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

Comments

[schardynfreude]

Be careful, or you're liable to fall right off. I can only warp so far. [Someone other than Rei really needs to learn how to fly...

He backs up onto the roof proper, taking another swing down the steps.] Shall I be a pretty pretty distraction for the birdie?

[emberserker]

Don't you talk down to me!

[The bird swoops at Chiron, and Wolfsbane points her halberd forward, shooting three fireballs at once.]

Just stay out of the line of fire if you're going to do that.

[schardynfreude]

Remember what I said about teamwork! [And dreams! Working! Oh, fuck it, she's just going to be the way that she is. Staying out of the line of (literal) fire is easy enough. He can parry a swipe of claws bearing down on him, and then warp back a ways to be right out of the way.]

Ah, you'll have it smelling like roasted chocobo in no time! Come here, my dear, watch the pretty colors~ [With a twirl of his bright scythe, obnoxiously pink, blade glinting in the light.]

[emberserker]

You're impossible.

[The bird chases him, though, trying to peck at him; as Wolfsbane takes another shot, it knocks the ice shard away and caws.]

[schardynfreude]

And you'd do well to remember, de--

[He doesn't quite get dear off with the effort of dodging the giant bird monster, batted by a wing. With a grunt, he swings his scythe again as it takes off, clipping its underbelly. Not enough to debilitate it, but it's a wound nevertheless.]

Fine. Let's both be impossible for this thing so we can be on our merry way.

[emberserker]

You don't have to tell me that!

[She makes a run for the thing and hacks, beginning to chase it to the back of the arena.]