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Luxuria Intro Log

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With the real super power of teamwork, the Executors have successfully managed to make their way through the Gula Underside and defeat the previous Authority there. With Gerda now freed from her past regrets and given the power of an Executor, Gula and its inhabitants seem to be in safe hands... for now at least. More interesting – or concerning, perhaps – is the tentative ally you've gained in the form of Birdie, the mysterious girl who attacked some of your number in the Superbia Underside. While she seemed to be nothing but an enemy back then, a surprising connection has been formed with who you now understand to be the Authority of Purgatory itself. While she doesn't necessarily believe the Executors will be able to repair Purgatory, she is at least willing to admit that she shares their goals of wanting to see Purgatory restored... either to its former state, or to something new. But what does that mean for the Executors? And what does that mean for Rei supposedly born from the Authority's discarded heart? There are still many questions the Executors need to answer and as a blast of dry, hot air blows up from the next layer, you can only hope that Luxuria holds the key to at least some of them...
LUXURIA
♪♫ Wet & Dry – Sakuzyo After the humidity and noise of the Gula Underside, passing down to the Lust Layer of Purgatory initially seems like a relief. The air here is dry and sharp and though you hear noise drifting up to meet you and see a whole rainbow of lights clustered together in the dark, it doesn't seem as though it'll be quite as overwhelming as some of the bustling Layers you've had the pleasure of exploring before. But as you set foot down into Luxuria and feel the heat of the ground under your feet, you begin to wonder if you might just have hopped out of the frying pan and into the fire...

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All right. Let's see how many times she has to ride this hell coaster to get him to give her one of those VIP invites.

Let's start with three times in a row. Ugh, it feels worse every time...

The rider operator seems to be enjoying a rapport with Galea, giving her a wink and a nod every time they let her back on the ride. They seem to get less and less interested as time goes by, though, and by the time she wobbles off the ride for the third time, they barely give her a glance.

Looks like she might need to try something a little more extreme to get any real attention.

She'll sidle up after the third time and ask them the best way to make the ride more intense and exciting. The ride as it stands just isn't doing it for her anymore, yawn!

Should she be encouraging blatant disregard of ride safety? Probably not. But oh well!!!

After blasting through the ride so many times in succession, Galea's at least earned her stripes as a thrill seeker, if nothing else. The ride operator gives a hearty bark of laughter in response to her question and follows it up with a friendly slap on the shoulder.

She's gonna get them fired if she keeps this up! So for that reason, they're going to politely suggest that she tries out another ride, especially if this one's getting too dull for her. How about trying out the ferris wheel? Sure, it looks slow and sedate, but they've heard of people finding their own ways to make it exciting.

......she'll give it a shot, more out of curiosity if it's some kind of hint or lead, but as soon as it starts, it's not long before it starts making her......twitchy.

Given what Medic uncovered, how easy are the cabins to unlock? Say if she tried to do something insane like - climb the ferris wheel?

For the average person, they'd be very difficult if not impossible to open while on the move – but an Executor would probably have little to no trouble with their powers and/or enhanced strength.

As the ferris wheel slowly crawls to the top, Galea's definitely feeling the twitchiness more. She's going to focus on the architecture and keep her eyes peeled - would it be easy to scale the ferris wheel to begin with? Does it look like it would be hard to scale back down?

For an Executor, this would be pretty tricky but definitely not impossible. Maybe a bit scary for someone not used to leaping around like a mascot platformer, but not deadly.

To your average person? It looks almost impossible. Trying to actually go for it would be incredibly ill advised.

Well, guess who's an Executor and not afraid of heights! This gal! She's going to transform and proceed to get the ferris wheel cabin open the closer the cabin gets to the top, but she's not going to start Mario platforming yet. She's just going to let the breeze in so to speak and stay at the furthest point from the cabin door, quietly taking in the places it'd be easiest to jump to.

Now that she has a gauge for how the ride moves, do the cabins seem steady enough for someone to perch on Spidey style?

They do! They wobble and shake a little bit just as they sway from the motion of the ride moving around, which could make things a little alarming, but aside from the initial rattling around caused by the hypothetical impact of her landing, the cabins seem steady enough for mascot platforming.

Excellent! She's going to hobble her way to the top of her carriage, perched like some kind of red and blue webslinging superhero, and then make her way to the very top of the carousel, platformer style.

What's it like at the top?

Mama mia, there she goes!

Surprisingly, no one seems to notice her ascent – or maybe she's too far up for them to bother stopping her if they do. The cars hold under her and Galea makes her way up unobstructed.

It's cooler up here and a little less dry, is the immediate takeaway. There's a nice breeze and this far up into the sky it's possible to see stars twinkling away in the sky so close you could almost reach out and touch them.

There's graffiti all over the top car – it looks like this was the one that Mona investigated earlier. But there's something much more pressing than some regular old graffiti once Galea makes her way here.

There's a girl up here. She's smaller and more slight than her oversized jacket would imply and her shaggy mop of blonde hair flutters in the wind as she turns to watch Galea ascend and then land on the top cart.

She blinks a few times and then her eyebrows shoot up.

"Huh. Well, that's a new one."

"What can I say?" Galea will shrug. "I miss being up this high."

Not that she remembers anything like that, but a bluff's a bluff. Mona mentioned some investigations and so did Medic...

"My name is Galea." she can't really curtsy, so she'll nod briefly in the girl's direction. "You must be Lana, right?"

"That's me."

She hops up to her feet and shoves her hands deep into the pockets of her jacket, seeming as casual and comfortable up this high as anyone else would be with both feet firmly on the ground. Her posture is relaxed, but her eyes are bright and curious.

"You're new, right? Or as new as anybody gets around here. I've never seen your face before."

Oh, that's interesting - that she's aware of everyone like that. Galea just continues to smile. "I am. I don't think I had a physical form until recently."

There's a twinge of something, being here with this girl, that makes Galea long for home, but she shoves that feeling down.

"How did you get up here?"

At that, Lana throws back her head and laughs – though not mockingly, for what it's worth.

"How's anyone supposed to get up here?" she snickers. She flaps the jacket, letting it puff out in the wind as a breeze passes them by. "I climbed, duh. It's easy once you've got the hang of it."

Indeed, she seems comfortable up here in a way that implies familiarity – even boredom, though her eyes are alight and interested as she watches Galea.

"I suppose I did the same! Jumping on those carriages was exciting!" she laughs, tail swaying back and forth like a pleased cat.

"Are you waiting for someone?"

Lana snorts and shakes her head. "Like who? At this point there's nobody left with the guts to make it up this high."

Then she pauses and inclines her head towards Galea almost apologetically. "... Present company excluded, I guess."

Hm. There's more questions she could ask, this girl is fascinating, but...

"There's rumors about VIP rides. I assume you have something to do with that?" There's a spark in Galea's eyes as she asks though, tail swaying much faster - she's not just asking out of curiosity.

That makes Lana grin a bit. "So that's what you came up here looking for." she snorts – though she certainly doesn't sound displeased. If anything, there's a twinkle in her eye that isn't entirely dissimilar to Galea's. Maybe she's stumbled across something interesting this time.

"I didn't set them up, but I guess you could say I... manage them, let's go with. I'm the one with the Authority down there, so if anyone gets in or out of the VIP section, it's on my say so."

Galea's tail immediately perks up, swaying faster. "Could I give them a try?!" she blurts out with bright eyes, mouth acting before her brain does.

And then moments later, once she remembers the others: "A-and could I invite my friends?"

Lana laughs again – the pleased, slightly nervous laugh of someone who very much had not expected to run into such a kindred spirit (no pun intended) out of the blue. Her smile is open and warm and she crosses the top of the cart to stand by Galea properly.

"You know what? Why the hell not. Usually I'm supposed to be a little more picky about who gets to come down but after seeing the way you bounced up here, I'm interested to see what else you can do."

Then – as if having an idea out of the blue – she raises her eyebrows. "Can these friends of yours pull off any of those stunts?"

"I'd be disappointed if they couldn't, honestly. I'm hardly impressive compared to them."

But she's smiling as she says it - it's all in good fun.

"Where should I meet you?" And then, after a moment's pause: "Shall we head down together?"

Lana mulls on it for a moment – then she grins to herself, the sort of smile someone makes when they're making a very funny joke to themselves that they don't expect the other party to get.

"How about just by Pollux?" She says it casually enough but she's still wearing that grin. "I can take you and anybody else who's interested down... on one condition, though."

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