TEAM ETHANOL LOG

[recollecters]

TEAM ETHANOL

After that strange Retrospec post, you may be wondering how to contact this "technician". Luckily, your phone or whatever device you have handy to check the network chooses that exact second to go haywire... Team Ethanol roster: Almedha, Augustine Sycamore, Chuuya Nakahara, Heine Rammsteiner, Izumi Sena, Kazuma Kiryu, Nui Harime, Peko Pekoyama, Rosalind Lutece, Weiss Schnee, Yukiko Amagi, Zaveid. On whatever device you use to view the retrospec application, you may note the following scrolling on the screen instead of the usual options: ALERT: CRITICAL TIME-SPACE ANOMALY ACTIVE. SEARCHING FOR ADMIN... SEARCHING FOR ADMIN... DESIGNATED ADMIN CANDIDATE: EMPLOYEE #91962 M. MAHONEY PLEASE INPUT AUTHORIZATION CODE. The prompt does not seem to be for you, however, as the text prompts continue to scroll, this time with some input. > ********************** ACCEPT ADMIN STATUS Y/N? > y DESIGNATE PROGRAM TO RUN. PLEASE BE ADVISED WE ARE SYSTEM CRITICAL. > run subroutine designation echolocation-alpha CONFIRMED. EMPLOYEES ACTIVE IN AREA: 2 > list employees EMPLOYEES ACTIVE: M. FITZWILLIAM LEVEL 0 ACCESS, INTERN M. MAHONEY FULL SYSTEM ACCESS, ADMIN > search for alternative assets CONFIRMED. SENDING ALTERNATIVE ASSET LIST. Names scroll by on the screen. and look, there goes yours! It seems like someone is manually picking and choosing from a list of every Retrospec user who didn't disappear into the void, and several names queue up. > initialize support team CONFIRMED. TEAM DESIGNATION? > ethanol CONFIRMED. TEAM ETHANOL MISSION PARAMETERS? PLEASE BE ADVISED SYSTEM ENERGY LEVELS ARE CRITICALLY LOW. > make contact with sysadmin > contact point entrance 6 > temporary access level 1 granted CONFIRMED. MISSION PARAMETERS SET. TEMPORARY ACCESS LEVEL 1 GRANTED. The screen clears itself, and instead of the familiar retrospec logo, there is simply TEAM ETHANOL as a designation. the application will refuse to show anything other than a map, with one point highlighted in red. it is, of course, up to team members to decide whether or not they approach the access point. Team Ethanol's access point is in the Recollé Graveyard. Team members will find the grave of "G. Mahoney" will move aside to reveal catacombs so long as they approach it in groups of two or more team members. Only Team Ethanol team members can see or enter the catacombs at this time. Please see the Objective 1 toplevel for more information on what they can see when they travel further down the tunnels. This is the Team Ethanol Event Log. You are free to toplevel and thread as you choose on this log, but only team members may utilize this log. Important links to mod toplevels are: Mod Questions & Participation Reporting. Please be aware you are responsible for reporting your own participation & objective completion efforts with links; the moderators will try to keep up with threads, but as we are currently running several teams with participation, we require you to keep us up to date! Please read each of the toplevels and instructions! The schedule for Team Ethanol is as follows: WEEK 1: Objective 1; CLEAR: M. Mahoney WEEK 2: Objective 2; IC mission briefing; CLEAR: W. Guo WEEK 3: Objective 3; IC mission briefing 24th: Objective 3 closes (8PM EST), Final city-wide log posted (9PM EST) Objectives will be given in mod toplevels to this post with instructions; please check the log currently for Objective 1 to see how this will work. NPC interactions will be rnged from your team roster once per week, and toplevels for those will also be posted, although all team members can hear/see these interactions!

Comments

[doublesmall]

[well, shit. he tried to weasel out of giving his own separate answer, at least... but it is not to be. at least there were two options there, so instead of giving it something personal he'll take another suggestion she gave:]

And we lost some of reality on top of that, from the sounds of it.

[his arms remain folded. hopefully this satisfies The Rock, because he definitely doesn't want to have to get deep here.]

[burningblossoms]

[The stone lights up for Yukiko, and not for Chuuya, which makes the girl blink.]

Did it...not like your answer? Or did I do something wrong?

[doublesmall]

[fortunately their rock friend is still here to help; it asks him for his true answer, and chuuya huffs out a sigh.]

Fine, fine, give me a sec here.

[he has to consider for a moment what exactly he's actually lost besides anya and one of his employees (wasn't it two...? no, he must have counted wrong. sorry, yato); after a little thought, he finally answers-]

...Direction, I guess. Hard to stay happy with a normal life these days, but fuck if I know what else there is.

[besides, y'know. crime. but that's not off the ground yet.]

[burningblossoms]

[When that seems to satisfy Duane (THAT'S IT'S NAME NOW), Yukiko breathes a sigh of relief. And...when it spits out another question, she answers completely honestly.]

I want to bring the people who are missing back to Recolle. I don't want them to be missing any longer.

[You know. She wants everyone back. She has favorites, but the people that are missing deserve better than being lost in god knows where.]

[doublesmall]

[well, now that he knows Rock Johnson apparently can tell when he's bullshitting... chuuya will be honest, too, though in comparison to yukiko's his feels a little selfish. he knows what he wants to say instead, but he also knows what he actually wants the most.]

Love.

[LEAVING IT AT THAT please don't make him embarrass himself, rock. he's hopeless let him live]

[burningblossoms]

[And then Dwayne offers them the chance to fight some golems yayyyyy! Yukiko groans and calls out her Persona, setting herself up as best she can.]

Are you ready, then?

[doublesmall]

As long as it's not a whole swarm of fucking ninjas again, sure, I'll take it.

[chuuya gives her a nod, pulling out his knife and readying himself for still more fighting.]

We're ready.

[annnd Golem Time begins! an ice, fire, and rock golem all show up to do their thing, which is fighting the two of them; the fire one pauses and charges up before it shoots a jet of flame their way. it's enough warning to move, at least, but apparently they are not messing around.]

[burningblossoms]

[Fire jets huh? Yukiko darts in front of that, covering Chuuya easily and getting a little charge out of it. The flames roll off her and seem to flow into her at the same time, absorbed by the Persona's blessing. Channeling that energy, she throws a blast of fire at the icy golem, keeping herself well away from it.]

I...can take care of the fire guy, it's magic can't really hurt me. But the ice one will seriously injure me. Can you keep it away, or occupied, and I'll cover you from this one.

[doublesmall]

[chuuya's about to move out of the way when yukiko covers him, blocking and absorbing that fire-- okay, yes, she's definitely got this covered, so he gives her a nod and turns his attention to the ice golem. the rock golem's big, it seems pretty dangerous, but if this one's specifically a threat to her? yeah, rock can wait.]

Got it! I'll see what I can do with this guy.

[it fires an ice shard at them, and chuuya throws a hand up and focuses, halting it with gravity and sending it flying back with enough force to push the golem back a bit. he should definitely have its attention now-- he moves quickly to the side, and it turns to follow, no longer aimed toward yukiko.]

[burningblossoms]

[Breathing a sigh of relief, Yukiko focuses on the fire golem. Her hand waves, and a spell ripples over the creature, dousing it's flames somewhat. Smiling brightly, she snaps her hand up and launches a dart of flame at it. The resistance it thought it had was gone, and surprised, it fell backwards a step. Just enough time for her to rush it with that fan and start carving into it's rocky hide.]

Thanks!

[Leaping up at it's face, she stabs down, the QR code's gift making it easy to handspring off of it and land behind it. More slashes, quick and rapid, come from her Persona's sword to wear it down a little.]

[doublesmall]

[once his own target is distracted, chuuya darts toward it, swinging around behind the thing as it lays an ice slick on the floor around it-- luckily, having gravity on his side makes it harder to knock him off-balance, so after a little flailing he manages to keep his footing and slide on by, putting himself between it and the rock golem.

that third one needs to not be a problem for now, so chuuya ducks a stomp from its large foot, hopping up onto its arm to make contact and weighing it down heavily to keep the thing from coming after them.

it'll at least work to hold this thing still, but it's not happy about it, and the floor shakes in a small area around the golem, leaving chuuya clinging to it to avoid being thrown.]

Whoa, shit-- don't get close to this one!

[burningblossoms]

Don't worry, I won't!

[Leaping off the ground just as the quake starts, she drives her fan into the small of the fire golem's back, her Persona stabbing ruthlessly at it's front. The monster, caught and really unable to hit Yukiko, takes a swing at the Persona. It ducks underneath, sword coming up to neatly sever one arm. Another cut, and more fire from Yukiko and the golem wobbles forward, almost collapsing.]

Close to done with this one!

[It...has huge guts. Rip and tear!]

[doublesmall]

Working on it--

[the ice golem doesn't seem to be smart enough not to attack something that's on one of the others, so it sends more ice at chuuya; he lets go of the rock golem just in time, leaving an ice slick spreading across it from the point where it was struck. it doesn't do much damage, but that's fine for now.

chuuya turns his attention back to his target, darting in and scaling it to search for a weak point. he's not sure a knife is going to cut it when it comes to slicing through rock, but if he can break it a bit...

he settle for weighting its head, leaving it top-heavy enough to start toppling forward when he pushes off of it to land behind the thing, and when it slams into the ground there are small cracks spiderwebbed through the rock. it's having trouble getting back up, and settles for chilling the area around it since it's blocked from firing.]

Hey, torch this one when you've got a sec!

[burningblossoms]

[Another strike from Sumeo-Okami, this one aimed for the golem's head, takes it through the neck and sends it toppling over backwards. Yukiko leaps clear, slashing the back of it's knee as a final parting gift, and it drops to the ground and shatters, finished off.]

Coming!

[Holding out both hands, she lobs a fireball the size of a watermelon at his target, and then another, and another. These aren't that much effort, and hopefully that'll melt their ugly friend.]

Stay down you stupid thing!

[Out of the corner of her eye she spots something, the bigger golem lunging at her partner...]

Chuuya! The third one! Duck!

[doublesmall]

Shit-!

[he'd been busy watching her melt that ice golem, assuming their rock friend over there was still stuck-- he quickly ducks to the side as its foot crashes down where he'd been standing, barely keeping his footing as another small quake ripples out from the impact.]

Guess this guy doesn't stay still for long, huh...

[with a gesture at the ice coating its front, he adds-]

Try hitting it there!

[burningblossoms]

[Well that's good. Two down, just the big one to go, and he's given her a nice target.]

Right!

[Here comes the fireball, aimed right for it!]

[doublesmall]

[the ice didn't do much damage at first, but it did settle in, and the fireball hitting that spot to melt the ice weakens the golem further! there are cracks spreading from where the ice used to be, now.

so of course chuuya goes right for it, aiming a gravity-strengthened kick at those cracks to split them deeper. the thing rumbles again and swings a heavy arm at him, which he barely ducks in time-- it clips him, which will probably still bruise hard, but he'll take it.]

Alright, I think that's doing it-

[burningblossoms]

Right! Sumeo-Okami! Go for it!

[Flames surround the Persona's sword and it rushes forward, point first. The enchanted metal bites into the cracked area, driving a deep gouge in it. She twists, ripping the blade free and tearing a large chunk of stone away.

Yukiko follows up with more fire, driving into the monster's exposed innards.]

One more good hit!

[doublesmall]

You got it!

[the knife isn't really going to manage a good hit, and neither is an unarmed strike, and also he doesn't want to punch heated rock-- so chuuya is just going to grab a hunk of that defeated fire golem instead, picking up its severed arm and hauling it back over.

he pulls it back, lifting it with his ability and then bringing it forward in a swing that's about as heavily weighted as he can manage, right into that deep gouge. the arm breaks, but so does the rock golem, more of it falling away as it begins to crumble.

GO TEAM.]

[burningblossoms]

[With that taken care of, Yukiko immediately launches into healing mode. Magic flies from her Persona and in just a moment, all those cuts and bruises are gone. Sighing softly, Yukiko looks at Dwayne...]

I guess we passed your test, right?

[RIGHT.]

So...what's our reward?

[doublesmall]

[the reward is apparently a couple of glowing golden coins! yaaaay.

chuuya takes one, looking it over curiously before he tucks it into his pocket and gives yukiko a nod.]

Sounds like we're finished here then, yeah? Nice work.

[burningblossoms]

[Yukiko flips hers over and stuffs it in her pocket before offering a hand for...a high five.]

Yeah. That's four golems between us. Good job.

[doublesmall]

[that's a gesture he doesn't exactly expect, but- after a moment, chuuya grins and high fives her. teamwork!!]

If we're lucky, that's all of 'em. They can only fit so many down here, right?

[says the guy who's gonna have at least 2 more monster fights so good job jinxing yourself chuuya]

[burningblossoms]

Hopefully that's true.

[Nodding out towards the exit, she banishes her Persona and heads out.]

Let's check back in, hopefully nobody needs more help.