Whimsy's Missions

The Agents, Mo the Freerunner, Whimsy the Illusionist, Ruby the Onmyoji and Heldra the Vessel, arrived at the beach, where they had a sort of "on-mission assembly." They took a second to enjoy the libations provided on the otherwise vacant shores, with Mo wasting no time attempting to flirt with his fellow agents. An enormous sandcastle was nearby, not too far off in the distance.

Ruby lit an incense stick and approached the castle's wall. It rippled and swelled slightly at this approach, as small arms formed from its walls, as the spirits that formed the walls cried out in desperate hunger. With some prying, she realized that these spirits in the wall had been trapped within the castle so long that they had lost all sense of their individual identity. The agents decided to keep their distance from the walls. On another side, Whimsy found a large doorway going into the sand castle. The floors and supports were crafted of stone, so they agents were able to safely enter.

Inside, they found a wise and elderly octopus, the client Ovidian, sitting in one of the three pools that made up the Octopodium, centralized a fair distance away from any of the walls. He asks the agents to find his two brothers, Oakley, sequestered up in the tallest tower, and Orys, hidden in the depths below behind some sort of puzzle.

The agents decided to go upwards first. Mo took the lead, leaping ahead and beginning to ascend a tall tower with a spiral staircase. A ways up, he discovered a bodacious ghost babe named Pinky! This would have been Mo's lucky day except for the fact that she seemed rather intent on killing him. Mo deftly dodged falling rocks, seaweed snares and swinging shell axes that the ghost had prepared as little "pranks." Barely avoiding all the falling debris, Heldra and Ruby decided to try their luck with the basement while Whimsy glided up after Mo with her cape. Mo decided to go for a play with "Tag, You're It," diving downwards to the base of the tower, playing "hard to get" with Pinky. He ran through the Octopodium, noting that the doorway which agents had entered through had disappeared and now was just a barrier of sand, so he instead darted into the library.

This cleared the way for Whimsy to get to the top of the tower where she found Oakley, significantly more timid and smaller than Ovidian. With some gentle coaxing, she convinced Oakley to come down. Oakley made himself portable by activating his magic "Takoyakugan" spell that temporarily morphed him into a small and light ball. Whimsy carefully carried him back down to the Octopodium where he reconstituted himself into his octo-form. Whimsy then heard a commotion in the library and went to investigate.

In the library, Pinky was desperately trying to pursue her new crush, and was knocking over bookshelves to slow him down. Mo slid under the bookshelves successfully, although he did get whacked in a sore spot by a falling book about "The STI's of Manifold." Mo quickly recovered and did some parkour, jumping between the tops of bookshelves. Pinky then knocked over a gigantic clock, which would have crushed Mo had Whimsy not arrived and intervened, shooting Pinky in the leg with her magic wand. There was a brief standoff as Pinky tried to convince Mo to turn against her fellow agent, but Whimsy was having none of it, pulling out her wand and blasting away, one catching Pinky in the head, re-killing her. Hearing commotion from the other room (which we'll get to later), Mo and Whimsy headed back towards the Octopodium.

Meanwhile, backing up a bit, after Heldra and Ruby left the tower and went back to the Octopodium, Heldra consulted her Sun entity's whispers and discovered that the "puzzle" was hardly a puzzle at all-- one simply had to push on any of the shells along a particular wall (this further corrupted the yet unmet brother Orys). Heldra successfully implemented this plan and opened the way down into the dungeons below.

The dungeons were flooded and smelled terrible. The foul and murk water was full of spirits who still retained individuality and greatly feared being assimilated into the walls. Ruby petitioned these spirits to tenuously part the water so that she and Heldra could navigate through. The smell got worse and worse until they eventually found the source-- an incredibly old octopus, dwarfing even Ovidian.

Orys was insane, sadistic, and not at all keen on granting Heldra and Ruby's request. As tensions rose, he began to lash out with his tentacles, which broke the spell containing the water, leaving Heldra and Ruby submerged nearly up to their necks. This was too much for Heldra who, having never been in water before, lost control of the sun god within her. This caused the spirits to flee (many absorbed by the walls) as she hurled fireballs at Orys before stabbing him in the eye. Even this was not enough to fully deter him.

At that same moment, Ruby channeled most of her remaining power and all the years of her experience communing with spirits into the wall, giving it the strength to grow its arms and carry Orys up to the Octopodium against his will. He thrashed and lashed, but the grip of the walls remained strong. Ruby barely managed to stumble back up the stairs, vision teeming with hallucinations. Heldra couldn't manage even that, as she had stabbed herself in the foot to stave off the posession. Halfway up the stairs, she too sunk much of her essence into the wall order to have the hands form a makeshift "stairlift"

The large sound that Whimsy and Mo heard was Orys being carried by the hands up into the Octopodium. They went back into the main hall and confirmed that all three of the octopi had indeed been reunited.

Badges... Sputtered? (Damn sand roof glitch!)

Ovidian congratulated the agents on completing their final mission. It turned out this whole mission had been a setup for the octopi to lure more potential spirits into their castle. Ovidian was the first to attack, grabbing Mo in his tentacles. Whimsy jumped and landed a diving kick on Oakley, despite his powerful "splashing water" countermove. One kick was enough to take down the weakest of the three.

Ruby arrived as of yet unseen. She decided to stick her arm into the wall, feeling it biting at her flesh. With her established rapport with the spirits and what little energy she had left, she began pulling the wall towards the oblivious Orys step by step.

Mo was being crushed in midair by the tentacles, but managed to summon and drop a pizza which, thanks to his specialty in "vertical pizza delivery," landed right on Ovidian's eye. This gave a window for Whimsy to blast Ovidian in the beak, which loosened the tentacles' grip, and Mo managed to jump to a nearby pillar. Orys, lazy and injured but also titanic, began haphazardly sweeping his tentacles across the floor, knocking aside the pillar atop which Mo had perched (he managed to land safely).

Heldra arrived behind Ruby and noticed a structural weakness in Orys' pool (he had grown a great deal down in the sewer since he had last occupied it). She managed to exploit this weakness, breaking the pool and sending Orys sliding backwards. At that moment, Ruby channeled nearly all the power she had left into the sand wall she was dragging, forming it into one titanic arm that grabbed Orys, pulling and assimilating him into the wall. Ruby's arm was ripped off in the process.

Mo ran up to the opposing wall and activated "Tag you're it," to lure the spirits to the octopi to feed on them, and also to distract them so the rest of his squad can escape the castle through the growing crack in the wall. Strained from the effort of hauling and consuming a titanic octopus, it buckled into a wave and pursued Mo. The wave gobbled up Ovidian and Orys and only barely missed the other agents. Mo called for the agents to leave, and Whimsy took both Ruby and Heldra in her arms, flying them out of the opening where they successfully pinged out.

The sand wave chasing Mo morphed its shape into Pinky's who attempted to flirt. Mo was quite tempted but Whimsy yelled back a promise to a date after when they all get out alive, which provided Mo Heartening and a reason to not fall for the Sand Pinky. He led the wave in a circle up the stairs before jumping down and running through the opening, pinging out just before Pinky could land her final embrace.

Mission Success!

The players: Ylva the Onmyoji, Janny the Aspiring Inkeeper, Whimsy the Illusionist, and Magpie the Wanderer, arrived in the dining hall of keep Nanan as King Narshannal was finishing his announcement praising his general for his service to the kingdom. He then pulled a lever and his general was hanged by a black rope.

Whimsy stuck around in the hall and spoke to a Nanan guard at the feast. He revealed that the Nanan had developed an "infinite money scheme" due to the nature of the quantum rift. This came in two parts: Firstly, if If one hanged themself on the black rope nooses, they would reappear in the other castle, alongside anything they carried. However, this took a toll on one's soul. Second, any and all magic that was cast in one castle would be reflected and magnified in the other. Thus, the Nanan figured out they could conjure gold from gold in the other castle, and get twice the gold back in their own. Whimsy went to explore further, finding the throne room. She found the throne room, where she saw the other castle through the skylight. She tried to communicate through magic but was blown out of the room by unseen wind magic.

Meanwhile, Magpie, Janny, and Ylva journeyed down to the dungeons. Magpie incapacitated the guard and down in the cells, Ylva reached out to the spirits. There they found the soul of a fallen Kvorak who had been killed by the Nanan. He told them that he died protecting his sister and she still had half of their mothers' pendant which would allow communication between the two halves over any realm or distance. Agents found the other stone in a neighboring cell and spoke with Kavrika. She told them her plight, and warned that Primarch Mahkthi and the Kvorak were planning an attack in retribution. She also told them how she had tried to meet with the Nanan, but they attacked her and she barely managed to escape back to her castle by hanging herself. This took a toll on her and she lost the courage to be a warrior and was imprisoned by her people.

Whimsy rendezvoused with the agents in the cell. They found the noose Kavrika had used to hang herself and rather than following in her stead, they disguised it as a balloon and ventured back upstairs. Magpie found a point on the map where there was a clear link between the castles. There, they saw the returned General Rabanno arguing with a couple Kvorak Windcallers who had followed in his stead in the dining hall. Janny followed them inside while the other agents went towards the throne room, near the nexus point.

Whimsy managed to use the noose at the nexus point on the balcony behind the throne to energywork a viewpoint to be able to talk to Primarch Mahkthi and the Kvorak tribunal. They were not receptive, especially following the events of the upcoming scene...

Janny tried to quell the debate by scolding both sides, but the general was clearly not receptive and had his fire mages ready their blasts. Janny's housecarl Carl then whacked him upside the head, which prompted the mages to fire. Fortunately Janny had set up a shield wall and fire ward to protect herself. Unfortunately this blast was mirrored in Keep Kvorak, causing them to immediately begin preparing for war.

The Kvorak tribunal set to creating a wave to flood their own castle using their wind magic. This was reflected into a tsunami that was headed straight for Keep Nanan. All seemed lost as Janny ran onto the balcony, pursued by a horde of furious Nanan guards as the wave formed in the ocean ready to drown the castle. In a last ditch effort Ylva and all of the other agents combined their power and petitioned the spirits of the joined castles. With the help of Kavrika, Ylva used the nine cuts to cut through the quantum rift itself.

However, everything here has a reciprocal cost. Destroying the rift meant sacrificing one of the ones who cast the spell. Finding her courage, Kavrika volunteered for the sake of peace.
The rift was destroyed and the agents were back in the castle and the sky no longer had a sea and castle in it. Guards burst through the door and charged at the agents.

Badges pinged and they got the hell out of there.

The agents arrived on the submarine sphere which was slowly descending into a web of seemingly endless kelp. As the agents went further down, they encountered gigantic spider-crab esque creatures that formed air pockets and attempted to ensnare the submarine. Only with the cunning of the four illusionists were the creatures able to be kept at bay. After a spectacular illusory Titanic to distract a leviathan-sized creature at the bottom, the submarine managed to break through into the skies below. This mission was an especially notable achievement for Dr. Thadeus Kane, who upon its completion received his certification as a level 10 Enclave agent.

Johnathin, Whimsy, Violet, and Yagwoo departed from The Enclave’s Portland branch and arrived in the hangar of the MacDiamond Diamond, a diamond shaped prison in orbit around an uninhabited planet. As they arrived, guests for the “Promenade around the Prism” gala had arrived in their shuttle, and were already filing in. The agents found that they had invitations ready in their pockets and presented them to the guard at the hangar checkpoint who accepted their invitations. He offered them face masks to avoid breathing the same air as the prisoners, and waved them through, up a tall, narrow staircase

Arriving on the prison floor, the agents were met with a disheartening sight: the prisoners were being paraded around and forced to perform in entertainment acts for the guests, who were looking down upon the prisoners from the “Civilized zone,” an upper floor situated about 50 feet above the floor. Guests, mostly masked, were waiting in a single-file line to use the single paired elevator up to that zone. An announcement came over the loudspeaker as the Lord Warden bid a brash welcome to his guests, signing off with his catchphrase “MacDiamond is Unbreakable”

Whimsy wasted no time in the long line and instead flew up to the Civilized zone where she did some investigation and found some vents leading upwards to a higher floor. As the other agents waited in line, they encountered a very strange young woman who seemed to be babbling mostly incoherently. They entertained her briefly, but let her move on her way through the line (others seemed to be letting her pass as well). One by one, the agents ascended to the fourth floor— Johnathin, frustrated with the elevator’s sluggishness, performed some improvisational rewiring, speeding up the elevator but moderately damaging it in the process.

Upon arriving at the civilized zone, Johnathin split off from the rest of the party. He bought a drink and then took a wager on a farcical mock trial between the prisoners called “Double Jeopardy,” where a prisoner was tried again for their crime and given a double sentence (in this case, the prisoner had committed academic dishonesty by writing their own paper rather than use a pre-approved artificial intelligence). Whimsy saw Lucy frolicking about and asked a guest about her. He informed her that Lucy was in fact the daughter of the Lord Warden, and was most likely tripping on space acid (it’s like normal acid but worse because space).

Yagwoo and Violet encountered Lucy and had a conversation where she revealed her identity (in a roundabout way) and was suggestible enough to invite the two of them up to visit her father in the penthouse. The three of them, soon joined by Johnathin arrived at the receptionist desk of an ornate building in front of an elevator shaft and though she was initially suspicious of Lucy’s “new best friends,” she let them proceed onwards up to the penthouse. Whimsy takes the “scenic route,” drifting through an air duct to peer into the coming encounter from above.

In his ornate office, attended by four guards sat the Honorable Lord Warden Jeremy MacDiamond, watching his favorite television program- “Where’s my house?!?” where innocent people returned from their work to find their homes demolished. He turned, wondering who the hell Lucy brought with her this time. The agents initially tried a diplomatic approach attempting to present the mission statement given to them by Lady MacDiamond, but Jeremy was not receptive to this.
Even at gunpoint, Jeremy initially seemed more enraged than afraid. He took special offense at the notion that his reactor could possibly be fallible. He believed that “MacDiamond is Unbreakable” and that he was above making mistakes. He demanded that the agents repeated his mantra “The reactor is as MacDandy as a MacDiamond” if they wished to avoid being incarcerated.

Whimsy decided that this was the perfect opportunity to utilize a sonic illusion. She projected the voice of the Lord Warden through the air ducts of the station, in a facsimile of him announcing “The reactor’s gonna blow! Everyone run to the hangar!” Mass panic ensued, and many of the guests evacuated to a lower floor, but in this process, the elevator down to the prison floor from the Civilized zone was broken. The trio in the room began their attack!

In front of Jeremy there were four guards. Two are large with double-sided electro staves. Two are smaller with electro pistols and rocket boosters on their shoes. Johnathin engages with two of the guards.  He landed a debilitating blow on one of the guards, and shortly after managed to throw his sword into another’s  heel, causing them to go wildly veering off course into the chandelier. Jeremy attempts to call for aid but violet blocks off the control panel with a shield wall. Violet summoned the spirits of her deceased salt mining crew and kept the other two guards at bay. Yagwoo caused the room to become dark and spooky before shouting so forcefully that it made Jeremy fly back in his seat hitting the ground, triggering his automatic impact-triggered diamond shield. Johnathin charged forwards and grabbed Jeremy, managing to subdue him, seizing the wallet from his pocket. One of the remaining guards makes a futile attempt to overtake Johnathan. Jeremy ran to his control panel , but after being overpowered on all sides, they stood down.

At this point, the chaos ensuing below became too much for the reactor to handle. An announcement comes on, beginning a five minute countdown to evacuate before the station exploded. Coincidentally, IRL, Violet’s player had to evacuate their dorm because someone pulled the fire alarm, playing the rest from their phone.

Whimsy yelled to throw her the wallet as she had mapped an escape route. Johnathin tossed it down the air vent and Whimsy began running out to find a crowd of people massed in the narrow hallway on the prison floor. She landed amongst them and used a knockback spell, crushing those nearby into the wall and forcibly clearing a path through to the hangar stairs.

Back in the office, Yagwoo cast great and terrible lightning, bringing down the chandelier and banner so forcefully, it shattered through the floor, causing Yagwoo to fall not just through Jeremy’s office floor but also the glass floor of the Civilized zone. Violet caught him with a shield wall slide and the other agents and Lucy followed. Yagwoo trampled through the crowd and Johnathin channeled Yagwoo’s terrible intimidation to shove people up the wall with his standoff.

At the foot of the hangar stairs, Whimsy saw a guard checkpoint barring all but the wealthiest from entering in an emergency. She cast an illusion upon herself, appearing as the Lord Warden and flashed the wallet. The guards parted and she flew out of the station. As she did, the wallet made the transfer and Enclave badges pinged. In deep space, Whimsy teleported out.

Lucy turned to the remaining three and asked if everything was okay. They fought and scared off the remaining garrison and only after getting her aboard an evacuating ship did the others teleport out. The last thing they saw as they left was the beginning of a very large explosion.