Archmage MC

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Sectonia

Blazermate

Level 14 Blazermate (Holding 3 level up) - (65/140)
Level 13 Sectonia (holding 3 level up) (57/130)

Location Frozen highlands - The Midnight Walk
Word Count: less than 750

With Sectonia's little chat with Mokou done, she decided to descend upon the town with the others. While that chat had distracted her a bit, there was some cleansing that had to be done with these horrible creatures. While the other town of cyborgs she left alone as they weren't hostile, at least for the moment, these clearly were if Blazermate healing Geralt who was getting into a fight with these things was any indication.

Granted once the Queen descended upon the fight, things would get a lot more chaotic as she not only nearly doubled the seeker's numbers with her summoned Antlers, she'd fire off various projectiles of raining swords, light rings, and punishing any of the cyborgs that got close with her death pulse and damaging auras making the once mostly calm battlefield filled with many hazards for the enemies of the seekers. She'd let the others collect the spirits left behind much like what Geralt was doing now.

While Sectonia was doing her projectile shenanigans, staying at around the middle of the group, Blazermate was off doing her healing duties. She'd throw off an occasional divine star or dissolution for damage or debuffing but for now she didn't ahve to use any of her really big abilities on these things as they were getting cleared up pretty well.

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Roland

Level 7 Roland (65/70)
Location: Eseka
Word Count: Less than 750

Roland took a bit more of a tour of Eseka to learn what was coming up. as he did, he learned more and more and that made him very sure on what his initial feelings of the area were. This city was if a syndicate of his, the Middle, ruled an entire city itself instead of just a part of the backstreets. Getting back to his room, Roland plopped himself on his bed, getting ready for what would happen tomorrow.

While Eseka was a bit better than his own world, it wasn't as interesting as Midgar. Granted while he was working in Midgar, he was part of the secret police of that place. Thinking about it, it seemed that he was in a lot better spot in Midgar than he thought perhaps. Being with these seekers is a bit of a strange feeling, thinking about it. He wasn't really a hero or anything, but from what the others had been saying and what he had learned, there were far 'worse' seekers than him as well as more heroic ones. But he did see some green lush areas that he wouldn't have ever seen in either City or Midgar, so... Maybe he should count himself fortunate? The Avenger needed better food regardless. Hm... If Eseka worked like he thought it did, he could maybe get something going in regards to that.

Speaking of Eseka, it seemed to function almost identical to how the Middle functioned. The strongest ruled and it was all by a test of combat and skill. Although he wondered if the four kings had any amount of 'brothership' that that syndicate had, even if it was just as or more warped than those tattooed freaks. At least he had quite a bit of experience fighting these sorts of people, so maybe even if it was for a little bit he could be successful in this system too? He was one of the few doing the Tekken line as it was, so he'd be pretty important regardless. Roland supposed even outside of the City and even the Library he still had to fight to make a living, well thats just how things go he supposed.

The only worry was that 'rules' would be enforced when fighting opponents. While he had a general idea of what that meant, would it act like the Library where the space itself changed to accommodate said rules, or were they merely suggestions?

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Sectonia

Blazermate

Level 14 Blazermate (Holding 3 level up) - (64/140)
Level 13 Sectonia (holding 3 level up) (57/130)

Location Frozen highlands - The Midnight Walk
Word Count: less than 750

A frozen valley full of frozen water. It was a good thing Sectonia could fly, and Blazermate as well even if the cold didn't bother the medabot at all. Seeing as the shipwreck was too big for Sectonia to get into, and there wasn't anyone getting hurt, both girls stayed at the stagecoach for that one. But as they made their way into the next valley after looting the ship, Sectonia's ore sense went off. A path off the side that the stagecoach couldn't turn into seemed to have some valuable items. The rest of the group could handle the next obstacle, so Sectonia informed them she was going to harvest something valuable.

Flying over to the source of the ore, Sectonia found a bone colored ore that would be called Pelagacite. She would need to study what it would do, but she could tell it was valuable regardless. Even if it wasn't useful for weapons or magic, she could probably sell it. With the quarry empty of enemies, Sectonia spent some time using her earth powers to harvest ore, using her minions to get what they could get as well. It took her some time, but she'd soon come back to the stagecoach with tons of ore. Even more so than what the others could bring back, thanks to her minions carrying some back even if only half of them were immune to the cold.

While Sectonia was harvesting, Blazermate was sitting on the stagecoach looking out for enemies and healing whoever was near her as it felt that there would be some kind of fight or ambush soon. And soon they'd be ambushed by some kind of sea monster. While Ram, Tenna, and Ace had an idea to use some explosive barrels, Blazermate kept them overhealed. She'd deploy her various buffs and debuffs as needed, but these things didn't seem all that strong compared to the things they've fought if their heath was anything to go by. Certainly no giant alligator.

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Blazermate

Level 14 Blazermate (Holding 3 level up) - (63/140)

Location: The Trail
Word Count: 1336

Blazermate was ready for the monkeys to be another threat they had to deal with but the TV man that had just joined, Tenna, showed his worth almost instantly turning was she figured might be a group of enemies into allies and getting rewarded for it as well. Blazermate was almost a bit disappointed she didn't get to use her shield. Then with Edward making an alternate path through the snow that voided the monkeys as well, Blazermate went from being ready for a fight to sitting back down. Considering how much she'd been fighting things here, finding a solution that required no fighting was rare. She was... almost disappointed a bit? Since if it wasn't healing or fighting, it wasn't something she was super good at.

The town itself was... well, it was some kind of like, town full of weird cyborg people? Cyborgs were weird to heal. If they didn't have the medabot parts she couldn't heal their mechanical bits, and usually they needed those to live. Well, unless their robot bodies worked with just normal healing but that was kinda random. Maybe she could ask someone around town on whats available and what she could do? She saw some people going for the bar, but she couldn't really do anything in a bar.

As Blazermate hovered idly, not even really looking around for something that might be of interest to her, one of the townsfolk tasked with guarding the village's periphery paused in the middle of making his rounds. Though his heavy clothing and odd helmet completely obscured his form, the Medabot could nonetheless feel his gaze upon her. He seemed unsure about something, but only after a few moments did he seem to work up the courage to approach her.

"Hey...you wouldn't happen to be an angel, would you?" Realizing that she might mistake his question for some sort of tactless pickup line, he quickly clarified. "Uh, that is to say, a member of the Airborne Squad. From the Colony?" He pointed vaguely upward toward the sky.

"No...? I'm from uh, out of town. I'm here with my friends. I do heal, but uh, I don't know how much there is to heal here. Cybernetics and healing don't mesh well sometimes." Blazermate said. "Some of my friends are drinking, but not much to do there for me so... Got any ideas?" Blazermate said. She then connected the dots on what the Guard had tried to not insinuate and also deflected, "Oh right, what are those balloon things?"

The man nodded curtly in response to her answer, indicating that it had pretty much been what he expected. "Got it, sorry. Don't really know what angels look like, since I've never seen one myself. Not many humans out there who can say that have." He crossed her arms as Blazermate spoke, not quite sure what she meant by 'ideas'. When she mentioned balloons, though, he gave a commiserating sigh. "Weird, aren't they? At first, we thought they were hyper-evolved Naytibas or something, the truth is, we have no idea. What they are, where they come from, or why..."

Suddenly wary, as if the hairs on the back of his neck had risen, the guard looked out at the dark snow fields. After a quiet moment, he continued. "All we know is, if they get into town and tie their strings around you, they'll lift you into the sky. And nobody who's been carried off has ever come back."

"Oh, thats not good! Well, I'm uh, only really good at like, fighting and healing and stuff. I mean, I can do some basic house chores and play video games but I don't think that counts. So uh, yeah. Maybe I should do something about that. Kinda weird that balloons are evil but I've seen weirder." Blazermate said.

The villager stroked the bottom of his helmet like a philosopher might strike his chin. "Hmm...well, seeing as it keeps getting colder every day, why not learn firemaking? Here, I was just practicing earlier. Watch."

Finding an open area, the man set down three normal logs. He removed a tinderbox from one of his pouches, then attempted to light the fire. It took a few tries, but the logs caught after about thirty seconds. He proceeded to make another couple campfires right next to the first one, taking a little over a minute total. "There, like that. It's a tough skill, takes a bit of technique and a whole lot of patience, but everyone needs to keep warm. And like my buddy used to say, the mind's at peace when the hands are not." He had one more set of logs, but rather than light them himself, he offered them and the tinderbox to Blazermate. "Give it a try?"

"Uh... ok." Blazermate said, not really seeing a point to this with Wood being so annoying to carry and there being multiple people on the team that conjured fire. She doubt she'd ever use this, but it was something to do so she tried lighting the logs with the tinderbox. It wasn't all that different from camping. It didn't take her too long to light the logs, but she really didn't see a point to this one. "Like that, yeah?"

The man nodded. "Yeah, that's it. Firemaking starts off slow, but once you figure out different logs, you can move on to incense, torches, candles, lanterns, and even hot-air balloons. Plus, people will always be grateful for a little warmth. Especially if they're suffering from hypothermia." He gestured at the tinderbox. "There, you can keep that one. I know some folks out there can light fires with a snap of their fingers, but doing it the old-fashioned way has its uses. You'll never know when you need it." At that point, the first campfire burned down to ash, not black like the ashes of slain World of Light denizens but a soft gray.

"Thanks. I should go do what I can to help the monkeys too. It wont take me too long to help." Blazermate said, putting the tinderbox away in the pouch on her belt.

Flying over to the monkeys that seemed to be allied with everyone now with Tenna helping with the bloons, Blazermate found a good spot on the snow to summon her engineer striker who started to build a sentry unopposed. And being unopposed, it didn't take long for him to finish making a level 3 sentry that aided the monkeys in popping bloons. With its high fire rate and occasional explosive rockets, it might be really effective, especially if the monkeys can feed it ammo.

Speaking of, as the party had made a new route through the snow, more bloons spawned. Having a 360 degree range and high fire rate, Blazermate put the sentry a bit in front of the monkeys to take whatever it could. It'd be of more help than Blazermate knew, as a lead balloon spawned that seemed to be immune to bullets and monkey darts, but once the sentry fired one of its rockets at it, the bloon popped. With the sentry's help, the wave was repelled and the day saved, well, until the next balloon abductor things.

"So uh, just fill that full of ammo and you should be ok? It'll help at least." Blazermate said, although she wasn't sure how long it could be helpful for if more and more balloons kept appearing.

The guard narrowed his eyes at the new route the Seekers had made to the village. "What we should do is bury that path your group made. The main road twists and turns that much for a reason!"

"Not sure what to do about that. Sectonia has some earth powers but snow and earth aren't really the same thing. Maybe Edward knows? He kinda did the whole alternate path thing in the first place." Blazermate said, scratching her head.

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Roland

Level 7 Roland (64/70)
Location: Eseka
Word Count: Less than 750

Roland took a bit to make his rounds with his new 'job', seeing a various amount of muscle men and woman, many of which seemed to be a part of the Mortal Kombat track of fighting but there were a few that seemed to be on the other tracks. Well, if their memorabilia within their apartments were anything to go by anyway. They could just be fans, but since these meals were often sent to fighters... Regardless, Roland finished his job and gained some information on some of the fighters that the group might encounter, even if it was only through basic observations, and collected his money for the job done.

It was getting late, and while he did find an apartment of his own, he figured he should check in with the rest of the group. If he remembered right, some of them were at the Banished Flats, so Roland made his way there. Once he made his way there, he slipped into the group as Zenkichi was explaining their whole mission plan to Terry, whom had been removed from his galeeming.

"You know, the fact that everyone has red glowing eyes kinda makes the Consuls stick out. If they're not glowing and they're not us, they're probably a Consul. You'd think they'd wear red contacts or something to blend in with how we've taken out what was apparently their strongest member." Roland said, referring to the aforementioned A who's power seemed to be when he took enough damage to 'transition' to a new 'act', he forced someone to fall as a consequence.

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Sectonia

Blazermate

Level 14 Blazermate (Holding 3 level up) - (60/140)
Level 13 Sectonia (holding 3 level up) (53/130)

Location: The Trail
Word Count: less than 750

Thanks to Sectonia harvesting materials, it was possible to make an upgrade for the stage coach in the form of a lightning rod. Maybe it'd come in useful later, but for now it just seemed to be an upgrade for upgrade's sake. Would they run into a lightning field or something? Well, guess time would tell. Its been nice to relax along the way regardless. Blazermate was having fun looking at the various animals and such they passed along the way that weren't monsters of horrific proportions.

Such a time to relax wouldn't last long though as they progressed along the trail and got stuck behind some... balloons? Balloons getting shot at by some.... monkeys? Ok the towers made sense, but not the monkeys. And from the looks of it, they didn't seem to regard anything friendly. Another trial or something? Well, Blazermate had something for this and charged up her projectile shield by healing and overhealing her team mates so she could activate it to protect the stagecoach and the Raindrix pulling it if or when the monkeys started to target them. Assuming they couldn't find an alternate path through the super high snow.

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Sectonia

Blazermate

Level 14 Blazermate (Holding 3 level up) - (59/140)
Level 13 Sectonia (holding 3 level up) (52/130)

Location: Krat Zoo
Word Count: less than 750

Progressing through this trail was... well besides being eaten and fighting zombie animals was pretty relaxing when they weren't fighting... for Blazermate at least as the cold didn't bother her at all. Sectonia couldn't say the same thing, but she could use her Antlers and her own mild fire breath to warm herself up and others as they traveled if their cold weather clothing wasn't enough.

As they moved out of the zoo and towards their next destination, rejoining with everyone who had explored the greenhouse and Sandalphon fusing with a couple spirits, they entered a field of lots and lots of coal. With Sectonia's new spirit attuned to the earth, she knew this stuff was useful and using both her antlers and her own powers over the earth, spent quite a bit of time harvesting this coal and using Edward's powers, sending much of it back to the Avenger. Blazermate watched the fighting going on nearby that didn't involve them, considering what was behind them, it was almost quaint in comparison. All in all, besides Sectonia harvesting a treasure trove of Coal which could be used for various things, the two just sat and listened to the other conversations going on. The tale of the 'immortal' Mokou was interesting to Sectonia, but the queen knew a thing or two about immortality and how the 10 year rule here superseded anything like that.

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Roland

Level 7 Roland (63/70)
Location: Eseka
Word Count: Less than 750

Seeing as Roland needed to make some cash, well, outside of the various tournaments he'd participate in, he fired up his Fixer resume and got to work doing some odd jobs. It didn't take him long to open up an office in the name of an old office he used to work at, "Charles office". He'd rather keep his own name or even monicor a bit on the down low. Granted anyone from his world would recognize the office name right away as it was a fairly big office when it was still around taking on various Star of the City level threats. "Quick and silent, no one needs to know." was one phrase he came up with for it as he didn't have the connections or intelligence gathering yet to offer his preferred office type, an intelligence broker, so he had to rely on what he was good at himself.

Soon one job crossed his 'desk' so to speak fairly shortly after he opened up. It was a simple food delivery. Apparently a worker, or sumo wrestler as he'd come to find, had called out sick last minute and they needed someone nearby who was as quick and possibly descrete to make a delivery. The restaurant seemed to be a more reputable place that served lots of high protein foods called Chanko House Edomo, run by someone named E Honda. When Roland reached the restaurant, he saw sumo wrestlers flying about headbutting the air to travel to various places. An interesting way to travel, but a bit slow.

His job was to fill in for the guy who called out sick, delivering food. Well, he needed a job and fixer work, especially low level fixer work which he'd have to start out with, tended to be the simplest jobs around. At least Roland was very quick and thanks to his wandering the middle tier, had gotten a fair amount of information on where some things were. The stuff he couldn't find or the exact addresses? Well, thats what a map was for. And while doing this job, he could see a few more faces of possible fighters he would be facing later potentially as well as how to navigate around the city. That last part might become very necessary if their plan to take out the four kings came to be. Speaking of... Roland still had to decide which King he'd help take down.

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Sectonia

Blazermate

Level 14 Blazermate (Holding 3 level up) - (18/140)
Level 13 Sectonia (holding 3 level up) (16/130)

Location: Krat Zoo
Word Count: less than 750

Blazermate decided to stay with Geralt and Ace to make sure they didn't get frostbite. She was cold herself, but coldness didn't really do much to her anyway unless she got frozen. And with Mokou's feathers helping warm up those two, Blazermate tried to use the same feather heat to help with her own chassis. Granted, she tried not to touch the two boys if she could help it as right now she was probably the tongue to a flagpole, well the flagpole itself with the cold water on her chassis. Eventually they'd heal up and continue onwards, with Blazermate giving them her buffs before they went to explore, staying back to rejuvenate the Randrix.

Sectonia meanwhile took Sandalphon's little mission to explore the previous area for a 'plushie' like the photo shown. Really she was looking for something of use they missed as they had to rush through the area, but a possible lead on whoever "M" is would be useful knowing these consuls. Now finding such a thing would be a lot more difficult and as such, she summoned some Ice antlers to run around the area to find a location that seemed close to what was show in the photo. Sectonia herself flying about looking for it from the sky.

While the Antlers didn't find the plushie, they did find a point of interest that was missed by everyone else. Some mandrills that were still alive and guarding a treasure chest. They'd inform Sectonia of that when they could, but first Sectonia would deal with the main mission with this 'M' letter. It took a while, but she eventually found the plushie in question and the letter itself in question within the thing. Granted, as Sectonia didn't care much for the plushie itself, she just cut its mouth open to get to the letter.

The letter itself was... fairly mundane all things considered.

Rex Letter

The likelihood that the crocodile consumed human flesh is low.

I found no human tissue or blood between the reptile's teeth or within its gular fold. The reptile's throat was free of fibers that human clothing would have left behind. Furthermore, the wound on the colonel's corpse is inconsistent with the bite of a crocodile.

In light of these facts, it is highly unlikely Rex, the crocodile, killed Colonel Little.

I conclude this incident was, in fact, murder.

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I should have known something like this would happen the moment they took an interest in the zoo

If this note is read by someone of good and just character, please reveal the truth to the world. In my. cowardice, I cannot.

If this message gets buried away, I pray a great curse befalls those Alchemist parasites.

and much to her annoyance, there wasn't anything about M. Just more mention of this alchemist and their parasites that seemed to animate or reanimate all the soulless creatures here. Before she returned to the stagecoach, she investigated the chest her Antlers had spotted and through a barrage of swords from both above and below, the mandrills protecting the chest weren't much of a problem. Inside the chest however was just some Quartz. Good looking Quartz that'd make some good windows, but quartz just the same. It was already pre cut though, so perhaps this was some kind of strange currency? Regardless, she could take this back to the stagecoach, as well as the letter itself.

Roland

Level 7 Roland (62/70)
Location: Eseka
Word Count: Less than 750

Since Roland was new to Eseka, he'd need to find a way to make steady money. Well, as a fixer, he could just offer his services to do odd jobs around the town while waiting for tournaments; thats how things worked where he was from. But there was also the underground fighting rings that seemed to give decent payouts as well from what he had gathered. He'd try what he knew before trying something new, at least for now, and opened a small one man fixer office here. While in the City he'd have to go through tons of paperwork, here it seemed like he could just offer services and people would pay without the need to pay taxes or go through approval offices. That sped things up, but he was sure if the group spent more than a month here some repo man would come knocking looking for his cut of the profits no question.

Plus, by doing some odd jobs around the city of Eseka for whatever establishment he could get a job from, he'd learn more about the city, how it works, and what he could possibly use to exploit the system. Speaking of, he should probably go and find the other seekers and tell them of the underground fights he had learned about. Granted those that seemed to know Terry were probably in good hands there were a couple seekers that Roland was a bit concerned about. Considering how Pit acted during the conversation with the organization member, he might cause or be the cause of issues. City life really chewed up people like him. Also where was Jr. and Rika?

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Sectonia

Level 13 Sectonia (holding 3 level up) (15/130)

Location: Krat Zoo
Word Count: less than 750

Sectonia kept her distance while dealing with Tom, especially after the alligator had managed to eat their main healer and witcher. As her spells didn't inflict friendly fire, she could keep throwing large rings of light at the alligator until she managed to get through it, but for now she'd have to provide what little healing she did with Death Pulse and avoid the alligator itself. She wasn't as worried about the two inside Tom once Sandalphon said they were still alive, as they were strong and would find their way out eventually.

As Sectonia summoned some more Antlers to distract Tom, what she thought would happen, happened. Although perhaps not to that degree... Tom seemed to have something happen to him and soon afterwords he spat out the two he had swallowed before retreating greatly injured. Whatever those two did, it was probably some nasty internal damage to let them escape.

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Roland

Level 7 Roland (61/70)
Location: Eseka
Word Count: Less than 750

Roland explored around the middle tiers, a bit surprised he was able to get in so easily. With how nice this place looked over the lower tiers, it was almost like Roland had stepped into a decent place to live. Although what really fascinated him was that people of the lower tiers could purchase places to stay here. Well, technically it was the same in the City, but Nest permits were very difficult to get your hands on in general even if you had tons of money. Granted he'd have to get a source of income here soon but apparently as part of dealing with the guardian he'd become loaded on top of it. Be nice to fully pay off that bar tab of his.

Eventually after looking around he found a place that stroked his fancy. Granted it wasn't all that difficult to find one that did, as everything here was pretty nice. The Silhouette Estates, a low key area with a fair amount of privacy apparently run by someone who tried to represent fighters who hadn't been able to make their debut yet. While the rent was low, this place was more temporary than anything and the apartments weren't all that big. But he was used to a single room apartment so that didn't bother him. The only stipulation was that if he won a tournament he had to advertise for them, but that wasn't too bad.

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Sectonia

Blazermate

Level 14 Blazermate (Holding 3 level up) - (17/140)
Level 13 Sectonia (holding 3 level up) (14/130)

Location: Krat Zoo
Word Count: less than 750

Blazermate was getting tired of the Mandrills everywhere. Without her zombie ball, she had to be a bit more defensive. While others dealt with them, Blazermate could hold her projectile shield up to protect at least one side from their attacks completely. Sectonia meanwhile could focus on the other side, summoning an Antler into their midst to cause some chaos while she rained swords from above and below. Really they weren't the big threat that showed up as the group made their journey through this menagerie of horrible experiments.

Instead the big threat that surfaced was a giant mean lizard surfacing from the nearby swamp. A foe that got everyone's attention. Being as large as it was, Sectonia had to start by summoning a golden antler to its side as Geralt, Edward, and Fujiwara, engaged with it. She'd start off by putting her Slow upon it to make its size more of a hindrance than a help and would be attacking it from the back as she had no reason to get super close to something that was bigger than her. Maybe when it was nearing death she could get close to scythe it, but for now she'd keep her distance.

Blazermate meanwhile went onto her healing duty as always. Granted as it was a single target there wasn't a whole lot she could do besides summon her engineer striker at mid range for him to start building his sentry, before healing whoever was engaging the creature using a mixture of her healing beam and her divine star projectile. Since she stayed at midrange from the creature, she saw when Geralt had tried something and failed with the creature leaping at him to swallow him whole. Well, Blazermate had something for that, and with a grabbing motion, she pulled Geralt to her with Leap of Faith, the massive jaws biting into nothing.

The creature then focused upon the Golden antler attacking its side with its hefty mace spinning to snap at it. As it did so, Blazermate moved to banish the antler, making the snap miss as the antler was held in a dark sphere for a few seconds. Once the effect ended, three golden antlers, two illusions and the real one, now began to beat the creature's head for a few moments until it recollected itself and spun around to whip them with its colossal tail, taking out the illusions and making the antler's shield fly out of it hands.

Blazermate did wonder how tough this creature was though. It wasn't a guardian or anything, and while it was large it was being attacked from all sides by all manner of attacks and wouldn't last long. Especially if her engineer striker managed to fully upgrade his sentry, being able to upgrade it without any harassment so far thanks to everyone else engaging with the beast and keeping it busy.

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Roland

Level 7 Roland (60/70)
Location: Eseka
Word Count: Less than 750

Roland wasn't all that happy with his interaction with the organization member, but he did confirm a few things. Roxas was right, they were stubborn and annoying to get any clear answers out of, but that didn't mean he couldn't get anything even from someone stonewalling like this Xilgrev did. Although knowing who this man was before the whole change into a 'nobody' thing, if that is what happened and these people not just taking the name of a cabal Roxas knew. Well, he did mention that organization names were their previous name jumbled with an X in it. Ah, if only his co workers at the library were here, they could figure out this anagram instantly. There was an infinite amount of names and even if one sounded weird, it could be the actual name for all he knew.

Harry had taken to Roland's story thinking things were bad just off that. While Pit was concerned about it much like Roland thought, there wasn't much to be done. He figured that story was pretty lighthearted all things considered, but apparently even a simple story like that was downright horrific to these people. Were they all raised in an equivalent of a 'nest'? "Uh, thanks. I wasn't really trying to go for pity with that one though. That was one of my more lighthearted stories. There aren't many I can say over dinner." he said. Then the question of magic was asked with Zenkichi gave his explanation. Roland then gave his.

"It... really depends on what you say is magic. Yes it does, but at the same time it doesn't. We have these things called 'singularities' owned by one of the major corporations of the city, or a wing as we call them. They allow you to break all laws of physics through various methods like K corp able to heal anything including death as long as you got the money and the brain is at least somewhat intact. T corp being able to package and use time in nearly any method. M corp giving out devices that make you completely immune to psionics and psychic attacks, soul attacks, and cognitohazards. J corp able to lock and unlock anything even concepts... yeah. But then we also have Distortions which are really complicated but people who distort can sometimes use magic. There was a guy named Pluto who could do anything to someone if they broke one of his contracts and who had access to all sorts of weird energy attacks that used runes. They were really hard to deflect." Roland went on. He stopped there, but the way he did made everyone feel like there was a lot more he could say if prompted.

As Zenkichi thanked Terry for the restaurant location they had all partaken in, Roland agreed. "Always good to get a tour from a local about the local places." Granted, this went out the window when you were in district 23, but district 23 this town was not. Soon plans were figured out on what they'd do. While Sakura had an idea, Roland decided to go with Band and Zenkichi instead. "While I might not be a 'cop' like these two, what they are looking to do sounds right up my alley." Fixer work from the outside could be seen as cop work, but it was much, much more than that. It was anything from rescuing cats from trees to security to making contracts to breaking up terrors of the city... just as long as you got paid for the job. And his specialty was intelligence gathering.

"I've already gained a bit of intel about this city already. I can reshare what I know so we can get an idea of where to look next." Roland said, moving with the two to investigate the city.

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Sectonia

Blazermate

Level 14 Blazermate (Holding 3 level up) - (16/140)
Level 13 Sectonia (holding 3 level up) (13/130)

Location: Krat Zoo
Word Count: Way less than 750

Blazermate, having been controlling the ever growing zombie meatball, was informed that the Raindrix hauling the stage coach were getting weary of the giant zombie. It was getting big after all, and it was getting spooky. Maybe it was time to get rid of it? She'd prefer not to, but maybe if the zombie got really big her shield wouldn't command it anymore? Well, she could always build up another one. So when Sandalphon informed her of something in front of the stage coach, alongside Edward's idea to keep the zombie in front of them, Blazermate said. "Oh, if theres something down there, I'll send my zombie down to investigate." and with that, Blazermate told her meatball to roll down into the basin and investigate what was down below. Granted with how slow it was, Ace would probably figure things out long before it got there. Perhaps they could just leave it there... its not like it could roll itself out very easily. Although that being said, she was sure Sandalphon or Sectonia would want to smite the thing themselves. They were free to do so if they wanted once it was stuck.

Sectonia meanwhile was looking around for more points of interest and while some caught her eye, they were pretty far away. She could investigate or point them out later, depending on where the stage coach was going. But for the mean time, she stood guard over it. She overheard the conversation Sandalphon and Ganondorf were having, being partially in the stage coach at the time. While she couldn't really add too much about the power of undeath, as she had very little interest in raising the dead, she could add her own little anecdote to the whole conversation. "What Mobeius does to extend their lives is quite negligent. The core principle; leaching off the life of others to extend ones own, is sound. The problem is the wanton abuse and destructive nature of how they go about it. If the world didn't supply them with an infinitely respawning mechanism, they'd destroy the world and themselves given enough time."

While she wouldn't outright say that Sectonia herself extended her life and those loyal to her using this method, she knew that you could do so in such a way that your subjects never knew or cared. "Even if we have 10 years, and that was all funneled into a flame clock, with how much fighting goes on it seems like the way mobieus does things is incredibly inefficient." She herself had mostly perfected this method, and could make a lot out of very little. No subject would be against losing a single year of their lifespan when that year would be when they were old and unable to do anything but sit and wait for death, but she supposed Mobeius having nearly infinite resources in their eyes didn't care about such things as efficiency or reviewability or stability.