WEEK 4 DAY 4: MISSION

[wonderful_mods]

Mission: "Ascertain the world's circumstance."
Time Limit: Long
Noise Plane: Duet
Wall Instructions: No key walls; create walls at your own discretion. Seal off the school and dorm.
Wall Rewards: Poison Scorpion
Reaped Rewards: Final Pyre, All Expired
Mission Rewards: Scarletite

[This is the vaguest mystery ever. But, scan around and one thing will become apparent. Even if the second day was spent entirely clearing noise from the area, they're all back in full force, and they seem to be possessing more people than usual. These people have feelings of hopelessness, apathy and death. But just scanning them doesn't seem to give the answers why. If the mission can believed, this is not something the Reapers have done, but something to do with the world itself. Surely someone must know the truth....]

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[notsogrimreaper]

[Ryoji's getting more and more panicked as the week goes on. There's not much time left, and as much as he tries to stay calm and happy, he can feel the negativity around him. Even if he isn't in the Game anymore, he knows that the Noise must be multiplying, so it won't be long now...

He can't put this off any longer. He needs to find someone who will listen to him. He can't let this happen again.

He'll spend as much time as he can in the hotel and other decal areas, just waiting to find anyone he can trust. Hopefully at least Ichigo comes by. He had said he would do anything...]

[roadroller]

[After what happened yesterday, Rin's not leaving the hotel by herself. So she's mostly been watching TV in her room and trying to ignore the timer on her hand. Once her stomach starts rumbling though, she goes out to see if she can still get a complimentary doughnut. And there's Ryoji. He looks down. So does Rin, though. She'll call out to him anyway.]

Afternoon. ♪

[notsogrimreaper]

Rin-chan... Hi. What are you doing here? Shouldn't you have a mission by now?

[Not that he minds the company. Almost all of the other RGers have been depressed, and he hasn't even trusted himself to talk to his old friends. Ryoji's only chance at conversation lately has been with the few people in the Game that he can still see.]

[tamedhollow]

[After dragging Xehanort around for some early morning Noise-hunting (the Hollow needed his breakfast), Ichigo returns, briefly, to the hotel to take a shower and maybe a quick nap before heading out to do Reaper business. The Noise... getting a full belly hadn't taken long at all. He wasn't sure where all this negativity was coming from, but he wasn't sure he liked it.

He tunes down to the RG before even entering the hotel to preclude strange looks from the staff and other, non-Game visitors. As he walks in, he's not really paying much attention to any of the folks hanging out in the lobby. He's got his eyes set on the elevator, and his hand on his keycard in his pocket]

[notsogrimreaper]

[Ryoji had looked at the door immediately as he heard it opening, a bit of morbid curiosity fueling his actions. Spotting just the person he is looking for causes him to be filled with relief and fear all at once, so it takes him a moment to finally stammer out Ichigo's name.]

Ichigo-san?

[invisiblefloatinghead]

[So there's a new Player in the area, and he can't help but notice Ryoji hanging around the hotel lobby. He's got no idea as to what might be going on here or that Ryoji's even involved in the Game.]

Something troubling you, son?

[notsogrimreaper]

[Ryoji looks up, a bit surprised. He doesn't recognize the other man, and can't tell whether he's involved in the Game or not. It didn't matter anyways. He wasn't willing to share what was bothering him with someone who may or may not welcome what was to come.]

Ah, a little, but it's nothing.

[vexed_snake]

[You wanted someone you can trust, Ryoji? How about someone you can always trust to do the wrong thing? Does that count?

Asakura decides to get Ryoji's attention by throwing one of the hotel's complementary bars of soap at his head. Like Asakura would ever be using that soap for its intended purpose anyway.]

[notsogrimreaper]

[Ryoji yelps at the contact, doubling over for a moment as his eyes catch the bar of soap. So whoever had hit him hadn't done it to hurt, exactly. Just to pester. He sits up, glaring over the couch, but his glare lessens a bit when she sees Asakura. He still doesn't like the Reaper, but he seems to be one of Ryoji's only options right now as he looks for someone to kill him.]

If you're not going to throw something harder, don't waste my time.

[shinbunshinobi]

[Sasuke comes running up to him, having spotted him across the lobby.]

Hey, Mr. Reaper. You gotta moment?

[notsogrimreaper]

Hm? Sure, Sasuke-san. Is something wrong?

[He lifts his head, doing his best to look cheerful, though he's obviously distracted.]

[roadroller]

[Rin opens the hotel door

SKY-BLACKENING SWARM OF NOISE SYMBOLS

Rin slams the hotel door]

Okay, I don't even care who. Someone pact with me! ♪

[invisiblefloatinghead]

[The older Player holding the tiny complementary cup of crappy hotel coffee is peeking out the window at all that Noise. He doesn't seem particularly alarmed by it; he might as well have taken note that the weather had turned a little rainy.]

I seem to have found myself without a partner as well, I'm afraid.

[roadroller]

[She saw him there, but she didn't really notice him until he spoke up. Because of his age, maybe because he didn't react much to the noise either. She assumed he was RG - without scanning it can be hard for her to tell. So she raises her hand with the timer on it as she looks at him.]

You're a player too?

[shinbunshinobi]

[Sasuke doesn't like what he sees at all. He goes around scanning people to try and get a better idea of what's going on, but besides a whole lot of negativity, there's not much to go on.]

[He returns to the hotel after a quick recon jaunt, using the most of his speed to avoid too many fights and dodge in and out of decal areas.]

[recklessice]

[Oh, hey. KAITO is about to start his job, but someone (like you) busting in the lobby made him curious.]

Uh... Avoiding troubles today, huh?

[Has no idea about negativity, but soon he will know the truth.]

[shinbunshinobi]

For the moment. The Noise are really active today, so if you're heading out, you better make sure your partner is with you.

[shinbunshinobi]

TESTING TESTING for bug related purposes

[poppetstrings]

[All this negativity... What's going on?

Xion's sort of running between the noise, trying to find someone, anyone who knows what's going on.

Surely someone she scans will have the answer! Because if not... This doesn't look good.]

[shy_kindness]

[Fluttershy has put up a wall. She catches sight of the player and hides behind her mane a little, shuffling one of her font hooves on the ground.]

Um, hello...

[poppetstrings]

[Xion almost doesn't hear the voice, at first, the tinyness of it almost being lost to her.

Thankfully, she does catch sight of Fluttershy, so the voice has a source enough for Xion to not put it off. Xion slows to a stop, raising a hand in greeting. A reaper, eh?]

[roadroller]

[Spotting a black coat, Rin calls out to the person whom she believes she was told about earlier.]

Hey! Are you Xion? ♪

[notsogrimreaper]

[If Xion needs a break, the hotel seems to be relatively Noise-free. In fact, the whole place is rather empty. Ryoji is one of the few people still inside right now.

He hasn't looked at Xion yet, but that's simply because he has his head in his hands.]

[suicidoll]

(Even though Kreutzer has relied heavily on her scanning to substitute her lack of vision, she can't pinpoint the exact source of all of this negativity. Whatever it is, it's intense.)

Xion? I don't like this. I worry this negativity may be intentional.

[vexed_snake]

[Asakura has developed a bit of a hobby here in this world. Since the Police Station isn't marked with a Reaper Decal, he's been having far, far too much fun haunting the place as a malevolent spirit. He'll slip out of the UG into the RG just long enough to cause a bit of a commotion, or he'll hang around people in the UG and send nothing but negative thoughts their way. Not that this is making much difference; they were already well immersed in negative thoughts.

Still, he's quite enjoying himself making the area's Noise problem even worse.]