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[OPEN] Mission 155
Characters: Open to those who signed up here.
Location: An unmarked cavern system outside Death City.
Rating: Various.
Time: March 18th, sunrise.
Description: Shibusen agents brave underwater caverns to take out the first of three Madness emitters.
Missiongoers pile out of the mirrors early in the morning, just as the first hints of sun start to color the walls of the sandstone canyon red and purple; it'll be the last bits of real light they'll see for at least a few hours. The atmosphere is electric -- there're quite a few new (and old) arrivals who're eager to see some action, but just as many people who're feeling rather more apprehensive… And for good reason.
The only way to their destination is blocked by a few hundred yards of sunken tunnels. Luckily they've been provided with mouthpieces, breathing apparatuses with enough oxygen to last about ten minutes: more than enough time, provided that the guests don't lose their way in the dimly-lit, twisted caverns. It's as easy as following the person in front of them, right?
Upon emerging safely from the pool onto mostly-dry land, they'll find themselves in an immense cavern, illuminated by countless, blue fungi clinging to the walls and ceiling, looking like stars dotting a night sky. Already the first signs of the way Madness has been corrupting the wildlife are evident: the mushrooms exude strange spores that make some people's head pound the same way the increasingly noticeable Madness wavelength does.
As they travel further into the watery caves and explore its many branches, they'll begin to encounter creatures twisted by Madness: moles, snakes, beetles, centipedes, all grown to monstrous proportions, some with a venomous bite that quickly turns their victim feverish and delirious. The more daring fighters can easily dispatch those and delve even deeper, and it's near the source of the Madness, in the chamber housing the emitter itself, that they'll encounter the kishin eggs.
There're dozens of them-- eyeless, white, vaguely human-shaped things, but despite their blindness they have no problem finding their quarry, fighting with claws and exuding their own Madness wavelength. If the missiongoers can stand strong against the kishin eggs and the ever-present wavelength given off by the Madness emitter, Shibusen's specialists will have enough time to shut the machine down for good.
OOC NOTES.
- The event summary post containing all relevant links is located here.
- Make your own threads, but please indicate in your subject line [CHARACTER(S) | LOCATION | OPEN/CLOSED] and, if applicable, if you need a kishin egg NPC!
- The locations are the sunken tunnels, the medics area, the cave system, and the emitter chamber, but only the medics will have their designated sub-thread.
- If you have any further questions, the mod thread on the coordination post is here!
Location: An unmarked cavern system outside Death City.
Rating: Various.
Time: March 18th, sunrise.
Description: Shibusen agents brave underwater caverns to take out the first of three Madness emitters.
Missiongoers pile out of the mirrors early in the morning, just as the first hints of sun start to color the walls of the sandstone canyon red and purple; it'll be the last bits of real light they'll see for at least a few hours. The atmosphere is electric -- there're quite a few new (and old) arrivals who're eager to see some action, but just as many people who're feeling rather more apprehensive… And for good reason.
The only way to their destination is blocked by a few hundred yards of sunken tunnels. Luckily they've been provided with mouthpieces, breathing apparatuses with enough oxygen to last about ten minutes: more than enough time, provided that the guests don't lose their way in the dimly-lit, twisted caverns. It's as easy as following the person in front of them, right?
Upon emerging safely from the pool onto mostly-dry land, they'll find themselves in an immense cavern, illuminated by countless, blue fungi clinging to the walls and ceiling, looking like stars dotting a night sky. Already the first signs of the way Madness has been corrupting the wildlife are evident: the mushrooms exude strange spores that make some people's head pound the same way the increasingly noticeable Madness wavelength does.
As they travel further into the watery caves and explore its many branches, they'll begin to encounter creatures twisted by Madness: moles, snakes, beetles, centipedes, all grown to monstrous proportions, some with a venomous bite that quickly turns their victim feverish and delirious. The more daring fighters can easily dispatch those and delve even deeper, and it's near the source of the Madness, in the chamber housing the emitter itself, that they'll encounter the kishin eggs.
There're dozens of them-- eyeless, white, vaguely human-shaped things, but despite their blindness they have no problem finding their quarry, fighting with claws and exuding their own Madness wavelength. If the missiongoers can stand strong against the kishin eggs and the ever-present wavelength given off by the Madness emitter, Shibusen's specialists will have enough time to shut the machine down for good.
OOC NOTES.
- The event summary post containing all relevant links is located here.
- Make your own threads, but please indicate in your subject line [CHARACTER(S) | LOCATION | OPEN/CLOSED] and, if applicable, if you need a kishin egg NPC!
- The locations are the sunken tunnels, the medics area, the cave system, and the emitter chamber, but only the medics will have their designated sub-thread.
- If you have any further questions, the mod thread on the coordination post is here!
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Kanji reached, putting everything into that last attempt to grab the detective, and it was then that Tifa renewed her effort in pulling him to the surface. The smaller girl slipped from his grasp, and a cold feeling of dread bloomed in his stomach, started to spread out into his limbs. There was a brief, cold look sent the woman's away - what the fuck was she doing, didn't she see there was someone else down here!? - before he watched with his eyes widening as the image of Naoto disappeared into the dark.
He failed. He couldn't reach her. His limbs felt heavy, and the fight in him stopped. When Kanji broke the surface, all he could do was remain on his hands and knees, head hung low. He pounded a fist into the rough stone floor as he struggled with the pain, and once more to try and make sense of why everything went wrong, and how he was going to face everyone. He was only left with a bleeding hand, cut by the sharp stone.
The Meister slipped completely as he gave one long, awful wail.
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But she knew Madness didn't work like that. The horrible thing that crept into people's minds here, their hearts, it didn't go away once free from the source, and no one seemed to know how long it took to wear off entirely.
Kanji's wail startled her, brought her back to the fact that he was still suffering. Whatever he saw down there, it was haunting him and keeping a steady grip on him. At this rate, who knew what he'd do.
Moving over to her partner, Tifa moved swiftly to flip him on his back, almost slamming him back as she pressed down on his shoulders with her hands. Water dripping from her and breath panting out, she glared down at him and spoke as clearly and loudly as she could, trying to shake him from it.
"Kanji! There was nothing down there! We're out now!"
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Kanji didn't see it coming when he was flipped onto his back, felt an immense pressure on his shoulders as his head began to pound. Her shouts were suddenly crystal clear to his ears, and her face was soaked with the cavern's water, not blood. Nothing made sense anymore...
"Whadda you mean, 'nothing'!?" He shouted hoarsely back.
"I almost had her, damnit!"
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There was no saying how long it would last, or how she could pull him out of it. But she had to have faith that it would be over for him soon. She'd do anything she could...
"Kanji, please..." her voice softened, grew more pleading as her features did as well. She didn't release him yet, swallowing as she stared down at him. After another moment, she drew back from him but slipped her arms around his shoulders to pull him against her in a comforting hold. "Kanji, I'm here with you, and everyone's okay. Please..."
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His thoughts stewed together in a slurry, and his body felt heavy when arms wound around his shoulders, tightened. Kanji felt a pain in his chest, some hopeful corner of his heart hoping that he hadn't messed things up, that maybe he was seeing things.
Tifa was warm, despite being soaked to the bone as he was. His arms finally had sensation in them, and one hand thrummed in pain from the cut. He didn't care as his limbs lifted from the stony floor and wound around the woman instead. With a shuddering breath, he pressed his face to the crook of her neck and let himself tremble a little.
"Every-... everybody's okay?"
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Holding him closer to her, it vaguely crossed Tifa's mind that they had never embraced like this, never really gotten this close. The most contact they made was when they were laying punches or kicks or throws on each other, not shows of affection. But that was irrelevant now, like something distant in her mind.
"Yeah, everyone's fine." Truth be told, she didn't know that for a fact. Many people were still fighting, and she didn't really know where Naoto was. "No one is hurt, we're all okay, alright?"
Leaning slightly against him now, Tifa let out a slow, shaky breath as she continued to keep him against him. As soon as he was more able, they'd have to get out of here.
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And it was at that time that the engineers got what they wanted. Whatever awful mechanism powered the emitters, somewhere deep in the caverns, finally powered down. The heavy vibrations in the air, the steady buzzing in everyone's ears, what drove the local fauna to madness slowly subsided, then lowered to an average level.
With that boost, Kanji had begun to stir. "I..."
"I'm a'right..." He uttered as he slowly pulled away from her. He looked up in the dark.
"That weird buzzing's gone. Is it over?"
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"Yeah, sounds like they did it. We won this one."
Sitting back a little from him, she gazed over her meister with a concerned expression.
"It's was the water, wasn't it?"
She didn't know how to overcome something like that, a traumatic imprint on his memory that would probably rear its ugly head whenever they were were exposed to swimming and Madness. But at least they had the heads-up from this experience.
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"But don't worry about it. Let's get the hell outta here." He needed- he needed to find her, just to be sure she was okay. He started to bring himself to his feet despite his limbs feeling like rubber, but nodded to Tifa. He was fine. He'll be okay.
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"The mirror should be close by."
There was a pause as she walked slowly along with him, the cold air beginning to prick their soaked skin.
"You'll get through it. I know you can keep fighting it."
It was quiet encouragement, all she could muster for the time being. If he wanted to talk about it more later, he would. If not, it wasn't something she'd push unless it really seemed to become a problem.
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He focused straight ahead, that previous fear and panic coloring his face gone. He'd let himself succumb to Madness, again. While he was glad he hadn't severely beaten countless people this time around, this was still something he felt he would need to take some time to work on. He pondered speaking with Death the Kid about some sort of defense.
"I told Shibusen I'd fight for 'em, and that's what I'm gonna keep doin'. This shit ain't gonna repeat itself," he assured mostly himself through grit teeth.
But that flash of guilt over letting the Emitter find an opening quickly died down. When they reached the mirror, he turned his eyes to his partner, his expression softened.
"...Hey. Thanks for puttin' my head on straight."
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"Don't mention it," she nodded at him, raising up a hand to affectionately brush back some of the wet hair that dripped around his face. It occurred to her how quickly people could get attached to each other here, how the situations they were forced into caused people to band together so closely. It was how she'd always known it: struggling together for survival, seeing each other's cores and true colors in the face of danger. It was familiar to her in a way that strangely made her feel more like home.
Her smile grew more warm as she realized all she would do for Kanji, to keep him safe and sane.
"You'd do the same for me."
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He wanted to get better at this. When the Madness wasn't toying with his memories, amplifying his greatest fears, it made a game out of his anger. Kanji will never be a calm, cool, and collected individual, but maybe he needed to be a little more courageous. Maybe he could take a page from her book, and do more than just get people to understand him as he'd promised to himself. Maybe... he had to understand himself a little better still, and by doing so have a better control over his temper, or shut away any cracks in his demeanor that these waves would happily worm their way into.
"I'm gonna see about talkin' to the Shinigami-sama about Madness. The next Emitter's gonna go down with style!" And a firm nod, before they stopped short of the mirror, waiting as others stepped through.
"You go on through. ...y-...y'mind if I hang out here for a little bit?" He asked quietly, with a meaningful glance. He didn't have to say why, did he?
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But this was his matter, and a private one at that. She understood well and nodded at him, meeting his gaze again.
"Be careful," and with a softer look, she tried to express that she was sure Naoto was okay.
Letting her hand fall to his arm, she gave it a familiar squeeze before pulling back from her meister and stepping over the the mirror. "See you back there, okay?"
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He nodded with the reassuring contact on his arm. "Yeah. I'll see you later, Tifa."
The Meister straightened up and was a little pink, hitching his shoulder. "It's just, y'know, somethin' I gotta do. Kick the last of this Madness in the ass, yeah?