Paragon Mar/Metrics

**Date Completed:**6/13/2021
**Previous Role-Play**:
**Users Involved:** User:Katokonia
**Setting:** An Island in Paradise
**Marines Involved**:
* Nibiru Hysteria
* Anthea Cassiopeia
* Anthea Serenade
* Sayid Barto

**Scions Involved**:
* Strodes Cain
* Koda Alyss
* Raine Lilith

## Plot Summary

Freedom, or Order?

* Begins with Sayid Barto & Anthea Cassiopeia walking through the port area of an unnamed island in Paradise, alongside the setting/reason as to why they are there in the first place.
* As the two are walking aimlessly, a crash is heard. Upon reaching where the sound originated, Barto discovered a collapsed stall on top of Koda Alyss, who was asleep under the rubble, though otherwise unharmed.
* Cassiopeia notes how Alyss wasn't injured at all even though a stall crashed on her, though the two are interrupted in thought as Raine Lilith appears on the scene to escort Alyss away. At this point, the two marines are unaware that Alyss and Lilith are part of the group that they were called here to persecute.
* The two head back to the barracks where they are staying. Here Anthea Serenade is introduced, who asks for a report on the two's findings. They discuss the mostly boring day, alongside the last thing they experienced before heading back, being Lilith and Alyss, who didn't seem to fit in at all. Additionally, Nibiru Hysteria is introduced as she lies on the ground, subject to her delusions, and she also displays part of her devil fruit power.
* Suddenly, Hysteria jumps up and abruptly leaves the room. The Antheas and Barto grab their gear and head outside, to find that Hysteria is making a mad dash for the castle in the center of the island.
* Drawing closer to the castle, the Antheas split off from Barto when they lose sight of their Captain, with the Antheas searching for Hysteria, while Barto approaches a group of guards who have weapons drawn at an unseen individual, accusing them of stealing gold from the keep
* Barto draws closer, realizing that the girl here was the same girl from before (Alyss), as he asks for the bag she's carrying to be given back. Without any struggle she complies, though when the guards see that it's only half the amount stolen, they seek to continue the interrogation of Alyss.
* Suddenly, a strange song begins to play, followed by an explosion that rocks the castle grounds, even sending some loose stones flying, one of which immediately kills one of the guards. The rest of the guards panic and scramble to search for the source, leaving Barto and Alyss alone
* Barto moves to take Alyss to a safe place, still thinking her innocent, when Lilith appears on the scene, displaying an equally-sized bag with gold inside of it to the one that Alyss had been holding. She asks Barto to turn a blind eye to their thievery, though Barto refuses
* Barto threatens to harm Alyss if Lilith doesn't surrender herself, and while he was bluffing, both Lilith and Alyss encouraged him to try. Alyss placed Barto's gun on her forehead, and reached to pull the trigger, shooting herself.
* Barto is in shock from what just happened, believing the girl to be dead, however when Alyss speaks to Lilith as calmly and normally as she had before, he passes out from shock

Left, or Right?

* Barto wakes up in his room in the barracks, with Cassiopeia by his side. She tells him the situation, and the two quickly mobilize to go help Hysteria and Serenade, who had allegedly gone to chase the culprits of the crime.
* The two reach a fork in the road, being forced to choose to pursue either a loud explosion coming from the left, or Lilith, who was seen on the right side of the road. Cassiopeia asks if Barto thinks he can defeat Lilith alone, however he dejectedly says that he cannot, so the two both rush along the road to the left.
* More explosions are heard, as the two finally arrive at a clearing close to the seashore, where Serenade is lying injured off to the side, and Hysteria is facing off with Strodes Cain, who is surrounding by jack-in-the-boxes
* Cassiopeia immediately runs off to tend to her sister's wounds, though Barto takes a moment to gauge the situation at hand
* Cain tosses a jack-in-the-box at Barto's feet, though Barto kicks it aside out of irritation. When it blows up, he realizes how close he had just come to dying.
* Gun aimed towards Cain, Barto orders Cain to step away from his pile of boxes, though is cautious to draw too close himself as he doesn't want to enter Hysteria's aura.
* Suddenly, Barto is knocked unconscious by an invisible person, revealed later to be Koda Alyss, and Cassiopeia meets the same fate after checking out Barto's body to see what had hit him
* Hysteria snaps out of her delirium, making quick action to collect her subordinates and make a mad dash to escape
* Cain, Lilith, and Alyss remain at the clearing, and Cain can be seen sucking the jack-in-the-boxes inside of him. Afterwards, Lilith goes to pick up Alyss, who had fallen asleep after the marines made their getaway, and then hugs Cain tightly. The three afterwards erupt from the ground like a rocket, and propel far away, and off the island.

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