WEEK 2 DAY 7: MISSION

[wonderful_mods]

Mission: Pray for your survival. Riches await those who perform the Twelfth Labor of Heracles.
Time Limit: Very Long
Noise Plane: Solo
Wall Instructions: None. All reapers are to be on harrier duty. The ban on attacking players directly is still in place.
Wall Rewards: (If anyone puts one up anyway: 5 leu)
Reaped Rewards: Blast Warning
Mission Rewards: Lazy Bomber



[There seems to be a new reaper stalking through the streets of Cluj-Napoca, a familiar sight to a few eavesdroppers in town. The teenager looks no older than fourteen years old, his head covered in bandages. He doesn't seem to be getting winded as he parkours across the rooftops, slipping the streets and alleys of town when he can't, showing a swiftness fitting that wiry frame. Oddly, he doesn't seem to be attacking Players, despite the command that all reapers should harry...

Looks like the GM is cocky once again - there is no direct warning of erasure at the end of this Mission mail. In addition, reapers are still instructed to not attack players directly. You could probably clear the day without completing the mission, as long as you survived... but completing the mission would certainly get you significant recognition at the end of the Game.]

[[OOC note: At its basic, this is a repeat of last week's Day 7: Survive to win. You can also try to take down the GM, or fulfill the secondary mission conditions. Anyone who completes the second 'task' stated will get a Blue Blood Burns Blue in addition to the posted mission reward.]]

Comments

[leggierissimo]

Motou? [Joshua pauses, glancing down at the ground.] The name doesn't sound familiar... A shame she was Erased for it. Someone had to have told her, though.

[leggierissimo]

I doubt I'm any more fond of the idea than you are.

[Joshua loosely crosses his arms, tipping his head and eyeing Zecora thoughtfully.]

It's customary to pull out all of the stops on the final day, but since the higher-ups don't seem to be, I don't see much why I should be, either. [He's scored plenty of points this week, anyway.] So, as long as you track down today's goal, I'd say you're off the hook.

[needsmorezippers]

I guess so. [If she was from Shibuya, Neku would have guessed Joshua would have at least heard the name.]

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Marecles fought the lion as her first task
Was the hydra first in your version, I ask?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

I've a question to put to you
And I hope your answer will be true.
A Reaper we pumped for information
Said, without exaggeration
That a Game from the place you knew --
When we first spoke, the first day or two--
Had much wrong with it, some oddity
That inspired much of what we see.
The Vampire Pins were just one sample,
Not returning to life another example.
If all of that is so
Will you tell me what you know?

[leggierissimo]

[Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.] ... well, I suppose we'll just have to dig around. She got the information from somewhere.

[leggierissimo]

[That actually gets Joshua to look a little surprised!]

... well. It seems like a lot of people are getting curious. [The surprise shifts to amusement.] Shibuya was stagnating, and the Composer saw no way of fixing it. So, to avoid poisoning the surrounding districts, he was going to destroy it. But his Conductor was convinced otherwise... He wanted to prove that Shibuya was still capable of change. So the Composer challenged him through the Game - the Conductor had a month to prove his point, and in the meantime he would remain away from the UG but would choose a Player to act in his stead, to give the Conductor some opposition.

Unfortunately, the Conductor's means of proving that that change could happen was to force pins onto both the RGers and the Reapers alike; pins imbued with an imprint commanding the wearer to think one thing and one thing only. He thought that, by doing this, he could control the chaos that Shibuya had slowly been succumbing to, but he was wrong. Brainwashing an entire city is no way to ignite change. So... he failed.

[shinbunshinobi]

No, it's the lion like yours. It seems like they're going out of order here.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

[She's surprised to get an answer, especially this long of one. But certainly glad to, and she gives it her full attention. By the end of it, she's nodding.]

So the Pins that affected RGers here
Were indeed inspired by that, I fear.
But the ends cannot be the same
Nothing like that happened in this Game.
The Pins affected not just the mind
Bot the body's urges, too, in kind.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Then let us not think on it too much
And instead find the dog, or GM, or somesuch.

[leggierissimo]

[It isn't like it's some horrible secret or anything. He's perfectly willing to divulge~ Leaving a few key bits out, of course.]

The imprinting they attempted here was completely mental. Nothing physically changed in any of them - it's absolutely possible to imprint strongly enough that the person believes they have physically changed. But it was definitely derived from what happened in Shibuya, that's for sure.

[needsmorezippers]

We just have to find it. [CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.]

[leggierissimo]

That's the spirit! [KEIKAKU DOORI]

[needsmorezippers]

Have you talked to Rei yet? [He and Ichigo pulled as much info out of them as they could, but he figures Joshua also knows some better questions to ask.]

[leggierissimo]

Not yet, unfortunately. He's been a bit busy running all over the city.

[needsmorezippers]

Yea, I noticed. [He didn't expect the guy to be that fast. Though the parkour is pretty cool.]

[leggierissimo]

It's looking more and more like I'm going to have to wait for someone to catch him. [Shrug!] At least it seems to be part of the end goal.

[needsmorezippers]

Sort of. The actual mission is just for them to survive, right? [Which is weird, since Rei doesn't seem to be attacking...]

[leggierissimo]

That's right. But the hidden objective is to capture Cerberus. [He's suspecting the Players are supposed to survive against the Reapers' Noise. It's all he can think of.]

[needsmorezippers]

Yea. The question is how many people are focusing on that.

[leggierissimo]

I'm not really sure. I know I've overheard at least one of them that's understood it.

[needsmorezippers]

That's a start. [Ichigo had to tell him what it meant.]

[reaper_sport]

[Later into the mission, it appears that Rei has stopped running around town. Those that have been keeping an eye on him may notice him slipping into a social bar that may or may not be familiar to those who have been wandering around the city for the past week.

A social bar with a Reaper Decal on it.]

[leggierissimo]

[... good job, Neku.] Mm. We'll see what comes of it. The mission is complete regardless as long as someone survives.

[needsmorezippers]

I'm pretty sure they can handle that. [At least, he really hopes so.]