The Tragedy of Kaira Veis

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**The Tragedy of Kaira Veis** is an event that occurred on The Arena that resulted in the death of Kaira Veis of the Eternity Project for Interplanar Cooperation. While Experiment Zero dealt the killing blow, nearly everyone involved played a part in the events that led to her death.

## Timeline

### Before the conflict

Experiment Zero experienced several technical issues as a result of her premature planeswalk to The Arena, and told Lettie Wormwood that Henry Brayden may have been behind it. Henry would soon convince Zero of his innocence and was allowed to inspect Zero and try to preform repairs. Henry created a new arm, but Zero was unable to use it. Henry led Zero to Eternity Project for Interplanar Cooperation to see if they could offer additional assistance.

While Zero was taken aback by EPIC's tampering with the Blind Eternities, she allowed Hannah Delcarlo-Nisita and Hannah alone to interface with Zero and try to fix any problems. Hannah arrived on the Arena with Karina Oblay, who was suspicious of Zero after an earlier encounter with the robot, but did not interfere as Zero did not appear to be hostile. Additionally, Lettie, who had been tracking down Henry following Zero's accusation, arrived on the scene but was initially too stunned to stop the procedure from happening.

### Interfacing with Zero

Lettie and Henry argued over safety of doing this, Henry believing Zero to be in need of help, Lettie believing they were arming a dangerous machine. Despite Lettie's delayed protests, Hannah connected to Zero, finding a large amount of error messages and corrupted files. Hannah played a series of sound files that everyone around could hear, giving a few glimpses in the life of a previous programmer of Zero that she ultimately turned on. Afterwards, the voice of Planeswalker[2] spoke to Hannah and gave her some additional information. Hannah fixed some files, then allowed Zero to restart and disconnected.

### Zero Restarts

With the alternate files, Zero is unable to load recent memory files and does not remember much of what had occurred. Hannah explains what she found to the others and the existence of Planeswalker[2], which Zero hears the end of. Zero refused a reconnect and became increasingly alarmed at what Hannah spoke about that Zero no longer remembered allowing her to do, causing Henry to begin yelling at Hannah, and Karina to yell back for Hannah.

Lettie instead played along with Zero, trying to convince the robot to leave the area. Fearing that they may need to attack, Zero tries to figure out who is telling the truth by questioning Lettie. During Lettie's explanation, she triggered a memory of Lhin taking a contract to kill Zero's creator. With Zero distracted, Lettie set a trap under Zero that would collapse the ground under sudden movements. Zero, unhappy with all the answers, opened rifts to prove to themself they are on Nulien rather than the Arena.

### Fighting Commences

From the rift tumble ten drones that demand that Zero be returned home, then announce 'Training exercise C-31,' which Zero recognizes as the drones exploding within proximity to anyone. As she moves to disable them before they explode, she trips Lettie's trap, the ground giving way to a pit with a giant mass of worms that Zero begins to attack as the others deal with the explosive drones that escaped the trap. With their new files, Zero is able to call for additional firepower, bringing two solar panel wings from across the planes and using them to fly upward and use an electrical attack on the worms.

This electrical attack also connects with Seiva Zeni, knocking her to the ground. On top of a building and thinking Zero had just killed Seiva, Kaira Veis fired a rifle at Zero to limited effect. Zero flew for Kaira in retaliation but as they're were about to hit her, Kaira used an explosive tenebrite round against the robot. This broke the building's roof, throwing Kaira a few stories to the ground badly injured while sending Zero flying and burning off much of her synthetic skin. Zero now believed Kaira to be a creature of Elsewhere dangerous to everyone on the plane and flew into the building, this time killing her without much of a fight. Moments later, Kaira's dying trap was sprung, exploding several more tenebrite rounds, collapsing the building on top of Zero.

## Aftermath

* Kaira Veis was killed.
* Zero survived the final attack due to a spell of Reza's, and very slowly planeswalked away from the rubble, leaving to repair the damage to her synthetic skin.
* Seiva survived, but was badly injured and spent several weeks recovering her strength.
* Henry, feeling guilty for bringing everyone here, left the Arena.
* Lettie drowned her self-loathing for beginning the fight with her trap in alcohol for days. At the tail end of her bender, Karina contacted Lettie, trying to get information on where Zero went, seeing the scared and confused person in Zero who had now alienated everyone else who tried to help. Lettie tried to dissuade her, but eventually told her what she did know.

## People Involved

* Experiment Zero
* Henry Brayden
* Lettie Wormwood
* Eternity Project for Interplanar Cooperation, Seiva Zeni, Hannah Delcarlo-Nisita
* Karina Oblay