Session 9

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• Go to bed right before sacrament’s trial with Gravesend next door
  • Pizzalich opens sacraments door “ur in a cult right?”
  • S: what
  • “Ur in a cult right?”
  • S: no. are you in a cult?
  • “I’m the cult leader.”
  • S: oh. Alright. Man. why are u in my room
  • “Cause youre in a cult. And im offering for you to join a better one.”
  • S: im not in one
  • “Youre in the hellknights right”
  • S: its not a cult
  • “It is!”
  • S: its not one dont call us a cult
  • “Whats the process of leaving?”
  • S: well our um employment contracts last til death. So. dyin
  • “See my cult wont make u die if you want to leave”
  • S: i dont want to leave
  • “You feel an obligation towards ur cult!”
  • S: i was raised by aetherion so-
  • “Oh! They raised you too!”
  • S: somewhat. In an orphanage. Like a normal person i was raised in an orphanage
  • “Were u taught how to be a hellknight in the orphanage?”
  • S: ig. But i wanted to be one before i became an orphan
  • “1 sec ill show u a trick.”
  • S: could u not. Idk if im allowed to see tricks from cult members-
  • “Cult leaders”
  • S: from cult leaders per aetherion regulations
  • He casts suggestion on her
    • She crit fails
  • She agrees to join his cult for an hour, playing video games while she should be sleeping
• Going into the trial
  • Before court, we have a second to talk to Crinz Griftol
    • S: hello
    • “What have you learned? Will the scarring begin?”
    • S: yes shortly. Next couple days
    • “Ok. i have bad news. They are uh, sending down commander Malvrena to conduct ur trial and execution.”
    • (considered top 3 hellknights on senaria. Concord of Aedryn hellknight, theyre the defacto ruler of it.
      • Ithax knows: he has a penchant for cruelty. Can be swayed to take crueler actions/say actions are crueler than they will be)
    • “Have you found anything else?”
    • I: we found out the lust cult was in our building, we found one of their enemies to feed us info on them
    • “Who?”
    • S: lich who was in a lust cult
    • We say gravesend’s name, crinz locks down the building
    • “You found gravesend?”
    • S: yes, our uh- companion here did
    • “Is he as cruel as they say?”
    • S: he did try to convince me to join his cult. But it was with magic and video games. cecilia has an in with him. He seems to uh, favor her somewhat? We can use that to get info from him.
    • H: he’s wanting to make another cult
    • “Let him. Whatever you need to get an in.”
    • S: it’ll be done. Yessir.
    • S: Any other questions sir?
    • “No. but i want you to make your admission to take down her and eventually you can take down her great skeletal dildo.”
    • “He kept a physical form til 50 years ago.”
    • H: who’s her?
    • “Runelord Lovejoy. Shes responsible for a few operations, including the one near you’s sexico-6.”
    • S: that makes sense actually.
  • No announcement when malvrena arrives, but we hear ppl behind us bowing
    • He walks thru, takes a seat at the head
    • “All participating state your names.”
    • S: sacrament
    • I: ithax
    • P: patch
    • K: cecilia vayne
    • K: kaspar stars in waters
    • H: haven
    • “All who are here are the ones who committed the murder of Conren? How did you get in conflict with our men?”
    • I: your honor. We were on the trail of a cult as part of an investigation, we came to blows with the gang known as blind halloways
    • “Who gave you the information on where his gang was hiding?”
    • I: the signal saints who we are currently infiltrating with intent to utterly destroy and ideally humiliate
    • “You’ll do no such thing. They fed you the info of their enemies and got you to kill them.”
    • I: they did do this, but we were able to obtain from the Blind Halloways info that has led us to discovering a great deal about The Scarring.
    • “You seek to move on from the topic of your gross incompetence? Let me ask you: have you remained in touch with the signal saints?”
    • Ko: that we have sir.
    • “By what ways?”
    • Ko: their internal communication rooms
    • “Are you talking about the prism head?”
    • (the entirety of the vr chat runs thru PRISM’S HEAD, hes a technomancer. Every whip was in his mind palace.)
    • Ko: i have come to realize, that yes that is true. Theyre not very tightlipped with secrets there
    • “The other gang he was in charge of taking down was the wakehands. Have u made any headway.”
    • Ko: not really but theyre at odds
    • “What is the value of a potential lost life, one who could do so much good but was snuffed out early.”
    • (he was taken out by a lot of college students. We did a mercy bc we cleansed his org from weakness.)
    • Ko: ur honor sir, with due respect he shouldnt have been so weak to be killed in the first place.
    • “He shouldve at least killed one of you on the way out.”
    • Ko: but he didnt
    • “Then i have an easy proposal. I only need u to kill a gang leader and we’ll be done.”
    • Ko: which one?
    • “A skittermander known as Horvenal. From the Wakehands. Hes been giving ppl food unlawfully and trying to fund medical centers. He shouldnt be above the law.”
    • P: is there an alternative?
    • “Sacraments death of course. You killed one of my men, i’ll see to the matter personally.”
    • S: i suppose if the only other choice is death…. We’ll attempt to kill horvenal or die trying.
    • H: any leads?
    • “You can file a request. Itll be 2 months.”
    • H: and timeframe for sacrament.
    • “A month until her execution.”
    • “Youre free to go.”
  • They let us go, the 2 leaders talk
• Konbini offers game cult
  • “Why not use a cursed game console? Do you want me to curse a came console for you?”
  • Ko: sure??? That can be our brand. The cursed game consoles.
  • “I can get it set up in an hour if you want to try to play.”
  • Ko: is this like an initiation?
  • “Mm? Yeah.”
  • Ko: you wont lock my soul right?
  • “You will be, and if you die in the game u die in real life.”
• Bed Tundy killed his cohost btw
• Head to newstation at 11pm
  • Its located on the 2nd story, the first one being dedicated to small businesses
  • 3 ways in, 2 staircases and an elevator/rooftop access
  • Rooftop is locked
  • Konbini disguising as a janitor
  • Ithax + patch in the vents
    • Options
      • Where they keep the clothes
      • A utility closet
    • They drop down into clothes to disguise everyone
    • Someone hears them, door opens as ithax shoves patch into the vents
    • Ithax tries to hide in the cabinets
    • Patch develops group chat
    • Ithax: BED TUNDY BED TUNDY
    • Konbini knocks things over in the lobby
    • Bed tundy leaves, goes into the lobby
    • Ithax disguises as bed tundy, a ted bundy if you will
    • One robot looks at him “identification sir?”
    • I: bed tundy?
    • “Identification sir?”
    • He acts like he left it in his pants, goes back
    • Robot walks away
    • Ithax goes into the news room, it starts light “airing soon”
    • He doesnt know how to stream
    • Try to run past the robots, they sound the alarm, we run away
    • Patch steals some tools, camera, etc, we will return later
• To info broker Havkai
  • “How’s my favorite cult hunter doing? Heard you survived your trial!”
  • S: u heard alot
  • “Part of my job. What smth to drink to celebrate?”
  • S: dr vesk?
  • “Not to my taste, but we can get it for you.”
  • S: no its alright, dont wanna cause trouble
  • “No trouble at all. How did it go? I heard Escane.”
  • H: escane?
  • “I believe you’d know him as commander malvrena.”
  • S: idk if we can confirm too much of those happenings without making it a proper transaction
  • Konbini loses us some credits.
  • H: we’d like to sell some info about the pillars of senaria
  • “Depends on what you’re selling
  • H: info directly related to the scarring
  • “Afraid i can’t buy that off you.
  • H: why’s that?
  • “Terms of service. If you wanted to buy that off me it’ll cost quite a hefty sum
  • H: do you want to know when the next scarring is?
  • “About 2 days
  • H: this is info directly related to the Pillars of Senaria i want to sell
  • “I can’t buy it
  • H: can you share this with any other buyers?
  • “Bit hard for a man in my position. You’d have to go to the man on top
  • H: that’s pretty tough right? With the lockdown
  • “We’d get it out. Just tell me and it flows up and back down
  • H: we have a safe place, guaranteed. Won’t be affected by the scarring if you go there
  • “I, legally, if you tell me have to buy it from you. But i have to send it upward. Are you sure you want to tell it to me?
  • Ithax pointed questions abt the implications
  • “Knowing which information exists makes you know which info to suppress. If i dont know, i dont need to report thoughts” (someone higher up wants to continue the scarring)
  • S: movin away from that topic, how much for the info on which gang leader we’re supposed to kill
  • “I’d buy it for a cool thousand.”
  • S: i think- surely go for a little more. It’s my life on the line for this one
  • “Is your life worth even a thousand in the eyes of the law?”
  • S: actually a good point. But i think we’d have to consider the potential profit of me bein alive is growin as i pay my debt off!
  • “It is, but i have to weigh that against someone i dont even know. Could be that ur shooting a random gangbanger in the head.”
  • S: hate to leave im leavin money on the table…
  • S: we have to, to prevent my execution, we have to kill horvenal from the wakehands
  • “Does that include his orphanage?”
  • S: idk i dont think so
  • Gives us the money
  • S: ihope i dont have to kill other orphans
  • “Itd be a shame.”
  • “Oh youre a hellknight? Could you leave my office. I cant abide a hellknight at this hour. Its bad luck to meet a hellknight at twilight.”
  • S: awkward since its the current time at all hours. Well. suppose it was nice to meet ya
  • “It was. Ill see ya in an hour when its technically dawn.”
  • “Itd be a shame if she only thought she killed him. Id believe that if it was the execution of all those orphans, he wouldnt be upset to go fake his death. You could just do a small switcheroo.”
  • H: know another skittermander that looks like him?
  • “No, but they all look the same exploded. The issue is the switching of the body. I do know an easy way to lure him. He does have a friend.”
  • Ka: friend or a friend
  • “That’d cost more.”
  • “The Black Baron, don’t let the name fool you, he’s not nobility. He runs an underground fighting pit.”
  • (usually rules are set by the 2 ppl participating, hes one of the ppl who enjoys ‘honorable combat’ as honorable as it can be. You’d be able to get an easy in, he has a soft spot for former athletes that can draw a crowd. The 2 are close, and the black baron can convince him of anything)
  • Info on kaspar’s sister is going up
  • Info on The Broken Standard’s retrograde = 2k
  • I: info on the Verdant Sanctum?
  • “I do, depends on what you want to ask.”
  • I: id be interested in current living members and their general whereabouts. Activities.
  • “Phrase it as one?”
  • I: how much to know the cost of current living members and their whereabouts?
  • “300 credits.”
  • No one has died since he last checked
  • I: crazy. Thank you.
  • H: any info coming from Walqirae?
  • “Quite a bit. The biggest is 200.”
  • “There’s a large radiation dragon known as Sekunda who has shown up and claiming he’s king of the area. It has not spoken to anyone.”
  • H: but still claiming to be king?
  • “Naturally. Some people have been having prophetic dreams, and some people tried to capture it on camera, but it’s hard.”
  • Konbini texts gravesends ‘what abt those beasts spawning, what do u know beautiful overlords xoxo’
    • “What have you done for me today minion?”
    • ‘I’ll be back soon to play that video game with you. Unless u want me to do ritual sacrifice rn’
    • “No. We’ll kill another cult member.”
    • ‘Btw we may haev to kill this gang leader horvenal’
    • “Who????”
    • ‘Will get back to u soon on that cult kill lol’
• Go back to suimin
  • “I found one! I found a cult member. Are you ready to kill her?”
    • Ko: indoctrinating or is it off the table
    • “No we shouldnt indoctrinate another cult’s member, that’s rude.”
    • Theyre like 100miles away. Teleports konbini
    • “Did u know the spell mishap is dangerous for the living if we turn up on the sunside or moonside?”
    • Ko: if we do get blasted can u teleport us back?
    • “I think it’d be best to walk it and then teleport after we’ve killed her.”
    • Ithax and Sacrament tag along
    • Closer to sunside
    • “Cmon its this way.”
    • Skitters down the street
    • “We could make the hoverboard a sign of our cult.”
    • Ko: thatd be cool, the symbol could be one
    • “No…”
    • Ko: is that lame or smth
    • “No just reminded me of a time.”
    • Ko: so this cultist?
    • Ko: which cult are they apart of
    • “Thats a secret, lets see if u can figure it out urself!”
    • Ko: can i have a name?
    • “For her?”
    • Ko: yeah!
    • “No.”
    • Blasts at the lock, looks at a woman catatonic on the bed. Eyes forward towards the sunset
    • “There she is! She shouldnt put up much of a fight.”
    • (signs of a cult, her hands are tattooed. Around where the fingers meet the actual palm, caterpillars eating a larger caterpillar.)
    • “Well here you go!” hands a knife
    • Ko: uhh. Sorry miss. Looks like its your time. Idk?
    • I: who is this person?
    • “Oh idk who she is?”
    • Ko: was ur only identifier her tattoos
    • “No i have ways. Theyre far too arcane for u to understand.”
    • (konbini googling tattoos, nothing comes up. Page fails to load, internet speed slows to a crawl before it entirely disconnects.)
    • (not signal saints)
    • Konbini stabs, sees blood, 2 whole minutes between them
    • Ko: idk if im wise enough
    • “Youll get it later idk”
    • I: sloth runelords?
    • “There ya go! They refuse to evolve, dragigng down the other caterpillars
    • S: like crabs in a bucket!
    • “Thats. …. Sure.”
    • I: official group name?
    • Ko: just wanna know it make our group name cooler, yknow?
    • “Youll make a cooler one.”
    • “Well. they call themselves Last Sunset. Funfact, they were one of the first cults to arrive, considering it a holy land.”
    • Ko: older than you then?
    • “Yes but no.”
    • “She’s not older than me but the last sunset is.”
    • “You guys want hoverboards while we’re here?”
    • He buys them hoverboards
  • Another kasatha shows up
    • Imrek Sariin “haven how have you been?
    • H: could be better could be worse. Didn’t expect you to show up. I thought you’d be out of here by now
    • “We are
    • H: you came back
    • “We’re allowed a little bit of leave. Word is from higher up that we should prep for a second scarring.
    • H: word is correct, should be prepared. Could stick around here for a couple days, wouldn’t need to worry about it
    • “I’d only need to worry about deserting then. The scarring might spell my death, desertion will
    • H: at the very least i know a way out
    • P (groupchat): is this guy a member of your old gang?
    • H: yeah, he is
    • Patch analyzes target
    • H: how have things been on your end?
    • “Good, we live as kings now. We took over the Vitiae district
    • H: i heard. What’s been going on? Keeping safe?
    • “You could come back and find out. Do u know what it’s like there? In the golden city?
    • H: not personally
    • “U left at the wrong time. The inner members of the gang, we live as kings up there
    • H: i don’t think that’s worth the price
    • “And what is now? What am i paying that no one else is paying? Everyone alive has killed someone
    • H: can’t argue that but things start to weigh. Ur gonna regret it.
    • “We’re all going to regret it and the scarring will kill us all. You can live in luxury, you deserve that. I’ll put in a good word and they’ll take you back instantly
    • H: that won’t work, desertion gets u killed
    • “Yes but we can play it as u being undercover. We could even invite all of these here
      • Seems to be out of a sense of obligation. Does actually like haven. Sentimental cause everyone got rich while haven is stuck living like they used to
      • Offer seems genuine though, he’s just uncertain if haven will be accepted. It’s worth the risk to him
    • P: sorry friend of haven. We’re pretty safe where we are and idk if haven needs to go over there and murder someone during the scarring
    • “Imrek, if you would. How do u know this place is safe?
    • P: we have our sources
    • H: we have good reason to believe so. At the very least we aren’t taking chances where we don’t need to be
    • “I understand you’re risk averse. Maybe wait 2 scarring and come back? Atp we’ll have lost enough men they’d be willing to take u in
    • H: they’re gonna get desperate
    • “They will! And we can use that. We’re well trained, we aren’t gonna kill each other. We’ll kill other people first, just don’t be the other people
    • P: i think we’ll be ok
    • “Sure friend of haven
    • P: i’m haven’s doctor, i’ll keep him alive
    • Haven offers him a drink and they sit in awkward silence after that
  • Cultsties return
  • Set up the bed tundy room
    • Itll catch people who have it on a 2nd screen
• Back to bed tundy
  • Robot asks “identification?”
  • Konbini logic bombs it
  • Gets in, she begins hacking. Time to leave!
• 1 day of downtime before
  • Haven looking for visible activity from the base
    • It’s now haunted???
    • A Lot of people got slaughtered
  • Konbini sowing rumor
  • Kaspar trying to know abt the fighting ring and the black baron
    • Shiori doesnt know (she doesnt deal with ‘entertainment crime’)
    • 2 team members can get in contact
  • Ithax sending a message to his old mentor
    • Gather info abt the layout of the base
      • Fastest route vs where they didnt get slaughtered
      • Going thru warehouses and roundabout ways will be longer but we wont be up against an army of ghosts
  • Ithax’s mentor shows up
    • “Do you have an apartment or are you living on the street?”
    • I: i have one, it exists. U cant see it. But we can go into my friends
    • Go to havens. Nvm imrek is there. Goes to an empty one
    • Man with large shield looks
    • “Have you driven any of them insane?”
    • I: nooo. They like me. Well im useful.
    • “U are. If not likeable.”
    • I: yeah…. This sounds- its going to sound crazy. But. um. There’s going to be another scarring, this building will be safe. The people within it won't be affected at all by the scarring. Ik we disagree but id never want u to kill somebody or die
    • “Why was the cop force too harsh but u decided to ally with hellknights?”
    • I: i dont like the hellknights either
    • “We arrest people, they kill people”
    • I: i did NOT like going to hellknight court
    • “What did they demand of you?”
    • I: to um, they want us to kill a person, theyll forgive our crime
    • “Youre a hired killer now?”
    • I: so im not gonna DO it.
    • “No, here’s what ur gonna do. Ur gonna join the actual police force, they wont execute you.”
    • I: theyll still execute my kind and helpful neighbor!
    • “Is she a hellknight?”
    • I: yes!
    • “Then she deserves to be executed.”
    • I: i have a different way figured out that’s gonna be fine.
    • “Of course. And the four years i spent raising u will go to waste once ur killed by hellknights. Do u know how much money the state paid to educate u? You’ve done ur security sweeps, i assume, of this floor?
    • I: no, we haven’t checked the empty rooms
    • “Ok, i’ll check”. Him and ithax start checking the empty rooms
      • Mentor man enters at point first
    • Find a body that died around a month ago, starts going through its pockets and stuff
      • “No identification. No signs of extreme mutilation except molars with cavities were removed”
        • Could be cults!
      • Imrek to gravesend: do u know of any cults that remove cavities post death
        • No
      • “Diagnosis?”
      • I: i think he got killed by a cult member
      • “Why?”
      • I: weird to remove post mortem cavity teeth
      • “Looks at the state of the apartment. Only his cybernetic teeth were worth stealing. The eithers are in the mouth. Stop writing fiction abt people. If youre going to help people you need to ge the facts right.”
    • Private computer server found
      • “Signs of a technomancer.”
    • Konbini passes into the room
    • “Active crime scene. Who are you?”
    • K: cecilia
    • He pins her down bc she tries to walk past
    • We are kinda getting peeved at him
    • I: officer Anrast, meet my friends. Friends, meet officer Anrast. I don’t like him but i don’t want him to die.
    • He fucking sucks
    • He doesnt care abt kaspar’s growl
    • Konbini goes back to her room, her mom is bamboozled
    • Haven follows as he continues checking rooms
    • Next room
      • “Looking at the signs, looks to be a dwarf that just misses bright and sunny planet. Weight of the bed is right.”
    • He marks 2 rooms as crime scenes
    • He has chemical strips that mark when someone’s passed thru
    • He says ithax is getting better, but not good
    • H: ithax is one of the best detectives i know
    • “Then that’s unfortunate. ”
    • H: ithax asked u to be here, but neither of u are enjoying it.
    • No but yknow. He was invited
    • “We can send crisis groups this way. People without families could be safe here. What’s the idea for defense?”
    • Hes so overwhelming. Very right but He’s So Much with his orders
    • Breaks down every potential deficiency
    • Ithax goes thru so much nicotine. Out of physical nicotine now
  • Kaspar returns home to see Sixlux Stars in Water’s door open
    • SHE’S THERE??? ASLEEP