Session 66: The Strikers Disband
Location: Asteroid C
Over the past month, the Strikers have been doing reality checks looking for Nyarl but everything seems to be normal and nothing stands out, even with the Tareh device to keep the portal open and time flowing normal between the two realities. As everyone meets, they speak about what they should do next and Taiga, Ren and Yuki's dimished Reality power since the events of 600. Adeline seems to be sporting shoulder length hair as well due to the events of it. Taiga picks up something with an Oddverse and the group sets out for Oddverse 17 where they find Sasha's pyramid is a massive pyramid that rises up high into the sky, ala the PAX. Taiga has Jaime sense out the spirits where she learns all the spirits located about the academy is paired up with a student. Some have the same one, another have different ones, and as they walk around the academy, they eye each other side ways. They learn it's a reality where one student is given to a student where they train them in a dungeon and then battle in a tournament against each other for rankings in the class.
They run into Selena who looks 13 in this reality and learn she is the only Aska summoner, leaving her to be left alone by the others, thus annoying Noire. The Jaime, Jikuu, and Adeline opts to help Selena out against Noire's wishes who thinks they should leave the reality. However, as they return to the Asteroid C, leaving Jaime and Adeline behind to help out with Selena. Taiga begins to delete the plan to explore more Oddverses since Noire was so against it, essentially leading to the idea of just closing the Strikers down since she believes they need to just Observe and Learn which Taiga points out she can use her drones to do if there's no need for interfernce. As everyone splits up and goes their own way, Si not hiding her feelings until Taiga snaps at her and Ren, Charlotte, and Noire leaving back to Tokyo.
Back at Oddverse 17, Jikuu, Jaime, and Adeline have entered the tournament and all this leads to more confident for Selena as she learns something watching the others and battling with and against them, thanking them. Afterwards, Ren is at the bar with Akatsuki working on the Fumoffu club once more and Madison, hearing that Noire has free time invites her back to her old job with her. It would appear that the Strikers are indeed disbanded for good, with Taiga and Si running it themselves alone.
Session 67: Fumoffu Once More?
Location: PAX
Noire arrives at their old club room where she finds Ren has decorated with spooky stuff, tomes, and Akatsuki dressed like a mini Noire that impresses even Andrea. After seeing no one is else is arriving, Ren takes one of the tomes provided by Andrea, she goes on about the various lore aspects and some low level chants, but what caught her eye was haunted areas; noting that Andrea said these tomes existed here, they might exist in other realities. The team arrives all dressed up in various outfits to meet up with Taiga where Andrea does something to knock her out so they can use the gate, mumbling about side effects and positive it would not make her neurotic later down the road. They arrive in the reality where Halloween is going on and head toward a Dark Shrine in the mountains. The come across dark eggs all over the shrine grounds where a siren attacks them and they gather some of the eggs and retreat it back toward Asteroid C. Andrea identifies some of them as dark dragon eggs and dark dog familiar eggs. Andrea keeps one for herself to do as she wishes with to experiment on and gives Charlotte one since Noire already had one.
Session 68: Rise of Jarivan and Turkey
Location: PAX
Ren is eyeing the Dark Eggs they got last time, wondering what they taste like, as Jaime notes Sudako came out of one of those long ago leading to Ren to note that Noire and Charlotte can have their own Dark Familiar - if Ren doesn't eat them. While Adeline reads up on the eggs, the group debates what to do for the holiday season and they decide to do a hot spring episode/party and go to New Jarivan. Once there and getting past the Jarivan nonsense, they set up at the hotsprings and relax; there they meet up with Asarar's group. Asarar regals them with some stories about ghost stories on Kumen while they're there and while they're leaving Jaime is alerted that she has a chance to buy property on New Jarivan since she owned property on the original Jarivan - however the price is quite steep. As they study the place, it being a space station like location and the tech seeming to be familiar to Adeline who muses that it seems familiar to her having been working on PAX technology for years now, the group decides to leave for the time being.
As they return to the PAX, they find no sign of Ren, who decided to stay behind, or the eggs. They use the tracker to find out she never came back from Asteroid C where she went after seperating from the group. As they arrive they find the gate open and no sign of Taiga. At that moment they are attacked by a Pilgrim hunting Kumiko, who they easily defeat and learn that it was from an Oddverse. They head inside and find Turkey Spaceships and hoardes of angry turkeys attacking which they have to defeat; it turns out Ren was there for some turkeys for the holidays. Charlotte's dog egg has hatched and joins Charlotte, being a good dark dog, while the two dragon eggs remain unhatched for now. After defeating the turkeys the team leave the Oddverse while Ren now has ton of turkeys to eat. Alien turkey.
Session 69: The Sexy Space Adventures of the Strikers
Location: PAX
While Jet, Noire's Dark Dog, chases Jaime around, Yuki and Erica arrive where they discuss Taiga going NEET recently and sending drones, Si, and Tora to do her bidding. After some accidental Mireille eating by Jet, the group sets out to check on Taiga. Once they arrive at Asteroid C, they find Jubei manning the gate while Taiga is going to Oddverse 69 to check on the Aquarius there. The team follows her in where they discover a reality that seems to revel in it's degenerate nature. They have to navigate the people thinking they are their 69 counter parts without getting involved with the smoking and the sex until they pull Taiga out and once they are back, she mentions she's discovered something odd going on about the Mirror Universe and after asking Erica some questions, plans to prepare the Striker once it's geared up enough for such a trip, believing the place is no longer as dangerous as it used to be for some reason.
Location: PAX
Ren boredly waits in the club room while Taiga prepares for the Mirror Universe trip, however as everyone shows up Ren brings up stuff they can do, such as the hauntings in Kumen that Asarar mentioned. She shows images of a haunted massive castle that is supposedly in the center of the city where Tora's CorSec used to be before it was destroyed long ago. The team heads up there to check it out where Asarar admits she hasn't heard the castle legend, but the golden werwolf is a popular one. But it appears Ymir moving her Macross HQ to the center where CorSec's old location, they can see construction being done and opened tunnels going down beneath to where the old Net system tunnels before it exploded. As they get past all the crews and guards, they reach the undergrounds and indeed find a classic looking medieval castle and begin to explore it, with what appears to be classic horror stuff. At the end they are even chased by a Mummy who they attempt to avoid by going further through the castle until they notice it is bleeding and it turns out to be Tora. It seems to be her secret lab she designed long ago before building the CorSec building up top when everyone first came to Kumen and she needed a place to go into cyro sleep with Sen, designing the castle to try to keep people out. However, a vampire has indeed set up home at the castle during this time and the group has to get rid of it. Afterward, Tora notes she'll come back and get her stuff and move before Ymir finishes her construction.
Location: Asteroid C
Taiga, Erica, and Yuki prepare everyone with what they'll need to know before going into the Mirror Universe, including the run-ins with the Anti Spirits last time with the Aquarius and how they tried to go after Sylph and Mireille. After bringing everyone up to sleep on how the Net was corrupted at the time before getting shut down and restarted and how that Net was used to go into the Mirror Universe, Taiga plans to use the Reality Gate to return to the Mirror Universe since it has it's own address. As they go up into the ship, they find the children once again hiding up on it to go into the universe once more before they are sent away. As they arrive in the Mirror Universe, one thing interesting is that while there is no Yggdrasil, unlike other realities where there is an empty space, a shadowy image of a tree can be made out where Yggdrasil is located. As they near it, they scan the it and see a massive crystal like structure, oddly broken in places and cracked, but in the formation of a tree.
As they continue, there is only one world now where Kumen and Geyze once was located; it seems to have an anti-field around it that would mess with the Aquarius' engines. As they study the planet, it looks like the planet is a world with Geyze, Kumen, and the Spirit Planet's landmasses all fitting together perfectly. As they prepare the ship to continue to go to the tree while they go down to the surface, Anti-Spirit Life Forms rise up to go after it. After a brief teleport problem, they arrive on the surface where they see a hogepodge of cities from both worlds. After going to the library to try to learn more, they see history begins around 10-641 with no one seeming to notice that fact. Samson catches them in the library and has them follow him, which Erica trusts him on. He explains after Kaori took everyone, the universe died and came back to life as Anti-Spirit creatures, explaining that they began to take human form and not realizing they were monsters; their duty now is to guard the tree.
After musing on the nature of the creatures, the group heads back up to the ship wondering how they could get near the tree without riling the Anti-Spirits. As they prepare to go, they spot the serpent - or at least part of it's essence over here - in the tree. They muse on the nature of it being here and if that's the full thing and how it manages to destroy their reality. As they debate what to do, one of the engines flares and explodes, drawing the Antis and they have to flee away back to their reality, with the swarm coming in after them, attacking the ship. The group barely makes it back, but the Striker is damaged beyond use, floating and smoking, and Taiga injured.
Date: 10-645.1.18
Location: PAX
Taiga eyes some white in her hair as they go over a post-mission briefing, informing that the Mirror Universe vanished from the reality map, making it hard to go back and learn more about the Anti Spirits and the Serpent. Charlotte notes that they could probably use Yggdrasil to try to go back and locate them or use Kaori's Crystal Pathways. The group puts it on hold for now until they can locate it, but it's clear that re-locating the Mirror Universe might solve some major problems later.