Location: PAX
Empress Lenneth informs everyone the state of the Suisen Empire and the PAX coming out the major battles they've been in lately as the war is winding down, going over the costs of the damage done to their planets, the Iron Paw, aiding their allies, losing several Suisen ships, as well as the damage to the PAX itself - after laying it out that they could have the Tsivrixsh shoulder the cost, the group agrees to argue to the Council that they should be let off as not to create resentment amongst the Tsivrixsh - which leads to Lenneth informing them that the Suisen Empire is near broke. While they can afford to maintain the status quo, they cannot afford to build up things or finish repairs on the PAX and Lenneth will have to find other ways to increase their funds, despite many in the family having their own personal wealth. Jaime points out that they do have a lot of data from the other PAX and many other technology that they still have to go through that might help them find a way to bounce back.
Location: PAX
Date: 10-642.5.30
People have begun to notice the PAX has stopped it's repair work and Imugem grows annoyed at the lack of repairs on the Iron Paw, but Lenneth has turned the teleportation system back on leading to things starting to become normal again as Bobbi has been located and being part of the Dark One Council on the Dark One Homeworld. While Rachael and Valen get in a curse the system mood due to being yanked out of school so much lately due to the God Hunts, Kaelan opens up a clothing store in one of the stores on the PAX and gets Moira to a model for her. Charlotte even expresses interest in how Kaelan makes her clothing as her and Ren sit in Katrina's bar.
As this is going on the Aquarius arrives in the hanger after being invited there by someone; Yuki stops by and catches up with the crew when Erevis and Xanatos join them. Erevis informs the crew her plans for the Aquarius to take up exploring the galaxy - especially the Unknown Regions - with how everything is changing and let them know what they find out there and inform them of any dangers that might be lurking so that they might prepare in the future for another threat. The crew agrees and Erevis prepares to pay for a personal overhaul of the Aquarius to make it stronger for the trip.
Lorelei calls her team to meet her in one of the conference rooms to bring everyone up to speed and she informs them she is indeed looking into Harbringer, but it might take a bit for her and Durt to discover him. While that is happening she encourages the team to resume their normal lives and do what they wish to do in the meantime. Moira gets a contract from Kaelan and Rachael begrudingly works on school on Geyze still. Lenneth and the Suisen Council hold a meeting on the fate of the Tsivrixsh and Emperor Kyun speaks to the council offers to have his people work with the other worlds, bolestering their ships to support the war torn worlds and they will be under their command, in order to bind the Tsivrixsh to the other worlds and unify them. Some accept the deal, but in the end they agree to wave the crime away, allowing Noire and Kyouki - the chosen councilers for the Dark Ones to speak and set up things for the Dark One Homeworld. Due to the state of the Suisen Empire, the Cartel takes the lead in supplying them what they need to get started.
Location: Geyze
The Time Portal is still missing and no one seems to have any idea where it could be - even the Tsivrixsh and Asarar and Shade seem to be disturbed by something they are not saying. With the Academy closing up for summer and leaving only those around who teach summer classes, Asarar and her group debate what to do now and debate heading back to Kumen. After a commotion they arrive to find Lumi and Selena with Bix's head and discussing the time portal, believing it to be the Hunters who took the portal. Since only Maka can track down Hunters, they debate what the Hunters could want with a portal and Nicolette brings up maybe they'd want to use it for the future, not the past since nothing has changed. When Nicolette fails to summon Chronos, but instead Avenir, she tells them it feels like Chronos was erased a week ago from time, leading to Nicolette to become distressed.
Lumi decides to have Asaar's team find a way to get the rest of Bix's body so they can attach the head and it's remembered about the lab on Kumen, so Avenir sends Asarar's team up to the sub-levels on Kumen where it's in even worse shape than usual due to the war damage not showing any light anymore with the damage up above. After almost being robbed and losing Chelsea, the group heads to the bar to set up base before looking for the lab. Meanwhile Selean and Nicolette summon Aska who explains they felt her presense vanish a week ago. Selean and Nicolette decide to explore Hapian Castle for clues on what has happened with Selena's mothers since with the time portal being gone, she is worried about them and recalls seeing a painting that got her mother worried and that the painting looked like her. The two decide to turn Hapian castle upside down.
Location: PAX
Katrina eyes her bill going up next month, indicating Lenneth is raising the bills for all those on the floor with the stores. Erevis meanwhile ponders with Xanatos what all is left to be defeated out there - the Dark Ones' minions like the Hunters, what monsters they brought out to fight the war, the final God Harbringer, and finally the Templar Titus that is still lurking out there.
Location: Southern City
After the battle with the Ancients, Kumen's destruction can still be seen in the sky as objects still rain down on Geyze for over a week doing untold damage to the planet, leading to a changing of the landscape as the air has become stale, fire weak, oceans no longer giving life as they once were, and the earth is weakening and not producing crops. The Southern City's landscape has changed as the port water has dried up making it look more like the area of Hapian in the future and the group goes to talk to the remaining spirits of Aska, Shade, Void, and Chronos. The heroes are present and it's clear Aska has changed due to the people blaming the spirits for the planet growing sick, sneering a bit at the people turning on them and losing so many spirits in the war. Celes suggests opening up pacting to the public, tying them the Spirits to them, which horrorfies Aska, but Shade agrees. Chronos soon sets them apart and notes she found a note on person to aid them and delivers Bix to them - intact with a head. It seems Bix has been taken the moment before his head is to be put in the cave to aid the group in the years to come.
Date: 10,996 7.24
The heroes have worked on restoring the city while Aska withdraws from everyone; Shade and Chronos have taken up the pact offer and Void has well, though he makes people do challenges to accept his power. Shade soon prepares to leave with Autumn, the Dark Hero, and points at the spot on the map that will become the Dark Lands in the future. Celes notes her plans to build a castle with the manor to protect the spirit realm after it being left vulnerable and Aska takes to it after overhearing it, agreeing and will use her power to help combine the spirit realm with the castle. Bix eagerly takes up the job of construction for Hapian going forward.
Year 2: PFA (Post Fall of Ancients)
Location: Hapian City (once Southern City)
As the Heroes have left slowly except Ceilidh, Hapian Castle has been constructed with the spirit realm being attached to it and Aska keeping to the castle mainly. Aska uses the remains of the Ancient ships to design a sword for Liana, creating the Ancient Hapian Sword that would become the first royal blade. A few months later, recruiting and gathering a small army for Bix to train, they manage to repel a bandit army that tries to take over their citty.
Date: Year 5 PFA
After Sophia left in the third year, Hapian City has grown to become the first major city on Geyze. Celes comments on wanting someone to paint her, indicating this is around the time of her having a child with Liana.
Session 528: Dangers of the Past
Location: PAX
While the Dark One seats are constructed on the PAX, Lenneth raises taxes on the shops and apartments, and Taiga buffs up the Aquarius' engines for it's mission, everyone continunes to deal with the unrest as the war continues to wind down. Xanatos and Lenneth discuss the fact the Cartel is swooping in and aiding all their allies' problems from the war, despite all the damage they suffered, with Lenneth noting they likely are hiding how much damage they suffered from the war. Lenneth notes that funding was getting lower under the previous Empress and she wants to know what she was spending it on, vowing to look into it. As Valen and Kaelen debate what Valen can do as an easy job, Lenneth goes over the problems of the Hunters taking the time portal and the Dark Ones' creatures roaming about and causing problems in the region. As they have enough ships left to patrol their own area of space at least, they decide to place the there for the time being, while Valen and company work at Kaelan's to get the shop up and running.
Date: 10-642.6.20
Location: Geyze
Selena, Jaime, and Nicolette search Hapian castle for clues on her mothers, joined by Sylph and soon Sasha, as they try to find secret passages throughout the castle. As Selena explains the design of the castle and how it connects to the spirit realm to Nicolette, Jaime suggests searching the spirit realm if it's not in the castle itself. Aska notes it would be rather bold to sneak something into the spirit realm during the construction since she oversaw it, but they decide to check it out anyway. Aska asks them to pardon the fog in the spirit realm, which continues to build every decade she notes. After using Nicolette's cards they discover that the chandlier is the only thing that has not been replaced over the years. As they try to bring it down, it crashes down and Nicolette protects them with a magic shield, revealing it was made with some shoddy spirit-tech long before it was invented. They find the initials and coordinates that are the academy's and after Sylph checks it out, she tells them it is underneath Sasha's temple.
Location: Kumen
The team begins their investigation into Bix and the lab they found last time, setting out into the darkened streets. As they reach the location, they find it has been looted but luckily find pieces of a Bix biotect with body parts all over. After dealing with some looters, they take the body parts back to the bar to bring to Lumi.
Location: Earth
Cheryl moves back into the manor after having been on the PAX during the majority of the war; Chii is holding a blonde baby as they come back. Lemon and Kane comment on them having another child as they unpack and Angela following them back to the manor. Cheryl and Kane discuss the rising problems on Earth lately - including Cran rising up in the ranks and even Venerator gaining some popularty by saving the Earth in the last battle. Lemon promises to kill any of them that go near Wade, including V.I due to their hand, and they discuss Venerator's family ties to Charlotte, Stacey, and Zephyr, leading to Chii asking if anyone has seen Zephyr in months. As they discuss if Stacey can be trusted after her shady dealings lately, including the Tsivrixsh and the EarthGov station, they decide to look into her and keep an eye on her before Adeline comes home for dinner.
On the PAX, Adeline prepares to go to Earth when she notes that Earth is going to be celebrated as a War Hero. As they discuss that, Ren rushes in and cries for help, stating her club room will not be repaired, being one of the rooms destroyed when the PAX was damaged, and needing a new room. As they discuss where to do the Fumoffu club room from now on, Noire and Charlotte joining them, they opt to do it at Noire's apartment. Ren and Charlotte head to salvage what they can from the club room in the destroyed part of the PAX while Bobbi contacts Noire about Dark One matters; Adeline and Jaime head to Earth to have dinner with her family. There they discuss the matters of Cran and Venerator before settling down to have dinner with everyone, even bringing Gnome to join them.
Location: Geyze
As Cypher walks out of Luci's bar with body parts (Bix's), Selena, Sasha, and Nicolette join Sylph as she uses her power to dig out a portion of the ground to reveal a buried chamber. As Nicolette uses her light to shine a light inside, it seems Celes stored tons of documents and other items inside. journals, manuscripts other things that look like they are related to the time travel trip. Manuscripts that Celes deemed too risky for the time period, things Ceilidh developed and put in here, as Ceilidh's notes. Selena uncovers a painting of Celes in a beautiful ancient Hapian style dress with Liana standing next to her. Sasha immediately notes they must secure this chamber due to what all is stored inside it.
Timeline: Year 7 PFA (Post Fall of Ancients) - Year 30 PFA (Post Fall of Ancients)
Location:
Hapian Kingdom
Due to skipping the session, this summary will summarize what would have been RPed. The group sets up the ground work for the Hapian Dynasty in the future so that they will slowly become the leading Kingdom over the next few thousand years, creating the ground work for the castle with it's basic spirit technology that will be expanded upon with Ceilidh creating that ground work with Celes. Bix and his farmers help create plants that will nuture the spirits and sprites that are to come in the future that will lead to the steam punk feel of the city that the Hapians are dependant upon with their spirit tech, since the sprites power most of their technology. And Celes selects the location of the Academy with the wrecked Ancient ships to bury her journals and logs to leave journals and information for the future.
As time continues and Chronos' spell has led to people no longer remembering the true name of the Ancients, some begin to call them the First Ones and looking into them leads to the information that they have been around for longer than was believed, mixing with some races like the Hapian people perhaps. Celes and Liana have a daughter and Ceilidh also soon has a child of her own while at the castle. As they raise their children and prepare their daughter to become the future Empress that will lead Hapian, the group continues to investigate the secrets of the "First Ones" and the technology that has been buried all over Geyze, even as Geyze begins to show some signs of waning. Aska, Shade, and Void make noise that they hope to one day maybe make new spirits, but the power of the spirit realm is depleted at this time.
Eventually after 25 years of preparing things and setting things up for the future generations and looking into things, the future version of Chronos appears in her younger self's body to take those in the past forward in time to "the next important point in time". Bix, Ceilidh, Ida, Liana, and Id prepare for the trip forward.
Session 530: New Problems Arise
Location: PAX
As the Suisen Empire continues to limp along and help repair what it can on the PAX before it ceased, as well as the worlds under it's umbrella, allowing the Cartel to continue to expand it's influence among their allies, Athena informs her idols they will have to power down and shelf the idol machine since it draws too much power. Athena hands out to the girls an offer to join her idol agency to spread love across the galaxy on a love tour, but Reikana notes she has an agent in the form of Madison, her fiance. After talking to her about something, Madison has Reikana meet her at Katrina's. There she has fancy food and candles set out and the two begin to have a private conversation where she proposes to her; while this is going on, Kaelan moves over to Rachael who is talking to no one and soon centers her by talking about summer school. Lenneth gets in touch with Airym and asks her to investigate a planet of that might fall under magical properties that is under the Suisen's purview.
Location: Earth
Cran is at his new military complex before a selective military crowd as medals are given to Blue and Cole, as well as Cran, for their part in the battle on Earth, presented to them by Stacey. The team watches the procedings as Cran makes his speech as Sabrina is with Lemon's crew, scanning for Hunters, before moving off to talk to Stacey about something and letting the Reploids have their moment in the limelight. It is clear they are disagreeing about something before they go seperately and Dias joins Stacey. While Cheryl and Chad seem to think Cran will never change, Sabrina reports the presense of a makai and Zayne makes her presense known, dressed like a civilian and informing him she likes to know what pops up near her, indicating she is living on Earth now. As a tour begins with the reploids and Cran leading the military people through certain areas of the base, it is clear he keeps them certain areas, but it's also clear he's invested in the Repliforce project. Angela decides to just ask him outright if he's seen Venerator which is a negative and he gives his warnings about keeping Venerator from any sort of power; with renmants of V.I around, they'll want to hoist him up and make him their leader and it'll turn Venerator from a powerless man into a man who thinks he can do something again. He also informs them he believes Stacey is hiding something, working with the military generals to push agendas forward. When asked about the reploids, he confesses it's his way of seeking redemption for what he did to Ariel and the dragoons like ago. As they all leave, Zayne and Chad discuss the nature of fooling oneself to changing.
Location: Kumen
With Barry back at the bar once more, Asarar's team goes over the information they have collected about sightings of the original spirits all over Kumen during their corrupted days - before and after they got their devices that kept them alive. Asarar calls in a spirit-tech expert, believing Ymir likely had a hand in helping the original spirits and from that gained knowledge about spirit-tech. Tora shows up at the bar's front door and informs them she is building several buildings around the city, but believes the placements will have to do with security and keeping people out of it. Tora backs their theory up based on the weapon that wiped out the Tsivixsh and after some discussion, they head up to the top level. The buildings have high security and need cards to even approach without frying the person, towering as high as one of the Corporation HQ's. As they debate how to get close to the construction sites of the 5 sites, Logan and Tora head to talk to Ymir directly, leaving the others to try to flirt with the workers to learn more.
Ymir informs them she worked with Bix briefly to help connect him back together to get him working for Lumi. After asking what they could do to help the undercity, Ymir assigns the group some work clearing the rubble due to the fact she doesn't have time to assign people with needing to repair things on the upper level and outside the city. As they all meet back up, Kira returns with what information she managed to seduce about the buildings from the workers as well.
Location: Geyze
Going over Celes' hidden bunket of documents, spirit tech, weapons, and spirit-tech, Celes wonders if her mothers stayed behind to help her sibling rule, due to the diaries cutting off after a certain point. Asks points out if Chronos is still manipulating time, she might be doing it before the point of her being erased in the past, whenever that point will be. Aska has Avenir come forth for them since they believe the Hunters are 13 years in the future using the time gate they stole from the caves. Fate also shows up, due to her connection to the point of time 13 years from now. Catching Nicolette up on what she is - a higher dimensional being with it's own multiverse and that also means that there are lower dimensional beings beneath this one, she could take the group 13 years from now, but it would cost them something important. Trying Avenir again, since she doesn't seem capable of taking them to the future, Nicolette suggests trying to contact her future self instead; she manages to do so, pulling her future self to this point in time. Avenir has them all touch her, telling them to assume one of them might have pacted with her by the 13 years since then, and she begins to warp them as Terra joins in sneakily.
While this is going on, the Aquarius arrives in Sector 087, where they scan the world and find signs that the Templar weapons were used on it. However there are no humanoid life signs left on the planet, despite there being animal and plant life still remaining. They prepare a report to send back to the PAX.
Date: 10-655.?.??
Location: Unknown
Avenir arrives with everyone Geyze where things appear more grim - the skies are stormy and the Academy empty of people. A teenage Fate awaits them, informing them that this is just before the serpent awakes and the hand of the Serpent has steadily been working to awaken him. Fate takes over from Avenir and takes the group to a Tsivrixsh ship near the tree that looks sickly; informing them that time is fluid and this future can be changed with things being adjusted in the past as the PAX and other ships do battle in the background. As they move through the empty ship, it feels almost haunted, until they run into Dias who is only wearing a towel. Arriving at the bridge of the ship they find Hunters and there they do battle with them. Before they can grab the navigation from the bridge, the Serpent wakes and a scream pierces their heads. Fate promises to memorize the coordinates as they head down to the hanger with the gate; taking out the forces there, they pass through the gate and are joined by the younger Fate and younger Avenir, who promise to help them take the ship. Fate notes to Nicolette she will likely see Chronos again one day due to her skipping around in time, meaning they will likely intercept at least one more time.
Location: Earth
Erevis sits down with Chad and shows him footage from the PAX over the past year on Aya and how she's become an almost modern day saint after receiving a package from an unknown sender. Noting it is her believe the package triggered some sort of change that has led her to throw herself at trying to help everyone despite the damage it does to herself, as if becoming neurotic, Chad promises to look into it.
Fumoffu Session 35: A Smile to Kill For
Location: Noire's Place
Noire cooks real food for the group at her place as everyone gathers to partake, leading Ren to pull out her folders of her latest supernatural case talking about having their mouths cut into horrible disfigured smiles or being stabbed to death. One of the victims managed to identify a woman asking if she was pretty before attacking him and Noire identifies her as Kuchisake-onna. Noire explains the legend of her to Adeline about her asking you if she's and if you say no, she murders the victim right there, but if you say yes you get a smile for your efforts. She explains to the group the best you can do is distract her. Ren takes the team out to a sleek looking vehicle that gives off a scooby doo mystery van that is more modernized and inside has various equipment for their supernatural adventures.
The team arrives in Japan in late evening where things seem to be winding down and as they near the school they see they are preparing for a school festival of sorts, leading to several students staying late at the school over night. While some students go home alone, with something following them it feels, they also spot the student president checking the school grounds; deciding to split up, they send Thena after some students on their way home while the others track the school president through the building. As they near the stairs, Thena pops out of Noire's breasts to inform her that her clone was attacked by the scissor woman, distracting her from attacking a student and killed on the spot. Noire announces that means she won't attack anyone else for the night when the flashlight of the student president rolls down the stairs; heading to the bathroom upstairs, they find her dead, stabbed to death by scissors. While Adeline scouts the area for signs of a copy cat, Ren asks Charlotte if she wouldn't mind playing high school student again due to her being 18 so that they can learn more.
Location: Japan
High School
Date: 10-642.7.16
Ren uses her comms to keep in touch with everyone from the van while they walk about the festival gathering information; despite it still going on, there is a depressed atmosphere hanging over the school as they question people and learn that the school was rather old due to the age of the village, but one thing that stands out is an attack in the same bathroom the president died in; some students were believed to have bullied a girl though they claim it was something supernatural, but either way it led to her being broken pretty badly and put into a coma, racking up a sizeable hospital bill. The girls have graduated by now, but they do have siblings still enrolled, one of them being the student president; Ren brings up the files of the other two girls and when asked by Noire is there was any relatives of the coma girl, she brings up a file of a teacher that works there for her.
Jaime and Adeline decide to check out the coma girl incase she is projecting somehow all this in some sort of revenge, but while that is going on Ren suddenly cuts out while giving the teacher's location indicating someone is in her van. As Charlotte arrives at the van and sees Ren looking dead inside, having been stabbed multiple times, when a beautiful woman with a horrific smile asks her if she is pretty. As Jaime tells her to say yes, she goes to cut Charlotte's face, leading to a struggle and stabbing as Noire arrives on the scene to help out, distracting her for Charlotte to get the spirit trap that Ren has in the van from Kitsune Udon. While Noire's taunting leads to the spirit growing more and more vicious, the trap lands on her and locks her away while Ren's dragoon healing begins, leading to her bandaging herself up so she can continue to work.
While Jaime and Adeline scan the coma girl's mind, seeing she is reliving the moment of her attack by the girls, but it's clear they were being influenced by something in the walls of the bathroom. As she taps into the mind, it begins to lead her to smother the girl before Adeline yanks her off. Charlotte and Noire find the one relative has been called away by the teacher and led to the bathroom, being barred, so Charlotte and Noire smash the door down to find haggered teacher preparing to finish off the student in some sort of trance. They easily take him down and Noire destroys the wall of the bathroom to reveal the foundation of the older building there where malice seems to seep out. It attaches to Charlotte but Ren, Thena, and Noire use the trap to nab the malice and get it off.
However at that moment the supernatural unit smoke bombs them and takes everything, running for it and they have to give chase through the festival to retrieve it. Adeline, who has arrived back with Jaime, notes they look like V.I agents as Kaelan uses her foxholes to try to stop them as well. After they manage to drive them off, they investigate the hole in the wall and repel down between the walls down to the lower level to find areas of the school that were blocked off. They find even more malice bubbling about and decide to book it for now and close the area down, wondering about the shrine there and what it's all about but decide there's too little they can do about it without more information.
Location: Unknown
Chronos takes Celidah, Ida, and Bix forward in time to the next time period in the woods where they find the woods have grown sickly with little air about them. As they soon determine they are likely in the forest in the area where the Naturalist Kingdom is located in the future, they decide to head for Hapian where they can choose their path. At the same time, Neekito and Ellie are traveling with the current Wind Hero, Beth, to oversee the birth of the new wind Spirit, acting as guards for Beth due to Ellie's Wind powers. As they travel along they come across the others and the entire group begins to travel together toward Hapian while getting to know each other and about Beth's upbringing. It becomes obvious as they travel that something happened in the past in the Allwind of the Allawind Family, which eventually will become the Allaways, broke off from the main branch to continue the family duty despite being the secondary branch, which means Ellie comes from the main branch. Whatever happened to the Allwind branch of the family is unknown, but it is obvious that the Wind Hero is not a werebeast.
Date: 4,034 PFA
Location: Hapian Capital
Arriving at the capital, a festival is occurring in honor of the new spirit with people celebrating on the streets and the group splits up from Beth as she goes to meet at the castle. As they ponder if Chronos intended for them to meet with Beth as the arrive at the hotel room and discuss the spirits, they prepare for the big event the next day. As it arrives, Beth takes them all to the castle based on Ellie's word where they meet with the current age's Hapian Empress and heroes, leading them into the spirit realm where Aska, Shade, Void, Undine and Salamander are already waiting. After a cermony, Sylph is born like a newborn. but she seems to latch onto Ellie's voice even with her eyes closed.
However at that moment the rowdy crowd begins to try to force their way in as they take the spirit out into the castle part, leading to Shade to split off with the group to get her away. As they try to get her away safely while the Empress and Aska deal with the crowd, Sylph begins to note feeling a connection to Ellie until they get to safety and she falls asleep. Beth takes the sleeping spirit away and thanks Ellie when Chronos appears to take them away to the next era.
Date: 10-642.7.18
Location: Geyze
Sylph seems to be growing deeper into depression and thought when she suddenly heads to her house and challenges the Neekito shadow duplicate of that era who has been acting stranger and stranger. The two get into a battle with Sylph unleashing all her power and Neekito exploding part of the house, even using her atmomic power. Howver in the end, Sylph destroys Neekito, not trusting the duplicate to be around Fae due to her corruption levels. And in the end, she suddenly glows and transfers her powers over to a confused Fae, making her the Wind Spirit, no longer seeming to want the burden, much to the confusion of everyone on what that will mean.
Fumoffu Session 36: Dark Wedding
Location: Dark One Homeworld
A celebration of combining Reikana's birthday and wedding with Madison is held on the Dark One homeworld, bringing out Noire and Reikana's family and friends to take part of the celebrations. Erica/Yurica is present with Yuki who is there as Reikana's friend, along with Ren as one of the bridesmaids, Kaori, Athena who has signed her on as one of her idol by working with Madison, Cassandra/Setsuna, Jubei, Fae/Sylph, Jaime/Adeline/Terra, and many more. The guests outside entertain themselves by talking, many of them catching up after a very long year of war, while Bobbi helps get things ready for Reikana to walk down the asile with Madison. The ceremony begins and goes without a hitch, Bobbi using a Dark One ritual book to bond the two together in union, and Ren and Noire make fine bridesmaids as well as Fae being the flower girl. Afterwards, Athena opens the doors to the hall where the food is located while everyone is still having having a good time and they find Sylph eating fruit that seems to be making her intoxicated, looking out of sorts.
While Noire panics about Sylph possibly ruining the day that she downs a drink, Reikana tosses the bouquet and it lands in Kaori's face and then on her plate. While the married couple cuts the cake, everyone picks on Kaori about marrying Hess soon. Ren notes the day seems almost too perfect and wonders if a super villain will attack, sending Noire into more fits. As Jaime and Adeline share cake while there, Bobbi offers to let them try their resort while everyone is there to see what they think as the married couple sets out.
Location: Dark Resort Beach
While Adeline eyes Erica in her daring swimsuit as they stand on the beach, huffing due to their size difference, while everyone debates what to do while at the resort. Fae, Yurica, and Terra play in the water and beach together, but the adults decide to try to get into Bobbi's place to find out what she is doing. After some hijinks, with Noire trying to distract her by suggesting Vesper run the place as the others in the back sneak about, they find Bobbi is tracking the Hunters and dark creatures location, apparently trying to find them for some reason, claiming she is trying to find enough dark energy to locate or bring back Andrea. She also goes over finding the name Ceilidh having a dark artifact in her searches of the past and the name Nyarl being attached to it, which makes Jaime panic wondering if that means Nyarlathotep. Bobbi explains the artifact power is immense and unlike anything on our plane of existence, leading to Jaime to quote a part of a poem - "A sickened, sensitive shadow writhing in hands that are not hands, and whirled blindly past ghastly midnights of rotting creation, corpses of dead worlds with sores that were cities, charnel winds that brush the pallid stars and make them flicker low."
With the Templars destroying unnatural beings, including Dark Ones, Hunters, and relics, the group agrees they need to gather everything they can get their hands on if it might help locate or bring back Andrea. Kaelan stays behind to help out Bobbi when Noire returns to the beach with Ren and takes her Andrea's mansion to check it out, the two getting into adventures and locating things including tomes and objects of frightening power that Andrea sealed away, while Ren and Noire find a hidden cove that looks like a pirate cave. It turns out to be a place for cruises and other ships to enter and dock that leads up to the resort, where Bobbi lets slip about her adventure in the manor.
Location: PAX
A party is held on the PAX with creepy animatronics that Taiga has created for Kaori's birthday and even though they sing and look like Hess and Kaori, due to freaking everyone out, Taiga has them walk out to jump into a trash compactor like Hess requests. As they scream below from throwing themselves inside, the group talks about Kaori catching the Reikana's bridal stuff, Ren being able to arrange their bachelorette party and knowing strip clubs, while Taiga is tuned out working on something; Adeline, Jaime, Erica and Yuki join to celebrate the birthday as gifts are handed out. After a bit Ren shows some signs of the mid-west of the North American Zone, stating she believes the Supernatural Team is stealing ghosts in that area and informs them about ghost trains. They discuss doing a ghost heist on a train in the area and plot out a particular train from the victorian era they believe. As some of them stay behind, the rest decide to get in on the heist for Kaori's birthday.
Location: Earth, North American Mid-West
Taiga informs them their device that will allow them to interact with the ghost train ,so they won't get stolen away forever by it, can also mimic clothing that will match whatever the ghosts will have on. Ren uses a drop of Kaori's blood when Hess isn't looking on the ground to speed up the appearance of the train; sure enough it begins to bare down on them. Hess salts the area as they foxhole onto the train, sinking into what feels like jello; as they land in the train, Taiga is suddenly accosted by someone in a suit demanding a ticket as the atmosphere changes on the train and lights come on. They switch their clothing instantly, Charlotte even going for a gothloli, with Taiga matching her but in white. The ticket conductor after seeing how small Taiga is and Jaime flashing a paper with ticket on it, leaves them be.
As they search the train for the goods, even the food smells food, though Si notes eating it would probably be a bad idea, but it still tempts Ren until Hess offers her pizza slices from the party. A girl playing with dolls takes note of them and doesn't fall for Noire's fake identity, calling them a faker as it leaves. They wonder if she is their jailer as they head to the next cart and find the space has been increased. Using Hess' ripples to get to the next one, they search it with Ren handing off jewelry and gems to as well as a locked box with a code. Locked with hieroglyphs, they try to figure it out until Kaori suggests open and it works; inside is a beautiful artifact from egypt that is powerful and glows as the train continues along the leyline. The girl ghost appears again and reveals she is the guardian of the artifact as she takes the box back from Kaori, closing it, and will send anyone who defiles it to hell.
The train is now decayed as they head backwards through it with even the food rotten from age. They come across the Supernatural Team capturing ghosts in the train and putting them in containment when the ghost girl appears and touches one of them, making him part of the train to wander around, becoming part of the train's story. They work to get rid of the rest of the supernatural unit off the train and the ghost allows them to escape. They debate what to do for a bit before deciding to not push it for now. They return to the PAX where Ren and Charlotte plot about something to do with their case until Noire threatens them, making them knock it off. X shows up to wish Kaori a happy birthday and gives her the present of tickets to a new arcade before training Hess how to suplex stuff.
Session 532: Religious Experience
Location: PAX
Everything continues to be pretty much the same - the Cartel continues to help other Allied worlds, Taiga and Megumi help bring crucial PAX systems online, Athena has begun her idol project, but dark things have begun to stir as the Aquarius searches for the rogue Templar Titus who evades the Suisen Empire in it's diminished state. He continues to destroy the Dark One's creatures left over, leaving only floating monster corpses in space the size of ships, leading to Lenneth holding a meeting. Leon informs them that Titus' templars are wiping out the Dark creatures as well as Hunters, but also points out worlds where Titus is taking out superntural worlds. As Jaime and Leon trade verbal blows while Noire fears he might go after the Dark One homeworld. Leon breaks down how Titus fleets work and how it's making it hard to locate him and the fact he can project fields around his ships to avoid detection, but the fatal flaw is they need time to recharge; while the group plots how to look for places he might need to recharge, Leon questions why not try to direct him to focus on the remaining Hunters and Dark forces. Lenneth speaks up, telling everyone that Bobbi doesn't want too many dark creatures - including Hunters - killed because it would throw things into chaos; as they all disperse, they decide to pull Megumi into due to her expertise on gravity.
At Katrina's bar, Ako celebrates her and Athena's birthday by drinking as Athena's ads keeps playing throughout that ship that Lenneth accepted for 100,000 credits. Lorelei and Durt go over the location they think that might be Harbringer's location and Durt prepares to head out to scout and get information to get the final pieces of the puzzle. While this is going on Vesper finds Valen in the bar and informs him about Bobbi offering her a job at the resort at the Dark One planet due to Noire's recommendation, but it means leaving the ship and not seeing Valen as much. After talking it out and letting him know her feelings, they agree to keep in touch long distance and Vesper takes the job. Ako continues to be depressed due to no one remembering her birthday due to all chaos outside Erevis; Rachael struggles with her school work for the end of the summer and has to struggle to keep herself calm.
Location: Aquarius
As they search for the Templars and Yuki struggles to stay awake, Cookie gives her an energy drink that Mireille tries and makes the computers sparks as the spirit falls over. Before they can deal with her or answer Airym about if they are resting properly, they get a hit on the Templars on a nearby planet that is near Maka and Geyze. They send warnings to both planets as they head to Maka. Back at the PAX, the group holds an emergency meeting about the signal from the Aquarius at the one planet and they begin to split up an away team between Maka and Geyze as well as investigating the planet the signal was detected.
Location: Just A Random Planet
The group arrives at a technological backwater world that has supernatural abilities and begin to hunt for the Templar, with Charlotte noting it feels like Geyze without spitits and magik, but as they continue they do witness people casually using magik to do every day things like carrying rocks. Megumi arrives to hand Kellin a Gravity Gun as they debate what the Templar is here doing and they soon realize he is gathering a DNA bomb to take out the supernatural humanoids; Kaelan summons Nocturne to take them to one of the highest points and they luck out and find the Templar there. It is clear it is a suicide bomb that is mixing on his own body as they battle him and Id is taken out; Kellin gravity guns him and Thena uses TK to stop him from mixing the subjects, allowing the team to debate what to do with him. Adeline through the comm walks them through what is happening and how to try to stop it as the mixture is slowly trying to mix.
Ako slowly grow frustrated and uses her marble reality and traps herself with the mixture to get rid of it but sacrifice herself, freaking everyone out. Thena brings out Avenir to time loop and allow them to yank her out to undo her mistake and get chided by Megumi. Thena and Megumi work together to use their manifestation to make the bomb inert and Ako even joins them. Kellin takes the templar prisoner and they head out of there.
Location: Kumen
The group has been clearing the rubble from the lower levels with Kira stating they should have formed a company to make more money while Luci and Nell use their dragon forms to clear more stuff. As they work they hear chanting nearby and move to investigate it at a broken down church building where they find cloaked people inside facing a Templar figure up front. As they disperse from the church, Bix rushes in causing the cloaked figures to disperse as Bix heads for the Templar figure. They manage to catch the leader but it turns out after leaving the church the leader switched his cloak with someone else. He informs them that they're gathering to stop the spirits due to them being the cause of Kumen's recent woes while Geyze prospers. As they turn the man over to the soldiers after finding some matches on him that indicate the templar leader spends his time up top at a fancy bar, some of them move to investigate that while the rest come across Ymir with the Elder Spirits in a public gathering showing off that they're going to become Kumen's primary spirits and it looks like they might be tied to the new construction. While the people in the bar clearly have something to hide, all the group can do is continue to dig.
Location: PAX
Drasek is put in charge of the prisoner while the Aquarius patrols Maka. Erevis confesses she cannot figure out what Titus' plans are so far with playing his hand the way he has been and Kyouki wonders if it is a feint. At that moment, Stacey contacts them and informs them Dias has gone missing and they realize Dias is the top supernatural target in many ways due to having Pandora's Box inside him. Erevis prepares to train Jikuu in the way of the Emerald Sword while Aya is revealed to have been giving massages to Marcus when Chad and Xanatos go inform him about DIas. Marcus after speaking with them finds Fate waiting in the bar with an offer to take him to the future - for giving up something important.
Location: Snowy Mountain
Chronos drops the ever growing group at the foot of a snowy mountain that turns out to be the Magi Mountain; as the group climbs the mountain they are ambushed by a group of mostly male Magi. There they believe Neekito to be the new Spirit that will be made sometime in this time period and after some talk, begin to lead them up toward the Magi Tower and Village. Neekito begins to estimate when the time period is if they believe another spirit is likely to be born soon, placing this around 1,000 years after Sylph's birth. As they arrive they find an experiment going on with Lana there talking to the Magi and Gwen laying face down in the snow; downstairs is a series of machines that have been recently created that look like the familiar machines and the Magi have based a disc around Talia, seeming basing the familiar technology around her in some sort of time loop. As the first familiar is created using the technology, the Magi seem impressed at their creation.
However Hapian soldiers arrive at the Tower believing some in the group to be Daemons, sincce during this time the Daemon War is raging on. After talking to the group and asking questions they leave, but the group decides they should go to Hapian if the Hundred Year War is truly raging on right now. Neekito taps into Sylph's power and takes them to the Hapian Capital.
Date: 5058 PFA
Location: Hapian City
Hapian City has begun to get it's steam punk look as they arrive, but it's still not as large as it is in the present day; however as they touch down, Neekito suddenly vanishes in a gust of wind. Sylph attacks Neekito in the sky until the others interject and stop her from pounding Neekito. She stops her attacks when the others beg her too, especially Ellie, who she tells she thought was another Daemon attack. Taking them to her "Safe house", the forest where she likes to relax and eat fruit, where she talks about how the Hapians began to move into the Dark Lands and did "something bad" to the Daemons, leading to the Asmos Daemons to declare war on the Hapians that have lasted over a hundred years with Shade backing them and an even more falling out between Aska and Shade.
Date: Next Day
Location: Shade's Grotto
As they arrive in the grotto, the nymphs cower from the group in fear as Sylph tries to comfort them and even take to Alita, but the rest they avoid. As they call out Shade, she admits to somewhat recalling them and wondering if Chronos has a hand in that, but when asked about Autumn, she notes that she died some thousand years back. When asked if she left behind family, Shade notes that she does not think she did unless one counts the Daemons - referring to the Asmos Daemons that Autumn will one day copy her body from. Id gathers a copy of himself that he left behind with Autumn to copy the data from it while Shade informs them about how when the Hapians first arrived in the Dark Lands, they thought the Daemons were monsters and took some nymphs to experiment on - this led to the war. While Sylph notes that Ellie smells like fruit, the others decide to use the birth of Gnome when all the spirits will be gathered to try to end the war.
Date: A few days later
Location: Hapian Castle
Shade takes them to Hapian Castle where they are met by the current Hapian Empress, Aska, and Void; walking into the Spirit Realm, it has become foggier like the present day. Shade notes it grows worse every few thousand years. As all the others spirit gather, they do the ceremony and Gnome is born, with Sylph running over to help Gnome to her feet. Before Aska can send them back to the Dark Lands, the group helps Shade negotiate a truce and an end to the war, both sides coming to a table to work out a temporary deal. After it is over, Chronos comes to pick the team up, noting that the truce will hold even though both sides will never fully trust the other until the Academy, and drops them back off in the snowy mountain where they began. But it becomes clear time has passed as Neekito warps Lana to the observation to look at the stars and back - they are days before the Legion attack on the Magi.
Fumoffu Session 38: Biting More than You Can Chew
Location: Noire's Apartment
As they all gather to eat Noire's food and get into their usual antics, Taiga goes into the alien race that was hired to kill Fox by bringing Warren into and "faking" Fox's death to lure out the organization that hired them. Probing about Fox's past, she goes into Fox's sorrid history with the PAX and Alexander Cran, being accused of murdering him at one point falsely, and getting tied up in dangerous organizations after that. But it's not known if it was her that was the target, or just removing her off the board to get at Charlotte to make her more pliable. Taiga does warn them before they meet up with Warren they might want to look up in people going missing on Fox's ships the past few months with a half eaten body found the other day. Kaelan brings out Nocturne who gathers the location from Taiga and warps them to her ship.
As Adeline uses the vents to locate the cannibal, the others move to the lower decks to begin their search. Searching the darkness of the cargo bays, they are soon attacked and Thena is partially eaten but her carbon form unbalances the cannibal. The group gangs up and utterly destroys the cannibal while another Thena completely vaporizes it afterward. The group returns to Noire's apartment and decides to let Warren handle the conspiracy angle around Fox and research more data since it's a bit above the club's pay grade. While he handles the mystery of the Fox, Ren takes them out on a supernatural case file mystery.
Arriving at a southern swampy manor that is falling apart due to being in a swamp, Ren brings them up to speed about the place having buried treasure that the ghosts guard jealously and leads to a lot of deaths since before Miyuki's time. A logging mill that has long since been buried in the swamp, some sort of accident or being a bad boss led to resentment in the area. As they enter the place looks ready to collapse into the swamp at any time and after wondering if the treasure might be in a basement, Taiga foxholes down to check, returning covered in muck and hands trying to yank her down. As more of the house attacks them, they use the Kitsune Udon tools on the house as Noire discoveres the treasure - 500 million in old world currency that the swamp has begun to rot. Charlotte points out maybe some collector will want it and they take it and leave.
Session 534: The Unnatural Balance
Location: Deep Space
The Aquarius is flying through deep space when it detects a one armed body floating in space and is identified as President Dias. They bring the body into quarantine and contact Marcus who has been searching for him and she notes they were carving into searcing for something, but she is unsure if they finished or if he escaped and died in the attempt. Pepper scans and finds remnants of a Templar hull floating in space where the body was floating, almost indicating Dias punched his way into space. As this is going on, Fate and Prime Marcus are standing in a corner, unnoticed, observing the scene and commenting on it, noting on the fates of various Diases - some making it home with no memories of what happened, others remaning missing longer than this, but it seems if Dias tries to escape - he always ends up dead. And it's clear that their goal is the box in Dias to end supernatural beings for good. They set out to try to find where Dias is being held.
Date: 10-642.8.25 - Proper Timeline/Reality
Location: PAX
Lenneth muses on the fact that Marcus is still off in the multiverse with Fate and Taiga makes a crack about having made a multiverse machine - the Taigaverse Machine and the group ponders the notes being sent by the two and realities in general. Adeline goes over the Kumen center and disagrees with Jaime about Earth being a big epi-center of supernatural activity. As they discuss Titus desire to return things to before Pandora's Box opened, they also discuss why they go after the Dark One's so badly, even the innocent ones, it leads to their desire to change their names - Precusor, to reclaim something along the lines of the Progenitors since they were once like them and the Dark One name has been tainted. Taiga and Megumi show off the Megumi Gravity Sensor to learn how the Templar cloaking works and the chance to test it comes up as something occurs at Maka, leading to them all setting out.
Location: Kumen
Asarar goes over what has caused the rise of anti-spirit sentiment on Kumen - how badly they came out and how the spirits protected Geyze during the War, leading to the group to believe the Elder Spirits will be targetted before they even have a chance to settle on Kumen to do any work. As they vow to protect them, Tora joins them and leads them to meet with the Elder Spirits as Queen Selena and Nicolette brings them up from Geyze; after meeting with them, they take a flying carriage to go to one of the sites that will take in the Elder Spirits until their temples are finished being constructed. As they arrive in the small city, the streets are empty of people, leading to some of them splitting up to look for ambushes and the rest leading Leviathan to meet up with the mayor. It soon becomes obvious it is an ambushed, the Templar led mob forcing the villagers to comply, and a battle breaks out as they protect Leviathan and go after the Templar.
Soon though Luci gets a chance to go after the Templar of the spirit filled carriage where Logan is trapped in, she opts to go after the Templar and mind read him, leading to the carriage exploding. It leads to Logan barely surviving, as well as Gaia who is stablized by Nicolette. Logan comes up with a crazy plan to use the Net to try to get over his guilt and they risk the nightmare, taking what little bit of the energy left in the carriage and enter the Net, rushing through the nightmare which gifts them their abilities and hurries to the Spirit Realm, where they find new Cores to restore the Elder Spirits. Kira believes the Spirits should not be allowed to be dispersed across Kumen until the Templar threat ends as Luci gathers the intel, and Gaia leads them through realm into the Academy, surprising students as they pop out. Meanwhile on Earth, Cheryl studies some obviously dressed military agents moving into the sub-way system, but when the group later queries about them, they get no hits about them.
Location: Aquarius
While Taiga sets up the machine, Mireille tries Pepper's coffee, then Cookie's energy drink, causing systems to glitch and run faster than they should, allowing the Aquarius to arrive 10 minutes sooner at Maka. As they scan the planet for anything, Taiga activates the device and shakes the ship as it sends out the gravity pulses; it soon detects a ship in orbit, leading to a battle with the ship as they send a group onto the planet to try to find the bomber that is likely already down there. An intense battle ensues of Legend of Zelda: OoT ping pong, but they manage to destroy the ship. Down on the planet, the maka have been dealing with blasts raining from the sky from the battle in space from a hidden templar ship while the other two were battling and dealing with it. Using what they know of their first encounter, they locate the Templar on the planet and prepares to activate the bomb when Erevis uses her TK to try to hold the armor together, she tosses Jaime the Emerald Sword, allowing her to unmake the armor with a slash. It however begins to become the Ruby Sword, so Erevis takes it back and forces it back to it's Green Rapier form.
Location: PAX
Ren rushes onto the PAX and runs into Xanatos to inform him that she read the lips of the Templar they just defeated on Maka. Informing Xanatos that he said it was just a division and Titus was attacking the Dark Ones at their new homeworld. They get in touch with Bobbi, but find communications cutting out after she informs them about Templars in the sky. They prepare to move their fleets to go help them and Chad notes he'll even bring in X and Kaleb to try to help find Dias while this is going on.
Location: Mountains
The group ponders why bring them to the end of the Magi as they go up to the Magi Village and Tower. There they are attacked by an owl familiar who steals Talia and runs into the village where they are met with other Magi. Lark, a silver haired Owl Familiar, returns Talia to Alita as the group and they are brought inside, assuming Alita learned how to make familiars from Magi that they sent to the Dark Lands. Once inside, they run into Delgi, a silver haired cat familiar, which many in the group recognize; Ceilidh does not, Gwen brings her up to speed on how they meet Delgi in the Magi ruins, surviving off the mana in the machines of the tower, as well as explaining how blue haired Familiars are standard ones while silver ones are more powerful ones. While they debate what they can do to help, a dragon familiar knocks on the door of the room they have been given to bring them food and drink; given the name Yugi by Bix since he was simply called "You get me that", he vows to protect him.
Date: One step closer to the end of the Magi
Location: Magi Tower/Village
Yugi gives the group a tour of the Magi Village and Tower, but when they reach the familiar creation chamber they come across a long haired blue haired familiar - Bonnie, hooked up to the machines with dull eyes. As Yugi moves on to the caves which seem to be a school, she notes that Bonnie is a special familiar - a prototype and are trying to make more like her. While they are down there they begin to hear fighting above and as they near the cave's exits, Gwen tells everyone that he recalls that the Amazons are behind this - tricking the Legions into wiping out the Magi due to being against both at the same. The group goes to the surface to make sure Delgi and Bonnie survive. A massive battle ensues with Delgi and Lark using their special powers to try to ensue that the Magi children escape into the spirit realm along with some teachers; at the same time the Magi Tower is firing down trying to wipe out the Legion, forcing the group to shield themselves and not caring if Familiars are wiped out.
Delgi, injured but okay, leads them into the Tower after they save Yugi for Bix, where they come across Bonnie. Her hair, a mix of white and blue, holds her master's head to draw mana from it as her aura is wild like Dias' until she smashes Legion near her. After Talia helps kill some Legion, Bonnie reframes from killing her and walks out into the snow and leaves; they find on the familiar machine they were using Bonnie to try to make new powerful familiars. Lana rips the special rune from the familiar machine to study later. Chronos appears to answer some questions for the group as she makes Delgi go to sleep and erases her memory of everyone, informing everyone she has been doing that in all ages due to their blatant future talk. She notes that yes, Talia is who the familiars are based on, but Bonnie was a prototype that could switch between forms of blue-silver/white and adapt to other forms she encounters and would reach Kumen by shuttle when regaining her shuttle. The Magi Children who escaped here who one day grow up to become the Magi who make Celsius and Shiva and escape the Realm to become trouble. Chronos notes it will be some time before the Time Gate is ready and there is one more mission left if they feel up to it, which the group agrees to.
Date: First Age
Location: Hapian
10 more years has passed for Celes and Liana since the others have left and the two have remained with their daughter who is now the Empress, but the two are not really showing that much sign of aging due to Aska's blessings. They debate if they should remain here or return, with Liana noting either way they will be abandoning a child. Chronos appears and after asking if she wants their memories wiped, Liana scoffs at the offer before having the spirit take them forward and makes it look like the two died in an accident.
Date: Unknown Yet
Location: Unknown Yet
Everyone appears, including Celes and Liana, in a familiar looking city that turns out to be Mega City - in the Mirror Universe. Chronos informs them that Simon is here, with no memories of anything that has happened before due to the power of the time wipe, and that the Mirror Earth has only days left before it is wiped. As Id and Lana look into it, they find the standard date to be 2249 AD and that this is before the people of Earth travel to Kumen due to the crises of this planet occur, which will claim Simon's life, giving them a ticking clock.
Session 536: The Natural Balance
Location: Kumen
While Tora tries to drink alcohol, she briefs the group in the bar about and states Ymir has used her resources and doesn't believe there are any other Templars except the one they defeated. They debate what to do with the spirits since there is still high rest about the planet, however, so they decide to house the spirits in the bar to protect them until the temples are completely finished. Luci already begins to make plans to make money on them by putting them to work as waitresses to bring in customers while the rest make sure the Templars are truly gone.
Location: PAX
The Dark One homeworld is currently being hammered, the only thing between the Templars is Leon and Cersei's fleets, however with three days having passed as the Suisen and Ally fleets gathering to get into position, Leon's fleets have been being hammered. Bobbi and Kyouki prepare for ground combat and Bobbi even goes through Andrea's tomes that she got from her manor to get ready. Everyone on the PAX gets ready to go defend the Dark Homeworld and are even joined by masked people in Gears, X, and others from Earth as the PAX and the fleet exits hyperspace and finds Leon's fleet decimated by Titus' fleet. While those on the ship remain on the bridge to command the fleet, many take to Gears and shuttles to either go to the planet or to try to reach the Templar command ships to see if they can find Dias or destroy it. As the PAX has to fend off the command ships, some of the strongest versions of the Templar ships, Erevis and Jikuu hyperspace warp into one while those in space keep up the battle to reach their own ships. Once on there, Erevis, Jikuu, and X - who rippled over, observe the PAX getting hit by a super blast that looks like it disables it before they are interrupted in finding Dias by Templars; a Gear piloted by the masked man and a girl breaks in and provides them cover to ripple further into the ship to try to find Dias since they believe his arm on this ship.
As the Templars begin to arrive, Bobbi reads the tomes to power up Kyouki - unaware her readings will have an affect on someone else as well - enhancing her Spirit body as Noire and her team arrive. Kyouki and those on the ground take out at the shuttle and locate the Templar having fled to the resort near by, warping over there while Charlotte tends to Ren who was injured when their shuttle was destroyed. On the bridge of the PAX, Adeline reboots the PAX as she talks about having downloaded the second PAX's information and making this PAX even better with that information and upgrade it as well as unlock sections of the PAX. Kellin exits his Gear to be decoy as he uses his hyperspace to destroy a weakpoint that Leon made and blows his command ship and the PAX, as Adeline brings it online, is destroye by the PAX. As Theron brings the Erusian fleet in to aid the Cartel and Suisen Empire, allowing them to begin to swarm the remaining ships, Adeline notes Titus us not among this fleet and must be somrwhere else.
X, Erevis, and Jikuu come across a Templar Knight holding a blade with mystical propeties protecting the door and he stabs her with it, it only drops X despite erasing her like he claims the blade can do to unnatual beings. Erevis begins to sword fight the Templar and orders Jikuu to the door and manages to teleport inside the room to find an arm guarded by Templars; returning to Erevis with the arm, X has Jikuu TK Erevis over to them since she is in a deadlock with the Knight and Erevis hyperports them out. Down on the Dark Homeworld, Ren rests in Charlotte's arms while they hunt the Templar in the resort run by Vesper. When Kyouki spots him, the Gear fires a perfect shot and blows the Templar up as Lunar Girl and Michiru rush ahead; however he is still able to activate the bomb and the group has to work together to stop it. Jaime puts the templar into a rock and Kyouki gets rid of it into space which leads to the ships to explode as the capital ship retreats; the PAX group ponders what is up with X since she is on the ship and what that weapon might have done to her. Somewhere else, Titus talks to someone to use the data they received to get the box out of Prisoner D.
Location: Kumen
Tora brings all the Elder Spirits, even Gale, to be watched by the group. Even though Luci tries to get them to dress up to do chores to bring in all the customers, Kira insists they are still in lock down and shows the spirits their rooms. They learn what fun things can be done here since they are to stay indoors and wander their rooms and lower areas of the hotel. When asked about the Temples by Logan, Frost explains it's mainly a place to be found and gather power. Soon somehow it turns to turning them into idols to try to get worshippers to help boost their power on Kumen and Thena shows up to teach them. However, even though she does teach them, it does lead to conflict between her and Kira which in turn leads to conflict with Asarar, ending things on a bad note.
Date: 10-642.9.5
Location: PAX
Snipe sits in Katrina's while Chad has to force X to let herself recover, making her go home. Lenneth notes she thinks there is a slim chance Leon escaped due to Thomas' information. Lorelei gathers her kids and points out where she believes Harbringer is located in deep space, having constructed a space station over a planet thanks to Kaelan's M.O for him. They group decides to head there to deal with him while Snipe and Lunar Girl and Michiru vow to protect Earth in Dias' stead.
Fumoffu Session 39: Restoring X's Balance
Location: Noire's Apartment
As Ren tries to eats snacks in fox form so she can heal faster, Taiga notes Thena is busy with her own idol work with Athena and the spirits, and begins to over things she has observed while they wait on Warren when Kitty arrives. It seems she is not getting sleep due to X's condition so the group goes over theories on it and how to fix it. They settle on that X, due to Weapon's ability to adapt to situations, might have adapted to an unnatural ability that the weapon is attacking in her system. As they pack up and some comedy between Taiga and Kitty kissing to help wake her up, they drive out to Cheryl's manor to ask her for some help. They find Cheryl wearing a maid outfit who claims Lemon is making her wear due to making a huge mess. After hearing the situation, Cheryl and Lemon lead them down to the base to find something to help shut down weapon's abilities for a time. As they go to X's house, Ren is nearly annihilated by her until Kitty calls out. They find X being restless and pacing with a fever and learn they want to depower her with some sort of shot. In the end, it turns out to work, shutting her power down for the day and no sign of her systems being attacked anymore.
Location: Mega City
Celes tries to locate them a place to stay as the atmosphere in the city is tense, but learns they need a Citizen ID which leads them to go into the situation they are in. Chronos soon manifests some help for the group since they appear to be lost and unsure what to do as Erica and Yuki appear along with a sword. Yuki watches some officers retrieve Saoirse while Erica who has some knowledge of Mirror Earth due to her mission with the Aquarius here long ago helps take charge. After they retrieve Saoirse, the group arrives at a holonet cafe where Neekito uses Lana to secure a private room. While there, Yuki and Erica go over what they learned during Sessions 48 - 50. They go over the converging nature of the Mirror Earth and Prime Earth as well as the broken Centerpoint pieces.
As they reseach the holonet a Reality Quake occurs and shakes the place and suddenly Makas appear wearing Terran outfits as they try to deal with the situation by finding Simon with it - which turns out to be the team for using magic. Stunned that the Terran Empire has Maka working for them, they wonder if the Terran Empire and their expansive nature of taking over other races includes the Maka. After shutting Id off with a semi-threat and giving them a fine, the Maka accepts their credits even though it doesn't have the Terran President's face, then asks about a ship - which turns out to be the Aquarius. It seems Chronos brought it over as well and the Terran Empire is trying to get into it. It lacks any lifesigns indicating it was sent back without anyone else as the Maka leads them to the ship. X confronts them about having such a powerful ship and Erica decides to tell her everything about them and the ship.
X allows them access to the ship and they find Ben sitting in Samson's old seat, informing them that Mireille is asleep in the spirit chamber. He informs he volunteered to help Chronos since he could hide his lifesigns and when asked why he was there that he felt drawn to help work on the Aquarius. As they wake Mireille, she seems overly formal to Erica and acts more computerish. They go over the plan and mission one more time - to get Simon off the planet before the end of it. The Maka that is with them informs them that Simon appeard a few years ago and gained the trust of President C a few years ago, getting into the inner circle. The group decides to use X to try to get closer to Simon as Yuki does the year math in her head. She notes that they saw the date for the disaster was around 10-649.8.4 so that means the year is 10-649 give or take. She also notes that dates go all the way up to 10-800, or another 150 years, likely indicating the Kumen traveling years between the planets. The team decides to meet with X and the Maka girl takes them into the military base.
They arrive in X's office where they talk about Master Simon and his amazing gel like invention to save the world. She takes them to meet with Cran after they indicate their desire to meet with him and at first think he is the President, but it turns out he is the Vice President. It seems Cheryl is the President and is working closely with Simon, so they have to convince Cran why he should let them through to see the two. Cran agrees to put in a word to talk with them as soon as possible and gives them the data to do so, but on their way out X gives them a number to call - the President's little sister who doesn't get along with the VP if he stonewalls them too long. They return to the Aquarius and decid to seek out Tora and Sen while discussing the Serpent and the events related to the tree. After they find a lead, they set out to find Tora.
Location: Mega City
Gwen, Bix, and Ida have split off from the group to make some money and food for the team while they live here for the next few weeks. Working in a fast food joint called Happy Terran Burgers, Gwen feels his soul drain from while Bix does his best until they finish their shift with some money and food only to discover the others have left them behind. Bix discovers a note from Neekito and after getting in touch with Id, they take off to meet with Tora and Sen with the others. The others, on the Aquarius, step off the ramp to meet with Sen who leads them into their building. After sizing the group up, she allows them to meet with Tora, who at this point looks just a little older than Taiga and still has the same color hair, but with a faded look to it. Erica introduces who she is to Tora and lays it all on the table about who they are and where they come from. As Bix soon arrives, having used a bike to pedal them there and Sen allows them to come up the elevator before serving snacks, Tora muses on their situation.
She notes their ship was a sort of give away, having been working on ideas for a ship like the Aquarius, but rejects taking a look at it because it might hurt her creativeness. As Erica lays it all out - the death of this planet due to the reality quakes, going to Kumen, corporations, Tora's role, etc, Tora takes it in well and so she helps them out with finding Simon and starts up gathering a way to get people off the planet with what time they have left. Sen begins to look into the Imperial Ship, which is this reality's version of the PAX, since Simon is connected to it. She informs them that the person who runs the ship is the President's little sister. Erica brings out the card they got from X and Sen tries the number and they agree to meet with the person tomorrow evening. Sen warns them not to let them have the ship as they have no Progenitors in this world as they killed Erevis when she took over Katrina's body.
After getting contacted by Ben about Maka making moves outside near the engines, everyone returns to the ship. As they return to the ship they realize they have an intruder in the ship and after having Neekito taken out by them, Mireille begins to start acting ill and out of it. Lana and others work on trying to stop outside magical penetration with the shields and the group worries as there is no spirit energy on the planet as Mireille seems to be putting her power into the shields. Alita helps power up Mireille which works somewhat; They have Ben disconnect Mireille since she was connected to everything which helps her out. Ceilidh discovers a virus in the ship while Talia battles the invader - a Maka girl - along with Bix. After calling her a Makai, it seems to throw her off and she retreats while Lana clears the virus and returns the ship to normal. With their attack foiled, the Terran Empire backs off for now.
Date: The Next Day/Evening
Location: Mega City
The group dresses up to go to the club where their meeting is taking place. After using Alita's phermones and their petty cash, they are waved into a rather pretty club with reasonable music and VIP rooms up above. After they split up to do their own things, the team meets up with their contact in the VIP room who turns out to be Zephyr going under the name Kalam in the club. After discussing things and the group wondering if she was THAT Kalam, she gives a little history about how EarthGov turned into the more militarisic Terran Empire under Cheryl with Venerator and Cran's guidance. Agreeing to help them, she states she will come by their ship tomorrow.
Timeline: A little later in the week
Location: Aquarius
After some hijinks on the Aquarius with the crew, it is obvious Mireille has started to become more like her old self being around the others and especially Erica once more. Talia continues her sub-plot with the cats of the Mirror Earth, which probably explains all the cats post-Earth's destruction. They soon take a hovercart to the PAX - the Imperial Ship, passing some helmeted Maka that seem to be watching their ship, where they meet with Zephyr. She leads them to Simon, Ariel with the Rune Blade minus the runes, and President Cheryl where they are discussing the Prime Earth where information is leaking through with the reality quakes like documents when objects fall through and wondering if they can fight this. The team introduces themselves and attempts to get Simon to remember them, but it seems to do little at first and Cheryl is suspicious of them especially when Ceilidh in this reality works bomb disposal after encounter a bomb that almost killed her. After warning Simon that they are likely scammers, Cheryl takes the gel that Simon has been developing and goes.
Ida tries to bring up Chronos' name to jog anything when the other Ariel tries to stop them with a sword attack, but Simon blocks with an ice wall as he watches the recordings provided. Simon agrees to get back to work and Ariel backs off, but then tells the group he believes them before joining Cheryl. She seems to have no plan to save her world and is looking to use the tools to get back at the other world for it's incursions. As the team returns to the Aquarius, Mireille suggests putting up shields as the Imperial Ship begins to attack the planet itself; attacking the intrusion, the Aquarius detects something coming back through the convegence that strikes the Imperial Ship and it falls out of the sky, crashing the city. Lana notes that the Prime Earth must have attacked back.
They get a transmission from the front of the Imperial Ship that wasn't destroyed - Tora, beside Zephyr, notes that the chaos has caused the corporations to agree to corporate with the escape project, naming Macross, Star Corps, Bio Tech, Ani-Mon, Technology Corp, Net-Ron, and the Nues. Zephyr volunteers to try to find Simon when asked about him. Tora informs them that they have a problem - they don't have enough time to get everyone on the ships; the first round of ships could take months and if they want to get more people out that could be years. So Tora requests the aid of the Aquarius in all this to use the special jump gate to locate Kumen. When asked if anything can slow this down, a powerful shield can be set up to slow it down with a power source to lock it in, so they decide to repurpose the Imperial Ship.
They head for the Imperial Ship where they find Cheryl dead, gelled up, and Cran already announcing he is the new President. As the team helps Simon out, Ariel takes out Cran in the background, the team returns to the Aquarius. The team removes the hyperspace engine from the Aquarius to power up the Imperial Ship for the shield project. After some work, they manage to get it working but it's clear people will need to stay behind to maintain the frequency of the shield on the planet so it never fails. After Chronos pays a visit, the group decides to stick out for the time being with the people of Mirror Earth.
Date: Six Months Later
Location: Mirror Earth
The Corporations have begun to take over the Terran Empire in the wake of the two Presidents' death and the Dragoons have Earth have been taught how to maintain the shield due to their long lives; the races of the Terran Empire, with it basically falling apart, have rebelled and broken away from it. Zephyr seems to be one of those staying behind and looks shifty when asked about the name Kalam, claiming it's a video game nickname she used, when she is told that there is a Kalam in their timeline. However, she helps a man with a young girl wrapped in a blanket get into the ship before stepping back off. Tora and Erica say their goodbyes on Earth as the ships depart and they all prepare for the long trip to Kumen.
Location: Aquarius
After a discussion on haircuts, they are haired by Tora who has white streaks in her hair who seems amused at being called Madame President by Erica, noting it is too early to tell with how the other Corporate leaders act. She informs them she thinks she has found the gate and after verifying it, they study the gate wondering who made it. Mireille studies the databates and notes it was created by the Crytok Empire based off the Croza Empire, having gathered Ancient's mateirals to spread out and rule for thousands of years and even visited Geyze, hence them having their dating system. Id seems interested in the gate and desires data on it as they all come through; Tora puts a device on the gate to keep it working without the Aquarius for a few more decades until it decays so people can keep coming through. Chonos arrives on the sihp as the ships arrive at Kumen and asks if they are interested in the future of Kumen.
Chronos uses her time powers to show them a fast-forward version of the history of Kumen and Geyze - Macross engaging in first contact as they try to take over Geyze by landing but the spirits deal with them. Tora sacrificing her ship to create the dome that would form the entire bio dome for the people to live in and the other ships slowl positioning them to make their quadrants. She noted that Tora would often go into a slumber so she could live long enough to meet with Erica, allowing the Corporations to do as they pleased for periods of time as well, but she did make a few important discoveries - two spirit life forms outside the planet which would be Gale and Gaia until they would be discovered many years later. This led her to be interested interested in Kumen and it's connection to Geyze so she built the Net to try to tap into that realm. And she built the Biotects to make up for the loss of the Weapons but the other Corporations corrupted the concept over time. As they reach present day, Chronos fades with Bix to put him where he is needed in time and the group prepares the spirit engines; they fly through the portal, they see various points in time as Erica navigates them through it. After battling a time monster they manage to land in the station as the time portal shuts down, the Aquarius somewhere else now. The Peacekeeper on duty quickly contacts Lumi as the group gets their wits about them on the station and wonders when they are now.
Date: 10-642.9.12
Location: Geyze
Neekito seems to have a slight fevever, but otherwise everyone checks out well from their time trip as Fae tackles Ellie and Terra drops Sylph, who was teaching her classes, onto Ellie's lap. As Sylph finally cries in relief at seeing Ellie again, Simon checks Neekito over and decides to help doctor her better. Selena arrives in a carriage and greets her parents, who decide to keep a bit of their past trip a secert from her as she brings Luna with her. Erevis decides to bring Erica and Yuki to meet her in a message to talk about the Aquarius and what she is hearing about their journey from Mireille - offering a certain job to Erica.
Location: Near the Erusian Border, Planet Zeta 567
Lorelei has a work permit to get aboard the station overhead as they pose as construction workers boarding ships onto the station. After dealing with men's comments and weasely man handing Lorelei a note, they arrive in Area D where the lift is broken and traps them there. However, Mercy cuts her way through the wall and frees them, warning them the station has been evacuated and this area is about to be ejected. They barely escape as Area D is ejected into space. Harbinger leads them to where he is located with Durt hanging from some chains and mostly naked in oils. As Mercy leaps at him, he knocks her into the water with the attacking creatures, making Valen throw his shield to save her and Durt who caught her, as Celeste fries the fishies. Harbringer notes he has all his powers back now that he's back in his body outside the few Gods like Autumn, Dusk, and Amazo and he's going to Tareh, leaving all of this behind. And with that he leaves through the giant portal in the room as it closes behind him. The team hangs back not wanting to get lost in the multiverse and debating what they want to do next. As they place begins to fall apart on them, the Aquarius manages to save them and escape the station.