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ENGAME PART 1: TOKYO-F

Who: All Heaven Graduates and Idols!
Where: Tokyo-F and Heaven
When: Dawn of the Final Day

Rise! And shine! And holy fuck what the shit is that.

Rising tall above the skyline of the city is a massive translucent tree, which seemingly has sprouted from the deadzone crater and is bathed in light leading straight up to…Heaven? The hotel alarms are blaring, and the maintenance fairies are for once actually present and visible - despite the fact that there's nothing broken.

They're fluttering about frantically, screaming in panic at each other while doing…whatever they're doing. You can catch snippets of their speech -

"What is that!" "What is happening?" "Where is Madame-Administrator?" "Seal off all exits!" "Prepare for separation!"

Heaven graduates, meanwhile, find that all of them are receiving a message on their phones:

Hey, wanna free your friends?

OBJECTIVES | START (CURRENT IDOLS + DROPPED IDOLS) | START (HEAVEN GRADUATES) | TURN-IN

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- Find out what's going on
- Escape????

[ once you're done doing stuff just put what your character did here for part 2 setup reference

note: you do not have to have played at all in this to do a turn-in! Just go "my guy planted some heaven apples" or "my guy kidnapped a fairy" or "my guy ate a chicken strip" whatever and we'll throw something in for you! ]

Edited 2023-03-26 18:38 (UTC)

[ The Hotel is safe and comfy, as always.

Except, you know, the strange weird glowing barrier surrounding the fanmail delivery chute as well as the outside postbox for sending letters to grads.

Also the Hound is very distressed.

Also, the very loud high pitched blaring alarm will not stop, nor will the annoying moth noises of the maintanence fairies. NafunAI is floating in the middle of the lobby, giving directions to them as they fly by. ]

It's the Heaven Graduate Visitation Center!

It is also as it usually is, except the only accessible floors are the visitation center itself and the front entrance, which...has a barrier of dirt drawn around it, on both the outside and inside? Huh.

On the front door there is some writing, though it's very heavily faded - it's not readable without some kind of help. ]

[ For once, something in the Game Tower is unlocked - there is a long ladder leading up to a hatch in the ceiling of the first floor, and that leads to what seems to be some kind of control room, staffed by yet more maintanence fairies.

One in particular stands out, sitting at the main communication table, rambling frantically in machine fairy language.

The 3D model of Japan in the Game Tower's lobby is also sealed by a mysterious barrier. ]

[ Touching the tree instantly absorbs you into it, taking you straight up to the Gates of Heaven, where once again you are presented with two gates. The first of the pair is filigreed, pearlescent and raised open, inviting you in.

Beyond it, a second gate is shut. This gate is not the same as the previous—it is latticed, with enough space to put a hand through but with sharp enough edges to caution one from being too hasty in yanking it out afterward. They reach up to the vaulted arches of the ceiling.

Both gates are covered in branches and roots, apparently coming from the tree that began growing in Tokyo-F. In fact, you can see the canopy of the tree just above - unlike before, the second gate is wide open. ]

[ You advance into the courtyard and immediately, you're made keenly aware of how silent it is: it might remind you of when Tokyo-F was plastic, if you were around then, for there are no ambient sounds, nothing that would indicate that this place has any life—though unlike Tokyo-F, there are plenty of signs that people were here before.

Trees line the marbled square, stone slabs jutting out from the walls that the previous occupants evidently used as tables, for silver platters sit on the slabs along with trinkets, glistening in the sunlight brightly—perhaps even too brightly. On the platters are various fruits, as well as pitchers; unrelatedly, there are various trinkets too.

The food isn't just localized to the stone tables; cloth is spread on the ground near a few trees with those silver platters as though one were having a picnic before abruptly leaving. Some slabs have what looks like game pieces, markings etched into the stone. There are also, it seems, various sticks and balls and little nets set up, as though this courtyard was for people to play games in.

Everything here is bright, and you can almost see the motes of light settling, as if only just stirred. The air itself is palpable, and breathing it in feels sharp—like your throat is dry, or like you're drinking a carbonated beverage. It doesn't last, the pain is hardly mentionable, but the weight clings to your throat, heavy.

From here, there are a number of entrances, though most gates are overgrown by roots and flowers. However, there's one gate that's open for you, leading down a hallway. ]

[ You’re in a garden. It’s lush, beautiful, and almost too wild with growth to quite merit the term "garden." There are fruit trees here, their trunks twisted and knobbled with age, their branches still low enough to easily reach. The ground is carpeted with colorful wildflowers, and flowering vines and wild roses twine around trees and golden trellises alike.

In the center of this roughly circular area is a broken-down stone fountain. The water sits stagnant, and nothing remains of the fountain’s design except a basin and the shattered base of a once-golden sculpture.

The light here is twilit—or just kind of dim, if you want to be less romantic about it. Looking overhead, it’s easy to see why: actually, the sky isn’t visible from this place at all. Instead, there’s a dense canopy of branches forming an almost perfect dome.

Perhaps this place is familiar to you.

Or… perhaps you aren’t truly here at all? Each step you take, the ground beneath your feet seems to shift and then dissipate, like fine mist. ]

[wandering up to NafunAI]

So how'd you fuck up this time?

I was about to go have lunch....

[do his powers work his canon powers can he just magic eye this shit to read the writing]

[ childe's first stop is the game tower... and as soon as he sees that suspicious ladder he's climbing it. hm. not sure what he expected, tbh, but he does recognize one fairy! ] Hey! you're the one I did some chores for. [ he approaches, giving a smile and a wave. ] What's going on? Kind of seems like [ shits on fire, yo. ] ...bad.

Hm, hm, hm?

[ she sounds like

a lot more strained than usual ]

This program is fairly certain that once again the problem endangering this city is a result of you trapped ones and your incessant attempts to break things. Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations! You might be successful this time!

Everything that is happening is happening because of you.

[ Canon powers do not work! Unfortunately Heaven visitors are still stuck in their replacement doll visitation bodies and only have unit powers. ]

[ grumbles a little when she's being interrupted

but like instantly brightens up when she sees who it is. ]

IF YOU'RE HAVIN' CONSULTANT PROBLEMS I FEEL BAD FOR YOU, SON, I GOT 99 PROBLEMS, BUT MORA AIN'T ONE!

It's the worst it has ever been!

[oh leo was terrible at remembering to use those

TRIES TO OPEN THE DOOR its probably liek FINE]

[ the door does in fact just open fine. The dirt scatters around when it's opened. ]

[...STEPS OUT!!!!!!]

[ Stepping over the dirt tingles uncomfortably a little but you're otherwise fine! You did it! You defeated dirt. ]

[awesome

looks up]

Sweet tree.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[COVERING HIS EARS]

I—hey, what?

[ oh. wow. wild to be back here.

anyway, she looks a little different these days? probably heading out, though. ]

Edited 2023-03-26 19:30 (UTC)

[hmmm!

Just going to pack a backpack full of plot things and food and head out into the lobby.]

AI-chaaaan, what's going on now?

No shit, really? Sounds like you should take a break and let us all go fuck ourselves.

...!

...Shandy-kun?

[Honey looks mostly the same, except now he has a silver fin armband to go with the navy pep! armband, and he's also accompanied by a big silver robot snake]

We should!

Unfortunately, the Tokyo-F Maintenance Team has high stakes in the stability of this city, as its continued operation is a central part of our purpose. If it were entirely up to us, we would have released soul corroding toxins that leave you stranded in the [ ??? ] for roughly all of eternity.

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ENGAME PART 1: TOKYO-F

OBJECTIVES:

TURN-IN

TOKYO-F: HOTEL

TOKYO-F: MITSUKOSHI GINZA

TOKYO-F: GAME TOWER

HEAVEN: GATES

HEAVEN: COURTYARD

HEAVEN: GARDEN

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