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[closed] Mission: Don't Wake the Deity

who: Akihiko Sanada, Nico di Angelo, Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric, Rin, Keith, Lyle Dylandy, Khisanth (Onyx), Jason Todd, Ava Orlova, Morgana, Takashi Shirogane, Yuffie Kisaragi, Chloe Decker, Lucifer Morningstar, Thor Odinson, Link
what: Mission: Don't Wake the Deity
when: Friday, July 28th - after the scouting party has returned and shared their information
where: The Abandoned City and surrounding woods
warnings: Violence, probable monster attacks, mind control/people being compelled, etc. Will add more warnings as needed.

[Taken from the June TDM, with some additions:]

Whether you've just arrived in the city or you've been here a while, and you have a sensitivity to the spiritual, magical, multidimensional, or anything else outside the realm of everyday normal, you've probably noticed a distinct uptick in weird feelings, strange nightmares, or daymares - hallucinations of scary things that are lurking just behind you.

You're not the only one who's noticed it.

There are rumors going around that the psychological and spiritual disturbances are due to the emergence or re-emergence of a deity. Some people say that it's something new that's come through the portal with the sharp increase in new arrivals recently, and others say it's simply an ancient spiritual presence or some ancient incorporeal monster that's been somehow awakened. Gramarye, the top-tier magic research center in Riverview Quarantine, has been studying anyone who's felt this presence, and have recently confirmed that whatever it is, it's being fed by all the extra energies and prayers and thoughts as the city's population increases. The one thing everyone agrees on is that, if the expanding community is feeding the entity, then the entity has got to go!

A scouting party recently travelled into the Abandoned City and forests outside the walls to search for leads or any other evidence of a way to solve the problem. After a day of searching, the team stumbled upon an abandoned temple. While it didn't seem like much, its exterior run-down and wood rotting amongst the centuries' old mulch and muck, it felt... unsettling. Alive, almost. One member of the party could feel a powerful presence emanating from it; realizing they were out of their depth, the team returned to the Quarantine to relay the information and obtain reinforcements.

Teams are now being assembled across the city to travel into the Abandoned City or the forests outside the walls and find this temple once more. The mission might be dangerous, though - there are the usual dangers of venturing out into the wilds, but this time, characters may also face booby traps, spectral or physical guardians, and if the entity itself gets awoken? Someone may have to kill it.

[So this log will be set up in 'stages'. The first few headers will be closed to each of the teams for initial travel meetings, camping, monster fights, etc. Feel free to post your own top-levels underneath and tag out, mingle, whatever you'd like. Headers for further 'stages' of the mission (such as once all the teams meet up at the temple/deity hideout) will also be posted so that teams can intermingle/have more CR.

Since there are so many people involved, consider this one big mingle thread in the vein of the TDMs. Here's a link to the google doc for those interested as well.]

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"Oh, yeah... that makes sense, really," Keith agreed. "It sounds like they're kind of small compared to what I've seen. Our two smaller Lions are probably just over that in height just at the shoulder joint alone, so the heads are plenty big enough to house the cockpit, and the other three Lions are even bigger, with the Black one being really big. Plus, there's a lot of mechanics in them to help them transform and combine into Voltron. The head is the one spot that doesn't really change shape or need to have space for a lot of moving parts."

Now Lyle is just going to look at him in surprise. Had he really just said... lion? And in the same statement as over the height of a Gundam and mechanics and cockpit.

"So wait, let me get this straight. You have robot lions? Robot lions that combine into something else?"

Keith nodded.

"Yeah. It was pretty crazy when we first found them." He shrugged. "They're actually really cool. Each lion transforms just enough so that one of them becomes the head and torso, two become the arms, and two become the legs. They combine together like that to make Voltron, the strongest known weapon in our universe." After a beat, he added, "Oh, and Voltron looks like a person, not a lion."

"So... you have a lion that turns into one fifth of a person. I can safely say that I have never heard of that before."

That just sounded really weird, but then again a Gundam probably sounded weird to other people.

"The strongest weapon in the universe... impressive. Which one do you pilot?"

Keith shrugged a little.

"Not many people have, even in our own universe."

Keith was probably one of the few people that, at this point, a Gundam did not sound weird to.

"I'm the pilot of the Red Lion," he said. "Red is Voltron's right arm."

"Really? I'd think that would be something that everyone would talking about. 'These giant metal lions can turn into a person'. I know I would talk about that."

Robots were not strange for Lyle, but robots in the form of animals were. Robot animals that transformed? Even more so.

Lyle couldn't help but chuckle. "I guess you're the right hand man then."

He's trying to make a joke here.

"So... going to guess the tall guy with similar armor? He's also one of the pilots?"

He'd seen him before they had split up and the matching armor had stood out.

"Well, they were hidden for ten thousand years, so we kind of have to rebuild their reputation." Keith shrugged, and then huffed a small chuckle at Lyle's bad joke. It sounded a little like something Shiro would say.

"I guess so."

He nodded. "That's Shiro. He pilots the Black Lion, which makes up the torso and head. That makes him the team leader."

"Well I'd imagine if it's been gone for that long, it's not exactly a household name."

Like most adults who aren't actually funny, Lyle's very good at bad jokes. Unfortunately Voltron kind of lends itself to that sort of joke.

And here's another one.

"So then he is the brains of the operation."

Because he pilots the head...

Keith lifted his eyebrows.

"I guess he is..."

Excuse the slight eyeroll. He smirked.

No, that's okay. Lyle made a bad joke. It's appropriate to roll your eyes at him for that. He snickered in response before getting a bit more serious.

"That's good though, that you have someone else here from home. It's not fun being alone. Wonder though why they put you on two different teams? Fighting styles too similar or something like that?"

"Actually, that's it exactly," Keith said. "We're both close range fighters, and our skills overlap a lot, so we figured it would be a bigger benefit overall to split up. I didn't really like it, but it was a good idea." He didn't want to be apart from Shiro, but, for small teams, it was pretty silly to duplicate their skills like that. Keith couldn't deny that.

"Well, it does make sense to have a well-balanced team. We had more long range in our team, but they could usually do both. But then again most of it is with robots so close range didn't happen as often."

Lyle was not a close range fighter. He could probably survive a fist fight, but his specialty was guns, which Keith had already learned by this point.

"I don't think there is really going to be anything to worry about."

Since Keith had said he hadn't wanted to be split up from Shiro.

"Yeah. We have both on ours when we do missions. The Lions themselves are balanced in other ways."

Keith furrowed his brow a little bit, but then nodded. Lyle was probably right.

"Yeah, probably not."

He left it at that for now, not really ready to go into with Lyle just how close he'd come to losing Shiro once already.

"Always good. I'd imagine though they'd be more short range?"

Unsure about that. They were clearly machines so maybe he was wrong.

And Lyle wasn't going to try and poke holes in what Keith had said, taking it for face value. He had every right to be concerned for his teammate.

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"It varies. We can do short range fighting with them because they're equipped with claws and jaw blades," Keith explained. "But, they also have mouth and tail lasers for long range attacks. It's more the differences in element, firepower, speed, and armor that balance them out from each other. Also, once we're combined into Voltron, each one handles something different as far as weaponry and defense."

"Jaw blade? Going to guess that's literally what it sounds like, like the lion is holding a blade in its mouth?" There's a lot going on in that statement so Lyle is going to see what he can answers to before he ends up on an entirely different topic.

"You said elements. Is each lion based on an element?"

Keith nodded. "It looks like a large dagger sticking out of their mouth. Red's is a single blade on one side. The Black Lion has a double one that sticks out both. I'm not sure if Black can throw it, but I've gotten Red to."

And the elements. He nodded to that, too.

"Something like that. Red's specialty is fire. The laser canon in the mouth can switch over to a lava canon. Blue can do the same, and the larger weapon on her back can be used as a sonic weapon or scanner, as it uses sound waves. The Green lion has a specialized laser that causes vines to grow. Yellow is the heaviest on armor, and can crash through rock like it's nothing. The Black Lion can actually pass through solid objects, like teleporting or phasing." Keith looked a little thoughtful for a moment.

"I'm pretty sure there's more to each Lion, too, that we haven't found everything, yet. They're pretty mysterious."

"Wow... sounds like those lions have a lot of things going for them. Claw, jaw blades, literal fire power. Man... I don't think I've seen a mobile suit that diverse in terms of everything they have."

He thought about that for a moment, going back to what Keith had said earlier.

"What sort of weaponry do the lions give to Voltron?"

Keith considered that. Nope. No shuttle he'd seen had anything that diverse, either. The Lions were definitely unique. Lyle's next question got him thinking.

"Well, we're not sure if its the bayards or the Lions or what, really," he admitted. "Each of the Lions has a port that we can plug that bayard I showed you into. That's what triggers the weapon. So far, it seems to generate something similar to what the bayard generates for the Paladin outside of Voltron. It kind of makes me think it's tied more to the Paladin than the bayard or the Lion." He wasn't sure if that made any sense, but... well... it was the best he could do. Voltron was a pretty mystical thing, it seemed.

"Like, when I plug in my bayard, it makes a sword for Voltron. When Hunk plugs his in, it makes a large shoulder cannon, which kind of goes along with the fact that his bayard turns into a heavy personal cannon he uses in ground fights." Keith frowned. "When we all plug in our bayards together, it enhances the weapon into a stronger version. So far, we've only done it with the sword active, so with four of us, we made the sword bigger. With all five of us, it actually sprouted flames."

Okay, so, in retrospect, that sounded pretty weird, and Keith was fairly sure at this point that Lyle was going to think he was nuts.

If he thought Lyle was going think he was nuts, he was right and Lyle did give him a look that said he thought this whole thing was crazy.

He considered all of that information for a long moment before he spoke though.

"I think I'm going to need score card or something to keep track of all of this."

Yeah. Keith wasn't surprised by that look. He just nodded.

"Trust me, every time something happens, it still surprises us," he said. "But, I think we're just getting used to it now. Weird is just standard for us ever since we bonded with those Lions."

"Sounds like it. Well, I can't say anything. Probably things in my world would be weird to other people here. I know one of my floor mates barely has any tech back home so everything is new to him.

I guess if I was around robot lions all the time, this would make sense."

"Probably." Keith looked somewhat amused at Lyle's expense. Sorry, but he knew it was tough to wrap his head around. He still had trouble believing it was real himself sometimes, and he still got amazed whenever the Lions or Voltron pulled off some new thing they didn't know it or they could do. "It's a pretty crazy thing. I don't deny that at all, so I get it. Unfortunately, the best I can offer in the way of proof of any of this is the crazy almost magical bayard I've got."

~~little did he know...~~

"Not saying I think you're lying or anything. It's just hard to wrap my head around. Robot lions that do all of this stuff. It's not something I'd ever expect in my world.

Then again the giant space flower in our world was pretty crazy too."

Keith nodded at first, but then-

"Giant... space flower...?"

Okay, so... something finally managed to push Keith's ever expanding definition of "weird".

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