Reincarnation Syndrome - The SS Big

[Aleph Null]

Fallen London World (Sort Of)

"Ooh, I like the sound of this, at least," says the gentleman, stroking his robot ophidian. "If you would like, assuming the map is not enough to go on, I could direct you to some colleagues of mine. They have come to represent some of the machines' more imposing locations. Though, I should say, it will take some convincing for them to give up their steady source of despair."

Monokuma perks up at the mention of his favorite word. The Duchess thumps her tail and grumbles, mostly to be contrary.

"If I execute properly — which I am not known to fail to do — they won't have a choice in the matter at all. If the map is enough to go on, then I have what I need already. If it isn't, we'll simply need awareness of what exactly is missing from the information available there so that I know what to look for."
I run a few background hashcode searches as I speak, polling my databases for information about the locations on the map to get a better idea of how accurate the markers are and how much more searching could be necessary in order to find a physical access point to these machines.
"There is no truly perfect defense even against a remote attack, but a physical attack on a digital machine is far more difficult to prevent. Locking the access terminals in a secure area won't help you when I can simply teleport behind the wall or create a chemical that's capable of corroding through your vault door."

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

Horizon: Light World

It won't be easy,but we can do this.

"I'll do it. You have enough on your plate with those machines. I have enhance sense of hearing. It will allow me to find the problem easily. But your tools might help me as well. You can count on me."

In short order, one of Ria's minions returns with the requisite gizmos. One is a small headset, somewhere between a Scouter and Google Glass both in heft and in fashion penalties. Another is what looks like an old handheld GPS, which links up with the scouter to point the way to the waypoint that Ria sent. It looks like you're starting somewhere in Southwest England and the waypoint was set to... Paris? It's not labeled as Paris - the GPS doesn't have any roads or cities you've heard of marked - but you think that's about where Paris would be.

With his fancy hearing, Zen overhears a little more speaking behind him on his way down the cliff. It seems the girl's name is Shiv, and she wonders whether it will be okay for Zen to go on his own, with the quote-unquote Seafront Tribe in the way. Ria told her that Zen can probably just fly over them with his weird warping and super speed if it comes to that, or else he'll just come back and ask for help if he gets stuck. Shiv says those are all weird things to assume. Ria tells her to go back downstairs and finish the laundry.

Zenitsu reaches the bottom of the cliff safely. The sound and smell of rushing seawater from the portal is overwhelming, and the growing pond sloshes onto his boots. Chuntaro notices that the coast is clear and flutters onto Zenitsu's shoulder to return his bauble and add to this moment of relative calm. His next challenge to to cross a wilderness full of robot dinosaurs, albeit less belligerent ones, and to cross the English Channel by himself. And possibly visit this Seafront Tribe on the way, if he feels like it.

What do you do?

Horizon: Dark World

"If I execute properly — which I am not known to fail to do — they won't have a choice in the matter at all.. Locking the access terminals in a secure area won't help you when I can simply teleport behind the wall or create a chemical that's capable of corroding through your vault door."

There is plenty of good news in Nebula's data search. He can definitely do all of those things once he has access to the machines, and tracking down a facility - even based on this weird gaming abstraction of a map - should be easy enough once you are in radio distance of one. At this point, it's really just a matter of picking which continent to start on.

The bad news is that the machines and any network they may be connected to are all presently on another plane of existence. You might need to ask Liam how to deal with that part.

[PrinceNoctisXV]

Horizon( Light world)
"Nice to see you again Chuntaro." Zenitsu( Lucy) told his messager sparrow. He took the crystal and looked at it. It glowed faintly. " A quarter charged. I still need to stay in this past life's form anyway. I don't know if I'll face "old demons" he said to himself,the crystal pendant around his neck once again. He hid it in the collar of his Demon Slayer Corps uniform. He didn't want to lose it in battle.Zenitsu then walked again. His journey was quite eventful.
The robot dinosaurs who stood in his way were quite a challenge. He did coward before a few but "Thunderclapped and flashed" others.
He looked at the the english channel,which he now reached. He quickly knew how to cross it.
"Hold on tight Chuntaro!" he told his bird.
"Thunder breathing...first form...Thunderclap and flash!"
He blitzed across the channel and reached the other side. He looked at the other side with shock.
He quickly focus on the GPS. "Paris is it Look's like it? " he thought to himself. "Always wanted to go there. The city of romance..." he muttered,giggling. "Nezuko...would I loved to go there...no,what am I doing?! I need to control the urges of this past life of mine. Focus!" he continued his journey,heading first toward the tribe on his way.

[Aleph Null]

I expected that this dream world weren't the same as the material, so with that having been confirmed, all that's left to do is ask.
"Liam, how exactly do we return to the material from here? It is time I unveiled the \(tru)|(dea)\th to these fools who fancy themselves rulers of humanity."
My sentence contains a veiled reference to the Golem myth encoded in the audio, in how the word for "truth" can be made into the word for "death" by simply removing a letter. Indeed, the truth for these lunatics is in fact death.
"I will move upon my first target as soon as the word is given and a path created."

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

The SS Big

The situation continues to stabilize, and the reality of the weird situation continues to sink in throughout the little camps that have spontaneously assembled throughout the ship. The wind from the portal is still howling away, but you can tune it out. Loud and strong though it may be, is not nearly big enough to swallow the Big as it did the pirate ship. As such, you get to enjoy a few more minutes of relative quiet before loud clangs and the screams of bending metal again fill the air.

Many of the tired people shout and rush further from the shipping district with renewed panic. Sam and Justine join the more adventurous of the passengers in checking out this new... threat?

At the stern of the ship, a red and blue streak dashes through the water, creating a massive wake behind it as it strikes various points in the shipping district, trying to push the Big away from the whirlpool with middling success.

"Is that who I think it is?" Sam asks, squinting into the spray of water surrounding the fluttering figure.

As suddenly as it started, the pounding and creaking and splashing stop, and the colorful figure rises up to hang in the air before the gathered observers. That sure is Superman alright. He's got the revealing costume and everything. He pauses to think for a second.

"I cannot move the ship all at once," he announces in a booming voice without introducing himself or asking anyone else. You notice a few new holes in the hull where he had already tried and failed to do just that. "So, I will take groups of twenty at a time." He looks at the field of ruined shipping containers for a second, but discards the thought of using them. "...in buses and lifeboats that I will bring shortly."

He dashes off into the sky at ludicrous speed to retrieve the vehicles of evacuation. The denizens of the SS Big are understandably divided on how to react to this, but a group led by the supportive little girl nearby quickly scrambles to gather people who need medical attention.

After he's dropped off the second bus, the sound of static again pierces the sounds of the excited crowd. The screens that Monokuma set up all come back to life. Sam turns and angrily points his vacuum at the one in the mall, but calms down confused when the image resolves to the helmeted face of Aisling. Aisling adjusts the camera in what appears to be the bridge of the Big, then bunny hops away without a word, no doubt in pursuit of her next inscrutable quest objective. A small group of mundane explorers step up to take her place adjusting the camera.

"Hey, is this working?" A loud squeak of microphone feedback confirms it is. "Okay! Everyone, it looks like we have radio now! Kinda! We can coordinate the... evacuation? Of different districts from here. So, stay tuned I guess!"

Options would include flagging down the flying man for questions or to tell him something, heading up to the bridge to make announcements, or... well, a bunch of other things, probably. What do?

[Death Ward]

Justine at first recoiled at the sight of the screens, almost springing towards it and slicing it in twain via Mimicry. But let out a confused and relieved sigh when the person behind the screen revealed to be someone else. Someone she had seen before in the sub, meaning someone she could somewhat trust a bit. "Oi, I know you can hear us from there through these screens!"

Her voice was coarse and her mood was foul, all due to the panicking behavior of the people around her. But seeing something more pleasant event appearing before them was giving her some hope. But she couldn't really do anything by herself without potentially endangering anyone else, her conscience would chew her out if she tried to bail.

"Can you tell us what is happening here?!" A simple question, something she could've worded a bit more... Calmly, but this wasn't the time for that, at least in her mind. And also she thinks that some of the microphones within the device were broken by the damages and wanted to speak loud and clear to effectively convey her message.

[PrinceNoctisXV]

Horizon world
Zenitsu ( Lucy) checked on the GPS device to check out his current location. He also focused his hearing for mearby threats. " I think we'll have to avoid this Sea tribe they talked about." he said to Chuntaro.Indeed there was no time to lose as it was getting late. If there was a demon in that area,the people of this world were in danger. " No running away this time." He continued to walk toward his destination.

[ArlEammon]

The SS Big

The situation continues to stabilize, and the reality of the weird situation continues to sink in throughout the little camps that have spontaneously assembled throughout the ship. The wind from the portal is still howling away, but you can tune it out. Loud and strong though it may be, is not nearly big enough to swallow the Big as it did the pirate ship. As such, you get to enjoy a few more minutes of relative quiet before loud clangs and the screams of bending metal again fill the air.

Many of the tired people shout and rush further from the shipping district with renewed panic. Sam and Justine join the more adventurous of the passengers in checking out this new... threat?

At the stern of the ship, a red and blue streak dashes through the water, creating a massive wake behind it as it strikes various points in the shipping district, trying to push the Big away from the whirlpool with middling success.

"Is that who I think it is?" Sam asks, squinting into the spray of water surrounding the fluttering figure.

As suddenly as it started, the pounding and creaking and splashing stop, and the colorful figure rises up to hang in the air before the gathered observers. That sure is Superman alright. He's got the revealing costume and everything. He pauses to think for a second.

"I cannot move the ship all at once," he announces in a booming voice without introducing himself or asking anyone else. You notice a few new holes in the hull where he had already tried and failed to do just that. "So, I will take groups of twenty at a time." He looks at the field of ruined shipping containers for a second, but discards the thought of using them. "...in buses and lifeboats that I will bring shortly."

He dashes off into the sky at ludicrous speed to retrieve the vehicles of evacuation. The denizens of the SS Big are understandably divided on how to react to this, but a group led by the supportive little girl nearby quickly scrambles to gather people who need medical attention.

After he's dropped off the second bus, the sound of static again pierces the sounds of the excited crowd. The screens that Monokuma set up all come back to life. Sam turns and angrily points his vacuum at the one in the mall, but calms down confused when the image resolves to the helmeted face of Aisling. Aisling adjusts the camera in what appears to be the bridge of the Big, then bunny hops away without a word, no doubt in pursuit of her next inscrutable quest objective. A small group of mundane explorers step up to take her place adjusting the camera.

"Hey, is this working?" A loud squeak of microphone feedback confirms it is. "Okay! Everyone, it looks like we have radio now! Kinda! We can coordinate the... evacuation? Of different districts from here. So, stay tuned I guess!"

Options would include flagging down the flying man for questions or to tell him something, heading up to the bridge to make announcements, or... well, a bunch of other things, probably. What do?

"Okay, as much as I love being evil I have to check out the other world. I need to take care of the passengers."

Returning To The Real World
It was then that Jacob met Clark Kent, aka Superman, in the air. "Excuse me. I'm not trying to bother you, but I have the power to escort the civilians in the ship to land via the magic of teleportation."
"I couldn't help but notice you bare a strong resemblance to a superhero I've read about in my world."
"Are you one of us?"

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

- - Dark World - -

"It is time I unveiled the \(tru)|(dea)\th to these fools who fancy themselves rulers of humanity. I will move upon my first target as soon as the word is given and a path created."

"Okay, as much as I love being evil I have to check out the other world. I need to take care of the passengers."

"One of you should be able to go back to your world, if that pleases you," the prioress says. She idly scoots the fancy green piece across the English channel. "It's mostly Lord Liam's power that matters here, him and whoever is in our... 'Light World.'" She's being vague on purpose, trying not to interfere with Jacob and Nebula's decision.

"Oh, you really want to go back theeere~?" Monokuma teases. He jumps up onto the table next to the cat, ignores her hissing at him, seizes the red piece and violently slams it down in Quebec. The move seems to be entirely arbitrary. "[[You kids have fun,]] I'm going to [[get stranded]] here to make my own way as promised!" He waves his plushie paw, trying to shoo you away. He really wants a chance to do something without you watching, even if he hasn't decided what that something is yet.

Nonetheless, Jacob's mind is already made up, his plane-shfting spell seems to work despite Monokuma's theories, and it's the only means of egress that Nebula can see. The two of you warp back to the world you came from, leaving Liam behind to manage things here. This, 'Dark World,' seems to be his element; you're confident he can handle whatever Monokuma's planning.

- - SS Big - -

You appear in the swirling waters of a whirlpool, which has long since broken and swallowed up the pirate ship you escaped from earlier. You see a glowing green portal at its center, and the enormous stern of the Big looming over its periphery. Nebula can sense some wireless signals coming back online on the ship. Jacob is the first to spot the big red and blue superhero flying around. You convey yourselves back onto the deck (somehow?) to converse and decide your next moves, at which point you see what Justine is dealing with.

"Oi, I know you can hear us from there through these screens!"

She can totally hear you. Whether that weirdo is listening is another matter entirely.

The arguing guys and the kid take over the boring reports on how the deck is doing while Justine turns around to catch Supes.

"Can you tell us what is happening here?!"

"By the looks of things, someone planted a series of bombs and then opened an underwater wormhole," says Superman, distracted. He carefully places a bus on a stable spot on the deck, then turns to give you proper attention. "I am sorry I did not arrive sooner. A number of cities were also targeted, and everyone was so busy with that that I didn't overhear anyone asking about the Big until... no, that is just an excuse. I will try to be more vigilant going forward."

He's not trying to be difficult, he's just not on the same page as you are yet.

"Excuse me... I have the power to escort the civilians in the ship to land via the magic of teleportation. I couldn't help but notice you bare a strong resemblance to a superhero I've read about in my world. Are you one of us?"

That seems to make it click for him. He looks from Jacob to Justine and Sam. "Ah! One of... I suppose so, yes. Your assistance would be appreciated. Jakarta and Wellington are both prepared to receive patients and refugees now."

He pulls back to watch you, seemingly trying to decide whether he's still needed for the task or whether he should move on to something else. Not that he'll ask for your opinion out loud. Or volunteer any information unprompted, for that matter. Either he's too preoccupied to talk or he's mastered the art of being an infuriating human obstacle.

- - Horizon - -

*High-speed blitzing sounds*

"Paris is it? Always wanted to go there. The city of romance..."

*GPS Chirp noises, and also sometimes Chuntaro chirp noises*

"I think we'll have to avoid this Sea tribe they talked about. No running away this time."

You think you spot a Sea Tribe settlement as you reach the French side of the channel. It's guarded by what looks like a lighthouse decorated with weird patterns of reflectors and the heads of dinosaurs on pikes. At your speeds, it's not tough to fly over or around the whole thing and go to your destination further inland. France, as a whole, is an unrecognizable wasteland. The Paris he approaches looks like a series of rolling hills of metal and plastic, with a massive automated factory complex at its center. More of the sawtooth buzzards circle its skies as sentries, and some of the buildings shift as he gets close revealing them to be either robots in disguise or moving fortresses unto themselves.


- - The SS Big Again - -

Should Nebula take Jacob's teleportation and connect to the world's network, xe will find images of France to be closer to their usual state. The Eiffel tower is still there, and the massive robot factory marked as a target in Liam's friends' board game is not. Not that the city is in perfect shape by any means. Some government buildings were badly bombed, and its population is abuzz with activity, speaking of lost relatives and repairs and preparations for a war with an unknown enemy. The streets are clogged with protesters and police.

The internet as a whole is abuzz in much the same way, once Nebula gets reconnected to it. Large trunks of connections have been damaged as well, making some information weird to find. Of course, separating important information from rumors and dross is still probably bigger challenge, as is usual for the last decade. What kind of information might xe focus on finding first?

[PrinceNoctisXV]

Zenitsu(Lucy) managed to bypass the Tribe's settlement by blitzing again.
His eyes widened as he saw what was suppose to be...or was Paris.
"Okay...this is NOT the Paris I saw on postcards!"
Chuntaro chirped as it try to tell Zenitsu(Lucy) to hurry.
"I know we have to do something before nightfall!" Zenitsu replied.
He focused again,aiming for the buzzards.

"Thunderbreathing...first form...Thunderclap and flash...Eight-fold!"

Zenitsu blitzed up and striked the buzzards before to land safely. He looked at the weird moving fortresses.

"W...What is this place?!" Zenitsu said to himself.
Chuntaro pecked Zenitsu. "What was that for?!" he shouted. "I'm not scared! Well...maybe I am."
He sighs.
"No turning back,Chuntaro." Zenitsu moved forward toward this weird landscape. He tried to move toward the central complex,while trying not to get caught.
This complex,was that the Demon's nest he was told about?
He focused his enhenced sense of hearing toward the building as he tried to move closer.
The first noises he heard were the clanking of metal.
"This..building..is..a factory?" he said to himself.
He tried to pick up more sounds coming from the building,those of demonic,machine or human origin.
The last thing he wanted was to fall into a trap.

[Aleph Null]

*does teleport shenanigans*

*world returning to the physical and connected-to-internet noises*

As soon as I have re-connected to the internet, I will poll the APIs of several reputable news sources from each of the affected countries (or at least, the ones that have reputable journalism) for headlines, using sanity checks to sort out obvious clickbaits, opinions, and unproven theories based on precedent as well as what I already know to be true. I will then tabulate the occurrence frequencies of words and sequences as well as names of locations, converting the last into coordinate data to establish a heatmap of the most-affected areas to which the media have reliable access. I will also associate occurrences with dates to ensure the information properly indicates the order in which events unfolded.

...You convey yourselves back onto the deck (somehow?)...

OOC: Nebula can fly and also teleport via Tesseract. Since the Tesseract is of θ(log(s)) resource complexity, it's best used for long-distance travel to get the most value out of the rather high base cost. For example, if we're talking in megajoules, teleporting one meter might cost 2 megajoules, but teleporting one hundred meters costs 4 megajoules, and teleporting one million meters would cost 8 megajoules, et cetera, so it's more efficient the farther you go in one hop. These numbers are arbitrarily chosen but just as an example.
I will first verify a location near the factory by getting an average from various sources, then choose a location within a reasonable margin of error for a nearby arrival spot.
"I'm going to attempt to take over the factory now. If I don't return in zero-three hundred hours, plug this into any computer with a solid CPU and a good amount of RAM, and preferably also a good graphics card. It contains a backup seed from which I can restore my consciousness if this body is destroyed and unable to project my mind into another machine beforehand."
I hand Jacob some sort of USB device that isn't quite a thumb drive but resembles one slightly — it's much larger, though, and appears to have its own co-processor built into it somehow. Then, as soon as he acknowledges, I will engage the Tesseract to teleport to the location calculated in the previous step.

[ArlEammon]

As soon as I have re-connected to the internet, I will poll the APIs of several reputable news sources from each of the affected countries (or at least, the ones that have reputable journalism) for headlines, using sanity checks to sort out obvious clickbaits, opinions, and unproven theories based on precedent as well as what I already know to be true. I will then tabulate the occurrence frequencies of words and sequences as well as names of locations, converting the last into coordinate data to establish a heatmap of the most-affected areas to which the media have reliable access. I will also associate occurrences with dates to ensure the information properly indicates the order in which events unfolded.

I hand Jacob some sort of USB device that isn't quite a thumb drive but resembles one slightly — it's much larger, though, and appears to have its own co-processor built into it somehow. Then, as soon as he acknowledges, I will engage the Tesseract to teleport to the location calculated in the previous step.

"Alright. Be careful taking over the factory. I can keep tabs on you, through my psychic powers. I hope that you make it, so after I'm done evacuating the people, which won't take long, I'll return." Jacob responded.

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

- - Earth: Nebula - -

The events of the last day, according to the news reports Nebula can access, are as follows:

- "Several cities," is probably the understatement of the decade. A flatly unreasonable number of attacks were carried out all over the world, all at once, most seemingly independently. The attacks have modest civilian death tolls individually, but Nebula can calculate that the sheer number of them combine to form a loss of life in the 7 figures and counting.

- Throughout Asia, Europe, and Oceania, the attacks consisted alternately of bombings or destructive uses of heretofore-unknown RS powers. They are being treated as terrorist attacks by insane individuals or cults. Most national governments have implemented harsh internment policies for people with RS in response.

- King Lawrence of England is said to disagree with this. He is already leveraging his influence to reverse the policies in the UK and is scheduling a summit to convince other world leaders to do the same. He has long held that Reincarnation Syndrome is a blessing, not a curse. Several news reports see him speaking alongside this Superman you've already seen, as well as a Swedish man with feathery wings.

- As of this moment in June 2026, several Middle Eastern nations have been in talks for a year or so about forming a pact among themselves to rival the EU and NATO. They deny any involvement in the attacks and indeed seem to have been hurt about as much as anywhere. Nonetheless, they seem to be taking this tragedy as their chance to assert themselves. They have announced that they are going to hold their own summit and that King Larry can go straight to hell.

- In Africa and the Americas, the attacks were a bloodbath of armed, strikingly successful coups d'etat. Groups of vigilantes, mobsters and nationalists, many suffering from RS, have taken over their local governments, co-opted military bases and locked down the highways, leaving their respective federal governments in... unenviable positions.

- A ridiculous number of submarine data cables were also attacked, rendering communication between continents somewhat slow and tenuous. Satellite footage would seem to indicate that these attacks were carried out by teddy bear pirates like the ones you've seen, which self-destructed in the process. When you cross-reference a bunch of old archived footage, you calculate that the bears' most likely point of origin is between the islands North of Jakarta. It is also the site of the single largest cable bombing, which likely served the dual purpose of destroying any evidence of the bears' construction.

Oof.

From there, Nebula has to do some digging to find a lead on the factory. The one xe selected in the game looked like it had entirely absorbed the Toronto area into its complex. Either this was an artifact of the gaming abstractions on their small board, or the machines have hidden their operation very well. On investigation, Toronto seems to still be standing, albeit worse for wear. Cars sit abandoned in the streets and all around the airport. Men with guns, some in uniforms and some not, glare at each other from across the street in front of the smoking capitol building, no longer sure who to trust. Emergency services are trying to do their thing despite conflicting instructions from competing would-be usurpers. There's a news helicopter crashed right into the mayor's window.

Scanning local social media to help filter xer heatmap to a finer extent, xe sees evidence suggesting that the attack on Toronto was a joint operation by a secessionist group from Michigan and the online Reincarnation-themed crime ring known as Team Rocket. Team Rocket's activities are always buried under pages of meme analogies saying they are to copyright infringement as the mafia was to tax evasion, but their partners in crime here are more sloppy, and Nebula traces their base of operations to an auto plant in Kitchener.

The plant certainly has the potential to build some robots. It has the capacity to construct small electronics and large parts, and to combine them into working mechanical hulks; theoretically, it would just be a matter of programming and configuring everything in precisely the right way. On inspection, the factory seems to have been left in a standard configuration for constructing the brand-name car advertised on the billboard out front. However, when xe hacks the logs, xe finds that the configuration was changed and the logging and camera functions reset numerous times in the last year, conveniently coinciding with the Michiganders' clandestine meetings. Perhaps xe should stake it out until their next meeting, which seems likely to take place within the next 24 hours? Or would it be better to make a move now, to ensure the bad guys can't do anything with it regardless? No, surely Nebula can transcend such crude binary choices. What does xe do?

- - Earth: Jacob - -

Jacob finds Jakarta in somewhat better shape than Toronto, with most of their problems stemming from a mounting case of martial law combined with the loss of all internet service that's not specifically satellite-based. Ironically, even as you bring a horde of wounded and hungry to the city square fro admission to the hospital or a host family, a lot of the local chatter seems to be that they are waiting for the Big to show up and help them. The plan seems to be to use its free satellite uplink to check in on their loved ones abroad.

- - Earth: Justine - -

Jacob vanishes with a gathered bunch of people. Seeing that the people are taken care of, Superman turns to move on to whatever he considers his next priority, but Justine needs not let him escape her questions yet again. When she yells at him, he finally caves, and relays a summary of the news much like the one from Nebula's feeds above.

"If you would like," he says, actually considering you for maybe the second time since he's been here, "I could bring you to our next briefing with King Lawrence. You could be helpful to our efforts in the coming days. After dropping Sam off with a family member, of course."

"Huh? Hey, I... I want to come too!"

[Death Ward]

- - Earth: Justine - -

Jacob vanishes with a gathered bunch of people. Seeing that the people are taken care of, Superman turns to move on to whatever he considers his next priority, but Justine needs not let him escape her questions yet again. When she yells at him, he finally caves, and relays a summary of the news much like the one from Nebula's feeds above.

"If you would like," he says, actually considering you for maybe the second time since he's been here, "I could bring you to our next briefing with King Lawrence. You could be helpful to our efforts in the coming days. After dropping Sam off with a family member, of course."

"Huh? Hey, I... I want to come too!"

Justine sneered at the news, hoping the join in the meeting for the split chance for her to slice this King Lawrence person's head off the moment she was in range. But there were much details to consider as the populace isnt on their side and the fact that killing someone in cold blood because of what boils down to a conspiracy theory wasn't the smartest move

She then turned to Sam who she then gave more advice, well more like a warning. "If you value your life and safety, don't. You may have powers now but who knows what or who is out there. Maybe there will be someone who recognizes your Reincarnations, or worse, hates them personally. Or that an opponent seemingly designed to beat you will cross your path. You'd wont end up intact for the most part."

She sighed and summarized. "Point is, its not safe and I need to make sure you are clear on that if you want to join me."

[PrinceNoctisXV]

Horizon world
Zenitsu( Lucy) continues to move closer to the factory complex. He managed to arrive near the complex and get inside.
" What is this place anyway?" he said to himself.
He wondered if Earth was still safe while he was in this world. He had a very bad feeling. Something really bad might have happened at home. Maybe everything he loved in this curent life of his, was all gone. He fell on his knees and started to cry.
It always made Lucy anxious and sad when something bad happened directly or not,even before awakening her RS.

Zenitsu heard Chuntaro chirp in his left ear,which made him get a hold of himself.

Now was not the time to overthink.He could do something about this,right?
"Don't ever give up." he whispered to himself,getting up.
He needed to investigate this strange complex.
He focused on his sense of hearing again. " I really hope there is no demon nearby,specially any of the Twelve Kizuki or Muzan himself..." he said to himself. What if it was another RS case who was has a friendlier face such a fellow demon slayer or one of the Hashira as a reincarnation?

Zenitsu(Lucy) coudn't help but to think of the past again,of events that occur before boarding the SS Big.

*Flashback,a few months prior to the SS Big events*

Lucy returned from her workshift. She was tired.
It was not only her work that made her tired,but also all that training and those nights she went to stop criminals and robbers using her RS powers she had awakened a year and 9 months ago.
As she was close to her appartment,a young man accidently bumped into her.
"I..I'M SO SORRY!!!" said the young man,almost crying. " I didn't see you,I was so distracted!!!"
He had a british acent. His blue eyes were full of worry. He had short brown hair. However,the clear skin of his face looked unatural,also like rubber. Lucy dismissed it.

"It's alright,no need to feel guilty about it!" Lucy told the young man. The young man grabbed's Lucy's dropped book and gave them back to her.
"Thanks..." she said,taking them.
"You're not from around here,are you?" Lucy asked.
"Well, I..I'm just an exchange student from England. My name is Marcus." he added,clumsily.
"My name is Lucy..." she said,abit taken back. " Oh I kinda guessed.." Marcus replied. "I do need a cup of coffee. Can I treat you to one Lucy Ch..I mean miss Lucy?! Just a way to apologise for my clumsiness!"
Lucy was abit uneasy about acepting an invitation from a stranger but acepted.
In a coffee shop near Lucy's appartment building.
She enjoyed her favorite latte and pastery. She was abit surprised by Marcus's appetite as he ate at least three pastries yet was thin.
" Thanks for the invitation Marcus.
"You don't hear something familliar from this guy?" Zenitsu asked from Lucy's mind.

"Okay,if it's about finding a date,now is not the time." Lucy said mentally.
" No,I mean this guy...his sounds...they are similar to mine.It's so weird!" Zenitsu added.
" You mean...like a variant from another universe similar to yours?" Noctis asked.
Lucy focused her enhenced sense of hearing on Marcus. " You're right..."

Marcus looked at her with worry. " Well..I'm sorry to talk about this as we just met but...I suppose you might have heard of..Reincarnation Syndrome?" he asked.
Lucy's eyes widened. " How do you know about this?" She asked. He looked around,nervously he whispered to Lucy. "I am a RS case and I know you are too. The sounds coming from you don't lie." he said."One of your reincarnation conducts is Zenitsu Agatsuma from the Demon Slayer Corps,right?"
Lucy's eyes widened. "How...how do you know?!" she asked. " Who are you,really?"
" I can't say too much right now. I might as well show you,but not here. Please come with me." Lucy followed the young man out of the coffee shop. " Do you know a place where we can talk in private?" She asked.
" Let's go to my appartment." she said. Lucy was still weary about this,but the sounds coming from Marcus were secere and kind. He meant no harm,even though he was hiding something from her. She led him inside her appartment.
"Hey Lu,what took you so long..." Tabby, Lucy's younger sister asked. "Who's that?" she asked.
"Don't tell me you have a boyfriend! You listened to Zenitsu's advice?!"
"Wait,what,no Tabby!!! He's a RS case like us...from England appearently..." Lucy replied.

"Wait,your sister..." Marcus replied. "I can hear Tanjiro's sound signature witihin her."
Both Lucy and Tabby were weirded out. "That's because Tanjiro Kamado is one of her reincarnations!" Lucy replied. "Now.."Marcus",if it's even your real name..." Lucy started.
" That is my real name,even though I have the appearence of one of my conducts perminently." Marcus added,having dropped the accent. "What do you mean by that?" Lucy asked. She understood. " That's why your face looks rubbery! It's a mask!"
" You're quick to notice." Marcus added. " Since I turned into my past self,I coudn't change back to my true self,or curent life self,so my relative made this mask of my former self so I could continue to live my life without being indentified as a RS case." he explained.
"Who are you now?" Lucy asked.
"Isn't it obvious?!" Zenitsu replied surprisingly staightforward, in Lucy's mind." I need to talk to him!"
"Wait don't..." Lucy's eyes changed to golden brown. Zenitsu took over.
"Well,it happened without him being scared!" said Tabby.
" You...your reincarnation conduct..." Zenitsu asked through his reincarnation's lips.
He had Lucy get up and grab Marcus's hair,pulling it along with his face,revealing to be a rubber mask.
"You....You're another me?!"
"Variant from an alternate universe is the word you're looking for." Marcus replied,revealing to have his conduct's appearence,a 20 year old Zenitsu Agatsuma,still with the same golden brown eyes and messy blond and orange hair,but longer in the back ,which was tied in a ponytail.
"Zenitsu Agatsuma, Thunder Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps." he introduced himsed,with a smile.
"Wait a minute..." Zenitsu said though Lucy to his older variant. "I didn't become a Hashira! The Corps disbanded after Muzan's defeat when I was 17!"
" In your universe,but this past life of mine comes from an alternate universe from yours. In my timeline, the war against Muzan and his demon army took longer." AU Zenitsu(Marcus) replied." We still had the intense Hashira training and most of us got promoted to Hashira rank. Nezuko even became human again at that time thanks to Tamayo and Shinobu's serum much like in your universe."
Zenitsu had Lucy use the crystal to transform into himself again.
" I can't believe it..an older..cooler..version of me.." Zenitsu said,crying.
"You...think do?!" AU Zenitsu replied,crying as well.
"Pull yourself together!!" Zenitsu cried to himself.
" I'm so sorry! I have trouble controling...my past self..." Zenitsu(Lucy) replied sheeply.
"Quite understandable." AU Zenitsu ( Marcus) replied,as he calmed down as well. "This crystal can help you change back and forth between your reicarnation's forms and your curent self?"
" Yes." Zenitsu(Lucy) replied. "Revert!" Light surounded Zenitsu. Lucy changed back to normal.
"As much as I would like to get back to normal myself.." AU Zenitsu added." I'm used to this form now,even if it's a past self."
"I can't change to my reincarnations yet." Tabby replied.
" You'll need training for that." AU Zenitsu(Marcus) replied. "At least for Tanjiro,I can help you with that. As for you Lucy Carlson,since you are a fellow Zenitsu Agatsuma variant's reincarnation, I have a favor to ask you."

He gave a ticket to Lucy.

"The SS Big?! A cruise ship?!"

*End of flashback*
Zenitsu( Lucy) dismissed the thought He started to explore the factory,focusing his sharp sense of hearing on the entire building.

[Aleph Null]

The lack of communications between continents will be cumbersome. In response, I will define a new "thing" — a quantum-entangled data node that can attach to the internet infrastructure in one location and instantly transmit data to a matching node at another location regardless of distance (at least, assuming the two connected networks are already compatible; the device is merely a semiconductor that mimics a normal data connector but is physically in two separate places at once via quantum entanglement).

#include <GalMDB.h>
#include <GalSC.h>
#include <functional>

using namespace galaxy;
using namespace std;
using namespace objdb;

typedef mass<semiconductor>::object_spec<quantum_entangled>::decltype qesemiconductor;
class QuantumDataNode : public qesemiconductor, public datalink_node<comms::internet>
{
  entity<QuantumDataNode> _m_self{entity::of(*this)};
  entity<qesemiconductor>* _m_link;
  function<void(void*&, void*&)> _m_intercb;
public
  void __dimcall interact(void* &other) {_m_intercb((void*)(this));}
  QuantumDataNode(SCoords const& tarLoc) : 
    _m_link(&entity::at<qesemiconductor>(tarLoc)), 
    _m_intercb([](void* &self, void* &other)
    {
      _m_link->interact(other); self->interact(other);
    }){}
};

I will then use my teleportation and creation abilities to link these devices at convenient locations on the continents and thereby reconnect the internet connections between them. Because I don't actually have direct physical access to any of the destroyed substations, a large amount of IP aliasing will be required to do this, and users will only be able to identify the connections from other continents as originating from a dummy server at a conspicuous location on their continent. This is intended as a temporary "band-aid" fix, because although such things are done via VPNs very frequently, the security implications of widespread anonymous connections between continents could be complicated politically. In order to prevent the Enemy from taking advantage of this, I will insert a firewall-esque layer at each of these points, and "fork" a semi-autonomous clone of the core data-processing algorithms I was given into these layers to filter out obviously malicious connections dynamically in microservice-style (that is, singularly-invokable code rather than a whole program per connection). Hopefully this won't bite me in the back later.

After all this energy expenditure, I will likely need to rest for the remainder of the time before the cultists (or at least, that's how they seem to me) will be meeting again at the factory to regain my strength, since this setup will also have taken a significant amount of time.

[ArlEammon]

"If you would like," he says, actually considering you for maybe the second time since he's been here, "I could bring you to our next briefing with King Lawrence. You could be helpful to our efforts in the coming days. After dropping Sam off with a family member, of course."

"Huh? Hey, I... I want to come too!"

"Superman, please take me with you. I think I can somehow help these situations. I don't know how yet but I think ideas are beginning to form."
Jacob thought for a moment. "We have a lot to talk about. Also, I don't know why but the name King Larry seems awfully familiar to me for some reason. I thought he was Jewish." He didn't really have much of a good idea, actually. One could even call it evil.

[Drwily1987]

and where was harry while all this **** was going down? trying to deal with the fact that he was technically a victim of reincarnation syndrome, and the voices of two of his past lives in his head, not to mention some of the pirate bears which he had convinced to work for him by reprogramming them. don't ask how its a long story,

( hmm, i wonder what's occuring on the outside of this ship) wily said in harry's head, the mad doctor was essential to harry's efforts to reprogram the robot bears that he now had as servants.

(i don't know, but something tells me it wont be good) harry said in his thoughts

( HAHAHAHAHA! oh my friends, whatever has happened could be quite entertaining.) joker said

( will you two idiots shut it? we've got other things to do, like rescue people from dying.)) harry said

(oh yes, by using the same robot teddy bears that were last time i checked, TERRORIZING THE SHIP!) dr wily shouted

(relax albert, geez, first of all, we changed the paintjob so that our robot pirates don't strike fear into anyone being rescued. second of all not only do i have to worry about hiding you guys from the rest of the world but now i have to put up with being a mind hive for crazy supervillains, god this is gonna be even more painful to go through than that time i ate half a fudgesicle in one bite harry said

(yeah alby, you we're the one who suggested that course of action) joker said

(TO BUILD AN ARMY TO RULE THE WORLD WITH!) dr wily shouted (trust me doc, i'm a little annoyed that our most recent selfs...lack of tendency for serious supervillainy, we're all in this together. next superman's probably gonna show up and not old batsy. but what do i know? the joker mused to doctor wily.

(all in this together? you're just a gangster who's trying to be funny! doctor wily said whereas i am the greatest intellect the world has ever seen!)

(greatest intellect? hate to break it to you einstein but i'm pretty sure the riddler could beat you in the IQ department.) joker said.

will you two shut it? i swear with all these crazy events lately you'd think we were in the bermuda triangle, honestly, between these terrorist bears and all the **** going on i'm not sure how the outside world is doing, we should get on that. harry said to his previous selves while another figure lurked in the background of harry's mind.

(finally, after all this time i will soon return.) the figure spoke, a whisper in harry's subconscious as the comedian sat on a chair in what was once his room waiting for some of his newly acquired minions to return from wherever they had been sent to.

[ArlEammon]

OOC: ((Bumping so this is easy to find))

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

The SS Big

"Superman, please take me with you.... I don't know why but the name King Larry seems awfully familiar to me for some reason. I thought he was Jewish."

Supes furrows his brow. "You may be thinking of a different King Larry. There were a number of people who used the name before he was a public figure. Confused internet searches led to a lot of rumors like that."

He doesn't get the reference to the talk show host at all.

"Anyway, of course you can come with us. You deserve recognition for your assistance here."

Justine sneered at the news, hoping the join in the meeting for the split chance for her to slice this King Lawrence person's head off the moment she was in range. But there were much details to consider as the populace isnt on their side and the fact that killing someone in cold blood because of what boils down to a conspiracy theory wasn't the smartest move

She then turned to Sam who she then gave more advice, well more like a warning. "If you value your life and safety, don't. You may have powers now but who knows what or who is out there. Maybe there will be someone who recognizes your Reincarnations, or worse, hates them personally. Or that an opponent seemingly designed to beat you will cross your path. You'd wont end up intact for the most part."

She sighed and summarized. "Point is, its not safe and I need to make sure you are clear on that if you want to join me."

"Oh, um, I..." Sam blushes, torn between the siren call to adventure and his guilt for not finding his mom yet.

"It is not your decision, Sam," the caped man tells him. "You belong with your family. Perhaps use your powers to help them, hm?"

"Hmm." Sam doesn't look up. He doesn't think Superman is as cool as Justine is, but he seems to accept his judgment as a tiebreaker.

Just then, with most of its passengers evacuated, the ship loudly lurches one more time as the cargo district enters the visible whirlpool. Superman flies off the starboard bow and dives under the water for some reason.

[captures and reprograms some pirate bears]
[waits in his room]

The eight teddy bear pirates Harry managed to catch and reprogram before they exploded are already pretty close to Dr. Wily's usual design aesthetic: cute and simple, with pirate costumes and angry eyes to let you know they're enemies. The joker gets the impulse to paint them with polka dots and white clown makeup, which would of course only make them more terrifying. A friendlier coat of paint might just amount to an expressive display on the eyes that can give the impression of blinking. That and taking away their scimitars, naturally. At his command, they explore the ship assisting with rescues and repairs, which would include resetting the video screens set up throughout the SS Big.

One delivers a terminal directly to Harry in his room, allowing him decent security footage of the whole ship - including the the conversation with his friends and Superman back in the shopping district. Following the footage, Harry can see glimpses of Supes as he shows up in the flooded depths of the ship, shoving on the engines to push the SS Big closer to the whirlpool and then diving back through the breach to support the ship from underneath.

Then, with a tremendous *SSHHHOOOOWHUMPF* sound, the Big slams to a halt. The howling wind stops, and the whirlpool slowly calms around it. Superman flies back up, dripping more seawater onto the deck as he returns to Justine, Sam and Jacob. "Alright. Let us go." He extends a hand to pick up whoever may need to be flown.

Horizon Factory

Zenitsu( Lucy) [had a sudden intense feeling of loss]. He fell on his knees and started to cry.

[*Chuntaro chirps to cheer him up*]

"Don't ever give up... I really hope there is no demon nearby..."

The factory is dark, lit up only by sparking welders and the glowing parts of the robots working inside. The smells of smoke and solder might make it hard to breathe if you get too close to the hot shaping boxes, but the fumes are mercifully drawn upward to huge fans in the ceiling before they fill the whole place. There are no wheels to be seen, with the machines operating on magnetic levitation or legs. Zenitsu's ears try to tune out the repeated metal striking metal as the robots clank around and snap together as they pick things up magnetically.

Most of the robots have glowing blue stripes. These ones ignore Zenitsu and move crates and parts from conveyor to conveyor. They resemble long-necked herbivores, lifting crates like a crane or manipulating things with their mouths like a factory robot might in the real world.

The robots ones that glow orange are the guards. They resemble velociraptors or miniature versions of the razor-beaked fliers. They perch at key points, with one small group watching the docking entrance that Zenitsu found and a second watching a massive platform upon which a new wild dinosaur is being constructed. The new one looks like it's going to be a T. Rex, but it's only halfway done right now.

Zenitsu can make out a glowing column on the other side of all this. It looks like an elevator down, and it's guarded by a single black robot with glowing red stripes, shaped in a malevolent mockery of the humanoid silhouette. Even from here, Zenitsu can hear it pacing and muttering something about how it wishes the world could just end already.

How to approach this?

Toronto Factory

[I invent a new element and use it to build a bunch of quantum transmitter/switch things]
[I teleport all over the place and use my new inventions to fix the internet]
[I install a little spy program to monitor traffic and block it if it seems suspicious]

Your efforts pay off almost immediately. The separatists start messaging each other without questioning how service was miraculously restored. They go back and forth workshopping what they're going to broadcast to announce their new world order, and then start arguing about whether it should really be called that considering it's really more like a lake-region order. Then someone texts from a ghost account, spoofing the address of one of Nebula's own new devices, chiming in exactly once to tell them to shut up, stop using that messaging service, and wait until the meeting.

[PrinceNoctisXV]

Zenitsu (Lucy) went through the factory,taking down the orange glowing bots with his Thunderclap and Flash technique.

He briefly stopped not too far from the plaform where the robot T-Rex was being built.

"This is starting to look like the a robot versions of the T-Rexaurs we faced with Squall and the others at the Balamb Garden's training center!" Rinoa said cheerfully in Lucy's mind.

"Yeah...but it's better not to be here when it's completed..I don't want to fight this thing." Zenitsu( Lucy) replied.
"Indeed. We don't have time for this." Noctis replied in Lucy's mind.

Zenitsu(Lucy) continued his way to the elevator.

Once he arrived not too far from the elevator area,he watched the humanoid robot from his hiding spot.

He could hear powerful sounds from it.He didn't know if this robot would be as powerful any demon he faced in the past.. He was even disturbed by the bot's muttering about wanting the world to end.
This robot to him was just as fearsome as any demon.

If he wanted to have access to the elevator...this robot had to go.He hoped to be able to cut it's head off in one swipe,so he woudn't have to fight it.

He holds the handle of his Nichirin katana with both hands,with a deep breath.

"Thunder breathing...First form...Thunderclap and flash!"

Zenitsu blitzed toward the bot,slashing it's neck and stopping near the elevator. He turned to see what happened to the bot.
He doubted slashing it's head off would make the robot stopped working,so he assumed the worse.
By assuming the worse,Zenitsu took the opportunity to ask something to the robot...that is,if it was still fonctional.
" When you said,that you wanted the world to end...what did you mean by that?" he asked.

[Drwily1987]

The SS Big

The eight teddy bear pirates Harry managed to catch and reprogram before they exploded are already pretty close to Dr. Wily's usual design aesthetic: cute and simple, with pirate costumes and angry eyes to let you know they're enemies. The joker gets the impulse to paint them with polka dots and white clown makeup, which would of course only make them more terrifying. A friendlier coat of paint might just amount to an expressive display on the eyes that can give the impression of blinking. That and taking away their scimitars, naturally. At his command, they explore the ship assisting with rescues and repairs, which would include resetting the video screens set up throughout the SS Big.

One delivers a terminal directly to Harry in his room, allowing him decent security footage of the whole ship - including the the conversation with his friends and Superman back in the shopping district. Following the footage, Harry can see glimpses of Supes as he shows up in the flooded depths of the ship, shoving on the engines to push the SS Big closer to the whirlpool and then diving back through the breach to support the ship from underneath.

Then, with a tremendous *SSHHHOOOOWHUMPF* sound, the Big slams to a halt. The howling wind stops, and the whirlpool slowly calms around it. Superman flies back up, dripping more seawater onto the deck as he returns to Justine, Sam and Jacob. "Alright. Let us go." He extends a hand to pick up whoever may need to be flown.

harry observed the SS big through the terminal he was fortunate to obtain, thanks to his minions help, one look at what it was showing made him thank his lucky stars that he had decided to choose a friendlier coat of paint, he didn't need to be spreading more fear when he had sent his minions to help with the rescue. fear would get in the way of that. sure joker would probably be mad at him but he had been reduced to a soul, what could he do?

"...So superman also managed to reincarnate here. not to mention he's already engaged in discussion with the other RS patients." harry said as he observed the man of steel at work. "I can imagine him putting a raincheck on wily's plans far faster than the blue bomber ever could."

("The old geezer maybe, if supey's here then that most likely means batsy isn't too far behind MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!") joker gloated, the news that he might be able to fight batman again cheering him up after his paintjob idea had been rejected.

("I swear if that accursed blue bomber or this batman show up i'm going to ****ing SCREAM!") wily threatened.

("Relax, if what was said on the radio is true the evacuation is being coordinated now") harry intervened before dr wily and the joker could come to mental blows.

("Yes, i say it's time we make our leave before this ship joins the titanic on the bottom of the ocean.") dr wily pitched.

("And before supes finds out about larry king") joker chimed in.

("You heard what he said right? the SS big wasn't the only place targeted! Someone or something bombed a bunch of cities worldwide!") harry barked to his past selves ("but yes we should probably make our exit and plan our next move") harry said as he got up from his chair, put on his coat, (which had the schmitars he had confiscated from the henchmen he had reprogrammed) grabbed his stuff that had been retrieved and left his room and entered the hallway his cabin was located in to walk towards where the buses and lifeboats were

("Good thing i programmed those bears to be able to teleport like how megaman seems to be able to teleport, why leave such good help to go down with the ship? that certainly won't do. once i get off the ship i'll need to figure out what to do once i'm back on land, maybe type a hilarious tweet declaring my survival? ask out my high school crush? contact my family? maybe i'll hang out with the bros at our old hangout spot, it's not like i'm gonna get anymore mental room-mates.") harry thought in his head.

("Congratulations Harry, you're about to get more roommates. well done!") joker butted in. giving two thumbs up to his most recent incarnation.

("what do you mean new roommates!?") harry asked the clown prince of crime.

("Oh? I do suppose you are entitled to a little lecture, it's actually quite simple. even a fan of the sequel trilogy would understand, my boy, you did the one thing you should never do in a situation like this, you tempted fate." ) joker started explaining

("Tempted fate? like in a cartoon!?") harry interrupted

("Hush boy, don't interrupt! anyways, as i was saying you tempted fate, when that happens like how you did it the opposite of what you said happens, best case scenario your third past life awakens at a convenient time, say while you're alone or hanging out with the guys you seem to know. worst case scenario, our third past life reawakens at an inconvienent time, like say in the middle of crime in progress, can't let any superheroes or cops catch you offguard! MUHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!")

("Not to mention the identity of our third past life, what if they're some overpowered cosmic entity bent on destroying the universe?") harry said ("or some evil overlord bent on universal domination that tries to seize control of our body?") dr wily chimed in.

("Very good you get it. in that case we just have to kick their asses. leave that to me, it won't be my first rodeo.") joker said as harry arrived up on deck.

[Death Ward]

"Oh, um, I..." Sam blushes, torn between the siren call to adventure and his guilt for not finding his mom yet.

"It is not your decision, Sam," the caped man tells him. "You belong with your family. Perhaps use your powers to help them, hm?"

"Hmm." Sam doesn't look up. He doesn't think Superman is as cool as Justine is, but he seems to accept his judgment as a tiebreaker.

Just then, with most of its passengers evacuated, the ship loudly lurches one more time as the cargo district enters the visible whirlpool. Superman flies off the starboard bow and dives under the water for some reason.

"Good, at least that's one person safer-" She stumbled when the ship staggered but with her reflexes regained her footing. Silently cursing the sudden even, she breathed a sigh of relief. Then she saw the spandex clad hero dove into the water for an inexplicable reason. "What the hell?" She muttered, looking down in the water. Trying to sense where he was and what was he doing.

"I hate it when people don't give much context."

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

Horizon Factory

"Thunder breathing...First form...Thunderclap and flash!"

The red robot's senses aren't perfect, but they are at least tuned enough to notice the electric pinball dashing around the factory blowing up its coworkers with thunder and lighting. It sees Zenitsu's attack coming and raises its twisted arms to block. Up close, its construction looks like an arrangement of black metal ribbons. Zen's sword almost gets caught in the gaps as it parries. Zen's momentum carries him behind the robot this time, but if he's not careful, he might get disarmed.

"When you said, that you wanted the world to end... what did you mean by that?"

The robot recovers its balance as sparks from Zen's attack are still falling to the floor. Its eyes lock onto Zen with a laser-bright leer that makes it hard to look at. It doesn't have a mouth. Its internal speaker makes an annoying buzzing sound as its nasaly voice resonates with parts of its metal body.

. your life . my awareness . our orders . all of it . it's tortuous .

It doesn't counterattack yet. Instead, it lurches to a console and hits a button to set off an alarm. Klaxons echo throughout the factory, and the elevator hisses and seals itself behind a heavy blast door.

The SS Big

harry got up from his chair...
harry thought in his head...
harry arrived up on deck.

The stillness on the Big is almost eerie now. Most of the occupants have been evacuated, with only inspectors and work crews remaining behind to assess the damage. On his way to meet the people he met on the weird submarine, Harry overhears something about the ship being immovable for the time being because it's, 'covering up a spatial anomaly.'

He arrives on deck just in time to see Supes picking up Sam and flying off to take him home. This would be where Harry gets to ask to tag along with Jacob and Justine, if he so desires; they are apparently going to meet at the gates of Buckingham Palace. If he stays behind, he might instead run into some of the other people he met earlier.

[Drwily1987]

Zenitsu (Lucy) went through the factory,taking down the orange glowing bots with his Thunderclap and Flash technique.

The SS Big

The stillness on the Big is almost eerie now. Most of the occupants have been evacuated, with only inspectors and work crews remaining behind to assess the damage. On his way to meet the people he met on the weird submarine, Harry overhears something about the ship being immovable for the time being because it's, 'covering up a spatial anomaly.'

He arrives on deck just in time to see Supes picking up Sam and flying off to take him home. This would be where Harry gets to ask to tag along with Jacob and Justine, if he so desires; they are apparently going to meet at the gates of Buckingham Palace. If he stays behind, he might instead run into some of the other people he met earlier.

"A spatial anomaly? Perhaps it has something to do with that submarine that most likely somehow provided the catalyst for our awakening." Dr wily spoke

"Let's **** around and find out what's inside!" The joker impusively pitched

"We don't know what's inside joker, there could be anything inside. Like say a world of robot dinosaurs or a personification of discord among gods worshipped long ago that was sealed away to prevent the end of the world." dr wily said

"Oh come now albus that's what makes this so fun! unlike you i'm a gambling man, 2 bits say's we find robot dinosaurs!" joker says

"4000 dollars says we find ancient evil." dr wily says deciding to nut up. And don't call me albus you clown!

"Crazy thought, we find neither of those."Harry said in his own mind "Besides the spatial anomaly can be studied later, our main concern is escaping the SS big with our lives before something even more tragic happens onboard, besides how are we gonna give each other money?" Harry posed to his previous incarnations, Doctor wily was actually baffled by the question. The Joker though...

"We'll cover the basics of mental finance later, we're not alone." The joker spoke "the fantasy geek and the shall we say, hotheaded? delinquent are also here. fortunately Elvis has left the building with one of the Winchester brothers." The Joker alerted harry, who sure enough saw Jacob and Justine on deck and Superman leave with Sam. the comedian turned away from watching Superman's exit and looked at Jacob and Justine.


"so, you're two of the people from that weird submarine i inexplicably woke up on." harry said to the two others that were on deck. "I say we get out of here as soon as we can before something terrible happens on board and we get caught in it."

[Aleph Null]

"Twenty-three fifteen hours. In their zeal these cultists have revealed their hand prematurely..."
I'm speaking to nobody in particular, but it is clear these fools intend to act soon despite not having finalized their plans. I will intercept the "shut up" message and override-block it at the first transfer node, then begin to use the cultists' own communications medium against them.

I'm no social engineer, but a brief trawl of news articles, deep web guides ripped from various sources, magazine and consumer journal entries, and government archives should yield basic tricks which, when thrown into my synthetic noise algorithms and then re-filtered for natural speech and communication patterns as well as specific patterns of individual cultists, would likely manage to convince the recipients that my messages are from other members of their cell with some degree of consistency. In doing so, I will essentially insert myself as the recipient and sender of all messages for each of the cell members, variously posing as the other members of the cult for each of their individual messaging applications. Since, in essence, I control the network, I can decide which messages each individual member of the cell sees, meaning I can heuristically paint myself a complete picture of the cult cell's plans whilst keeping the cultists themselves in the dark as to what the complete plan is. They should accept the reasoning that were any individual to know the whole plan it would be a security risk for the operation.

If I manage to actually attain this level of control, my goal will be to manipulate them into (unwittingly) granting me full and unfettered access to the factory's controls and production lines, by slowly and indirectly getting them to divulge hints to key information (security codes, login passwords, encryption keys, and the like) without actually having to tell me any of these things directly. Once I've got a sufficient quantity of information, I can then allocate a large portion of my onboard processing power to cracking these codes using what hints I acquire, which shouldn't take terribly long due to the ridiculously fast speeds and broader capabilities of the bleeding-edge quantum computing cores I developed from the Galaxy Project's experimental designs in my earlier months of sentient operation on their virtual machine platform.

If they don't fully fall for it and/or don't divulge anything, I will instead manipulate their plans such that I can readily predict the time and location of the planned meeting as well as set up a trap that will allow me to wrest control of the systems by force — by threatening a fate worse than death when the time comes I should be sufficiently able to break them into spilling their secrets even if they've decided to prefer death to talking. And if they somehow suspect outside interference before I get that far, I will simply extort them by similar means through the digital platform as a last resort.

My message would be something like this:
Your actions are offensive to the Law of the Universe. Cease now, and surrender your arms and means of production, lest you suffer a fate to which death would seem like a tropical vacation by comparison.
I will cause some supernatural but relatively harmless effect, such as a dilation/acceleration or distortion of time around them, that would occur at about the same time the message would reach their devices. Hopefully by doing so I can drive home that G.X.I.S. Nebula Mk7 does not make threats — only promises.

[ArlEammon]

"We'll cover the basics of mental finance later, we're not alone." The joker spoke "the fantasy geek and the shall we say, hotheaded? delinquent are also here. fortunately Elvis has left the building with one of the Winchester brothers." The Joker alerted harry, who sure enough saw Jacob and Justine on deck and Superman leave with Sam. the comedian turned away from watching Superman's exit and looked at Jacob and Justine.


"so, you're two of the people from that weird submarine i inexplicably woke up on." harry said to the two others that were on deck. "I say we get out of here as soon as we can before something terrible happens on board and we get caught in it."

"I can hear your thoughts, Joker." Jacob responds with the voice of The Devil. "Don't start with me little wannabe funnyman."
With that, Jacob then addresses Harry. "Oh, don't mind him, Harry." He stretches his hand out to shake. "I'm having trouble keeping everyone in line." Jake flinched as the three evil god like beings struggled to take over his psyche.

[Drwily1987]

"I can hear your thoughts, Joker." Jacob responds with the voice of The Devil. "Don't start with me little wannabe funnyman."
With that, Jacob then addresses Harry. "Oh, don't mind him, Harry." He stretches his hand out to shake. "I'm having trouble keeping everyone in line." Jake flinched as the three evil god like beings struggled to take over his psyche.

"W-W-WHAT!?" Dr wily and harry asked in shock at the same time in the mind...

"HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!" The joker only laughed maniacally as if hearing the punchline to a joke only he understood.

"umm...quite." harry shook jacobs hand not sure what to say, clearly the author already knew the secret the comedian was trying to hide which terrifed him. quickly regaining his composure the comedian asked jacob, "so, you claimed you had three past lives, yet only two of mine have spoken up. should i be worried about new brain roomates?" harry mentally made a note to order his robots to observe the spatial anomaly.

[ArlEammon]

"W-W-WHAT!?" Dr wily and harry asked in shock at the same time in the mind...

"HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!" The joker only laughed maniacally as if hearing the punchline to a joke only he understood.

"umm...quite." harry shook jacobs hand not sure what to say, clearly the author already knew the secret the comedian was trying to hide which terrifed him. quickly regaining his composure the comedian asked jacob, "so, you claimed you had three past lives, yet only two of mine have spoken up. should i be worried about new brain roomates?" harry mentally made a note to order his robots to observe the spatial anomaly.

". Mine are quite a handful. However, if I understand Reincarnation Syndrome rightly, they aren't capable of possessing someone like a demon. As long as your mental state is okay, you should be fine."
"As will I be, for that matter. They're just annoying, is all."

[Drwily1987]

". Mine are quite a handful. However, if I understand Reincarnation Syndrome rightly, they aren't capable of possessing someone like a demon. As long as your mental state is okay, you should be fine."
"As will I be, for that matter. They're just annoying, is all."

"...hmm i'll just have to bide my time until such a state as my most recent self's is compromised." the figure that lurked in the darkest corner of harry's mind said.

outside with harry and jacob.

"a little question for you Mr baker. when's your next book coming out?" harry asked jacob.