Dark Harvest/Metrics

**Date Completed:**6/29/2021
**Previous Role-Play**:Paragon Mar
**Users Involved:** User:Katokonia
**Setting:** Effigen
**Scions Involved**:
* Starfall Nyx
* Starfall Hecate
* Entia Sharaz
* Raine Lilith
* Strodes Cain
* Koda Alyss

**Marines Involved**:
* Nibiru Hysteria
* Anthea Cassiopeia
* Sayid Barto
* Anthea Serenade (Mentioned)
* Benny J.
* Kenin Yani
* Kepla Jay (Mentioned)
* Kepla Sweeney (Mentioned)

**Other Characters Involved**:
* Bukki
* Semira Kaili
* Mayor of Effigen

## Plot Summary

Somber Cobble

* Begins with introducing Starfall Hecate, who early-on displays one of the functions of her devil fruit on a helpless civilian.
* Starfall Nyx enters the scene soon after, as the two hold dialogue with each other, making idle conversation about the operation that had occurred in the role-play Paragon Mar.
* Entia Sharaz enters, showing off his personality as he begins to banter, until a crash is heard from the ceiling of the hideout the three are in, showing the arrival of Koda Alyss, Strodes Cain, and Raine Lilith, who had just arrived back from their mission.
* Nyx gathers the group and plans for their next moves, having Sharaz, Lilith, and Alyss remain within town, while Nyx, Hecate, and Cain investigate the mystery of the larger island of Effigen, that is infested with murderous scarecrows.

Somber Waves

* Introduces Anthea Cassiopeia, Sayid Barto, and Nibiru Hysteria, who begin by traveling on a boat across the sea towards Effigen, where Hysteria staunchly claims she saw the Scions head towards.
* Cassiopeia and Barto have a discussion about what they're going to do what they reach the island, also displaying Cassiopeia's anger over her sister, Anthea Serenade, having been injured by the Scions in their previous encounter in Paragon Mar.

A Tendency to Float

* The marines arrive in Effigen at a heavily fortified port, with walls and stakes standing on the perimeter of the entire island, with the water showing itself to host a mass of immobile, floating scarecrows.
* The Mayor sees to the arrival of the marines, welcoming them to his manor for a feast, though they decline.
* The scene breaks, shifting towards the whereabouts of Nyx, Hecate, and Cain, who found themselves in an abandoned barn on the larger island, with scarecrows huddled outside the barred barn door.
* Nyx explains her plan to Hecate and Cain, showing them the key locations they should be searching for the source of the scarecrows, which she believes to be a devil fruit user.
* The three break out of the barn, with Hecate using her devil fruit ability against some of the scarecrows, as well as on herself to allow the three quick travel across the terrain.
* Nyx, Hecate, and Cain arrive nearby the main location objective Nyx had marked for investigation, when the group finds themselves confronted by a large group of scarecrows, with the addition of a suit of animated armor.
* Cain stays behind to deal with the mass of enemies as Nyx and Hecate continue on, breaking into the abandoned warehouse that was their target.
* When Nyx and Hecate enter the warehouse, they are greeted by an ominous and pretentious voice from the other side of the room. A massive stomping sound was heard within the room, as Nyx threw a lighter with an active flame towards it.
* The light revealed the sound to be coming from a massive armored scarecrow, however the fire make it catch ablaze, immediately destroying it much to the despair of the voice across the room.
* Nyx and Hecate rush over towards Bukki, who was the currently unidentified source of the voice, as Hecate used her devil fruit ability to incapacitate her.
* A dialogue is made, as Cain finds himself in the room as well, having defeated the horde outside.
* Bukki is introduced, alongside her telling a rundown of her life-story. She additionally sheds light on the source of the scarecrow infestation in Effigen.
* Bukki reveals the Neza Neza no Mi, though it's capabilities are currently unknown, as Nyx unexpectedly takes the fruit and swallows it whole without warning, much to everyone's surprise.
* Nyx has a strange vision as she collapses after eating the fruit, though doesn't speak of it to the others.
* As Nyx, Hecate, and Cain make to leave the building, having solved the mystery, Bukki tells them to wait, pleading to join them.
* Initially declining, Nyx goes up to Bukki, and offers to give her something else she'd like, as Bukki had said that if she couldn't join, if they could at least grant her wish. Bukki asks Nyx to kill her, and displays that she is both ready and willing to die. Hecate additionally takes a liking to Bukki in this moment.
* Nyx calls Bukki an idiot, and agrees to let Bukki come with them, though in a very condescending and annoyed tone.

A Bit TOO Wild for Effigen...

* Meanwhile in town, the marines are walking down a road, as they are suddenly spoken to by Entia Sharaz, who proceeds to monologue, mostly to himself, about the destiny of their meeting and whatnot.
* The marines ignore him and move on, as he intercepts them again, continuing his monologue. This process repeats several times, until the marines finally quarrel with Sharaz after he mentions that he's in league with the Scions.
* Cassiopeia and Barto engaged Sharaz in combat, but found themselves helpless against him in a fight.
* After showing the distance between the skill between himself and the two marines, Sharaz was abruptly swallowed by a large fruit created by Hysteria's fruit ability.
* He escapes from the frog, however the event repeats itself again, and upon exiting the second time a massive weight falls onto him, as he passes out, unconscious.

Moonshine Mania

* Lilith reveals herself to be nearby, as she now enters combat with the marines. She finds herself able to use some form of gas to counteract Hysteria's fruit, turning one of Hysteria's own creations against her.
* Lilith displays a gas that seems to control Barto's mind, as he attacks and is subsequently restrained by Cassiopeia.
* Lilith hits Hysteria with one of her fume attacks as well, however Hysteria doesn't waver from the command. She does, however, let go of her ability, and Lilith is able to snatch up Sharaz's body, which was no longer weighed down, and run away with him.
* Barto comes back to his senses, asking what happened. Cassiopeia explains to him, and they both get up, relatively unharmed.
* The two realize that Lilith and Sharaz, as well as Hysteria, are all gone, as they begin to wonder where they had went.
* Semira Kaili enters the scene, telling the two marines the direction where everyone had gone. She offers to help the group, citing her interest lying in the fact that she had a target in one of the Scions, explaining herself to be a bounty hunter.

Abstract Delirium

* Nyx, Hecate, Cain, and Bukki are finally back in town, and find themselves travelling down an alleyway when suddenly Lilith comes crashing into Cain, soon followed by Sharaz, who also crashes into Cain.
* Hysteria appears at the head of the alleyway, prompting all the Scions within to prepare for combat after Hysteria displayed signs of aggression.
* Hecate takes the initiative and rushes forward, driving her sword into Hysteria's body, which collapses, appearing to die.
* However, Hecate is suddenly swept into the air by an unknown force, and slammed into an invisible ceiling that rested atop the alleyway, then dragged along the wall before finally being dropped, unconscious.
* A fight ensues with the Scions fighting in vain against a power they did not understand, being Hysteria's devil fruit ability.
* Cain thinks of a way to escape, and everyone manages to get out of the locked zone except for Nyx, who is stopped by Hysteria before being able to leave.
* Nyx fights against swarms of objects with her martial techniques, before finally growing exhausted, and about to give up. She then remembers her devil fruit that she had recently indulged upon, utilizing it's power to easily destroy the manifestations Hysteria created, though she still found herself unable to escape.

Outside Delirium

* Outside of Hysteria's aura, the Scions and Bukki find themselves face to face with Barto, Cassiopeia, and Kaili. Cain, Lilith, and Bukki are the only Scions currently capable of fighting and on the rooftop, which made up the battlefield, and the fight turned into three 1-on-1 battles, with Lilith pitted against Cassiopeia, Cain pitted against Kaili, and Bukki pitted against Barto.
* Bukki uses her devil fruit ability in her fight against Barto, finding herself easily able to defeat him alone.
* Lilith and Cassiopeia's battle is much more even, as Cassiopeia holds an absolute melee advantage, however Lilith's evasiveness finds her able to dodge Cassiopeia's attacks, but not counterattack as she wanted to.
* Meanwhile, Kaili and Cain are fighting within a cloud of smoke, silently aside from the sounds of the jack-in-the-boxes and the combat outside.
* Alyss arrives on the scene, rushing to assist Lilith against Cassiopeia, slamming into her and rendering her unconscious with a slam into the rooftop.
* Kaili manages to hit Cain with a paralytic agent, however upon exiting the smoke in victory she sees that the marines have both lost, and quickly reacts to grab them and run off from the fight with them.
* Alyss brought the limp bodies of Cain, Hecate, and Sharaz back to the group's hideout, as Lilith jumps back down into the alleyway to check on Nyx, who had disappeared from sight once the others had left Hysteria's aura.
* She finds Nyx half unconscious, still actively using her devil fruit power. Moments after she arrives, Nyx collapses to the ground, as Hysteria mentions that Lilith only got herself captured by coming back.

Residual Servings

* Barto wakes up in bed with all his injuries tended to, wondering why he is still alive.
* Benny J. and Kenin Yani enter the room, explaining to him that Kaili had treated both his and Cassiopeia's wounds, who had been lying in a bed next to Barto, though had already left the building once the two had arrived.
* Yani gives Barto and Cassiopeia a rundown on the events that transpired after they had fallen unconscious, notably discussing the capture of both Lilith and Nyx by Hysteria, and an attack by the rest of the Scions at an attempt to retrieve their comrades, though this attack failed with the presence of Yani and Benny backing up Hysteria in defense.
* Benny and Yani hastily say that the four should leave the islands as soon as possible in case they become the next target, as the group hastily reaches a boat on the dock and proceeds to depart the island of Effigen, heading towards the G-12 where the prisoners were being taken.

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