WEEK 4 DAY 5: MISSION

[wonderful_mods]

Mission: "Free Paulownia Mall from Noise."
Time Limit: Long
Noise Plane: Duet
Wall Instructions: Key wall in front of Paulownia Mall.
Wall Rewards: Hip Snake
Reaped Rewards: Hot Gaze
Mission Rewards: Choose ONE: 1-handed sword, 2-handed sword, Boxing Gloves, Knuckles, Axe, Hammer, Spear, Bow, or Kunai.

[Another day, another Noise-erasing mission. However, this time there is a definite cause behind the noise: Someone has been wreaking havoc in the Police Station, and the Officer there is really starting to get tired of not being able to catch the culprit. To get rid of the Noise completely, the Players will have to address this little problem. But anyone who helps will be rewarded with a weapon... apparently, some strings have been pulled in that regard. Could the higher-ups be planning something?]

Comments

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

That is a rather ominous thought.
Do you have proof? I hope you do not.

[suicidoll]

I do not. Though something of a worst case scenario, I have no other explanation behind any of this.

That's the scary part: so much unexplained negativity and more continues to grow. I may have scanned too much of it this week, but this has me very uneasy.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Perhaps a greater creatures arises
Full of power and dark surprises?

[suicidoll]

A doomsday beast? An embodiment of death that--

(Well...Kreutz certainly remembers meeting one embodiment of death here. Ironically, it saved her life on their first meeting.)

Thanatos...

...Zecora? Have you seen Ryoji at all this week?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

[Zecora looks at Kreutzer sidelong.]

And why do your thoughts stray to him?
I'm sure it's more than idle whim.

[Ryoji told Zecora much of his story. But she isn't sure how much Kreutzer knows.]

[suicidoll]

(She never asked and he didn't go over the entire thing. However, she did witness firsthand what he can do and that's good enough for her.)

His abilities. I've seen him transform into Thanatos, the embodiment of death...I don't know much more than that, but surely he would have a better understanding of this world's circumstances...wouldn't he?

(She knows it's a stretch due to her limited knowledge of his story, but she can't shake the feeling that she's on to something.)

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

When did you observe him transform?!
If it was this week, then, I think you're warm.

[suicidoll]

(Kreutzer shakes her head.)

It was last week, during an...unfortunate engagement with a few RGers. He jumped in as Thanatos to stop the madness and helped me out of there. He saved my life, so to speak.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

As Thanatos, but not as Nyx...
What should I make of these tricks?

[suicidoll]

Tragic irony? A sense of mystery? Perhaps the tension of the approach towards the climax? I'm not entirely sure myself; there's too much I don't know.

Nyx, for example...does he have another form?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

He told me a story of his past
Both good and bad that could not last.
But on the details I am confused
Though admitting that leaves my ego bruised.

[suicidoll]

Let's be fair; his world has lore all on its own, lore which apparently includes gods and physical manifestations of the immaterial. I can't imagine those kinds of details being easy to absorb.

Might I ask which details are so boggling?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

In a short statement, a mere breath
He told me science could incarnate death.

[suicidoll]

...Death is one of the many things that science can create. It's become infamous for that alone.

...He is to bring death, then. Why this world, specifically?

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Perhaps this world is the one
Where the scientific deed was done.
Or perhaps it he lives, this week
While a Reaper's body caused the power to leak.