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WEEK 2 DAY 7: MISSION

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.]]

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[Zecora, who of course fears no Harrier, also isn't in a hurry to track down the GM. The zebra believes that a versatile Pin deck is vital to her current survival in the game -- and that victory today will not bring a return to life.]

The Twelfth Labor of Marecles through which she slogged
Was to bring back a giant, three-headed dog.
Could humans have a similar tale
Similar in this detail?

Bravo~ I wouldn't expect any less from the Player about to go up against her second possible Game victory.

[Hello, Zecora! Up here! Though not for long - a second later he's pushing off the edge of the roof, falling to land on his feet on the ground below in what could only be described as a gliding motion.]

[Elegant and subdued. The aesthete in her approves, or at least, the part of that aesthete that doesn't consider skulls to be friendly wall ornaments.]

Not 'possible', for I'll achieve victory.
My only hope is not to see a Week Three.

[Joshua would be happy to hear the approval! ... were he able to access his normal array of abilities, anyway.]

It's good to see some confidence! Unfortunately, I wouldn't be at all surprised if we're made to do this all again starting tomorrow.

As much as I don't want it to
I fear what you say will be true.

[Zecora shakes her head, but is in no mood to grow despondent over what she's accepted as unfortunate fact.]

So will you send Noise out to play
Or content yourself to watch today?

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.

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?

[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.

[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.

[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.

I am not sure that I agree
I wore a pin, if briefly.
The urges that it impressed
Should not have met with success.
To make a zebra eat meat, I fear
Is like making you itch in your third ear.
But mind and body are not so parted
That toying with the mind can't get the body started.

That's the point of imprinting, though. A slight mental suggestion that gets things moving~ That still doesn't mean it should have been done, though.

My point remains: it isn't slight
If it can make a body crave what it should fight.
Still, this raises many questions indeed
And promises answers will come with no great speed.

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[Seeing as it is the last day of the week and another survival mission means Sasuke will be keep relatively close to Zecora, though he may wander off for information time to time.]

Again, another similarity. Cerberus, guards the gates to the Underworld. It's fits our situation, doesn't it?

But the 'hydra' was last week's GM.
So I'd wager Cerberus is the second of them.

But Cerberus was Heracles' twelfth, and we're doing his twelfth task and not our second.

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

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

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

[Sasuke has to laugh at Zecora using "somesuch."]

So, what's our plan of attack?

No need for us to run or shout
Odd things we seek tend to stand out.
Let's look for what's unusual.
Thus far we've not looked the fool.

You've got a point there.

[He gives a glance around the area they are at. He's gotten a good look of the city area by this point in the week, but he still wishes he was still in Japan, where it's a lot more telling to see what's out of place.]

And of course we can always follow the Walls
Since they block us from where duty calls.

That is the easiest way out of a maze.

[Sasuke walks a bit and well what do you know?]

Looks like there's one right here.

Then here must be where we begin.
Off we go, for a quick win!