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

[needsmorezippers]

[If this keeps up, Neku's going to need to pick up a history book. Or actually listen to Joshua when he talks... the book sounds more appealing.

He is acting as a Harrier... sort of. If you cross his path, he'll throw some Noise at you, anyway. But he's more keeping an eye on the GM. "Do or die" time, right? He might be able to get away without that like the last GM, but it's possible he has the other end goal in mind...]

[tamedhollow]

[Sticking together worked before. Why not stick with the pattern? Ichigo is sticking near Neku, if not right beside him. He flutters over]

Cerberus. That was the 12th trial of Heracles. He had to capture the three-headed dog that guarded the gate to the underworld and bring it back alive. So the big lady was the Hydra of Lake Lerna, and Rei is Cerberus. What next? A Nemean lion? The Stymphalian birds?

[what? Ichigo was a literature buff.]

[needsmorezippers]

[Neku has no idea what you're talking about, but he'll go with it. Can they have an art mission already?]

Is it a requirement for GMs to have some crazy theme? [The first guy he had talked about food all the time, then there was the Grim Heaper and his math puns, and then Konishi and being a total bitch. They haven't been here long, but it looks like this is apparently a normal thing.]

[tamedhollow]

Maybe. I mean this stupid Game is wacky enough for it to be some requirement to be insane. [he rolls his eyes. If either of them make it to GM, will they have to do something stupid?] So the Players have to catch Rei. Shouldn't be too hard. He's just twitchy. [though Ichigo has to wonder where his friend went...]

[needsmorezippers]

No. The goal is to survive. I think they get a bonus if they catch him, or something. [But the 'survive' part bothers him. Same as last week...]

[tamedhollow]

[What's with that inflection?] You say that like it's weird. Is it?

[needsmorezippers]

Yea. Remember what he told us? Usually, being the GM is 'do or die' time, because the final goal is to beat them.

[tamedhollow]

Erase the GM? That's right.. he did say that. Hm. So for some reason they're keeping their GMs around.

[needsmorezippers]

Yea. Why, is the question.

[tamedhollow]

Your guess is probably better than mine. Either way, we should keep an eye on him. Maybe his friend is around here somewhere.

[needsmorezippers]

If we can figure out who that is... [which would be good to know.]

[tamedhollow]

All we can do is keep our eyes peeled, right?

[needsmorezippers]

Right. [Doing that!]

[leggierissimo]

[You'd best not be throwing any Noise at him, Neku~ But, it looks like you and he have the same thing in mind for today. May as well spend a little quality time together, hm?]

Seems like things are getting exciting around here for a change.

[needsmorezippers]

Is this normal? Not having the final condition being 'beat the GM'?

[leggierissimo]

Not to my knowledge. It's always been a pretty final thing.

[needsmorezippers]

Any reason you can think of that they wouldn't be doing that? Assuming the GM doesn't get to decide.

[leggierissimo]

Well, different Games have different sets of rules, so it's hard to say. But I'd say it's more likely someone above the GMs is setting this rule in place.

[needsmorezippers]

Why?

[leggierissimo]

Just a feeling I'm starting to get. It seems like our clues so far have all been pointing upward.

[needsmorezippers]

Is there any good reason for doing that?

[leggierissimo]

None that I can see.

Though, I did come up with an interesting theory.

[needsmorezippers]

What it is?

[leggierissimo]

There wasn't a Game here when we got here. Otherwise, the Reapers of this city's Game would have converged on us. And yet, we were free to take over this city's UG.

Every city has a Game. So it isn't a simple matter of being taken from one city to another. It's more that we've been taken to a parallel world.

[needsmorezippers]

[.................]

What.