Twilight of the New Gods: Fragment vs. R:2 The CC Conspiracy

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Re: Twilight of the New Gods: Fragment vs. R:2 The CC Conspiracy

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Raito was in logged in to Dol Dona where he'd often searched for prey. He quickly turned around and warped to Carmina Gadelica. It didn't take an instant before he'd arrived that he saw Saito. "Hey Raito! You ready?" Raito looked at him and sighed, "Lemme get some potion first alright? Don't want you dying on me..." He scanned the area for prey when he went to the kiosk to see the new potions that might be made readily available.
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The area was about level 30, much too underleveled for Raito, but perfect for Saito. it was also a quest area, which virtually promised Raito some form of entertainment. "Listen Saito...I'm gonna PK someone if we find them okay?" Saito's eyes diverted from Raito's "Okay...b-but if we get jumped?" "No mercy!" He said raising a high fist into the air.
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A hand gently touched Exceed's arm, body moving forward towards the wall. "We will be free, no matter what must be sacrificed... Every one of us who have fought for so long."

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"Welcome home sister." Akane rubbed her eyes, pulling off her long coat. A yawn escaped her mouth, leaning back to stretch.

"I'm home." A boy about half her size gave her a hug, giving him a pat on the head in return. "Did you eat dinner?"

"Yes, but mom's sleeping now."

"Ah, alright. I'll get to my room then. Unless there are some chores left to do."

"Mom made sure to get the dishes done."

"Alright." Her brother went towards the television, which had been quietly intruding on their interaction. A video of a cartoon seemed to be on it, which he was now fully immersed in. Akane made her way towards the computer in her room. After placing it on the 'World' Icon became her guide. Marama entered the world and waited within the Delta server.

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"You're pretty early." A blade brandier in a green outfit chuckled. Marama turned to face him, glaring.

"You told me to get on as soon as I came as part of the job. I assume it's this quest you want to go on?" Her pale arms crossed in front of her.

"Of course." Sokoll looked at the information again, smiling. "We should get going right away unless you haven't stocked up."

"I did just a few minutes before you showed up, let's just get going."
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"Quit messing around Saito!" Raito said casting yet another Rip Mean. "You're on what, level 27? This is only three levels higher than you! How are you dying?" Saito swung at the monster and missed, his stance looked awkward. "At this level and still a newbie...." Raito said covering his face shamefully. "Use Rengeki! He's glowing he's glowin-" Saito was his by the spell of another monster and flung back. "S-Sorry I messed that up" Saito said getting back up after being healed by a Repth.

"How could you not take that down?" "S-Sorry..." "I'm not gonna fight for you, you know!" "You're only here to PK!" "No...I'm here cause no one else wants to be!" Raito said glaring angrily. Saito stared up at him and stopped moving. "W-Wait...are you crying?" "I'm not crying! Just leave me alone!" Saito turned tail an ran to the Chaos Gate. "...Perhaps.. I went too far..."

He sat on the floor Near the original Chaos Gate, planning o PK the next party, regardless of gender.
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Exceed pushed the last frame of the wall apart, and there was a brilliant green light, engulfing the two fragments and sent them through a data warp, landing them in a field not far away from the chaos gate.

"Hmmm, that's strange. It should have just sent us straight to the server. This could be more trouble than I originally anticipated. I didn't want to have to use the chaos gate..."

He quickly spotted a player sitting not too far away from said chaos gate, and ensured he was not within sight.

"We may have company. And not the good kind either."
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"Today's your not your lucky day..." Raito said standing up and brandishing his scythe. "Get the hell over here!" He charged at the Chaos gate, completely neglecting the player or players arriving in the area.
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"T-This...this is it! The moment I-we've been waiting for!" Yosuke nearly shouted, "Y-Yes! Yes! Finally! I can get Balmung's Wings!" He immediately logged in as Kaien, at Breg Epona, but turned to the Chaos Gate, "W-Wait...Carmina Gadelica...Where is that name familiar from..." He shrugged it off. "Nuuuuuu Kaien don't go yet!" Shibu ran right into him, "Y-You heard?! One of a kind Event Item! We'll do it! We'll be greater than the Descendants of Fianna!" "I did hear! You ready?" "Been waiting for you! Man I got us loaded with Rare items to trade!" "You get any Healing Items?" "Only the ones you give me before every quest" Shibu let out a great grin. "I wish you were a bit more responsible!" Shibu shrugged it off as they warped to the ever familiar Carmina Gadelica. Hey...isn't th-" "Kaien! This is totally that place from the original games!" Their joy was halted as they saw Saito sulking around.
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Yumiko's body reacted on instinct, using her blade while it was still in the scabbard. She kept her eyes forward, knowing Exceed could handle himself if it was necessary. The attack she aimed at went towards his legs, never even considering just to disarm him.
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"The player didn't seem to notice us Yumiko, weird that he would charge off in the OPPOSITE direction of us. I didn't see anyone coming through the gate..."

Exceed checked the systems of the area and noticed that there was a quest tag on it. Confused, he wondered what the hell the quest could be about, and turned to Yumiko.

"It seems there are quest tags in this area. Why would they have active quest tags in a place that hasn't seen the light of use in years?"

He then turned to look at the area and realized that it was set up quite differently from what he was used to.

"And the field set up, it's more... Lively than before. Have I really been hiding behind the World Wall for that long?"
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Yumiko's body stopped, moving back. "Thank you for reminding me. Whatever this quest is, we are not welcome here either way." Her body remained beside Exceed, on guard at all.
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"Let's check out the dungeon."

Exceed began to move towards the large building situated towards the center of the field, when he came to stop, a horrified expression on his face. What he was staring at was the image of a half hacked to death fragment lying face-first near the waterside. The image data was torn apart and it looked as though the character had been brutally murdered, rather than simply PK'd.

"What is going on here? Is that what hese players are doing? Murdering fragments?"

He knew he clearly had no evidence to back up that statement, but in his mind, seeing players suddenly arrive in an area that had been closed of for years, and suddenly re-vamped at that, and then seeing a fragment torn apart as though he had been mauled by a large creature meant that he wasn't beginning to think clearly.

"I want to know what's REALLY going on!"
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Yumiko did not show the emotion on her face, but this killing was not seen behind the wall. There was dignity behind it, and this was not at all dignified. "Someone is hurting Fragments for the fun of it. Either the quest is for us... or we are going to be struck down as competitors for whatever it is." Her eyes narrowed, hand tightening on her sword. "Staying on guard at all times will be necessary."
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"Most definitely. It will require that we remain at utmost secure at all times. However, we cannot just defend anymore. I will NOT allow this continue. It seems like the concept of the PK has returned to The World. And of course, where there are PKers..."
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"Then we should get on with it quickly. There's no way staying here like this will change our luck." She waited for Exceed to point out the next direction to go.

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"So this is Carmina Gadelica." Marama commented as she crossed her arms. "Quite old if you ask me."

"However, this quest is worth exploring what remains. Besides, if those 'dopplers' really are a threat..." Sokoll put a finger to his chin. "Then we have a duty to help with the quest."

"Fine, let's just get going somewhere."

"We'll start with the shops."
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Exceed began to walk back towards the chaos gate, this time sure that he needed to know some semblence of the truth unfolding in Carmina Gadelica. He turned his head towards Yumiko to formulate a question.

"Do you have any particular abilities granted from you time in the game? As you know I can open data walls, and due to my length of time and multitude of usages of the power, I can open the World Wall. If you can fragment your data, I think we can break through Carmina Gadelica using my power in conjunction with a fragmentation ability. That way, we won't have to go through the chaos gate where we will be open targets. I have no idea if they decided to allow people to kill us in town..."

He gave a quick jolt of his head along with an annoyed sound.

"Tch... Sounds like something they would do... They love to harass us, they always have..."

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CC Corp Headquarters Japan:

The head of data management was overlooking the proceedings in Carmina Gadelica, and making slight adjustments to the graphic design, along with the head of graphic design.

"I think the project is going well, droves are flocking to the old server to participate in our little "event". I need those adjustments made by the end of the week." The head of data management spoke with a slight manaical tone in his voice.

"R-roger that sir! I'll have the graphics updated in no later than two days! I am the head of graphic design after all. I was able to correct those awful marks that were found all over the Lost Grounds. This should be a piece of cake!"

The head of graphics design had a familiar voice. A little childish, but definetely in his older 30's. He began pouring over the console, making the subtle changes until he needed to close down the server temporarily to make the complete overhaul.
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Raito attacked the set of new players and demolished them quickly, taking as many items as he could before their bodies completely vanished. "Awfully rude today eh short-stuff?" Raito turned around, jumping back. "Ah! What the heck are you guys doing here?" "Saito said you only play with him because no one else wants to..." "Yeah, so what? You guys never party up with him! And Jinho's a little busy to be dealing with a level 20 something newbie!" "Watch your mouth PKer!" "Least I'm not looking for some stupid wings!" Kaien put his hand infront of both of their faces. "Let's not fight alright? Raito...would you like to join us in finishing this quest?" "What about Saito? Why didn't you bring him along?" "He logged off..." "Sure whatever...though if I see a party I'm PKing them!" "Why not fight dopples? They're pretty much players!" "Only they don't carry items...and...probabl-" "Their leader carries a legendary one of a kind item!" "Like Bald Monk's Wings?" "BALMUNG!"
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"Why are you two playing a level 30 quest?"
"Why don't you PK players over level 80?" "Shut up..."
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"Hey...There's a cave! Is that where the item is?"
"No...that's where the quest starts..."
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"I am able to fragment, and I have been doing so for a long time." She walked without any real rush towards the gate. "I believe we should assume that we are never going to be safe as long as these players are here. There's no way they would just ignore our presence. It probably is our presence that is part of this quest."

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Marama stared at a few dead dopples. "It's strange that they didn't seem to know what was going on."

"It's part of the quest." Sokoll spoke, sheathing his blade. "You should get some so we might get a prize."

"What kind of prize would I want?"
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They walked past Exceed and Yumiko, and Raito glared at them, but was dragged by Kaien and Shibu, who were neglectful of their character designs. "Just cause you two don't PK doesn't mean I should-" "Shut up!" Raito looked sideways and sighed, "Nut off..."
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"Whoa! What's up with those PCs?" He looked at the fragmented PCs.
"Are those Dopples?" "They look like PCs..." They examined the bodies closely. "These look like old PCs...But even monsters fade away...." "Can't access any items...Just leave'em...we can't do jack squat about it...Let's finish the dungeon."
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"Great. Then we need to commence field hacking immediately. Once I open the data wall within the chaos gate, you need to fragment yourself through the gate. Once you've stepped through the gate, we can escape into the city without detection for the moment. It will convey that we've pushed through the server wall again until we can figure out what the status of the server is. If we can determine that they can kill us inside the root town, then we'll have to fight from here on out for our very survival regardless of where we are. I will have no qualms against that if that is indeed true."

Exceed outstreched his left arm and began the process of crushing the data stream through the gate. It began to turn a deep crimson and showed a visible crack inside the pool of red that the gate had become. With another push of fragmented data, the gate collapsed into data and transformed into a portal of pure data. He then signaled to Yumiko to begin the data tranfer of herself.
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Yumiko's eyes were glowing, her body moderately becoming enveloped in a tiny glow. When her entire body became covered in it her body fragmented into pieces, flowing through the stream of data as if it were a leaf.

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"These are really odd monsters." Marama spoke, poking the body covered in half. "Don't monsters or any enemy... usually fade away when killed?"

"Maybe it's to make sure they're dead?" Sokoll spoke, shrugging. "Besides, it shouldn't matter since they're enemies."

"I'm not so sure... I've got a bad feeling." The two were walking towards the Chaos Gate.
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"...They're Twin Blades...." "They're mine!" "No! I walked in here first and definitely opened the chest first!" "It's because you're so short! You sneaky rat!" "Bleh!" He stuck out his tongue and ran to the Chaos Gate. "Little brat! I'll get those Twin Blades if it's the last thing I do!" "Calm down, those aren't the one of a kind items..."

Raito grinned and looked around Dol Dona peering around the shops for new equipment and such. He grinned as he bought new scrolls and then went to look at the bike shop, bumping into a female Harvest Cleric, or at least, she had a staff, but she didn't seem to look like a character model. "Oh my god! I'm so sorry are you alright?!" "I'm going to kill you" Raito said getting up, finding prey. "Hehe, just kidding! I was actually looking for a healer to join me for this quest I was doing!"
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As Yumiko warped through the data portal, Exceed began to fragment himself as the hacking was opened to all fragments within the area, the data wrapped around the portal for a brief moment, then in a brilliant flash of green-blue light, the gate reformed itself into it's original state.

Carmina Gadelica: Rougly 9:45pm.

Exceed and Yumiko warped into the city, although to them it appeared vaugley translucent, as did the players roaming the server. In fact the opposite was true, it was they whom appeared transluscent. The effect of the gate hack had sent them to the other side of the data wall, albeit within city limits. This created a "ghost" effect that gave the image of barely visible character images.

"Alright, this should cause some alarm to these players, but it will give us some semblance of what's going on around here."
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