Superbia Underside Log

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SUPERBIA DUNGEON LOG

Third time's the charm for the Executors, it seems. Their confrontation with Miss President ended peacefully and with the Superbia loop ended, the school was finally able to enjoy its hard earned festival. But it's not quite a straightforward happy ending – the way back up to the previous layers is still sealed and regardless, if the Executors want to progress, they'll have to make their way through the Underside. Finding the entrance isn't too hard. After all, it's where all of this began. At the spot in the gymnasium the previous Student Council President was corrupted, a familiar stairway stretches down, down, down into the darkness. It's been a long time coming, but it's finally time for you to graduate Superbia.

THE UNDERSIDE

♪♫ Maze Fortress – Sakuzyo ... or so you expect, anyway. Entering the Superbia Underside is just as disorienting as always, but for totally opposite reasons to the other Undersides. While the other Undersides have been vaguely recognizable distortions of their Layers, this one is so similar to Superbia that for a second it's almost unclear whether or not you really are in the Underside or not. It almost feels like a repeat of heading down to Superbia for the first time as you descend the stairs but as you get closer, your intimate familiarity with the Layer allows you to pick out the subtle changes. It's more run down than the school itself and you can see Revenants flitting around to and fro in all directions. A few locations seem to have been switched around and warped but for the most part, Superbia stands as you've always known it, frozen in perfect stasis, just the way a certain someone would have wanted it. AREAS OF INTEREST ⚝ SUPERBIA LOCATIONS: As mentioned above, many of the locations from the Pride Layer are in place as you know them here, carved into place by the repeating loops. They're run down and overrun by Revenants but assume that any locations not mentioned below seem to be the same below as they are above. ⚝ STUDENT COUNCIL ROOM: Given how things started, it seems like the logical place to go. The Student Council Room isn't a big place, so it shouldn't take long to examine, right? Or so you might think. The instant the door opens, dazzling light pours out, blinding you for a second. It takes your eyes a moment to adjust but when you do, you'll see the reason for that is that the walls of the room have been replaced with thick, almost perfectly transparent glass with the summer sun pouring in aggressively from the outside. As you follow the curve of the glass up, you realize this isn't just a room – it's a giant glass birdcage. And... I don't have to tell you it's occupied by a bird, do I? ⚝ CLUB BUILDING: Once a monument to the delightful inanity of high school life, the club building has been completely taken over by Revenants. To call it an infestation would be an understatement – the instant you open the door, you find yourself utterly swarmed by them and in the confusion, you'll be chased away from the exit! All you can do is keep climbing and fighting your way up to the third floor, and from there the roof, which is made a litttle hard by the fact that the Revenants seem happy to weaponize the equipment of the club rooms against you. Watch out for that falling piano!! Make your way to the top roof and you'll find a particularly grouchy Revenant on top who doesn't seem eager to let you go! ⚝ GYMNASIUM: See for yourself. HAZARDS ⚝ Structural Damage: Similarly to the Avaritia layer, many of the buildings around the city have fallen into disrepair due to the presence of the Revenants here. While some of the bigger structures are fine, Revenants may burst through walls to get to you and letting them go on a rampage in an enclosed space could bring the whole building down on top of you! ⚝ Revenant Types Present: Charles, Metrodorus

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MANDATORY COMBAT ENCOUNTER: AGAPE

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The moment the Executors enter her birdcage, Agape lets out a terrible shriek. It's a noise familiar to many of the Executors and a familiar sight as well – after all, this isn't the first time you've seen Agape. And in many ways, it's unsurprising that you'd find her here.

After all, the Student Council Room is where the Student Council President belongs.

Though her size makes her seem lumbering and slow, Agape is a surprisingly fast opponent. She moves quickly around the birdcage both when attacking and dodging and her enormous bulk makes it difficult to avoid her. Thankfully, despite the pair of stunted wings on her back, she's too large to fly which means the Executors will still be able to grapple with her even if their movement is limited. Her enormous claws pack a powerful punch as you might imagine and she's dreadfully strong. Most frighteningly, when she's backed into a corner the entire bottom section of her 'mask' will peel away to reveal a mouth brimming with feroicious teeth that opens all the way down to her chest.

She's been in this place for so long and she's so... so hungry. Just... what was it about this school that she loved so much again? What was it she wanted to protect?

Win Conditions:

- At least 4 characters must show up to fight.
- At least 25 comments must be posted, over at least 3 threads.

[mementomoritz]

Hm... [Medic peers at her carefully, reaching out with her powers as well as observing with her more usual senses.] You do match the description, and this is where I expected to find you, but...

[Does this feel like an Authority, even a former one? Does she feel like her predecessor, or like Greta? It's hard to say, but something doesn't seem right.]

Well! Hello, miss former president! Sorry we've taken so long to get to you. [Whatever else might be going on, there's no reason to be rude.]

[calculated_risk]

[Genius winces and covers her ears as Agape lets out a screech. She's staying in the back row for now, keeping her distance as she watches.]

I don't think she's interested in talking right now!

[twibeast]

[ It's always birds. Even after shedding his wings, it still always comes back to birds. At least this time he has no more wings to get caught in the crossfire.

He gets his harp ready. ]

I can try to play something to slow it down but I'll need cover while I do.

[mementomoritz]

[Medic raises her scissors and nods.]

I can keep her off you, but it's going to be close. [She's not a long-range fighter, but she can stick by him and snip off any bits that try to get too unfriendly.]

[alcahest]

... I'm sorry. I wish we could tell you... that it's alright now. You don't have to fight anymore.

[ but if there's a way to reach Revenants, then they haven't found it yet. Mona's words can't do any good for this girl. she closes her eyes for a moment — in grief, or in an effort to compose herself maybe — before she turns to a fellow Executor. ]

Um — I'll... follow whatever plan you have. I think... I can probably herd her a little, because I don't have to be close. [ to demonstrate, she holds her ranseur out in her hands and, with a flash, it extends to its full length Minute Forme. ] And I can stop time for just a little while, so... tell me when you need her to stay in place.

[ she hates this. she hates talking like this. it didn't feel this awful to plan the bank heist, and she knows she had fun when she was alive, playing at strategies with Lupin. this is different. it's the ultimate goal that makes it horrible to say these things. ]

[mementomoritz]

Hm... about how long is "a little while", do you think? If I can get her with her mouth open, it should be easy to get past the armor to something soft... but positioning could be tricky. [Medic, meanwhile, is experiencing about as much emotion as she had deciding what to eat for breakfast this morning.]

[Well, no, that's not entirely fair- it's always sad when you have to take end-of-life measures for a patient. But end-of-unlife measures mean the start of something new. Sometimes you have to cut out the dead tissue to let the body live- in her view, this isn't dissimilar to amputating a limb.]

[A really pointy, angry limb that might eat you.]

MANDATORY COMBAT ENCOUNTER: MINTURNO

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What is it with this place and speedy, bad-tempered avian Revenants?!

Once a proud member of the Occult Club, Minturno is having maybe a little too much fun now that they've become a horrible nightmarish bird monster. Having claimed the entire Club Building as their own, the idea that anyone else might come to these heady heights of three stories up is unforgivable, unforgivable, UNFORGIVABLE...!

Being a chuuni isn't something that gets cured by dying, huh.

Minturno is a speedy Revenant, though thankfully it's also quite fragile and doesn't hit particularly hard. Its main dangers come in the form of its pecking beak and razor sharp feathers. It will attempt to peck and swipe at any Executors that come near with the intent of driving them back off the roof and into the club building. Of course, given that the Revenants in there have been trying to drive you up here, that's going to be quite the struggle. Once it's good and cornered, however, Minturno loses their patience and just goes straight to trying to knock people right off the roof! That's a killer drop for even an Executor to take so don't let them send you flying!

Win Conditions

- At least 3 characters must show up to fight.
- At least 20 comments must be posted, over at least 2 threads.

[emberserker]

What, are you the Pottery Club come to haunt me?!

[Wolfsbane swings her axe at the Revenant, trying to keep her footing and deflect it rather than be pushed back down the stairs.]

I haven't got time for this!

[schardynfreude]

And what, pray tell, have you got time for, if not fighting the enemy?

[Chiron's up the rear, then, trying to keep a couple much smaller senseless dead-turned-monsters from blocking them in entirely. The length of his scythe certainly helps, and they've enough sense to not want to come up into pecking range, at least.]

literally just making a second thread because Sword would actively avoid Wolfsbane...

[swordofajerk]

[Sword watches as the...bird(?) Revenant screams and flies around the building before crashing back into a window to start fighting whoever's in there already. It looks like it's going to stay inside for the most part, which is really stupid for something as quick as this thing is.

Whatever. Sword hops down from where he was watching the Revenant and makes for the building. Time to go fight it.]

[crypddyd]

[Sword doesn't get far when someone calls out:]

Sword! Wait, please...

BOSS COMBAT ENCOUNTER . . . ? (Chiron, Etoile, Phoenix)

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[ It's natural to be drawn to the gymnasium after all that's happened here. It's where this whole thing started and ended and with any luck, this place just might be what guides you further down into Purgatory.

But as you approach, something feels... off. You feel a prickling sense of dread that makes the hairs on the back of your necks prick up. This must be how a gazelle feels when it looks up and sees a lion charging straight at it.

The air around the gynmasium is terribly cold.

Enter anyway? ]

[schardynfreude]

[chiron laughing alone with salad]

Keep your guard up, Etoile. This was a dreadful place even up top. If either of you can use that newfound Authority to assist, please do.

[Done up in his whites and such, Chiron must make an interesting figure without any of the trappings of the disease ravaging him on the inside. In spite of the awful feeling, the kind that had made him panic so before, he steels himself and enters, summoning his scythe to hand.]

[discutio]

[Phoenix stepped closer to Chiron, sword in hand not yet aflame.]

If either of us finds such an opportunity, I assure you we’ll take it.

Text - Genius

[calculated_risk]

Medic and I found the President. But she thinks there might be more down here, so be careful okay?

[emberserker]

Oh, there's more. The club building is absolutely infested with Revenants.

[calculated_risk]

Well, there isn't any other one in here. But she also mentioned that she feels weaker than the other former Authorities? It might just be because she's been here longer, maybe?

3 layers late with digibucks!!!

[ourtomorrow]

[ ...That isn't right.

There isn't supposed to be a staircase there, is there? The high school's soccer coach, who has been feeling extremely odd ever since the new boy joined the team, has only been noticing more and more things falling out of line with time. (Time? Time...passes?) The world's gotten sharper, there was some sort of - lurch, at one point - the festival felt like a release, and he can't understand why -

But he's come to realize two things. Beyond a doubt.

One: he's dead.
Two: he has to go down those stairs.

Never mind that he can't explain why he's been gravitating towards the gymnasium! Never mind that there physically should not be a lower level beneath this portion of the school! But it's the latest strangest thing in a long string of increasing strangeness, so the coach takes a breath, exhales, and heads on down. No more hesitation.

He's alarmed and confused by what he sees - a second school? Beneath the first school? - and that ends up slowing him down at an inopportune moment. He gets his arm chomped by a....something fast, in a blanket?......and is now fleeing, but when he sees someone up ahead his first thought is NOT to call for help. Instead: ]

Run! There's something down here!

[ He's clinging to his bleeding arm while he runs; it's leaking...something that is not what he believes blood's supposed to look like (has he seen blood...? Why can't he remember???)...but that doesn't matter, what matters right now is there is danger and this person's been caught up in it too! They've got to get to safety! ]

[emberserker]

A Spectre got down here before we cleaned it out?

[He'll see a teenage girl in a flamenco dress, turning around holding a halberd, which she slices at the Charles with, managing to hack it a little as it springs back out of the way.]

Watch yourself! These ones are annoyingly fast.

[ourtomorrow]

So I've discovered...

[ She's - she's fighting it? She's able to fight it? Bearing a weapon and a mysterious costume, saying a combination of things he doesn't understand and things that indicate she has experience with such circumstances...Which means...]

--You're not a student.

[ As requested, he hangs back, applying more pressure to his arm. Glancing about to see if there's anything here that can assist her in her fight - he hates feeling like he can do nothing. ]

text - Etoile

[etincelledefierte]

𝚆𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚊 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚢𝚖 𝙰𝚂𝙰𝙿. 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗’𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚒𝚗 - 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚔 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐.

[mementomoritz]

on my way

[swordofajerk]

Lion and I are almost done

let me know if you need help with the door