Chaos Clock

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WHO: Meiling, Mao, Chishio, Roy, Ran, Tenshi, Tails, Hime, Chika, Lucia
WHEN: A low-toxicity index day in late September
WHERE: World-SH (or what's left of it)
WHAT: Finding the Chaos Emeralds

There's an acrid blast of wind heavy with evaporated chemicals as soon as the team step out onto the beach. It's daylight, though the bleached color palate of dead scrub and grey-white water make even that seem dank. The portal had been wedged in a cupboard, in the back of a shack on an island. The trip to the mainlands wasn't going to be the problem, however, it was where they had to go AFTERWARDS.

Six emeralds, and six hiding places. Tails holds the seventh, and can use it to guide them in the right direction to find the others. He was still working on interpreting the readings from the Emerald Radar, but he'd assured everyone that he'd give out info as soon as it came in.

Hovering spherical 'bots brood over the waves in the distance. The briefing mentioned them as scouts, capable of summoning others. They haven't spotted anyone yet, but still, it's a good idea to get moving.

((Characters will be in three groups of three, and will head for two zones each. Please wait until all the zone headers are up and Tails makes his transmission on them before replying.))

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Scarred Savannah Zone (Tenshi, Mao, Hime)

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What was once a jungle is now a sun-scorched wasteland of mutated animals and robots. In the distance are the monolithic remnants of the past: huge, singular petrified trees that dwarf the dried shrubbery below.

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Mutated animals? Robots?

Paradise.

Wherever they are, Mao is starting to drool. Coming from a rather cute little bunny, it looks rather disturbing.

[peachhat.livejournal.com]

[OOC: I...am not sure if I'm supposed to reply yet, since there's no reply from tails yet XD;]

"Keep your drool in, demon boy." Tenshi remarked, looking...similarly bunny-ish, and very pink...she kept her hat though.
Thankfully her sword had that nice little carry-over material!

She looked around as well, since that meant a)not watching drool and b)looking at...interesting scenery. Really, what was going on here?

[bloody-hime.livejournal.com]

Hime looked at one of the odd looking creatures that was running by. She herself looked like a chibified Panther, with her crown still on. Flandre, being a robot, looked normal. "It seems it is worse then we thought."

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[OOC: You weren't, but I took so long in posting that I really can't complain about it.]

The radio the team was carrying crackled in and out as a voice came through. "...very...ne...hear me? Can everyone hear me alright?"

Pause. "The emerald you're looking for should be hidden not too far from your current position. The radar's pointing towards the north. Keep an eye out; the entrances aren't completely obvious."

Lethal Lagoon Zone (Lucia, Roy, Ran)

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There's more in the water than just pretty fishies now. Swimming monsters and leftover chaos experiments float through the seas, guarding grottoes of sharpened, poisonous coral. The shores are ringed with dull sand washed over with green foam.

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

Lucia had complained about having to go around as a fish, but as it turned out, there wasn't much of a problem. She only had to get used to the front half, really. She poked her head out from underwater and waved.

"It's going to be difficult, though..."

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"'Difficult' is the word," Roy grumbled. There was water everywhere, which meant that, if he weren't careful, he could easily find himself without his primary means of offense. He had his handgun if that happened, but he'd prefer to not rely on it.

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Ran, naturally, adapts seamlessly to the world, her fox nature simply becoming more obviously fox-like in this world, her tails intact. "I would offer my shikigami for the task, but alas they are ill suited towards water. We will have to forge ahead carefully," she replies, nodding. She rarely bothers with her carry-over license, but she definitely has it today.

She ponders. "If we are fortunate, the emerald lies in an area with air pockets we can exploit. Of course, the toxins in the water will be problematic as well..."

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"I'm already feeling sick." Lucia pouted. "I'll go down and check it out for you, okay?"

Neon Haze Zone (Meiling, Chishio, Chika)

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The cities smell of carbon dioxide and exhausted asphalt. Patrol bots prowl through oppressive smog and long-deserted neon signs that somehow still throw their light through the haze. Down below the sewers are no better, crumbling, full of rushing water from collapsed tributaries, and housing tin-roofed refugees running on desperation.

[tailsofambition.livejournal.com]

"Can you guys hear me?" Tails attempted to contact the team through his radio. "This is a pretty dangerous area, so I hope you're all ready."

This. This is a thing. Sorry I missed it >_<

[yokaiofnaps.livejournal.com]

If the sort of urban district that the Neon Haze Zone used to be would have been like another planet to Meiling, than the ruins of it were, well, another universe - even with her experiences in CO, it stands out as strange

"I'm more than ready." No amount of oddities could stop her, though.

Same here. Holy crap, how did we miss this?

[scatterflower]

Chika frowned, looking around with Piyomon at her side. She nodded, looking around as Piyomon made a bit of a gagging noise at all the smog. "Yeah, we're ready."

Black Ice Zone (Tenshi, Mao, Hime)

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Diesel contamination has turned the snow to an oily brown. Robots prowl the ice, unaware of the many before them that have been crushed under frigid stalactites or swallowed by the freezing water after stepping on a weak spot in the ice.

Re: Black Ice Zone (Tenshi, Mao, Hime)

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Hime, followed by Flandre, stepped onto the oily snow.

"It seems there is no place this pollution has not speared."

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"Sadly not," came Tails' voice over the radio. "This time, the emerald seems to be stuck underneath your position, some distance to the east. Be careful that you don't end up falling through the entrance to the dimension rather than walking through."

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"Bastards," Mao growls under his breath--or rather he tries to, though it comes out as more a cute squeak than a menacing growl. "Three hours, gone to waste. They'll pay for my data."

Plus, he also has a goal here, and that goal just happens to be hauling off a few robots for experimentation.

Acidopolis Zone (Lucia, Roy, Ran)

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An ancient city of marble and stone that had collapsed into an underground cavern, and is now half-digested by seeping acid from even deeper within the earth. Old, corroded statues and the busted remains of traps are everywhere, though more dangerous perhaps, are the traps that actually still work...

[an-mermaid.livejournal.com]

Lucia frowned, keeping her... fins? to herself and shrinking back into the gruop. "What kind of place is this?"

[king-of-flames.livejournal.com]

"The most dangerous place yet." Roy waved his hand toward the liquid. "That's all acid. Touching that will ruin your day real quick."

[faithfultenko.livejournal.com]

Ran nods. "Approach with caution. We may have the capacity to revive those who perish, but I would not wish the bill for such things on anyone." The nine-tailed fox is curiously graceful as she jumps from platform to platform; apparently flying in Gensokyo has not taken the edge off her ground-based movements.

Fractured Sky Zone (Meiling, Chishio, Chika)

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Grey crags pierce clouds high above the eastern regions, forming sheer cliffs and unbelievable plateaus. The wind is cold, the air thin, and the drops lethal. This is one of the few places left where plant life can grow to any abundance, taking hold in cracks in the rock as though trying to climb up high enough to escape the planet altogether.

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"This may be one of the most dangerous places to find an emerald ever," came Tails' voice. "However, the emerald is most likely being held in a crevice on a rock's edge. Hopefully not on a very high cliff... but I know at least Meiling can reach that if necessary. West of your current position."

[scatterflower]

"Yeah, it definitely looks like it," Chika said, looking around. "But well, Piyomon can fly, even if I'm sitting on him at the time."

Piyomon nodded. "Yeah, it's not that much trouble at all. If it's up there, we'll definitely be able to get it too!"