Session 38 (Season 1)

## A Funny Squad's Normal Quest: Manhattan Speedrun

Jeremy Quick, the user of “DDR”, spends his morning beside his lovely Melissa Steel, and lives among his friends Zachary Kishibe and John Smog...

That would be the case on another day perhaps, but Zachary was the first to wake up inside of Jeremy’s bedroom. What woke him up was a strange radio-cassette player, but it would disappear moments after Jeremy was woken up. Eventually, Melissa and Johnny were woken up and the group learned they were indeed in Jeremy’s home and it was late in the morning, and some time had indeed passed since either Jeremy or Zach entered the turtle. Jeremy made sure that this truly was his home: Los Angeles. Once that issue was taken care of, they discussed the next plan, which was how they were going to take down Apex. While getting himself ready for the day, Jeremy found a cassette tape in a drawer labelled オレの勝ちだな. Zach translated the kanji for Jeremy, simply meaning the words “I win.” As Zach tried to find the cassette player again, it was gone from Jeremy’s bedroom, replaced with a regular alarm clock.

They planned on leaving in order to now find something to play the cassette player, and fix their craving for some delicious pizza. As they were going to leave, Jeremy found that his apartment was suspiciously spotless. The group scoured the internet to find a radio store, and found that Jeremy’s laptop interface was strange, including having no password, and a glitched web browser. The browser showed Jeremy’s involvement at Hilo Airport, and being framed as a terrorist/killer. Following this, Zach gave Jeremy a special paint mask to disguise his appearance. While it was effective, the group was interrupted as they tried to leave, by a static-y Jeremy from the kitchen area:

**"DON'T TRUST HER YOU CAN'T GIVE IN!"**

**"KILL THAT BITCH!"**

**"Shock her!"**

**"Li-like kill her?"**

**"I don't want to talk about what I've done."**

All these lines spoken by Jeremy during his private conversations towards/about the deceased competitor from the tournament in Orme: the woman with the codename of “Alexa”, and the real name and appearance of a young girl named Oliva. These recordings of Jeremy’s voice kept playing back and forth on the radio-cassette player Zach had found originally in Jeremy’s bedroom, and now was saying these things in the kitchen. Zach inserted the cassette from previously into the radio, and it cut out one more time in Jeremy’s voice: ``"I killed Oliv-"``. Through the radio it was Oliva’s voice, greeting Jeremy and asking if he had missed her. She learned about Jeremy’s newest friend Zach, and the group learned something else as well. Apparently Niente was dead, and Oliva had come here to tell how Jeremy had killed her in the tournament. This tournament was also where John and Melissa met her as well, having also sent controlled cyborg Ben against the duo. Revenge was only one thing Oliva had in mind for the group as she suggested something else, a game.

The reward for completing this game was preventing the “end of the world,” and played alongside three other competitors. The three being Benjamin, Lambrusco, and a third person they \*shouldn’t\* know.  The objective was to reach Manhattan as quickly as possible, a **blitz** to Manhattan, according to her words. Oliva said she wanted something greater than her, something to complete herself, and the destruction of the US would be a bonus alongside this. Zach was very intrigued as Oliva mentioned something very important about Italy, how it was nuked. This fact was only roughly mentioned during Jeremy and Zach’s dream, but it was confirmed. The whole country of Italy was rendered uninhabitable unless those with highly specialized gear were present in it. Although she said she wasn’t there to see it or orchestrate it, this didn’t stop practically the whole group from being enraged or sickened, especially the person from Italy, Zach. They begrudgingly agreed to the cyborg girl’s game, and also gathered the cassettes around the room as per her request, with two of them being labelled “Domo” and “Arigato.” Before anything was done, Jeremy made a deal with Oliva: to ensure that Zach, John, and Melissa wouldn’t be killed no matter what she threw at them...

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## Wholesome Hell: La Dottore

Sets of humanoid crows appeared by the cloaked attacker: one set containing crows dressed in nurse outfits, the second set containing crows dressed like EMT workers, and a third set containing crows dressed like medical doctors. Each and every crow looked devoid of life, and acted like a unit marching towards the house and trying to force their way through the door, led by the cloaked attacker, who now had her brain tissue exposed. Flavia Morchini, the user of Emergency Rush was easily recognizable by her colony Stand(s), her “Sets.” Set 1 and 2 failed to get inside, whilst Set 3 managed to shatter the porch window, although sacrificing the third set in the process as Kira blew them up and damaged Flavia’s leg in the process. Kira forced Flavia to jump on the roof as she tried to cripple the leg further, and this was when Set 3’s limbs began to move once more. As they pieced themselves together, they tried to cling onto Holy Knight, and from the ceiling came through some highly pressurized body fluid that cut through Piero’s shoulder.

Then, the Sets had finally arrived at the window to attack. Holy Knight, Kira, and Voz were attacked by Sets 1, 2, and 3 respectively. Set 1 missed their attacks, while Sets 2 & 3 were promptly destroyed by Kira and Voz. Then, the Leader had come, dressed as a plague doctor and taller than the rest. It whispered to Holy Knight, calling him “Nero,” and recognized them as survivors. It asked “Nero” monotonously why he had allied himself with two strangers instead of his old partner, and an explanation for his absence and new appearance. Voz went to punch Leader straight through its chest during it’s conversation with Holy Knight, and it commented on Voz’s health and for being a possible excellent subject. It once again asked Holy Knight where he was before the “collapse” of the United States and the whole world, and where he was to stop Flavia when she saw it. When Holy Knight commented on if Flavia was still performing her experiments, Leader’s speech became erratic as it mentioned something about experiments being all dead, and Flavia promising it would work. It also mentioned that Piero should’ve stopped the word from ending, and that Flavia is “perfectly sane” and not utilizing the situation to her advantage. Holy Knight had assumed Flavia became a cyborg, but Leader mentioned other cyborgs: another leader, Flavia’s new/ex-partner and their sister, and soon to be the “man who saved Flavia all those years ago.” Not by Flavia’s hands, but someone named Echo “not” in Manhattan, also known as Echo Headquarters, something not so different from Apex. It was then Holy Knight had enough, and Voz finished Leader off by tearing them in half.

During this, Kira went ahead and left to go onto the roof, to confront the ex-Doctor Morchini, who sat in silence, before commenting on Kira’s fresh smell and fertility. Flavia asked Kira to join her in the “restart” as a suitable candidate. Then, Flavia went on to explain the story of an ancient race of all powerful, primate-like beings, and that she finally got “it.” The ability to restore this ancient race required more women willing to give up their bodies, showing how she had given up hers by revealing the needles piercing into her brain, her face exhibiting vampiric characteristics, and all her teeth being replaced with fangs. She had become something akin to a vampire, although she called that species weak, comparing them to food for the new breed of Pillar Men she was trying to grow inside of the wombs of her subjects. Unfortunately, the glaring incompatibility of a species that cannot survive in said wombs, mixed with the microscopic chance of a donor surviving, alongside the little remains of the wiped human race by someone referred to as “HER” were all against Flavia, but she kept insisting it would work. The “HER” in question was Flavia’s new boss, responsible for it beginning in Manhattan, referring to her mistakenly as “Alexis,” but Kira knew exactly who it was.

Voz and Holy Knight  arrived on the scene, and Kira explained everything she had heard. Flavia tried to reconnect with her old and trusted co-worker, but Holy Knight did not wish to work with Flavia, even saying she wasn’t the person she knew. Even though he tried to reason with Flavia, she ultimately ended up killing herself in an attack that sent her brain first into the pavement. Before the group had done anything else, a dying Leader told them to take the way out through a tablet that gave instructions on how to leave straight for Echo Headquarters. The group utilized the tablet differently, inputting the coordinates for Heaven. Unfortunately, their location was completely off the US, in a place where Florida once existed. They also found a contacting app, with the intent of contacting the person responsible: Oliva. There were numerous contacts such as P-1112, P-8340, P-5925, NP-5925, and Echo. They tried them all, and the robotic voices that responded were almost all familiar. P-1112, a person with an Italian-Japanese accent; P-8340, the man Jeremy Quick; P-5945 and NP-5945, the man Ruun Danolds and his sister. Finally there was Echo, and much to their prediction it was indeed Oliva, but with crazed and sadistic undertones in her speech. The group hung up after they didn’t get any useful information apart from a comment that implied she had Fugo. They quickly began their way to their destination from their current location, Apextopia, on a car fashioned from a tree.

They quickly went back to the house to retrieve Flavia’s house, before completely arriving at a set of mechanical doors and unlocking them with a copy of the late doctor’s eye. They drove into a laboratory, containing Flavia’s experiments. A mortified, deceased woman with her chest wide open laid by the door and four cages housed some special creatures. Four humanoid beings, containing debilitating traits of stone, winds, molten hot flames, and a mashup of traits of every living creature, respectively. All of them suffering inside cages until being put down by Kira. However, a fifth cage was empty, leaving a trail of blood to the woman they saw earlier, having been pried open by what was inside. Suddenly, the room was filled with gas, and the group ran through a small tunnel and out into a cave with a bunker hatch exit above. As the group climbed, the ladder they used snapped because of a muscular figure in a deep chemical mist. This animalistic humanoid figure attacked the group with gouts of flame, chemicals, and smoke. The group tried to make their way to the ladder. Holy Knight, hanging onto the very top of the remaining ladder, tried to grapple it’s leg with a construct, only for the only figure to manipulate it’s leg to trap the construct inside of itself.

The figure came out of the cloud of gas it was hiding in, revealing itself, a being all too familiar to the Pillar Man: Kiss. It began to attack Voz while he was trying to convert the clone’s blood into acid, but Voz had realized the whole time the clone’s bloodstream had been working to neutralize the acid. Meanwhile, Kira was setting up explosive traps, and Holy Knight tried finding the hatch opening in the midst of a cloud of smoke. As Voz tried to run past the creature, he was met with a huff of sleeping powder, being knocked out cold. This left the clone to rush at Kira, only to hit with her explosive trap, and for her to escape up to Holy Knight . Unfortunately, Kiss’ upper half survived the explosion and briefly clung onto her legs, before being forced back below. Suddenly, Voz was awoken with the help of a flashbang from Kira, and he stealthily got past the clone while also demonstrating a new electricity based ability in a trail left by his hands. Holy Knight soon found the exit, and forced it open through a violent use of gravity, and the sun rays prevented the clone from leaving as they all got to the surface.

The surface led them to find themselves in the middle of a wasteland, devoid of all buildings except for the one they had just come out of through the hatch. As Holy Knight faded back inside of Kira’s and Voz’s minds to recharge itself, the group readied themselves to head out on the road and to the nonexistent landmass that was once Florida. While traversing the road they noticed one final thing before leaving, the torch of the Statue of Liberty…

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