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Greater Centenary Festival - Heavenly Cross/I
Tashi:
Parser's Note:
Welcome to the 1st Cross Quest.
Now, most of you are wondering what is happening and why I make it sound so special. Let me explain to you what is this all about.
'Cross Quest' is referred to the series I will be creating from now on. The 'cross' between Quests. Either completed or not.
To be more deep in the matter: I create X story that will be the main point of the Cross Quest. Then, I will choose the story/elements of another Quest and add them to the main story. Like that, the universes of diverses Quests will be merged into one.
Retelling an already complete game isn't fun, so I'll take the freedom to alter the story/elements added so they fit on the main story and the meta can't be used. Some things might be left unchanged, others not. But please, keep in mind that, even if things aren't altered, I am still a different parser from the one that runned X or Y Quest. Therefore, the style will be different.
But to add more sauce to the grill, the Quests participating in the 'Cross Quest' at hand won't be revealed until the end of the game. So, if you are player that participed at certain Quest and you notice it was added to the Cross, it is completely allowed for you to tell the other players about it. Don't worry. If it reaches the ears of the parser, it will act accordingly~.
In this case, he Cross Quest that we have at hand is 'Heavenly Cross'.
This story is directly linked to Hikikomori Quest, which you can be seen as some sort of prologue.
But fear not! The beginning of Heavenly Cross doesn't even need a bit of knowledge from that prologue to participate!.
However, later it will be required if you don't want to be extremely lost.
But fear not, again!
I'll be summarize here the 14 parts that establish Hikikomori Quest when needed. In a single post. You will just need to read a long wall of text (I presume it will be like that) and you will be aware of things. If you have any doubts after that, feel free to ask and the parser (maybe even the players of HikiQuest) will answer to your questions.
Welcome to the Greater Centenary Festival.
Please, I hope you enjoy it to your heart's content the tale that will be weaved here.
--Tashi ❤
...
November 17
2133 A.D.
Twilight Bar Room
Shimogyō-ku. Kyoto, Japan.
The woman holding the cross, no longer a little girl, is facing her laptop while she listens to the best hits of one of the biggest Eurobeat Singers out there.
...
Well, she could listen to them well if it weren't for the raucous party-goers that are having the most wild party at date.
Tonight is November 17. That means only one thing.
The birthday of her 'Mother', and that could only mean pure destruction and people vomiting the food they just ate. Not like she has ALL the fault, but stupid the party-goers for wanting more and more always. Add up heavy alcoholism while dancing and you got a messy mix.
That, and that she's going to kill whoever who tries to mess with her bar.
Should the woman facing her laptop, hearing all the screams of excitement and music, and of course not being able to hear anything from her favorite singer, worry about all these people?
Maybe not. Amakasu probably could control things too.
That, or he'll get killed too.
Ah, who cares...
The woman facing her laptop sighs. She has been watching the latest news.
The most booming singer of Eurobeat, Kazami-san, has been deprived of her right to object! The evidence is convincing and legit!
That was pretty much in one of those hundreds, and maybe thousands, of sensationalist and stupidly crowded 'media' that just act like attention whores.
The worst is that they DO get audience with this garbage!
They are so disgusting.
The woman holding the cross turns off her laptop as soon as she gets annoyed of such yellowing towards a person who is not only very good at what she does, but also that she would not be able to do something like that. She loves what she does and isn't affected by competitions, AND even so, they do not give a damn. They don't give a damn if they, at the slightest chance, can ruin someone's life for the sake of some audience.
Just what kind of world we live in? Did we advanced or did we went backwards in rant?
Certainly, because companies like the Sumadera International News, the very first ones who started all this mess, the world doesn't advance further from where it is.
Ah, just give it a break... Let's put the thing aside...
The woman holding the cross lies on bed and, despite the loudness of the sounds around her, which she was attuned to, falls asleep. Like any night...
...
> ... Ah, dear silence.
> You could sleep much more if you wanted, in a desperate desire to hold onto this silence that isn't always with you.
> But you have classes to attend...
> ...
> The decision is made. Classes come first. After this, you will be able to hold as much sleep as you want until the next day.
> And so... You, the woman holding the cross, starts to wake up...
> _
meow56:
>Groan.
>Get up.
>What's our name?
Tashi:
--- Quote from: meow56 on September 18, 2017, 12:43:05 PM --->Groan.
>Get up.
>What's our name?
--- End quote ---
> Taking your time, the woman holding the cross stands up from bed. Ah, how crude... You slept with only your underwear on and not your pajamas... Well, you are all alone in your 'house', so there's nothing wrong with it. It is unsightly, but it was just an small error~
> You can examine the place around your 'house' if you want to.
> You are Valentine Claythorne. Recently 20 years old woman that studies her universitary life in the Kyoto University, in the academic field of Social Sciences. Mostly aiming for Communication Studies.
> Stoic and almost always maintaining a personality with charisma, you are a cordial person, gentle, but above all the already said, somewhat cold towards others. It's something you can't control, really. You just can't get on with other people. Therefore, you try to keep your distance from others as much as you can. This isn't the case with those that are already close to you. You are still distant with them, but with more freedom to express what is in your mind.
> You have long silver hair which it is not arranged in any special way. You take care of it, but the only time you arrange it in a determined way is when you take it into a pony-tail when you exercise (How good would it be to have an artist draw the characters...)
> Your eyes are as normal as anyone else. A deep black that stare deep into the souls of whoever look directly at them... if they ever want to.
> White underwear is covering your femenine figure. Slender, not so tall and delicate figure is what you would expect from someone of your age. The average, c'mon. Your chest measures aren't that great. Not so small, but neither is an 'attention drawer'.
>You are, as obvious as it is, an almost normal human like everyone else that lives in the all-famous and most visited place of all Kyoto; the Twilight Bar Room. The place where heavy drinkers and party-goers can unleash their most wild dreams as long as they can be in the legal ambit. Nevertheless, this doesn't stop for certain activities from taking place, given the almost-all-the-time dubious intentions of your 'mother'.
> _
meow56:
>Stretch.
>Get ready for the day.
>What time is it?
>When does class start?
>Who is this 'Mother'?
Tashi:
--- Quote from: meow56 on September 18, 2017, 02:39:25 PM --->Stretch.
>Get ready for the day.
>What time is it?
>When does class start?
>Who is this 'Mother'?
--- End quote ---
> Stretching as necessary, you fully wake up. Ah, thank god you realized you still had on the headphones. You take them off.
> ...
> Ah, you remember... Old clocks aren't used anymore, but digital ones... Not like you have any of those hanging from your wall. Well, you take the easy way.
> Taking your smart-phone, you check the date and hour.
November 18. 06:34 AM.
> Isn't that convenient? You usually wake up at 07:00 AM, classes starting at 08:30 AM. Considering when you wake up, prepare yourself, take the usual route to Kyoto University which is in Nishikyō-ku, it takes at most an hour. Enough time to pass the remaining time watching anime with your laptop, studying, or also wondering what should be your next experiment at home. You should not neglect that. Not even a bit.
> After taking a bit to properly wake up, you head to the bathroom to take a bath.
> Rumi Arie. She's your mother... Adoptive one, at least.
Now... this is a delicate matter.
Your memories about it are very blurry. But you remember very well one part of THAT...
You were pretty much raised in an orphan, the already extinct 'Childs of Creation' until the age of 4 years.
Of course, it's pretty much impossible to try and remember anything of that age, but you were able to spare some things...
You remember that everyone was so nice.
So caring.
So friendly.
It was, you are sure of, one of the most happy periods of your life as a little girl. In fact, you remember that you thought at those moments that you wanted to stay there forever.
But that changed just one night.
Remember 'THAT' that was mentioned earlier? Well.
Due to some inexplicable facts, the building in which were all of the kids, adults and even some people of the old age, was caught on fire.
It wasn't because something exploded or some accident.
No.
It was caused by unknown means that not even the most skillful autorities can decipher. A culprit was never caught either.
You were among the children. The sole survivor, or at least, the sole survivor KNOWN. You went unscathed of the sinister.
You lost everything. Literally. You had nothing to hold onto to cry and cry until you dried out of sadness.
It was at that moment, after a month or two of receiving care, that Rumi Arie came to adopt you.
Since then, you lived with her at the Twilight Bar Room up until now.
That sinister stayed like one of the great mysteries of Shimogyō-ku at the moment. To this very day, people still remember that Fateful Day, but slowly they try to ignore it and go on with their lives without looking behind...
> Time pass away as your bath ends. Now, it's time to take care of getting your uniform.
> This 'house' of yours, which is on the 70th plant of the Twilight Bar Room, which is also one of the many plants that has the only objective to have apartments, can't be called like that, but it can be referred as a small, modern house pretty well. It has everything you would need to live here: a kitchen; a bathroom, a living room for any kind of visitors, which are rare; a room that is your bedroom; and the one next to that one, which is the 'laboratory'.
> Taking your time to dress yourself up with the uniform, you consider that some breakfast would be nice too. You don't usually do it, as you buy it at school, but as you woke up earlier this time...
> Your uniform consists of a white, long-sleeved buttoned shirt under a black buttoned jacket that has white outlines. Red tie included on your neck. A white skirt that isn't TOO large, and neither it's too short. It's pretty comfortable, actually. Your usual black thigh-highs and black shoes.
> By now, you are already fully dressed.
> Your phone marks 06:50 AM.
> _