Heart of the Desert/Metrics

**Date Completed:**6/22/2021
**Previous Role-Play**:
**Users Involved:** User:Katokonia
**Setting:** Svarga , Mount Kleos
**Celestial Pirates Involved**:
* Jupiter Doomsaint
* Saturn Rezka

**Kleeites Involved**:
* Khepri Bast
* Khepri Hathor
* Komombo Sobek

**Other Characters Involved**:
* Keinen Shana
* Thoth-1
* Jinx-71
* Skycore Caspian
* Saleiiya

## Plot Summary

Where To Now?

* Begins with Jupiter Doomsaint rejecting a proposition from Saturn Rezka to go on a mission to Mount Kleos.
* Just as Doomsaint begins to leave, four people enter the room, being Skycore Caspian, Keinen Shana, Thoth-1, and Jinx-71.
* Caspian tells Rezka that he brought Shana, Thoth, and Jinx to be sent on the mission.
* Shana notices Doomsaint trying to leave, and they end up getting into an argument, ending with a proposition of trial-by-combat.
* Rezka takes the group through his personal high-speed transport to the Falah Dome, one of Svarga's arenas.
* With Shana and Doomsaint facing off from opposite sides of the arena, and the rest sitting in the spectators' seats, the fight is soon to begin.

Clash at Falah Dome

* Shana proposes that if she wins the fight, Doomsaint has to go on the mission, and if she lost that she would become Doomsaint's slave for the day, though completely confident in her abilities.
* After a shot by Rezka indicating the start of the match, the two waste no time attempting to secure a swift victory.
* Doomsaint quickly renders Shana's main weapon useless with his Tendō techniques, forcing her to fall back from the melee.
* He hesitates momentarily, feeling the dark aura of her nether blade as she unsheathes it.
* Shana uses a rush of Mitsuori-dō techniques as she tries to strike at a blind spot, or gain her spear back.
* After a few more trades of attacks, Doomsaint uses Radia Yas-Ta, which seems to force Shana's haki to disappear.
* Doomsaint summons **Callisto**, utilizing it with **Po Pakkei** to cause Shana to slam directly into it, causing her to launch backwards violently.
* The two continue fighting, eventually ending up in a final clash between Shana's nether blade, and Doomsaint's red plaz.
* During the clash between the two, Shana uses her spell art to send sharp crystals directly into Doomsaint's torso, causing him to falter.
* Strangely, while the two had been running low on energy, Shana seemed to be rejuvenated by an unknown technique, easily finishing off Doomsaint, who passes out.

This Time, By Boat

* Doomsaint wakes up on a speeding boat. Jinx is also in the room, however he initially doesn't remember who she was, to her annoyance.
* Doomsaint quickly leaves the room and walks up to the deck of the boat, where he sees Thoth leaning against a rail.
* Thoth and Doomsaint seem to get along well enough, though Doomsaint sees Jinx as somewhat of a pest. Likewise, Jinx is irritated at being left out of the two's conversation.
* While wondering where Shana went, on cue she erupts from the surface of the water where she seemed to either be riding or wrestling a Sea King, which lasted all the way until they reached the shore of Mount Kleos, though not with a decided victor in either Shana or the Sea King.
* As they arrive on shore, Doomsaint thinks on how professional the two Scopas' deployments were, who were immediately prepared for the journey ahead.

A Gate Guarded by The Sands

* After some time of walking towards the rocky formations in the distance, Doomsaint jumps up into the air and realizes that the ground is moving backwards towards the shore, not unlike a treadmill.
* Shana runs over to see what the commotion was about, then learning of the predicament. She calls for Thoth who was currently out of sight, however no response came. Repeated attempts were made with the same result, however eventually they heard gunshots far in front of them, spelling the code for 'Ambush.'
* Shana uses her spell art to surf along the ground, as Doomsaint uses Boda Cheetah to make equal pace. He has to carry Jinx as she cannot run as fast as the two, holding her until they reach the rocks.
* Doomsaint and Jinx arrive at the scene, full of sand and dust flying throughout the air, where they hear a clashing of blades. About to enter the fray, Thoth suddenly flies by Doomsaint, injured. Jinx stays back to tend to him as Doomsaint rushes into the clouds of sand and dust before them.
* Doomsaint enters combat with a Petsuchos, though at the time isn't aware of it's capabilities, being seared in the arm by it's beam of light.
* With the field becoming more chaotic, Doomsaint leaps up into the air and uses **Sugar Glider** to land on one of the rocks above.
* He hears a crash below him, and uses **Eye of Heaven** to clear the sand and debris from the near area which was obstructing his sight.
* The crash reveals itself to be Shana, who's surrounded by a group of Petsuchos, as well as Komombo Sobek in his hybrid form, though he is unrecognizable as a person at the time being.
* Proving his intelligence, Shana attempts, and succeeds, in entering a dialogue with Sobek. Thoth and Jinx, who had apparently been captured, are brought over to Shana and untied, and Doomsaint slides down the rock he was on as the four follow Sobek towards the passage through the rocks leading to the city.

Heart of the Desert

* **A**fter a rather long, and silent, walk, the four arrive at a gate, where they pass through to reach the outskirts of the true Mount Kleos, showing itself as a bountiful and vibrant city, unlike the desert wastes outside it.
* **T**hoth is noticeably defunct, his mind seeming to be vacant to some capacity, though the reason as to why is unknown to the three, aside from Jinx's proposal that it was caused by him taking a Petsuchos' beam of light to the face.
* Khepri Hathor appears on the scene, offering to lead the group to their audience with the Empress. Shana and Jinx go, while Doomsaint opts to stay behind to make sure Thoth doesn't go haywire.
* Hathor talks about all manner of things with Shana and Jinx, showing herself to be a jolly person, as she leads them to a massive pyramid with a giant head at it's tip, which she says to be their destination. Hathor also goes over some ground rules of entry, and the two have to give up their weapons.
* Shana and Jinx enter the hall, where the Empress, Khepri Bast, is seated above a set of steps on the far side of the room. The room itself is extravagant, lined with luxuries, and guards.
* The talks begin, however they are abruptly cut short when Bast refuses to talk with someone who isn't the leader of a nation, seeing it as cowardly, and disrespectful towards her.
* Shana and Jinx are made to leave only just after they arrived, exiting the pyramid and grabbing their belongings, before walking the street listlessly, unsure as to what just happened, Shana being especially in shock.

Harmless Deception

* Bast went to go see the other two who had been left behind out of curiosity, though her motive remained unknown, and never discovered, as once she arrives at the twos' location, she somehow recognizes Doomsaint.
* The two have a short dialogue, though Doomsaint's vulgar and disrespectful attitude towards Bast annoys her greatly, as she decides to go back to the other two, now having learned of their acquaintance with both Doomsaint, and Rezka.
* Bast arrives at the dejected pair of Shana and Jinx, and accuses them of holding information regarding Rezka. Shana notably thinks to herself, realizing that she never mentioned Rezka by name, and wondered how Bast figured it out.
* Bast "forgives" the two, then forcefully leads them to a "grand hotel."
* The Grand Hotel turns out to be a well-kept, yet mediocrely sized building. An elderly lady rocked in her rocking chair in front of the entrance, and was startled awake when Bast announced her presence.
* Shana and Jinx are both notably surprised at Bast's willingness to help Menhit get up and walk inside, helping her and picking up Menhit's walking stick after she had dropped it.
* Beckoning Shana and Jinx entry, they then sign their names on the guest list, being shown to their rooms. Bast states that she'll get someone to bring them to her in the morning, and departs from the establishment.
* The rooms are very well-kept, and are supplied with two beds. a table, and hot water. As the entire building is empty, however, Jinx and Shana easily find themselves in separate rooms.
* Preparing to call it a day, Shana curiously walks over to her room's table, where there sat a dusty book that she initially thought was a stone tablet of some sort. Blowing off the dust, it reveals itself to be called "Captain Nymo On Duty!: Volume 2." Struggling to remember where she had seen the name before, Shana eventually gives up and goes to take a shower and get ready for bed.
* Still lying outside in the cold desert wind, Doomsaint makes idle conversation with Thoth, which he had been doing for some time now, though he had not gotten a response until this moment.
* Doomsaint cheered, slapping Thoth on the back mentioning his happiness about Thoth no longer being "braindead."
* Doomsaint asks Thoth what he had been doing, provided with multiple answers, though Doomsaint singled out when Thoth said he had been "Scouting.''
* Thoth's visor glows red, as he begins to slowly mutter his findings. He mentions that the boat they took to Mount Kleos had been destroyed, though not by beasts or anything of the sort. He designates their identity as one all within Svarga would know - "Kurzhen.''

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