Centennials 4/The Book of Tales Volume 2

The transcript for The Book of Tales Volume 2, post game content for Centennials 4.
== Nowhere To Rome Chapter I ==
XIII Years Ago
We open with Yoni sitting at a table, watching two of her sisters, Eili and Lorenza playing chess on the balcony. They are all members of the Li Cadenzo family, one of the richest families in Rome. 
As Yoni watches her sister Lorenza clean house as she normally does, she continues staring off into the city below, but her Father, Leo Li Cadenzo, approaches her while she's deep in thought.
Leo: Hey Yoni, what troubles you?
Yoni: What do you mean by that?
Leo: You've just been staring at the city, you only do that when something's bothering you?
Yoni: Something is bothering me, that's no secret 
Leo: Well what is it?
Yoni: There are stories you tell me, paintings mom paints, that tell me of a grander past, my Grandmother was one of the most daring adventurers in known memory and my Grandfather was known for his outspokenness and how he rejected his birth family and took his wife's name, our family used to be daring and bold.
Leo: Well that was a more glorious era, there's no reason to be so daring and brash 
Yoni: Our family has lucky blood and Fortune favors the bold, we're supposed to be daring by nature
Leo: Yoni, you are twelve!! You know nothing of the dangers of adventuring.
Yoni: Well shouldn't we at least try to help the poor, I see them struggle on the streets every single day.
Leo: Our hands are tied there too, Our family made promises and obligations, helping those people was NOT one of those obligations 
Yoni: But we could do so much more than sit in stagnation 
The other Li Cadenzo sisters emerge on the scene 
Eili: What's this talk of doing good?
Leo: Yoni is too idealistic for her own good
Lorenza: Allow her to dream big for now, when she settles into her role in our family, she'll forget these dreams
Yoni: But I don't want to forget!!
Eili: I know you won't, you're not like that
Leo: Yoni, these dreams..must remain as only dreams 
Before Yoni could say another word, everyone left the room
The Present Day
Yoni is sulking in her family's treasure vault, she's doing inventory on it, looking at all the treasures her grandmother obtained on her adventures, one artifact is missing, The Chalice of Bacchus.   
Yoni: Oh dad, one harmless party trick item goes missing and you go ballistic 
Yoni continues looking at the vault, it's one of the largest in the RVT or Roman Vault Tower, where the riches of Rome are under constant surveillance and guard 
Suddenly, a noise comes from outside the vault
Yoni: What was that?
Yoni grabs the Midanian Gauntlets, and begins scaling the vault, she is now in top if the vault, connected to the tower by a chain 
Yoni: Hello…
Suddenly, a group of Centennials with Jetpacks appear
Yoni: Sinners Sextant? 
More appear around Yoni before their leader emerges
Ayev: You assume correctly Yoni Li Cadenzo 
Yoni: What's your business in here, I thought the debacle with the Adamite Key left you guys out of commission?
Ayev: That's none of your concern
Yoni: Ok, so you guys stole The Chalice of Bacchus
Ayev is caught off guard by the aqcusation, confirming Yoni's suspicions 
Yoni: I thought petty theft was above your paygrade?
Ayev: Times are tough, you've got  to have some sympathy for the little guys…
Yoni: Listen if you're gonna ask for handouts doing so by breaking into where all the money is not how you do it
Ayev: How about I cut the small talk and tell you that I do not care about your feelings, disabled all the surveliance systems and can take whatever I want
Yoni: How about I cut your big talk and tell you to fuck off
At this Ayev, began to lose their temper
Ayev: Who are YOU to tell me what to do, I have an army and you do not!!
Yoni: Ok so are you gonna leave or not?
The Sinners Sextant point their weapons at Yoni
Ayev: Stand aside and forget this ever happened
???: I'm afraid this is now in the books old friend!
Almost on cue, Faithful Night, an elite strike team of four Centennials, slides down the chain to join Yoni on the platform 
Faithful Night consists of Elybe, Monact, Dassu and Wjenx, they were  fast and able freelancers but have since joined The Century Corps 
Ayev: No…anyone but you four
Elybe: You expected someone else but instead it was me, Elybe!
Yoni: I don't know who you are?
Elybe: The name's Elybe!
Wjenx: I'm Wjenx 
Monact: Call me Monact
Dassu: Dassu!!
Yoni: Ok cool
Ayev: You four…here!!
Elybe: Well old friend you've been a bad dude up to bad stuff so we're here to put you away
Wjenx: Surrender now, don't make this harder then it already is
Yoni: We're you people friends or something?
Monact: Ask your questions later
Ayev: I don't wish to fight you…Sextant, Retreat
Dassu: Wait no come back!!
Ayev and The Sextant Fly away
Wjenx: Well let's go after them
Yoni: Yeah we're gonna totally chase them down 
Monact: We?
Yoni: Yeah, we, you, me and everyone else
Monact: Kid you're not part of this 
Yoni: I'm 25
Wjenx: You're just a citizen and Ayev is a terrorist 
Yoni: One who stole something from my family and one who's your friend if I understand your words correctly 
Elybe: Ayev was our friend once upon a time…
Monact: Look our operation to retrieve The Chalice doesn't need a variable like you gunking things up
Dassu: You really just better off telling your father we on the case
Yoni: Did you mean to leave out your "are's"
Dassu: ….
Wjenx: They can't say "are" and we're done talking to you
Yoni: Did my father also tell you to stop me from joining you on your mission 
Monact: No that's my call, this is serious business 
Elybe: Would it really hurt to have another person around?
Dassu: Elybe! We. Not. Supposed. To. Endanger. Civilians!!
Yoni: I'm not an ordinary civilian, I've got the Midanian Gauntlets and Lady Fortuna on my side
Elybe: What do you mean by that?
Yoni: Fortune favors the bold my friends
Monact: We're not friends 
Wjenx: You're too stubborn for your own good, FINE, come along with us if you wish, but don't slow us down
Yoni: Sweet!!
Elybe: I guess welcome aboard
Monact: This is a bad bad idea, Veto, VEETOOOOO
Dassu: Overruled
Monact: But-
Yoni: No further questions 
Monact: C'mon guys you're not actually considering bringing this joker along with us…
Elybe: Majority rule!
Monact: Bro come on
Yoni: So sweet, what's next?
Monact: We go up to the Sinners Sextant and we find out who they're working for
Elybe: Sounds like a plan
Dassu: Let's go
Yoni: But uh, we gotta get out of here first 
Begin Descending down The Treasure Vault 
When the Party is XXXIII% of the way down, some members of Sinners Sextant appear and begin harassing the team
Yoni: Aw sweet action
Monact: You should leave most of the fighting to us as it's dang-
Before Monact could finish their sentence, Yoni jumped onto one of the mercenaries punching them with the gauntlets, turning their armor into gold with every attack 
Wjenx: I'm beginning to like that kid
Fight against The Sextant
When you win
Dassu: She's pretty good at this whole fighting thing 
Yoni: I can throw one heck of a punch!
Monact: You are a rookie!
Elybe: One who's really good for a rookie
Wjenx: Ok ok don't give the kid an ego
Yoni: I'm 25!!
Wjenx: I'm 807
Yoni: Ok…so I seem a little young to you 
Wjenx: I am 782 years your superior
Yoni: Ok senior citizen 
Monact: See this girl is nothing but trouble
Elybe: It's endearing!
Monact: Graaaah agree with me!!
Elybe: No
Dassu: Arguing like a married couple
Elybe: We are married
Dassu: Oh…I forgot 
Monact: You've known us for years how did you forget
Dassu: I'm an IDIOT, remember?
Monact: Right…right…
Wjenx: Jeez dude
Yoni: Funny banter 
Monact: Stop
Continue down the tower 
When you are LXVII% down the tower, another wave of The Sextant attack 
Yoni: I'll give em the what for, the one two combo
Yoni punches one mercenary in the stomach and then again in the face
Elybe: Looks like you're having fun
Yoni: Well I never went on a real adventure before so I'm enjoying myself
Monact: This isn't a game Yoni, people's LIVES are at stake
Yoni: Well they always are, you don't have to tell me about people's lives being in danger, I've just grown numb to it becuase I couldn't do anything about it for the longest time
Monact: What do you mean by that?
Yoni: When you meet the rest of my fanily you'll understand
Elybe: Huh
Wjenx: Kid we got bad guys around tell us your tragic backstory or whatever later
Yoni: Yes grandma 
Wjenx: Never call me that again
Yoni: You got it boss
Sinners Sextant Member: "Bad guys"
Sinners Sextant Member II: Just roll with it
Fight against The Sinners Sextant again
When you win, Yoni throws a powerful punch that generates a poweful magic blast
Wjenx: You're a wizard?
Yoni: Not really, my family just has magic blood or something like that
Monact: This was the worst idea
Elybe: Come on Monact, it's gone fine so far
Dassu: Yeah it's mostly been a nuetral choice so far
Monact: I will DISAGREE VEHEMENTLY 
Elybe: So you're a non-believer?
Yoni: They wouldn't be the first 
Monact: Trite 
Wjenx: Monact is being a downer, nothing's changed
Elybe: Heh
Monact: Oh you people 
Dassu: This is a republic not a kingdom
Monact: Oh who cares what we are
Yoni: Clearly you do
Dassu: Let's just leave
Yoni: Good idea
Yoni jumps off the vault
Monact: I HATE HER GRAAAAH
Continue down the treasure tower
When the team reaches the bottom, they leave the tower and see discarded cores from Sextant suits
Elybe: Sextant fled into the city proper looks like
Monact: We are…going to find them…and KILL THEM 
Yoni: Are you always this intense 
Monact: Yes
Wjenx: Monact we might want to leave them alive?
Monact: So they can come back and try to kill us AGAIN, no thanks
Dassu: Monact you have a rigid worldview
Suddenly, Yoni's personal hologram begins to ring 
Yoni: Let me take this 
Elybe: Sure
Yoni presses the button, and a hologram of one of her sisters appear 
Lorenza (Over Hologram): Yoni!! What were you doing fighting against Sinners Sextant!
Yoni: Oh boy
Dassu: Family drama!!
Lorenza (Over Hologram): Is that the Century Corps with you?
== Nowhere To Rome Chapter II ==
Faithful Night and Yoni haved moved away from the treasure tower to a nearby bus stop, they just finished up telling Lorenza what occurred.
Lorenza (Over Hologram): Yoni, I'm disappointed in you 
Yoni: But I did a good job fighting off the Sextant 
Lorenza (Over Hologram): YOU'RE INEXPERIENCED, The Sinners Sextant are DANGEROUS, I don't want you getting hurt, so you need to give up on this crusade
Yoni: You and dad never believed that I could go on adventures 
Lorenza (Over Hologram): It is as our dad once said it was part of a more glorious time
Yoni: There's never been a more glorious time than the present!
Wjenx: Can't get much more glorious than discovering the key to eternal life 
Dassu: We can always go to space or jump over a shark 
Monact: What does jumping a shark have anything to do with glory?
Lorenza (Over Hologram): Who cares!! Listen I don't care about The Century Corps and what happens to them 
Elybe: Ouch…
Lorenza (Over Hologram): But I care about you Yoni, so please abandon your quest
Yoni: I'm my own woman, unlike you, I'm going to follow this adventure even if it kills me
Wjenx: How much of the world was denied to you?
Yoni: So much 
Lorenza (Over Hologram):  Do you hear yourself, you sound insane, please reconsider 
Yoni: What's there to consider?
Lorenza (Over Hologram): Your life, the fact your family cares about you
Yoni: You don’t care about what I really want, neither does dad
Lorenza (Over Hologram): Your reckless desire to go on adventures is being curbed to protect you
Yoni: I also want to help Rome’s poor but it seems your content to leave them to die in their hours of need
Lorenza (Over Hologram): Our hands are TIED in that department 
Yoni: Yeah ok, why don’t you take your high and mighty attitude and leave me the hell alone, I’ll get your shiny goblet back 
Before Lorenza says another word, Yoni hangs up on her
Wjenx: Family trouble?
Yoni: Yeah…
Wjenx: You’re not alone in that, we’ve got family trouble here too 
Elybe: Ayev…
Monact: We don’t have time to delve into that can of worms
Wjenx: Why not? Yoni needs to know
Yoni: Know what?
Elybe: Ayev, was one of us in another life
Yoni: You’re kidding? 
Monact: We’re not.
Dassu: Ayev was as close to us as we were to each other, but that all changed
We begin transitioning to a flashback 
VIII Years Ago, Baltimore
Elybe (Narrating): Faithful Night was a tight knit group even back then with Ayev as one of our chief members. They were a great friend and equally great warrior. We we’re on a job in Baltimore and we were caught during The Freeing. 
Faithful Night is looking over the edge as The City of Baltimore floats into the sky, they are surrounded by an army of Centennials led by a fearsome general
Elybe: So…what’s next for us?
Wentus: You can join us, as Centennials who weren’t trapped for decades, your experiences would be valuable in our crusade
Wjenx: I know what the American Alliance did to you was a disservice and wrong but those people are long gone, you should be focusing on maybe stopping the city from flying
Wentus: Priorities Wjenx
Monact: So what, we just go on and fight The Century Corps? 
Wentus: That’s the idea, they’e trying to bring Acantha to justice for the cardinal sin of freeing us
Dassu: Maybe the cardinal sin of endangering tons of innocent people in a power grab is what they after her for?
Wentus: Do you want to join us or not
Ayev: I say we do it?
The rest of Faithful Night looks at Ayev
Ayev: What?
Elybe: You want to take part in this mindless violence?
Ayev: I think it makes sense, we’re helping those who were hurt by making corrections, it’s something we would do 
Elybe: Our goal is to help the innocent, fighting alongside rioters 
Ayev: Are our trapped and scared siblings not innocent, being rewarded for their service by being locked in a cage for decades! I thought I had known you better
Wentus: Ayev, you are someone who wishes for genuine change in the society we live in, I see your fire, join me and we can take down the Century Corps.
Dassu: Ayev, please don’t leave us for some fruitless endeavor 
Ayev: Guys…can’t you see our people need us
Monact: You are going down a road we cannot follow Ayev, can’t you see that this isn’t how we forge a better path for our people
Elybe: The Centennials under there are only following Acantha because they’re scared of the retribution they’ll feel if they don’t have someone to stand beside, we can help those scared Centennials by helping them escape the city
Ayev: But how can they leave when we’re floating into sky? 
Elybe: No clue but we can try
Ayev: I think I’ll help the people who need me, Wentus, let’s go
Wentus: Glad of you to hear 
Wjenx (Narration): And thus, guided by the false promise of protecting our people, Ayev left us to follow their new path, they didn’t try to harm us for not following and they left on amicable terms but when they found out we joined The Century Corps, they were unconsolable  
The Flashback ends, as we return to the present day situation in Rome 
Yoni: I think I get it
Monact: Fighting Ayev will be the hardest decision we ever make, but we need to bring them to justice, no matter how much it hurts us 
Elybe: I wish they would come to their senses…
Dassu:  They would say they came to they senses long ago 
Wjenx: We can’t reason with them, not anymore 
Yoni: Alright…let’s get that chalice back, starting from where?
Elybe: How about right here 
Begin Streets of Rome I 
When you’re XXV% through 
Yoni: It’s still surreal to be moving through these streets I’ve lived far above for most of my life 
Wjenx: I bet you didn’t imagine your first adventure would be so close to home?
Monact: Why are you saying first as if she’d have more
Wjenx: Have you considered the fact she could join our guild after this?
Monact: NO…NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Yoni: Aww you really want me around that much?
Monact: GET HER AWAY FROM MEEEEE
Wjenx: Hehe you’re gonna be best friends 
Resume
When you’re L% of the way through, Dassu’s weapon begins glowing strangely 
Yoni: Should we be concerneced 
Dassu: My weapon is a non-euclidian spire, it does weird stuff like that often 
Wjenx: It’s highly unstable basically 
Yoni: Well ok…but what about your weapon isn’t it somewhat unstable 
Wjenx: A little yeah 
Monact: Isn’t luck an unstable power
Yoni: Yes
Monact: Pot calling the kettle black 
Resume 
When you’re LXXV% of the way through, an unusually large group of Sinners Sextant goons approaches 
Elybe: So Ayev is sending their lackeys to do what they’re too afraid to do?
Monact: It would appear so
Yoni: Let’s take them on
Yoni begins punching another member 
Sinners Sextant Member: Uh…what are we supposed to do here?
Their question goes unanswered as Yoni comes into to punch them
Fight against The Sinners Sextant again 
When you win
Monact: Ok, these guys are kind of chumps without their old leader
Dassu: Yeah they clearly don’t have the brightest tool in the shed leading them 
Wjenx: Ayev doesn’t really seem like they’re cut out for something like this
Resume
When you come to the end of the course, The team stops for a little. 
Dassu: I need a break 
Elybe: Yeah sure
Monact: Isn’t time of the upmost importance right now?
Elybe: Well yeah but we don’t want to show up to Ayev all exhausted and stuff, they might kick our ass 
Wjenx: Alright, five minute break 
Faithful Night begins their quick break, and Yoni just sits nearby, stretching her arms. As the time wounds down, she gets another hologram ring 
Yoni: Better not be Lorenza again
Yoni answers the hologram, Faithful Night looks over at Yoni 
Eili (Over Hologram): Hey hey hey sister 
Yoni: Oh hey Eili, what are you calling about 
Eili (Over Hologram): A little birdie told I me, I mean Lorenza was loudly screaming about how you’re working with the Century Corps on the case of our missing godly goblet 
Yoni: Yeah she got really mad when I told her that 
Eili (Over Hologram): I bet she was but anyway I know about all the treasures we have 
Yoni: Yeah so you’re a nerd what of it?
Eili (Over Hologram): A nerd who knows the value of all the treasures 
Yoni: Well I doubt some paltry goblet would be they valuable 
Eili (Over Hologram): It’s so valuable that dad actually has an entire system in place for when one of us that’s not him wants to use the Chalice 
Yoni: Wait seriously?
Eili (Over Hologram): Yeah I dealt with that when I was testing The Chalice’s ability to fill instantly from any liquid you put in it. 
Yoni: Why would Dad care so much about the ability to duplicate any liquid?
Eili (Over Hologram): Maybe it’s because it’s any liquid?
Yoni: I don’t follow 
Eili (Over Hologram): Do you know how many things are liquid? 
Yoni: OH I get it now 
Faithful Night comes over
Monact: So I think we know who hired Ayev now?
Dassu:  OPTICA!!
Monact: She’s dead 
Dassu: Oh… right I am an idiot 
Monact: I’m talking about Lark2n
Dassu: Wait, isn't he dead too? 
Elybe: I mean that’s what we thought but then he came back and turned into a giant titan who knows he’s probably still alive
Monact: He could put HIMSELF in the Chalice and create an ocean of HIMSELF 
Eili (Over Hologram): A liquid man making themself even bigger sounds terrifying please get the goblet back before evil things are done with it. 
Elybe: Yes mam 
Yoni: Alright Eili don’t you fret I’m gonna get us that goblet back 
Eili (Over Hologram): Ok thanks we’re counting on you
Eili hangs up on Yoni
Yoni: So we keep going now
Monact: Yeah probably 
Suddenly more Sinners Sextant appear 
Dassu: How did they find us?
Wjenx: I mean we we’re just chilling on the sidewalk taking a break, they probably remustered their strength to attack us again 
Ayev: I’m not here for you 
Faithful Night looks up to see Ayev in the sky 
Elybe: Ayev!! You don’t have to do this you know
Ayev: … 
Ayev goes silent 
Wjenx: I believe this is not the time for words 
Fight against Ayev and The Sinners Sextant 
When Ayev is at L% 
Monact: This feels wrong..
Ayev: … 
Resume
When Ayev and The Sinners Sextant are defeated, Ayev staggers back 
Ayev: Alright..grab her 
Yoni: What? 
The Sinners Sextant agents begin grabbing Yoni 
Yoni: Get off of me!!
Yoni tries to fight them off but she is outmatches, Faithful Night tries to join the brawl but are blocked 
Wjenx: Uhm, was this part of your master's plans?
Ayev: Yeah, we wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t up to them 
Monact: So you’re original plan was to take the chalice and run off
Ayev: …
Without saying another word, Ayev flies away with Yoni as their captive 
Monact: Damn it guys…I told you this was a bad idea
Dassu: Well what now?
Elybe: We gotta get her back 
Monact: Well she got herself into this mess
Dassu: But the fact that Yoni’s capture was added to Ayev’s agenda clues us in as to who really hired them 
Monact: What do you mean by that
Dassu: Think about it, why would anyone want to kidnap Yoni, aside from holding her for ransom
Elybe: That could be what this is?
Dassu: But also consider the fact the Li Cadenzo family is powerful, any ransom holder could be found out easily, obviously this is someone the family can’t publicly go after
Monact: So you think…
The team thinks about it for a beat
Wjenx: Alright, I’ve got a plan, follow me
Faithful Night follows Wjenx across the city in a plan to rescue Yoni and uncover the true culprit 
== Nowhere To Rome Chapter III ==
After her capture, Yoni was blindfolded and gagged, she felt humiliated that she could get caught off guard so easily. She was currently unaware of her surroundings, but she knew she was in a damp warehouse. After several moments, the blindfold and gag were taken off, and she was alone in a room with Ayev.
Yoni: … 
Ayev: Aren’t you going to say something, you were pretty snarky earlier. 
Yoni: I’m just contemplating my current situation, running through the variables, running the calculations in my mind about what led to this 
Ayev: Well this was a last minute decision, we were set to leave and never come back but our client said she wanted you out of the way…
Yoni: Out of the way…
Ayev: Yeah what about it
Yoni: I’ve deduced only two possible people could be your current client 
Ayev looked stunned for a quick minute 
Ayev: You sure are annoying for how little I’ve known you, but it makes sense, bratty little nuisance from a lovely fucked up family held together by notions of a grander past and old money 
Yoni: I mean you left the only family you’ve ever known so do you have any right to judge me for mine
Ayev: They told you…
Yoni: Yup, you’re pretty silly for that, it’s clear you still care for them even though you left them long ago 
Ayev: Well yeah, they were my family after all, I only left them to fight for my people 
Yoni: Yeah you left them on a selfish revenge quest 
Ayev: …
Yoni: Maybe if you admit you’re in the wrong then you can go back to the life you once lived, just under the Century Corps..
Ayev: I will NEVER join The Century Corps, I’ve been left to rot, humiliated and broken by the corps, there’s no way I’ll ever work with people like them 
Yoni: Alright…your choice..
Suddenly the door opens, and Yoni’s eyes go wide
Lorenza: Hello sister 
Yoni: …I didn’t want to believe it was you…
Ayev: Ah the jigs up 
Lorenza: Sorry I deceived you like this Yoni but, you should know the truth so follow me
Yoni: …Fine…
Ayev unties Yoni and the two begin following Lorenza. 
Lorenza: So, I bet you're wondering what I want with a paltry goblet?
Ayev: I don't actually 
Lorenza: You really don't want to know?
Ayev: No, not really, you want to make more wine or smth for a bootlegging operation or smth
Lorenza: You think too little of me
Ayev: Ok so what is your master plan?
Lorenza: It's what I'm about to show you
Ayev: Does it have to do with all the burners and explosives we also stole?
Yoni: What…
Lorenza: Yeah yeah hold on bucko
Ayev and Yoni arrive at a diagram Lorenza has planned, it's a model of the treasure tower with burners 
Yoni: What is this?
Ayev: Ok so uh, you want to melt everyone's gold?
Lorenza (pointing at the Chalice): What does gold turn into when it melts…
Ayev: Oh I see what you're saying 
Yoni: So you want to melt everyone's gold, cause a gold flood and kill thousands of people via an infinitely replicating gold flood.
Lorenza: No Yoni, this gold is going to help the poorer citizens of Rome like you wanted too
Yoni: Bullshit, like you ever cared about them
Lorenza: Our hands were tied, this is the only option 
Ayev: Do you believe that?
Yoni: I can think of at least thirteen other ways to use Sinners Sextant to help Rome's poor and instead of doing any of those, you want them to help you drown it scorching molten gold?
Ayev: Wait are we another acsessory to genocide?
Lorenza: It's not genocide it's probably not gonna kill them it'll help them ever heard of equal distribution of wealth?
Yoni: You're so ignorant it honestly hurts
Lorenza: Well when gold floods the streets of rome, you'll see how better off everyone is about to become 
Yoni: Maybe if you consider death mercy?
Lorenza: Why don't you j-
Yoni: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA 
Ayev: Damn 
Lorenza: Ok ok ok no need to be rude about my offer
Yoni: You're a narcissistic sociopath why the hell would I ever consider this plan? 
Lorenza: Well we've got a date with smelting so I gotta go
Ayev: Who's we?
Lorenza: You and me, I need your people guarding the vault from intruders 
Ayev: Ok, sure 
As Lorenza and Ayev turn to leave a massive white beam blows open a hole in the roof
Wjenx: Hey guys 
Ayev: Oh brother 
Elybe: Hey look who we caught with their no good plans exposed 
Lorenza sees Dassu stealing her diagram 
Lorenza: You know I worked hard on that diagram
Monact: So uh how about you come quietly 
Lorenza: Uh how about no
Lorenza and Ayev leave the building through the hole in the roof
Wjenx: Looks like we now know what Sinners Sextant was doing back at the Treasure Tower after stealing the chalice 
Yoni: Yeah, helping my sister set her idiotic plan into motion. 
Dassu: So how long do you think we have?
Yoni: Maybe an hour there's A LOT of gold there
Monact: So Yoni how do you feel about your sister being a sadistic prick?
Yoni: Not a fan of her disposition
Elybe: I figured yeah 
Yoni: So looks like we gotta fight our families
Wjenx: Yeah
Monact: Alright, so let's get moving
Faithful Night and Yoni exit the building, and step back onto the streets of Rome
Begin Streets of Rome II
When you're at XXV% a small contingent of Sinners Sextant get ready to engage Faithful Night and Yoni
Monact: Trying to slow us down?
Elybe: I mean yeah we got a strict time limit
Dassu: Yeah…yeah…
Fight against The Sextant
When you win
Wjenx: Well…that was a waste of time
Elybe: That was the point!!
Dassu: I guess we can't delay any more
Resume
When you're at L%
Yoni: I didn't know my sister was such a wacko
Elybe: I didn't either so it was shocking to me too
Yoni: You barely knew her
Elybe: That doesn't mean I wasn't surprised to see her have Sinners Sextant kidnap you 
Yoni: I mean I assumed she thought those kinds of people were beneath her
Monact: Keeping up a charade sure takes a lot of work
Yoni: I can see that now
Resume
When you're at LXXV%
Yoni: So…are you going to try to convince Ayev to turn back?
Elybe: We probably cannot
Monact: Why do you think we'd try to reason with them?
Yoni: My sister may be too far gone but, maybe you can save what's left of your family, I can sense a sort of conflict in them.
Wjenx: If what you say is true, I may be willing to try 
Dassu: I don't want to hurt Ayev…
Elybe: Me neither…if we can convince them to abandon the warpath…we can save them yet
Resume
When you're complete, the five of them come face to face with The Treasure Tower 
Yoni: We don't have much time 
Elybe: Well, let's not delay 
Dassu: Ayev…we're coming for you
The group enters the Tower, preparing for a confrontation against their family.
== Nowhere To Rome Chapter IV ==
Faithful Night and Yoni enter the tower, and see Sinners Sextant and all kinds of destructive equipment.
Elybe: Well, this is quite the warm reception
Wjenx: Yeah 
Sinners Sextant Member: We definitely didn't bring enough people to deal with a Century Corps intrusion
Dassu: We on a time crunch, you on a manpower shortage, seems like a fair fight
Sinners Sextant Member I: Ok why is it called MANpower, seems a little human centric 
Sinners Sextant Member II: I have no clue, I'm not a linguistics expert
Monact: YOU'RE STALLING 
Sinners Sextant Member: Stall? I don't know the meaning of the word?
Sinners Sextant Member II: It means to slow or delay 
Sinners Sextant Member I: Thanks Resident Linguistic Expert 
Sinners Sextant Member II: I'm, not a linguistics expert
Sinners Sextant Member III: Are we going to fight them or not?
Yoni: I'll start if that's cool with you
Yoni leaps over and punches them in the face, starting a brawl
Dassu: Oh we should probably help her
Monact: Gee you sure are a quick one
Fight against Sinners Sextant Wave I
When you win
Sinners Sextant Member III: Should we wait for…any backup…any at all?
Sinners Sextant Member I: There's no time we've got to hold the line until Ayev comes back 
Elybe: Wait, they're not here?
Sinners Sextant Member II: You want to pause the fight till they arrive? That's awfully generous of you
Elybe: Wait no we don't
Sinners Sextant Member II: it was worth a shot 
Sinners Sextant Member IV: Yeah…worth a shot…we can SHOOT them
Sinners Sextant Member III: You HAVEN'T been doing that 
Monact: I DO NOT CARE about your problems
Sinners Sextant Member V: How rude
Wjenx: You're trying to kill us or at least knock us unconscious!  
Sinners Sextant Member VI: For the paycheck, kaching 
Fight against Sinners Sextant Wave II
When you win 
Yoni: So do any of you have any fight left in you?
Sinners Sextant Member VII: Me
Monact: Were you people this chatty when you worked under Ghice?
Sinners Sextant Member V: This has certainly devolved 
Sinners Sextant Member II: I need a raise 
Sinners Sextant Member I: Maybe mention your linguistics expertise 
Sinners Sextant Member II: I'm not a ling-actually it's not worth it to correct you anymore
Yoni: Ok I'm just gonna
Yoni punches Sinners Sextant Member VII in the face, and moves along 
Elybe: Well, let's follow her
Wjenx: Alas, farewell you entertaining jobbers
Sinners Sextant Member I: What does jobber mean?
Sinners Sextant Member II: It's a wrestling term, it means someone who is routinely defeated at big events 
Sinners Sextant Member II: Wait fuck 
Moving on past the defeated Sextant, Faithful Night comes across the main vault tower and all the destructive equipment there, burning holes into the treasure vaults filled with gold.  The Chalice of Bacchus is also right in front of them, surrounded by a little cage 
Dassu: So, here comes the demo team 
Elybe: Think I can knock them down in a single strike?
Yoni: If you get the angle right
Elybe: Well there's no harm in trying
Elybe fires off their string ball using its maximum range, the ball flies into the a large portion of the melters, destroying them on impact 
Wjenx: Nice shot
Elybe: Thanks, although I need more range to destroy the rest of them 
Yoni: Well it's a tower so we should get to climbing
Dassu: Before that, let's not forget what we came here for?
Dassu cuts the bars of the cage, and takes the chalice 
Dassu: There…it's safe now
Wjenx: Alright now let's go and-
Ayev swoops down at The Century Corps, grabbing the chalice 
Ayev: I'm afraid that chalice is still under my possession 
Elybe: Hey your goons said you weren't here
Ayev: I wasn't 
Ayev flies high into the tower with the chalice 
Dassu: Well…
Yoni: Up we go
Begin scaling The Vaults
When you are up X vaults 
Elybe: Ok, (lines up their ball with the melters), and fire
Elybe's ball ricochets again, destroying even more of the melters
Elybe: Good job me
Yoni: Yeah, we're doing great 
Wjenx: So how many of these do we need to destroy?
Yoni: All of them, a little drop of liquid is all it will take for the chalice to do it's thing 
Monact: Let's continue to follow the path then 
Resume
When you're up XX vaults 
Elybe: Ok, this should destroy all the melters that remain 
Elybe takes another shot with their ball and annihilates the remaining melters, except for one they miss. 
Yoni: So, uh, what was that
Elybe: It almost looks like it was deflected
Dassu: I can bet on why that is
Dassu points from across the vault tower, seeing Lorenza in a golden armor 
Yoni: She's really gone and lost it huh? She's gonna try to take out our family's legacy. 
Elybe: Well, we've got a job to do
As Faithful Night tries to move off the vault, Ayev swoops down and prevents their movement 
Ayev: I've got a job to do 
Elybe: Ayev…
The two stare at each other for a long second 
Monact: Ayev, surrender the chalice to us and we'll allow you to go free…
Ayev: I'm not going to surrender to the Century Corps…
Elybe: Then surrender to your family
Ayev: … I cannot 
Dassu: Ayev…
Ayev: I'm not giving up this chalice…
Wjenx: Give it up!
Ayev: No
Elybe: C'mon, give the chalice to us, and then go live a normal life
Ayev: I'll never stand idly by, not while Sinners Sextant needs me 
Monact: I guess we know where you stand…
Yoni: Well, you tried your best 
Elybe: We've hardly tried enough 
Ayev: This Chalice is property of The Sextant now
Monact: Well, we warned you
Fight against Ayev
When they are at XC%
Ayev: Don't make this harder than it needs to be 
Monact: Your stubborn unyielding will is the reason this is so hard 
Ayev: That's what always made me a great fighter 
Monact: Yeah, it's one of your better qualities, but you need to see that this isn't right
Ayev: It feels wrong..but inside..I know it's right
Resume
When they are at LXXX%
Dassu: Do you really think that this will make a difference for the better?
Ayev: I don't know, but I don't care anymore 
Dassu: You used to care
Ayev: When my heart is marred by war, I can only care about where my next meal will come from
Dassu: Unfortunate 
Ayev: Don't pity my plight, it's the one I choose 
Resume
When they are at  LXX% 
Wjenx: Why won't you release the chalice?
Ayev: I've got a job to do, that's why
Wjenx: There's got to be more
Ayev: There isn't, sometimes, we've got our own paths to contend with 
Wjenx: Seeing the person you've come has become revolting 
Ayev: Sorry you hate what you see
Resume
When they are at LX%
Ayev: Elybe? Do you have anything else to say to me?
Elybe: I'm at a loss for words, you've become so much like Ghice after their death 
Ayev: Ghice and Keighan…they're my family
Elybe: No…
Ayev: And who killed them? That's right your little guild
Elybe: I…
Ayev: It doesn't matter what you think, you killed my family 
Monact: That wasn't us
Ayev: You're still aiding and following a guild of butchers, who minces my family, why would I care if you did the deed yourselves or not.
Resume
When  Ayev is at L%
Yoni: Do you have anything else you wish to say? Anything at all?
Ayev: I can't say anything else I could say that would be of much significance
Yoni: Are you sure, speak now or forever hold your peace.
Ayev: …
Yoni: Well Ayev, I can't say I expected anything else from you.
Resume
When Ayev is at XL%, they begin to struggle keeping their grip on the chalice 
Ayev: Damn it, I have to hold on
Elybe: Ayev… I'm sorry
Ayev: What?
Elybe slings the ball at the chalice sending it through the air and falling down the tower
Ayev: NO NO DAMN IT
Ayev dives after the Chalice but Monact launches a brick at Ayev's booster pack, send them veering off course
Ayev: No! 
Lorenza: Catch it you BUFFOON 
Ayev tries to grab it but it hits the ground, shattering 
Ayev: Damn it! I failed again, all thanks to the Century Corps!
Lorenza: Oh Ayev, you disgrace 
Ayev: You know, I have no obligation to follow you anymore
Lorenza: Hey hey wait
Ayev: You won't be paying us jack shit from behind your prison cell
Lorenza: Hey come on, don't you want revenge?
Ayev: Maybe another day…you fraud 
Ayev blasts a hole in the tower and escapes
Wjenx: Shouldn't we go after them?
Monact: We have a bigger problem to contend with first 
Yoni: You're absolutely right
Faithful Night begins making their way to Lorenza
Lorenza: Come, I posses the armor worn by Julius Caesar himself and the Li Cadenzo family luck, I'm not scared of a confrontation
Yoni: I also have our family's luck 
Lorenza: Oh sister, how I detest the thought of harming you, but you stood in my way today, and now my plan to help the poor is finished
Yoni: Your plan was going to help no one 
Lorenza: Oh can it, however I can still destroy our family's legacy 
Yoni: But why?
Lorenza: Becuase I-
Yoni: Oh I GET IT
Lorenza: Get what?
Yoni: You're a spoiled little brat throwing a tantrum because things didn't go your way, being "daddy's little princess" must make one so used to getting whatever they want
Lorenza: Ok that's not it, I have good reasons
Yoni: No you don't
Elybe: Let's take you in
Lorenza: I'm NEVER going to prison
Fight against Lorenza Li Cadenzo 
When she is at LXXV%, some of the gold in the Li Cadenzo vault finally melts 
Lorenza: Heh, it's begining 
Elybe: Thanks for reminding me about the problem
Elybe makes a trick shot with their ball, smashing the melter
Yoni: Nice job Elybe
Lorenza: I'M SICK OF YOU PEOPLE
Monact: Tough crowd
Resume
When Lorenza is at LX%
Lorenza: I could have changed…EVERYTHING FOR THE BETTER
Yoni: Aww you didn't get to genocide the city…you poor little baby 
Yoni punches her sister in the gut 
Dassu: Looks like that hurt 
Resume
When Lorenza is at XL% 
Lorenza: You think they'd let me rot in prison forever 
Yoni: It's not like our family is gonna bail your sorry ass out?
Lorenza: THEY WON'T MOURN YOU EITHER 
Yoni: Geez, escalation much, oh right, you're a big  baby 
Wjenx: Well Monact, you were right about one of them being a brat 
Monact: Wrong kid but same spoiled rotten family
Resume
When Lorenza is at XV%
Lorenza: I..have to win
Wjenx: Looking unlikely
Yoni: Lorenza…you make me feel ashamed to be related
Lorenza: THAT'S RICH, coming from the family outcast
Yoni: That's you now, genocider
Lorenza: SHUT UP
Resume
When you win, Lorenza gets wobbly 
Lorenza: I HATE YOU
Yoni: Sister, I'd be careful if I were you
Lorenza tries to attack again but she slips on some of the liquid gold and falls to the bottom of the tower, where she is surrounded by police.
Yoni: Holy 
Dassu: Who called
A familiar voice begins to be echo throughout the tower
Eili: Hey Yoni!!
Yoni: Eili!! 
As Faithful Night heads down the tower, the police begin taking Lorenza into custody 
== Nowhere To Rome Epilogue ==
Yoni is sitting with her sister Eili in their dad's office. They're discussing the events that transpired only hours ago
Leo: I can't say that everything resolved itself in an orderly manner
Eili: What do you mean? Lorenza was arrested and a lot of the gold was saved
Yoni: I get what you mean Dad, Lorenza created a massive security breach, some of your net worth is gone, the Chalice has been destroyed and Ayev is still on the loose
Leo: You're exactly right Yoni, the situation we find ourselves is one marred by uncertainty, we may all need to get new employment if we have to pay for the damages
Eili: Wait shit, really?
Leo: I imagine people both above and below me will want some words with me, I'm prepared to lose everything.
Eili: So what happens if we do?
Leo: How did this family gain it's fortune in the first place?
Yoni: Dad…there's no way you're actually suggesting what I think you're suggesting 
Eili: Family adventure?
Leo: Correct, I'll get the rest of your siblings and extended family, we'll throw something together.
Yoni: It's awesome to see you want to adventure 
Leo: Well Yoni your brave actions made me remember your grandmother
Eili: Nice going sis
Yoni: So when are we going. How are we going to handle logistics, and supplies and-
Leo moves his hand to cut her off
Leo: Yoni, I believe the world, has another destiny in mind for you
At that moment, a Century Corps member walks into the room
Yoni: Hello, who might you be?
Virdian: Hello Yoni, my name is Virdian Gekkile, head of Century Corps registration, would you be interested in joining?
== Casting Shadows Chapter 1 ==
Seven Years Ago, The Nightlands 
Umbra is sleeping sound in a casket, her ideal place of sleep due to the fact it surrounds her in total darkness, where she can easily slip into unconsciousness, in that dark place, the long drift of sleep can overtake her, filling her mind in a sleep stupor, as drowsiness washes over her.  
Her brief slumber is interrupted by a large banging sound, sounds of metal clashing against the room, with a pervading darkness she could feel from inside that casket’s cold embrace. Umbra looked outside briefly, seeing her father in a state of distress, collecting research documents.
Umbra was confused, she hadn’t known her father to ever show this much distress, but here he was collecting his things and planning to leave. Umbra took the lid off of her casket, looking starring her father down in the dead of night 
Umbra: Dad…
Kutakahra: Oh, Umbra you should really get back to bed 
Umbra: But I don’t want to sleep…
Kutakahra: You need to sleep
Umbra: I know…sleep recharges my shadow 
Kutakahra: That’s right, now your father just needs to collect his things.
Umbra: But why…why do you have to leave in a hurry
Loud banging from the outside can be heard 
Vaniel: OPEN THE DOOR KUTAKAHRA
Umbra: Who’s that outside 
Kutakahra: You don’t need to worry about that, just get back in the casket 
Umbra: Will everything be ok?
Cynthus #2: HEY ASSHOLE YOU CAN’T KEEP US OUT FOREVER 
Kutakahra: Just trust me ok, I created you, I won’t let those bad men outside take you away
Umbra: You promise?
Kutakahra: Look at me Umbra, do I look like someone who’d lie to you?
Umbra: No..I trust you
Kutakhra: Good, now go back to sleep 
Umbra began to crawl back in her casket to go to bed, unbeknownst to her Kutakahra has locked the casket
Kutakhra: Alright…
Kutakahra took out a small object, a small vial of void fire that would destroy all of Kutakahra’s lab and twisted experiments so he could start again
Vaniel: I’m cutting this door down
Vaniel took a step back, and moved his sword to cut down the door.
Vaniel: Kutakahra, it’s over, we finally found you 
Cynthus #1: You’re going away for a long time
Kutakahra: I think not…my name, Kutakahra The Mighty will echo throughout history, but unfortunately, you will not live to see it
Kutakahra pulls out the vial of Voidfire 
Cynthus #3: Put that down!!
Kutakahra: Sure
Vaniel: Wait no
Vaniel rushes to keep the vial from breaking, but it bursts and a wall of voidfire beckons out, scorching and singing the lab, Cynthus releases a barrier of flames from his box to keep him and Vaniel safe, but not everyone is safe.
Vaniel: Damn it where did he go?
A trial of smoke is seen
Cynthus #2: HE GOT AWAY GOD DAMN IT 
Vaniel: Well we’ll find him eventaully 
As Vaniel and Cynthus leave the burning wreckage of the lab, someone is still inside, and she’s burning alive 
Umbra: HELP ME
Umbra tries to escape the casket, but the void fire burns her hands
Umbra: Dad, you’ll come back for me right…
The only noise heard is the singing fire as it scorches her line of sight and the bottom of  her body, the only thing Umbra can feel right now is a burning sensation that feels like it’s eating her alive…
Umbra: NO, DAD COME BACK
Umbra bangs on the casket  but no one can hear her cries…
Umbra: NO…NO….
No one can hear Umbra’s cries for help as the fire consumes the casket as she begins to ignite
Present Day, Chennai
Umbra is sitting down in a chair on the side of the road, looking back at her own street corner. Her body is covered in burn marks, but they can’t be seen deep under her skin made of shadows. Umbra simply looks around, there is no sense of familiarity or hope in this place she finds herself in. She’s been traveling the world ever since Kutakahra left her to the wolves in his lab that night. 
Umbra’s goal since then has been to find Kutakahra and ask why her dad left to burn alive, to leave her as a charred corpse below his burning lab. Her only lead is a newspaper she found only hours ago which is why she is here in this city.
Umbra: (Takes out the newspaper), Father…if you really are, I need answers 
The Newspaper she has details an attack from Kutakahra and a group called The Army of K on the Century Corps Logistics Center in the city, in which seven unknown items were stolen by Kutakahra. The attack took the Century Corps by surprise, and embarrassed the defenders there. 
Umbra: I need to start heading back up the road
Umbra got up out of her chair, readied her shadow projections for battle and began walking down the road
Begin Chennai Streets 1
When you’re 25% of the way to The Century Corps Logistics Center, a group of armed soldiers appear 
K-Army Sergeant: Attention Shadow Individual, your presence has been noted by our boss, we have been instructed to take you in 
Umbra: Take me in?
K-Army Sergeant: Our boss wishes to take you far away from this place
Umbra: Oh hell no 
K-Army Sergeant: Pardon me?
Umbra: I’m not going an inch with you crooks 
K-Army Sergeant: Why not?
Umbra: I'm making your boss come to me, he owes me that much 
K-Army Sergeant: We've been ordered to make you come to us through force if we need to
The K-Army gets ready to open fire on Umbra and Umbra moves her shadow along the ground which begins to consume the shadows of the K-Army, disabling them
Umbra: Well, this was a waste of my time 
Umbra swiftly moved on from the mob of K-Army soldiers to another part of the street 
Resume Chennai Streets 
When you're 50% of the way there, a small contingent of K-Army is blocking their shadows 
Umbra: Cute countermeasures 
K-Army Sergeant: Listen we order you to stand down, we ord-
The sergeant is shut up by a green spear knocking her in the back of the head
Euke: Hey guys!!
K-Army Soldier: CENTURY CORPS DETECTED OPEN FIRE ON EVERYONE 
A long of haze of bullets began to lightly pepper the battlefield, which Umbra was expertly avoiding 
Euke: Hey, you guys missed
Before anything else could move, Euke pulled out a small dagger that made a slow sedating noise, putting the Army of K troops into a lull
Umbra: Century Corps?
Euke: Hey that's my guild!
Umbra: So I've heard
Euke: But more importantly, what are you doing fighting K-Army by yourself?
Umbra: They're fighting me
Euke: Elaborate
Umbra: They're trying to take me away from here but I need to talk to their boss
K-Army Sergeant: How about you consider our offer
Umbra: Hell no
K-Army Sergeant: Why not?
Umbra: You're just gonna throw me back onto the pyre
Euke: I don't know what that means but you should come with me back to the guild!!
Umbra: Really?
Euke: Yeah!
K-Army Sergeant: You won't get away from us that easily?
Euke: Can it mosshead 
Umbra: Why is she Mosshead?
Euke: It's an insult…
"Mosshead": I quite like that name actually, you can all refer to me as "Mosshead" from now on
Euke: BWAHAHAHA, Sure thing "Mosshead"
Umbra: Alright "Mosshead" we've got to scramble 
"Mosshead": Curse you people 
"Mosshead" tries to attack again but is stopped by Umbra's shadow 
Umbra: Let's go
Euke: Yes Ma'm
Euke joins the party
Resume Chennai Streets 1
When you are 75% of the way there
Euke: Oh I never caught your name, what is it?
Umbra: My name is Umbra.
Euke: Oh cool
Umbra: What's your name?
Euke: It's Euke!!
Umbra: Alright 
The sensation for Umbra was strange, it had been years since she had cared about the name of someone else
Resume Chennai Streets 1
When you're 90% of the way there, a group of Army of K appears 
Umbra: I've got this
Euke: No…we've got this
Umbra and Euke prepare to once again duke it out against the Army of K when suddenly a loud crashing noise could be heard, as it seemed like various tiny shards of space came breaking forward
Umbra: What was that?
Army of K Soldier: Ditto
Euke: You guys are so screwed now
A guild member wielding a sword swings their sword through a crowd of Army of K members, before Umbra and Euke attack in unison with them, during this assault, another sword slash cleaves through a line of Army of K while a small beam of light also bounces around the attacking forces. After the carnage was over, Euke and Umbra came face to face with the forces that had interjected to help.
Euke: Hey guys..
Fractal: Euke! Your parents could have gotten us in a lot of trouble for you just running off, you’re only 8!!
Euke: But I’ve been trained by them, by you, by The Septarian Guard, even a little by The Grandmaster himself!! 
Umbra: Suited resume 
Olivia: Who’s the extra?
Euke: Oh that’s Umbra, she was fighting against the Army of K before I got there, they wanted her for some reason…
Vaniel: I wonder why?
Upon hearing Vaniel talk, Umbra moved into fighting position
Umbra: It’s you…
Vaniel: I don’t follow?
Umbra: You…you…
The voice was different due to all the years, but Umbra could still remember the voice from that night, the one that  broke into their home in the dead of night, and drove her father away, the voice that started the night she was set alight. More importantly, the voice that turned away at her cry for help, the one that couldn't hear her screams of torment over the flames. 
Umbra: You…you…left me to die
Olivia: Vaniel what is she talking about?
Vaniel: I have no idea
Umbra: You..don’t know…you can’t tell me, you don’t know…
Vaniel: I don’t
Olivia: How are you conducting yourself solo?
Vaniel: I do what I think is justified!!
Umbra: What you did…was justified…leaving me, to burn alive, in a singing fire…
Euke: Uhm what?
Olivia: Vaniel I’ve had some great memories involving fire but that’s pretty fucked up. 
Umbra: Not. Just. Any. Fire. This one…burned my soul…like marks from an otherworldly void…
Fractal: What like some kind of…voidfire?
Vaniel: No no that’s impossible, me and Cynthus checked the lab that night, there was no one else in Kutakahra’s lab 
Olivia: Oh more of that guy?
Fractal: Oh my god he literally just stole The Irisites and now skeletons from his closest have emerged?
Umbra: That man…the one you say with such venom…
Euke: What about him
Vaniel: Please don’t tell me…
Umbra: That man…is my father 
Vaniel: …
Olivia: Father? You look nothing alike?
Umbra: I did not emerge into this world through another like Humans or Nightlanders, my birthplace was a place of fluid and metal, and once I left, I was shadow and remained one with it for most of my life. 
Vaniel: … 
Fractal: Ok, so you want  a reunion with dear old dad? 
Umbra: I NEED to know why he left me to burn that night?
Vaniel: Listen kid, I-
Umbra: Spare me, your sympathy, for I do not want it. 
Euke: Well there’s gotta be SOMETHING we can do for you now
Fractal: We’ve been unable to locate Kutakahra since the accident 
???: Perhaps I can help?
Another Guild Member appears, with bright auroras following her
Kutok: Hello everyone!!
Euke: Oh my god you’re part of the crew that took down Fyvotoh!!
Kutok: Well yeah, that was a while back though…
Olivia: The Great Wayfinder appears when we need to find a way, how convenient for us
Kutok: I was sent here as the first wave of reinforcements for the Logistics center 
Vaniel: First wave…
Kutok: Yeah, me and…where are they dammit 
Fractal: Probably back at the actual logistics center
Euke: Oh yeah it’s still a bit away
Umbra: Well, let’s get going, I would like to get this kicked off
Fractal, Olivia, Vaniel and Kutok join the party
Resume Chennai Streets I
When you’re at the logistics center, there are a few Century Corps Members by the building 
Olivia: Hey 
Ba-Bayost: Hello, how was your brief search party?
Umbra: I’m here
Euke: Hey everyone, this is Umbra, she needs to be let in too 
Kutok: Oh and where is Qiinu?
Eclox: In the building?
Crease: More reinforcements should be coming in the next hours, including your parents Euke
Euke: Oh boy my parents worried I can’t fight on my own
Umbra: Well I’ll be sure to let them know you can fight on your own
Euke: Thanks Umbra
Fractal: Do not encourage him
Ojun: Should we open the door now?
Olivia: That would be much obliged
The Century Corps open the door for The Party and they go to find Qiinu and enter The Nightlands
== Casting Shadows Chapter 2 ==
The Party spots Qiinu pretty fast, hanging out by the portal being managed by a very drained Century Corps member named Veinph 
Kutok: Qiinu, we’re about to go on an expedition, get ready
Umbra: They don’t look ready?
Qiinu: We…are…
A moment of silent passes
Qiinu: Ready to go into the nightlands
Euke: Oh man, five times the mind, five times the power
Qiinu: That is technically true, but it’s more like five times the hassle 
Umbra: Wait so there are FIVE souls in there?
Qiinu: The five mouths, ten eyes and rocks with numbers on our head didn’t make that obvious…
Umbra: Well when you put it like that it makes me sound dumb
Kutok: So it’s time to get down to business!!
Fractal: I’ll say
Veinph: I’ll also say
Vaniel: So, Fractal, I think I might need you to stay behind and guard the portal and Veinph, if something happens to them you’d need to make sure they were ok
Veinph: Thanks for thinking about me 
Fractal: I suppose that is an alright plan
Olivia: Alright, so me, Vaniel, Kutok, Qiinu and Umbra are going to go into the Nightlands, locate Kutakahra and then take him out?
Euke: Well what about ME!!
Olvia: Uhm, you can watch Veinph with Fractal
Euke: Oh come on
Umbra: Why can’t we take him with us?
Olivia: His parents will KILL ME if I do that
Vaniel: They’d kill Kutakahra and then they’d kill you
Olivia: Oh right they did fight with you against him last time?
Umbra: Last time?
Vaniel: Me and Kutakahra were enemies, one of Optica’s lieutenants named Phote still had an army in the Nightlands and this created a three way power struggle me and my buddies couldn’t win, however, the Century Corps had found her lieutenant and helped me and my friends out against Kutakahra. 
Umbra: I see
Olivia: Optica…
Vaniel: Hey I know that’s not you 
Veinph: Alright, so who am I sending over
Olivia: Me, Vaniel, Umbra, Kutok and Qiinu
Euke: And me
Veinph: Alright portal for six coming up
Kutok: Wait no
Umbra: I think it’s fine
Euke: Me too
Qiinu: We do not see the issue in bringing along another capable warrior 
Qiinu: We take that back we’re split 3-2 against it 
Euke: I want in, give me a chance!
Olivia: They’re gonna kill me
Vaniel: They’re gonna kill me first 
Olivia: Alright Euke you can come with us 
Euke: Oh boy here I go!!
Umbra: Kutakahra, I’m coming for you
Qiinu: WE’RE coming for him 
Fractal: Alright, well good luck
Veinph: Yeah
Umbra: Here I go
Qiinu: Here WE go 
Fractal leaves the party, Qiinu joins the party
The Party goes through the portal
Unknown Scrapyard, The Nightlands 
The Party looks around at their surroundings, nothing but  techno junk and metal discards. They appear to be far from a settlement 
Umbra: So Kutok, how are you going to help us find my father 
Kutok: Umbra, sweetie, watch the magic happen 
Kutok takes out her magnetic dagger, lining up her dagger on her skin, she fires off a powerful aurora from it, aimed at Umbra, the aurora begins to surround her, engulfing her in colors
Umbra: What is it doing?
Kutok: The fun part
The Aurora begins dancing and forms an arrow through the Nightlander sky, ending not too far from their current location. 
Vaniel: That trick of yours is always impressive
Euke: Wow, that was totally awesome!!
Kutok: Aw shucks guys
Umbra: What just happened?
Kutok: The magnet paired with the aurora was able to determine your desire and make a roadmap for you, they often say where I’m from, that aurora’s are like dreams dancing in the night sky. 
Qiinu: We do not understand 
Umbra: You can say that again 
Kutok: It’s ok nonbelievers, just follow the sky
Begin Nightland Scrapyard #1
As you begin, The Army of K appears to block your path
When you get to 25% completion
Euke: I wonder if “Mosshead” is far behind?
Olivia: Who is “Mosshead”?
Vaniel: Is this “Mosshead” an Army of K commander?
Umbra: More or less
“Mosshead”: Yeah and you better believe it
Appearing to block their path is “Mosshead” who found her own way back to the Nightlands
“Mosshead”: Boss gave me an order to defend him while he works, so you ain’t getting past me
Umbra: Sorry to be in the way, but I’m going to see him no matter what?
“Mosshead”: Understandable, but prepare to come up empty handed
Umbra: I’m not walking away from this without the truth 
Fight against “Mosshead”
When “Mosshead” is at 50%
Vaniel: She’s actually giving us trouble…
“Mosshead”: Underestimating me was at your own peril
Qiinu: We have decided that we will now be using brute force 
Euke: “Mosshead” has really lived up to her name
“Mosshead”: I think that was an insult but I will take that as a compliment anyway 
Qiinu: Stand aside while you still have a functioning brain 
“Mosshead”: HAHAHAHAHA
Resume against “Mosshead”
When she is defeated, she drops the ground in shame 
“Mosshead”: Kutakahra, I failed you?
Vaniel: Well, “Mosshead”, you’re gonna talk 
Umbra: There’s nothing new she can tell us
Suddenly, another person enters the fight
“Mosshead”: heh, he’s live
Umbra: Who’s live?
Kutok: Irony’s a bitch 
“Mosshead”: Wouldn’t you like to know
"Mosshead" runs away as the new figure approaches The Party
???: I…
Vaniel: Would you like to introduce yourself?
???: My name…
Kutok: Yeah what is it?
???: My name is Dye, cast out of the cold unforgiving world, I was made for one purpose, be a sword and shield for the one I owe my existence too 
Vaniel: Hey does that look like?
Olivia: Oh man it’s all the colors…what…did he do?
Dye: You look upon me and despair, but my creator told me that would happen, and that only he could do good for me
Umbra: I know that’s not true
Dye: I would never doubt my glorious father and creator so effortlessly, afterall, he told me his loving embrace is what saved me
Vaniel: Oh no
Euke: I don’t understand what’s going on
Qiinu: New boy Dye is getting gaslit by the man we’re after 
Euke: What does “gaslit” mean
Qiinu: A conversation for another time
Dye: Now, if you get any closer to my father, I will not hesitate to strike you down where you stand, good, day
Dye flies, leaving the Party in his wake, they know they’re going to have to face him in combat soon
Olivia: Weaknesses anyone?
Umbra: I don’t think he can hit my shadow, I can probably exploit that. 
Qiinu: You must try your best to get to your goal 
Umbra: Thanks for the reminder, but I know that
Euke: Let’s press on, shall we?
Umbra: Well, you heard the kid
Resume Nightlands Scrapyard 1
When you’re at 50% completion 
Vaniel: One thing I noticed is that this is NOT where the old lab was?
Umbra: Yeah, the old lab was in a remote forest
Olivia: Kutakahra is hiding around, scurrying with the rats 
Euke: Let’s find him then
Kutok: Follow the sky my friends 
Resume Nightlands Scrapyard 1
When you’re at 75% completion 
Euke: I’m amazed a scrapyard can be this huge?
Kutok: It must have to do with something in this place’s structure or something?
Vaniel: The Nightlands is made of metal and shifting nightsand, the world we are in now is showing it’s bones 
Umbra: Oh, wow, I didn’t know that?
Vaniel: I imagine Kutakahra just kept you in his own little world 
Olivia: What good is a bird in a cage if it can’t ever sing?
Resume Nightlands Scrapyard 1
When you are at 95% completion, Dye emerges again 
Dye: I warned you
Umbra: I know, we didn’t heed your warning
Dye: A shame…you should have listened!
Dye begins firing colored blasts at the party
Euke: It’s fight time!
Qiinu: We will turn you into dust 
Umbra: Sorry it has to end like this 
Dye: Why are YOU sorry?
Fight against Dye 
When Dye is at 75% 
Dye: I wish I can convince you to give up your pursuit 
Umbra: There is nothing you could possibly say that will keep me from that man 
Dye: How unfortunate
Dye begins glowing all kinds of colors, but Umbra moves into the shadows and begins to immobilize him
Vaniel: Alright let’s hit him
Vaniel and Qiinu come forward and attack him up close, Umbra returns to her normal form after unmelding from the shadows
Dye: That was a nasty move
Euke: Oh yeah that’s our power for sure!
Resume
When Dye is at 50%
Dye: Why do you want my father?
Umbra: He’s OUR Father 
Dye: … 
Umbra: Yeah…don’t try to deny it, you felt something similar 
Dye: How…he said I was the only one?
Umbra: What a nice lie he told?
Resume against Dye
When Dye is at 25%
Euke: Think fast 
Euke throws his mini spear into Dye’s chest, which staggers him slightly before Euke goes in for a rushing slash attack with his ASMR dagger. 
Dye: Grrrr…
Kutok: Euke’s got moves
Umbra: Go kid
Dye: You’d really cheer him on?
Umbra: Nothing personal, just like seeing the kid show off
Resume against Dye
When Dye is at 10%
Dye: I…don’t know…how to feel
Umbra: You and me both 
Dye: I had…I…
Umbra: Yeah…you did have faith 
Resume against Dye
When you win, Dye drops to the ground in agony and pain, clutching the ground with his fists, clawing onto it, a voice begins emanating from Dye
Iris (Distant Voice):  Dye…Dye…let me reach you 
Dye’s eyes begin to go white as he falls limp on the ground
Vaniel: Iris?
Kutok: Well we assume Dye was built from the fragments of Iris, this makes sense!
Umbra: We can’t leave him on the floor like this 
Qiinu: You want to carry his body with us to the end
Umbra: I do
Euke: I’ll help!!
Umbra and Euke begin lifting Dye’s body up onto her shadow, allowing her to carry it.
Vaniel: You can just carry stuff in your shadow?
Umbra: Yes, I can…
Olivia: We don’t have far to go
Resume Nightlands Scrapyard 1
When you are complete the course, an odd abode can be seen, with Army of K members guarding the house 
Army of K Member: PERIMETER BREACH, PERIMETER BREACH
Vaniel: Shut up
Before the Army of K could get off a solid hit, Vaniel moved in and cut them down in the blink of an eye 
Vaniel: These people annoy me 
Euke: That was BADASS
Kutok: Oh yeah
Olivia: Vaniel rocks solo but he can pack a powerful punch 
Vaniel: Well I have a partner 
Olivia: Oh yeah, but he’s not with us right now is he?
Vaniel: Nope, but he wishes he could be
Umbra: Alright, enough stalling, I’m going in
Umbra, still carrying Dye’s unconscious body, walks into the home of the man she has been searching for years.
== Casting Shadows Chapter 3 ==
Umbra opens the door to the supposed abode of Kutakahra, seeing what looks like another abandoned home, on the floor is an unfinished magical symbol
Umbra: Wait…I know this symbol
Umbra remembers where she knows it from and moves to complete the circle, when she completes it, it creates a familiar aura, pulling her back into memories and moments that had faded away but now have come back in full force.
Kutakahra (Gastly): Hello Umbra, welcome back to your family
Umbra: You…you…show yourself…you OWE ME answers!!
Kutakahra (Gastly):  In due time Umbra, but first, what do you think of your brother, I worked so hard to craft him…
Umbra: Dye…that’s his name right?
Kutakahra (Gastly):  You get it, you get the picture
Umbra: SHOW ME, SHOW ME WHY YOU MADE ANOTHER ONE, ANOTHER ONE LIKE ME!!
Kutakahra (Gastly): If that’s your wish
The room around Umbra morphed, and as it did, Dye began to wake up from unconsciousness, in the memory circle Umbra was in, seeing those memories as Dye was in her shadow.
Kutakahra (Gastly): Here we are, the day I decided I needed to create Dye
The room was full of torn up notebooks, knocked over constructs and the Kutakahra in this memory looked miserable 
Dye: What the?
Kutakahra (Gastly):  Hello my son, sorry about lying to you earlier, I wanted it to be a surprise, when we were all happily reunited as a family
Umbra: Cut your crap and get right to the fucking point 
Dye: What is-
Kutakahra (Gastly):  I was thinking about you Umbra, how I had to leave you behind
Umbra: What….
Kutakahra (Gastly):  If Vaniel found you in my lab, he would have ripped you apart with his sword into a million pieces 
Dye: What are you talking about
Kutakahra (Gastly):  Want me to to show you Dye
The room changed again, to the night Umbra roasted in her casket, and Dye saw everything, and Umbra began to cry as she watched those events unfold again
Umbra (Memory): Dad, you’ll come back for me right…
Dye: What…what the fuck is this…
Kutakahra (Gastly): This was the tragic night we lost contact
Umbra now saw the events with new clarity, she saw how her father just destroyed his lab to save himself, and that she was just another piece of evidence he destroyed…
Umbra: What…the…hell IS WRONG WITH YOU
Dye: You just…lit her on fire…and ran away
Kutakahra (Gastly): You don’t understand, it was mercy 
Umbra: Mercy…YOU LEFT IN A CASKET, YOU LOCKED IT SO I WOULD SUFFOCATE ON SMOKE
Kutakahra (Gastly): Would you have rather lived a life locked behind a cell you could never escape or be no longer breathing to experience it, it was an act of love, my final goodbye
Umbra: HOW WAS THAT LOVE, YOU PUT ME IN A PRISON I COULDN’T BREAK FREE FROM AND RAN AWAY AS I WAS BURNING ALIVE
Dye: Father…why…WHY…would you treat my sister this way
Kutakahra (Gastly): Oh Dye, don’t you want me to finish the story of your birth?
Dye: I…
Umbra: No, let’s see your twisted mind
The room began to change back, Kutakahra was now sitting in his lab, making plans for something…
Kutakahra (Memory): Don’t worry, Dye
Kutakahra is looking at a test tube child, growing in the tube, head filled with false memories
Kutakahra (Memory): With the fake memories I’ve implanted, the motor functions I imbued with, and the love for me I’ve programmed into you, all I need is the fragments of Iris to make you my ultimate child..
Kutakahra hesitates for a momment
Kutakahra (Memory): I messed up with Umbra, hopefully I get a better start this time
Umbra: What the actual hell is wrong with you!
Dye: You…just…see me as…
Kutakahra (Gastly): Call it whatever you want, but we’re a family, you, me and Umbra, we’re just twisted bells, playing along in a chorus of tortured souls
Umbra: You…
Umbra finally begins to completely breakdown
Umbra: YOU MONSTER…I had been searching for you for SEVEN YEARS, wondering why you just left me to die in a coffin, I thought you had a good reason, thought since you we’re my dad you must have cared about you, but all I know now about you now, is that, you’re a MONSTER, a complete and utter MONSTER is what you are, you didn’t care if I lived or died, you didn’t care about what happened to me, you only cared about if you could use me as a tool, you only cared about how I could be useful to you, you NEVER CARED AT ALL. 
Umbra’s breakdown continues as Dye begins to look on
Dye: Why was all I meant to be…just your sick weapon…a tool, you’d throw away after I showed any sign of wavering or breaking. 
Finally, Umbra came to her senses
Umbra: Wait…where are the Century Corps?
Kutakahra (Gastly): Hehehe 
Umbra: Where are they!
Kutakahra (Gastly): BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA 
Umbra: WHERE ARE THEY YOU SICK TWISTED MONSTER
Kutakhara (Gastly): You are under my memory spell, remember, you completed the circle and now…they can’t hear you…
Umbra: NO…how could I be so stupid
Kutakhara finally shows his true form in front of Umbra
Kutakahra: Consider this time out, and I’ll let you and Dye out as soon as you promise to be an obedient little family 
Umbra begins loudly banging against the world she’s in
Umbra: NO NO NO NO 
Kutakahra: Goodbye…I’ll see you soon
Dye: Sis…
As Umbra’s screams reach a fever pitch, the memory world fades into a void 
Outside The House 
Our Party has been waiting outside for Umbra and Dye to come out
Vaniel: How long have they been in there?
Olivia: No clue, but we can’t rush their confrontation, we just have to wait for Kutakahra to leave the house to seize him
Euke: Man, all this waiting sucks
Qiinu: Tell us all about it kid
Kutok: Wait guys…I sense someone approaching 
The Party gets ready to fight off a powerful and strong opponent potentially nearby
Olivia: I see them
Over the ridge, The Party sees “Mosshead” rallying what’s left of The Army of K to the shack 
“Mosshead”: And once again, The Century Corps are in my way
Vaniel: “Mosshead”, you will not obstruct our efforts once again, we WILL defeat you here, we WILL defeat you now 
Euke: I agree sir, no more of your obtrusions from this point onward… 
“Mosshead”: Fine, I’ll fight till I’m no longer alive
Fight against “Mosshead” for the final time 
When “Mosshead” is at 75%
Kutok: Why do you continue to defend that man, after all he has done?
“Mosshead”: It’s simple, sometimes great men, need great soldiers, willing to live and die on the frontlines for them
Vaniel: Kutakahra ain’t a saint
“Mosshead”: Who my glorious leader  is does not matter, as long as I give them glory on the battlefield and do what I must always do. 
Resume 
When “Mosshead” is at 50%
Qiinu: We do not see the logic in continuing this fight even though you know you will die?
Vaniel: Give up the fight and surrender “Mosshead”, we don’t want to kill you
“Mosshead”: I wouldn’t wanna kill me either 
“Mosshead” unleashes a powerful energy wave but it is blocked by Olivia’s mirror 
Resume
When “Mosshead” is at 25%
Euke: Listen Mossy, I respect that you’re making us work hard for this victory, but why so stubborn, why so loyal, what did he do to deserve that…
“Mosshead”: It’s something…you will never know…
Qiinu: Well…we have no choice but to delay no longer, let’s end this once and for all 
Olivia: “Mosshead”, just remember that these were the choices you made, not me nor anyone else.
“Mosshead”: I wouldn’t have it any other way?
When “Mosshead” is at 5%
“Mosshead”: It’s over…I lost
Vaniel: Alright now we can back to gu-
The door of the house suddenly throws itself open… 
Kutakahra: Hello Gentlemen 
“Mosshead”: Kutakahra…
Kutakhara: Hello commander, thank you for your valuable service 
“Mosshead”: Thank you your excellency 
Vaniel: Kutakahra, how dare you show your face 7 years later, how dare you still cause suffering and misery, and how DARE you still even exist in this world 
Olivia: And where are Umbra and Dye
Kutakahra cackles deeply to himself
Kutakahra: I’ve put those spoiled brats in a nightmare world of their own memories, until they’re ready to talk to papa as the little obedient children he wanted…
“Mosshead”: Huh, what do you mean by that chief?
Kutakahra: It is none of your concern
Euke: No…you wouldn’t?
Kutakahra: I would, child
Vaniel: I’ve HAD ENOUGH OF YOU 
Vaniel leaps through the air to slice at Kutakahra but he deflects his sword, Kutakahra then responds with a powerful voidfire attack 
Olivia: Everybody get down!!
Olivia deflects most of the fire with her mirror, but “Mosshead’ is caught in the voidfire and instantly dies 
Kutakahra: Oh and what a shame, she was such a skilled commander
Qiinu: She was willing to die for you, you ungrateful bastard 
Qiinu unleashes a powerful soul beam and Kutakahra but he defects it with his ring hand before grabbing Qiinu by the neck and chokeslamming them 
Kutakahra: I am Kutakahra, I am above that which is moral and just 
Vaniel: I’m going to kill you 
Olivia: And I will assist 
Kutakahra: Bring it on
As the three of them begin to fight and Kutok and Euke defend the injured Qiinu from the remnants of the Army of K as they begin to fight a losing battle 
== Casting Shadows Chapter 4 ==
We’re back in the memory world, as Umbra and Dye are hopelessly trapped in there, with nothing but there anger and sadness, left as catatonic shells by the torment Kutakhra has dragged them through 
Now left to sit in their own wonder, with nothing but each other, but as quickly as the silence took hold, it was broken 
Iris (Gastly): Dye?
Umbra: Dye…who’s that?
Dye: Oh, I have no idea, they’re a voice, that’s inside me, calling my name. I feel weird when they speak to me, like I feel centered, like I have an anchor, a center of gravity. 
Iris (Gastly): I am a voice, and I am calling your name Dye, and in this world where you thought there was nothing 
Dye: But why talk to me, why me
Iris (Gastly): Because I’m a part of you?
Dye: What?
Umbra: You mean Dye, is like Qiinu, they have multiple souls?
Iris (Gastly): You are correct, Dye, actually has seven souls
Dye: What….there’s no way…
Iris (Gastly): Don’t believe me, let me show you
The voice took ahold of the memory world and took them back seven years ago, to the fight between Vaniel, Cynthus and The Century Corps against The Morning Star, they can see a woman controlling multiple humans made of color
Iris (Gastly): The woman you see using all those colors in combat, that was me, I was holding my body together even though my soul was literally getting split across my seven centers, or colors of the rainbow…
Dye: So that’s me, or the person that would become me, kicking ass right now
Iris (Gastly): Yes Dye, because we’re one in the same…
Umbra: So that’s how Dye, is so unique 
Iris (Gastly): You understand Dye, you have an incredible burden you have inherited 
Iris fast forwards to the end of the fight, where the Morning Star lay crumpled on the ground and Iris splits into seven 
Iris (Gastly): Those seven humanoids were fused back together along with a new soul crafted by Kutakahra, they formed you
Dye: So he made me, with more humanity than I thought 
Iris (Gastly): Yes Dye, and as long as I’m here, and you can feel me, none of his tricks and deceptions will work on you
Dye: Thank you Iris for telling me this, but I’m not strong enough to face Kutakahra
Iris (Gastly): And you won’t do it alone, because your sister, Umbra will be with you every step of the way. 
Umbra: She’s right Dye…ever since that cursed night, I’ve always felt alone and powerless and like no one could understand me and like no one cared about me, but that changed today, I learned I had a brother who was another victim of suffering like me, but I had a brother, a real member of my family who maybe won’t leave me to the wolves burning alive, but you’re not all I have…
Dye: I’m not
Umbra: The Century Corps are still out there, and Euke and he’s my friend and they’re all fighting for their life out there against Kutakahra, we don’t have to do this alone, he’s powerless if we stand together…
Dye: I don’t know if they’d accept me…
Iris (Gastly): Dye, being a hero is in your nature, in our nature and I was a member of the Century Corps in my life, we have a devotion that transcends all misdeeds we have done to create a world where love and life can flourish, it was the dream of heroes who died defending our world from peril years ago
Dye: But still-
Umbra: Dye, you just want, real love, someone who doesn’t use or abuse you, someone who won’t just throw you away like that, learning that Dad wasn’t who we believed him to be sucked, but we can grow beyond this and we can finally find a better way to walk through life 
Dye: You’re right, I don’t want to live my life in a state of constant sadness, like being stuck in this void, I want to escape and I want to live my life on my own terms, making my way through life, the best I can. 
Iris (Gastly): Dye, I’m already proud of the man I know you’ll become
Dye: Thanks…
Umbra: Alright, but all of this is meaningless if we’re still trapped in this void
Dye: We’re not trapped Umbra?
Umbra: What do you mean we’re not?
Dye: We built the prison out of our memories, all we have to do is break out…
Umbra and Dye begin punching the ground in unison causing the memory world to be torn apart and they pound the ground harder and harder as it begins to crumble around them 
The Physical World 
The Party has found themselves overwhelmed by the very last Army of K members and by Kutakhara’s relentless sniping attacks, shadow mist and void fire bursts. They are trying to keep on equal footing with them, but Kutakahra’s attack patterns are too erratic to narrow down. 
Vaniel: I may have to concede this one…
Olivia: Any plans of escape
Euke: My parents are gonna kill me?
Kutok: That’ll hardly matter squirt 
Qiinu: We are a little outmatched 
Kutakhara: Hahaha, acknowledge my superiority in combat 
Suddenly, the door is blown open by a blast of color and light, as Dye and Umbra leave the house
Euke: Umbra!
Umbra: Hey Euke
Kutakhra’s expression turns from smug to aggravated 
Kutakhara: How did you escape my memory world?
Umbra: You made the mistake of making our memories your cells, so we broke out 
Dye: A cheap trick, not that it did you any good in the end
Kutakahra: You insolent brats, I was about to win and here you go, showing up giving these guys a second chance
Dye: Well, what can you expect from us
Umbra: We’re gonna send you directly to hell for all you did to us 
Euke: Hell yeah let’s get him
Vaniel: That is fine by me
Qiinu: We’re up first to send him down there
Kutok: I hope this was worth it
Olivia: All you wannabe villains always have the same fate…
Kutakahra: No no, it all can’t fall apart here
Umbra: You better believe it!
Dye joins the party
Fight against Kutakahra 
When he is at 90%
Vaniel: Kutakahra, how would you like to go? 
Kutakahra: Out with a bang, and I can certainly think of bigger bangs than this 
Vaniel: Well, prepare to be disappointed, because I’m going to cut off your head and knock your body down to hell for eternal damnation 
Olivia: Here here 
Resume
When Kutakahra is at 80%
Kutok: I can’t stand how the people that talk the biggest game always throw a tantrum when they’re getting curb stomped into next week 
Euke: Is every villain like that?
Kutok: Every. Single. One
Olivia: I’m sure that’s a fun quirk of villains they don’t reach you in training, but they should
Resume
When he is at 70%
Umbra: He really doesn’t seem all that powerful now that I’m fighting that monster with you by my side?
Dye: I can say the same to you, I thought he was some powerful arch wizard, turns out he’s just an asshole with an ego too large for his own head 
Kutakahra: Spoiled brats
Resume
When Kutakahra is at 60%
Kutakahra: You know I can see why no one is having kids these days?
Olivia: You know nothing about parenthood form what I’m seeing and hearing 
Euke: My parents, are awesome Kutakahra, and I’ll follow by example and defeat you too 
Kutakahra: You pathetic brainless child, you will do no such thing!!
Resume
When Kutakahra is at 50%
Kutakahra: Umbra, Dye, let’s try again one more time as a real family
Umbra: As far as I’m concerned Kutakahra, I have a real family more important than you
Dye: Me and Umbra can live just fine all one our own, we don’t need you by our side anymore 
Umbra: You can’t divide us or make us slaves to you, we’re our own people 
Kutakahra: No, I made you to serve me
Umbra: We found our own purpose
Dye: And it’s not involving you at all
Resume
When Kutakahra is at 40%
Olivia: You know Vaniel, this fight is a showing of an incredible showcase of generational healing?
Vaniel: Yeah…we’re the descendants of sworn enemies against each other, yet we assist each other to this extent and Euke, who is a descendent of heroes who fought against our predecessors is helping us now
Olivia: This is how we make our world a better place 
Resume
When Kutakahra is at 30%
Kutok: I will say, it’s an honor serving with people who are far above my station 
Olivia: Kutok, you are not above our station, and you’re a powerful warrior who’s welcome anywhere
Kutok: Aw shucks Olivia, that means a lot to me…
Olivia: No problem 
Resume
When Kutakahra is at 20%
Vaniel: For someone who used to gloat a lot, the wind certainly got knocked out of your sails Kutakahra, lost your evil mojo?
Kutakahra: …
Dye: He knows his time is about to run out
Kutakahra: No my name, will live on forever…
Resume
When Kutakahra is at 10%
Umbra: Any last words Kutakahra, I’ll give you that much?
Kutakahra: I will not be forgotten, I will be marred on this world like a nasty scar and I will survive even this
Dye: No, you’ve had enough 
Umbra: Well said
Resume
When Kutakahra is defeated, he staggers back, in genuine shock that he lost, in his rage he tries to something horrific 
Kutakahra turns into smoke again and grabs Euke by the neck 
Euke: ARRRP
Kutakahra: You let me go, or I turn prodigy boy into sidewalk paste
Umbra: You’ve gone far enough 
As Kutakahra tries to kill Euke, he finds himself unable to move, as Euke effortlessly falls down to the ground
Olivia: Heh, smart kid
Kutakahra: What’s happening to me?
Umbra (Gastly): What you deserve
Before Kutakahra can let out a scream, Umbra pulls him into his own shadow, condemning him to an eternal prison and then remembering from his shadow, still on the ground, with no body to be seen. 
Dye: Well, that was wild Umbra
Vaniel: Safe to say we won’t be seeing him again
Euke: Thanks for saving me Umbra
Umbra: No problem, you guys, The Century Corps, are my new home
Vaniel: I’m not a part of this 
Dye: Well I am too
Olivia: You know what, I’m sure nobody will object to this
Qiinu: We agree
Kutok: Welp, who wants to go back to the portal
And so, The Party headed back to the portal, to go back to Chennai. 
== Casting Shadows Epilogue ==
The Party emerged from Veinph’s portal, with Fractal still there looking over them
Veinph: Oh…thank god you’re back…I’m so fucking exhausted. 
Fractal: Aright Veinph, let’s get you to bed
Veinph: Yes Ma’m 
Fractal began escorting Veinph off to bed as our heroes stood in the lobby
Kutok: So Umbra, Dye, what’s next for you?
Umbra: We’ve got nowhere else to go but up right?
Kutok: Yeah…
Dye: We’re thinking we’re gonna stay with the Century Corps..
Olivia: Hey, not a bad choice
Vaniel: Yeah, that’s a good fit for you two, I wish you the best of luck with that 
Euke: I can’t wait to see you two more often
Umbra: I can’t wait to see you more too squirt 
Qiinu: We think this will be great
Suddenly, the lines are rushed by two clearly exasperated individuals who rush to pick up Euke
Euke: MOM! DAD! PUT ME DOWN!!
Vaniel: It was nice knowing you Olivia 
Olivia: Me too
Thanna: Oh my god Euke…We’ve got no words for you
Erhan: Other than how PROUD we are 
Vaniel: WHAT
Olivia: Wait, you don’t want to kill us?
Thanna: He’s fighting baddies I lost my powers against and he’s coming out victorious, I love my baby boy he’s so good at taking names
Dye: Oh hey you’re part of the original group that fought against Kutakahra and Phote
Erhan: The one and only 
Iris (Gastly): Hey guys 
Thanna: IRIS!!
Vaniel: I knew I wasn't crazy
Thanna: How has she been here?
Dye: It’s a long story 
Erhan: Maybe not that long
Umbra: Hehehe
And for the first time in her entire life, Umbra began to genuinely laugh, as a wave of joy which was previously foreign to her engulfed her body
She had finally found a home.
== Black Blood Rapids Chapter 1 ==
We open deep into Canadian wilderness, a small group of Century Corps members are in a camp, having previously surveyed the wilderness. The sky is darkened as a grim overcast hangs over their heads. The small group is currently contacting someone others via hologram 
Atlantic (Over Hologram): So, the reports are true, the river is full of crests?
We move over to the person she’s talking too
Hudson: Yeah, that’s correct, I have no idea how this is possible 
Atlantic (Over Hologram): Hey, it’s your area of expertise, not mine
Indica (Over Hologram): Regardless of that, you need to get to the bottom of this
Griay: Affirmative 
Hudson: And if we need you?
Indica (Over Hologram): We’re nearby, don’t worry about us 
Hudson: Heh, makes me glad to hear 
Atlantic (Over Hologram): Alright, we gotta go finish up our current work here, see you guys soon 
Atlantic and Indica end the holo-call
Griay: They sure are a busy bunch
Hudson: They’re Septarian Guard members now, way above my station 
Griay: I guess that’s true
Hudson: Let me get the others, it’s time to set off 
Griay: How about I do it?
Hudson: No no I insist I do it
Griay: Fine by you, go do wha-
Suddenly, a crackle of branches is heard, as someone slowly approaches them. 
???: Are you Century Corps?
Hudson: Yeah, what of it?
The strange Centennial brought their massive rifle up into the scene at the two soldiers 
???: My name is Boone and I reckon you stay out of these woods?
Hudson: There’s a mystery afoot, my colleagues are here to discover why the river is logged with what look like discarded crests
Boone: You won’t be findin the answers ye be lookin for 
Griay: Why won’t we?
Boone: Let me just say, you won’t 
The other members of the Century Corps expedition team emerged from their tents at the sound of Boone
Vivuhal: Hey, uh, what’s the meaning of what’s going on outside?
Wadah: Let an old soul sleep for a bit longer
Hudson: Hey you guys are awake, 
Wadah: I don’t feel all that awake 
Griay: Eh it’s whatever, we’ve gotta go see the river anyway 
Wadah: Now who’s the fellow with the really big rifle?
Boone: My name is Boone, and I wouldn’t go looking for a fight 
Hudson: We’re not looking for a fight, just an answer 
Boone: Then you’re not asking a good question 
Vivuhal: Are we done here with the pleasantries, we’ve got a mystery to get too
Hudson: An event like this is unprecedented 
Boone: Fine…but if you must go I must come with you
Griay: Fun
Hudson: I’ll allow it
Wadah: I see no reason why you wouldn’t?
Hudson: I don’t either
Boone: All right, but let it be known I’ve got a bad feeling about this, your group is just a danger magnet. 
The group emerges from the woods and begins heading towards the river bank, it’s part water, part blood, black blood, formed from stray crests clumping together.
Hudson: This collection of crests lining the river bank should not be possible
Vivuhal: What do you mean by that Hudson?
Hudson: Crests are essentially a physical manifestation of destiny imprinted on a person. They should not be able to ripped away like that unless you sever someone’s connection to their own humanity. 
Vivuhal: Well if that stuff would have prevented this from happening in theory, then why can’t Centennials gain crests?
Hudson:  The reason Centennials cannot be binded to crests is still unknown but I believe the reason why is because Centennials were created without the necessary components to form their own destiny that allows crests that bind to living organisms. 
Vivuhal: Well if that’s the case how do I have such a natural affixiation to our natural world via aether
Hudson: It’s something you were built to do, so you were built to carry large amounts of aether in your body
Vivuhal: That makes a lot of sense, it’s pretty insightful 
Griay: Thanks for the lesson Crest guy
Boone: Heh, so why the heck are they bonded to a river?
Hudson: They look like pollution, like they were thrown into there by someone else?
Wadah: Someone who can rip off crests?
Vivuhal: Can someone like that exist…
Hudson: No clue, but we need someone who can take us down the river?
Boone: There’s someone up ahead named Marmin, a life-long friend of mine. 
Hudson: Can you take us to him?
Boone: I’m not sure I want too
Griay: Please man, we’re not going to get anywhere if we don’t have a boat. 
Boone: Ok fine, his boat should be up ahead, he docks it either nearby or outside his abode
Hudson: Thank you Boone
Boone: No problem, now let’s hurry up, he’s coming 
Hudson: Who’s coming?
Boone: You’ll see
Begin Black Blood Riverbank 1
When you’re 25% of the way through, a strange human made of darkness begins staggering towards the party..
Boone: He knows we’re here
Hudson: Who knows?
The hollowed human begins speaking
Hollowed Man: The Crest Queen  takes no prisoners
Hudson: The Crest Queen?
Griay: Wait, I remember someone who called herself The Crest Queen
Vivuhal: You do?
Griay: Yeah…she locked me in this armor…
Hudson: You…can’t be fucking serious…not those old bastards again, why do they want to cause pain and misery to everyone
???: Maybe it’s because misery tastes so delicious…
Boone: YOU
Boone begins firing several rounds into the sky as the strange figure shrouded in black flies down
Griay: Who the heck is this guy?
???: I’ll catch you up on my exploits, I’m a scavenger, I pick up the discards of the world, I circle above those close to death and thrive on their fear and misery. That doesn’t mean I don’t kill people, I kill people, lots of people.  The world thought I died, but they can’t kill me. I’ll always be circling around the world, like a Buzzard. 
Hudson: Wait, THAT Buzzard?
The Buzzard: HAHAHAHAHAHA, you have an acute memory, I did kill a member of your guild before
Boone: You sick twisted bastard, I’ll put you in the ground right now
Boone aims their rifle at The Buzzard but their hands are quivering with fear as they can’t pull the trigger
The Buzzard: You’re cute, but my darkness is pervasive and I’ll take crests as I see fit from the victims I make, but those unworthy of being absorbed, I throw into the river and I can only take the best crests this world has to offer. 
Hudson: So you’re responsible for why this place is like this?
The Buzzard: Well not entirely, I’d like you to meet the lucky, lucky inhabitants of this twisted forest. 
Suddenly, a horde of small children appear, their hearts marked by malice and darkness, darkness eminantes from them as they just appear as crestless puppets
Hollowed Children: Kill..kill…killl…
Griay: What the-
Boone: …
The Buzzard: Meet my new army, The Hollowed Orphans…
Hudson: These children…they were innocent 
The Buzzard: I’m not the one who broke them, I just found them as empty shells
Vivuhal: That’s horrifying 
Wadah: I’ve seen enough of this
Wadah begins using their strongest wind magics, blowing away the Hollowed Orphans and The Buzzard
The Buzzard: I can’t stand this wind, so I guess I’ll fly
The Buzzard opens his wings and lets the wind take him away as the Hollowed Orphans begin falling into the river, their black hollowed blood merging with the river
Hudson: WADAH STOP!
Wadah: Why should I?
Hudson: They’re melting!!
Wadah stops their magic
Wadah: That is horrific. 
Hudson: You’re absolutely right 
Griay: Well, we have to put a stop to this
Hudson: And to do that we have to find Marmin
Boone: Right…
Griay: You ok Boone?
Boone: No, I’ll be fine
Continue Black Blood Riverbank 1
When you’re at 50% completion 
Vivuhal: Hey Hudson?
Hudson: Yeah Vivu?
Vivuhal: How does The Buzzard remove crests?
Hudson: I have no idea
Vivuhal: What do you mean?
Hudson: His methods are beyond foreign to me. 
Vivuhal: That so
Hudson looks at the river, the black blood covering the crystal blue water
Resume
When you’re at 75% completion
Boone: The Buzzard is an evil fuck
Hudson: We know
Boone: I…hate that guy
Hudson: Mind telling us why?
Boone: Why do I need to tell you anymore than what he says?
Hudson: It’s clear something happened else between you two 
Boone: …
Hudson: So?
Boone: Nothing happened 
Resume
When you’ve reached the end, a small dock shop is seen very nearby 
Griay: Is this your friend’s place?
Boone: Workplace yeah, although I wonder how much of a business there is in sailing up a river that’s mostly blood. 
Griay: Well, we’re prepared to sell out 
Boone: That won’t be necessary if he’s not here
Wadah: So you’ve got an unreliable friend?
Boone: Marmin is not unreliable, just erratic in his behavior 
Suddenly someone else emerges from the shop
Marmin: Boone? Customers?
Boone: Well look it’s the mad man himself?
Marmin: What are you doing with the Century Corps?
Boone: They want to go down the Black Blood Rapids
Marmin: Need I ask why
Hudson: We’ve got to go down the river to find the source of this?
Vivuhal: Didn’t we just learn the source of this?
Hudson: Somebody left this area in a state for The Buzzard to exploit
Griay: The so called Crest Queen
Hudson: Yeah, if she’s who we think she is she’s gotta be stopped 
Griay: Well she wasn’t there when we took out her groom, so I wonder what she was doing?
Hudson: No clue?
Wadah: Pardon me, but who are you talking about in this instance?
Hudson: Our dear friends have two asshole parents that seem to always be causing problems in this area
Wadah: Alright, I see the issue now
Vivuhal: So that’s it?
Marmin: Pardon me, but are we ready to head out?
Boone: You’ve got a boat large enough for the six of us?
Marmin: Why do you even ask?
Boone: Heh, fair enough
Griay: So, can we hit the water now?
Marmin: Yes
Boone: I don’t like the descent we’re about to make
Marmin: Don’t worry friend, I will lead the way
Hudson: Alright, let’s go
Marmin joins the Party 
Marmin takes The Party out to his boat and they all get on it and depart into the river 
== Black Blood Rapids Chapter 2 ==
The Century Corps are now on the water, sailing down the river. The entrance into the riverbank is rocky, but soon, the Century Corps are in sailing form, and Boone and Marmin have went along as the navigation of this river requires an expert, however, it appears the boat is having trouble moving.
Boone: Marmin, what gives?
Marmin: It does?
Boone: I’m asking why we aren’t moving?
Marmin: Well the breeze is dead and we need a solid breeze to not be stuck here as something is preventing us from moving
Marmin points to the blackblood in the water as it’s sticking to the bottom of the ship like a tether of some kind, it is also in the engine of the boat. 
Boone: How is it  doing that?
Hudson: It appears that when removed from their host, the crests have trouble latching onto something 
Vivuhal: That’s why it pinning down the boat?
Hudson: It’s what I think anyway
Griay: Well if only we had someone who could generate a strong gust of wind
Wadah: Hi 
Griay: Hi 
Wadah: So?
Boone: Yeah do the thing please
Wadah: Yes sir 
Wadah begins using their wind powers to propel the boat down the river, freeing up the engine to help move the ship on its own. 
Marmin: Boone, are you sure you want to continue going?
Boone: I must, I must
Hudson: Again, mind letting us in on the situation?
Boone: Yes…I do…
Hudson: Your choice 
Griay: I have a feeling we’ll find out sooner rather than later
Silence permeates around the group for a bit, before they see the Hollowed Orphans lining up on opposite sides of the Riverbank
Marmin: What the hell? What’s going on?
Vivuhal: The Hollowed Orphans?
Wadah: Wait guys…
Hudson: Prepare to fight 
The Hollowed Orphans begin jumping off the riverbank, throwing themselves at the water and at the boat, not caring about what happens next to them. 
Wadah: I’ll stop this
Wadah begins blowing wind to repel the Hollowed Orphans but  enough of them melt into the water to immobilize the boat again as they begin boarding the ship.
Marmin: I’m just the navigator…I can’t fight that well 
Boone: Don’t worry friend, I’ll protect you from the hollowed
Hudson: Hey Griay, send a message to Indica and Atlantic telling them to come and find us 
Griay: You want me to send a message instead of fighting these guys?
Hudson: Yeah you have the communicator thing
Griay: Ok fine
Vivuhal: So that leaves four of us?
Wadah: Four is enough Vivuhal 
Boone: Let’s give these poor souls the mercy they deserve…
Hudson: I’m sorry for what I’m about do 
Fight against The Hollowed Orphans long enough for Griay to send the message 
After One Minute of fighting 
Hudson: How do we do this in a humane way?
Boone: This is the humane way 
Around the ship, pools of black blood begin forming, and from it the party can hear lingering thoughts of the Orphans before they became the empty shells coopted by The Buzzard
Lingering Voice #1: I just want to be loved 
Lingering Voice #2: We didn’t deserve this 
Lingering Voice #3: I don’t want to be your puppet… 
The Party has trouble focusing on the fight when these voices begin crying out 
Boone: I…
Vivuhal: Hudson how is this happening 
Hudson: I…don’t know….
Vivuhal: But…we need to know
Hudson: I don’t know everything and this..is new to me
Lingering Voice #4: Why can’t I get my happy ending 
Resume 
After Two Minutes of fighting, Griay finally manages to get a signal out from her hologram and begins recording 
Griay (Recording a message): Hey, Indica and Atlantic, we’re in some deep territory here and there are threats greater than we thought in here, we’re turning our location on so you can find us but the foes we’re facing here have us out of our depth. We will need your help to put an end to the madness. It’s The Buzzard, and your mom, they are both causing chaos here, so please, get to us as soon as you can
Griay finishes recording and send the message, it will reach Indica and Atlantic on time. 
Hudson: Thanks Griay 
Marmin: Can she join the fight now? I don’t feel comfortable with my boat being barraged by these Hollowed Orphans
Boone: Marmin, I know this isn’t your strong suit, but why don’t you fight?
Lingering Voice #5: Beaten, blacked and bruised, my whole life is nothing but misery
Marmin: Well I’m not brave like you
Boone: What do you mean not brave?
Marmin: Well, I’m a coward, I run from the first sign of danger
Griay: We’re all scared but we should all make an effort to help our continuous cause
Marmin: Uhm…
Marmin moves backwards and knocks over a Hollowed Orphan, sending them into the water below 
Boone: Good job Marmin
Resume
After three minutes of fighting The Hollowed Orphans mostly dissipate 
Hudson: Ok, that was…an odyssey…
Lingering Voice #6: We used to play in the woods 
Boone: Why are they still here
Lingering Voice #7: I’m just the scraps my parents didn’t want 
Griay: The suffering of the Hollowed Orphans looks like it’s damaging the ship’s structure 
The various pieces of splintered wood are breaking 
Marmin: Well brace yourselves, The Black Blood Rapids are up ahead 
Hudson: What do you mean by “Black Blood Rapids”
Marmin points upahead as they are approaching the rapids 
Griay: Oh boy
More Hollowed Orphans begin lining up on the rocky cliffside
Vivuhal: Is there anyway we can save them
Lingering Voice #8: Nothing good ever happens to someone like me 
Hudson: I don’t know, but we have to not die on the way through the river 
Marmin: I’ve got this 
Marmin begins steering the ship, while being protected by Griay but the Hollowed Orphans begin jumping again 
Vivuhal: I will try to save you 
Vivuhal begins channeling Aether Energy through their body 
Hudson: What are you doing?
Vivuhal: I think by using Aether, I can save at least one of them
Vivuhal blasts a concentrated sum of Aether at one of the Orphans
Hollowed Orphan: What is…this warmth…I feel 
The Hollowed Aether begins eating at the hollowed corpse
Vivuhal: I will save y-
The hollowed orphan bursts open like a grenade as black blood and liquid aether alike are dispelled in one major blast 
Vivuhal: I…
Wadah: You tried, everyone deserves a second chance, like I did, but the circumstances these hollowed orphans seem to be beyond saving 
Black Blood begins to pile up on the decks 
Lingering Voice #9: I wish I could have had a loving family like everyone else, instead I was given hell 
Lingering Voice #10: Thanks for trying to help us, but we often disappoint, that’s why we’re thrown away 
Fight against The Hollowed Orphans as Marmin steers the ship through The Black Blood Rapids 
When you are 35% through The Black Blood Rapids 
Hudson: Marmin? Do you think we’re going to capsize any time soon?
Marmin: No, despite the deck being filled with that black blood, we should be fine
Boone: …
Wadah: Boone, why can’t you speak
Boone: I’ve been quiet, because, I can’t..
Boone falls to the ground in what looks like pained agony. 
Boone: I can’t take this anymore…
Lingering Voice #11: I forgive you dad, you’ve always done the best you could for me 
Resume
When  you are 65% through The Black Blood Rapids 
Hollowed Orphan: I just want to feel alive again 
Vivuhal: I wish I could help you in that endeavor
Hollowed Orphan: Just let me die 
Vivuhal hesitates before firing a surge of Aether at the Hollowed Orphan, watching as they explode 
Lingering Voice #12: Mercy, thank you for mercy, young hero 
Vivuhal: …
Hudson: We all have to make hard choices
Vivuhal: I just wish…wish we could do more
Wadah: You do all you can 
Boone: But still…I wish  I could have done more 
Resume
When you are through the Black Blood Rapids, a waterfall appears on the horizon 
Hudson: You’ve gotta be kidding me
Marmin: Well…this was coming
Griay: Looks like we’re gonna be going overboard soon…
Marmin: If I can steer my ship away from the waterfall, we can dock on the riverbanks, pull the ship ashore 
Suddenly, another aspect of Darkness appears on the Horizon 
Vivuhal: More poor souls?
Boone: No
Boone begins firing rounds into the shadow of darkness approaching, indicating who it is
The Buzzard: Hello wayward travelers, how was the reception? 
The Buzzard lands on the boat
Hudson: Bastard, tell us what your goal is
The Buzzard: My goal?
Griay: What do you GAIN from this?
The Buzzard: I feed, feed off all the hate and malice left over from the empty shells leftover from removed crests so that they can’t feel any emotions at all
Boone: You BASTARD 
Boone fires a shot at The Buzzard and The Buzzard swoops down and lands on Boone, The rest of the party tries to intervene but The Buzard creates a field of darkness that prevents them from interfering 
The Buzzard: Oh Boone, you and your need for revenge, I haven’t felt this excited since devouring your family in cold blood
Boone: I HATE YOU 
Hudson tries to swing one of his cleavers at The Buzzard but is once again blocked 
The Buzzard: Their souls were so yummy but you, you seem like you’d taste bad 
Boone: I H-
The Buzzard then rips off Boone’s right leg, digging his claws deep into their flesh 
Boone: AAAARGH 
Griay: Dear god 
The Buzzard then proceeds to examine the torn leg
Boone: AAAAARAGAHAHAHHAHAA
All Boone can do while The Buzzard rips off their other leg is laugh uncontrooablly, and the field of Darkness then begins to dissipate 
Vivuhal: YOU DON’T DESERVE TO LIVE 
Vivuhal begins to shoot blasts of Aether deep into The Buzzard
The Buzzard: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH
The pained shriek of The Buzzard causes him to fly around in agony and tear off part of the ship, causing it to veer towards the waterfall 
Boone: Hehehe, I’m a joke…
Lingering Voice #11: Our family is a joke dad, A sad pathetic joke 
Hudson: Uhm, looks like we’re about capsize 
Marmin: Hold on for dear life!!
Lingering Voice #12: As if life was ever dear
The ship begins to careen down the waterfall into the abyss
== Black Blood Rapids Chapter 3 ==
The ship the party is on has careened down the waterfall, falling a great distance before the ship hits the water, severely damaged, Boone is still bleeding on the deck of the ship, with their blood staining the wooden planks of the ship. Marmin has temporarily anchored the ship.
Boone: Hehe, I’m gonna die…gonna die a good for nothing nobody who couldn’t even keep their family alive 
Lingering Voice #11: You can join the rest of us 
Vivuhal uses aether blasts to begin destroying the black blood spots on the ship, eradicating the lingering voices 
Hudson: Well…we are all still in one piece 
Griay: Really?
Hudson: Ok, most of all are in one piece
Boone: Hehe…he…he…
Marmin: Well…would now be a good time to mention my expertise in prosthetics 
Griay: Yes, it would be a good time
Boone: You can’t fix me…I’m already broken…
Wadah: You’ll be ok Boone
Boone: No…
Boone falls unconscious due to blood loss
Marmin: Oh shit, let me try to help them 
Marmin abandons his post as navigator to try to save Boone, Vivuhal ends up taking over his post. 
Hudson: So, we’re stuck in the dark Canadian wilderness, with our boat severely damaged 
Vivuhal: Yes, we are
Wadah: So what’s the plan?
Griay: Plan, uh, we’re far removed from any semblance of civilization. 
Vivuhal: The ship’s seems like it will buckle under it’s own weight soon
Marmin has finished bandaging and stopping the bleeding of Boone’s injuries. He is now moving onto readying the prosthetic legs. 
Griay: So what’s the plan
Vivuhal: I’m going to use my aether sense to try to help us through this 
Marmin: Hold on buddy
Marmin is continuing the process 
Hudson: Now Vivuhal, where do you think we’re headed
Vivuhal: I believe we’re going into a dark forest 
Wadah: The entrance to the mouth of our adversary?
Griay: The Crest Queen must be neutralized before reconstruction and cleaning of the river can begin
Hudson: I agree, but also, we should probably meet up with Indica and Atlantic before further actions
Suddenly, a joyous scream could be heard from far away
Vivuhal: Did you hear that?
A torrent of water rushes up, covering the ship’s deck, climbing onboard the vessel is a very soaked Indica 
Indica: I got my swim in 
Hudson: YOUR SWIM!!
Indica: Yeah I swam down the river and then jumped off the waterfall, that scream you probably heard was me yelling “CANNONBALL” 
Another splash is heard, covering the deck in water, and Atlantic emerges from the river climbing onto the boat
Atlantic: Never swimming in this river again 
Griay: Ok
Indica: So uh-
Indica gestures to the unconscious Boone and Marmin working on their injuries
Indica: Want to explain what the surgeon is doing on board?
Hudson: Needed a navigator
Indica: Why didn’t you just swim down here?
Hudson: We didn’t know where we're going
Indica: Skill issue 
Hudson: The fuck you mean skill issue
Vivuhal: I think she means we’re unskilled being unable to navigate and swim down the river at the same time and she’d be right if we weren’t transmitting our location to her
Atlantic: Hmm, they’ve got a point
Indica: Ok, buzzkill 
Griay: So how do you want to deal with Ms Crest?
Indica: Let’s not bother with empty titles like “My Mother” or “Crest Queen”
Wadah: So what are we working with?
Indica: How about her name, Vio. 
Wadah: So this Vio character is a bit of, a “total jackass”
Atlantic: Absolutely 
Hudson: She ordered the death of my father and mother 
Indica: Dickwad made my life a living hell 
Griay: And also trapped me in my armor for an eternity and made me into a keeper of kidnapped orphans 
Atlantic: I was one of them and ran away the exact same way as Indica 
Indica: If you did it in the exact same way as me, where's the friend you think is dead that helped you run away?
Atlantic: Well not exactly like you 
Vivuhal: Ok, so Vio is a big fat evil asshole 
Indica: We are putting her six feet under 
Wadah: First things first, taking that bird out of the sky 
Indica: The Buzzard huh
Hudson: Speaking of Buzz, how is it going over there Doc 
Marmin is putting the prosthetics in place for Boone, stabilizing them so they’d be able to walk again when they wake 
Marmin: I’m almost done. 
Vivuhal: Should I raise the anchor now?
Marmin: You may, lead us through The Dark Forest 
Indica: We’re coming for you Vio
Vivuhal orders the Anchor to be lifted as they embark through The Dark Forest 
Indica and Atlantic join the party
Begin Dark Forest 
When the party is 25% of the way into the Dark Forest
Indica: So,it’s been a while since the four of us have been in one place?
Griay: Well you’ve been busy with The Septarian Guard 
Indica: Well yeah, busiest job in the whole guild
Atlantic: Understatement of the year
Hudson: Well I’m glad you are with us now
Indica: Yeah, me too
Hudson: I defied death to see you again, searched for years to find you and now I see you maybe once a year, ironic isn't it
Indica: You made your own life in the years you missed, I don’t hold it against you 
Hudson: Me neither 
Resume Dark Forest 
When the party is 50% of the way into the Dark Forest, strange purple ruins begin flying past the party 
Indica: So I encountered the Hollowed Orphans on the way here, but what the heck is this stuff?
Hudson: Must be Vio’s magic 
Wadah: A powerful foe we are up against 
Vivuhal: Is this Crest magic? 
Hudson: Yes it is
Indica: Is this what she was doing when we beheaded “My Father”
Atlantic: That seems to be the case
Resume Dark Forest
When the party is 65% through the Dark Forest, Boone begins to wake up
Boone: M…
Marmin: Boone, lay back down 
Boone: Marmin…thank you…I can feel my legs again 
Marmin: SIt down Boone, you’re in no condition to fight again 
Boone: As long as that stupid bird flies over our heads…I will never stop fighting…
Marmin: Boone, rest
Boone: No…I can’t
Resume Dark Forest 
When the party is 85% through the Dark Forest, the river comes to a stop, meaning The Party has to disembark 
Boone: Feeling the ground under me feels different, now that I have legs made of the bones of the earth 
Vivuhal: Alright, let’s move quickly to fight against Vio. 
Marmin: Yeah, let’s get-
Suddenly, dark swirling and cackling can be heard 
Boone: Damn you 
Marmin: I’m a coward, I’m a coward, I’m a coward, I’m a-
Boone: SHUT UP, YOU’RE NOT A COWARD 
Vivuhal: Get down here you big stupid bird 
The Buzzard begins to fly down 
Marmin: I’m not a coward, I’m not a coward-
The Buzzard flies down at the group but Marmin lights a torch and runs at him, burning away some of his darkness as The Buzzard rips Marmin apart 
Boone: Well, at least you died brave 
Vivuhal: Quick let’s him while he’s damaged 
The Buzzard: Hehe, I’ll fight you even now you dirty teamers
Indica: I could kill you by myself, but it’s more fun with friends 
Hudson: Let’s drive away your darkness 
Fight against The Buzzard 
When The Buzzard is at 85% 
The Buzzard: I’m eternal misery, eternal darkness and eternal death
Hudson: Why are you eternal? 
Atlantic: I think it has to do with some kind of ego complex 
The Buzzard: Let’s just say, I’m a primordial force, like a darkest mirror 
Vivuhal: Like a dark mirror?
Resume
When The Buzzard is at 70%
Boone: Buzzard? What is your vendetta against me?
The Buzzard: Nothing, it’s just that your suffering tastes delicious, it’s a delicacy for me.
Boone: You..really are a bastard 
Wadah: Well Boone, I’m surprised you’re in good fighting form with you just being adjusted to your legs
The Buzzard: I’m also surprised, great work
Boone: Shut up
Wadah: Noted
Boone: Not you
Resume
When The Buzzard is at 55%
Indica:  So Buzzard, how did you survive your fight against Falconer and Nest
The Buzzard: A fluke, but as long as people have hate in their hearts, I’m never truly gone 
Indica: Alright
Vivuhal: Well, we’re gonna defeat you and keep going 
The Buzzard: Keep moving, keep going, your little legs will run out on you eventually 
Resume
When The Buzzard is at 40%
Hudson: Do you ever tire of causing misery
The Buzzard: What do you think?
Boone: He’ll keep eating away the happiness of everyone in the world, everyone until they are all emotionless husks like those victims 
The Buzzard: Astute you are, I’m just a hungry hungry demon 
Resume
When The Buzzard is at 25%
Boone: You killed my family and Marmin, how many more bodies will pile up before you are satisfied 
The Buzzard: The fun part is that, it doesn’t ever stop, since I will never die, never go away 
Vivuhal: You seem to have a natural weakness to Aether 
The Buzzard: Yeah, I find the substance quite unpleasant 
Vivuhal: How about I chuck you full of it
Vivuhal unloads a powerful Aether attack into The Buzzard, dealing a substantial blow to him, eroding the darkness around his face
Familiar Voice: The darkness that surrounds me, the darkness that traps me 
The Buzzard: No, GET BACK IN THERE
Indica: Wait what wa-
The Buzzard’s darkness covers up the familiar voice 
Vivuhal: You’re holding someone hostage?
The Buzzard: I’m always keeping prisoners
Resume
When The Buzzard is defeated, he momentarily falls to the ground
Indica: Ok, let’s execute him 
Hudson: Any last words 
Griay: Anything at all
Boone: You’re welcome to say anything
Atlantic: Anything you like
Everyone raises their weapons to attack 
The Buzzard: See you another day
As they attack, The Buzzard unleashes a powerful shockwave, his dark mirror technique, and when everyone else is knocked down, he flies away 
Wadah: Well, that’s unfortunate 
Vivuhal: We’ll see him again 
Boone: Well…I’ll still follow you to the end of this winding road
Hudson: Well then, we’re off to see Vio
== Black Bloods Rapid Chapter 4 ==
The party has finally emerged from the Dark Forest, and now find themselves face to face with a run down keep, the home of Vio.
Indica: The witch lies here
Hudson: Let’s tear down this legacy of pain and darkness 
Boone: I’m with it till the end 
Atlantic: The witch of the woods 
Wadah: Our work is never done
Griay: Heh, let’s show her what we’re made of 
Vivuhal: Let’s all approach it together
As the Party walks towards the keep, a group of Hollowed Orphans covered in purple runes attack the party 
Indica (Swinging at the attackers): This must be one of Vio’s special controlling runes 
Griay: Yeah. that would seem to be the case. 
Wadah: Well let’s give her forces the what for 
Fight against The Hollowed Orphans
When you win, The Party continues the walk towards Vio’s Keep 
Begin Approach to Vio’s Keep 
When the party is 10% of the way to the keep, another group of Hollowed Orphans attack the party, but Indica and Hudson use their weapons to chop them into tiny bits, scattering them across the ground like ashes
Hudson: This is the only mercy that we can provide
Atlantic: At least I saved myself before I succumbed to this fate
Resume the Approach to Vio’s Keep
When the party is 20% of the way to the keep, another group of Hollowed Orphans attack the party, but Vivuhal unleashes a large blast of aether that destroys them before they can swarm on the party 
Griay: We are making it there no matter what she throws at us 
Hudson: The world around us has suffered enough due to that woman 
Resume the Approach to Vio’s Keep
When the party is 30% of the way to the keep, yet another group of Hollowed Orphans engage the party but Wadah unleashes a large gust of wind to knock them down, when they are down, Boone fires a few powerful rounds into the knocked out orphans, black blood begin to pool on the floor 
Boone: I wish this could bring my family back
Indica: At least the family you had was one of love, unlike my family of evil dickheads, you tried your best no matter what the world did to you
Resume the Approach to Vio’s Keep 
When the party is 40% of the way to the keep, purple runes that look like crests begin attaching themselves to the ground 
Hudson: What the heck is going on?
Suddenly, the purple runes explode, expelling powerful energy trying to steal the crests from the party 
Vivuhal: I won’t let you 
Vivuhal uses their aether energy proficiency to absorb the purple energy into their body, dispersing it
Atlantic: Thanks for the save Vivu
Griay: But are you ok?
Vivuhal: Oh yeah, it’s no problem 
Resume the Approach to Vio’s Keep
When the party is 50% of the way to Vio’s Keep, more purple runes fly towards the party as more contigents of the Hollowed Orphans approach, Vivuhal diffuses the Purple Runes before they land by sending small amounts of Aether at them like homing missiles while the Hollowed Orphans are taken care of by Griay using the Governess Suit to lock on a powerful projectile while Atlantic slams it around with her sticks. 
Wadah: Let’s send Vio a direct message, we’re close enough 
Indica: What do you mean?
Wadah: I’ll try to blow her keep off the map
Indica: Oh that’s brilliant 
Wadah: I thought so
Hudson: Alright, do it
Wadah unleashes a power gust of wind, one of their most powerful. It tears through the sunken plain and begins to damage Vio’s keep, tearing one of the parts of the roof off. More purple runes attempt to damage the party, but Wadah’s gust continues to repel them. 
Eventually, the keep is significantly damaged enough to notice a distinct lack of movement
Hudson: Good job Wadah
Wadah: Thank you
Boone: Let’s continue our approach 
Resume
When the party is  60% of the way to Vio’s Keep, a small group of purple Hollowed Orphans approach the party 
Hudson: Looks like Vio’s elite guard 
Atlantic: I got this
Atlantic uses her sticks to defeat the enemies in front of her with relative ease, moving swift and striking hard
Resume
When the party is 70% of the way to Vio’s Keep, purple runes continue flying at the party but Wadah blasts them back towards The Keep, damaging it even more
Hudson: I think she’s running out of steam
Vivuhal: It sure looks like it
Atlantic: We’ve only got a little bit left to go 
Resume
When the party is 80% of the way to Vio’s Keep, Black Crest Clumps begin surrounding the party, emitting a powerful aura. 
Hudson: Let’s take care of the problem in front of us 
Hudson slashes at the crest clumps, but they don’t dissipate and instead circle around them more
Vivuhal: Hudson?
Hudson: I don’t know what to do 
Vivuhal: What does your knowledge say about this?
Hudson: It’s unprecedented 
Indica: Then we’ll just have to do something unprecedented 
Atlantic: The swan crest was always important to Vio right?
Indica: Yeah?
Hudson: The Swan Crest meant that you’d be an elegant royal according to the notions she used to have,  but you ended up defying their  destiny to run away from them
Indica: My crest also defied the destiny they had for me
Atlantic: Indica, we can do this
Indica and Atlantic take swings at the crest clumps and end up destroying them
Vivuhal: Way to go!!
Indica: We’re going to end this today 
Resume the approach to Vio’s Keep 
When the party is 90% of the way to Vio’s Keep, a final group of Hollowed Orphans appear 
Vivuhal: We’re so close to the end 
Atlantic: Let’s take them down 
Hudson: Follow my lead 
Fight against The Hollowed Orphans
When you win
Boone: I’m relieved to be done with this madness 
Indica: Let’s go, forward, forward one more time
Resume the Approach to Vio’s Keep
When The Party finally makes it up to Vio’s Keep, it is heavily damaged, with Vio lying on her throne, looking drained 
Vio: Look who came home to dear old mom?
Vio tries to attack The Party but Hudson parries the attack while Indica rushes past the attack and pins Vio to the throne via stabbing her sword through her gut 
Vio: Hehe, (Blood comes out of her mouth), well, looks like I have daughter of the year 
Indica: You’re a sociopath who kidnapped and broke thousands of orphans, we released them all from your grasp on our way to give you what you deserve 
Vivuhal: You’re a monster, and nothing we can do to you can ever make up for all the harm you’ve caused throughout your life 
Boone: Your actions led to the indirect death of my family 
Hudson: The direct death of my family…and me
Vio: Aww, her little corrupter friend
Griay: You trapped me in a suit of armor and made me a slave
Atlantic: You kidnapped me and tried to make me your perfect hier 
Wadah: Death isn’t enough 
Vio: Aww, well, you may have me bleeding out….but I have one more trick left 
Indica: No more games 
Without another word, Indica moves her sword out of Vio’s gut and beheads her 
Hudson: That was for the best 
Atlantic: I wonder what this trick was?
Suddenly, a purple hand grabs Atlantic and tries to rip the crest off of her
Atlantic: GET THIS THING OFF OF ME
Griay and Boone destroy the hand as something else rises from the keep, a giant hollow Indica with a fake Swan Crest
Atlantic: What the fuck 
Indica: Aww, she made me her last act
Hollow Indica: Looks like you have nothing left to do expect die by my hand 
Indica: Hey guys, want to knock this thing down together, destroy the last of Vio’s legacy
Hudson: It would be an honor
Griay: I’m down
Vivuhal: Let’s do it
Wadah: Let’s go
Boone: Yeah 
Atlantic: Oh what the fuck, why not 
Fight against Hollow Indica 
When Hollow Indica is at 75% 
Hollow Indica: How do you feel, being an empty shell of what you could have been 
Indica: I’m not hollow like you
Hudson: The Indica I know is strong and brave and headstrong, while you’re nothing but fake version of her made of memories 
Hollow Indica: Heh, I’ll show you
Resume against Hollow Indica 
When Hollow Indica is at 50%, she tries using her purple crest to do big damage against The Party but Hudson and Indica counter it with a combined attack 
Hollowed Indica: I’m supposed to be the superior version of you 
Indica: You’re clearly not good enough to be me
Vivuhal: Let’s show her the light 
Resume against Hollow Indica 
When Hollow Indica is at 25%, she begins to fall down, Vivuhal takes this opportunity to blast her through the eye
Boone: Nice shot
Vivuhal: Thanks 
Hudson: You’re doing kid Vivu
Atlantic: We’re bringing her to her knees
Hollow Indica: I’m clearly going to win in the end
Griay: I didn’t think your empty shell would be this much of an  arrogant gloat?
Indica: Me neither but Larkin’s clone is a dick so hey maybe all evil clones are meant to be second rate villains 
Resume against Hollow Indica
When Hollow Indica is finally defeated, she lets out one final groan of agony before disappearing 
Hudson: Well, we did it
Indica: It’s over…
Boone: What now?
Vivuhal: What do you mean by what now?
Boone: What’s left for me
Wadah: A hero’s rest for you Boone, you deserve all the peace your heart desres
Boone: I don't’ desire peace, I desire war, menaces like The Buzzard that threaten peace are always out there, I want to make sure no father has to lose a daughter again 
Indica: Well Boone, I have the authority to welcome you to the Century Corps, right here and right now 
Atlantic: Wait what
Indica: Hey shut up Gladian will just totally not care about this 
Atlantic: Oh right lovebird is in charge 
Vivuhal: Hudson, I still have so much to learn about crests after this experience 
Hudson: Me too Vivuhal, but let me tell you what? You can only do so much learning under me, you have to learn more about this on your own
Vivuhal: You mean you won’t mentor me anymore?
Hudson: No, I totally will when you need it, but you should do somethings on your own
Wadah: Well not completely on your own, I’ll be by your side every step of the way Vivuhal
Vivuhal: Thank you Wadah, and yeah, maybe I should learn more about our world 
Griay: Well, I think we learned something valuable here
Indica: What was that?
Griay: We’re the best family we’ve ever had
Indica: Hell yeah
Suddenly a strange artifact can be seen in the back of the keep
Hudson: Hey do you see that?
Griay: Let’s take it back for inspection 
And so, the Party headed back, taking their new strange artifact back with them 
== Black Blood Rapids Epilogue ==
Two Days Later 
Nest is at the Columbia Century Corps center, having been there for the past few days on some business, she is in a building with Hadane and Olivia
Hadane: So there’s a delivery coming in today?
Olivia: Well it’s already here, they were just waiting on me to show up
Nest: Oh gotcha, I wonder what it is
On that note, Wadah and Vivuhal roll in the strange artifact they found back in The Keep, a strange dark mirror 
Nest: What the hell is that
Olivia: Where did you find that 
Vivuhal: We found it in the keep, it’s a strange dark mirror of sorts 
Nest: Dark Mirror?
Hadane: It’s completely black but still shows your reflection 
Olivia walks in front of the mirror, her reflection isn’t her own but someone else’s 
Olivia: This is a bad omen 
Wadah: Also, part of it is missing
They take their attention to the broken off bottom portion 
Nest: How odd?
Wadah: Is there anything else you need to know?
Olivia: Was anyone in your operation referring to a “Dark Mirror”
Vivuhal: Yes, The Buzzard referred to himself as a ”Dark Mirror”
Nest’s vision suddenly began to go blurry
Nest: The…Buzzard…
Hadane: Uhm what?
Olivia: Oh yeah, in case you hadn’t heard, The Buzzard is back and he’s on the loose 
Nest: No…No…
Nest’s legs begin to give out as a headache comes over her
Hadane: Nest are you ok…
Nest: No…No…he’s supposed to be-
Nest falls to the floor, in disbelief, staring wide at the world
== Mariana Chapter 1 ==
Atoll (Narration): What makes a man? Is it power, is it wealth, is it strength? I didn’t know the answer to this question, despite a history as prolific as mine. I was a changing man in a changing world. No soul in history has all the answers to the great questions of the world but if they did, I would have appreciated it. I still do. The unknown terrifies us, it’s the fear of what’s out there or what could happen that often holds us back. When I was younger, I wanted to conquer the Unknown, set out and destroy the forces of ambiguity and ignorance. I had a friend who wanted to do the same, you knew her well.
9 Months Ago, Saipan 
Neve: So, the plan is to go to the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
Atoll: Yeah, the famed explorer Illinois Aeryuat set out on an expedition to the bottom back in the 1970s as her last act before disappearance, she was a true pioneer, rumored to find lost treasures like the Fountain of Youth and mystical places like Ukari Valley. 
Atoll (Narration): I was obsessed with pioneers and the lost wonders of the world at the time, Eoontaq and Centus had told me stories of legends unknown and Gladian urged me to follow my interests, so I wanted to set out the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and thus, I had contacted one of my dearest friends who had no prior obligations 
Neve: What’s at the bottom?
Atoll: Nobody knows, it’s a mystery, all I know is that we need to put together a team 
Neve: Is this expedition sanctioned by Gladian? 
Atoll: No….
Neve: Are you kidding me?
Atoll (Narration): Ok, so Gladian urging me to follow my interests didn’t include “hey go to the bottom of a death trench with a bunch of guys”, he would never be that reckless with resources, so like any rebellious teen, I lied and told him I was instead going on a supply run. The real reason I contacted Neve because at the time I knew she had something of knack about going behind the guild for “pionin conservation activities” of course I know now that this was referring to her plans to, ethnically cleanse her species but none of us knew this was happening, she was really good at hiding things behind our backs, and that was sort of why I needed her for this. 
Atoll: I told Gladian I was going with you for “pionin conservation actvities”
Neve: Oh my god why would you tell him that?
Atoll: So I could do this behind his back?
Neve: You are hopeless 
Atoll: I know, but what are you gonna do about it?
Neve: Oh shut up 
Atoll: So, do you know anyone in your circle that would want to join us?
Neve: Ok, I know someone, he’s not the most experienced fighter so we’re going to have to keep him alive, but he’s got connections and knows how to use a submarine. 
Atoll: Well, as long as he gets us to the destination 
Atoll (Narration): I should have probably kept better note of her “connections”, hindsight really is an asshole 
Atoll: I know someone else too, I met them a few weeks ago, she’s a bit smart but crazy 
Neve: How crazy?
Atoll: She has a collection of Centennial heads…
Neve: What a winner you scored Atoll 
Atoll: What can I say?
Neve: Oh my god not nearly enough you stupid knucklehead 
Atoll (Narration): I had an accomplice in all of this aside from Neve, I had met her prior when scoping out the area. 
Atoll: Well just trust me 
Neve: If you believe in this person, then let’s go, down to the bottom 
Atoll: Thank you Neve 
Atoll (Narration): Neve ended up agreeing to going to the bottom of the trench and after about a week of rudimentary planning. She had called up her accomplice and I had called up mine and we met back in Saipan to begin our descent to the bottom of the ocean 
One Week Later, Saipan 
Atoll and Neve have met up, with their respective accomplices trailing behind them 
Neve: Alright, let’s get introductions out of the way 
Atoll: Come forward please 
Their two accomplices reached them in the center of town 
Aoenen: Hello, my name is Aoenen, nice to meet you 
Sissinoe: My name is Sissinoe, (pulls out a Centennial head), nice to meet you 
Sissinoe begins running a knife alongside the head of the head
Aoenen: That’s…a little gruesome….
Neve: You guys want to tell us about yourselves?
Aoenen: Oh yes, I come from a family of Pionin merchants, my family is quite affluent and I was able to get all the necessary things for this expedition, including our vessel 
Atoll: Alright, good to know you’re a gold digger Neve 
Neve: Hey take that back 
Aoenen: What does the phrase, “gold digger” mean?
Sissinoe: It’s a phrase that applies to women who only date wealthy men
Aoenen: Huh, I had no idea
Neve: I don’t date only wealthy men, I have only had one boyfriend and he’s right here
Atoll: But statistically speaking you have only dated wealthy men, therefore, gold digger 
Neve: Shut up
Aoenen: What a fun group of people 
Sissinoe: Fun is one that is often subjective, my idea of fun is skimming the heads of the deceased, gleaming all the fleeting knowledge off of their rotting corpses 
Neve: Is that scholarly? 
Sissinoe: People tell me to learn from “great mentors”, my mentor is the cold dead sea. 
Aoenen: Ok, well, that’s weird 
Atoll: She knows a lot 
Sissinoe: I do
Neve: So, Aoenen, kindly show them to the sub 
Aoenen: It would be my pleasure 
Aoenen leads the party towards the submarine
Atoll (Narration): And I thought we were off to a new adventure, one where’d be discovering a new  reality unseen, a new discovery, instead, a flaming crucible would open to swallow us whole 
As they’re going to the submarine, the party is attacked by a small group of SInners Sextant 
Atoll: The Sextant? What are they doing here?
Sinners Sextant Member: I think it’s better off that you stay out of things you don’t need to involve yourselves in
Neve: Alright, get out of the way we have somewhere to be
Aoenen: Stand aside
Sissinoe: Hehe, we’re about to fight some mercenaries 
Sinners Sextant Member: If a fight is what you want, you’ll get it
Fight against The Sinners Sextant 
When you win
Sissinoe: So what was that about?
Atoll: No clue, I kept this operation about as secret as possible 
Neve: Aoenen did you tell anyone?
Aoenen: No, there must be someone else at the bottom who wants something 
Sissinoe: Do you wish to turn back?
Atoll: No, we’re going down to the bottom, we’re going to get our answers 
Neve: He’s right, let’s get a move on and get to the bottom 
The four of them make it to Aoenen’s Submarine and begin the descent to the bottom 
Atoll (Narration): Our descent to the bottom was something remarkable, we were descending down to the bottom of an actual abyss, one where light seemed to be unable to escape the waves. We saw creatures we didn’t know could live on this world. The world we found ourselves in was one of unknown beauty and horror, one where the ocean swallowed our line of site
Sissinoe: The endless beauty of the wallowing abyss
Aoenen: Are you ok?
Sissinoe: I’m at home…
Atoll: This is what you wanted to see?
Sissinoe: I’ve seen this fading world with my own eyes several times before, but seeing it from in here, is something else
Neve: It is nice out there
Aoenen: I’m pretty scared myself, but I am the one driving this thing 
Atoll (Narration): The ocean continued to envelope our vessel, as we sank deeper and deeper below. Eventually, we reached the bottom of the waves, the hounding canyon, the wide wound of this world, The Mariana Trench.
The submarine reaches the bottom of the Mariana Trench, where no light is reaching them.
Aoenen: Alright, I brought everyone’s special diving suits, except for Sissinoe who doesn’t need one 
Neve: Thank you Aoenen 
Aoenen, Atoll and Neve put on their diving suits and exit the vessel and begin walking aross the surface of the Mariana Trench, when suddenly, a stray laser beam is fired lighting up the abyss 
Sissinoe: The Sextant is down here
Atoll: Can we fight in these suits?
Aoenen: Yes, these diving suits are designed to allow movement underwater for us to fight them off 
Neve: Can I emmitt my poison from this?
Aoenen: Yes
Neve: Sick 
Sissinoe: So, are you ready to add one more to my head collection 
Atoll: You bet 
Fight against The Sinners Sextant 
When you win, a group of Sinners Sextant retreat under the bottom
Sissinoe: This is a false bottom 
Atoll: So, can we follow them?
Neve: How, we just cut open the bottom
Aoenen: It looks like we just go through it 
Sissinoe: Let me help us gain entrance
Sissinoe takes out her dagger and makes slice in the sea floor, opening a gash that leads to the real bottom 
Sissinoe: Follow me
Atoll: You heard her 
Aoenen: I’m not sure I’m onboard with this plan
Neve: Let’s just go with it 
The Party swims through the False Bottom
Atoll (Narration): And we were about to come face to face with the real Mariana, the real world under the abyss, more wondrous and strange than any land we could find on Earth 
== Mariana Chapter 2 ==
The Party has entered the false bottom and sees strange plants and creatures living inside, including stray Meraki hunters.
Sissinoe: Looks like some of my people call this place home
Aoenen: I wonder if any of ours call this place home?
Neve: Maybe they do, but we probably won’t find them 
Atoll: It looks like there might even be Oxyegn down here
Aoenen: Keep your suits on anyway, you might get a nasty disease 
Neve: That makes sense 
Atoll: Alright, let’s find Sinners Sextant 
Begin False Bottom #1
When The Party is 15% through False Bottom #1, they run into someone else without a diving suit 
Atoll (Narration): The shock of who we saw under the bottom was deep, as we had come across a pioneer lost to time 
Illinois: So, what are you kids doing under the Mariana Trench?
Atoll: Illinois Aeryuat!!
Illinois: Hehe, that’s me
Neve: But you went missing back in the 1970s?
Illinois: I did yeah, but time is no object to me 
Atoll: You look way older than you were when you disappeared 
Illinois: Well no duh like 50 years passed by, I’m probably 80 years old no wonder I look old
Aoenen: I had not heard of such a remarkable missing adventurer
Neve: You grew up in the Nightlands of course you didn’t know 
Sissinoe: It is an honor to meet you Ms Aeryuat 
Illinois: The honor is all mine, now you kids want to tell me what you’re doing at the bottom of the ocean?
Atoll: We wanted to go here, mainly to do what you were declared dead doing but also we saw some bad guys called The Sinners Sextant down here and we want to know what they’re up to
Neve: More or less how it went 
Illinois: So you came looking for me and those invading Centennials, looks like 
Sissinoe: And me and Aoenen came along for fun 
Aoenen: I bought the submarine that took us down here?
Illinois: Well if you want to fight against the “Sinners Sextant” as you call it, they are no chumps, I’ve fought against all matters of powerful foes, including the legendary Acantha, and none have given me this much trouble. 
Atoll: You fought Acantha?
Illinois: Yeah I did 
Atoll: I fought her as well looks like we have a lot in common
Illinois: Oh that’s neat 
Sissinoe: As much as I enjoy small talk, we should get going 
Aoenen: That is true, lead the way Illinois 
Illinois: Sure thing travelers 
Neve: This is pretty cool 
Atoll (Narration): The endeavor we had found ourselves in was that of one where we were frankly out of our depth for, but being the eager warriors we were, we charged in there without hesitation. 
Resume False Bottom #1
When you’re at 30% completion 
Illinois: So, The Sextatnt down here are working for someone mysterious I have never seen before?
Atoll: What was so mysterious about them?
Illinois: They felt ancient, primordial, the kind of aura only emitted from someone with power 
Neve: Like, some sort of dietetic desire 
Aoenen: Like a living god of sorts?
Sissinoe: Sounds, powerful and mysterious 
Illinois: I’m just warning you kids to prepare for a foe you may not be able to contend with 
Resume False Bottom #1
When you’re at 45% completion 
Sissinoe: This hidden world is quite beautiful, almost as beautiful as the fleeting gaze of a life 
Neve: Atoll why did you recruit this weirdo 
Sissinoe: I’m a weirdo 
Atoll: Listen, Sissinoe is a friend of mine, and she’s knowledgeable, it made sense to bring her along 
Aoenen: You could have just asked for a double date
Sissinoe: You’ve got a real strange mind 
Aoenen: YOU’VE GOT A REAL STRANGE MIND
Illinois: I wonder if my kids are like this with their friends 
Atoll: You have kids??
Illinois: Well I look after them down here, they’re not mine biologically speaking 
Atoll (Narration): Sissinoe was someone I admired for their strange demeanor yet being such a competent force, she was also my age, and…well you get the idea. She wasn’t the most qualified girl in the world, but she would be a surefire bet to come along with us 
Resume
When you’re at 60% completion , a figure high up in the Sinners Sextant approaches the party 
Kieghan: Hello Illinois
Illinois: Hello Sextant
Kieghan: Who are the tag-alongs?
Neve: Tag-alongs?
Kieghan: Yeah I’m talking about you
Atoll: My name is Atoll and she is Neve, we’re here on Century Corps business 
Sissinoe: We are?
Aoenen: Just go with it 
Kieghan: Oh I didn’t know the Century Corps caught onto us
Illinois: Century Corps…oh Acantha’s guild 
Kieghan: Yeah, now please step aside, our client is busy with some more important matters and I’d like to leave them undisturbed
Atoll: What does your client require down here?
Kieghan: I do not know, but I must force you to turn around 
Neve: We’re here to see this world for ourselves, you have no place telling us to leave 
Aoenen: You tell them Neve 
Sissinoe: Our excursion shall not be delayed by someone only in it for a bag like you 
Kieghan: Don’t say I didn’t warn you 
Fight against Kieghan and The Sinners Sextant 
When Kieghan is at 75% 
Kieghan: So, why are you Century Corps kooks even down here in the first place if it had nothing to do with us
Atoll: I wanted to see everything this world had to offer 
Kieghan: How noble or how naive 
Neve: You really are a piece of work 
Aoenen: Yeah, quite a prick 
Sissinoe: You seem pretty prickish yourself Aoenen 
Aoenen: It must be my refined manners 
Sissinoe: It’s not that, I just sense a strange aura from you 
Atoll (Narration): Aoenen was really someone that you kind of had an odd feeling about, even before you really knew him. You could kinda tell, the way he flaunted his status and heritage, that he thought himself above some others. I probably should have caught onto his true nature earlier 
Resume
When Kieghan is at 50% 
Illinois: Do you have any regrets?
Kieghan: No, I have no regrets 
Illinois: If you were to die, right here and now, you would have no regrets 
Kieghan: Absolutely not 
Atoll: I respect your commitment to yourself and your actions 
Kieghan: What’s the phrase you humans use, “I’m my own man” 
Resume
When Kieghan is at 25% 
Neve: I do not like you 
Kieghan: That makes sense, of course you would not like your enemies 
Aoenen: When you put it like that it’s a no brainer
Neve: Me and Aoenen sure don’t like our enemies 
Atoll (Narration): Aoenen and Neve really did not like their enemies and their later encounter with Kieghan after this expedition really shows. 
Resume
When Kieghan is defeated, they are knocked down against the seafloor and the party moves on
Illinois: Great work kiddos 
Atoll: It’s all in a day's work 
Neve: You bet it 
Sissinoe: I suspected my combat abilities would not be as good as my intellectual abilities, I was happy to be proven wrong 
Aoenen: I’m still not the best at this 
Neve: That’s ok Aoenen, we can protect you 
Illinois: Let’s continue our journey, the client must not be too far ahead 
Resume False Bottom #1
When you’re at 75% completion, the party can begin to see what looks like a large metal sphere 
Neve: What the hell is that?
Illinois: What the Sextant were protecting?
Aoenen: It’s huge 
Atoll: Without a doubt it’s large 
Sissinoe: I have a strange feeling about what we’re about to come into contact with 
Resume False Bottom #1
When you’re at 90% completion, the large sphere looks even bigger, they can hear strange whirring 
Atoll: Oh my god, look at that 
Illinois: Who is doing this?
Neve: I think we might have been meant to come down here
Aoenen: What do you mean by that?
Neve: Do you really think Illinois could have made it here alone?
Illinois: Hey…probably not 
Sissinoe: I get what you mean…
Resume False Bottom #1
When you are complete the course, the Party enters the metal structure 
Atoll (Narration): The structure the Sinners Sextant was guarding was something strange, a jumbling of wires and steam, like a weird machine, grinding and coming together and apart all at once. And that the center of this sphere was a watery center, a strange thing that seemed to leave it. One thing about this sphere was it appears to be built into the bottom of this false bottom. 
Illinois: What is this place
Strange Figure: So you’ve made it all the way here, looks like you deserve to know
A strange armored Centennial walks forward 
Pandora: My name is Pandora, an immortal soul, I was made to guard the evils of the world that were in a box, forged in the Garden of Eden. My connection to the past is all but gone as I’m far removed from everything else that made me real 
Neve: The Garden of Eden?
Pandora: The Garden of Eden is a lost paradise unknown to us, one that was lost long ago 
Sissinoe: That place is real
Aoenen: Fascinating 
Atoll: Ok Pandora, what is it you want here?
Pandora: I’m going to seek out the one thing that has remained constant since my creation, this place I made out of wires, metal and memory will help me achieve my goals 
The Party begins ready for yet another battle as Pandora begins to approach them
Atoll (Narration): We were too far gone and were now about to face off against an enemy, one with absurd amounts of power and strength far above what we could muster on our own. It truly felt like we had stepped into a hopeless battle. 
== Mariana Chapter 3 ==
The Party is in fighting stance as Pandora walks towards them 
Pandora: I should show you what I’m capable of 
Pandora takes out what looks like a strange void hammer 
Pandora: This is the Box of Evils
The Box of Evils begins to morph into another form, Greed Form, it goes from a box on a stick into a something of a massive mace 
Illinois: Well what’s our move
Atoll: Dodge
As Pandora swings the mace, The Party dodges out of the way  as it leaves a burning trail on the ground where they swung it
Neve: Pandora is a powerful foe 
Sissinoe: Can we fight back?
Aoenen: I’ll try 
Neve: But you can’t do anything to them 
Aoenen: I have to try 
Aoenen tries to strike Pandora but they dodge out of the way as more soldiers of the Sinners Sextant appear to repel him from Pandora 
Atoll: Can you people get out of our way
Kieghan enters the Metal Sphere again, with even more Sinners Sextatnt agents
Illinois: Our goose might be cooked?
Pandora: Thank you for generous assistance Kieghan
Kieghan: All in a day’s work 
Atoll: Hey it’s what I said earlier 
Aoenen: Way to stay positive in the face of doom
Pandora: I have matters to attend to in here, deal with these interlopers 
Kieghan: Yes Ma’m 
Pandora leaves into the strange blue center as Keighan prepares to once again face our heroes 
Atoll (Narration): We had no idea about what true power we were really faced with here but we were about to learn, learn the hard way 
Fight against Kieghan and The Sinners Sextant 
When Kieghan is at 75% 
Illinois: So errand boy, mind telling us what’s inside 
Kieghan: I would never reveal the details of that, to someone like you 
Illinois: But clearly it’s important 
Sissinoe: I think that gelatinous blue substance is some sort of memory bubble
Kieghan: What the-
Resume against Kieghan 
When Kieghan is at 50%
Kieghan: How the hell did you brats figure out what it was so quickly?
Atoll: Sissinoe is just built different 
Aoenen: I’ve really warmed up to her 
Resume against Kieghan 
When Kieghan is at 25% 
Atoll: Kieghan, where are the rest of your cronies?
Kieghan: Why do you want to know?
Atoll: In case they show up 
Kieghan: No…it’s just me
Neve: They’re saying they aren’t really a threat 
Kieghan: I’ll show you…not a threat 
Resume against Kieghan 
When Kieghan is defeated, they begin to stagger 
Kieghan: I’m not done
Illinois: Accept your loss 
Kieghan: No…I WILL NOT
In an erratic mad dash, Kieghan grabs onto Sissinoe 
Sissinoe: GET OFF OF ME 
Atoll tries to intervene against Kieghan but they manage to throw Sissinoe into the blue mass, Kieghan tries to then run away but is swatted down by Aoenen, who breaks their legs with single swing of his weapon
Atoll (Narration): At that point, I had no desire to do anything else but run into the blue blob after Sissinoe, drop everything I could and run after her. I felt an unimaginable pain shoot through me as I wanted to run after Sissinoe. 
Atoll tries to run after Sissinoe but Neve stops him from doing so 
Neve: Hey bonehead, we need a plan before you can go all knight in shining armor to save her
Aoenen: I’ll check all the computer systems
Illinois: I’ll help
Illinois and Aoenen begin checking the computer systems for what to do
Atoll (Narration): Everyone was telling me how I should proceed logically, but I wasn’t listening, saving my friend became my number one goal. I wanted nothing more than to see her safe and sound, and see that smile. See that she was ok. I needed to do this. 
Atoll: Neve, you can’t convince me to wait
Neve: It was worth a try
Atoll: Wait for me, I’m counting on you to get me out of this if I fuck up
Neve: I know you are, and even though I shouldn’t I will, because you’re my friend and I believe in you 
Atoll: Thank you Neve….I’ll see you on the other side
Atoll (Narration): Despite everything Neve would do, I still considered my friend, and maybe my friend was lost the day she set her grand plan in motion but for this moment and all prior, she was someone I had the utmost respect for, someone I would have considered part of my own family.  However, I was going after one of my other friends, someone I can never view the same anymore. 
Atoll begins running and jumps into the memory bubble, beginning to float in a strange motion 
Atoll: SISSINOE! CAN YOU HEAR ME!!
Atoll was met by silence as he kept trucking through the memory bubble 
Atoll (Narration): I made my way through a world that was made of my memories, one that was like a living slideshow of my entire life. I saw my life literally flash before my eyes, but I was not dying, just seeing the past.
Atoll: I’m going to find you no matter what 
Atoll’s Uncle (Memory): My home is no place for a child, we’re sending you off to be a slave
Unknown Girl (Memory): Aren’t you tired of living here like me, we get nothing but pain and torture 
Gladian (Memory): Yes this is Bunk 45, what’s your name?
Indica (Memory):  Oh yeah, You tell that son of a bitch
Atoll (Memory): Closer to a loaf I’d say
Anmai (Memory): I’m never here in this city
Vendil (Memory): Well why would he be mad about that? He has been weird around her for a while, I was thinking the violence was beginning to put him off.
Erhan (Memory):  But you have to be there with him
Optica (Memory):  YOU DARE MOCK ME
Gladian (Memory): Yeah, you won’t be seeing me in combat for a while 
Neve (Memory): This place that’s ours under the stars, that belongs to us and us alone 
Atoll (Narration): I kept pushing through, kept going, no matter what I was going to be there for Sissinoe, as I made my way through my memories. However, I did stop and hold one memory in particular with my hands, it’s nothing more than a callous momento now but I did take it with me. 
Sissinoe (Memory): Yeah my name is Sisisnoe, I do like how the waves look 
Atoll: SISSINOE!! ARE YOU THERE!!
Atoll (Narration): I thought this would be a hopeless pursuit for a brief second, before I heard something else 
Sissinoe: Atoll…leave me alone in here 
Atoll: Don’t go anywhere
Sissinoe: No! Stay Away!
Atoll (Narration): It didn’t matter what Sissinoe said next, I was running after her at full speed now 
Sissinoe’s Mom (Memory): I left you to a prestigious inventor friend of mine, she’ll take care of you after I go 
Inventor Guardian (Memory):  Sissinoe, you can’t always get your way in this world and you can’t always be yourself 
Unknown Girl (Memory): I despise you, I despise you in all your entirety 
Unknown Figure (Memory): Go back to the waves before we catch you in our nets again 
Atoll (Narration): As I heard the echoes of Sissinoe’s past, they only compelled me further. If there’s one thing you know about me, I want to help people rather than hurt them, so learning all the tiny details spurred me on even further. 
Unknown Man (Memory): You should give up on your dreams, like everyone is telling you to 
Unknown Villager (Memory): Man, she’s a real weirdo, always carrying around that head 
Pawn Shop Owner (Memory): So what you’re just gonna collect heads and sell them here to get what you need? I don’t know if this is the place for that? 
Sissinoe’s Dad (Memory): I left you and your mom because you were WEAK 
Atoll: That’s WRONG 
Sissinoe: …
Unknown Wanderer (Memory): So you just lay by the roadside all day, does your life mean anything to you?
Atoll: It means something to me
Atoll (Memory): You are one of the coolest people I have ever met 
Atoll finally finds Sissinoe kneeling on the ground, in what looks like a state of pure despair
Sissinoe: So now you see my entire history, all my memories, all the tragedy, would you still want to be my friend, if you knew everything that happened…
Atoll: I still, I would be with you through everything, everything
Atoll sits down and pulls Sissinoe into a sitting position as his memories come to float around Sissinoe 
Atoll (Narration): In this world of memories, I saw all the sides of Sissinoe, she had been through so much. Her dad left her family when she was a baby, her mother died when she was young, she was sent to a place she didn’t belong and was alone all her life, with no friends, no drive, no passion. I wanted to ask her to join the guild, to follow her passions again, but in our moment, that idea was lost as we just learned more about her. And I showed her everything, all my tragedy, all my sadness, all my sorrow. 
Atoll: So what now?
Sissinoe: I’m glad I met you 
Suddenly a strange voice begins calling 
??? (Distant): Hello my children 
Atoll: Who is that??
Sissinoe: Also you’re not our parents 
??? (Distant): You are my children in other ways
Atoll (Narration): In our lowest moment, we were faced with a greatest wonder. 
An effigy of what looked like the entire world appeared before them, a green giant. 
Sissinoe: You’re….you’re…
Earth: Hello Sissinoe
Atoll: How is this possible?
Earth: This bubble of memory is here because it’s a part of my memory
Atoll: YOUR MEMORY
Earth: Correct Atoll, everything that happens above me is my memory, I’m alive after all 
Atoll (Narration): Our world was alive, The Planet was another sovereign being like us, something else that thinks, feels and forms memories 
Sissinoe: If you’re alive, what do you do
Earth: Right now I am slumbering peacefully, but Pandora wants to wake me up and gain that connection they felt was lost. It’s up to you whether to stop them or not. But just know, I will always be a part of you from this day forward
Atoll: What do you mean by that?
Earth began glowing brightly and Atoll and Sissinoe also began glowing and then the Earth departed 
Atoll (Narration): I could feel the Earth coursing through me at that point, and like I had another voice in my head. The Earth was communicating directly with me. 
Sissinoe: This is cool….
Atoll: Let’s leave out the other end, see how to go from here
Sissinoe: That would do
Atoll (Narration): And thus, Sissinoe and I went through the rest of the bubble, putting our past into every step, to reach the outside.
== Mariana Chapter 4 ==
Atoll (Narration): When we finally made it to the other side, we were met with flowing Obsidian falls and platforms that dotted the area and the cliffs around it. Truly an area Pandora had been working on for a long time. 
Atoll: So, Pandora must be getting her memory liquid from inside the mantle 
Sissinoe: That seems to be the only logical explanation.
Atoll: So, how do we go from here
Sissinoe: Looks like there’s a lever system to getting onto these platforms, we just got to co-opt it to our liking and we should be good-
Suddenly, Pandora steps out of the memory bubble, seeing Atoll and Sissinoe on the other side, messing with their controls 
Atoll (Narration): They looked at us with a glare that could sever souls from their bodies and they looked like they wanted to kill and maim us. It felt like Pandora could hear the Earth’s voice in our head and wanted us dead because of it
Sissinoe: Pandora…
Atoll: Pandora, you should probably give up, you’re messing with forces you have no idea how to control…
Pandora: Why would I give up, I need to feel alive again, and I can’t hear her, I can’t hear the Earth…but you can…
Atoll: Pandora, stand down 
Sissinoe: We know you’ve probably led a life of suffering, but you need to calm down, you need to think about if what you’re doing is right…
Pandora: Who gives a rat’s ass about right or wrong, I just want to feel again
Pandora changed their Box of Evils back to Greed Form and got ready to strike Atoll, but they faked out Atoll and ended up striking Sissinoe with the weapon, and she fell to the ground…
Atoll (Narration): When Sissinoe fell to the ground, knocked unconscious by the impact of Pandora’s weapon, I had felt a sense of rage unlike any I had ever felt before. I had just learned how tragic her life was, how we could build a brighter future for her together, but now, Pandora had knocked her cold, and she was possibly dead. I didn’t check, I only had one desire at that point 
Atoll: …
Pandora: Heh, speechless 
Atoll took out his flame dagger and it grew due to the passion and rage in his body. 
Atoll: You…I don’t give a DAMN ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT 
Atoll moved against Pandora, and knocked them off the cliff with him, as they both fell onto a platform, descending down the Obsidian Falls 
Pandora: You brat, I should kill you so you can join her 
Atoll: How about…I kill you instead ... .she…struggled all her life and she…was finally going to work towards the life she wanted but you selfish bastard…
Pandora: But why stop me? I don’t want to live another thousand years of loneliness 
Atoll: You were going to do something unprecedented and reckless, it could have killed all of us if the Earth woke up, we don’t know what would have happened, you ushering in a new world age for your own selfish reasons is something that must be stopped. 
Atoll (Narration): Nothing anyone could say, could change my mind
Fight against Pandora 
When Pandora is at 90% 
Pandora: You should admit you’re matched up, you’re fighting against someone who has fought for thousands of years 
Atoll: I DON’T CARE 
Pandora changed their Box of Evil to Lust Form, a giant whip that could crack concrete 
Pandora: I’m going to strike you for your sins 
Resume against Pandora 
When Pandora is at 80%, the platform begins to collapse from Pandora’s strikes, to save himself, Atoll knocked Pandora onto another platform while he himself jumped onto the platform to stab Pandora, but he missed. 
Pandora: Impressive
Atoll: Shut up
Resume against Pandora 
When Pandora is at 70%, her Box of Evil changed again into a new form, Gluttony Form, a massive staff with a tractor beam that pulls objects towards it
Pandora: I’m going to swallow your fear
Atoll: I’m going to make you feel it for the first time
Pandora tried pulling Atoll towards them but he moved out of the way and slid under and fired several darts into Pandora’s side that bounced off of them. Pandora responded by pulling some of the liquid obsidian towards them. 
Resume against Pandora 
When Pandora is at 60%, they pull another platform and try to smash it into this one but Atoll tackles Pandora, disrupting their attack. Pandora once again tried to attack but Atoll fired a mist dart that obstructed their view. 
Atoll: You won’t defeat me with cheap tricks like those
Pandora: You won’t either, it’s my will vs yours
Resume against Pandora 
When Pandora is at 50%, they once again transform the Box of Evils into another form, this time Pride Form, a large broadsword that emitted powerful lightning bolts. Pandora tries swinging the sword at Atoll but he parries the blow with his flame dagger before firing a powerful steel ball dart at Pandora who deflects it
Pandora: You have little to stand against me in the way of might 
Atoll: Shut up, I’ve defied the odds before 
Resume against Pandora 
When Pandora is at 40%, they try to cleave the platform in half with the sword but Atoll once again parries their strike 
Pandora: Oh why do you love this platform so much?
Atoll: I’m not letting my story end falling into a pit of lava 
Pandora: I won’t either
Atoll: Like I said, I don’t give a damn about what you want 
Resume against Pandora 
When Pandora is at 30%, they turn the Box of Evils into yet another form, The Wrath Form, a massive scythe with water effects around it, every swing is like a wave coming out of it.
Pandora: I think you should accept you’re going to die here today
Atoll: Likewise
Pandora tries to attack Atoll again with their weapon but Atoll fires a powerful stinging dart into Pandora’s leg, making them miss the swing
Resume against Pandora
When Pandora is at 20%, they try to once again crack the platform they are fighting Atoll on, but Atoll punches Pandora in the stomach, disrupting the attack, and sending Pandora reeling 
Atoll: I’ll do anything to win this battle 
Pandora: Nothing you do, will be enough 
The platform continues its journey to the bottom of the Obsidian Falls. 
Resume against Pandora
When Pandora is at 10%, she tries to change the Box of Evils into another form, but Atoll jams his dagger into the Box of Evils to disrupt it, it works but the dagger ends up falling into the abyss
Pandora: Was that really worth losing your weapon?
Atoll: I’m not…taking any more of your cheap shots and weapon transformations, I’m ending this, you won’t get any room to escape. 
Resume against Pandora
When Pandora is defeated, she tries to rise again, striking with the weapon but Atoll kicks the Box of Evils off the platform, sending it careening into the abyss. Pandora then leaps on Atoll, grabbing him and throwing his dart gun into the bottom
Atoll: I’m SICK OF YOU
Pandora: I’m much stronger than you, you can n-
Atoll then throws Pandora off of him, sending them off of the platform to burn in the lava. 
Atoll: Well…I had a good run…
Suddenly, the platform begins moving up and around the waterfall, almost like circling back to the front. 
Atoll (Narration): I thought I had used the last of my life fighting against an enemy that needed to be stopped and that I would die a hero but instead, that friend I could count on saved me, by messing with the computer controls inside, she made it so the platform would come back to the entrance of the base. I
The platform comes to a halt outside the base, with Atoll being greeted by Illinois, Aoenen and Neve with Neve holding an unconscious Sissinoe in her arms
Atoll: How did you guys save me?
Neve: I messed with computer settings, got you to come around here
Illinois: I also went and retrieved Sissinoe for you
Aoenen: We’re glad to see you back with us
Atoll: Thanks guys
Atoll (Narration): As I looked at the unconscious Sissinoe, I knew I had failed to protect her. We left the sphere somberly. Illinois decided to stay behind in the False Bottom as we went back up to the surface. Up there, I had laid Sissinoe out in the water, letting her float freely in the waves, with a note expressing how I felt about her, and that I was sad she was gone. That was the last adventure I had ever gone on with Neve. The last time I really thought of myself as a hero. Every regret I have is bubbling, I can’t protect my friends, I can’t do anything well. I’m a failure to the legacy of Century Corps. The trip to Mariana was the day I lost my sense of worth…
== Mariana Epilogue ==
Atoll (Narration): So that’s the story of Mariana, I’m sorry I never told you sooner 
The narration from Atoll finally ends as we are greeted to him in a familiar place with a familiar face by his side
Present Day, Saipan 
Atoll: Forgive me for my reckless actions…
Sitting next to him is his dear friend Atlantic
Atlantic: Atoll, you really should have told someone about this sooner, could have saved you a lot of internal struggle 
Atoll: It’s still there. Despite my best attempts and defeat of Pandora, Neve still turned evil and Sissinoe is still gone, she’s gone Atlantic…
Atlantic: Maybe so, but think of all the lives you have saved by putting a stop to Pandora’s plot and you did it all on your own. You can’t beat yourself up over things that we’re out of your control. It’s not your fault.
Atoll: Maybe so, but I still feel like I could have done more or maybe…I shouldn’t have gone at all
Atlantic: Maybe, but we’d all be dead if you didn’t 
Atoll: Heh, I guess that’s true 
Atlantic: You mentioned you took a special memory with you, what was it?
Atoll: Oh, it was the day I first came to the Century Corps
Atlantic: You took that with you?
Atoll: Yeah, because this guild, it means the most to me.
Atlantic: That’s pretty sweet…
Atoll: I just wish I took my first meeting with Sissinoe back as well
Atlantic: You always have her memory in your mind, and I have a feeling you’ll see her again 
Earth (Distant): I also have a feeling you’ll see her again
Suddenly, a familiar figure wanders into town, seeing Atoll and Atlantic sitting down 
Atlantic: Hello stranger, would you like to sit down?
Sissinoe: Huh me, oh no I’m looking for a friend of mine, his name is Atoll? Have you seen him?
And at that moment, everything clicked once again. As, he finally saw her again, alive, right before his eyes….
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