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« 004 ⇢ INTERLUDE004.EXE »
Who: These suckers and E R R O R
When: OOC: 5/29, IC: 7/15
Where: CERES Research Tower and Beyond
What: It seems an old friend has decided the situation is progressing too slowly.
Rating/Warning: PG-13: Violence, injuries and inevitable deaths.
▶ ACTION.EXE | IC: 7/15
▶ RUN.EXE | MOD NOTES
When: OOC: 5/29, IC: 7/15
Where: CERES Research Tower and Beyond
What: It seems an old friend has decided the situation is progressing too slowly.
Rating/Warning: PG-13: Violence, injuries and inevitable deaths.
▶ ACTION.EXE | IC: 7/15
For those unlucky saps who disappear today, ranging from early in the morning towards the middle of the afternoon, well...they can't be reached by CereVice.
Any attempt to do so will bounce back the message User Currently Occupied.
It's an odd message, and one that's never been used by the CereVice. How strange. It's probably nothing though, right? No contact can be established between groups or from groups to outside people in Cerealia, whether by technology or magic. You're cut off from everyone but those in your groups, now.
Otherwise, all abilities will remain intact.
As for the people who do disappear, well... things get a little hairy really quickly.
▶ RUN.EXE | MOD NOTES
This is the event log for these sign-ups! Your groups have been sorted below; here are a few handy links for you:Group 01 | OOC plotting
Group 02 | OOC plotting
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Group 04 | OOC plotting
Group 05 | OOC plotting
Group 06 | OOC plotting
Group 07 | OOC plotting
Group 08 | OOC plotting
Group 09 | OOC plotting
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Group 12 | OOC plotting
Group 13 | OOC plotting
Group 14 | OOC plotting
There is no tagging order, so feel free to tag in whatever way works best for you as a group.
The characters should not ICly be gone longer than 5 hours -- if they survive, of course. There will be mod involvement in each of the threads.
If there are any questions, feel free to ask them here. Please try to avoid asking hypothetical questions (such as "What will happen if my character does [action]?") as that's part of the fun and risk of the interlude! You are welcome to plot with your groupmates in this post. Thank you!
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Do we retreat? It doesn't seem we can stop them so easily...!
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Of course, that said, Viridi's abilities do two things: they crush a lot of the robots, and they turn the robots' attention to her. It seems they're smart enough to see that she's the source of the majority of their hardships, and so they converge on her first. She destroys the majority of them, but the remainder feel nothing, so they have no problem continuing on through robot parts and pieces, wading through broken robots to reach for Viridi.
Still, her abilities, the sword, the gun and the wind spells are keeping them at bay for now, though they just keep coming towards her even so, more or less ignoring the others. They can't get close enough to touch her. ]
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[It is oddly flattering to be recognized as the most powerful entity in the room, even if she has a small voice in the back of her mind telling her that this isn't going to have a Good End. Still, as the resident Goddess of Self-Impor -- Nature, she smirks confidently.]
Anyway... Sorry to disappoint you freaks, but as long as we're, you know, underground in the earth, I can keep going just as long as you can.
Mudrone, your time to shine!
[The remnants of any felled Boomstompers quiver for a few moments before they collapse into a pile of earth and clay that dissolves into the ground, creating a large, shuddering mass. Moments later, a new monstrosity rises from the ashes, a sticky, oozing mud golem that reaches out with makeshift limbs in an attempt to consume the robots.]
Suck them in and don't let them go!
[In the meantime, she jerks a head at Otome and the others.]
The coast is clear, speed it up a bit! They're gonna invent the 7S before you're done.
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[ Which is why she'll send another Mazandyne spell aimed towards the robots coming up through the floor, before she gives both Trowa and Naki (and fox) a look - Go - and reaches for Viridi's arm to try and bring her along. Whether she can keep up with them or not, she's simply not comfortable going without the remaining members of the group all present. ]
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Quick, quick!
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So, he heads for where Otome and Naki are, towards the exit and aiming his gun at any robot that seems to get too close to Viridi. ]
Viridi, can you collapse the ceiling? It'll buy us more time, come on!
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And with Viridi holding the line, she's the one they'll be reaching for.
She'll have the time to make one more action -- whether it be bringing down the ceiling or something else entirely -- before one of the bots manages to grab her ankle, and then every last ounce of power she has will be gone. She'll be terribly mortal all of a sudden, and no magic whatsoever to call upon. ]
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[With these fateful words, Viridi straightens up and cracks her knuckles.]
One collapsed ceiling, coming right up. ...I mean. Down.
[As Mudrone continues to suck as many robots into its growing body as possible, Viridi points upwards at the ceiling and snaps her fingers. ...There comes a crack. Mere moments later, the sheer rock begins to quiver like liquid as enormous vines and branches burst forth, breaking through the concrete and beginning to bring it all crashing down.
...With her attention diverted, she does not, of course, notice the lunging robot.]
Child's pl -- eeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiikkkk!
[A few things happen at this point - the floating girl drops back into Otome's arms like a sack of bricks, Mudrone unceremoniously dissolves into an enormous pile of goo, and the ceiling, without Viridi's slightly more precise direction, simply plops down in one enormous crash. For the next few seconds, she continues to utilize the one power remaining to her: the ability to screech loud enough to shatter glass, right up until the point that she faints for no apparent reason.
If the robot tugging at her ankle made it to the doorway before the ceiling came down, the rest of the party can play tug of war if they'd like.]
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Go!
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He turns once he's reached the (hopefully) safe zone though, to help Otome through the door a little faster if she needs it. No comrade left behind! While his fox scans the path ahead.]
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Just a little one, and one that shouldn't cause too much trouble. But one of the security features of this place is to rust anything metal -- originally it was implemented so that technology could not be stolen from that room, as it would rust and break to pieces within a few steps out of the exit.
They've definitely tripped the alarm. Trowa's gun will suffer, the hinges of Otome's cell phone will snap, and Naki...well, Naki's sword will rust and break to pieces, just like the rest of the weapons.
Unfortunately, Naki is a sword; it will be lethal to him, leaving little more than sword shards and a rusted hilt on the ground. He'll wake up in 3 IC days in his home, and for a few IC days he will be extra susceptible to the cold and wet.
But they did escape the cave-in. ]
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There's barely any time for a breath before the next thing piles up. No attackers, but Trowa watches in mute horror as his gun becomes painted in swathes of rust. Just behind him, he hears a quiet shattering sound– Naki isn't there anymore. All that's left is a pile of dust. Reluctantly, he drops whatever is left of his weapon, watching it explode into small shards. ]
Great. [ Well, no time to cry about it. Turning to Otome, he offers– ]
Here, I'll take her.
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Be gentle, Trowa. She's had a shock, so you won't want to jostle her.
[ And she'll pass Viridi over to him, crouching just to gently touch the hilt, before she picks both that up and Naki's fox and moves ahead. ]
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She'd much rather be dead than mortal.
She'll probably wake up soon enough if the light sigh she gives is any consolation, though.]
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We should re-trace. I don't know if that entranceway will be open, though.
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[ Or anywhere more helpful, which she doubts, but it's better than doing nothing. Time to see what else there is to deal with, though as she walks, she's checking to see if there are any shortcuts to head back.
... And keeping an eye out to make sure that won't lead to more robots. ]
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Or a small path off to the side of the cave, a cut into the cave that isn't evident on first glance. They could take that, or they can continue on the path they're already on, to try to see if their exit isn't blocked off. ]
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...Five seconds later, she rolls over and pukes.]
Why is there fluid pouring from my mouth.
[This is what she would say if her mouth wasn't occupied already so she just makes choking noises instead.]
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Thankfully, because she's puking a few seconds later. Unfortunately, there's a weird combination of sounds at the back of her throat, which tells him she's trying to say something around the fluids exiting her body. Nice.
Stepping away from the pool of liquid, he shifts her in his arms a bit, making sure she doesn't choke. ]
You really shouldn't try to talk right now. [ Not if she's gonna be sick again. If she seems moderately stable again, he's keeping pace with Otome, distracted only by the sliver of light that indicates a different path. ]
Otome, over here.
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[ TO ALL OF THIS REALLY, but Otome's pausing and checking that side of the cave... before squaring her shoulders. ]
This might be the best way to try and avoid being detected for now, and it might get us out faster. How are you feeling, miss... Viridi, was it?
[ ... besides lousy, she's sure. BUT YEAH THAT PASSWORD LIST HELPED WITH INTRODUCTIONS.
And yeah, she's going to take that pathway. Hopefully she hasn't doomed all of them. ]
▶ CHECKPOINT TWO.SAV
. . . CONTINUING ESCAPE.EXE. . .
[ The strange thing about this path is that...well, it's green. There's plant life, slowly but surely springing up as they walk further. It's a man-made tunnel, but even so the plant-life was mostly left alone, and when they get to the clearing, there's a small, quaint building amongst all of the plant-life.
It couldn't be any more different from the conference room they'd been in if it tried. ]
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...This has never happened before. Ulp --
[With some effort, she chokes back another heave.]
Everything feels so... heavy. My children... They're not with me anymore.
[Whatever that's supposed to mean, it's obvious that the answer to Otome's question is 'terrible'. As they progress down the pathway, she reaches out towards the plants springing out from the wall; her fingers shrink back as they fail to respond to her touch.]
...Where's the little guy?
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That would be gravity.
[ Sucks, honestly. He misses the non-gravity of space. ]
Not sure. He was right behind me but when I looked for him, he was a pile of dust. [ Something to do with metal? But that doesn't make any sense. Naki looked like a person. ]
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I'm not sure what happened when that thing grabbed you, but if we can make it out of here, I can look you over properly. Hopefully whatever it did is only temporary.
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I hate to say it, but... if 'humanity' was a condition you could cure, I would have made a vaccine already.
[This is as much energy as Viridi has to be cheeky before she sighs and falls back into Trowa's arms. Her stomach gurgles alarmingly again.]
...I probably should've eaten something besides candy last night.
This is the earth shrine, isn't it? Fine state to be meeting another god...
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▶ CHECKPOINT FINAL.SAV
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