Lost in Paradise

Yes it's a music reference

## NPCs

Blackwood

Enma

Kosai

Taro

## Story

### Introductory Session

The session begins with Sun Zhao, a cavechild from prehistoric times, making it to the continent of Chirurin via boat. When the sailor asks them to pay for fare, they instead jump off and swim away, eventually coming across Mathrika Adris. They hear her talking about a deal of some kind, as well as getting an invitation to a party as thanks, and when she goes to leave afterwards, they decide to follow along.

They end up at an underground mech fight. Two competing fighters (one being Aiz, the other using tech from Rika) clash and after an explosion, Aiz, a fifteen-year-old mech fighter, wins the fight. During the fight, Sun Zhao, begins running around the crowd. At one point, Sun jumps on the cage of the mech fighting ring. A nearby Rika pulls them away from the top knowing the dangerous explosion that was about to happen. After the fight, Rika yells out from the crowd, running over and accusing the child fighter of cheating. Aiz yells at Rika for using her unstable tech, as the explosion could've hurt many people. It is mentioned later that Aiz and Rika have known each other for a while, or at least long enough to know each other decently.

Meanwhile, a Kobold thief, Sobek, attempts to pickpocket the onlookers cheering on the fight. Up on a nearby terrace, Umbra Silverstein, a casino worker, notices Sobek and walks over to her. Umbra begins interrogating Sobek and gets nowhere, Sobek calling him a narc. She tries running away to which he decides to follow her. At the other side of the area, Aiz decides to head back to his workshop and Rika wants to go by there too so she can bug him. They all end up at the workshop, and Aiz reluctantly lets them all in under the condition they listen to any and all safety instructions he gives them, though he does question about the kid and "nobleman" (Sobek had hidden away and snuck in through a window).

In the workshop, Aiz makes repairs to his mech while Sun is fascinated by all the items around and Rika attempts to mess with some of the technology. Umbra is simply trying to keep the others away from all of the kid's stuff. Soon this is all interrupted by a loud noise, to which they realize a mech has gone rampant, and Rika noticed it was going in the direction of her house. So, they all get ready to try and stop it.

### Session 2

The group runs to fight the mech. Sobek is attacking from the rooftops, while Umbra, Rika, and Sun fight from the ground and Aiz is in his mech. Umbra gets hit and Sun nearly gets sliced in two by a giant weapon, instead grabbing on and stabbing the mech. The final blow is dealt by Aiz, who is very clearly distraught by killing the person inside. The group makes sure everyone's okay, during which Umbra gives Aiz a healing potion even though he didn't need it, and authorities arrive to handle the rest.

The group gets invited on a train to the capital for the Days of Remembrance ceremony. They agree, but in the middle of doing so hear a voice from the pier nearby. A tiefling runs up and says he saw the group fight and wants to join their adventure, introducing himself as Miel. They let him join them and make it to the train.

They all have dinner together and start figuring out who will be in which rooms, and decide on Umbra and Rika, Aiz and Sun, and Sobek and Miel.

### Session 4? 5?

Umbra and Rika meet up with Kosai, who is surprised someone else is now in on the job and says he might not have the ability to pay her as well, to which she remarks she doesn't need to get paid. They go over the details of the job, Kosai saying they should sneak into the party to get information, but Rika realizes she actually was previously given an invitation, so they decide to just go in legitimately, donning attire better suited to the occasion.

Aiz had gotten up to check on his mech which was docked in a nearby storage area. When he comes back he sees the other two dressed up near Kosai, and asks what's up. Rika explains much of the details, to which Aiz also wants to join, though Kosai doesn't want to get a child involved. Smug Aiz moment. They realize Aiz doesn't have the clothes necessary to fit in, and although Umbra offers to get some for him, he refuses and says he'd rather get in on his own. They agree to at least distract enough at the entrance so Aiz can get close to the building without being noticed.

They get into the party, and Rika quickly decides she wants to dance with Umbra, but he turns out to be the better dancer. They attract the attention of another guest named Taro and beat him in a dance-off. They then chat for a bit before they see Kosai somehow got roped into working for the party. They devise a plan to get more info from the meeting happening one floor up and head off to do it.

Aiz finally climbed up the side of the building to where many mechs were being worked on, and gets in, pretending to be a worker there. He helps work on one of the mechs and once they're all done he finds out where they store the power units, even altering one to make it far more volatile. He heads back to that mech so he can be the one to test run it.

Rika tries to sneak up with an invisible Umbra, acting drunk when she gets caught. Taro happens to be near and helps her out of trouble with the guards, even showing where the meeting is happening because apparently he was a member of it. She opens the door to let him in, and Umbra sneaks in at the same time. He writes down what he overhears and teleports out when Enma's tiger seems to notice that something was amiss.

After the test run is over and most other workers were heading out, Aiz figures out if he jump out of the building in the mech and survive. Once he knows he can, he sets the volatile power unit to explode in the storage area (so it will cause the others to explode as well), and leaps away, getting injured but surviving. He breaks out of the damaged mech and goes to hide out in the sewers.

Umbra meets back up with the others and tells him what he found out. They are planning on possibly trying to get more info out of Taro before hearing a commotion. Something seemed to have crashed onto a nearby building, and minutes after an explosion shakes the building. People start panicking, Rika included, and the elevator breaks and plummets with people inside. Umbra teleports himself and Rika to safety, with Kosai saying he's going to try and get any remaining information he can. They worry about if Aiz is okay.

Aiz is in the sewers, and is approached by a suspicious man who brings him elsewhere after promises of finding a family he can belong to. He seems to know about Aiz's predicament with his body changing, and asks if he wants to go to war with them all (other people with similar changes were in the area). Aiz hears an ominous voice in his head saying that they all are supposed to cause chaos or something.

### Session 5 or 6

Rika and Umbra wait at the boundary made around the collapsing building, trying to see if Aiz or Kosai make it out, but lots of time passes and they don't see either of them. Rika is very visibly stressed due to all of it, and Umbra suggests she go back, including that she can tell the others what's going on. Before she leaves, he also asks her to write her name in his book, and explains they'll be able to talk using it.

When Rika is making it back, she sees all the festivities going on elsewhere and has a sense of dissonance considering all the horror she just witnessed. Then, when the message from the Emperor of Chirurin is supposed to show up, some other guy appears and has a REALLY COOL SPEECH. Umbra can hear it echoing from afar and starts talking with Rika, and they both are like "this isn't good". Rika makes it back to the others while the guy speaking, Blackwood, says they're waging war and yokai start swarming the city. Rika makes it to the others and Umbra starts running from Yokai. He gets in view of the illusion of Blackwood so they both see that he's captured Kosai and talk some more. Rika sees a gashadakuro and Umbra sees Taro.

### Second to Last Session

Umbra and Taro funny argue. Run into the others and they all like "oh no war oh noooooooo". Have to hide because war. Umbra works for Moon and portal to freedom. Bye bye Rika congrats on being the only sane one for once. Sun wants to STAB. We go to free Kosai through the sewers, trick a guy, and find Kosai in a room with boiling oil. Oops murdered a guard okay come with up Kosai and other prisoners. Bye bye Taro and other prisoners, we're looking for Aiz now. Very long elevator ride where Kosai does exposition about Hanyo, half yokai half other humanoid. Okay there's a ship in here, cool.

Sun climbs up and is stronk so pulls Kosai and Umbra up. They also somehow broke glass right in front of a guard sneakily enough that they didn't wake up. We then immediately get caught by guards anyway. They *try* to take our weapons but Sun wasn't up for theft. Umbra pulls a sneaky to swap Sun's weapons for others. We get manhandled into a room with some blondie. Oh another blond character I wonder if that'll be relevant. He *tries* to interrogate us, but we decide to be difficult. We try to just figure out where Aiz is.

### Last Session

Aiz hello.

Genocide is bad

die.

hot potato

I hAvE oStEoPoRoSiS

Nurse Sun

Luke, I am your father

No Moon, it's not a double standard to not give jobs to kids in the adult job place