Idk

[pastel vale]

CRAP

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: Sighs...Then teleported Charybdis away.

...Stay out of this.

[fervent rivet]

The scav finally snaps out of her fear and throws her spears.

[pastel vale]

What- No!

The teleportation does not work

Charybdis fires three more shots, three scavs go flying

REFERO

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: Looks at Charybdis.

...What are you doing?

[pastel vale]

Defending us?

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Starts to back away, starting to fluctuate in air.

[pastel vale]

I am sorry but these freaks are charging at us- I've taken enough chances for two lifetimes.

the Assistant runs away before coming back and hiding behind the uninfected scav in terror

[fluid mauve]

The lizards start to charge at specific targets, their movement is faster than the scavs.

ONE IS HEADING TOWARD SAINT

[pastel vale]

Charybdis fires 2 more shots, two lizards near her go down

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: ...You don't get it do you?

Looks at the lizards...He refuses to harm them.

Saint: He just hovers out of reach.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis pauses before reloading as she backs away

Kurtis- I can get to the other side of this horde and try to figure out where they are coming from.

[fervent rivet]

The brown scavenger throws another spear directly at the lizards, hostile towards them as usual.

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: Shakes head.

...We didn't need to confront...

He pulls his rifle.

You messed it up...Saint, do it.

Saint: He starts mind blasting incoming lizards.

[pastel vale]

Alrighty- who wants to find the source of these horrors?

A shot rings out and a scav is launched away

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger is just letting Saint mind-blast the lizards, still holding a bloodied spear to continue fighting.

[fluid mauve]

Some of the Scavs are conjoined, molded together like a freakshow attraction.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis seems to start vibrating before she suddenly starts to fade away

[fluid mauve]

Yet in this madness, the piano persists...

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...I wonder why can't i have a normal day here without doing that to some sort of horror...

Starts focusing on the Scavengers cojoined.

Kurtis: Starts shooting the lizards.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis suddenly reappears
We need to get outta here!

[fluid mauve]

No exit, only suffering.

[pastel vale]

This line of horrors DOES NOT END!

[fervent rivet]

The brown scav is still spearing the horde.
(I have to disappear for a few 15 minutes)

[pastel vale]

I went deep into the crowd and there is a whole lot more coming here!

[pastel vale]

(k, class for me is starting soon)

[fluid mauve]

A vulture hovers overhead as the horde dies down a bit.

[pastel vale]

(I'll reappear after this class, then disappear till lunch)

[fluid mauve]

It sports the same mauled and mutilated look the scavs have.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...To the hell and forth, in a place of no hope...

He seems to sadden.

...Kinda reminds me of what's happening around upon these disasters...

Kurtis: He sighs...Closing his eyes.

...I feel like there is something missing...

...Saint, get closer.

[pastel vale]

a crack rings out and the vultures wing jerks and it crashes down into the crowd

[fluid mauve]

It stumbles, barely moving forward, but nothing is pushing back.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Looks at the others.

...But what about them?

Kurtis: ...Its something that is beyond the violence they brought where once was a house of many...

Now is just a place of that no one belong...

In such cases...You have to remember of what they fear...

Because there is no one as things stand here who can give any answers.

Saint: Looks away...Then approaches Kurtis.

[pastel vale]

crack and a crack and two scavs go flying

[fluid mauve]

The vulture closes in...

[pastel vale]

Everybody get down!

everybody in the room gets shocked with static electricity as a lightning bolt comes from her revolver and explodes in the vulture

We need to get out of here now!

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: ...It is beyond the personal matters.

He Crosses Out with Saint, sprinting forward the corridor with him.

[pastel vale]

What-

Charybdis attempts to follow them

[gaunt jetty]

(Man be zooming ahead.)

[pastel vale]

(oh, Charybdis has immunity against basically all of Kurtis and most peoples abilities)

[gaunt jetty]

(So was left behind.)

[pastel vale]

(she got sick of the random powers crap so she built God's Blind Eye which suppresses the effect of powers)

(basically yes)

(but she just uses her ability and sprints through the crowd and toward everybody)

(she vibrates so much that she becomes invisible and can walk through stuff)

[gaunt jetty]

(Invisibility is pretty useless around Otherworldly places.)

[pastel vale]

(hm)

(still undetectable to most creatures)

(anyways class is starting gtg)

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger is hurrying behind the group, trying to get away from the shocked horde.

[pastel vale]

Kurtis, Saint, what are we doing?!

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: ...This might be a manifestation of what is being mourned off...

I know the Ancients was in war...While i don't know the full extensions of it...

The horrors clearly have affected everyone...

This is not a conflict we should be fighting...

Its power wear off.

It is rather meaningless to battle where the cause was already lost...But we can get through it...

...I will not let it stay in such a trauma alone...

I don't know if it can't be helped...But we must reach them...

We know it is a friend...And i will not abandon this slugcat...

If my life come in bet...I don't mind.

[pastel vale]

Okay, nice talk but what do we do?

Charybdis picks up the Assistant and fires the last of her bullets

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...To reach who is playing the piano.

[pastel vale]

Can you teleport us there?

I might be able to get us past this horde using my powers but it's risky.

[fervent rivet]

The non-infected scavenger looks at Charybdis, blinking as she pointed at the zombies.

[pastel vale]

Yeah- I can get us past them but it won't be fun.

[gaunt jetty]

(Me worrying of not writing too much, just something ready for him reply.)

[pastel vale]

(y
I just got out of the most intense typing session ever lol
now I have geometry yAy)

[gaunt jetty]

(You just left the demo of it.)

[pastel vale]

( )

Charybdis nabs the scav
Hold on!

you hear a buzzing sound before the air pops and everything seems to slow down slightly

Alright- let's go!
Charybdis gestures to the horde and walks towards it

[gaunt jetty]

(Just wait em.)

[pastel vale]

(~~ ~~)

[fervent rivet]

She looks around, following Chary, but seemingly fearful.

[pastel vale]

They seem to phase through the crowd and none of the horrors notice them.

Eventually- you reach the end of the horde and come out behind it

The horde simply runs away in the opposite direction.

Charybdis falls to the ground right as the weirdness seems to stop.

[fervent rivet]

You’ve got a wide-eyed brown scavenger. Apparently she’s never eaten shrooms before as this was really weird for her.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis gets up onto her knees. She takes off the hood and her mask, revealing that she is in fact a robot with a cracked eye.
I've never- done that- for s-so long- before-

the assistant hops away, relived that the danger has passed

[gaunt jetty]

(Me almost sleeping while waiting.)

[pastel vale]

(lol)

(I think for now we should pause for a bit till we are on all on and not busy)

[gaunt jetty]

(I always will be here on the wait regardless.)

[jolly goblet]

(I'm too late?)

[pastel vale]

(yeah)

[jolly goblet]

( 😦 )

[pastel vale]

(It'll be a few hours till we go again)

[jolly goblet]

(oh okay. Ping me when is goes again if you want to)

[pastel vale]

(mK)
(Might be hard to find a spot where you can enter and it make sense)

[pastel vale]

(For some reason I keep reading @fervent rivet as inspector in a tenchsmoat)

[fervent rivet]

LMAOOOOOO//

[pastel vale]

(I was playing gd and the notif blocked the screen and I died lol)

[fervent rivet]

)lol)

(I changed my pfp to Pages of One Intelligence! She’s one of my most tragic characters lmao)

[pastel vale]

(oooo
Really cool art)

[fervent rivet]

I wonder where I could insert her. Probably way after this mystery is solved.//

[pastel vale]

(hmmm)

(I'm just wondering what kind of terror dungeon skimnaw has set up)

[fervent rivet]

👍)

[pastel vale]

(also I have like no more rw ocs lol)

(I was thinking about doing some weird tactical thing with V but I d k)

[gaunt jetty]

(Thinking on some way of setting a Void Worm boss fighting with odd strats.

Mob occupy 1000 room segments, each 30 seconds all the combatants and the vorm are teleported to a random spot at the world, yet they can still move around it.
Head will always be directed at Rain/Paragon/Saint, spawns 5 - 10 random creatures per teleport and 100 Guardians around their location which respawns after 5 minutes of death and a 1 minute timer before a beam from the worm that kills any Non-Otherworldly being, including its own spawns.)

[pastel vale]

(who a)

[gaunt jetty]

(Not sure how high i would have to set Void Worm Resistance considering that Soul Shattering will be stacking like crazy.)

[gaunt jetty]

(@fluid mauve not sure why they kept goin when i told to wait, oof.)

[pastel vale]

(sorry
i do think we should wait till everybody is on and ready to rp)

(I'll be on for the rest of today provided stuff doesnt happen)

[jolly goblet]

(sure)

[pastel vale]

(are you kidding me)

[jolly goblet]

(Rip, also nice kills)

[pastel vale]

(somebody ping me wheen we are ready to rp)

(im gonna leave my pc on)

[fluid mauve]

(I'm up)

[pastel vale]

(Im on @fluid mauve)

[fluid mauve]

(Kewl)

[pastel vale]

(@gaunt jetty )

(you on Milton?)

[fluid mauve]

(Now he is)

[pastel vale]

(can we rp?)

[fluid mauve]

(I am able, I dunno about everyone else)

[pastel vale]

(@gaunt jetty @fervent rivet tenchsmoat)

[fervent rivet]

Ok//

[pastel vale]

(now we just need milton)

(YES)

[fervent rivet]

(Recap, Mouse is worried about what just happened)

[pastel vale]

(and im dying of everybody going offlien lol)

[fervent rivet]

I’m waiting

)

The scavenger comes near, trying to see if Charybdis is okay.

[pastel vale]

I'm fine- just worn out.

Where did- the others- go?

(@fluid mauve where are we exactly?)

[fluid mauve]

(Infront of Navy Pearl's doorstep)

The cries of the scaves recede...

The door to Navy Pearl stands before you...

[pastel vale]

Charybdis catchers her breath before standing up

So here we are.

She goes up and pushes on the door

[fluid mauve]

Locked...

[pastel vale]

Mother fu-

So what now?

I can't supercharge it- I'll have to recharge myself soon.

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger starts tapping at the door, trying to find clues.. or the door just looks nice to her.

[pastel vale]

The Assistant goes up the the scav and attemps to communicate again
'Friend' 'Why' 'Hello' '?"

Charybdis snorts at the scavengers efforts.
I will personally give you a hundred pearls if you can figure out how to open this door.

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger does not understand the actual words, but they do understand the attempted communication. She motions ‘Friend. Fix. Tribe. Back Here. ?'

[pastel vale]

The Assistant tilts his head
'Friend. Fix. Tribe. Lost.'

[fluid mauve]

Its RUDE to invite yourself into a STRANGER'S HOME. Wouldn't it be more polite to KNOCK?

[pastel vale]

Charybdis looks around
Was I the only person who heard that?

She puts on her mask and brings up her hood

[fluid mauve]

(Intrusive communications)

[pastel vale]

(wdym?)

[fluid mauve]

(No source, just voices)

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger stops tapping upon response to the voices. She knocks her hand on the door slightly to see if the same sound returns.

[fluid mauve]

Theres a pained groan on the other end...

It sounds like HOM.

The piano is still playing...

[pastel vale]

Cherybdis gets up next to the door
HOM?

[fluid mauve]

HOM is crying, wailing, screaming...

He just sounds more...mad.

[pastel vale]

(for some reason the hall of the mountain king is playing in my head)

Charybdis goes up to the door and knocks loudly

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger steps back.

(I kinda wanna draw the traveling characters just hanging out)

[pastel vale]

(I'll send you some ref for the Assistant and Charybdis if you want)

[fervent rivet]

Please do

)

[fluid mauve]

HOM Screams louder...

[pastel vale]

Okay, this horrorshow has gone on long enough.
The air starts to pop and crackle around Charybdis

[fervent rivet]

The screams are incomprehensible to the dumb scavenger.

[fluid mauve]

HOM's screams get louder, and closer to the door...

[pastel vale]

Suddenly, a flash of electricity explodes on the door

[fervent rivet]

You’ve made the scavenger back up, and she is now blinking rapidly.

[fluid mauve]

The door doesn't budge...

[pastel vale]

God (ancient swear)

Hey HOM! I got a gift for you- straight from UNT!

[fluid mauve]

Loud thumps could be heard behind the door, aproaching it, quicker, quicker, QUICKER...

[pastel vale]

Frack.
The assistant hides behind Charybdis as she draws her revolver and reloads it

[fluid mauve]

You hear HOM scream...BUT BEHIND YOU.

[pastel vale]

What?

Charybdis turns around

[fervent rivet]

Small scavenger is scared. She falls back upon hearing HOM.

[fluid mauve]

Its his Iterator shell, his husk.

[pastel vale]

That.

He told me about that.

[fluid mauve]

It graps Charybdis by their hand and throws them to the ground with surprising strength.

[pastel vale]

FU

[fervent rivet]

The brown scav is making small horrified screeches somehow, sounding similar to a lantern mouse. She grabs a spear.

[pastel vale]

A knife extends from Charybdis's left wrist and eletrifies itself before stabbing deep into the puppet as she tries to kick it off

[fervent rivet]

(And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why she’s named Mouse)

[fluid mauve]

HOM's shell looks to be bleeding from the crevices, his glass eyes flooded with his own blood, like he's drowning in it.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis rips open the head of the puppet

[fluid mauve]

Nothing you did even slightly opened the head.

[pastel vale]

Cherybdis kicks it off and backs away

[fervent rivet]

The scav throws a spear directly at the puppet, attempting to help Charybdis.

[pastel vale]

She analyzes it, looking for holes, a data port, a hole, something

[fluid mauve]

IT LOCKS ITS GAZE AT MOUSE, THEIR BLOODSHOT EYES PEIRCEING THROUGH THE GLASS COVERS.```

[pastel vale]

HEY CULUS!

[fervent rivet]

The scav freaks out and backs up, trying to grab another spear.

[fluid mauve]

It looks at you.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis fires all six shots from her revolver at one, hitting the puppet with like a rocket engine basically

[fluid mauve]

It only staggers, but it keeps standing.

[pastel vale]

What?!

[fluid mauve]

It switches its focus on you.

[fervent rivet]

The scav throws another spear, hoping to disrupt the puppet’s focus.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis reloads

[fluid mauve]

It staggers, not changing its target.

It groans and wails in pain.

[pastel vale]

That's what happens if you try and rush me!

Quid est tuum problema?!

[fluid mauve]

No response, just cries.

It quickly stumbles its way over to you.

[pastel vale]

Suddenly, the assistant hops on it's back and begins undoing the puppet

Charybdis senses this and rushes the puppet, pinning it down with all of her supercharged strenght

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger watches the battle in shock.

[fluid mauve]

It doesn't move, like a wall of bricks. It grabs the assistant and holds them in a grasp that slowly gets tighter, and tighter.

[pastel vale]

The assistant starts to screech
Charybdis electrocutes the puppet with all her strenght, stronger than a lightning bolt, conducting electricity all over it's body

(Is there a data port on the puppet?)

[fluid mauve]

It doesn't move, but it lets go.

[pastel vale]

(other than bloody motherfing horror)

[fluid mauve]

(Keep looking)

[pastel vale]

The Assistant shrieks and runs away

Charybdis scans the puppet before jumping off it

[fluid mauve]

It changes course to head towards mouse.

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger let’s out another small shriek before throwing another spear.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis gets down onto her knees and begins summoning power

ASSISTANT! GET OVER HERE!

[fluid mauve]

It doesn't move, it keeps chugging.

[pastel vale]

MOUSE!!! COME!

*The assistant runs towards Charybdis while signalling 'R' 'U' 'I' 'N' *

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger immediately notices, rushing over. Congratulations, you have communicated with a scav.

[fluid mauve]

It turns towards the both of you.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis seems to shake as she grabs the scav and the assistant before they all turn into a blur
Alright- now walk through the door.

[fluid mauve]

(The door is locked)

[pastel vale]

She grabs the Assistant and the scavs hands and calmly leads them through the door, although she seems notiacbly weaker

[pastel vale]

(The door becomes less locked when you can phase through matter)

(To the puppet, all they see is everybody vibrating in place)

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger is just blinking, somewhat terrified.

[fluid mauve]

The door won't budge, by the time you can even make a bit of progress, the static drags you back infront of HOM.

[pastel vale]

(essentially, they are vibrating so much no eyes or sensors can register them and they can move through certain types of matter. What the puppet is seeing is the afterimage, sort of like how a persons image can linger a long time after they have fallen into a black hole. The science behind it all is really interesting)

FU

[fluid mauve]

(Find the port, REPEAT HISTORY)

[pastel vale]

everything returns to normal as Charybdis collaspes, but in her hand is a small tiny drive.

The assistant starts to shriek and run around

(Not sure, but Cherybdis had an idea.)

(somebody just needs to pick it up and plug it in)

[fluid mauve]

(Find the port, END THE PROCESS, END THE SUFFERING)

[pastel vale]

(Cherybdis is out cold, she wont be up for a bit)

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger taps the little drive in the hand, not knowing what it is.

[fluid mauve]

(The static is still everywhere)

[pastel vale]

The assistant notices the drive and his eyes go wide
'FRIEND' 'FRIEND' 'FRIEND'

[fervent rivet]

Mouse immediately looks up, widening her eyes as well. She picks up the drive and hands it to the assistant.

[fluid mauve]

(Still applys, only louder)

[fervent rivet]

(The piano man caused this//jk)

[pastel vale]

The assistant jumps, not expecting to get handed the drive. He hands it back, reminded of his fear

[fervent rivet]

Mouse keeps the drive in her hand, looking at the puppet.

(What do you want me to do now)

[pastel vale]

The Assistant lays over Charybdis

[pastel vale]

(its basically a usb drive)

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger’s eyes narrow as she starts to take a closer look at the puppet, starting to run to the side of the creature with the drive.

[fluid mauve]

It tries to grab you, but misses, giving you the advantage.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse runs behind the large puppet, noticing a port in the back of the head. Holding the drive, she began to actually put her brain to use unlike what other scavengers would do. The brown scavenger started climbing onto HOM’s back.

[gaunt jetty]

(Had slept waiting.)

[fervent rivet]

(Sorry-)

[pastel vale]

(LOL)

[gaunt jetty]

(More like passed out.)

[fluid mauve]

You spot what seems to be a port on the back of its neck.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse takes a moment of hesitation once she climbs up to the shoulders, looking down at the drive. Instinct told her to jam it into the port, but it would be more logical to simply place it carefully in the port. Mouse inserted the drive…

[pastel vale]

The puppet passes out immediately.

[gaunt jetty]

(Me like: What just happened here?)

[fluid mauve]

(Its just standing there, twitching)

[pastel vale]

(hmmm)

the assistant lies next to Cherybdis, deathly still

[fervent rivet]

Mouse continues to cling onto the puppet until she’s absolutely sure whatever she inserted into the port worked. Eventually, she jumps off to rush back towards the assistant.

[pastel vale]

You noticed that the assistant has several red marks where he was grabbed and he seems to be in pain

[fluid mauve]

Inside the puppet
Its a... house?

[pastel vale]

/:__QUERY: WHERE AM I

[fervent rivet]

Mouse tries to nudge Charybdis awake before looking at the Assistant.

[fluid mauve]

It looks to be a house a typical ancient would reside in.

The paino still plays...

[pastel vale]

/:__QUERY: WHO ARE YOU

[gaunt jetty]

(Seems like this situation evolved without me, now unure how to hop in.)

(Paino tho.)

[pastel vale]

(well Saint and Kurtis are still fighting off the horde)

[fervent rivet]

What even caused the horde?!//

[pastel vale]

(idk)

(Cherybdis needs water)

The Assistant squeaks before making a sign of liquid

[gaunt jetty]

(Technically went behind the pianist.)

[fervent rivet]

Mouse tilts her head, before nodding to go find some water.

((Yo what does the puppet look like?))

)

[pastel vale]

(uuuhhh, asorta like a robot but like with a cloak, a metal vulture mash and yeah)

[fervent rivet]

Ok)

[pastel vale]

(did you get the stuff I dmed you?)

(imagine a body like this)

(just a shot from hero forge that i just opened lol)

[fluid mauve]

No figure, no reply.

[fervent rivet]

Ok

)

[fluid mauve]

The door opens and some static creature stands vividly at the end of the hall, it doesn't look like it's really there.

[pastel vale]

/:___QUERY: IDETIFY.

[fluid mauve]

The static being is almost beckoning you to follow it

[pastel vale]

/:___ACTION: FOLLOW IT

[fluid mauve]

It leads you to the basement, only a table lies in the center of the room, illuminated by a light coming from outside

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Looks around.

...Still empty...But for how long?

[pastel vale]

/:___QUERY: WHERE ARE YOU?

[pastel vale]

(I think yall are way behind us)

[fluid mauve]

Theres a note on the table

[pastel vale]

/:___ACTION: READ NOTE

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger has returned with some water for Chary.

[pastel vale]

The Assistant weakly points to Charybdis

[fervent rivet]

Carefully, Mouse pours some of the water on the Iterator.

[pastel vale]

Wh-

Charybdis slowly gets up
What happened?

[gaunt jetty]

(Yeah super lost of how to get in.)

[pastel vale]

Wait- don't tell me.
I overexerted myself and passed out.

[pastel vale]

(just reappear)

(like you teleported there from fighting the horde)

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger’s eyes go back to their normal state with large pupils, nodding because of Chary being okay.

[pastel vale]

Thanks bud.

[fluid mauve]

"Its been 3 days, 3 days I have been bed bound. My friend, buddy, she still is insisting that she sacrifice herself so I could live... I don't want that, she doesn't deserve death, I do... I don't know what to do."

[pastel vale]

/:___ACTION: HEAD TO BED

Chary scans The Assistant

Crap.

That thing crushed some of his ribs. His lungs are failing.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse looks quite worried about the Assistant.

[fluid mauve]

There lies another note.

[pastel vale]

/:___ACTION: READ ANOTHER NOTE

Charybdis displays a picture of Kurtis and Saint
Can you find them?

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Ends up approaching a light.

...Hello?

[fervent rivet]

Mouse nods, not even needing to fully understand her words to understand what is needed. The scavenger goes towards Saint and Kurtis.

[fluid mauve]

"Its been a week, I can feel myself slipping... I'd rather die like this than live without her... I feel like something bad is going to happen...

[pastel vale]

/:___ACTION: HEAD TO BED

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Seems like it is around this location, yet not inside of it.

...I saw weirder things before but this...

It is trying to find a way to get in.

[fervent rivet]

Eventually, Saint and Kurtis find Mouse the scav. She waves at them to beckon them.

[fluid mauve]

Upstairs, static is leaking from a specific room, the static creature from before is beckoning you towards it.

[pastel vale]

/:___ACTION: GO INTO ROOM

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Widens eyes...Then signalizes, 'He', 'Stayed', 'Behind'...'Distracting', , 'Horde', 'Alone'.

[pastel vale]

Cherybdis attemps to stabilize The Assistants condition
After doing that she heads over to the puppet and begins to remove the puppet's mask with her knife

[fervent rivet]

Mouse’s eyes widen, looking upon Saint with shock.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: It just sigalizes to, 'Show', 'Way'.

[fluid mauve]

Its the door to Navy pearl, its unlocked...

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger points behind Saint, gesturing ‘Can’t’ ‘Help???’.

[pastel vale]

Cherybdis hears a clicking sound behind her

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Walks ahead the place Scavenger is poiting...Watching this scenery.

...W-wh-

[fluid mauve]

Nothing is there.

[pastel vale]

Chary begins to feel around the door, seeing if anything has changed

[fervent rivet]

(Mouse is trying to ask why they couldn’t help Kurtis)
Mouse looked at Saint while continuing to lead him, occasionally gesturing ‘Can’t’ ‘Help’ ‘Him’?

[pastel vale]

/:___ACTION: ENTER NAVY PEARL

[fluid mauve]

The door opens...
YOU HAVE BEEN FORCED BACK INTO REALITY
THE DOOR TO NAVY PEARL IS UNLOCKED

[pastel vale]

Well I'll be danged.

Charybdis pulls out the drive and quickly hides it

[fluid mauve]

The puppet begins to scream in agony, like its grieving.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis kicks open the puppet's mask with suprising force

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Looks at Assistant.

...Just hold on...

Looks at the door.

[pastel vale]

Oh, fun. You missed the party!

[fluid mauve]

The static is gone, and is replaced by a scene of two Ancients standing before a bleeding Iterator.

[pastel vale]

Whoa...

[fluid mauve]

The body is lifeless.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Approaches Charybdis.

...Kurtis stayed behind distracting them..

[fervent rivet]

Mouse walks in, her eyes widening at the sight.

[pastel vale]

Yikes. He's earned my respect, that's for sure.
scoops up Assistant
We should go through the door now.

[fluid mauve]

quid fecimus!?

2:Mitescere hominem, mitescere!

1:Oh no...
Nulla non nulla nulla non nulla nulla.
IN EO POPULA Guido, id est guy ...

2:Ausculta me, non est hic finis negotiorum nostrorum, omnes nos Redditus est nobis proicere corpus et mundare tatam.

1:Ego non volo ire ad carcerem ...

2:Ad carcerem non sumus ...
Audi me modo damnit.
Redditus est nobis corpus per rupem in extremam coniciendum, nemo, licet?

1:I-I...

2:EJUS TANTUM OPTIO DAMNIT
EJUS EJUS VEL EAM VEL CONIUNCTA EAS.

1:BENE BENE!!!```

[pastel vale]

(are we hearing that?)

[fluid mauve]

(Its coming from the two ancients)

[pastel vale]

Expecta- nos videre potes?

[fervent rivet]

Mouse does not understand a single word.

[fluid mauve]

The two ancients grab the body and take it outside, where it can be heard tumbling downward into the outskirts.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...Looks like we're seeing the past...Not sure if it is hearing us..

[fluid mauve]

All that stands before you is the door to Navy Pearl.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse looks at the group, not sure if they’re heDing in or not.

[fluid mauve]

(HeDING)

[pastel vale]

Cherybdis steps forwards and through the door

[fervent rivet]

Without really much more of a decision to make, Mouse follows Charybdis, not actually understanding what she was getting herself into.

[fluid mauve]

It looks just like Navy Pearl, only a bit run down with more slugpups running around, they all seem to be in a state of panic.

"WAAA! WAAA!"

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...Looks like...I have something to do.

He hovers up...Directing its Mind Blast to the door.

[pastel vale]

None of them have a mark of communication.

[pastel vale]

Ight- me and the scav got it from here.

[fervent rivet]

(Why can I imagine the outskirts threat theme)

Mouse looks at the slugpups, a little apprehensive.

[pastel vale]

Hey- do any of you know a doctor or an ancient??

[fluid mauve]

A handful of slugpups ate scratching somewhere in the house, the others are crying, confused on what's going on.

[fervent rivet]

The scav still can’t understand you, but she’s trying to peer at the slups to find out what they’re scared of.

[fluid mauve]

They all seem to pile up at a specific door, one where the music is coming from.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis pushes all of the scavs out of the way and enters through the door

[fervent rivet]

Mouse follows Charybdis, hoping her tribe would be returned to normal after this crazy adventure.

[fluid mauve]

The music stops, you see HOM at the piano.

Oh...

[pastel vale]

Well hello there.

Long time no see.

[fluid mauve]

How did you find me?

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Seems to follow, still hovering and its Mind Blast directed ahead.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse tilts her head, a little concerned about HOM, still not able to understand the conversation.

[pastel vale]

Uhhh- followed a lead, followed the things vomiting static. Broke into Navy Pearl

[fluid mauve]

Oh...

[pastel vale]

Chary takes off her mask and hood
Do you happen to have a doctor around here?

Shows HOM the Assistant

[fluid mauve]

The lengths she went to to protect me

Its dark here, only lit by a few candles.

HOM stands up and turns on a light.

Too much has changed since I had abandoned you guys...

[pastel vale]

Geez- you definely have been through some rough times over the year.

[pastel vale]

Yeah. Did somebody tell you?

[fluid mauve]

I saw it...

Felt it...

Heard it...

[pastel vale]

UNT-?

[fluid mauve]

Mhm...

[pastel vale]

Lets get the Assistant out of the way first.

[fluid mauve]

HOM gently cradles, the Assistant in his arms and gently rubs on the damage done, slowly healing it.

[pastel vale]

Your old puppet gave us a real headache.

[fluid mauve]

I hated that thing, even with its benefits.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse is most definitely curious, having not seen anyone like HOM before.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...So you're HOM?

[fluid mauve]

I guess so...

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...I just know you because of Kurtis speaking about you...

He stops hovering.

[fluid mauve]

He spoke of me before my downfall into... wherever this is.

[pastel vale]

Can we focus here please?

Not to be rude- but this little guy is dying.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse calmly taps the Assistant, motioning ‘Friend.’ ‘Hurt’.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...He will be fine...Today is not his day.

[fluid mauve]

I'm dealing with it, don't worry...

[pastel vale]

Charyblis still seems to be worring a lot.

[fluid mauve]

He's going to be fine...

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Looks around, gesturing to the environment.

Say...What do you think of, this place in general?

[pastel vale]

Chary looks around, notices the scav and pats her on the head once

[fluid mauve]

I don't know...

[fervent rivet]

Mouse looks at Saint, and then the others. It seems that some shiny porls in the room have interested her.

[pastel vale]

The assistant twitches and lets out a small, weak warble

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...I guess she is wanting to pick up the pearls..

[pastel vale]

Chary gestures to the pearls
May I?

[fervent rivet]

(Assistant; literally weak
Mouse: hm yes PORL)

[fluid mauve]

...Sure.

[pastel vale]

Charybdlis grabs a few pearls and carefull hands them to the scav

[fervent rivet]

The scav holds the porls. She seems rather excited, having already forgotten the trauma of fighting infected scavengers back there.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Looks at HOM.

...Do you feel well here?

[fluid mauve]

I feel ruined, like I'm just a walking corpse...

[pastel vale]

Charybdlis hesitates

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...This world is...Full of oddities...

I understand the feel...Yet why you feel like...Wanting to isolate yourself?

[fluid mauve]

I don't deserve the spoils of life outside of these walls...

[pastel vale]

Now that is a lie. What did you do not to deserve it?

The Assistant whimpers

[fluid mauve]

Someone of much greater value had sacrificed themselfs for me to live, but it's not worth continuing without them...

[pastel vale]

They sacrified themselves so you could continue,

They died for you.

[fluid mauve]

Exactly, but it was for what? They were the few things I had left, my only chance at fixing the wrongs me and my kind have created...

[pastel vale]

Fack our kind, they died a long time ago and it was their fault.

Do you think I wallow in a corner while people that care about me wander around, thinking im dead?

NO!!

I actually get my ass up and try to do what good I can now.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...The lack of attachments to something hollow the meaning of existence...

Trauma, guilt, misdirections...It wears people down...

Yet is not to blame...Not even yourself.

[fluid mauve]

Theres nothing I can do...

I've seen how this story ends, and its not a happy ending...

[pastel vale]

Stop saying that- all you're doing is shoving yourself deeper into a hole.

Chary throws up her hands
SO F THE STORY!
WE'LL MAKE OUR OWN ENDER WEITHER OTHERS LIKE IT OR NOT.

[fluid mauve]

Thats impossible now, we're at the climax of everything, all thats left to do is wait for the drop...

[pastel vale]

The climax?

[fluid mauve]

There will soon be nothing, no gods, no animals, no structures, no Iterators, just void.

Its coming sooner than you think...

[pastel vale]

Well then let's make what we have now count instead of being depressed all the time.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse holds the pearls in her hands, somewhat worried about the gibberish they spoke of.

[pastel vale]

The Assistant suddenly wakes up and looks around

[fluid mauve]

Why continue when the end result is always the same? Thats insanity...

[pastel vale]

NO.

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: Somewhat getting closer in the distance...Crawling weakly though.

[pastel vale]

Insanity is when you are doing the same thing, over and over again.

The Assistasnt struggles out of HOM's grasp and moves toward the scav
'Friend' '?'

[fluid mauve]

Our actions don't matter anymore, its all just nothing after the smoke clears...

[fervent rivet]

Mouse drops the porls, glad that The Assistant is okay.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...The Void Sea...Is quite a odd place...

My father have been there...Many others have...Not everyone presenced it...

And even fewer those who remember, or survived its effects.

[fluid mauve]

Loosing her was the marker of the end, she kept everything upheld, she kept the cycles in balance, she made it so that life moves perpetually. Now that she's gone, what else is there?

[pastel vale]

The Void Sea rejected me, kept me out.

[pastel vale]

Who even is she??

[fluid mauve]

Buddy, the Time Fcuk...

Had the world to take care of, but she threw it all away...

All for me...

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...So it was her..

[fluid mauve]

I still don't understand why...

[pastel vale]

sigh
I'm going to take the others outside.

motions for Assistant and the scav to head outside

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: Getting closer...Bleeding...Yet smiling.

...Ey...

[fluid mauve]

Oh...

[pastel vale]

Holy crap Kurtis, you good?!

[fluid mauve]

Let me help you...

HOM holds Kurt against himself, tending to the wounds.

[pastel vale]

(I gtg for today)
(I probably wont be avalible much this weekend, lots of errands tomorrow and a football game the day after that)

[fervent rivet]

(Ok)

[fluid mauve]

(Awww)

[fervent rivet]

Mouse’s eyes widen upon the sight of Kurtis. She rushes towards them.

(Cool how even without a mark of COMMS, Mouse still can interpret what the Iterators and scugs are trying to motion.)

[gaunt jetty]

(Gesticulation.)

Kurtis: Laughing weakly...Then knocks out.

[fervent rivet]

(Is he falling unconscious or knowing us out-)

[fluid mauve]

HOM grabs a nearby blanket and gently wraps kurtis in it
Hush...

[gaunt jetty]

(Bleedout but..)

[fervent rivet]

Ok

Mouse looks worried, and she gestures ‘He’ ‘Okay’ ‘?’

[fluid mauve]

'Hurt' 'bad' 'can' 'save'.

[fervent rivet]

(Aight everyone I’m going to bed. Gotta Snork mimimir.)

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Eyes wide open, and rushing to him, hugging even.

...Not breathing..

[pastel vale]

Holy- I've seen some nasty stuff but that's something else.

[fluid mauve]

Its bad, could be worse...
Take him to the guest room, its to the left of the living room, he should be able to recover shortly...
I have to explain some things to the radio...

[gaunt jetty]

(Fun, didn't got message pinged.)

Saint: ...I never have seen him like this...That's awful...

Tries to pick him up...But is too much weak for that.

Ack, dangit..

[fluid mauve]

...The radio can wait, actually.

[pastel vale]

HOM, tell me what the hell those things were?!

[fluid mauve]

HOM helps saint carry kurtis to the guestroom

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...Thanks..

[fluid mauve]

Guilt, regret, resentment, pain...
No real identity if I'm being honest...

[pastel vale]

You need to get ahold of your emotions.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...What about these slugpups here?

[fluid mauve]

I tried, but I don't understand them, they aren't comprehensible...

[fluid mauve]

(You're inside Navy pearl, the pups are everywhere inside)

[fluid mauve]

I have no idea...
They managed to hold their own since I taught a few how to care for them when I'm gone, the older ones are slugcats now...

[pastel vale]

sigh
Come with me.
Charybdis leads HOM into another room

[fluid mauve]

HOM follows

[pastel vale]

*The Assistant leaves and goes outside to do stuff with the cats

[gaunt jetty]

A black fog gets closer of Saint from Kurtis body...It seems to have two golden dots.

[pastel vale]

Listen, I don't know how your relationship with UNT really worked and I'm not going to make and guesses.

He had a stupid idea and he knew it but he gave me this

She hands him a tiny data drive
Inside of this is UNT. All of him.

However, it's just a basic ai until you enter in the codeword.

The codeword is "Forthcoming".
I don't know why he gave me this and to be honest I have no use for it- but I figured you might.

[fluid mauve]

HOM makes hand movement that opens a static rip, he reaches inside and pull out an Iterator shell

Looks slightly like UNT, just more simplified

He sticks the USB in the back of the neck of the Iterator shell

[pastel vale]

Now for the codeword.

[gaunt jetty]

The shadow gets somewhat close of this, until get restricted from getting detached from Kurtis.

[pastel vale]

I'll let you do the honors.
Chary exits and notices the shadow

Is this his dream?

[fluid mauve]

Forthcoming...

[pastel vale]

the puppet jerks

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Gets closer.

...I'm...Rather unsure if it is the same Kurtis we use to know.

[fluid mauve]

Forthcoming...

[fervent rivet]

Mouse blinks, motioning ‘He’ ‘Sick’?

[pastel vale]

I remember- UNT wrote about a dreamstate that seems to flow around Kurtis when he slept in a dream.

she likes up a pearl and puts it into the shadow

(sorry if I'm slow I'm doing chores)

the puppet cheases movement and opens it's eyes
Where- am I?

[fervent rivet]

The scav looks at the puppet, still somewhat cautious due to the previous encounter.

[gaunt jetty]

It seems to loom at the pearl...Then looks at Charybdis...Pokes her forehead...Kurtis marking starts to appear on her front as a big yet incomplete halo.

[pastel vale]

Ooo okay this is not what I thought this was.

[fluid mauve]

Home, or at least whats left...

[pastel vale]

What happened to the tower? You look older?

I think I missed a lot.

(He only has the memories up until the drive was made which was right after the tower collapsed)

I changed puppets too?

[fluid mauve]

You died...

[fervent rivet]

Mouse blinks, looking at HOM before looking back towards UNT.

[gaunt jetty]

...The marking shrinks, now staying in Charybdis forehead.

[fervent rivet]

(This is kinda unrelated, but I sketched that face-off between the hostile puppet and Mouse.)

(This is kinda what I imagined-)

[fluid mauve]

(HOM's shell and mouse?)

[fervent rivet]

(Yes)

(forgot what HOM looked like :,))

[fluid mauve]

(Heres a refresher)

[fervent rivet]

👍)

[gaunt jetty]

Seems like it is putting that marking to everyone around the room that doesn't have it...Each one has a different flash of color...This includes the just awakened UNT.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse finally noticed the markings on everyone, backing up a little out of apprehension.

[pastel vale]

(brb)

[fervent rivet]

(Ok$

[pastel vale]

Again?
Why can't I remember- I was going to give EW the drive-
Realization dawns
oh.

[pastel vale]

Whaaaat is going on??

[pastel vale]

(ooooo)

(I'm still working on reference but UNT is dead. Rather, this is Suspected Natural Terrors or SNT. Also known as the Warlock of the Rot. UNT was destined to die and he technically shouldn't be alive, he isn't supposed to be.)

the Assistant comes in and notices the markings

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...He is attuning.

The shadow then keeps circulating around Saint.

Saint: ...You're not really UNT...Are you?
Something that my dad has teached me...

Is that an A.I stops to be the same the split second it ceases to operate...

Something else takes place...Despite a physical presence being there.

Just as Five Pebbles said to me once...A world becoming him, without him.

[fluid mauve]

What are you saying...?

[pastel vale]

Chary notices UNT
Oh stupid's awake.

Im not- I am clearly myself, there is no way it can't be me because all that was me was in the data drive.

The Assistant notices UNT but seems slightly apprehensive towards him

[fervent rivet]

Mouse continues to just stare at both of them, staying a good distance away.

[pastel vale]

The Assistant goes up to Mouse and signs,
'?' 'Friend'

[fluid mauve]

One of the slug pups kinda hops over to you

[pastel vale]

He attempts to sign more but it comes out as gibberish

[fervent rivet]

Mouse signs back ‘friend’ while looking at one of the pups. She’s somewhat uncomfortable around the pup, but she stays calm.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...Well...I'll ignore this for now.

Looks at HOM.

...What happened to Buddy?

[pastel vale]

the Assistant goes up to the pup and begins playing some kind of hand game with them

[pastel vale]

I second this
I sense a long story.

[fluid mauve]

...

[pastel vale]

I'll head outside and try to manage the scav and the slugs.

Charybdis leaves

[fluid mauve]

The pup rolls around a bit.

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger simply watches the pup roll around. It kinda reminds her of her own tribe.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...You can say it...I will not judge it...Neither i think Kurtis would...But at least would want to know the truth.

[fluid mauve]

Stop...asking...

[pastel vale]

UNT shoes the palms of his hands
I honestly have no clue what's going on and am desperate for information on whats happening and what I missed.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...Seems like its friend died...But he didn't explain exactly what happened...Except that it was a mistake...

Since then...Kurtis was looking for him...Not sure why Charybdis was here, but also was on his search.

[pastel vale]

Wait- who's Charybdis?

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...We don't know a lot...

Gazes a bit suspiciously, but tries to ignore it.

Or at least i don't.

Shakes head.

...Now...Please, HOM...Don't hide what happened.

[pastel vale]

UNT has a "craps bout to go down" look on his face but stays sitting on the ground, still trying to figure things out.

[fluid mauve]

She gave the world for me, she was supposed to be here to stop the void from coming so soon, now she's gone and our days are numbered by the week...

I still don't understand why she did what she did...

[pastel vale]

Wait- Buddy was connected to the dust?

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...I see...So she might went to the sea.

Approaches HOM...Seems to offer a hug, despite it being barely the half of his size.

[pastel vale]

UNT gets up and also joins in the hug

[fluid mauve]

No, she didn't head towards the sea, she gave her being so I could live to see the world that I love...
But I loved her more than the world...

[pastel vale]

Meanwhile outside, The Assistant attempts to do a better job at communicating with the Scav

[fervent rivet]

The scav is giving the Assistant some tips on how to sufficiently communicate.

[pastel vale]

'Friend' 'Name' '?'

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...I say it because its where all of us go to stop regardless of how we die.

It all comes full cycle because of it...

What will became of the future is up to a living hell that comes up and down...

Skewing who we will be...Sometimes eliminating people completely, becoming something hollow in this world history...

Missing pieces echoing the past.

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger nods as she signs ‘Mouse’.

[pastel vale]

'Mouse' The Assistant echoes the name

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis shadow starts to return to his body.

[fervent rivet]

’Mouse.’

[pastel vale]

'Mouse' 'Friend'

[fervent rivet]

Mouse nods, signing ‘Friend’ back.

[pastel vale]

The Assistant becomes happy at having made a new friend

[fervent rivet]

Mouse seems very happy, before signing ‘Friend’ ‘With’ ‘Tribe’ ‘Too’ ‘?’

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...Truth to be told...Perhaps Ascending was not viable...It just brought tarnishment...

Even for myself...Where i just submitted...

You won't see her again...Not here...

In true death...There's to nothing to wait for...

And even i failed to fully bring it here...Instead...

I just...Killed them like the others around, in a different way.

[pastel vale]

`Tribe' 'Here' 'Friend' 's'

Assistant gestures back to the house and Charybdis who seems to be resting next to a bunch of playing pups

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger looks back at Charybdis and the pups.

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...Do you want to continue being here and readapt? Or you want a way out?

[fluid mauve]

... I don't know what I want anymore...

[pastel vale]

UNT places his hand on HOM
You want Buddy. Why don't we go find them? I've died few times yet I've managed to come back.

[fluid mauve]

You don't understand...
She's GONE...

[pastel vale]

(I'm trying to at a return to the crater. There, UNT might find his dead old self in which case oh God I need to start writing)

[pastel vale]

Define 'gone'.

[fluid mauve]

Point of no return, nothing left, no rebirth...

[pastel vale]

I doubt that's possible-

(Chary is taking a nap lol)

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...It isn't...But it can only mean the Void Worm dispersed her memories completely...

Therefore becoming a husk of what she was in the void sea...Not even a body.

I felt that happening to me...And almost lost my mind on it.

[pastel vale]

So do we go visit the worm?

[fluid mauve]

She DIDN'T go to the void sea, she ISN'T recoverable, she gaver herself up to me so I could live...

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: Starting to crawl closer.

[pastel vale]

UNT notices
Hey Kurtis- whoa- what happened?!

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: ...Being real...Nobody...Really can know what happens in true death...

Except those who already went through it.

...You can't come back from it, and not because nobody tried.

It is a division of existing and not.

Smiling.

...Yet i am not even alive to begin with...

As i get closer...I do realize...

We can be in some matrix not even realize it is.

[pastel vale]

Waitasec- we are all in a computer??

[fluid mauve]

If so, then I'm gonna rage against the machine for cursing me with consciousness...

[pastel vale]

(rage against the machine is now playing in my head)

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: ...I am made of something that is not even matter, yet here i am...

Standing between both...Like a boatman...

Weak laugher.

...I can't bring anyone from the other side...

But i can hear them...Everytime i sleep.

And i can get the others to that place.

[fluid mauve]

I guess you can communicate with buddy...

[pastel vale]

(brb I gtg for a bit)

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: ...They don't perceive each other...But they know i am there...

Sigh.

I don't like when it comes to be the Ancients...They just taunt me...

I could try to speak with her.

[fluid mauve]

...That'd be nice.

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: ...Okay...Ugh...I'm quite sore...But i will try to.

Sits down...And tries to meditate...He stops breathing.

[fluid mauve]

Is it normal for you to stop breathing...?

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: ...I guess it is what happens when he crosses out.

His shadow comes out again.

[fluid mauve]

I'm guessing that this is normal...

HOM sits down, waiting

[gaunt jetty]

While it...His mind is around complete darkness, hearing a lot of voices...But tries to focus on Buddy's voice.

[fluid mauve]

???:Who's there...?

[gaunt jetty]

(Upside down interrogation jumpscare.)

Kurtis Avatar: ...Hey there..

[fluid mauve]

???:Is HOM okay...?```

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis Avatar: ...Not really...He miss you.

[fluid mauve]

???:I knew he would mourn me, I did save his life after all...

???:It was hard to choose him over the world, but I figured a plan where everyone wins...

???:He need to go to the depths, enter the void sea, and destroy its center to end the cycle, and fix everything...

???:He won't survive, but what I know is that all he wants is for us to be back together again...

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis Avatar: ...I got it covered up...We will be going there one way ot another anyway...

The problem is the one that generates the fluid but...Don't worry about it.

...Yet...I will be honest...He won't find you here if this happens.

[fluid mauve]

???:I know, thats why I bounded parts of me to him, so when he accends, I can bring him here...

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis Avatar: ...Clever you eh?...Well...I will make sure this happens as expected...You have my word.

[fluid mauve]

???:One last thing before we end communications, can you tell him that I love him..? I think he needs the comfort...```

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis Avatar: ...I guess the feeling is mutual from his part...Surely i will.

...A last thing...Do you really don't have any name we can call you?

At least one we could make a burial for?

[fluid mauve]

Time fcuk:Time Fcuk.```

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis Avatar: Laughing a bit.

...Okay...Well, i'm returning for them...Rest in peace.

[fluid mauve]

Time Fcuk:May your woes be few, friend...

[gaunt jetty]

His avatar disappears and he returns breathing, snapping out of plane.

[fervent rivet]

(LMAOOOOOOOO)

[pastel vale]

you suddenly become aware of Charybdis standing in the doorway, sipping from a glass of water

[fervent rivet]

Mouse is carrying one of the slugpups into the building, curious about what they’re saying.

[pastel vale]

The Assistant comes in and attempts to translate

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: Sigh...Then looks at HOM, smiling.

...Hello again.

Saint: He kinda joined the Mouse and Assistant convo, but mostly watching.

[fluid mauve]

What did she say...?

[fervent rivet]

Mouse nods, looking at the strange creatures again (she doesn’t entirely understand what HOM and Chary and the others are)

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: ...She loves you.

[fluid mauve]

HOM stands there for a bit.
He finally smirks as a tear runs down his cheek
Oh.

(I have to be gone for half an hour, srry)

[gaunt jetty]

Saint: Seems to signalize to Mouse, pointing to HOM, then gesturing, 'Ancient', then points for Charybdis, 'Machine', 'Iterator'.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse looks at Saint, repeating the signals. ‘Ancient’ ‘Machine’ ‘Iterator’.

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: ...You will see her again someday...

Wink.

Might be soon as you think.

[pastel vale]

(I'm so sorry I had to go shopping and do stuff)

[gaunt jetty]

(Getting some janes.)

[pastel vale]

(that and I now own a Ushanka hat)

Charybdis exits the doorway and heads inside
Listen, I think we need to go somewhere because while I didn't hear a lot, I think I heard enough.

We need to head to my home.

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: Grinning a bit in pain.

Maybe...We still have things to do outside...

...Hold up...Why was you looking for HOM?

[pastel vale]

Chary hesitates before doing the equivalent of biting her lip.
There's a few- but mainly I wanted to find him for UNT. Also, at first I was kind of hoping he could take care of the Assistant, but I'll admit he's grown on me.

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: His eyes widen, gazing UNT, suspiciously...Then whispers for her.

...You can't just bring it back like this...Only its data.

That can be completely someone else considering what he turned into and what he used to be...Especially with the RAM cleaned.

[pastel vale]

He only remembers everything up until right before the tower fell- it will be fine.

And besides- it would be irresponsible not to bring him back.

What's happening?

[fervent rivet]

Mouse looks at the group, trying to look at her hands to figure out what to sign.

[pastel vale]

The Assistant sings some gibberish before signing 'asshole' and fiddling with his hands some more

[fervent rivet]

(Singing asshole?)

[pastel vale]

(Signing*)

(he has no clue he said that tho)

(autocorrect is a pain)

[fervent rivet]

Mouse looked directly at the Assistant, raising an eyebrow. ‘Friend’ ‘Do Not’ ‘Speak’ ‘Slur’.

[pastel vale]

The Assistant seems confused. 'Do not' 'Speak' '?'

'Sorry'

he continues fiddling with his hands, trying to figure out other signs

[fervent rivet]

Mouse signs ‘Forgive’.

[pastel vale]

'Forgive'

Assistant signs 'Yay'

Charybdis straightens
If we get a head start now we might make it there in a week or so.

Kurtis, can you walk?

[fluid mauve]

(OKAY IT MIGHT BE LONGER THAN HALF AN HOUR)

[pastel vale]

(he says five hours later)

[fervent rivet]

Mouse walks over to Charybdis, signing ‘Can’ ‘Cure’ ‘My’ ‘Tribe’ ‘Disease’? She looks somewhat saddened.

[pastel vale]

I don't know what you are trying to say buddy.

I think I have an idea of how to help with part of your problem but we need to get a move on if we're going to do it.

Can you understand me?

[fervent rivet]

Mouse cannot understand your speech.

[pastel vale]

Hmmm.
Chary starts to think

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger blinks, tilting her head.

[pastel vale]

(Chary has an idea but y'all need to un-afk)

[fervent rivet]

(GET YOUR TAILS BACK HERE EVERYONE)//jk

[pastel vale]

( )

(I did at everyone in the GC)

[gaunt jetty]

(Is that a Five Pebbles refference?)

[pastel vale]

(HAHA no lol)

(live footage of me waking up rn)

[gaunt jetty]

Kurtis: ...Not like i'm formely bipedal for walking...But i get it...No i can't...

Shivering.

I can take us out if necessary though.

[pastel vale]

Can you teleport us to specific coordinates?

[gaunt jetty]

(Gone again, well.)

[pastel vale]

(AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)

[fervent rivet]

[pastel vale]

[fervent rivet]

Mouse looks at Kurtis.

[pastel vale]

(I'm going back to bed lol ping me when they return)

[fervent rivet]

(If they return)

[fervent rivet]

Such a coincidence

[pastel vale]

I'm scared to touch that file

[gaunt jetty]

(File?)

[jolly goblet]

(Tried to send a image but my iPhone said “no”)

[pastel vale]

it got deleted

[pastel vale]

l o l

[gaunt jetty]

(The one i have sent or?..)

[jolly goblet]

(Idk why but it won’t send a normal image)

[pastel vale]

(No the one blueeye sent)

[gaunt jetty]

(Ah.)

[pastel vale]

(ignore this lore i wrote that 100% totally has abobloutly nothing to do with the rp trust me guys nothing to do with the rp i aint even heard of it this has nothing to do with it trust me i am the most trustworthy person this is clearly not the ending/death of the rp this is nothing actually dont look because why would you there is no reason for this to exist oh no guys im running out of text space )

"
She falls to her knees, shaking
I know you think this is stupid- hell I'm repeating him now but I don't care- I showed your son the information- I told him my plans. As expected- he disappeared and tried to stop me. He's still alive and he's probably going to try and harm me after this and I- I won't stop him.

I don't want this- but- I have to.

Do you want to see your family?
Your friends?
Your tribe?
Your allies?
Your lovers?

I can do that.
Static begins to pour through her eyes as cracks spread
I- I figured it out. He started it and I'm going to finish it.

The worm- the void- it's all a black hole. And I know how to stop it- how to collapse this- to bring those ascended b-back.

Her body starts to bleed a mix of blood, water and static

I absorbed your powers because I needed to become more powerful- I needed something to stop it- to rival it.

A god.
An error in time.
An apostate.
A horror.

All of it- is in me. I can't survive it.

She falls onto her hands

I can make it long- enough.

The ground starts to shake

Go to sublevel 6. You- you'll find what you need there.

The ground shakes more violent, a hologram appears showing a worm approaching a dot below the ground

Kurtis, I made something to help. Accept it.

The door opens and the Units come and drag you all out

She stands with the last of her strength, static, karma, electricity, power, all of it arcing around her.

I'm sorry.

Her eyes finally break- but there isn't any more static. Just the two purple eyes of an ancient.

The door closes as a massive explosion sounds.

"

[pastel vale]

(mark)

[fluid mauve]

I can...
Where to...?

[pastel vale]

Wait- I thought it was buddy that did that?

[fluid mauve]

Buddy is part of me, she gave herself to me so I could live...

[fervent rivet]

What is going on-//

[pastel vale]

(ignore that
thats a thing i made)

(It leads to the middle of a desert, those are some random coordinates i got off the internet(

[fluid mauve]

(It leads to the middle of the pacific ocean)

[pastel vale]

(those coordinates are very random they lead to nowhere in the rp)

(actually)

[fervent rivet]

(lol

Even more lost)

[pastel vale]

(gimmie a sec to get some actuall coodinates here that i didnt pull of the internet)

[pastel vale]

Huh.

Alright-

30.60375496657753, 7.621029059956887.

(i legit just went to a desert and got those)

[fluid mauve]

(Its in Algeria)

(Cool we'll stick stick that)

[pastel vale]

(i dont know why it says that but if you activate satilite in google maps THERE IS NO CASTLE)

[fervent rivet]

the scavenger taps the pearls on the ground, picking them up again

[fluid mauve]

Your vission gets blurry as you hear the humming of the static...

It fades to white.

You're now here...

[pastel vale]

You awaken in a warm and hot desert. There appears to be nothing but sand, howver in the distance you can see a group of shapes.

Sorry about the heat- but its bearable.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse dislikes the heat, sticking closer to the taller figures.

[fluid mauve]

HOM radiates cold air.

[pastel vale]

The Assistant stays where they are, seemingly having been here before.

[pastel vale]

No offense- but you're an air conditioner right now.

My house isn't too far away- we can head there.

[fluid mauve]

Buddy was able to hold her own by adapting to the environment almost instantly...

[pastel vale]

Dayum- gotta figure out a way for me to do that.

She starts walking towards the shapes and the Assistant follow

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger gets closer to the group, following.

[pastel vale]

(funnily enough I'm actually wearing that hat rn)

(do we just say Saint stayed behind with Kurtis?)

[fluid mauve]

(@gaunt jetty ?)

[pastel vale]

(i dont think they are on)

[fervent rivet]

(Should we wait)

[pastel vale]

(can we rp without them?)

[fluid mauve]

(Idk, they're quite important rn)

[pastel vale]

(?)

[gaunt jetty]

(Now i am.)

[pastel vale]

()

[gaunt jetty]

(Why stuff keeps happening when i fall sleep?)

(One way or another, they wouldn't go to be around, cause injured Kurtis.)

[pastel vale]

(ah)

[fluid mauve]

(Makes sense)

[pastel vale]

As you near the shapes they reveal themsevles to be apart of an old western town that has been partially buried. However, one building appears to have been dug out. It is in much better shape than the other buildings.
Charybdis goes up to the building and fiddles with the lock before opening it.
Home sweet home.

[fluid mauve]

I guess nowhere is someone's home...

[pastel vale]

It made a good place to lay low.

She heads inside.

[fluid mauve]

HOM follows

[pastel vale]

The house is smallish with a living room to your left and a kitchen on the right with an aging dining table. Straight ahead is a hallway with three doors and an elevator at the end.

[gaunt jetty]

Looks like Saint and Kurtis splitted up their path from you all.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis goes inside and takes off her hood and mask and hangs them up near the door as the Assistant goes up and lays down on the couch.

[pastel vale]

(wait I thought they were still at HOM's house? I know they would bolth probably die of instant heatstroke as soon as they came)

[gaunt jetty]

(Kurtis would, but Saint is with him, so no.)

[fervent rivet]

Mouse inspects the house, tapping at the wall.

[pastel vale]

Welcome to my home.

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger looks at Chary, still not understanding you.

[fluid mauve]

Reminds me of the old homes my kind used to have...

[pastel vale]

Chary looks at HOM
I know it might not look like it but I'm still an ancient.

And what- you're 18?

[fluid mauve]

I'm probably centuries old for all I know...

[pastel vale]

Okay- before you got ascended or became immortal or something.

[fluid mauve]

I was a ripe 16...

[pastel vale]

Charybdis laughs
There was this like- I remember- there was this guy that owned a shop when I was 16 and he sold like the weirdest noodles.

Chary looks down
Those were definely the days.

[fluid mauve]

The days I wish didn't change for the worse...

Did I tell you my story..?

[pastel vale]

No- but I looked through UNT's memories and saw what you told him.
I feel bad- you got the more traumatic end of the stick.

I was 26 when I was ascended- so now I'm 27.

[fluid mauve]

Someone probably had it worse than me...

[pastel vale]

Anyways- what do you want? I got tea, sandwhiches, you name it, I probably have a canned version of it.

[gaunt jetty]

Some people mumbled voices can be heard from the distance.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis doesn't seem to mind.
This was my home before I was ascended.

She sighs
I moved here with Six Sunken Suns when stuff started to get bad- to bad it didn't work.

Chary gestures to the scav

Hey you- I got something for you.

She begins to walk over to the evevator

[fervent rivet]

The scav walks over, confused.

[pastel vale]

HOM, you might like this too.

She heads into the elevator and presses a button

The doors close with you all in it

The elevator begins to head down as a whoosh of cool air moves through

[fluid mauve]

Finally, a working elevator...

[fervent rivet]

A really confused Mouse who has never been in an elevator.

[pastel vale]

Took so long to restore this.
Chary laughs

Eventually, the elevator stops in a dark basement.

Charybdis flicks a switch and it revals itself to be a massive storeroom, objects, tools, food, gadgets, all strewn everywhere. The walls are coated with notes and blueprints. Lining the walls are different machines and workbenches. In the corner is a wall of metal bars. Behind it are all sorts of weapons, armor, and gadgets that can be harmful.
Welcome to my basement.

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger looks around, picking up some tools in confusion

[fluid mauve]

This isn't a basement, this is an arsenal...

[pastel vale]

Ey-
Charybdis puts the tools back
This stuff is expensive, rare, and dangerous.

[pastel vale]

That too.

She walks to a shelf and fiddles with some boxes before pulling out a device

[fervent rivet]

Mouse blinks, looking at Chary.

[pastel vale]

Interestingly enough- scavs have not only vocal coords but also a mouth and are fully capable of speech.

[gaunt jetty]

The elevator starts climbing up again.

[pastel vale]

However, somehow the part of their brain controlling that eventually dissapearred.

Charybdis doesn't notice.

[fluid mauve]

Ah...
We're getting a visitor soon...

[pastel vale]

This device, while primitve, brute forces adding speech. It only works on Scavengers.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse looks at the Iterator, not entirely understanding what’s going on.

[fluid mauve]

So its like a mark of comms...?

[pastel vale]

What do you mean? There isn't anything here for miles, save for a desert lizard.

[pastel vale]

Not really. A mark is extremely painful and inhumane. Also- it has to be specifically attuned to different beings.

I don't have the resources or patience to make one.

She goes up to the scav
Now hold still for a sec.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse blinks, simply looking up at Charybdis.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis inserts the device on the scav's head, next to her mask.
The scav feels a sharp pain like a needle in their brain

[fervent rivet]

it’s clear the scav is starting to panic, her eyes widening in shock.

[gaunt jetty]

The elevator starts to get down.

[pastel vale]

The pain intesifies for a second before stopping.
There we go.
Chary steps away
You should be able to understand me now?

[fervent rivet]

Mouse blinks for a few seconds in disbelief, but the pain finally stopped. She seems to raise her head, now more attentive as she can actually hear you.

[pastel vale]

Can you speak?

Right as Charybdis finishes saying that, the lights flicker and steel doors suddenly shut around the elevator with a loud CLANG!

[fluid mauve]

WHAT THE...

[pastel vale]

Sh- that was the emergency doors!

[fervent rivet]

Mouse turns around to face the elevator.
“!”

[gaunt jetty]

The elevator still gets down, even when the door doesn't open.

[pastel vale]

Somebody is here.

She moves to the corner with the iron bars and unlocks it. She grabs ammo for her revolver and holsters a carbine.

[fervent rivet]

The scav grabs a gun, not knowing exactly what it is.

[pastel vale]

Chary notices
Whoa- do you know how to use that?

[fluid mauve]

HOM starts to staredown the door

[pastel vale]

Charybdis hands HOM a pistol and takes a position near the door

[gaunt jetty]

Some preach can be heard from the inside of the elevator.

[pastel vale]

A hissing sound can be heard from inside the eleveator
It's a knockout gas. It'll last 5 minutes before the doors open.

[fluid mauve]

This is some tight security...

[fervent rivet]

Mouse attempts pointing the gun. Somehow, she points it correctly.

[pastel vale]

Yeah well- you break into my house you get fricked.

[fervent rivet]

(Mouse, one of the nicest scavs, with a gun)

[pastel vale]

(its like that one tomska video but instead of a baby its a scav)

[gaunt jetty]

?: Temere deos credidimus... Deos temere sciant...Si non aperiantur janua coeli, me suis aperiant.

[fervent rivet]

(…it’s a scav with a gun. …..SCAV. WITH A GUN.)

[pastel vale]

Dic nomen tuum et intentiones.

[gaunt jetty]

An EMP explosion sabbotages the whole electronic system.

[pastel vale]

Mother fu-

The doors open

Red lights flicker on in the place of the now off ones

[fluid mauve]

HOM stands there, like he doesn't care

[fervent rivet]

Mouse looked at Chary, lifting the gun up. She seems to want to gesture something, but her hands are full.

[gaunt jetty]

?: ...Some say i am a ghost...Yet i was here...Peeking from afar...

Someone opens the doors with its hands...It looks like...HOM, physically...It is covered in a thicc metallic crow-like armor.

[pastel vale]

Chary seems to gesture to the scav to get down, very far down.

Chary stops breathing and moving.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse practically flattens on the ground like a cat.

[fluid mauve]

Who the hell are you...?

[gaunt jetty]

?: ...Hi...I can see you all...

Laughing.

I'm Miro Skanek...A Ancient...I guess i came to haunt you all again..

[pastel vale]

Chary doesn't move.

[fluid mauve]

Why must my kind return the second they realize I remain...

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger continues to hold the gun, carefully laying next to it.

[gaunt jetty]

HOM hears a familiar voice.

Rain: ...Umm...I guess you can't just stop being a edgelord don't you..

Miro: ...Pfft...Not like i can't do much about it.

[pastel vale]

Chary waits for Miro to move.

[fluid mauve]

WHO...

[gaunt jetty]

Rain: ...Oh? Its...

She steps forward, as if remembering a bit this voice.

...You?

Miro: Eyyy! Looks like the guy lost their eggshell, nice.

[pastel vale]

(milton if charybdis's house gets obliterated i will be mad)

[fluid mauve]

Rain...?
Miro...?

[fervent rivet]

Mouse starts to raise the rifle a little, trying to figure out how it works.

[fluid mauve]

Put it down...

[gaunt jetty]

Rain: ...

Looks away, embarassed.

Miro: ...Yea...Miss me? Mister terrorist and such?

Thinking.

...Okay, jokes aside...

I...Actually don't have fault on most of what happened, so chill...

I did not came here for trouble...

I just knew this place was here.

[fervent rivet]

She lowers the rifle.

[pastel vale]

Charybdis still waits for Miro to exit the elevator

[fluid mauve]

So, why did you come back...?

[gaunt jetty]

Miro: He leaves the elevator.

...To be frank...I was aware of what was going on...

Looks around.

Anywhere i can sit?

[fluid mauve]

The floor I guess...

[gaunt jetty]

Miro: ...Pfft...Guess it should do then...

Sits.

Rain: ...Umm, sorry about him...He's just...Not much used with speaking with other people.

[pastel vale]

Suddenly, the lights go out

[fluid mauve]

HOM is glowing

[fervent rivet]

Mouse’s blue eyes can be seen as she reacts to the darkness. She attempts to find a lantern.

[pastel vale]

Miro feels a sharp blade suddenly go deep into him, tipped with poision as he feels an almost lethal electric shock go through him, rendering him unconious. The last words he hears before he blacks out:
You picked the wrong house fool.

[fervent rivet]

(Chary is more badass than I though)

[gaunt jetty]

Rain: Widens eyes, shocked.

...WHAT THE FUCK?! WHY?!! HE WASN'T GOING TO DO ANYTHING!!

[pastel vale]

The light return, back to normal.
Don't sweat it- it's knockout. Had to make sure he was out cold.

[fluid mauve]

That was really unethical, I hope you know that...

[fervent rivet]

Mouse gets back up, not too fond of hearing the swears, but knowing she’d probably have to get used to it.

[pastel vale]

Chary seems to be angered by HOM's words
I know it was unethical- don't think you can lecture me on that shi. He was a threat and I neutralized him. Now help me take off his armor and tie him up.

[gaunt jetty]

Rain: ...The guy was enslaved by their own Iterator and this is how you receive him?

Shakes head.

...No...DON'T FUCKING TOUCH HIM.

[pastel vale]

Give me one good reason why.

[fluid mauve]

This is why you listen to your head, not your heart...

[fervent rivet]

The scavenger nears the unconscious body, tapping it a little. She doesn’t seem too concerned; if she thinks he’s dead, he’ll just come back a cycle later. Right?

[gaunt jetty]

Rain: ...It wasn't even his fault...South people used to be known as terrorists and psychotic...

He learned the hard way to live in a place where he was despised...And still ended up used as a make up for the actual person who was causing all these problems.

[fluid mauve]

That was V, right...?

[pastel vale]

Well there are concequences to those who bust into my home. I don't trust him or gestures to Rain you, so let's go upstairs.

And if you so much as woke up The Assistant you will see some concequences.

This is MY home and here you follow my rules.

Charybdis drags Miro into the elevator.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse simply follows, still disturbed by all the loud noises.

[fluid mauve]

No comment...

[gaunt jetty]

Rain: ...V was just a peon among the full extension of it...

A big fish but not the full figure...

...It is Final Frontier.

Shaking head.

...I didn't even knew if this was a hideout of him...I just followed wanting to understand..

[fluid mauve]

This is all a mess that'll be cleared up some time later...

[pastel vale]

Charybdis slaps a small device on Miro
I worked on V you know- created his creavivity subroutines.

[gaunt jetty]

Rain: Tries to go after Miro.

...He's just like that because he don't know what it is to socialize with other people...Always having to hide...

Venator might have been good...Yet Final Frontier was worse than that...

Thst guy is an actual psycho...Obcessed even.

[pastel vale]

Chary presses a button and the elevator heads up with everyone inside.
No- V was evil. Before the military spooks came in and punted everybody out I worked on his, and several others creavivity subroutunes.

They designed V to be evil for a lot of reasons.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse is just in the sidelines, listening to the conversation, tapping the part of her head where the “mark” was placed.

[pastel vale]

(mouse can also fully talk now too)

The air jumps in temperature as it reaches the ground floor

[fervent rivet]

(She hasn’t exactly realized that yet)

[fluid mauve]

HOM becomes an air-conditioner again

[pastel vale]

The doors open and Charybdis drags Miro out to the couch

(What happened to the assistant? he was sleeping on the couch the whole time)

[fervent rivet]

(Idk, maybe he has been moved to a safer spot?)

The scavenger keeps tapping at the area in which she had been stabbed in the head.

[gaunt jetty]

Rain: ...Final Frontier was not designed to be evil...Yet...All its actions went beyond than that...

It didn't use military improvement for satisfaction or power...

It just did because it can...As if...It is teaching itself how to induce pain to everyone in the worst ways...

For whatever it means...Seems like it doesn't even look like a mechanical being...It is like...Ugh...

I don't wanna describe it...He gave me an image, its awful...Can't imagine what he did to the others.

[pastel vale]

Hm.

The Assistant flops out of a cupoard, very confused.
Charybdis removes all of Miro's armor and ties him up.

[gaunt jetty]

...He no longer has skin on his arms/legs.

[pastel vale]

Yikes- somebody got into some trouble.

[fluid mauve]

Augh...

[pastel vale]

Charybdis pulls up a chair and injects some minor adrenaline into Miro, waking him up.

[pastel vale]

You good?

[fervent rivet]

Mouse sits nearby, disgusted by the sight.
“..ew.”

[pastel vale]

Everybody looks at the scav

[fluid mauve]

Thats what I looked like under my shell, but like a ancient smoothie...

[pastel vale]

OOF.
You want some water?

[gaunt jetty]

Rain: ...Just leave him alone with his stuff.

Shakes head.

...Who are this Scavenger?

[fluid mauve]

No, its fine...

[pastel vale]

A friend we picked up.

[fervent rivet]

She looks back at Rain, not realizing she just spoke.

[pastel vale]

I gave her an implant to help her communicate so she'll have to learn how to talk. The Assistant can speak with her in some weird sign-language as well.

[fluid mauve]

Hey, mouse...

[gaunt jetty]

Miro: Slowly wakes up.

...Ugh...Well, deserved that...

Grins.

I didn't even process the stab..

[fervent rivet]

Mouse looks at HOM, blinking.

[pastel vale]

Well thanks.

How bout you explain everything from the start.

[fluid mauve]

Speak...

[gaunt jetty]

Rain: She seems saddened.

Miro: ...Sure...But first-

Middle finger.

I never liked when these people started to make these Iterators, something felt off when many of them started to substitute everything we used to do..

[fervent rivet]

Mouse tilts her head.
“..speak?”

[pastel vale]

Yeah well- neither did I.
Double middle fingers Miro
I'm an ancient too.

[fluid mauve]

Good job...

[fluid mauve]

( 👍 )

[gaunt jetty]

Miro: Laughing.

Damn...Looks like i got cornered.

But well...I...Was somewhat a scientist around the Ancient Pinacle...

Probably it was the tallest spot from this world, montain city, looked like a temple by its own.

[pastel vale]

Heard of it. I applied but never got in.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse blinks, looking somewhat concerned.
“What do.. they mean..?”

[pastel vale]

The Assistant hops up to Mouse
'Friend' 'Speak' 'Happy'

[gaunt jetty]

Miro: So...Being a military zone, i was directed to perform improvement of their arsenals...

Be like cheapier or more efficient firepower...Or other methods for sabottaging stuff...

Laughing.

EMP stuff probably was my favorite.

[pastel vale]

Go on.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse smiles upon seeing Assistant.

[fluid mauve]

What faction..?

[gaunt jetty]

Miro: ...I knew they was in war...So, when they heard about the creation of Iterators...They kinda grew up concerned about what it could mewn for them...

So they directed a few people to gather blueprints for it...I was rushed to perform it the quickiest as possible with the pressure of it gathering in...

Yet i did not understand well why they wanted me to apply void sea as a source for its strata cleaning...

And...The Shadow Lands had many factions...The one i worked was known as both as a faction and a cult...The Broken Mask.

[pastel vale]

Whoo- you were way out there down south.

I actually worked on several iterators myself- MIS, SG, WaW.

And two military ones- WFR and V.

(I gtg)

[fluid mauve]

I was part of The Expendables considering most of the odd Jobs they would've sent us on were death wishes, I only joined cause of the discounts they promised...

[pastel vale]

I left the buisinessof Iterator making and moved to working at a Void Sea exploration company. They shut down when crap got real- and I moved here.

[gaunt jetty]

Miro: ...Hah...Bullshit these people waa doing, bullshit...

Rolls eyes.

But like as if nobody else was before the cycles of death and rebirth...

Anyway...When Final Frontier was ready...

Eugh...Things went chaotic almost instantly...He shut down the whole systems and locked in the entire city.

...Then washed out the entire spot with the Void Sea...Hell, nobody noticed...A third of the locals were dissolved in less than a day, and the half of what remained got chronic lung diseases due to the proximity...

Funny enough, the masks these people used was already anticipating this...So the founders of the cult took in the place...

Until the Iterator tired up of playing by their role, holding them up from attacking places and calling attention...

But he also...Kept some people for himself, or services to reach where he wanted...All against their will.

...The ones that refused...

Looks at himself.

Either got tortured, or killed...I got like this when i tried to escape once but failed...He only didn't kill me because i could still be useful...

I guess when he noticed i made my escape he put all his savagery in my name.

[fervent rivet]

Mouse overhears this, looking saddened.
“Truly.. horrible.”

[fervent rivet]

(GN)

[gaunt jetty]

(Nighty.)

[pastel vale]

Yikes.
I still think Crucifixion is worse but hey- at least you're alive. Sorta.

The Assistant comes up to Miro and sniffs him