Act 1: Choices
Act 2: Consequences
Phase 1: Effects
Phase 2.1: Ramifications
Phase 2.2: Cold
Phase 3: Clashings
Phase 4: Crossings
-Phase 4: Dust in the Wind
Phase 5: Thrones
-Phase 5.1: Enemy Lines
-Phase 5.2: Game of Thrones
Phase 6: Strikers
-RS Arc 7: Holiday Wars
Phase 7: Corruption
-Phase 7.1: Leylines
-Phase 7.2: Dark Magik
-Phase 7.3: Angels
-Phase 7.4: Gods
Phase 8: Peace
- Session 448: The Tareh Made By Your Hands
- Session 449: The Peace Today, the Cusp of Tomorrow
-Phase 8.1: Tareh
-Phase 8.2: Prime
Phase 9: Collapse
Mini Series: Heart of Terra
Session 448: The Tareh Made By Your Hands
TELAKO, after a long journey, has set down on a planet where the Illium make their homes. Here the sojourned Tarehians are given homes, the latest technology, and everything they need to live comforterable lives. Parita, not one to sit around, begins organizing a dig in a nearby ruins which Rica and Sal join her for. THey flee just in time to avoid witnessing a horror beyond all imagining crawl forth from a Sun Goddess.
In Jeanole, preparations are underway for the big wedding, people getting used to their new roles and positions. Rachael teaches her students, Moira returns from vacation and Libel discusses how lessons for the Angel Blades are going with Truth and Wyrd actually working together. Jean readies a large dinner for everyone to spend time together with. The meaning of Porking is discussed, some people get confused, but everyone in the end toasts to their prospects for the future.
In the Demon Realm, Deus reports to Jubei that her plan worked and the Lamashtu are no more, instead they have converted to a whole new species that no longer needs to eat pregnant women or babies, they now share many traits with the Lilen. Jubei the chooses Angel and Rachael Silas to head out with her to the wedding.
In Gemet, everything is restructuring, even the palace, as they now have to fill in the void left by the gods exit. Mugi gets a better understanding of her position while Nilla helps take charge. With Finn and Hoko making a family, they also need to add another wing for that growing detachment. They then discuss who is heading to the wedding and make plans for the group to head out soon through the mirrors.
7.3.2863
In Anora, Juliet's water breaks while Maka, Lia and Rory are visiting. A month early, there's blood in the water and Lia is worried. Juliet mumbles about having Nilla sent for and eventually someone goes to send for her in the mirror. Lia tries to keep her steady until Nilla arrives, who is able to help calm her and deliver the baby, who was positioned oddly. After making sure the two are healthy and fine, the collective kingdom can breathe a sigh of relief.
Back on the Illium Planet, or as it was once known, the Guardian Homeworld, Ama finishes 17 hours of labor. The baby is finally born, showing many physical traits of Asmodeus including horns, wings,and a tail. The baby, apparently capable of addressing her bitches... err... mothers at birth, is repremanded by Erevis, fed, and named Qila. Everyone thinks this fits.
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The big day, everyone gathers and a wedding is held for Jean and Umi before they begin a long, long trip together exploring the world and enjoying themselves. The group is seated and pay witness to the vows, those marked are brought with tendrils up close to be a part of the ceremony. After the touching event, the two make their escape while E. Erevis and E. Umi unleash the after party, with strippers. Saedi and Saelsia show up and several arrange meetings to start treaties with Blantress. Saelsia makes it known that the group that was involved in Celesia's death can approach her shrine in Blantress and make offerings to earn forgiveness if they truly feel guilt for what happened.
They leave palming the Water Orb, which they plan to use bring Badelf back to the surface.
8.1.2863
At TELAKO, Parita is deep in the ruins when she discovers what appears to be Stigmata and the tools needed to insert them. She "accidentally" drops them in a mirror to Tareh. Erevis and Leon begin to get along better.
Back in Jeanole, the Stigmata insertion device falls through a mirror and alerts go out. Truth examines it first, and by the time Butler and Lia are determining what to do with the device, a note and a sequencer drop through the mirror from Parita. The unstable mirror erases part of the message, but they are able to painfully install the device in Cersei, who is Dragoon Blooded, and then a stigmata. They consider what this could mean for Tareh if more Stigmata could be found, the Dragoons might rise again on Tareh.
Session 449: The Peace Today, the Cusp of Tomorrow
The battle rages between Taiga and her clone, the Zodiac begin to fall into line all rushing about looking for the trouble. Seeing the signs of battle in the distance, they ripple in on a fight between the two with Ouka standing in between. Their arrival causes the Clone Taiga further confusion and allows the weakened Taiga to grasp onto her, reclaiming energy from her and restoring herself, while reducing the clone to a near husk. Unconcious, the clone is seen to and brought to medical.
In medical, Jennifer works on helping Erevis through the final stretch of her labor. While this occurs, Cuddles addresses those there to see the Taigas and reveals that the clone is suffering from clone degredation and due to her fixation on Ouka, minus the guidance of a bond, waking her at all may be more harmful than good. She recommends letting the clone go and to pass on in ease, some are reluctant to let go of the new Taiga, whom they accepted unconditionally. Erevis names her new daughter Saga, and as Ama and Erevis look on their new child, Ouka is left to make the decision and to talk to the very concious, real Taiga.
They learn that Taiga had followed through on her promise to have a future together with Ouka all along. Using her reality powers she sent herself back to Earth, but the strain left her incomplete, muddled. She came back as the fox Siri, and if Kitty hadn't found her and taken her in, she might have died in the cold. She relays this story as everything else goes on, and Nuetrav arrives on the PAX to be greeted by Yasha. Jennifer also asks Erevis for her help in doing something to help Athena, Erevis decides to do this after recovering and before taking a long vacation.
2.20.2863
Lorelei gives the new Military Team a tour of the new secret base under the mansion. With new floors and ever expanding features, it looks like a promising future for the military team. The question of a medical officer comes up and some names are thrown about, but Lorelei doesn't decide anything just yet.
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Cheryl takes Taiga with her up to Asteroid C. Jem coming along, Taiga says that the Zodiac members should be allowed inclusion on the Strikers, having saved the realities after all. Cheryl seems to consider this as they take a tour of the new base, Wind is there to meet them and seems troubled, there is a single tear in reality remaining and it seems that it has to be dealt with sometime or other, the Strikers not fully done yet. They agree however, that once it is solved, to set the Strikers up as a sentinel unit to watch and wait for new trouble, possibly to also allow explorations into other realities.
Wind goes off to investigate and Aurica announces that she's pregnant.
-Summer-
In the Alt reality, Earth is being rebuilt and Aya is working out a government with Angela's help as well as others. Having built a large structure for the former freedom fighters to live in peace seperated from the huddled masses, so they don't get harassed. Everyone is settling in and starting to adjust to a peaceful life.
In the Classic Reality, Wind's term as president is ending and the group considers what to do about that. They decide Teddy should run for president, his platform of being a bear a strong one for politics. Seraphna is left in charge of the unified Hunters Special Unit and the rest begin to head home for some much needed R&R.
Date: 3.5.2863
Taiga begins to settle back into every day life, while Erevis is finally recovered and Ben's trial is coming up. Thomas has volunteered to represent Ben, and the hope is that Thomas' many contributions to the PAX over the years will add weight. The trial is to be held with a new judge, as Erevis has stripped Paladin of his rank and title due to how he performed during the case, endangering kid's lives and causing damage, all outside his jurisdiction. As she looks over files for a new head of justice, Jennifer makes her proposal known about Athena.
She suspects that Athena's personality is fractured and stuck between three forces, damange left from when the Dark Erevis had her. This all came from Ben's help and she explains what she needs, telepaths to bring them into Athena's mind and a group made up of people that are special to Athena. While they put together the group and head in, Ben and Thomas discuss the case.
Cuddles also discusses what to do about the clone, deciding on her own that she'll have the clone terminated for it's own sake after Ouka chooses to let her be frozen in cryo. Ouka makes the decision with Katrina and Cheryl, with weight in her heart, but decides letting her sleep on is for the best. Chii and Cheryl head home, talking about it, Cheryl having taken too much loss of late to handle it well. While they do, Jennifer's group enters Athena's mind. What they find there is a hard and a lazy splinter of Athena's mind, the two halves they have seen so often going back and forth. Between them is a Dark Erevis, weakened but not gone.
Together, they fight off the Dark Erevis until they can convince Athena to join the fight. She does, and D. Erevis is defeated. After this, the Hard Athena tries to make them all go, but Jennifer, Sammael and CL refuse, the others chiming in as well that Athena can't hide within the split forever. Jennifer brings the Lazy to the Hard, and the two seem to glow and begin to meld as the group comes out of it, Athena sits up and addresses them, saying she knows what they did. Then, she thanks them.