Session 11
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- News
- BREAKING: THE SECOND SCARRING IS REAL, KILLING TO RELIEVE YOUR SCAR IS PERMITTED.
- BREAKING: THE LIMAURRIO PILLAR HAS BEGUN DISINTEGRATING REPORTS ARE COMING IN ABOUT EYES FALLING OUT OF THE RUBBLE.
- BREAKING: The BLU HAS REVEALED FRESH HOSTAGES FOR PURCHASE TO CLEANSE YOUR SCAR. GOING RATES ARE FOR 10,000 CREDITS A PIECE.
- BREAKING: DEFENSE MANAGER ALQUINST HAS ANNOUNCED A DISCOUNT ON ALL HOME DEFENSE PRODUCTS WITH A NONSELECTIVE LOAN PROGRAM FOR ALL WHO QUALIFY.
- BREAKING: SIGNAL SAINTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO [token not found]
- BREAKING: AUTHORITIES HAVE ASKED THE PUBLIC TO DISREGARD ANY VOICES EMERGING FROM THE LIMAURRIO RUBBLE. THEY ARE NOT SURVIVORS.
- BREAKING: THE IMPERIAL CABINET HAS ENTERED EMERGENCY SESSION.
- BREAKING: OFFICIAL REPORTS ARE STATING THAT RELIEF WORKERS THAT WERE PLANNING ON ENTERING ATMOSPHERE HAVE DIVERTED RESOURCES EXPECTED TO BE DELAYED TILL AFTER THE SECOND SCARRING STOPS.
- BREAKING: SPIRAL SHAPED RUINS HAVE BEGUN APPEARING IN LOW DENSITY AREAS OF THE CITY. NO ONE KNOWS WHERE OR HOW THEY CAME FROM.
- Begin with us returning after sending out the signals
- Prompts the gardener to come down and visit patch
- Knock on the door, hands him a vial
- “In case you need it and it turns out this place isnt safe.”
- P: thanks! How many?
- “Only 1 vial. It takes only 1 to kill a person.”
- P: kill? Not incapacitate?
- “No. its a poison. Itll allow you to overcome someone stronger than u.”
- P: id rather one that incapacitates a patient
- “Its not for them. Its for if someone attacks you.”
- P: hope i dont have to use it
- “Hope so.”
- P: ill buy one of your products after this next scarring
- Visit konbini and her mom w 2 vials
- Ko: thanks!
- “Well of course. You seem like the type who needs it. No offense.”
- Ko: thaaaaanks. Thats kind. That didnt feel demeaning at all.
- Konbini’s mom awkwardly smiles
- Its giant wasp venom
- Konbini goes to gravesend
- He gives her the list, between 2
- “I know which bar they frequent if you want to jump them there”
- Ko: now??
- “No we’ll set up a scrying sensor to know when theyre drunk.”
- “You know how to do that basic magics, right?”
- Ko: i aint that good at spells yet, ik ur lvl 99 mafia boss and im lvl 3 goon. But. i aint like that yet. I got doom scroll. And dispel magic.
- “Then this will be good. They arent particularly strong. But then again no one is that strong. Minus the clone.”
- Ko: the clone???
- “UnpaidCl0ne2.”
- Ko: weak or strong
- “Strong hes scary as shit we arent fucking with him”
- Ko: lets set that up for uhhhh wednesday next week
- “Is haven part of the cult?”
- Ko: i dont think so? Hes part of a gang
- “U can be both.”
- K: texting Haven Haven R U in a cult?
- H: wtf no
- K: ok he’s not
- “Damn he was gonna be my third pick i don’t like him v much.”
- Prompts the gardener to come down and visit patch
- Figuring how to vet people
- Notable ppl spotted
- Someone with a lot of video drones
- Hey can u turn those off while ur comin in
- “Of course can i have a room to myself?”
- Ka: we’re working on it, eventually. Ur in a big ass crowd now man
- “I dont think u understand.”
- Turns on her avatar, Sable_Nyx
- Ka: ur very pretty
- “Thanks! Im here to streamsnipe a potential rival!”
- Ka: i dont think i can let u do that
- “But imagine how many ppl will turn up to meet me!”
- Ka: u can stay in the lobby?
- “Ig i wont tell my 1mil viewers then?”
- Let her in
- Vintovka finds someone in imperium colors moving thru
- Floppy ears and thin frame
- “All are accepted here, yes?”
- V: why do u ask that specifically? U have baggage?
- “No, baggage with aedryn.”
- V: aedryn?
- “The nation we reside in?”
- Theyre a notable rank of officer
- V: normally longer dedicated process- everyone is allowed, but we have to do a process to go above. I can expedite the process if i get a kickback
- “I can offer a thousand. Untraced credstick.”
- V: u cause no problem
- “I only need to live here. No work in here.” (madrosarai)
- Ppl are entering expecting to stay for a while, he has just his suitcase. Will accept any room
- V: can i inspect ur suitcase?
- “Of course, nothing but a computer. A few note books. Some crystals.”
- Crystals are to test energy of the area, see what makes this place safe. Different magcrystals change color based on magic
- Researcher, not someone looking for safety. Just need to be in the building and not be disturbed
- He goes to floor 249
- Other ppl that dont arouse suspicion
- Konbinis makes a computer check
- Able to catch it for a brief second, someone adds a floor and then deletes it immediately from the system log
- Marlow Tensvey
- He waves
- “This place is safe?”
- I: should be
- “It also seems to serve as a kill box, no?”
- I: yup if we fuck it up. Any chance u wanna help out?
- “Wdym”
- I: u seem to be identifying problem with the building. Any preemptive
- “4k ppl at once.”
- “I can use to identify criminals and the like if youd like? But if ur leading ppl into a death trap ill kill you”
- S: not the intent!
- I: if its a death trap my body is the first to get filled with bullets!
- “So all criminals should be barred from entry?”
- No we’re gonna send them to a lower floor for further vetting
- The fashion designer Sailevey (They/Them)
- They request a floor to open their studio so they can renovate it
- “Dont u want this place to be as luxurious as the others on the planet if it is to be a safe zone?”
- Greenlight it
- “What of the styles of the world are your favorite?”
- I: ive never really thought abt it. Um. i like video games? Sorry
- “Any you wish u could live inside?”
- I: league of leisure of course
- “We can do that. Like their show Occult.”
- A conglomerate of priests with their congregation
- 7 priests
- They wear the obvious things
- Tharos - Dravik Oss (Shobhad)
- Tarellon, the Pillar Unbroken - Cipher-Theta (Shirren)
- Drav'kyn, the Shattered Tongue - Professor Halvek Ruun (Blind Vlaka)
- Zarn - Nomatekk (Kasatha)
- Vel'Taro - Berrythyme (Moyishuu)
- Xalaith, the Blooming Wound - Elya Moss
- Ithex, the Root Below - Kethuun Below-Stars (Leshy)
- Want to start a church
- Leader is a Shabohad
- Not a particularly grouped 7
- Why these?
- Blind vlaka “well we happened to find each other. Its strange times. We do have a bet going of which of our gods is right in this endeavor.”
- I: wdym?
- Tharos shabohad talks abt how law in order will win out in the end
- Someone with a lot of video drones
- Party loses sight of sablenyx at one point
- Other things publicly known
- Archivist moves into 446 floor and opens up a library
- 417 is where the oldest known member of the apartment building lives
- 388 is Sey L’Vey
- L'Sairn the imperium loyalist is 249
- Ravers at 124
- Sexico-6 at 66
- Sky taxis in business, merchant operating in 65
- Gardener in 63
- Someone infected all of 25 with mushroom hydroponics farm
- Notable ppl spotted
- Countdown stream
- Watch news go live of the scarring
- Sable_Nyx starts streaming just as well, konbini barely beats her out
- The gunshots start going off in the city, hear rhythmic thump of the turrets raining on the populace below
- None of us are bleeding! We dont need to kill!
- We didnt cut off internet access, people are messaging their families that this is a safe place
- Ithax on the intercom: DO NOT INVITE ANYONE TO THE BUILDING, THE BUILDING IS CLOSED, ITS LOCKED DOWN, THE SECURITY SYSTEM IS LIVE, IT WILL SHOOT PEOPLE
- It doesnt seem to go thru
- Haven finds in one of the fuseboxes, the comms are in an odd spiral pattern glass floating
- One of the fuses blow when we try to flash a message to people
- This one burns a deep red
- Lust = pink-white
- Konbini grabs gravesend
- “Yeah theyre here”
- Ko: where??
- “Oh i think all of the runelords entered at somepoint”
- Ko: should we be concerned???
- “No if thye wanted to kill u they would.”
- Ko: do u think they just wanna kill ppl with the turrets outside
- “Oh only wrath is killing ppl rn i think”
- Ko: do u know where wrath is???? A room number? A floor?
- “Nooo. if he finds out i sent u he’ll kill me.”
- Ko: just point me in a direction
- “I dont think he’ll care.”
- Ko: would he kill me too just for talking to him?
- “We’re pretty sure at one point he killed one of the emperors”
- All of the runelords are humans
- Ithax bypasses the comms
- Closing down the building, security turrets are on.
- Ithax bypasses the computers
- Konbini types out a message
- Sacrament goes to the roof
- Her scars dont start bleeding
- Flies out of the building range
- Not bleeding
- Able to see the hardlight street covers have been pierced by our turrets, bodies in the streets now
- She calls Crinz Griftol
- S: hi sir. We’ve secured the building- i’ve left the building to test, my scar has not begun bleedin again even outside the buildin
- “Thank u for the update.”
- S: wanted to check sir, would u be able to assist with confirmin smth abt the buildin
- “No, currently on the hunt.”
- S: for someone for the scarrin or separately
- “Hunting for cultists”
- S: there are cultists under the runelords, it may be a dual purpose
- “Will they stay there?”
- S: yeah
- “then i’ll kill 2 cults this scarring. This one and the one in ur building
- “Evacuate the building we’ll call in a nuclear strike.”
- S: NOPE SIR MAYBE THEY WILL LEAVE
- “Sacrament are you not willing to die for the cause?
- S: due to the wrath cult wanting ppl to die, evacuation efforts would likely be impossible
- “Oh. well. That’s fine.”
- THE RUNELORDS WOULD SURVIVE PLS NO
- “Sounds like a signed reason. I’ll make sure u can present it to the board.”
- S: ill present it to the board at a time of ur choosin
- “Understood, we’ll look forward to making u a full hellknight at the time”
- The stairs before the roof are odd
- There’s 1 extra inch added to this floor at the very top
- Very much magical
- There might be a way to access it. Itd take time to figure it out tho
- Sacrament kidnaps a woman
- She recently robbed a convenience store, flies her upward
- S: now just wait here im not gonna kill ya. I dont plan to
- I: hey. We just need to test smth abt the scarring. We’re not killing u. Our scars dont activate in the building. Just want to see if u a person with an active scar if it turns off when u enter
- “Yes? If thats all?”
- She follows them down
- “Oh it seems to be cured!”
- I: is it?
- “...no. its still bleeding.”
- She says there are speakers that say we kill so and so
- The turrets have the speakers….
- Calling tech support
- “Armin armaments! How can i help”
- Ko: id like to turn off the screaming loved ones, u said u could counter that?
- “Are u cancelling that aspect?”
- Ko: what does that entail
- “We’d need 300k credits to turn it off”
- Ko what does it take to turn off the turrets
- ‘They can be turned off immediately”
- Ko: no deposit?
- “Of course theres a deposit”
- Ko: so ur saying i have to pay to turn off the thing i installed?
- “U didnt pay, u got a free promotion”
- Ko: who authorized that
- “Someone from the board of armin armaments?”
- Haven and vintovka turn off the speakers in the first 10 floors
- U have to strangle the things
- One turns into pulya for a second for vintovka
- Haven gets one that turns into ithax
- The lightbulb on the room we left is no longer there
- Ithax touches the fusebox one
- Takes him to floor 133, a room converted to an office
- The kind elven man who greeted him once before, Son Vamo
- “Master ithax, how may i help you monsieur? Are armin armaments treating you well.”
- Its the guy who installed it :(
- “Might i help you mr ithax?”
- I: i was just wondering if its you
- “No, master is out on one of his conniptions rn.”
- I: there’s no chance we could work smth out?
- “I appreciate the way one of u invokes. The way she strangles babies is amazing.”
- I: u wouldnt happen to know where anybody else is?
- “Well of course. I wouldnt want u to meet them. Ur one of our fav customers as of late.”
- I: is that dangerous?
- “Depends on how likeable u are.”
- I: id like to think im pretty likeable
- “Besides, if u find them on ur own, theyre more likely to like u. But we could sign a deal.”
- I: is there a secret 601st floor of our building
- “That depends. Would u be willing to sign another contract with me?”
- I: the stakes?
- “Violence is on the table, id be loathe to have it removed. An upgrade of the current security system would be in order. I could give u precision strikes for ppl thinking of taking down the building?”
- I: i should investigate on my own
- “Of course.”
- We could just disable the wires that connect to the security system. But also gwuh
- Patch and ithax go into the wall to fuck up the wires
- Will take abt a day to disable all the turrets
- Sacrament helps kill someone with the woman
- Her name is Sonovey
- Sweep the floors, identify
- 1 floor has gold thats copying Occult
- Poisoner floor
- They seem to be giving antidotes to ppl
- They look “u dont need poison”
- Ka: thanks? Idk how to poison ppl
- Sacrament talks to the cop
- S: trying to embody ur culture
- “U could never do that. We give ppl trials.”
- S: hey i received a trial
- “Do u believe that the state should have someone be the police jury and executioner?”
- S: i believe- well, based on aetherion laws, with an all encompassing laws we can do away with the need for courts
- “God ur an idiot.”
- S: i have strong beliefs
- “Many do. Did you know ur next door neighbor was a serial killer before it got taken over by the lich?”
- S: nah i didnt
- “Did u know the nice lad downstairs is named Alley-kun”
- S: i just know him as al
- “Yeah you would”
- S: well hes konbini’s friend. But that doesnt mean anything
- “There are plenty of cults that made it in.”
- S: yahhhh probably. We know- there’s at least 7!
- “There’s a group of youths on the 19th floor that like to get high and talk to death spirits.”
- “The ravers are technically breaking the law but times are tough. They need to get a permit.”
- S: theyre not rlly under my department, so. I should check out the 19th floor ig
- S: would u be open to assisting with patrols, get information? As a sign of respect. U seem to really dislike me
- “Ur a hellknight. U kill ppl”
- S: police kill ppl too, im not the only state sanctioned murderer, im just one of them
- “Do u know why police are hated more than hellknights”
- “Its bc we’re everywhere and ur a useless faction dying out.”
- S: at least my order has a specific purpose, we aim to do whatever we can within the bounds of the aetherion corp. We do what we can
- “And what can you do sacrament?”
- S: as a whole. The Order of the Compliance Engine maintains efficiency
- “All deviations are inefficient”
- S: thats determined by ppl not me
- “A lot are determined by others. Which are determined by you?”
- She doesnt have an answer
- “I’ll keep doing the investigations, bc at least when i arrest ppl they keep their heads”
- S: sometimes they dont get beheaded!
- “If they dont get beheaded by u its an accident, and if they die by me its an accident.”
- S: aw man
- If she doesnt kill anyone can they work together
- “Sure i have no particular interest in cults”
- S: works out
- S: u seem to have a lot of issues with what ithax has been teaching
- “Hes wasting his potential by being next to u”
- S: rude
- “Rude but not incorrect, why”
- S: i was raised to be polite, ur not nice
- Kaspar going to teammates who knew the black baron showed up
- They did
- Black Baron is a novian
- We get the basic contact info
- Send vintovka to meet pizzalich Gravesend
- Shes trying to get info abt the other runelords
- V: do u know anything abt the other ones, like sloth
- “Oh probably asleep. Do u think lord or master sounds better a title”
- V: idk. Where do u think they sleep
- “Idk. they fall asleep to streams?”
- V: what does pride get up to
- “Not a whole lot out of worshipping thyself”
- V: wahts the real name of pride cult
- “Oh she doesnt have a cult. She just kills whoever compares themself to her.”
- Shows the stream of sable_nyx
- “Why’s she a cartoon?”
- “No thats not pride. She doesnt hide her form
- V: which one is this then
- “Idk cartoon”
- V: tell by the voice??
- “Not familiar.”
- V: on same page. gluttony? What gluttony up to?
- “I have no idea. He’s somewhere in here. I think he might be in the nightclub?”
- “He likes to party, he likes doing his drugs.”
- “She’s here. She’s drawn on the fuckin’ building!”
- V: thats crazy. That must-
- “Im going to disintegrate it the moment the turrets are turned off”
- V: a little skinny for my liking but i get it
- “Shes NOT skinny for ur liking shes PERFECT u PIECE OF SHIT.”
- V: greed?
- “I believe trying to sell off rooms to ppl? I think theyre in talks of buying the building outright. With the owners.”
- V: how do they make all this money
- “They were on the aetherion board for a while. Recently quit to do a private venture.”
- V: who is envy? What are they doing?
- “Their passion projects, creating that which already exists. A pitiful life. Dont tell them i said that.”
- V: what kinda creations?
- “Anything. If they want it, they get it. Their face changes all the time, idk what they look like”
- V: envious of ppls looks. What brings them here specifically? Besides scarring
- “I got kicked out a long time ago, i wouldnt venture to know.”
- V: making ur acquaintance was interesting, i hope we have further discussions later
- “If u want anyone killed my soul cage is for lease”
- V: im a big fan of killing ppl
- “Itll obliterate them from existence!”
- V: ive got a few ideas, ill tell u that
- We reconvene
- Ithax has a dad but was also a ward of the state
- Six is missing
- No response from six when texting her
- Shift Order (Patch is on call)
- Konbini + Kaspar
- Ithax + Sacrament
- Haven + Vintovka
- Shifts
- Elf man from armin armaments shows up
- Ko: how can i help!
- “Hello! It seems uve chosen to take manual security into ur hands”
- Ko: is there a problem?
- “I just wanted to know if our turrets were insufficient”
- Ko: just want things in our own hands. Anything else?
- “No, i’m just going to wait here for the rest of ur shift if tahts ok”
- Ko: why
- “To see what improvements can be made to ur setup
- He turns off her tablet screen
- “A good guard never loses focus”
- Ko: this increases my focus
- Ko: can u leave. Am i stuck with you
- “Oh no. if u let me do my job id be quite busy.”
- Ko: absolutely fuckin not.
- “Are you feeling angry by chance?”
- She pulls out her rubix cube, the spring suddenly breaks in it
- Konbini is so mad, hes happy abt it
- Hes there for the next one too
- “U know u shouldnt let ur dad talk to you like that.”
- I: not my dad. Anyway
- “No just ur father figure.”
- I: can i help you with something?
- “U know he wont respect you until you stand up for yourself?”
- I: what made u interested in joining the cult?
- “Joining? I didnt join.”
- I: expound
- “I was made for it.”
- I: wdym?
- “Its complicated. Do u believe in Hell?”
- I: is there an alternate option?
- “Oh many ppl didnt believe in it for a while. Tbf its exact nature is unknown”
- I: are you a devil
- “No not quite.”
- I: not quite?
- “He decided to go into hell and for each devil he beat he took a piece of.”
- I: youre a bunch of devils???
- “No just one. Your friendly armin armaments seller. But back to the topic of ur daddy issues, u should punch him at some point”
- I: u want to watch him kick my ass?
- ‘Hed do no such thing. He feels pity for you. And i do too of course.”
- I: why
- “Ur pathetic specimen ithax.”
- “Its just the nature of you. Have you done anything productive with your life?”
- “I can see it in his eyes. U havent. He feels angry and then feels failure over his own tutorship.”
- I: yeah maybe i start a lot of things i dont finish. Maybe ill go back to lawschool when this is over. I should find one that didnt get nuked. Know anything abt that?
- “I know plenty of it. But its not abt me.” ragebaits for 8 hours
- Patch!
- Many of his patients go into deep sleeps
- Intense emotional distress before the sleep and coma hits
- Thats the only commonality
- If he had more points of data, he could find a density. But there are only 5 patients here. Not statistically significant
- He calls ithax abt the patients, thinks its related to one of the cults, maybe sloth
- Haven
- “Don’t you want revenge on them? They took your life away
- H: what do u think im doing?
- “I think ur following sloth rn, not a lot of movement.
- H: things take time
- “Not if u use a bit of force
- H: not how i do things
- “Not much force to use
- H: wdym
- “Ur not v strong. A bit of force can get u anything u want, wouldn’t u want to do that?
- H: im the one who can get what i want. If being slow and steady wins me the race then i have all the time in the world
- “This is why vintovka is my favorite broken standard member
- H: great news. Im not fucking The Broken Standard
- “Ur not much of anything rn
- H: fuck off
- H: do u get off on this man?
- “No. it gives me life energy
- H: kinda sounds like getting off
- “Do u orgasm every time u eat? Me neither
- H: awesome man. Glad we can have this intimate talk about u not jacking it while u eat
- “You do know that they’re likely to die. The rest of the broken standard
- H: what makes u say that?
- “Cause they’re going against armin armaments, didn’t u read last week’s news?
- CEO of armin armaments declared war on Mafilus
- H: what are u getting out of that?
- “Revenge
- H: ur getting revenge?
- “Oh no, wrath is getting revenge
- H: for?
- “A defeat
- H: wrath was defeated?
- “By maphilus. And he’s broken standard now. But if u could become a leader, u could distance from maphilus and save them
- H: not my problem
- “Yeah now just lots of people dying for no cause. But they could wage war for ur name
- H: why would i want that
- “Why do u wave a standard in combat at all?
- H: all i know. Is that alright?
- “Alright in the way most mortal lives are alright
- Elf man from armin armaments shows up