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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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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".

"Yeah. That was how the fighting in our world ended. We were being attacked by these aliens and my teammate sacrificed himself to talk to them and apparently their answer was to turn their mother ship into a giant flower... located in space."

Surprise.

"..."

Keith stared at him. Okay, so maybe his threshold for weird just went up another notch.

"Giant... flower... in space..."

Oh good. Lyle hadn't lost the ability to weird out a kid who piloted a robot lion and had a magical weapon that he could form into a sword.

"Giant flower... in space. I don't know. I think it meant something to my teammate which is why they chose this symbol to show that they weren't going to fight with us anymore, but its a little weird for the rest of us. I really don't have a clue what I would expected the symbol to be from an alien reason that doesn't have a spoken language, but a flower wasn't it."

"Did you ever find out what it meant to your teammate?"

Because, honestly? Now Keith was curious.

"No, not really. This really only happened only an hour or less before I ended up here, so I haven't seen him. But I also haven't seen him or his Gundam at all since he went in."

"Went in? Went into what?"

That sounded kind of ominous....

"Inside the alien mother ship. He took his mobile suit and went inside of it. No one really had a clue what that would do, but he tried."

Yeah, that was ominous wasn't it?

"And... now you're stuck here... not knowing what happened to him."

Keith knew that feeling. Even with having Shiro here in Riverview with him, Keith still didn't know what happened back home, what they would be going back to if they managed to find a way out.

"I know how frustrating that can be."

"Yeah, never really got to find out what happened. I know vaguely where they others were, but was not reunited with them after that fight, but he was completely gone."

He frowned when Keith said that.

"So you have experience in this unfortunate situation?"

"Sort of?" Keith sighed. "Back home, Shiro is missing, but he's here. The problem is, he doesn't remember what happened. What he knows is from before the battle that he went missing during." He frowned a bit. "So, I still don't know what happened to him. He's here, but we both still have to go back at some point. What are we going to go back to?"

"That's... worrying. I'm sorry that you guys have that in the back of your mind to worry about. But you have him here. You get to spend that time with him here. Maybe someone will come along who will be able to tell you what happened to him so you can stop worrying."

"I hope so."

Keith sighed and glanced off into the woods.

"It's not much longer before we need to get going again. We should probably try to rest while we can."

"Yeah, we probably should. I think there's more people up now if you wanted to take a break and catch some shut eye."

Keith nodded.

"Yeah." He stood up and stretched his arms over his head before looking out into the woods one last time.

"Thanks for the company."

"No problem. Good talking with you too."

And he'd head back over to the fire to make sure he'd collected all of his stuff.

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