Payback Time

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PAYBACK TIME
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The daemon base was large, a massive obsidian skull carved from the base of a black, foreboding mountain within the Outlands and surrounded by a forest of dead trees. This was inevitable, as accompanying faculty could explain. As much as it could influence the human world, the Outland was heavily influenced and shaped by human thought and culture. Weaker daemons, such as those within the base, would find their personality, forms, and even desires inexorably shaped by the thoughts of humanity and what was perceived humans would expect and fear.

The focus of the two main assault groups would be the clearing of the main hall and the lower dungeons. The groups will be divided as follows:

Main Hall:
Ky
Mav
Kanata
Tyzias
Gunvolt
Bumblebee

Main Hall Support:
Toki
Kano

Dungeon:
Valvatorez
Goro Akechi
Ren
Minako
Naoki
Keith

Dungeon Support:
Ekkehardt
James

Control Room Supervisor:
Yang

To get through to the fortress proper, the students will have to make their way through the forest. This is an open log, even for those who didn’t sign up and will consist of clearing a path and fighting off living trees and mimics in the form of any number of objects that would otherwise be expected in forests such as rocks, brambles, bushes, and other foliage..

The Main Hall is lined with massive rooms full of daemons such as the banquet hall, treasure vault, and throne room where the daemon lord resides. The Daemon Lord is the target here, and he’ll be well-guarded. Beware! Many of the rooms are trapped with mimics taking the form of treasure chests, braziers, boxes, barrels, and just about any other item.

The Dungeons are where captured humans are kept and tortured. The objective is to free the humans and defeat the Jailer, a powerful Daemon who runs the chambers. Students should beware, doppelgangers are said to be commonly slipped in amongst prisoners to ferret out rebellion and will be hidden in with those who are to be rescued.

The Control Room is located in the Citadel, with a massive monitor visualizing the area with floor plans and video feeds. All students and faculty will be wearing small cameras that will record live footage, and will be wired with a communication earpiece that will let those in the Control Room communicate freely. Students working in the Control Room will be able to relay data and information, and use the powerful supercomputers to analyze items on the ground in near real-time.

code bases by tricklet

Comments

[yokeye]

[He's only told Gongenzaka about it, and maybe hinted to Nana. It's just not something he bothers to mention, not that he's been actively hiding it.]

Yeah, that's where the visions came from!

[Oh. Kano's eyes are red. Is that a thing? Toki never considered it, even though it was the only obvious sign he had of the Contract himself.]

And the red eye; it used to be brown! I didn't think about that, but does that mean you have a Contract too!? There's... a lot of people with red eyes! Yuya has red eyes!

[Toki isn't sure what daemon it was; did people usually know?]

Uh, I don't know which daemon, I mean, he was a guy I thought worked with my sister! His name was Taro Yamada~! [Which should have been clue number one, an obvious placeholder name.] I don't... I don't know what he did besides the red eye; I can't see out of it, but don't they usually take souls or something too? I assume there's something with that!

[He is completely clueless about the terms he agreed to during a period of confusion and grief.]

[suddenlybees]

[ Kano wants to fervently deny his Contract and claim it's just a horrible birth defect but Toki is the best and barrels right along and Kano's saved from having to say anything about himself, though he keeps that hint about Yuya in his back pocket. ]

He~h, how mysterious— and dangerous, isn't it?! Maybe the demon switched eyes with you? You can't see out of it, but it's never done anything weird, right? Never shot laser beams, or cried blood, or anything like that??

[ WHAT DAEMON WAS IT, TOKI. Kano's no expert about daemon contracts, but if one of Michael's stipulations was to be able to see through Kano's eyes, wouldn't it be that Toki's daemon is seeing out of Toki's red eye? Michael is supposedly on their side, but other daemons might not be the same way— this is dangerous, isn't it? Isn't this why the school's so adamant about keeping all the Contracted under lock and key? It's so dangerous. ]

[yokeye]

[Switched eyes? Toki can't remember what color eyes the daemon had. He didn't even know it was a daemon until it was too late, so they can probably look like whatever they want to anyway.]

Do, do you think that's what it did!? Why would it want to switch eyes!? It wouldn't trade its eye if it didn't get anything out of it, right!? It hasn't done anything weird that I know of!

[These were things he should have thought about earlier, wondering what the daemon wanted or had actually taken.]

Oh my god, is it watching us!?

[He covers his left eye with hand, not that it's going to do any good now if the daemon has, in fact, been seeing through for it months.]

[suddenlybees]

[ He doesn't know for sure but it's what he's thinking and it's very very plausible, isn't it?? But ahhhhh, Toki's screaming again and Kano needs him to not do anything drastic like gouge out his own eye, so!! ahhh, what should he do? ]

Maybe not all the time!! Mi— uh, surely daemons are super busy and can't keep watch all the time! So you not being able to see out of that eye this entire time, maybe it's because the daemon hasn't been looking through it!! Just keep that eye closed! We'll get you an eye patch!!!

[yokeye]

[He's not really sure if that would help because...]

If everyone with red eyes has a daemon contract, aren't they all watching?

[suddenlybees]

Eh... Maybe not everybody with red eyes has a daemon contract?

[ Like Kano!!! hahaha...... ]

[yokeye]

[But hadn't Kano pointed to his eyes? Wasn't that what started this? Maybe he hadn't meant what Toki thought he did.]

Uhh, maybe not? There are a lot, so you'd think there'd be guards everywhere if there were so many contracts~!

[suddenlybees]

[ Shh, obviously he meant something different, don't overthink it-- ]

Haha, yeah, huh?

[ Like any good policeman, the guards can be very good at keeping hidden, only to swoop in at the most inconvenient times to put a stop to them. Annoying. ]

It's a coincidence, probably? Like with Yuya, he's a Tamer, not a Contracted!

[yokeye]

Maybe it's just more common in magic people~! That would make a lot more sense!

[He likes when things make sense.]

[suddenlybees]

[ And Kano likes piggybacking off things that make sense. ]

Hm~ Probably, yeah! Yuya says his family's full of Tamers and magic people and stuff, so it's probably like that! A sign of magic in general!

[yokeye]

I'm sure that's it~!

[Toki never knew any magic people previously, so it's a perfectly reasonable explanation to him. And the discussion about it all took his mind off the stressful parts of mission for a while.]

Do you think Maverick's bringing you any mimic parts?

[suddenlybees]

Hm... Maybe!! I can hope~

[ but he doesn't really have high hopes, because Maverick's the person who keeps him from bad ideas and this is a bad idea. ]

He has some sense of responsibility, so probably not a whole one, which is too bad~ We got stuck with a pretty serious bunch, didn't we? If it were the other group, maybe Minako would've gotten me a whole mimic.

[yokeye]

Maybe she brought you one anyway as a surprise~!

[Unlikely, but he doesn't know Minako that well. She did seem to have a deviant streak.]

[suddenlybees]

[ ...she wouldn't... no, she absolutely would, and Kano lifts his head to give Toki a long-suffering look. ]

Thanks, Toki, how am I supposed to sleep at night now, knowing that any piece of furniture in the dorm could be a mimic?

[ SHE WOULD DO THAT. BECAUSE HE WOULD DO THAT. AND THEY'RE BOTH TERRIBLE PEOPLE. ]

[yokeye]

If it wasn't there before, it's the mimic~!

[A simple process of elimination.]

[suddenlybees]

If I were a mimic, wouldn't I destroy the original and then replace it?

[ Or, if he were Minako trying to make this prank work. That's what he would do and nothing is safe. ]

[yokeye]

But if it did that, it could only turn into that one object and wouldn't that be boring!?

[Mimics had to have fun too.]

[suddenlybees]

Eh, as long as it can gobble somebody up, I didn't think it'd care about being able to turn into a bunch of different things. It's not really that fun.

[ At least for Kano it isn't? He just chooses forms that are useful, whether it's girls or cats or ...voluptuous women... but it's really been a while since he needed to be that last one. ]

[yokeye]

That's a good point~!

[They eat people. That's right. Don't bring one back, Minako.]