Event Post

[becomeanwarrior]

[Like most of the time, these days, the officer of the Special Investigations department is trying to keep his and Niyo's fledgling crew above water - there's a large stack of paperwork on his deck, alongside some discarded machinery - idle distractions, to keep his mind sharp on what he has to do. There's schematics on the wall, scribbled over numerous times. The paperwork is sorted into a few piles -a good size of them contract negotiations with the police, and business filings that have yet to be fully filled out and process.


However, today, unlike others, he's at least mildly expecting company, so some of the more... personal documents have been tucked away. At this point, it's a matter of waiting to see that they show.]

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[handofaegis]

*Well, eventually, you DO get company. It's two people, one of them being a girl with blonde hair...*

[fistofachilleshield]

::And a guy who looks buff and built with wild man hair. That's not terribly off from say, Shikou.::

[zoomizumi]

[Izumi is stood next to Onni. She looks at the two newcomers and leans over and whispers.]

Hey, are these the ones you said got their butts handed to them by Yuya and Gongenzaka?

[Except she didn't actually whisper any of that.]

[handofaegis]

*okay yeah she heard that*

Wha-- hey! We just came in, and already we're being talked about?

[becomeanwarrior]

[Onni's laughing a bit.]

Ha ha, I didn't quite phrase it exactly like that...

[He stands up from his desk, grinning.]

Good to see you both, especially without the stress of being on opposite sides. Welcome to my little home away from home.

[fistofachilleshield]

Are you trying to take shit about me?

::Cracks knuckles in a way that sounds like it'll end painfully.::

[handofaegis]

*holds up her hand at Achilles*

Cool it, they're probably just... blunt, that's all.

*she waves a little to Onni and Izumi though* But yeah, uh, hi. Labrys said you wanted to talk about... communication?

[zoomizumi]

I remember you definitely said something about Yuya's foot and their butts.

[That almost definitely didn't happen.

She looks at Achilles.]

Sup.

What's that stuff in your nose.

[fistofachilleshield]

Talking to me, Shrimp?

::Looms over Izumi.::

/2

[zoomizumi]

...

...

...I wanna try something.

[zoomizumi]

[She fucking goes around Achilles' back and climbs up on to his shoulders. She's got long legs, but beyond that, she's a pretty average 17 year old girl, so she's not particularly big or heavy.]

Dude, you're built like a firetruck! Can you even feel this?!

[fistofachilleshield]

...

[fistofachilleshield]

::Attempts to automatically grab you and perform a wrestling move to slam you to the ground, Izumi. Like he isn't even aware he's doing it.::

[zoomizumi]

[Izumi gets dropped like a sack of flour. She has the wind knocked out of her immediately and is just kinda laying there, gasping.]

...

...

that...

was...

fucking awesome...

[...yeah, she's fine.]

[handofaegis]

*is just kinda staring in shock that Izumi did that at all.

... but then she whaps Achilles*

I know she was asking for it, but maybe you shouldn't do things like that...! These people are a lot more fragile than us!

[fistofachilleshield]

IT'S A REFLEX.

[becomeanwarrior]

[Okay, that's the last straw, Onni's cackling - it sounds like a hyena laugh - extending a hand to help Izumi to her feet.]

It's alright, she's fine. SpecInv's made of people who are a lot tougher than they look. Junior Detective Izumi here is included in that.

[He looks over at Aegis]

To answer your early question, yes. I did want to establish some communication between us. Now that we have better ideas of how exactly we can work together - I'd like to keep in touch with everyone outside of flitting appearances, and Labrys mentioned you two were the best bets for that network.

[handofaegis]

Well... Long as she's alright and didn't break whatever could be broken on her.

But, uh, yeah. I mean, I think it's impossible to communicate over dimensions without a direct link kinda thing. We can do that in emergencies, but it won't really work with humans.

But there is one thing I managed to get the last time we hung around here...! *she pulls out... a smart phone. A pretty nice one, too. Huh, pretty simple expectation, actually.*

[becomeanwarrior]

Believe me, I think that's the best thing to happen to her all day.

Our newest researcher might have an answer for more instant communication- but she's got more than enough projects on her plate. [...Discussing Jean in any further detail might be. Dangerous, here.]

Cellphones, though? I can work with that pretty easily. [He brings out his own smartphone, nodding at them both.]

[fistofachilleshield]

::Holds up his own red-black one from the floor.::

I have one.

[handofaegis]

Yeah... Though I think it might only really work while we're in this dimension, and we need to make sure it has power too.

Not surprisingly, there's not really any sources to plug things into, back home.

That just means we might need to visit more often, and Achilles and I have hung around here before without much problem! ... Other than the demon invasion stuff.

[fistofachilleshield]

But we can't stay around too much too often.

Labrys can't do all that shit on her own.

Especially with that big ugly's corpse floating around.

[handofaegis]

Yeah, that thing's a problem... Even if it has distracted the demons, for now.

[zoomizumi]

[Cough.]

Is that the...

Anti-Hope thing?

[becomeanwarrior]

Yeah, that's Anti-Hope. "The First", as Baal so eloquently put it. That thing's caused more of it's fair share of issues, even after we took it down...

[He sighs. Just thinking about how much effort everyone poured in is exhausting.]

I'm not sure I could do something like I did there without the same circumstances, so if a demon gets most of Anti-Hope's corpse... it would be very bad.

[zoomizumi]

Can we go to...wherever it is -- this "Warp" place, and like. Gather the body of this Anti-Hope dude up so nobody can abuse it?

[handofaegis]

Well, that's actually what we're already trying to do.

The thing is, it kinda... broke into pieces, so we've only been able to find parts. Achilles and I-- we've been sneaking around areas to try to track down the parts.

So, it's really not as easy to just go and gather it up. And the pieces themselves are huge, too.

... besides, we already heard from Labrys about your attempt to go there. Didn't turn out really well for you, did it? *she's talking to Onni about that*

[fistofachilleshield]

Andh, I gotta note, "Corpse" is a misnomer.

It probably isn't 'dead', like the way you guys die.

It's more like.

It's broken up.

[becomeanwarrior]

...It could have gone worse, but nor am I keen to attempt it again anytime soon.

[He looks away, shaking his head.]

Given a jumpstart of energy, the Ame-no-Nuhoko got us into the Warp, but with no way to determine where we landed - and dumped right into the hands of a demon, we nearly escaped with our lives.

...And, frankly speaking, we just don't have the resources to devote to Anti-Hope right now, on either side.

[handofaegis]

Well, to be honest, we weren't expecting resources from you. Sneaking around and trying to find the parts is something that's better left to one or two people, anyway, especially with so many demons crawling around.

[zoomizumi]

So...

What're we doing, then?

[handofaegis]

The "Ame-no-Nuhoko". You're supposed to be keeping us informed if you figure out what exactly makes it work, and how to complete it, right?

[heroesheart]

[What a lovely conversation all of you are having! It'd be a shame if the fabric of reality caught fire in the corner. Which it has, a person-sized hole opening with no more warning than the smell of fire. And then a Star-Armored, Fire-Winged, Huge-Breasted woman quite literally falls through it, groaning as she hits the ground. Five big moving boxes float through the portal before dropping to the floor all around the Nebula Overmind Archfiend, and a fire extinguisher floats up and puts the portal out, somehow. The mechanics of psychic fire are weird.]

ONNI OH MY GOD if we need any more stuff than this YOU'RE packing and carrying it with YOUR brain ughhhh my lobes are so sore it's ridiculous.

[She drags herself to an upright sitting position and blinks at the unfamiliar faces.]

... do we have guests? Customers? Clients? What's uh... what's the term here, I'm new.

[zoomizumi]

[Still being pinned by Achilles.]

Hi, Jean!

/2

[becomeanwarrior]

[There are times when it pays to have a cup of coffee on hand.

Now is one of them.

Long. Loooooong sip. Compose thyself.]

[becomeanwarrior]

...Hi Jean. How's the Mental Sphere?

[Play it cool, Onni. Play it cool.]

[handofaegis]

*is giving this on-fire woman a look like

Who or what are you.*

[fistofachilleshield]

I wanna fight her.

[heroesheart]

Hi, Izumi! Hi Onni, the Mental Sphere is...

[Wait hold on. Is... is Izumi being pinned by that guy?

... teenagers are into weird shit all the time, it's probably nothing.]

The Mental Sphere is less on fire than I expected, to be honest. That Rei Ryghts girl might be a decent Daemon now that she isn't full of crazy. She's trying to enact some weird anti-bdsm laws though, ugh.

[She drags herself to her feet and huffs, staring at Achilles.]

I'm not sure that you do. I'm level 12 now, Mr...

...

[She stares really hard at Achilles. Then she stares at Aegis. Then back at Achilles.]

Yooooooou... you two aren't human, are you? Please say you aren't.

[handofaegis]

Well, uh... yeah, we're not human?

How can you tell, though? I thought we look pretty indistinguishable here...

[fistofachilleshield]

What Sis said.

[becomeanwarrior]

...This is my newest hire, and old friend, Jean.

She's, uh. A Psychic. No, literally speaking. She ruled the Mental Sphere for a time, and everything. She just came back into town like... what, two weeks? three weeks ago?

It's a long story.

[heroesheart]

[Jean lets out a sigh of relief as Aegis confesses that they aren't human.]

Oh thank god, I was going to be really annoyed if I just got a power-up and humans had strong enough psychic defenses I couldn't get through them for something as basic as a name.

... and yeah, pretty much what Onni said for how I noticed you aren't human. Pretty good otherwise though!

[handofaegis]

Ohhh... Well, if you wanted names, it would've been nice to ask.

I'm Aegis.

[fistofachilleshield]

Achilles. Technically Achilleshield but that's too long.

[heroesheart]

[She just stares blankly at Aegis for a moment. You can practically hear her thinking 'People do that?????' but you can't actually because your weird alien brains are hard to telepathy at. She remembers manners just in time to reply.]

Well, like Onni said, my name is Jean. If we wanna get long and titley, I'm Jeanette Dianne Grave, former Mental Sphere Daemon and Overmind Archfiend, current Nebula Overmind Archfiend.

It's nice to meet both of you, I hope I can help you with whatever you're here for.

[She blinks, and turns to Onni.]

What are they here for? Duel Spirits trying to fit in on Earth? Looking for a lost relative, helping us find a criminal? That's Cop Stuff, right?

[becomeanwarrior]

Sort of.

Long story short, their world is fucked, they're being hunted by a bunch of other shitlords neither of us like, and we're trying to help them because it's one; the right thing to do, and two; relates to all the numbers junk we've been dealing with for like. Years.

So now we're exchanging contact information so that when we figure out how that magical spear that nearly killed me works we can use it to maybe helpfully save their home and their people?

I've got a corkboard all set up, I can give you the run down later. There's a bunch of other shit, too.

[handofaegis]

Speaking of the exchanging information thing...

... Can you show me how we do that? I only really managed to figure out this thing enough to post that warning, back when those demons showed up and attacked.