PHASE I [ ❓❓❓ ] And then the Flamines are there.
They just appear, suddenly, as if from nowhere. They’re a race of mercenary aliens, and fighting is all they know -- they’re definitely not going to be easy to kill by any means. They seem to have a natural resistance to magic: aside from very specific types of magic (in particular, light magic and anything highly spiritual), they absorb it. Light magic and spiritual magic can harm them, but it will take a lot to take one down.
They can be stabbed, if you can get that close.
But good luck.
Of course, they look like nondescript black shapes with masks until you knock the mask off...and then you can see the true shape of the Flamines.
They’re here to kill you all. :)
PHASE II [ ❓❓❓ ] As if that isn’t enough… it seems the Flamines’ arrival was the last straw for Cerealia and the Nexus Code. There’s a tear in the sky, and from it… the Nexus Code, where all of the lost friends from before, can be seen. It can be entered, even, though remaining there too long can be detrimental to your health.
But people are there.
Old friends, strung up and lifeless, can be seen there, unmoving.
And…
Then some of them move. They open their eyes. They remember how to breathe. And they’re able to return, able to stagger their way back into Cerealia and take their first breath of air in a long, long time.
Welcome back to the chaos of Cerealia, friends.
Unfortunately, you’ve got nothing but the clothes on your back while murderous aliens are rampaging, so hopefully you’re able to think fast. It’d be unfortunate to die so soon after coming back.
As for spiritual and magical characters who were not in the Nexus Code...well, when they return, they’ll find that they’re covered in old, dried blood, and their clothing might have tears in it, as if from a knife.
There are no scars, though, and they’re otherwise fine. Strange.
PHASE III [ ❓❓❓ ] As if this chaos isn’t enough… there are also the masks. Regardless of whether or not characters were around to receive them the first time, regardless what they did with them before, the masks will suddenly reappear in your characters’ hands. They can be tossed aside, but they’ll reappear again eventually, unable to be truly shaken.
Characters who received them before will receive the same mask they had before.
Characters who didn’t receive them before will receive a mask according to the trait that’s more prominent for them.
Either way...it’ll have a profound effect on the Flamines.
They will go after any character with a broken mask in a bloodthirsty rage, intent on murdering them. Characters with a barcode mask or bloody mask will be the next likely to be chased down intently by the Flamines.
Characters with a :( mask will be killed if they get in the Flamines’ way, though they will not go out of their way to chase them down.
Characters with a vine mask or feather mask will be treated with wariness, though they may still be attacked if they get in a Flamines’ way.
Characters with a grey mask will not be killed unless they are first the aggressor, as will characters with a bloody fingerprint mask.
Naturally there will be exceptions to every rule, but the masks will change how the Flamines’ generally act towards characters!
PHASE IV [ ❓❓❓ ] But something’s not quite right.
Regardless of the battles against the Flamines, it seems Cerealia’s just been under too much pressure lately. Something had to give --
And it’s the code building up the characters that really suffers.
Their code has been hanging on by a thread without CERES to maintain it, and now… it’s finally giving out. The glitches that afflicted characters before will be even more prominent now; they might glitch from place to place, or have their powers go totally awry in odd ways. There may be a lack of powers suddenly, or a sudden difficulty staying on the ground as gravity stops working on the character.
They might suddenly be unable to breathe, or go cold, or very nearly die --
But it can be controlled, too, with effort. Characters can learn to control the glitches, gaining an ability to almost teleport, or ways to tweak their powers in exciting new ways.
With a lot of effort, they could even possibly reverse a death -- but only their own, and only once.
BONUS [ ❓❓❓ ] There are also… birds?
Flamingos, to be exact. Who knows where they came from, but either way, there are plastic flamingos chilling all over the place. They’re just normal plastic; they don’t move, they can very easily be destroyed --
But if you touch one with your bare hands… it’ll have an interesting effect.
Characters will suddenly find that they have the abilities or the last person they touched -- but without any of the practice or ability to control it, of course.
Still, it might help with that pesky Flamines problem, right?
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[TO SAY THE LEAST. Kashuu glances upward for a second too, eying the ship, and then looks back toward Rise with a furrowed brow.]
I mean, dangerous, and also probably not super possible. I've already seen a lot of these guys... It's probably better that he can't actually distract 'em all, but still.
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[Huff!] I lost track of how many of them there are a while ago. He's not listening to any of us.
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[HELPING!! But he understands this struggle, truly... Even if he's sometimes on the other side of the equation being punched, because that's just what happens when everyone in your army is a self-sacrificing moron.]
Geez... Anyway, those guys are definitely going after people with certain types of masks. I don't think any distraction will keep 'em away from them for long.
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His mask is one of the broken ones. What does that tell you?
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Kashuu is also entirely not joking in his offer so he just nods like the punk he is. Anyway, on a more serious note:]
It tells me that he better be really good at running or have some super solid defense. Otherwise he's gonna be more like a speedbump than a distraction.
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I've already lost him once. I'm not letting it happen again. But they won't outright attack me down here either so it's just hard to decide where I need to be...I don't know if that makes sense.
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[Or he thinks he does, at least - being stuck in that awkward place where it's like "hm, I'd be more useful over here, but also my idiots are over there being idiots."]
...If you have to think about it, you probably aren't in the place you should be, though. Or something.
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...be honest with me Kashuu-san. Do you think we'll be okay?
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[A little, encouraging nod. The best anyone can ever do is help others who need it in times of crises, right?
As for the question - well. She's asking honesty from a tsukumogami, and he never really sugarcoats the things he says to begin with. He gives the question some weighted consideration.]
...I think there's a chance we'll be okay, but something needs to give. We can't keep fighting indefinitely when there are so many non-fighters here, and when these guys just keep going and going. They're ignoring some masks, and Yuri can fix the broken ones and stuff - I think that's the kinda thing we're gonna need to bank on here, rather than being able to overwhelm 'em with power or force.
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While we're out here, we'll protect the people with broken masks and send them to Kozukata-san. We'll run interference with the people who aren't being targeted. It's the only way. [She nods to herself.] ...thank you for being honest with me. That's all I wanted to know.
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No point in sugar-coating things in the middle of war, right?
[Or battles - mostly battle, since this is still small enough to be considered that rather than a war, he thinks. ...Unless they count it as a continuation of the war that's been waged on all of their collective planets, anyway.]
For now, we should probably appoint people to look after the safe zones, too. Doing sweeps of the street will be good to catch anyone who hasn't been able to make it there on their own, but they'll need to be protected once they get there too.