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

[emotionaldeath]

[Sitting out on a bench is a very familiar, yet surprising sight: a pale teenager, checking his cellphone and ducking his head down so part of his face is hidden by his scarf. Ryoji seems to be back, safe and sound and completely human-looking, despite the fact that he was left for dead back at Tatsumi Port Island.

He's a little more subdued than usual, but that's understandable, after all that he's gone through. He should be happy to see that everyone else is safe though, right? Maybe someone should approach him and let him know it all worked out.]

[vexed_snake]

[The thing about Times Square is that it's an area just loaded with reflective surfaces. And since someone has his Advent Deck back this week, reflective surfaces aren't a very safe thing to have around.

There's a wall up, but it looks fairly deserted...or was that a flash of purple in that window behind you? A pink blur passing across that parked taxi's side view mirror? This area probably isn't safe.]

[suicidoll]

(Well...after enduring the madness that encompassed the previous week, this one felt much more welcome. Aside from surviving doomsday, she made it through her week as a Player. She made it through without her sight and, to her surprise, benefited from it. Being able to see again...able to see the people, the world, the sky...the sunrise...it all felt so surreal to her.

Her reaper wings fluttered on their own accord as her cloak was wrapped around her, adorned with the pins that kept her alive during her previous week. She held her bow with her free hand as she casually and, almost cautiously, flew over the city streets. As vigilant as this may make her look, she was half doing her job and half enjoying the gift of vision.)

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

[Zecora is a zebra again! Yaaaaay!]

[...except she's not happy. Truth be told, she's plodding along like a workhorse after a week of plowing the fields, barely able to lift up her head. She has the mission, she knows what she's supposed to be doing, but the zebra's will to go on has been sapped to the point of collapse.]

[juuichi_yosamu]

[The last week hurt quite a few people. You'd think that Grovyle, who was absent for most of it, would be one of the reapers better off, but... no. He had his own issues he'd been taking care of.

And at this point, he's sick of it. Playing by the rules wasn't changing things, and there was no sign it was going to. Something had to give, somewhere.]

[reaper_sport]

[Once people get through the keywalls and into Times Square proper, they might see a familiar face indeed - one who's been casually lobbing shrew noise at any player that comes by, but also has his mind on a much more unusual project.

Rei is set up at a disposable card table, a box of pristine, new cell phones on one side of him and another box - much emptier and larger - on the other side. Draped over the table is a sign, very clearly written in Japanese (without an English translation).]

FREE REPLACEMENT CELL PHONES
EXCLUSIVELY FOR VISITORS
FROM TATSUMI PORT ISLAND

[Something smells fishy.]

Italics are thoughts to be scanned

[shinbunshinobi]

[ Sasuke has been bouncing from one Reaper Decal place to the other, trying to find someone familiar. Finally he takes a break to sit on a bench with a piece of paper ready to play some question and answers a la Reaper Creeper should any Player find him. ]

It looks like I can get away with napping if I wanted... But I still don't know where Zecora is.

[needsmorezippers]

[Well that was... interesting. And, naturally, they're probably not going to get any answer as to the result of last week. Awesome.

Neku's manning a wall by Times Square, mostly just trying to get a feel for the area. Come bother him, he needs to get out more.]