~Beyond the Border~ > Mystia's Stored Games
RPG - Waking Up From the Dream (Discussion Thread)
Tapsa:
Well, wrathie
Gensokyo's border collapsed, a giant boss arrived and smacked everybody's ass out of Gensokyo near a place named Karuisuwa, and right now, we are riding a tank piloted by me and Rika, with Team FUBAR.
Oh yeah, MiB is chasing us.
WRATHIE_Beatrice:
Mokou and I are laughing in the bamboo forest then. Pm me if you need help, if not it's too fast pace for us to actually care about it.
Gappy:
Abandoned Saniwa Shrine, Day 2, 12.20 AM (past midnight)
Silence.
Everyone had collapsed onto the dusty tatami floor in the main hall of the shrine. Sheer exhaustion had finally taken its toll on the group. It had even overpowered their need to eat. Food and exploration would have to wait until tomorrow, unfortunately.
Mitaka felt like he was on the verge of death. The contracts were sickeningly draining. But sleep wouldn't come to him, even as he lay against a pile of rucksacks in the corner with the rest of team FUBAR nestled close to him to keep up the mana linkage. Perhaps it was the pain from the excessive mana drainage. Or perhaps it was just the raging thoughts in his head.
The other groups had clustered together in different corners of the room, gathered around their 'leaders' for mana support. The room was thankfully quite large. The ceiling was high up and vaulted with many crisscrossing ornate wooden beams, creating many dark shadowy corners. In the haze of his exhaustion Mitaka would continuously imagine he saw things moving within them.
"....can't sleep either, huh?" a whisper came out of the gloaming darkness. It was Kojiro.
"...no..." Mitaka replied. "You?"
"We forgot to post a sentry rota." Kojiro shrugged. "So I'm just sitting here, keeping my eyes and ears open."
"The tank's proximity sensors are active." Another voice came from within the gloom. It was ThirtyFour. "No need to worry about intruders."
"And yet you're still awake yourself." This time it was Pichu's voice. "The one who should be feeling the safest is also wide awake."
"....nah, just....that we're here....and..." ThirtyFour began. "I dunno...where do we go from here?"
"...." Mitaka could sense that a good few of the other outsiders were awake and were worrying the same thing. The Gensokyo refugees, still unnacustomed to the low mana environment, slept on from the sheer exhaustion.
Mitaka himself was more concerned with his mana supply. How could Reimu, Marisa, Alice, Suika, and Ruukoto continue functioning on such low mana reserves? They are at constant risk from dying at any moment should his supply fail completely. He would have to increase his own mana supply somehow. Perhaps....
Yes, he'll have to ask Kojiros, Zei, Taihou, Alex, and Pichu to help him train to overcome his weakness. Otherwise, he'll have to find some way to start training on his own. Somehow, he must become stronger, for them, and for himself.
"Perhaps we can start thinking about what we should do from here on out?" Sumire suggested.
"Obviously, we have to retake Gensokyo's mana supply from whoever stole it." Zei said.
"And where do we start?" Taihou asked. "It's good to keep that as a long term goal, but we don't have any leads."
"There's just Kikuri." Jeremy said.
"Great, someone high up in the government." Myon said. "Shall we go drop by her office tomorrow? You know, stroll in and say 'oh, hi, Kikuri, how are you today? By the way, could you please give us back our mana'?"
"We dont' even know if she IS our Kikuri. Even if she is, how do we know if she was the one who stole the mana supply?" Hiroko pointed out.
"She's beyond our reach." McWallace said, simply. "And if what happened tonight was any indication, they have an entire army of their own."
"And we have....?" Zei began.
"A tank." ThirtyFour shrugged. "And a large group of kids now weaker than your average human being."
"Wow, that's quite an arsenal, huh?" Gpop said. "Sure, we can just stroll into Mordor."
"We'll have to strenghthen ourselves first, I think. Stabilize our mana links and increase our own mana supplies." Mitaka said. "At least, for me, that'd be my first priority. Otherwise there's no way my team can survive."
"I suggest we lay low for a while." Hiroko said. "Recover and build up our strength."
"But where?" ThirtyFour asked. "You have a home nearby?"
"...." Silence fell again. The immediate problem rose up before them. Where would they go?
"We can stay here." Mitaka suggested. "It's an abandoned shrine. We can stay here before moving on..."
"....where?" Jeremy began. "Move on where?"
"...." Everyone sighed. The prospects looked bleak for the group, with nowhere to go, nowhere to turn, and their mission's goal seemingly too high to grasp.
"Rest will do us good for now." Mitaka finally sighed. "Let's sleep. Tomorrow we'll find ourselves something to eat and take time to recover. Then we'll think of a plan."
This, everyone agreed, looked like a plan. And with that everyone turned back to refocus their attention on catching elusive sleep.
Tapsa:
Apparently, the Challenger II was filled with manliness. I hope that means that it fixed the mangled barrel.
Gappy:
--- Quote from: T34G3 on April 21, 2009, 12:25:10 PM ---Apparently, the Challenger II was filled with manliness. I hope that means that it fixed the mangled barrel.
--- End quote ---
Spiral power repairs most damage, I think. But the drill should be giving out soon. We can't depend on it forever.