melodiesofeternity | Plot || The Star Wars Vaikuntha Special

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Plot || The Star Wars Vaikuntha Special

Who: Open
When: June 8-14
Where: Everywhere
What: The race for the crystals is on!!
Warnings/Notes: OOC Post

Crystals have fallen out of the Dream Width in a beautiful meteor shower and scattered all over the world! Due to their origins and mysterious properties, the Curti Center is interested in gathering as many as they can for researching purposes. To incentivize the public in helping out, O'aka has donated a few silver coupons to those top few who collect the most crystals. There's also a rumor that the one person (or more if there's a tie) who collects the most, wins something marvelous and mysterious~

The hunt for these crystals have taken storm across Vaikuntha and they're suddenly worth a lot. It's all anyone talks about anymore! The locals have gone crazy with it! If you weren't interested to begin with, surely the madness that is this new fad has sunk its teeth in. Besides, who knows what the crystals can actually do? Are they gifts? Curses? Dust collectors? Only one way to find out.

NAVIGATION
❄️ Snow	🔎 Shadow	🔥 Flame	🌼 Flower	☔ Rain	☀️ Sun	❤️ Love	🌵 Arrow
🎭 Sword	🎶 Chime	👻 Grey	🥚 Egg	✉️ Chrome	🏁 Rainbow	🐹 Plasma

LEADERBOARD
Character	\| Crystals
Klonoa	\| 08 ❄️🔎❤️🌵🎭👻✉️🐹
Kuja	\| 07 🔎🌼🎭🎶👻✉️🐹
Frisk.bin	\| 06 🔎☔🌵🎭✉️🐹
Uendo	\| 05 ❄️🔎🎶✉️🐹
Corrin	\| 04 ☔❤️🌵🎭
Red	\| 03 🌵🎭✉️
Okuyasu	\| 03 ❄️🌼🐹
Tyzias	\| 02 ❄️🐹
Megatron	\| 02 🌼🐹
Maul	\| 02 👻🏁
Sephiroth	\| 02 🌼✉️
Naoto	\| 02 ❤️✉️
Adrien	\| 01 ❄️
Castor	\| 01 ✉️
Selphie	\| 01 🌵
Pidge	\| 01 🥚
Minimus	\| 01 🌵
Kenichi	\| 01 🐹
Papyrus	\| 01 🔎
Naomi	\| 01 🌼
Ovelia	\| 01 🌼
Asriel	\| 01 🎭
Kanji	\| 01 ❤️

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"Man, this place sure brings back some memories," Frisk says to themself as they lazily amble through the streets, hands behind their head as they gawk at the scenery. The last time they were here was their first proper adventure: awakening Leviathan and watching a perverted octopus get ousted from his position as the water-elemental eidolon. Ah, fun times, fun times.

Frisk checks out the stadium first. It takes up a massive area in the city, after all, and is open to the sky. Seems a logical place as any to start.

Looks like the flooding’s pretty bad in this area. While the walking path is shallow enough for you to walk on while only barely getting your shoes wet, water is rushing along very close nearby. It certainly doesn’t look safe! Thankfully, there are flagging tape and ropes to denote where it’s safe to walk for those who absolutely must come this way.

And apparently you absolutely must come this way.

As you ascend the steps to the entrance, water rushes down alongside you. You can hear shouting, clanking, and the roar of water within. Once you’re at the threshold, you look down at the half-dome stadium seating to see that the water level inside the stadium is much higher than in the rest of the city. It’s halfway up the stadium! Thankfully, the stadium was built with these sorts of disasters in mind, so the water is being drained down the sides. What’s not so great is that it’s not being drained fast enough. The levels are definitely rising.

“Heeey!” A soaked, blond man in fashionable waiters and goggles jogs over to you. “About time you got here! This place is turning into a fish bowl!” He turns away and shouts down at another man closer to the water line. “Neggi! Lyh dra ynlr suja oad?”

The other is on his knees, somewhere between working and beating something with a wrench, when he looks back up at the two of you. “Fa fuh'd ghuf ihdem fa dno! Ajanodrehk'c picdat!”

“Aaah,” the other groans before looking back to you. “Did you bring the rotary couplings?”

> “I have no idea what’s going on. Goodbye.” Leave the stadium.
> “I definitely have the rotary couplings, yes.” Lie.
> “I don’t have the rotary couplings but I do have a ton of questions.”

"I am thirteen and a half. I have no clue what rotary couplings even are," they say, deadpan. Eyeing the chaos, they quirk an eyebrow. "You guys seem like you need some help. Anything I can do? Like, say. Find some rotary couplings from wherever you need them?"

“Huh?” The guy looks you up and down before sighing. “Drendaah? Fryd yna drao drehgehk draca tyoc! Fa lyh'd getc yd y ceda mega drec! Famm... ev oui fyhd du ramb...”

You have no idea what he just said, but he’s nodding and pointing down at the other man. “Go see Neggi. He’ll tell you what to do. Just don’t touch the yellow motor, okay? The green one is the one you want.” He claps you on the arm and leaves.

You carefully walk down the seating area to find Neggi with half of his body stuck through an open grate in the flooring. He looks up at you when you approach. “Ah! Dra amiceja tamejano vehymmo ynnejac!” He holds his hand out. “Did Pitto say green, purple, or yellow?”

> “Green.”
> “Purple.”
> “Yellow.”
> “I have no idea what anyone’s saying.”

Frisk nods to Neggi. "Green. He said not to touch the yellow one."

Well, this is fairly easy!

...

Frisk braces themself in case things go horribly, terribly wrong, as they're wont to do.

“Yfacusa!” Neggi says with a nod and smile. He’s still holding out his hand.

... Okay, it’s starting to get awkward now. “Uh, dra luibmehkc? Oui tu ryja dras, nekrd?”

> “I have no idea what you’re saying.”
> “If you’re asking about the couplings, I don’t have them.”

Frisk stares blankly at Neggi. "Um. Sorry dude. But I do NOT speak whatever you're talking."

Neggi stares at you and sighs. “Why did Pitto just send you down here without-? Oh, never mind. You don’t have the couplings either, huh? Dammit.”

He stands up, wiping his hands on his pants. “You’re looking for a crystal, aren’t you? Well, I’ll tell ya the same thing I told the last three people who came in here. We don’t have any of those damn sparkly doo-dads. We’re trying to do a job here, can’t you see?”

> Ask if there’s any way you could help.
> Ask what happened.
> Apologize and leave.

"Is there any way I could help? The city doesn't need to get any more flooded, and it looks like you guys could really use a helping hand," they say, gesturing at the mess that the stadium's become. Finding the crystals wasn't nearly as urgent as making sure the situation in Ka'pandol didn't worsen.

Frisk did not want another miserable water level, thankyouverymuch.

Neggi tilts his head, strokes his chin, and thinks about it for a second. “Well, the problem’s with the older pipes, I think,” he says, contemplating the watery depths of the stadium. “If we can figure out what’s wrong with them, we won’t need those couplings at all.

“And you’re one of those people who helped kill that dragon, right? Yeah, I’m sure you can handle it! Go on in!”

> Agree to 'go on in.'
> Ask if there’s another way you can help.

Frisk has no illusions about their own willingness to enter sewer pipes. They ate a burger made out of glitter glue and sequins out of a god damn trash can. They can handle this.

"You got it, chief." Giving Neggi a thumbs-up, Frisk vanishes into the pipes.

“All right!” Neggi exclaims, happily digging in his pocket before handing you glass vial. “Here, use this if you see an octopus.” He offers no further explanation, merely shoving you along to the water’s edge.

After taking the vial, you bravely dive into the water in the center of the stadium, being careful of any debris of equipment you may find. You swim down, lower and lower into the darkness of the stadium until you see the pumps.

They’re four large pipes sitting at the bottom of the arena, the kind you’ve probably seen spraying water into the sphere before a Blitzball game. Off to the side is a grate where bubbles are escaping.

> Open the grate.
> Get out of the water.

Curiosity killed the cat, but hey, you're not a Catmancer. You open the grate.

The grate is already loose, having been moved before pretty recently. You remove it again, realizing that there’s a maintenance room on the other side. Most of it is flooded but there’s an air pocket at the ceiling. Otherwise, it’s too dark to make out a bunch of controls that you probably couldn’t make much sense of in the first place.

You head to the air pocket breach for air, a few glowing lights still illuminating the area enough to see by. There isn’t much to see, unfortunately, and you begin to wonder why a Hero of Light was the only type of person suited for this job.

That’s when you see movement.

Now that your eyes have adjusted, you can look below you and see a ton of octopuses, at least twenty or more, all sitting on the floor of the room. They don’t seem aggressive, though. They’re just chilling. Or maybe they just haven’t noticed you yet.

> Use the vial using a mastered job with a magical or physical power of A or better.
> Use the vial regardless.
> Attack.

You take a deep lungful of air, then just chill in the water for a moment, relaxing. This seems pretty easy so far, you wonder why

And then you see the octopuses. Octopi? Yeah, you're pretty sure that the second one is right. Shrugging, you use the vial with your mastered [SOUL Buster] asterisk, which has a Magical Power of A, or S when boosted by Time Mage. Which is what you're doing right now.

You take out the vial, uncork it, and a bright light erupts from the bottle. The octopuses get spooked, swimming away as fast as they can and leave you alone in the room.

You can see the control panel now. There’s a big red button with the word EMERGENCY over the top. This looks like an emergency! You should probably press that button… but there's no telling what it'll do.

> Swim out of the room and get out of the water.
> Press that button.

Well, at the very worst, you get horribly injured and drink a bunch of potions, right?

You press the button.

You press the button.

There’s some mechanical whirring going on somewhere, a lot of clunking, and you can hear metal bending. It sounds like it’s coming from one of those big pipes in the middle of the arena.

> Investigate.
> Get out of the water and report what happened.

That sounds like something that could be very, very urgent. And you don't want to waste time in case it does turn out to be that way. You swim towards the pipe to investigate.

You swim out to the pipes again, back in open water. The octopuses all seem long gone now. But back in this better lighting, you can see that there’s definitely something wrong here.

Sensors have noticed the increase in pressure, so the pipes aren’t about to dangerously rupture anymore. They don’t even make a sound now. That said, the emergency switch did something.

You can see something shiny in one of the pipes. It’d be nice if you could just reach in and emerge victorious, but that thing’s wedged in there tight! It’s definitely a crystal, no telling how it got in there. Maybe it just needs a nudge.

> Attack the pipe.
> Go back into the room and press the button again.
> Get out of the water.

On the one hand, this is a terrible idea. On the other... well, you might have juuuust the skill to help out here.

You swim to the pipe, positioning yourself above where the crystal is lodged. They, aiming your cannon, you fire a [Force Wave]. While the attack hopefully won't deal damage to the structural integrity of the pipe due to its weak nature, the heavy knockback it has should hopefully knock the crystal loose.

That did it! Though the crystal and pipe are both plenty durable, your attack was just enough to nudge it free. You grab the crystal, yank, and you’ve now got a new crystal. To make the whole deal better, the pumps sense that there’s no more pressure in the pipes and they kick back on again. Slowly, you feel the drag of water pulling you down but it’s not enough to suck you in.

You swim back to the surface to greet the slowly retreating water and cheering workers.

Congratulations, Hero!

Anything else you'd like to do?

> go to Ancient History Museum
> go to Hypello Shop
> go to Leviathan’s Temple
> Leave Ka’Pandol

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Plot || The Star Wars Vaikuntha Special

>Frisk: Enter Blitzball Stadium

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>Frisk: Inquire about puzzle. “I don’t have the rotary couplings but I do have a ton of question

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>Frisk: Engage in memory-based puzzle. "Green"

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>Frisk: Boggle vacantly at these shenanigans. “I have no idea what you’re saying.”

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>Frisk: Inquire as to status of potential usefulness.

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>Frisk: Begin dubious sewer adventure. "Agree to 'go on in.'"

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>Frisk: Open the grate.

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>Frisk. Bustin' makes you feel good. "Use the vial with mastered SOUL Buster, has a MP of S."

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>Frisk: Press button. "Press the button."

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>Frisk: Investigate.

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>Frisk: Begin ill-advised gambit "Attack the pipe."

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