Lore Events

## Introduction

Here will be a detailed description of many lore events and their happenings. The formula for this page is experimental as of right now.

The following are mostly general events that occurred. Incidents that have in-depth roleplay within them are marked with a ✱.

The names of locations, people, and other things are mentioned by their current-day names, unless otherwise specified.

Parts of Lore are put in chronological order by heading, but events below those headings extend as far as their little *series* goes as possible, not pausing to include whatever heading below it is.

Example: Heading A starts in January, and extends all the way into April. Heading B begins in February, but only goes into March.

Uncategorized or unprocessed information with no context or start or end will be marked with a ✦, and is placed in chronological order based on its date of occurence.

# Prequel (2018)

## Epiklonia is Built

In a nonchalant manner, several restaurant-esque establishments find themselves coming into existence for some fun roleplay. These would be the precursors to Epiklonia. The most active of all of them would be McEpiks; built in March of 2019, which would later be shutdown in July.

# Season 1 (2019)

## Dawn of Nation Wars

**January** ignited the beginning of something new: Faction Wars, a game about nations fighting one another. Amongst its creation, **Epik Lands** came into being, which also found itself slowly seeping into the server.

## Echoes of 1984

**March** is when the true creation of Epiklonia came into existence. After vivid learnings of the past, Big Epik takes direct control over the government under the Epsok party, simultaneously founding the Ministries, Thought Police, Citizen Control, and Thought Criminals.

## Creation

The majority of Epiklonia would slowly come into creation, most of its construction and definition occurring between **March** and **July**. In the interim, a system of law, economy, and war is created; many criminals caught and tried, with many people being hired, rotated, fired, and killed.

## The First Resistance

### The Beginning

Sometime upon the creation of Epsok, the Water Brotherhood comes into existence; founded by the notorious thought criminal Waterfox, began working its underground evilness. Although attacks and direct conflict was despairingly minimal, the threat of the brotherhood lurked amongst the society...

### The Trick

The laws of Epiklonia, craftily changed on **April 1st**, were reverted back to their initial status after several thought criminals were properly located, allowing Thought Police to track them down, preparing to engage them.

Malalaika had briefly gone into the secret Thought Police base, opening a mysterious package, which revealed to be a box of poisonous syringes from the Minigame. ✦

### April Attack ✱

On **April 2nd**, 2019, Thinking Police were able to successfully locate and storm a facility housing the notorious leader, capturing him and bringing him to the Department of Games, where he was interrogated, and later hung in front of the public in a grotesque display. Several of his members were also found and scourged, such as Mr. Smile, who was shot and killed 98 times in a driveby shooting. Although the organization did not totally collapse, it remained docile until its inevitable reform by a new leader...

## The Second Resistance

### Brotherhood Reform

After the death of Waterfox, and a surge of new non-waterfox members, the Brotherhood reformed into the Retard Brotherhood on the **6th of June**.

Consisting of members such as a second Waterfox, Tremmu the exile, Fluxal the defector, and Farnous, the Retard Brotherhood would attempt many attacks within Epikin, trying to spite the government.

### Vanquished

The Brotherhood would not last, long, however; its regime extending four whole days until the Thought Police caught on after an assassination attempt on Big Epik, causing several to be rounded up and exterminated, ending the resistance on the **10th**.

## The Third Resistance

### Brotherhood Takeover

A new player had made its way onto the board. Known only as the Earrape Menace, one Farnous would make his mark in history, taking up the Retard Brotherhood banner, and forming into his own *cult*, known originally as the Farnous Brotherhood on the 10th; later, Farnous Criminal Cult.

### The End ✱

After months of evading law enforcement and strikes against civilian targets, the Farnous Criminal Cult was ended when Farnous was apprehended for the millionth time, and finally scourged, leading to the collapse of his resistance on **August 10th**.

## The Fourth Resistance

### Failure

With the loss of the Farnous Criminal Cult, notorious thought criminal Trremu attempted to revitalize the group under the banner of the Raccoon Gang on **August 10th**, but was immediately purged after Thought Police violently raided a warehouse consisting of its members, killing all of them, and capturing Trremu. In the meantime, Fluxal attempts to escape from his crime, driving through the slums before being intercepted and captured alongside Trremu.

## The Book

### The Beginning ✱

Fluxal had been serving his time within the DoG after failure to comply with law, dissent upon the government, affluent support of terrorist organizations, and disorderly conduct, and was residing within the comfortable cell, when he perused a bookshelf of books. It was the **11th of August**.

Fluxal was lined up for some *punishment* in the Joy Chamber, Malalaika being his assigned *therapist*. After an intense *treatment*, he had been administered to the medical wing, and into the chamber he now stood in.

Opening up an odd old notebook, he found the odd scrawlings of what he believed to be made by his father. He swore they spoke out to him, trying to get his attention, trying to break free...

He was terrified, leaving the book on the table in the room, staring at it from his bed.

He could hear whispers, see figures, calling him to *open the book* once more.

After a while of screaming and begging, several guards and Commander Firefox came to see what was happening. Believing Fluxal to be mentally ill, he was to be rushed to the medical wing, when suddenly, a horrifying stick creature came lunging out of the book, turning tail and fleeing from the building, jumping out of a window to escape to the below city. Immediately, the creature begins wreaking havoc, killing random passerbys on the street, puking anime into the food supply, snorting all the pharmaceutical drugs, eating all of the crops, before disappearing into the night.

The incident was reported to Big Epik, who immediately became alarmed by the fact that the book was there, and that this had happened. He warned of grave danger that could perhaps follow.

### The Search ✱

The search for The Book had begun, patrols up and down Epikin as the being continued to evade discovery. For a while, it was given up in search, until something happened...

### The Kidnap ✱

Breaking the fourth wall and entering into the general chat, the being, now known as "Stick Epik" came and kidnapped Big Epik, running away with him. Big Epik is brought into a secluded room in the DoC, tortured by his doppelganger and *its* creations.

Whilst Big Epik is indisposed, Stick Epik crawls through the cityscape once more, making his way to the mines just out of Epikin. Hiding there, he creates a massive army of stick figures, unleashing them upon Epikin in a violent uprising.

### Slum Destruction ✱

Streets begun cracking open, pipes bursting with roads caving into secret tunnels, hundreds of stick figures spewing upward into the streets of the Proletariat slums, capturing everyone they come across, and returning them down towards the deep dark below. Shacks burned as people fled for their lives, not getting far.

In the meantime, Fluxal finds Epik, once working at the DoC long ago...

Guards seize him after he runs towards the room where Big Epik is held, but Fluxal gets ahold of The Book that had been left there, trying to shove one guard into the book, but ultimately failing. He dodges several guards, beating them to death before turning towards the room, Stick Epik fleeing inside, preparing a portal to take Epik away with. Fluxal goes to pursue, breaking the office door open as he charges forth, but it is too late.

Both Epik and Stick Epik are gone.

### Kidnap Pursuit ✱

With the Epiks now teleported down within the salt mines, searches continue to ensue as the slums burn.

Fluxal, with the *absolutely most random metagaming hunch ever*, travels to the salt mines, wandering within them, coming across (NPC-playing) Miner Malalaika, who happens to be there. Epik, hearing his friends, makes loud noises, which gets him a punch in the face as the two delve deeper into the mines. Stick Epik also shows here his ability to evolve, suddenly being able to see in the dark, and cling to walls, holding Epik all the way as it escapes out by climbing over Fluxal, fleeing to the surface.

Being chased throughout the city by Fluxal, Stick Epik circles around the city, once again fleeing to the Outskirts into the normal mineshaft, delving into the darkness, going through a secret tunnel, which it closes up. Entering into a great cavernous opening, Stick Epik places Epik on an altar in front of his entire army, preparing for another attack on Epikin as the crowd chants.

The streets of the slums crumble furthermore as a giant explosion happens in one block, a humongous creature rising up from the ground with a loud roar. Pummeling buildings, the fight for Epikin intensifies as forces try to battle the sticks back, but the reinforcements make it a further struggle! More citizens are kidnapped, and more buildings are destroyed in the anarchy.

Amongst the anarchy, Fluxal is haggled by stick figures, who bind him up and throw him into the largest hole, where the raving armies pour out of.

### The Pit ✱

The pit is where all of the *conversion* happens. As it turns out, this infinite horde of stick figures are converted civilians! Fluxal is placed with a new batch of miners, just below the altar high up where Epik lays. Suddenly, Fluxal breaks his binds, showcasing a modern Epik drawing that he had. The crowd flees and cowers before realizing what it is, seizing Fluxal once again. They prepare to put Fluxal on an altar, when one of the miners picks up the dropped drawing, which has him immediately murdered. Forgetting the plan, Fluxal is suddenly thrown into the "BIG PIT IN THE PIT IN THE PIT", where the crowd watches from above, cheering as Fluxal is forced to fight off abominable stick figures that have been rejected from even their society.

It is here when, in Fluxal's timeline, Epik is laid upon the altar, a great announcement of his arrival echoing,

"*TODAY HE LEARN OUR PAIN!*"

### Battle of The Pit ✱

Using the mighty cringey power of anime, Fluxal melts away the faulty stick figures, the ones above booing him and throwing tomatoes. They then hoist the altar into the air, showcasing Epik to Fluxal, who pleads for help, before being retracted to a stake. The angry mob screams as he is lit on fire, Fluxal taking the opportunity to climb out of the pit, maneuver through the crowd under the guise that he also hates Epik, and stumble up towards the sacrifice as Stick Epik cheers the crowd on. He goes to steal Stick Epik's hat and pencil; his weakness, but fails to mention *which* Epik he tries to steal from, forcing him to retreat and run through the crowd as he is pursued. Fluxal loops around and about the crowd, returning back to the altar, attempting to climb up a ladder that Stick Epik erases. By Epik's orders, Fluxal grabs a rock, chucking it at-

the crowd.

Trying to get S. Epik's hat, Fluxal leaves and gets a new ladder and a rock, using casual talk to keep Stick Epik distracted long enough to chuck the rock at his hat, knocking it off his head.

The hat, falling into the crowd, is picked up by one of the sticks, and put on; the pencil floating to its new owner.

Immediately, a new army of stick figures begin getting drawn into being, a civil war beginning...

### Epik's Demise ✱

Stick figures fought against one another as the crowd raged on, fighting for and against their new leader. Meanwhile, Fluxal went hand-to-hand combat with Stick Epik, fighting terribly until, after a smoke screen, Stick Epik reappears; deformed, lizard-like, and angry. Stick Epik outmaneuvers Fluxal, suddenly grappling him and picking him up, threatening to chuck him into the Big Pit. Moments away from death, Fluxal is saved by a random angry stickman, who smacks Stick Epik; its reward is being flung down to its death. Stick Epik keeps trying to monologue to Fluxal, but continuously is attacked by Stick Stick Men, finally giving up and going berserk on the crowd as Fluxal clings onto the cliff for dear life. Stick Epik returns after lots of bloodshed, crushing one of Fluxal's hands.

"ANY LAST WORDS?"

Fluxal randomly pukes up on Stick Epik, allowing him to scramble up and towards Epik, trying to free him as he burns alive. With Stick Epik on his tail, and a Stick Stick Stick Faction forming, both Fluxal and Stick Epik go to grab Epik out of the fire, only to reveal...

WHAT

**EPIK WAS A STICK MAN NOW TOO!!!!**

### Instability ✱

Everything was on fire as the mines suddenly began exploding, everything collapsing as the ground shook. Epik wakes to Fluxal's touch, looking up as Stick Epik charges upward at them once more. Stick Epik hounds Epik, holding him up by the throat.

"THIS IS THE END FOR YOU" the bulky lizard creature snarled.

"THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK" stick Big Epik replied, breaking from his grasp.

Big Epik drew his pencil, a blue ink blade coming out of it.

Stick Epik, without his, seized a stick figure, **carving** them into a pencil, a red inky blade coming out of it.

### Stick Epik's Demise ✱

The two began battling fiercely, dancing through the crowd as they slashed, kicked, and punched one another. Fluxal tries his best to distract Stick Epik as the lizard slices Epik's leg off, and holds him down by a foot. Suddenly, Fire walks into the madness, watching as Epik gains leverage, regaining his leg. Fluxal sees Fire, tossing him the book. Fire begins smacking Stick Epik, who chokes him and tosses him away. After another series of actions, Fluxal is able to stumble Stick Epik towards the Big Pit, Fluxal retrieving and **opening** The Book, marching towards Stick Epik, who begins to get sucked in. Every single stickman turns and sees, all screaming as they charge him! Stick Epik attempts to escape, jumping into the pit, but enough of him has been sucked in, causing it to go with him!

There is a thoom before a great flash of light shines from the pit, all of the stick figures suddenly disintegrating as the mines collapse furthermore. The trio scream as they pick up Epik, fleeing to the surface as everything breaks apart around them, caving in! Epik gets ahold of Stick Epik's hat and pencil, using the pencil to rocket the trio right out of the mines, the entire system collapsing behind them as they make it out alive, landing in the slums...

### Aftermath ✱

With Stick Epik gone, the stick figures disintegrated, and The Book encased several hundred feet below ground, the half-on-fire city of Epikin could rest easy once more, now that the invasion was over.

Despite all of the destruction, Epikin strives to rebuild, much of the slums, shack town, and roads being repaved and reconstructed.

Mining continues in the area where the mines once were on **August 28th**, now deemed safe, as long as nobody digs down too far...

## The Return of The Book

### Extraction ✱

Extreme amounts of mining had pursued between **August 28th** and **September 1st** (5 whole days lol), several miners foolishly digging straight downward. Amongst them was Commander Firefox, who was hobbying a shovel in the deepest parts of the mine when...

"*Gasp!*"

"WHAT'S THIS?"

"I FOUND IT YES"

Firefox dug up The Book, which lay dormant, dusty, and dirty.

Farnous, Kylie, and Malalaika randomly delve into the darkess, coming to Fire to see what the commotion was. He tried to shroud it, opening the book to let Stick Epik out-! But, the page was.. empty? Fire turned the pages, the next one he fell upon empty too.. He flipped and flipped: empty, empty, more empty!

Big Epik randomly clambered down into the mines as the group conversed and chattered about The Book, Epik gasping as he saw it. Fire was desperate for money, he needed something, when suddenly, the book flipped itself!

Before anything else could happen, though, Farnous suddenly snatched up the book, running upwards for his life!

### Pursuit

Farnous fled to his little Prole shack house in the shack town, fetching a crummy pencil to draw an army man in the book. He waited excitedly, but nothing seemed to happen. He drew "paper epik", but once again, nothing happened. Malalaika located him, breaking his door down to get him. Farnous dove through his window, running at full speed as Fire and Epik also pursued him.

Farnous tried desperately to keep pumping drawings into the book, waiting for something to happen.

Bravo Unit arrives on the scene as the quad fight over the book, Farnous beating up Kylie as Fire stabs him several times. With Farnous down, the book slips from ownership, the book flies through the air, landing somewhere in the slums. Farnous takes it back up, trying once more to draw in it before being tackled by Fire and Mala, who reports the incident, drawing Epik in and the Bravo Unit. During the scuffle, the Book *conveniently* drops down into a sewage drain, causing the group to frenzy into the sewers after it as it floated down the poopie stream. Epik tried reaching for it, but missed as Kylie dropped down to get it.

Fluxal works his job at the factory, when suddenly, in the midst of his conveyor belt assembling, a blue book passes by, glowing. He freaks out as it calls his name, the group SuDdEnLy breaking in to find it. Once again, somehow, it vanishes, disappearing under the belt.

Farnous sOmEhOw finds it hidden in the mines once more, blocking the tunnel so he can read it. He flips crazily, the pages all blank as the others search for him and it. Fire pursues, finding and teaming up with him, Epik trailing behind to report them, calling the others forth. The mine is cordoned as Bravo Unit, heavily armored, seals it off, several dozen soldiers marching in. Fire attempts to set the book on fire several times, the thing resistant to flames. Fire begins digging away rapidly as the teams come down, firing at Farnous as he tries to draw a gun into existence.

The soldiers come down, immediately tranquilizing Commander Firefox and Kylie, arresting several miners, and lighting Farnous up. The book is taken by the soldiers, placed in a suit case, as per Commander Malalaika's orders.

### Containment

Bravo Unit whizzes through the streets as the book is safeguarded, a convoy of black vans making their way to the Minigame as helicopters patrol the skies. Farnous, Fluxal, and Kylie dilly dally in the slum streets as infantry patrol them, everything on red alert.

### Quick Return

~~The book lay in the slum streets, blowing about in the gusty wind as it finally lay upon a signpost, then later into a bush. Commander Malalaika, trying to track it, mobilized Charlie Unit as they searched for it, clearing the area out with warning shots, but fails to locate it, retreating back for the night.~~ (May have been a fake book to get the proles excited)

It was the twilight in the Minigame as a sudden unlatching of a very specific briefcase clicked from the meeting room, the suitcase containing The Book flopping open. An officer worker passed by, seeing the case wide open. Going to pick up The Book, he is suddenly struck with an overwhelming urge to drop The Book out one of the windows, and does so, suddenly collapsing as it falls from his grasp. Rubbing his head, he suddenly screams, also flinging himself out of the window of the skyscraper.

The Book fell through the sky, landing harshly atop a roof, sliding down it into the road. A random Fluxal chanced by, seeing the Book; not noticing which one it was.

A splattering corpse at the ground below irked Malalaika strolling by, and Fire indoors, who found the case empty to action, alerting the Minigame of the incident, all weapons ready...

The Book, now possessed by Fluxal, was easily handed over to Malalaika, which was easily taken by Fire, which was easily given to Epik, who arrived. Suspecting all was over, Epik prepared to return it, only to be bitten by the book, which falls and slides under Fire! Fluxal is able to get ahold of it, giving it to Fire, who is suddenly attacked as it latches onto his face! Fluxal pulls it off of him, giving it to Epik, who is once again attacked by it as The Book evolves, growing little legs and scuttling away! Epik dives for it, but its agility allows it to slither into the sewers below!

### The Sewers

Epik, Fire, and Fluxal; all working together once again, dropped into the sewage streams through a manhole; the area just below the streets. Epik toggled a light, his sidearm out as he lead the party down the tunnels, trudging through the murky sewage...

A distant noise echoes through the sewers, only alerting Epik. The trio pushes forth, stopping at a maintenance door, as the passage for the sewage to flow down into is way too small for any human to fit through...

Opening the door, the trio descent a level to the deeper part of the sewers; the true experience. Slowly opening a second maintenance door, Epik shines his light into the large circular tunnels of the sewers; catwalks on the sides as waste pours down into a straight from above pipes, flowing slowly and freely. Epik swears he sees something, shining his light quickly, something darting from view. He dismisses it, continuing forward through the tunnels. A few more noises lead the group deeper and deeper through the subterranean system, a pause coming over them as Epik turns around, glaring at Fluxal.

"If anything goes wrong," Epik says, drawing a second pistol, "you know what to do." He gives the rather untrustworthy man his pistol, turning back around as Fire also draws his own pistol.

Whispers, skittering, crying, clanging, and other weird noises emanate from the deep dark as the group presses onward, now quite disturbed by the ambiance presented to them in the stinky deep dark. Distant footsteps seem to pace ahead of them, before a sudden ***splash*** alerts the group, Epik wildly shining his light into the sewage. Fire and Fluxal panic, taking off forward past Epik as he looks around in a dead pause. Epik continues looking around frantically, slowly lowering his guard when, suddenly, out of the blue: a thin, black, tendril explodes out of the water, coiling around Epik as it thrashes him about in the air, flinging the flashlight from him, going out as it hits the ground. He screams as Fluxal dives for the light, turning it back on as another loud splash comes from the sewage, Epik's screams quenched as the two recover and look-- seeing nothing. The two freak out as the waste ripples, no sign of Epik in sight as more horrid noises from the deep depths reverberate through the tunnels.

### The Deep

Coming to a four-way, the two pause momentarily, trying to select a direction to go. To their left, a trail of blood mischievously lays upon the catwalk, the two following it slowly as more and more paints the ground, a boot causing the two to stop.

"Epik was wearing boots, right?" Fluxal inquires.

A sudden whisper comes from behind, Fluxal quickly turning to shine his light; he swears a foot was in sight for a split second. There are wet footfalls all of a sudden, Fluxal shining frantically in many directions, seeing nothing. Turning back around towards the way they were going, the two are met with the visual of a hunched over man, just 20 feet away from them. The man breathes heavily as Fluxal's light goes out, the breathing getting closer. Fire manages to get it working again, met with a face-to-face visual of a bloodied Epiklonian soldier, his head down as feces and blood dribble off of him, saliva drooling from his mouth. It slowly looks up, its face half missing, black ooze drooling out of it. It grabs Firefox, causing him to drop the light! The two scuffle as Fluxal rapidly puts bullets into it, but to no avail as it bites into Fire's neck! Fluxal reloads, firing again, knocking the creature and Fire into the sewage as the fight continues. Fire gags and sputters as he's brought under the water, Fluxal's random firing causing his arm to take a bullet as he downs large quantities of poop water, drowning.

The water goes still, no noise for a while until, suddenly, the creature explodes from the water again, grappling Fluxal, trying to drag him in too! Fluxal drops his guns, but reacquires it, putting the finishing bullet into its half-missing skull. The body slinks into the sewage, once again going still until Fluxal decides to swim in the fecal matter.

Fluxal is suddenly lifted out of the poop water as a black tendril dangles him, holding him upside down before throwing him into the wall! Fluxal attempts to attack it, being tripped as it once again tries to drag him back into the sewage, accidentally pulling his shoe off. The tendril submerges back into the sewage, coming out once or twice to harass and slap Fluxal, trying to take him. It's "life" is ended quickly after Fluxal magdumps it, causing it to fall still onto the catwalk. Continuing forth, Fluxal finds himself at a bloodied wall dead end, an AK-47 leaning on the wall. Returning back to the four-way, Fluxal goes to take the opposite direction (Right), but is thwarted by a gate. With no other way to go, he goes forward, down a slope, which he slides down, slipping on tons of black goo as the sewer slopes more and more, an audible waterfall coming closer and closer. Suddenly slipping off the slope, Fluxal dive bombs two stories down into the largest pit of poop water in Epikin, going 12 feet under before resurfacing. As Fluxal floats down stream, he's met with the visual of huge mechanical watermills churning the sewage, their fins bloodied by other fated adventurers; a crate going into them and splintering. Fluxal swims for his life towards a ladder on the side, climbing out of the poop to be met with more black goo. There is a doorway, the evil sounds of chanting coming from the other side.

### The Vengeful Book

Fluxal passes through an antechamber as the chanting draws closer, a large red-tinted room at the end of the hallway. Fluxal goes into the room, suddenly ensnared by the now-living ooze! Before him is a humongous industrial-warehouse-sized chamber, humongous growths of black ooze on every wall; everywhere- covering everything! In the middle of the room is a huge lump, Firefox and Epik dangling in midair by large tentacles. On top of the huge lump is **The Book**, oozing with blackness into the mass.

"WHAT THE HELL" Fluxal cries out, trying to shoot the ooze below him.

He watches painfully as a cylindrical mass of poop slowly slides out of his barrel, dropping awkwardly onto the ooze.

As the poop slowly draws out from the gun, The Book revs to life.

"Ǎ̸̒h̶̍̍,̷̌̄ ̶͑̓h̴́̋e̴̍̔l̸̉͌l̶͑̿o̸̒͘ ̸̂͂f̴̅̍l̶̛͛ú̷̾x̷̛͂a̵̒̃l̷̀̌.̴̦̍"

"S̵͗͘o̸̐̑ ̷̔͑g̷̓̾l̷̆̓a̷͛͐ď̵̓ ̴͑̽ẙ̴̀ȯ̶̽u̴̒̃ ̶̈́̔c̶̄͑ŏ̵̈́ủ̴̈́l̶̠̂d̸͗̕ ̶̋̔j̸̆̊ơ̴̚ỉ̷́n̴̍̚ ̸̛̚u̸̿̈́ŝ̴͠.̸̅̑"

Epik and Fire vitalize as they hear noise, looking down at little Fluxal who'd come to save them.

Fluxal says something snarky, trying to shoot The Book, only delivering a painfully slow poop simulator as the rest of the feces exits from his pistol.

Fluxal attempts half a dozen more times, The Book taunting him by dangling Epik in front of him. Fluxal finally gets his gun working, firing a bullet through the tentacle holding Epik, only to watch the hole disappear in a new growth of ooze. Epik is suspended where he was once more, when Fluxal suddenly draws his AK, lighting up the tendril, causing Epik to fall 20 feet down into the ooze below, a new tendril drawing upward to suspend him once more. Fluxal tries again, two new tendrils taking the previous ones place as he rips it up. He tries Fire, Fire falling down and landing in the ooze, The Book not caring for him. Fluxal throws his pistol to Fire, the two ready to get Epik as Epik is brought in front of The Book itself. Fire asks The Book many questions, The Book monologuing its plans for world domination. Several more questions cause The Book to flip rapidly through its pages, a sudden burst of red ooze spewing from it. From the ooze, a terrible and large humanoid mass forms; a demonic entity crouched in front of them, lingering over the two.

"I̶̿̌ ̴̾̆c̷̏̒ą̷͂ñ̸͑ ̵̏̂m̸͝͝a̵͆̊k̶͗̅e̸͌͘ ̷́̀w̶̛͛h̶͛̑a̶͆́ṫ̸̀e̷̅͌v̶͊͘e̵͐̓r̸̒̌ ̸͐͝I̴̒̓ ̸̃̊ẇ̴̏a̸̓̈n̴̐͝t̷͐͂.̷̏̆ ̵͌͑R̵̗͛ȅ̸̈́ả̵̛l̴͆̃ȋ̴̇t̵̿͐y̶̍̋ ̴͒̈́i̵͑͊s̶͋͑ ̸́͊m̸̊͑ȋ̴͝n̵̂̈́e̴̦͒ ̸̆̅t̶̅̍o̸͊͆ ̷̈́̓e̷͑͘d̷̂̇ḯ̶t."

"Make it have wings!!!" Fire cheers. The being sprouts wings.

"Give it big claws!" The beings claws thicken.

"Give it a hat. It will make it look scary. Give it some sunglasses as well."

The Book grew tired of this pessimism, its creation turning to look up at its master, then at the two.

With a few paces, the creature grabs the two hard, wrapping its arms around both of them like kegs as it casually walks them out of the chamber and back into the hall. Epik cries out as the laughter of The Book carries, the creature walking them out.

### The First Defeat

The demon soars through the tunnels with its new wings, backtracking through everything the two had taken so long to get through. It lands at the little maintenance door where the adventure began, opening the handle with its huge claw.

"What's your name. Is this your job?" Fire inquires.

"Call me Xalafar. It is now." the demon responds, shoving the two through the door.

"Don't come back. Have a good day while it lasts!" Xalafar smiles.

Fire tries to coax the demon into helping them go back, but it doesn't really care enough to listen. It was fine with its level of free will, and was willing to serve its master. A little awkward, the demon dismisses the two, slamming the door and locking it from its side, flying away.

With nothing else to do, the two return the way they came.

## Something

### Something

It was September 23rd, and Fluxal was sitting in the Thought Police base, listening into comms. It seemed that "Bravo" Team was on search for "Delta" Team, but interjection from the Mini itself stated they were deployed elsewhere. They had been sent to the sewers on "combat" operation status.

It was later that afternoon, when a call had come in again. They needed reinforcement! (Do later, too far in)