WEEK 5, DAY 1: MISSION

[wonderful_mods]

Mission: Get with the Times.
Time Limit: Short
Noise Plane: Solo
Wall Instructions: Key walls around the Times Square. Keywalls must be cleared by presence of a pact, or by fighting noise.
Wall Rewards: Blown Kiss
Reaped Rewards: Frantic
Mission Rewards: Rare Metal

[It looks like things are back to normal, but that seems to only raise as many questions as it solves. What happened to Tatsumi Port? Why did the phones all go dead like that? And why did nobody see the GM the entire last week...?

But it's no matter. It's the start of another week of the Reaper's Game - and the mission seems the same as ever for Day 1. Now just to figure out where the mission is pointing to.]

Comments

[invisiblefloatinghead]

If there's a way to use their dimension hopping powers to go to other worlds at will, you should try my world. There are people there who are experienced in dealing with this sort of thing. And powers can...well, they can fluctuate a bit there. They can come and go.

[He cracks a bit of a rueful smile.]

I used to be a fire elemental, you know. But I died an ordinary human.

[emotionaldeath]

A fire elemental? Interesting.

I started out believing I was a normal human, but when I died I was anything but. I think it would be good if my powers were gone, though I'm not sure if I could really exist without them.

[invisiblefloatinghead]

Not at first...it's a bit complicated. But for a while there, I left the planet and went exploring through space. That much power can make it difficult to keep in touch with one's humanity...

[And the hows and whys of everything are incredibly full of holes now.]

I'm sure there's a way to separate you from them somehow, if that's what you wanted. Some of the people back home...it's like they make it their business to specialize in the impossible.

[emotionaldeath]

Exploring space...

[Now that sounds familiar. He isn't quite sure what it is, but after a bit of pondering, he remembers.]

Nyx explored space herself for many years, after she was created. I seem to remember those times... it's comforting, in a way. I used to be so afraid of those memories.

That's why I wanted to be separate from that part of me, but I don't remember why I felt so strongly about it. Besides, as a part of Nyx, I can only be part of the larger whole. I could not live without the thing that gave me existence.

[invisiblefloatinghead]

Space...space can sort of burn those emotions away if you wander it alone for long enough...

[Yeah, he knows that feel.]

I think I see what you're saying. When I had my abilities as an elemental, I was part of something known as the Firestorm Matrix. Even after I lost them, I still maintained that connection. But it's always been more of a force of life, so breaking free was never an issue...I'd imagine it would be possible somehow, though. You might be the same way with this Nyx.