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....]

Comments

[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]

[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! ♪

[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. ♪

[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?

[invisiblefloatinghead]

[He nods and calmly takes a sip of that coffee.]

Just got here yesterday. Is it always that thick out there?

[Yeah, it's a lot of Noise, but there's no sense in panicking over it or anything. Just going to keep sipping at that terrible coffee.]

[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.]

[roadroller]

Well, I don't really know, but I don't think it should be! It seems like they show up when people are upset. ♪

[or when Snowmen are upset, if Rin's first experience with noise possession was any indicator.]

In other words, something must be wrong. ♪

[roadroller]

Yeah, but it's too risky to go out. I'm basically stuck here.... although, that doesn't mean I can't do the mission. It seems to be about gathering information - maybe you can help. ♪

[invisiblefloatinghead]

All the more reason to do something about it, then.

[He tosses the now-empty tiny cup of free coffee in a nearby trash can.]

[roadroller]

Right. ♪

[She idly watches him toss the cup. Rin is seriously willing to pact with anyone, but she hopes he doesn't need that to stay awake or something. She's going to be a high energy partner.]

Well, I'm Rin Kagamine. It's my second week playing the game. ♪

[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]

[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.]

[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?]

[shy_kindness]

[Fluttershy is awkwardly silent for a few seconds before summoning the courage to speak up.]

Um, t- to clear this wall... um, you have to cheer two RGers up.

[She hopes that's a good mission.]

[poppetstrings]

[... Cheer up two RGers? How is she supposed to do that when she doesn't even know what the source of their despair is?

She frowns, holding up her decal pin and then making an X shape with her arms, hoping that she'll get the message.]

[shy_kindness]

[Fluttershy blinks.]

...Your pin doesn't work?

[poppetstrings]

[She shakes her head. It work's but...

She taps her head. Not being able to talk is sort of hard... Ah! She grabs for her phone, holding up one finger. Give her a second as she types up a text message to no one.]

There doesn't seem to be a way to cheer them up. At least, none that I can see. Even scanning them doesn't seem to help find a reason.

[She holds up the message so that Fluttershy can see.]

[shy_kindness]

Oh. Well, um... Would you like a different mission?

[poppetstrings]

[She nods, erasing the message, before typing up a new one and showing it to her.]

Please? I would appreciate it if you could.

[cruel_kindness]

[Fluttercruel takes control.

I got this, Flutterbutt.]

How's about finding us a good song to listen to? Chop chop.

[poppetstrings]

[... And Xion has no idea what just happened there, but she nods anyways, shrugging off the sudden change as she goes off to locate a nearby record store.

Unfortunately, Xion has no idea what to choose when she gets there. Eventually, she'll settle on something that seems to be popular at this time. Hopefully something like this will please the reaper.

Xion returns to the reaper, CD in hand, and offers it to her.]

[cruel_kindness]

[Fluttercruel looks over the CD.]

Rammstein... Rosenrot. Hmm...

[Fluttercruel shrugs. The Flutters haven't heard of them, but they sounds neat enough to give them a try. She smirks and lowers the wall, tossing out the reward to the Player.]

When you find out what the buck's going on here, come and tell us. We'll be at the hotel.