WEEK 2 DAY 6: MISSION

[wonderful_mods]

Mission: "Mend the severed."
Time Limit: Very Long
Noise Plane: Solo
Wall Instructions: Key walls around the residential districts.
Wall Rewards: Psych Support
Reaped Rewards: Link Spider
Mission Rewards: 5,000 leu



[Things appear to have settled down from the previous days. No more gallivanting ex-GMs, no more strange displays of brainwashing or secret tunnels. Everything is, supposedly, back to order. And yet, judging by the mission, not all is right. Whatever it is, it's up to the Players to fix it. Why not look around and see what this severed thing is? The answer may not be too surprising, to those paying attention.]

Comments

[tamedhollow]

From what he told me, the entire upper-levels of this Game are from Shinjuku. This is Shinjuku's Game, transported to... wherever we are. Siberia? Which also never happened before the "newbloods" started showing up. [he's still not clear on it, ALL HE KNOWS IS THAT IT'S COLD. Ichigo nods a bit] ... if I knew more about what happened, I might be able to put some more information together.

[leggierissimo]

I thought as much. Though really, it only happened a week after we all showed up. If they had just sent us home before then, perhaps nothing like this would have happened in the first place. Which is why I'm suspicious; it's strange that we were forced into being involved in the Game in the first place. [Pause. He's taking a sip of that coffee now. ... not bad.] Shibuya was stagnating and threatening to poison the nearby districts. The Composer there was prepared to destroy it... but, all thanks to one Sakuraba Neku, he seems to have changed his mind. The city is still there, after all. And it's doing much better.

[tamedhollow]

It's all weird. And I won't be surprised if we end up somewhere new after this week ends. [he looks surprised] Destroy... the whole district? What would happen to the people who lived there, then? ... [Poisoning neighboring districts...] Wait, Shinjuku is right next to Shibuya. So if something went bad in Shibuya, who's to say that it didn't spread to Shinjuku already? What if that's what this is?

[leggierissimo]

I wouldn't be, either. Though I'd like to know if there's any control over where we go or not. [Siiiiip.] On the outside, it would simply look like a terrible accident. I'm sure you've seen it happen before - entire cities being destroyed in one way or another. I assume the people there would either Ascend or Descend, depending on their worth at the time. [... and the poisoning theory...] I doubt that's what this is. It would have caused discord and chaos in the city, not... [hand motion] all of this.

[tamedhollow]

I don't know... Rei didn't know, either. He seemed to be only slightly more informed than we are. [that sounds horrible...] I've heard of such things happening, but I didn't realize... [he shakes his head] ... I'm glad Neku was able to change that. [Ichigo frowns, thinking hard] Well, it could have been a red herring. Maybe Rei was lying, to throw us off. Maybe this doesn't have anything to do with Shibuya at all.

[leggierissimo]

I wouldn't mind meeting this Reaper and talking to him myself, honestly. [He smiles.] Neku had far more of a hand in it than I think he realizes. He might learn one of these days. [And, thoughtfully, his fingertips tap against the side of the thermos.] ... at this point, anything is a valid possibility. All we can do is gather as much information as we can and weed out the improbable bits.

[tamedhollow]

You'll know him as soon as you see him. Smarmy, and wrapped up in bandages like some kind of mummy. [he rolls his eyes. Maybe the kid was taking Halloween too far] He had a friend with him, but she ran off before we could talk to her. It sounded like they were partners.

He's a good guy. He saved a lot of people. [he frowns] The more information I get, the more confusing this gets. A Composer isn't supposed to be able to move their game around, right?

[leggierissimo]

Mm. I'll keep an eye out, then. [And a female partner, too... yet another thing to add to his notes.]

That he did. [He takes another sip of coffee while Ichigo speaks.] Not at all. What's even more confusing is that moving the Game into this city didn't have any negative effects that I've been able to notice. I'm sure that you've noticed by now that Reapers are by nature creatures of opportunity... Reapers from opposing districts aren't usually well-accepted by Reapers in their home districts. In fact, it's downright animalistic, from what I've heard. And each city has its own Game... so why weren't there Romanian Reapers here to fight back at us for intruding?

[tamedhollow]

Oh, he also mentioned that "The Hydra" is last week's GM. The one who ran the mission yesterday. Apparently it's because she can make copies of herself.

.. That's a good point. It's like there's no Game in this city... I wonder... I have a theory. See, in my world, there's no Games like this. I told you that we handle souls a little differently. When I was dragged to another world before this, called Bete Noire, there was nothing like this there either. Maybe this Romania isn't on the same world as Shinjuku was. A world where the Game doesn't usually exist. ... Which means they're messing up the soul cycles of other worlds even MORE than originally thought! Dammit!!

[leggierissimo]

Hm. Fitting name. [He may as well fish out his phone and add as he goes.]

It's possible to be accidentally kicked into a parallel world, yes. But to have an entire UG shifted like that... [Tap tap tap. He only needs one hand for this.] One person is a small amount of Soul. And even with one person, it's difficult enough to return to your home world. Even for someone as powerful as the Composer, it would take an outside source capable of--

[And here he pauses mid-sentence, thumb stilling on the key it last pressed. No... surely not.]

[tamedhollow]

[that pause makes Ichigo give Josh a look]

What? Look, you can't hold out on information, here. What outside source has that kind of power?

[leggierissimo]

[Hm.]

Do you believe in Angels, Ichigo-kun?

[tamedhollow]

Nope. I mean. They... might exist. But I've never seen one. Or anything like one. ... Are you suggesting Angels did this?

[leggierissimo]

Not many have. But, it's the next step above the level of Composer, which makes them a bit more powerful and thus capable of traveling between parallel worlds, passengers included. Though, if an Angel really is doing something like this... well, it's pretty obviously against the rules.

[tamedhollow]

I see... [there's a pause. Wait...] ... Again, you seem to know a whole lot about this stuff.

[leggierissimo]

I've been able to see the UG my entire life. [Without even missing a beat.] I know quite a bit about how it works.

[tamedhollow]

Even the Angels? A medium with that kind of power is pretty unique. Me and my sister Karin are about the only people I know with that sort of natural ability.

[leggierissimo]

It isn't all that common in my world, either. Seeing Angels, though... [He closes his phone, content with his notes for now.] The planes of the world work in certain ways. The RG is at the bottom of the heap, with the UG above it and the Noise plane between them. Normally, people would only be able to perceive the plane that they're on and any planes beneath it. But, certain people have the ability to see at a somewhat higher frequency... which keys into my ability to see the UG from the RG. Angels reside on a plane much higher than the UG, so the only way to see one is if they lowered themselves to a plane that you could perceive. Much in the same way that we're invisible to those on the RG until we lower our own Frequencies.

[tamedhollow]

I see... so that's how it works. Kind of like dimensions. [he grins] Have you ever read "Flatland"? I think you'd enjoy it.

[leggierissimo]

Exactly. [Have a smile in return!] I don't think I have, no. I'll keep an eye out for it.

[tamedhollow]

It's the story of what happens when a three dimensional being visits a two dimensional world. If I find a copy, I'll lend it to you.

[leggierissimo]

That sounds like quite an adventure~ I didn't know you read, Ichigo-kun.

[tamedhollow]

[he grins a little and shakes his head] I know it doesn't look like it, but I really love to read. [You'd never guess that one of his favorite things to do is read Shakespeare]

[leggierissimo]

Well, it looks like I know what the perfect gift would be, then~ [Were he inclined to buy gifts, anyway. Still, it's nice to finally talk to someone that appreciates a good book.]

[tamedhollow]

Pfft. If I HAD any time to read... So anyway. No hard feelings?