In which Boss cuts some wires

<yzabtech> ==START==
<Yanniy_Grehij> You enter stealth just like Boss told you to
<Yanniy_Grehij> Stealth for Yanniy basically involves lowering stance considerably, and making the gruffest face imaginable.
<Yanniy_Grehij> While mumbling "Metal Gear" with a really raspy voice.
<yzabtech> You don't have a box though.
<yzabtech> The_Boss what do?
<The_Boss> The same thing, except involving more slipping into the shadows.
<Yanniy_Grehij> Although boxes would be considerably useful, you've heard Nintendo is getting on that
<yzabtech> Nintendo already got in on that like 20 years ago.
<yzabtech> It's 203X, remember?
<Yanniy_Grehij> Well, they're bringing it back
<Yanniy_Grehij> with blackjack and hookers
<Yanniy_Grehij> but without the blackjack
<Yanniy_Grehij> and also without the hookers
<Yanniy_Grehij> seeing as they are a family company after all
<yzabtech> Was about to say something about the Nintendo Cardboard Love Doll
<yzabtech> You didn't even execute your "call security" plan
<Yanniy_Grehij> ...
<Yanniy_Grehij> Moving on...
<yzabtech> Feraku hides out by the stairwell.
<yzabtech> She really doesn't like going near that door.
<The_Boss> I mean, you're gonna do it after you stealth.
<yzabtech> Makes sense.
<Yanniy_Grehij> Anyways, you're stealth too now, for what it's worth
<yzabtech> So Boss, you gonna stealth>
<yzabtech> ?*
<yzabtech> The_Boss
<The_Boss> Ye
<yzabtech> i make the voice chat great again and this is the price i pay
<yzabtech> We've been waiting 15 minutes to press a button
<Yanniy_Grehij> The_Boss just press the goddamn button already
<yzabtech> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNdmIl4xuo8
<The_Boss> You do it.
<Yanniy_Grehij> FINE!
<Yanniy_Grehij> YOU PRESS LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE BUTTON ON THE GODDAMN REMOTE
<yzabtech> An alarm sounds across the entire floor, and soon all of the other ones.
<Yanniy_Grehij> AND THEN THROW IT ON THE GROUND FOR GOOD MEASURE!
<yzabtech> Security rushes to and from every floor, and the door to B3 crashes open with what seem to be more advanced versions of the cuboids.
<The_Boss> You try to slip in unnoticed.
<Yanniy_Grehij> You follow Boss
<yzabtech> All of the office workers panic. The alarms blare, as cuboids, spider-looking robots, and even a few quadruped robots rush throughout the building.
<Yanniy_Grehij> This took way longer than was required
<yzabtech> Roll stealth with advantage. Both of you.
<Yanniy_Grehij> 1d20(12) - 1d20(19)
<Yanniy_Grehij> ((so 19 basically))
<Yanniy_Grehij> ((I'm just using rolz.org for now))
<yzabtech> Boss.
* Kaiserbot[Dice] (~Kaiserbot@50-233-23-131-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net) has joined
<The_Boss> ((sorry finding my sheet))
<The_Boss> !roll 1d20+6
<Kaiserbot[Dice]> rolled 1d20+6 --> [ 1d20=5 ] | {11}
<The_Boss> !roll 1d20+6
<Kaiserbot[Dice]> rolled 1d20+6 --> [ 1d20=12 ] | {18}
<yzabtech> Both of you make it to the door in time.
<yzabtech> In front of you is a dimly-lit, poorly-maintained stone staircase, quite unlike the rest of the building.
<yzabtech> You hear water dripping.
<yzabtech> It takes a bend, leading to a place unknown.
<yzabtech> Feraku seems apprehensive about going through the door.
<Yanniy_Grehij> Feraku can stay put like usual.
<The_Boss> You give her a quick glance before heading in.
<Yanniy_Grehij> Seems like she was largely absent anyways in the last couple of ventures.
<yzabtech> Feraku nods, and finds a place to hide.
<yzabtech> At the end of the staircase is an unlocked but reinforced metal door with a reinforced bulletproof glass window.
<Yanniy_Grehij> You look through the window.
<yzabtech> It's pretty dark, but you can see the room is almost cylindrical.
<yzabtech> The_Boss can tell that something for her is beyond this door.
<Yanniy_Grehij> You hold the door open like a true gentlewoman.
<Yanniy_Grehij> "After y69u"
<yzabtech> ((idk how late it is for you but stick around because after this you can go back to yanniy's land))
<yzabtech> ((theo and phrody are there))
<yzabtech> ((and then feraku can do her thing))
<Yanniy_Grehij> ((Alright, I'll stick around for 20 more minutes))
<Yanniy_Grehij> ((But then I'm out 100%))
<Yanniy_Grehij> ((Cuz it's 23:08 rn here))
<yzabtech> ((gotcha))
<yzabtech> Boss enters the room. She is on a catwalk 15 feet above the true floor of the room. The entire room is dark, dimly lit by LED strip-lights circling around the wall, and the glow of 4 screens on a rectangular pillar, one on each side, featuring Kairos's emblem.
<yzabtech> "And just what do you think YOU'RE doing here?"
<The_Boss> What's the voice sound like?
<yzabtech> It's DJ Kairos.
<yzabtech> Imagine a 70's disco singer, except scarier.
<The_Boss> Oh dear.
<Yanniy_Grehij> "Wh69 the heck is this l69ser?"
<The_Boss> Can you see him? Or is it from a speaker?
<yzabtech> It's from a speaker below each screen.
<yzabtech> The cylindrical shape of the room makes his voice echo and circle around you.
<The_Boss> You ignore it. Are there controls anywhere?
<yzabtech> You see something near the base of the pillar.
<yzabtech> Stairs on the catwalk take you to the "ground floor".
<yzabtech> "You've caused enough trouble here."
<The_Boss> You descend to the controls.
<The_Boss> He's probably talking to occupy you until guards come.
<The_Boss> You don't want to take him up on that.
<yzabtech> You notice wires coming out of the walls of the room as you descend the stairs. They all group into each other and lead to the pillar, where they run up and into the pillar.
<yzabtech> The controls are a bunch of buttons you can't understand, and screens of data you don't care about.
<yzabtech> "Don't touch those!"
<The_Boss> Are they labeled?
<yzabtech> They're...colored?
<The_Boss> Where's the red one?
<yzabtech> In the center, of course.
<yzabtech> The LED lights start to flicker.
<The_Boss> You'll press that one. Red buttons usually mean self-destruct, right?
<yzabtech> You press the button. A bunch of wires around the room begin to fall around you.
<yzabtech> All except a few.
<The_Boss> Now, the rest.
<yzabtech> "Don't think it would be that easy."
<yzabtech> The LED lights start to flicker harder.
<yzabtech> The screens flicker with them.
<The_Boss> *clickclickclickclickclick*
<yzabtech> Nothing happens.
<yzabtech> You're going to have to cut them yourself.
<yzabtech> They're all close to the ground.
<The_Boss> Alright.
<The_Boss> "Yanniy, a hand please?"
<Yanniy_Grehij> "Alright."
<The_Boss> You move to cut some of them down.
<Yanniy_Grehij> You start chopping up some of the wires.
<yzabtech> Yanniy gets most of them.
<yzabtech> Boss gets to a wire.
<yzabtech> Roll strength.
<The_Boss> !roll 1d20
<Kaiserbot[Dice]> rolled 1d20 --> [ 1d20=11 ] | {11}
<yzabtech> You cut the wire with your combat knife.
<The_Boss> Next.
<yzabtech> When you grab ahold of it, you feel a surge of energy.
<The_Boss> Oh.
<The_Boss> Wait, what?
<The_Boss> Im using my knife.
<yzabtech> You have to grab something to cut it.
<yzabtech> Unless you're using a cutting board.
<The_Boss> Oh yeah, fair enough
<The_Boss> Hey yanniy, happen to have a cutting board
<Yanniy_Grehij> "N69?"
<The_Boss> ((not ic im joking))
<yzabtech> You close your eyes, and see your past.
<yzabtech> You see the innocents you refused to kill, and the guilty you had to kill.
<The_Boss> "it's not a time vision" ~mike
<yzabtech> ((you gave me the idea bitch))
<yzabtech> You see your lover, lost in battle.
<yzabtech> You see the meteors that took your to this land.
<yzabtech> You see the rubble of a city.
<yzabtech> You see a strange planet with a blue sky, a group of beasts parading through what looks like a former town.
<yzabtech> You swear you've seen this planet before in your history books.
<yzabtech> Earth.
<yzabtech> You see a fight against a gargantuan monstrosity on a checkered battlefield, fighting alongside your friend to victory.
<yzabtech> friends*
<yzabtech> You open your eyes.
<yzabtech> A red outline of a time symbol forms on the ground, as chunks of the wall fall down.
<yzabtech> The screens go black, Kairos's emblem gone.
<The_Boss> Hm.
<The_Boss> You blink.
<The_Boss> Are all the wires cut down?
<yzabtech> It looks like it.
<Yanniy_Grehij> ((Alright, I'm gonna go to bed now))
<Yanniy_Grehij> ((It's getting a bit too late for me))
<yzabtech> ((alright let's just say you follow Boss to your land))
<The_Boss> Alright then! You gtfo.
<Yanniy_Grehij> ((sounds good to me))
* Yanniy_Grehij has quit (Quit: Leaving)
<yzabtech> You run up the catwalk on the other side. A second door is there.
<The_Boss> The place is coming down. Your goal's to get to the surface.
<The_Boss> You take the door that you came in.
<The_Boss> *in from
<yzabtech> Guess that works too.
<yzabtech> Feraku's waiting in the stairwell.
<yzabtech> "Let's go!"
<yzabtech> The lights flicker in the stairwell.
<The_Boss> "That was the thought."
<The_Boss> Upwards and out!
<yzabtech> You run up the stairs to the main lobby, and out of the building. The consorts look blanked out.
<yzabtech> Like they just awoke from a deep sleep.
<yzabtech> They wander around the lobby, calm compared to their previous riot.
<yzabtech> They decide to leave.
<The_Boss> Good. It'd be bad for them to get caught in it.
<The_Boss> You exit as well.
<yzabtech> You get out of the building.
<yzabtech> In an alley near you, you see a red dot that looks farther away than the alley is long.
<The_Boss> Hm? How's that possible?
<The_Boss> And actually, since the wires go under the city, is the city still fine?
<The_Boss> You
<The_Boss> ((whoops. dont mind that))
<yzabtech> The city's still fine. The underlings are panicking this time, but the consorts do a pretty good job of fighting them off.
<yzabtech> You think you see a few Capital K-branded weapons in the crowd.
<yzabtech> It's probably best to get out of here.
<The_Boss> Alright then, yeah, out of the city you go. Any turtles you go by, you yell at to gather the rest and exit.
<yzabtech> "That's a return node, it's faster!"
<The_Boss> "Ah, gotcha."
<The_Boss> To the return node then!
<yzabtech> You're back at your house.
<yzabtech> It looks way taller than befroe.
<yzabtech> before*
<yzabtech> When you enter it, you see Jackalsprite and President Sardon sitting at a table with the imp.
<yzabtech> "Welcome back," Jackalsprite says.
<The_Boss> You nod.
<The_Boss> "Hello. How have things been around here?"
<yzabtech> Jackal and Sardon look at each other.
<yzabtech> They look back to you.
<yzabtech> "Fine," Sardon says.
<The_Boss> "Uneventful?"
<yzabtech> "...yeah," Jackal says.
<The_Boss> "Excellent."
<The_Boss> "To the next gate then, I assume?"
<yzabtech> Feraku looks towards the ceiling.
<yzabtech> "That's correct!" Jackal says.
<yzabtech> The_Boss
<The_Boss> "Great."
<The_Boss> "I'll contact Phrody in a bit. Until then, chances are turtles will start coming through the gate. Accommodate them as best you can."
<yzabtech> "Ah, return nodes? Consorts don't usually go through them."
<The_Boss> "They *can,* though, right?"
<yzabtech> "I... guess?"
<The_Boss> "Good. I directed a few here, told them to bring more. Just a heads up."
<yzabtech> "Makes sense."
<The_Boss> "Thank you."
<The_Boss> (end irc?)
<yzabtech> ((yeah))
<yzabtech> ((you're going through gate 2 right))
<The_Boss> ((3))
<The_Boss> ((i think jackal told me odd numbers went to land quest places?))
<yzabtech> ((you don't have enough grist for 3))
<yzabtech> ((and 2 will lead you to more stuff than 3 trust me))
<The_Boss> ((okay))
<The_Boss> ((what am I built up to, and how much grist did that cost me?))
<yzabtech> ((however high you want to go, gate 2 probably. 600 grist))
<The_Boss> how much does gate 7 cost me.
<yzabtech> a lot
<yzabtech> it's on your sheet lol
<The_Boss> Also, uh.
<The_Boss> I don't have 600 grist.
<The_Boss> So.
<The_Boss> Gate 2 is but a dream lolrip
<yzabtech> Yeah you do.
<yzabtech> ==END==