Corruption, Session 2

<DM>	"Last time, on this weird game....."
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo is waitting for DM to finish things
<DM>	"After being on a boat for an hour or so with some weird dudes claiming to potentially be your teammates, you decided to sneak off the ship and get away from their havoc. You reached an inn and sniped the guard in one shot, and the session ended with you hearing a loud series of explosions from the direction of the ship."
<DM>	"Yeah, not much happened for you. I blame split party + everyone was unusually active."
<DM>	-=QUEST CONTINUE! Whatever that means...=-
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo climbs out of the grave
<DM>	*Courtesies of those loud explosions, you hear the sounds of doors slamming shut and locking as the streets become quite empty. Though, since the guard to the inn is dead, its door is still open.*
<DM>	*To the north, you can see some movement, potentially moar guards.*
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo attempts to knock on the door
<DM>	*To the west, dead silence among the residential district and a tall palisade wall-*
<DM>	*You knock on the open inn's door. There's a wall on the other side-
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo knocks on the wall
<DM>	*You knock on the door, and after a few moments of silence, you hear an old man's rusty voice on the other side of..... the wall.*
*	X_X is now known as OldMan
<OldMan>	What the devil is someone doin' outside?! Didn't ya hear that 'splosion? Get in yer house, ye ingrate!
<DM>	*Neither of you have vision on each other. Just the wall.*
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo wonders what to do
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Uh, is it a bad time to ask questions?
<DM>	*Well, you could go in and around the corner. Perhaps you could see a non-wall. Respond back, or go elsewhere. Or bust the wall down. I'm sure there's some other options.*
<OldMan>	Ye dolt, that's a question itself!
<OldMan>	... who are ye? Ye don't sound from 'round 'ere.
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	I don't know what this place is called, but I am just a girl.
<DM>	*Silence follows. You can hear some footsteps and coughing on the other side.*
<OldMan>	... ye may enter, afore ye attract any attenshun out there.
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo opens the door and tries to walk in?
<DM>	*You open the already open door, and you walk in. Just around the corner, five citizens, all of which are quite old, are standing there, guarding the hallway ahead as they all carry various crude, bladed weaponry. Some of it looks like it's about to fall apart.*
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Um, is there anything happening here?
<OldMan>	Erm...
<OldMan>	So ye are just a gal.
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Uh, yeah.
*	OldMan motions to his fellow compadres. They lower their weapons... but only a ltitle.
*	OldMan wipes the sweat off his face.
<OldMan>	Whew! Hey, what happened to the guard out there?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	I have no idea.
<OldMan>	Uhh... he look alive by any chance?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	He didn't seem to be alive.
<DM>	*They appear to not want to step out of the house 2 feet away to check.*
<OldMan>	Hmm... dem darn terrorists be back! You'd best stay 'ere till Lord Malek fishes them out.
<OldMan>	Ummm.... me name's Rick. Rick Parapa.
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Uh, hello Rick.
*	OldMan is now known as Rick
<Rick>	Uhh, these fellows 'ere are my uhh.. regular folks. They just hit the bar here at this inn, and uhhh, well... uhhh...
<DM>	*They seem silent. True NPC followers at their finest.*
<Rick>	Hey, uhh, little girl, there's a room up the stairs, down in the back. It's open to ya for ya to stay, if'n ye wish. I won't charge ye, frigin' terrists runnin' amuck an' all.
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Okay.
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo tries to go upstairs
<DM>	*The "followers' move outta the way, so you can go upstairs. Roll Courage to get up the st- just kidding.*
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo goes to floor 2 of the inn?
<DM>	*At the top of the stairs is a hallway, with 4 doors on each side for a total of 8 doors. Betcha I couldn't do math, can't I? Wait grammar, what why.*
<DM>	*They're all shut and locked, save for the one at the back-left. It's slightly ajar, and no, don't try to pick up the jar.*
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo walks to the back of the backside of the inn. Wait what.
<DM>	*At the back of the backside of the inn is the back of what appears to be the backside wall. It stares blankly at your back, which is behind yourself thereby preventing the backside back wall from possibly seeing your back. Meanwhile, KEESE AND CO. is back from its vacation.*
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo turns to the left, the leftside of the inn, the left of the door of the side of the inn that is opened, there are too many directions involved here, so the left side is probably right instead.
<DM>	*From here, you can see inside the room. Sunlight is pouring in through the room's window, flooding the room with light particles, because that's how science works. There's an empty bookcase, a bed, a desk, and the backside of that door. It plans on backstabbing you when you enter.*
<DM>	.....
<DM>	-=I'M GETTING ICE SCREAM, BRB=-
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo looks at the bookcase, the bookcase of emptyness. The bookcase is unamused for not holding anything of use, it is very lonely as it is isolated from the fullness of the bed. The desk might just be half-empty, but it might also be half-full. Who knows? Maybe Master DM has an idea. The door is also staring the backside of the inn with its back.
<DM>	I hate you for all eternity.
<DM>	*As you unlock the common achievement of the DM's hate for you for the 87th time, you notice one of the wall panels behind the empty bookcase is a good bit darker than the other wall panels. Its loneliness is shared with the bookcases's loneliness............... wait.*
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo looks at the darkened plane, the plane with the shadows. The lonely plane is isolated just like the bookcase. Both cases are unamused by the logic of ZURPG. I wonder why I am even typing this.
<DM>	*The panel stares back at you. It's amused by how lonely and dark it is- oh god, I just realized how horrifically racist this is.*
<DM>	*The panel, at its realization, just completely disappears.*
<DM>	*Where the panel was, you see only loneliness.... okay, and a stash of bombs. ........ bombs? BOMBS?!*
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo looks at the now-no-longer-dark panel, did light infest so much of the room, that it disappeared?
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo now just noticed the stash of bombs, it is really explosive bombs too! Let's just hope the light doesn't infuse them, the UV radiation might cause it to go boom!
<DM>	*Well, the light was pouring in. It figures that it just flooded the room so much that it illuminated the dark side of physics, because that's how it works.*
<DM>	4 bombs - http://zurpg.sephiroth.ws/thread-556.html
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo stashes up the bombs
<DM>	*As the bombs absorb the UV- okay, kidding.*
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo is somehow not affected by the UV so much, it might be the Shadow affinity.
<DM>	*Your hear some footsteps from behind as a man with a mustach- oh, it's Rick. He's standing at the doorway, just watching you.*
<DM>	*It's not creepy at all. It's just an old man watching what he calls a "little girl" investigate an area of the room he offered her.*
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo turns head around. Slowly.
<DM>	*Your head turns slowly as your neck muscles begin to feel increasingly more pain. Then you become a broken owl-
<DM>	*Rick stares at you for a few more seconds before suddenly shaking for an instant. He snaps out of his creepystare and waves at you. Wait, that's just as bad.*
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	2h, 1m | Broken Neck Affliction
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Uh, hi?
<DM>	(sorry, was coordinating something for tomorrow)
<Rick>	Oh, uhh, hi there. Uhh... is the room to your satisfaction?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	I guess?
<Rick>	Ah hah! Good! Yes yes, good! Uhh...
*	Rick seems fidgety.
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo attempts to see if there is something suspicious
<Rick>	Well, would you like a drink with us down in the bar? I know you're young, but it's to uhh.. calm the nerves, yeah!
<DM>	*His eyes seem a little glazed over. Generally, when this happens when I'm DMing, it's something to do with... something obvious.*
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo is away: Brb
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<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	... Are you looking at a wall?
<Rick>	Wha?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Is there a backside to a wall somehow>
<DM>	*He.. is... looking at a wall. Now that you see closer, he's not staring at you... he's staring at where that panel used to be!*
<DM>	*Wonder if it's anything to do with the bombs you picked up, cause there's nothing else behind where that panel was.*
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo gets another look at the previously shadowed wall, that disappeared because it realized it wasn't it kind.
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo pokes the wall with nothingness, breaking physics a little
<DM>	*You turn back around, only to see the panel of racism is back. And it's back to being lonely. In fact, where the heck did the empty bookcase go?*
<DM>	*Roll..... nothing....... to..................... I give up.*
*	DM breaks from a result of nothing.
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo tries to look for the bookcase, which disappeared to nothingness. It was empty, so it must have been sent to a world with more emptyness!
<DM>	*It was sent into Fireblast's mind. Hmm, I wonder where that went?*
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	The figure of the bookcase is installed into the poor girl's mind. Where the hell did it go? That's creepy.
<Rick>	Hey, what are you doing with that wall?!
<Rick>	I gave you a room, not a wall!
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Is that wall supposed to be a secret to everybody?
<Rick>	... you know.... young girl....
<Rick>	I used to live in a cave once. It was... oh, down south. And east a bit!
<Rick>	Then, one day, I handed a young man a wooden stick that I used to beat myself with.
<Rick>	I told him... "It's a secret to everybody."
<Rick>	Those exact words.
<Rick>	HOW DO YOU KNOW THOSE WORDS, MISSY?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Uh... I kind of just thought about the wall being some kind of secret?
<Rick>	THAT'S IT! I'VE HAD IT WITH YOUR MISLEADING BACKSIDE MANNERS!
*	Rick tries to storm towards you.
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo gets pushed back by an unknown force of video games. What.
<DM>	*As Rick enters the room, the door swings inwards, and the backside of the door slams into him. Rick, ROLL POWER!
*	X__X is now known as Door
<Door>	$5d10
<Navi>	Door: You rolled 5 Dice with 10 Sides. Result: 2, 9, 7, 9 and 9. Total: 36. Successes: 4.
<Rick>	$1d10
<Navi>	Rick: You rolled 1 Die with 10 Sides. Result: 8. Total: 8. Successes: 1.
*	Door SLAMS Rick into the ground. It winks at Iyaruka_Aetashigo with its backside (what), and proceeds to return to being a door on some hinges.
*	Door is now known as X__X
<Rick>	ARGH! MY ALLERGIES! CURSE THOSE DOORS!
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	...
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Did that door have a face?
<DM>	*Nope.avi. Just the back of a backside.*
<DM>	*Iyaruka, suddenly, the floor below you disappears.*
<DM>	*Roll Courage for recovery!*
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	$7d10
<Navi>	Iyaruka_Aetashigo: You rolled 7 Dice with 10 Sides. Result: 1, 9, 4, 3, 5, 9 and 5. Total: 36. Successes: 4.
<DM>	*You fall down into the room below, but you manage to land on your feet. You find yourself suddenly surrounded...... by the plot.*
<DM>	*I mean......
<DM>	*Around you, you can see non-old people. They all seem to be around their late 10s or early 20s.*
*	Rick is now known as X_X
<DM>	*One of them, a man with muscles- okay, gimme a tick to recover
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<DM>	*A young man with a mischevious grin on his face steps towards ya, with a large beating stick in his left hand.*
*	X_X is now known as YoungMan
<YoungMan>	Hey, how are ya? Feelin' safe now that yer away from those old goonies of Malek?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	I guess.
<YoungMan>	Hahah, that's good! Man, it's a good thing that Rick dude doesn't know there's a first floor beneath the second floor rooms!
<DM>	*The young man and his companions laugh. There seems to be a total of eight of them.*
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	So, what was happening?
<YoungMan>	What was happenin'?! Dude, you ain't from- oh, my bad...
*	YoungMan kneels down before you, partaking one of his hands beneath his chest.
<YoungMan>	My lady, are you not from around here?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	I don't know what this place is?
<YoungMan>	Hahah! You're in... *looks around to his companions* ... I have no idea!
<YoungMan>	HAHAHAHAHAH!
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo scratches head
<YoungMan>	I am....... *loading....... loading..... loading....*
<DM>	My name- wait, wrong one.
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	((Brb, getting water))
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	((Back))
<YoungMan>	My name is Lode Midoro! I'm from up north.
*	YoungMan is now known as Lode
<Lode>	My tail starts from a few weeks ago....
<DM>	*Lode has no tail.*
<Lode>	TALE! DANGIT!
<Lode>	I ventured into this town, whence uponst be my arrival, I came across a plot devi-
<Lode>	I came upon a dead man, floating down the river.
<Lode>	He was young, like me!
<Lode>	And yet the guards just laughed it off!
<Lode>	So I looked around, around and around for answers, and I all I got back was my back aching from the back of my leather jacket- ARGH THAT'S ITCHY!
*	Lode goes nuts as he deals with his back. Maybe the plot is trying to kill him because he has a name.
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo stands there clueless to the plotting device
<DM>	*A young woman, a bit older than Lode and raising an eyebrow at his hijinks, steps forward. She puts her arm on your shoulder and sighs.*
*	X__X is now known as YoungWoman
<DM>	*Her voice is deeper and far less aggravating than Lode.*
<YoungWoman>	I apologize. Our leader... is an idiiot.
<DM>	*And you can't spell.*
<YoungWoman>	What's your name, young one?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Name? Uh. It's Jani-
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo gets hit by the fourth wall
<DM>	(nani?)
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<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	((I was going to type in Janine because bah))
<DM>	(ah)
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo clears throat
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	My name is Iyaruka Aetashigo
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	((This better be good))
<Lode>	Yarko Tash My Go?
*	YoungWoman whacks Lode over the head.
<YoungWoman>	No, you idiot, she said her name was Iyuka Ashtag.
<DM>	*Another one pipes up.*
<DM>	[Kid]: Wha? I heard Yuka Ashertgo!
<DM>	[Another Kid]: Kayashatigo!
<DM>	[Adult]: What?! That's nowhere near close to it! It's Iyarko At Shigo's!
<DM>	[Another Young Woman]: I heard Iyuka Tashigo.
<Lode>	Hah! I get it now!
<Lode>	It's My Yuka Is A Tasher So I Go
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	...
*	YoungWoman punches Lode.
<YoungWoman>	$7d10
<Navi>	YoungWoman: You rolled 7 Dice with 10 Sides. Result: 2, 8, 6, 4, 10, 4 and 6. Total: 40. Successes: 5.
<Lode>	$8d10
<Navi>	Lode: You rolled 8 Dice with 10 Sides. Result: 6, 7, 3, 5, 7, 4, 10 and 10. Total: 52. Successes: 8.
<YoungWoman>	dangit
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<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Can I just be called Jennie?
*	Lode just stands there, laughing.
<YoungWoman>	Yes.
<YoungWoman>	Jennie it is. Welcome to our group, Jennie.
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Okay.
<YoungWoman>	My name is Yuka. I thought I heard my name in your name, so I was a little surprised.
*	YoungWoman is now known as Yuka
<Yuka>	Our group is called The Marauders. I guess we sound bad, but.... we're standing up the tyrant of this town, Malek.
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Oh?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Malek?
<Lode>	Yes! The great and *suddenly yelling* EVIL MALEK! THAT SINNER SHALL BURN IN THE DEPTHS OF SUBROSIAN HELL WHEN I GET MY SWORD ON HIM!
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo looks at Lode like he was insane
*	Yuka puts her hand on his face, shoving him out of the way.
<Yuka>	Ignore him. He's insane.
<DM>	*She agrees with your sentiments.*
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<Yuka>	Malek seems to have all the older people in this town under his control. For whatever reason, they all seem to shun younger people.
<Yuka>	So here we all are, a small group of younger people attempting to undermine Malek's authority, so we can show those that live under his rule what kind of a tyrant he really is.
<DM>	*My god...... this quest has a plot after all.*
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	So... Malek is an evil?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	... What's evil?
<Yuka>	What?
<Lode>	What?!
<Lode>	You don't know what EVIL is?!
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	I have never heard of the word?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	The only word I know is *Random language speak*
<Lode>	What in the devil's tongue is that?!
<Yuka>	Lode, be a good boy and get under my foot while you shut up.
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Um. I came from somewhere else that kind of speaks a different language?
<Yuka>	It's alright. I've heard a crazy old man with spiky hair say that rocks were called Materia or something.
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<Yuka>	I guess.... we define "Evil" as "DM" ......... wait, where'd that come from.
*	DM stops tampering with NPC speech.
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo is wondering about the plotting devices
<Yuka>	Malek forces others to submit to his will. He kills whoever he wants, and he justifies it "because they don't fit his ideals or plans for the greater future".
<Yuka>	That.... is evil.
<DM>	*Know what else is evil? The rest of Iyaruka's party.*
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Oh, that sounds like *More random language speak*
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<Lode>	YOU *sees Yuka's glare*... are cool, Jennie. Totes cool.
<Yuka>	If I may ask, do you know what that explosion was earlier?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Explosion?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	I heard the explosion.
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Never knew what it was about.
<Yuka>	I see. Well, let's get going, shall we?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Um. Where to?
<Yuka>	Let's take the underground route.
*	Yuka flips up a floor panel nearby, revealing a passage that leads underground.
<Lode>	What? We're not just gonna take the door out?
*	Lode is pointing at the door that serves as the gateway to this room.
<Yuka>	No, we're not, idiot.
*	Yuka whacks Lode on the head agaon.
<DM>	*Lode whack count: 3*
<Yuka>	Follow us.
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Okay.
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo foololowswhodewkjdgwedkjgd32kj
*	Iyaruka_Aetashigo follows Yuka
*	Yuka hops down into the passage below. She disappears for a few seconds... then a torch lights up the passage as Yuka waves it around.
<DM>	*The rest of group hop down in the passageway. Like ninjas descending on a Goriya.*
<Yuka>	Lode, you're still the leader. Where should we go?
<Lode>	Oh uhh... welll... I figured if we should REALLY make a statement, we should hit the Town Hall itself, where great..... *attempts to gibberish language for Evil, but instead ends up saying....*
<Lode>	Where the great gay Malek rules the town from!
<Yuka>	...... I'm pretty sure those two words are not the same.
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	I have no idea what he said.
<Yuka>	Jennie, do you think we should try and hit the head of the serpent, or try elsewhere?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Um...
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	I have no clue.
<Yuka>	Lode, we should look for more to join our cause first.
<Lode>	Argh... fine fine!
<Lode>	Uhh... Jennay, do you kno-
*	Lode is WHACKED into the nearest wall. The wall whacks Lode into the floor.
<DM>	*Lode whack count: 5*
<Yuka>	Lode, say her name right!
<Lode>	Ow, that hurt!
*	Lode gets back, dusts himself off, and polishes a random tooth.
<Lode>	Jennie, my lady, do you know of any more fellows that might join our cause?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Hmm... Not that I know of.
<DM>	*Those "companions" you came with don't count?*
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	I know some people who came with me, but they are idiots.
<Yuka>	Well, can't be worse than this guy.
<Lode>	FEAR NOT, WE SHALL FIND THEM, AND WITH ME, WE SHALL FORM THE GANG OF IDIOTS, AND THEN STORM THE BIG BASE! HOW DOES IT SOUND, JENNIE?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	...
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Uh...
<DM>	*The rest of the group just kind of Picard-style face-palms.*
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	I don't think they would make a good group.
<Yuka>	... what about a diversion?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	What's a diversion?
<Yuka>	I don't want to come off as sounding like we'd be using them, but do you think they could be a good uhhh....
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Meatbags?
<Yuka>	A way to make our enemy push their attention on a different group while we all sneak in.
<Lode>	YES! FELLOW MEATBAGS!
<Yuka>	Does that make sense to you, Jennie?
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	Uh, yeah...
<Lode>	SO LET US FIND THSE FELLOW........ BAGS OF BAGS!
<Yuka>	Did you all come in from the river or from the mountain pass?
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<Yuka>	Well, either way, I guess it's the same direction.
<Iyaruka_Aetashigo>	I think it was a river.
<Yuka>	Alright. Let's head east then, and see if we can find your uhh... people you know.
<DM>	*You all start heading east, into the deep dark abyss of the passageway that we call....
<DM>	-=QUEST PAUSE=-