers. While Noire gets angry about the Andrea thing and still is sensing him nearby, Charlotte realizes that he is the planet itself and Jaime agrees; they use their powers to attack the ground and they turn back into Sommelier.
As Charlotte begins to try to drain the planet as well as Noire with her Dark Glaive, giant hands form out of the planet to crush them. This leads to a battle with the giant hands, Marcus grappling with him along with Jaime with her Titan Glove, Noire and Charlotte begin to drain the land's area to make it smaller and smaller. After managing to defeat the hands, he switches to a giant Andrea/Sommelier that tries to beat them. After a long harsh battle, Sommelier begins to pull the group into the planet to trap them forever; Charlotte copies Sommelier's Dark Planet Hand powers to attack him with and hits the core, freeing several people. As Noire is freed with Jaime, they strike the core and destroy it, allowing Sommelier to appear; he tries to Dark Teleport, but only does so right through Noire's Dark Absorb. The rest of them manage to get to their ship as the planet shrinks to nothing and find the PAX still battling Tsivrixsh as they reach the bridge.
Location: Geyze
Asarar's team keeps an eye on Tsirixsh plotting how to make a comeback when the spirit shows up and beats them silly, transforming into various forms. The group attempt to use the trap and manages to nab the spirit inside it, while it is distracted. Meanwhile at the Tsivrixsh capital, Ka'pla prepares her group as they enter the room with the council room. On Earth, they prepare to use Kyouki to defeat the Tsivrixsh super ship. On Erusia, the Swarm has decimated Erusia's defenses and the Templar ships. After attempting to raise the ships on comms, Warren gets Cersei who states that Swarm has left after doing heavy damage and so Warren sends Jennifer and Celsius out to the PAX while he works on repairing the Templar ships.
Location: PAX
As everyone arrives, Lenneth announces she finally got an answer on who ordered the attack on the station the Tsivrixsh took over that led to disaster - Stacey. As they prepare for the Swarm coming their way, the group has some time as Andrea studies some of her books and checks on Noire after consuming Sommelier. After asking her about her future, Andrrea turns back to her work and lets Noire be.
Session 525: The Galactic Conclusion - Anniversary 24
Location: Tsivrixsh Capital
Vesper's Ship enters the Tsiv homeworld orbit and thanks to Amazo's current position, the team is able to stay in orbit without being ejected. The team gathers what info they can from space before focusing on one of the few Marked among Kellin's team. Kaelan offers Nocturne to teleport the crew and the group appears among the Council's debate about which is the real Kyun. As they debate continues, the team rejoined, Kaelan gets a terrible feeling, as a Dark One she senses an incredible saturation of Dark One energy and while the council tries to ignore her, Kyun and Lorelei listen, knowing full well what it means. Lorelei begins to move her group towards an ancient mine shaft thought long forgotten.
Date: 19,966 5.16
Those that chose to return to the present are waiting as they continue to grow upset, realizing they were not ready and leave the others behind. They all agree and when Shade comes to take them, they ask to be brought back to the others. Right before a Temple ship crashes down on their location.
They rejoin the others heavily in combat on Geyze, facing off over 10 Temple Ships closing in on the last of free Geyze peoples. Gaia and Gale rush into battle and Void holds his own down below as Aska and Shade work with the party to unleash attacks on the ships. They see no other choice than to infiltrate the command ship and hurry on forwards, however they run into a major obstacle as the Nuclear Spirit stands waiting for them.
Date: 10-641.5.16
The PAX crew meets once again to absorb the information about the Swarm incoming and the developments on the Tsiv Homeworld. Empress and Erevis seem to have come to an agreement on a plan to stop the swarm while Xanatos is set to command the fleet against it. The group all lays out their own methods to help, Leyaeh sending the PAX Famfrits to patch holes in the ship with crystal, Angela providing a Vanguard of Mechs with the Epsilon and Chad quietly moving to enact his own secret plans. Adeline presents last minute boosts to the ship and brings Jaime along with her to access Progenitor tech panels.
On Earth, the Heroes are gathering in various locations to stop the Tsivrixsh Dragoon Killers that land on the ground and start disabling Dragoons fighting in space, while Kyouki begins to disable the Dark One augmentations on the Tsivrixsh fleet, slowly turning the tide of battle. Venerator sends word that he has a weapon ready to end the war to Kane, but requires Adeline to access it. Reluctantly, he reaches out to his adopted daughter. Dias meanwhile, works out plans to fire himself into the enemy mothership.
On the Tsivrixsh Hoemworld, Lorelei leads the team to a shaft that her mother and aunt many years ago covered in binding charms, all of which now seem to have been broken. Going down and tracking the Hunter behind everything, they come to a tentacle filled lair and at it's hard, a Dark Mind, a large disgusting brain and system to breed new Dark Ones. The team battles the tentacles and targets the brain, ultimately destroying it with their efforts, having to flee at the end as the mines begin to collapse. The terror filled seed that Legion once planted there years ago destroyed once and for all, and the Hunter carried out, body broken in Amazo's hand, having GENTLY captured him for the group.
Locaion: PAX
The team meets on the PAX, reviewing issues as the Swarm Approaches. The ship's Famfrits are still repairing all the holes in the PAX while Angela is setting up a secondary defense grid with the Epsilon. Lenneth reviews how the war is going on Earth and Adeline, Charlotte, Tabetha and others elect to go and help stop the world destroyer's progress while Erevis and Empress outline their plan B, involving a vacuum based Progenitor attack. As those progenitors step into space, Erevis, Empress, Sammael, Ao, and Drasek, along with Wind of all people, the rest prepare for battle.
A battle of attrition ensues as the team works together to repel the Swarm, at the end of the day however, two joined attacks from the elder Dark Ones, Andrea and Bobbie and the Progenitor's combined Hyperspace attack decimate the enemy hive, all but destroying it. However, when everyone returns from the battle, there are casualties, as Andrea is nowhere to be found and Erevis returns without Empress. Jaime and Noire both seem to have lost someone dear to them, and Noire storms off, upset that Andrea might have left her like this.
On Earth, the Aquarius lends aid in the Defense of Earth, providing a powerful spirit force the enemy didn't plan for. Seeing the planet destroyer closing in on Mega City however, they rush to help stop it, for Earth, and Tony's Pizza. Adeline's group follows Venerator's instructions to a secret base where a powerful canon is set up, needing only Adeline's DNA to access. She uses it, the canon blowing a powerful blast through the Tsivrixsh World Destroyer and all hands, except for it's canon, abandoning ship, Dias, who was confronting him, has to give the man credit as he uses his last moments to drift the ship away from Mega City, saving it. Dias flees for his life as it crash lands.
Date: 19,966 5.16
The battle rages on against the Croza, the spirits begin to fall one by one into corruption while the team does all they can to take out the remaining ships. Just when things are looking positive however, many more Croza join the fight and the impossibility they face becomes apparent. It is at that moment that Simon reveals his inteions and uses his favor with Chronos. "Chronos, I wish the Croza never existed." With that, Simon pays the ultimate price as the Croza cease to have ever existed, and along with them, so does he. Chronos, playing between the moments in time betfore her erasure in time, begins to send the others back to their present and correct the anomolies of such a huge change in history.
Those have survived are sent forward to new eras, to shape and aid in the correction of history as they travel home.