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KAIJU FIGHT #2

KAIJU FIGHT #2

CONTENT WARNINGS: electrophobia, body horror, death/injury, gore, violence.

▶ 001. IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL

On the 1st of April, Outsiders will be rudely awakened by the sudden voice of Captain Yamakawa:

"Angels of Lilith. I require your immediate attention. Through your efforts at extracting information from our captives, and intel collected by our intelligence team, we have located the culprits who have stolen our specimens and are conducting illegal experiments. Your mission briefing will arrive shortly. Take caution, however. The Neo Tokyo Meteorological Agency is reporting strange abnormalities in their readings. We will look further into this. For now, stay sharp and be prepared."

The alarm will sound in the base, urging all Outsiders to suit up, bring their weapons and get ready for the mission. A location pin will then be downloaded into their implant, along with an associated mission briefing. The location will lead to an abandoned amusement park that might be familiar to some - Tokyo Disneyland. The brief will report that according to intel, there is an unauthorized research facility hidden within the premises. Outsiders are to locate it, storm it, and seize any lab specimens they can find.

To get to the theme park, characters will be able to take trains to the edge of Neo Tokyo where they can then be transported by armored trucks through what remains of old roads. Eventually, when the terrain becomes too destroyed and overgrown with brush, they’ll have to travel by foot the rest of the way. However, they will have to be careful because it looks like someone has laid out traps. Some of them are designed to capture animals but others are clearly booby traps meant to deter intruders.

From the outside, nothing looks out of the ordinary in this old park - there are classic attractions such as Cinderella’s castle, the Haunted Mansion, Alice’s Teacup ride, the Western River Railroad, and many, many more. While most of the rides are weathered down and no longer functional, there are plenty of old gift shops and carnival game booths with prizes to take home for free (if you don’t mind a really old Minnie Mouse doll).

LILITH was not able to pinpoint exactly where this secret laboratory is hidden within the enormous park, and it’s now up to the Outsiders to find it. All implants will be fitted with a heat-seeking function to allow Outsiders to detect anomalies within the park.

The first part of the mission is simple: Scour the rides and attractions and find the entrance.

Outsiders may encounter more booby traps while searching the park. Traps will range from making parts of attractions and buildings collapse on intruders to more elaborate and high-tech ones like electric fields or explosive traps. Players are more than welcome to come up with their own traps so long as it fits the setting.

▶ 002. BOO WHO?

Eventually, Outsiders will find themselves drawn to the Haunted Mansion, where there appear to be several abnormal signs of life. While the mansion would hardly have been scary to anyone but children several hundred years ago, centuries without any sort of maintenance have turned the place into a real nightmare. Pitch darkness, decrepit fake graves that look like they could be real ones, and the mysterious chatter of – is that a ghost? There are flickers of life within the old animatronics, and ever so often you might see a skeleton or zombie twitch. They might even take a swing at an unsuspecting Outsider.

The deeper into the mansion you travel, the more power it appears to have, until the Outsiders reach a door that appears to be heavily guarded by a group of humans holding vicious chimeras on a leash.

Once LILITH receives this intel, the next order is given: Storm the lab immediately!

▶ 003. LET'S GECK-GO!

As the Outsiders infiltrate the lab, the air buzzes with electricity and everyone's hair begins to stand on end not from fear but from the sheer amount of energy generated. There may be a lot of machines generating a lot of power and some of it may be spilling excess electricity into the air but this feels different. It feels more potent.

Suddenly, the park comes to life. Old generators buzz to life, staticky music begins to play on the worn out speakers, and the lights begin to flash. From the overgrowth surrounding the park, trees begin to topple over. It is obvious that something is approaching and whatever it is seems to have a lot of energy. From the trees, a giant, gecko-like creature emerges. The air around it sparks and each step it takes generates a wave of electricity that follows the many wires and systems laid out underground.

The energy at the park seems to be drawing the unknown kaiju towards the park and more geckos appear from the forests behind it. They move quickly through the park and climb over the buildings and attractions. When they see a hybrid or a person nearby, they will stun them with their electric fields and try to eat them. As they begin to swarm the park, they go into a feeding frenzy that infects the air around them. Rides begin to spin faster, the music grows louder, lights explode, and the more electricity and power the geckos absorb, the bigger they become when they shed their skins.

One gecko in particular grows faster than the others. This one will keep growing with no apparent end in sight and begins climbing over the highest rides until they topple under its weight. Outsiders will have to avoid collapsing rubble and climb over ruined attractions to take down this kaiju while also stopping the other geckos from growing to the same size.

After dealing with the gecko kaiju for some time without any information, a report will finally come in:

█ █ █ MONSTER DEBRIEF SHEET
NAME: Yamadenki
HEIGHT: 3 metres- unknown (does not stop growing)
WEIGHT: 1,500-70,000 kg
CLASS: Dangerous
LOCATION: Kanto, Japan
ABILITIES: Stores electricity within its body. Uses static electricity to climb up and stick to objects. Can use electric shocks to stun and injure prey. The more energy they absorb, the bigger they grow. When close enough to a human, it kills them by biting into their flesh and absorbing the electrical currents within the cells, disrupting the heart rate and nervous system. It then eats the flesh.
WEAKNESS: Attacks to the head and body. Ice and extreme cold (they are cold blooded).
EXTRA NOTES: Can regrow appendages. Their severed appendages and bodies can retain electricity for an unknown amount of time so proceed with caution.

█ █ █ MISSION OBJECTIVE:
✖ Cut off the supply of electricity at the park by disabling all generators
✖ Bring back the Yamadenki (alive or dead) for research purposes
✖ Bring back the hybrid specimens
✖ Capture all suspicious persons for interrogation

█ █ █ ATTACHED PHOTO:

The Outsiders will have to cut off all energy supplies to stop feeding the newly named Yamadenki and then defeat them.

▶ 004. A RIFT IN SPACE-TIME

"MAYDAY, MAYDAY! Unknown energy signal detected! Reaching maximum output! Our sensors are detecting a breach in the inter-dimensional fabric!"

An hour into battle, Outsiders will receive a sudden warning signal, urging them to complete their mission and eliminate the Yamadenki before it’s too late. All that concentrated energy generated at the park is being corrupted by the Yamadenki, and it’s not long before a rift bursts through from beneath the Haunted Mansion, causing a huge explosion and a rain of rubble and mysterious energy. It’s the first of its kind. A rift has never opened this close to Neo Tokyo!

Energy from the rift seems to affect anyone standing too close to it, transforming any unprotected human into a snarling, groaning, human-reptilian hybrid. These hybrids have electrical qualities similar to the Yamadenki and are just as ferocious. The plugsuits issued by LILITH should protect characters against any nasty transformations (unless there is some damage to them or they have taken them off), but exposure to the rift can still result in increased headaches, vertigo, irritability and impulsiveness.

The rift is growing larger by the minute, and from the other side of it - the growling of a number of unknown beasts can be heard. Even the higher ups within LILITH are anxious about this. The only way to stop the rift is to cut off its power supply.

"Angels of LILITH! We must act fast! Disable all generators and subdue the Kaiju before it’s too late!"

▶ 005. AFTERMATH.

As the Outsiders shut down generators and take down the Yamadenki, the rift shrinks in size until finally it closes. Everything at the park goes still now that there is no more power to run things. Some of the corrupted humans and hybrids still linger and will have to be taken down or captured but they are in weakened states now that the rift has closed.

Outsiders will be tasked with capturing the Rift-infected humans who will then be transported to LILITH base for treatment... if they can be treated, that is. Outsiders will also need to report for treatment. Characters may experience the lingering effects of the rift such as the vertigo, headaches, shorter tempers, and impulsive behavior. The LILITH medics aren’t sure what to do other than prescribing bed rest and maybe offering some medication for their headaches. The worst cases may be prescribed sedatives.

Normally, LILITH would order the Outsiders to retrieve specimens from the field but given the events that unfolded, they are told to standby until a special research unit can inspect the area for contamination and give the all clear.

▶ 006. AFTERWORD.

Welcome to our second Kaiju log! As before, all prompts are highly encouraged but OOCly optional. ICly, any characters suffering negative effects from the rift will recover within a week, though you are welcome to determine the severity of their symptoms during that time.

Feel free to NPC your characters' fights with the smaller kaijus. The main fight with the largest gecko will be determined via a HP-based system (See below).

All tags in this log count for 2 reward points each. Ask any further questions below!

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[ Winter "flashy bastard" Lastname absolutely knows a rehearsed bit when he sees one, but she's just so darn cute about it that he doesn't have the heart to crush the illusion. ]

I think we shall. You're truly the Goddess of Death, are you?

Yes.

[ What a kind man. He believes her immediately, not like some of those people who doubt her! ]

I also have divine authority over diseases, the sun and snakes. Oh, and gazelles.

[ ... It's a long story. ]

[ Look, when you come from D&D land, the gods are just sort of. Around. It’s not strange to see one. ]

That is… quite the spread.

[ “Gazelles” is so random. ]

I’m surprised LILITH managed to get their hooks into a divinity such as yourself.

[ She looks proud when he comments on this being quite the spread. ]

I would rather have had authority over sheep rather than snakes honestly...

[ Sheep are useful. Snakes just make it sound like she's evil because of all the negative associations. ]

Well, this is an avatar... [It's still a feat that LILITH could summon this vessel, but it would truly be worrisome if she had summoned her full divinity.] I-I suppose LILITH figure there is no chance for us to lose so long as a goddess in on their side!

[ That's totally the reason. Hopefully. ]

Ah, so they've captured a piece of your divinity, not the full thing.

[ Well, Winter's rather sharp if nothing else. He's decided that he has no reason to doubt her claims — what reason would someone have to claim to be an avatar of a god?

As they walk, another fake grave stirs to life, the rusted remains of a zombie rising from a hole in the ground, the synthetic skin sagging sadly off the metal frame. Winter nudges it with his foot. ]

Hm. I really have to wander what this place was like when it was fully functional.

Precisely. If they had the means to summon a full divinity, then their problems would already be solved.

[ Her old self is even more of a social disaster. She's also very cold, gloomy and resentful. It's a blessing they got this incarnation of her, she'd rather remain this way and never go back to her old self, thank you very much. ]

Probably even more insulting. [She looks with disdain at that zombie.] Is this truly what humans in this era think spirits are like?

I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s what they really think that’s what spirits are like. This is a place of entertainment. A carnival scaled up to the extreme. Whatever sells tickets and doesn’t truly frighten the children away is good enough.

[ That’s all the talking about capitalism they’re going to do today, though. ]

I’ve only ever been in one other “haunted house” like this, and it was just as fake.

Is that so...? But I thought those carnivals were...

[ Fun? Pretty? Intended to bring joy and laughter? It's very often the place of the first date in the romances she reads. Though now that she thinks back about it, there was this one book with a horror ride and it provided and excuse for the lovers to hold each other...

... She wonders if that's the idea here as well. Not that it really matters. ]

N-Nevermind. Let's focus on our mission.

[ She doesn’t finish her thought, but Winter answers anyway, ]

Some people like being scared. It’s fun for them.

[ A shrug. There’s very little that scares Winter, and frankly, he’s fine with that. The adrenaline rush might be a thrill, but not one he’s keen to chase.

Right, the mission. Leaving the zombie or whatever it was once upon a time behind, he continues on the way they were heading. ]

Do you think we’ll find anything of interest in here? Or just more props?

[ They like... Being scared... ]

I see... Modern humans are terrifying.

[ What's wrong with them?! Back in her days, they hated her because death is so terrifying. Does that mean they would love her now because it's fun to be scared? Are there people find death fun? What a ludicrous concept! ]

I think if there is something, it will be in the depths of this place. We can't stop after barely stepping in.

[ He just laughs at that. It’s human nature to enjoy such things, the feeling of danger without actual danger. Perhaps that does make them terrifying.

Anyway, further into the ruins of the Haunted Mansion they go. ]

Fair enough. I can tread confidently, now that I’ve a goddess at my side.

[ As if this man ever wants for confidence. ]

[ Unlike him, this goddess' confidence is terribly lacking. No matter how much she tries to pretend she's confident and sure of herself, her self-esteem is roughly on par with that of a dead turtle. So to hear that? Gives her just the confidence boost she needed! ]

Right..! [She nods with a confident smile.] I'll lead us to victory.

[ Obviously, if they get lost within the next two minutes, that'll kind of deal a blow to her reputation.

But surely not...! ]

[ Can they really get lost if they don’t have a destination in mind in the first place? They’re just looking around.

Traps on the other hand… ]

Tell me, should it come to blows, are you more of a melee fighter or do you prefer to stay at range?

At range I suppose, though I can handle melee combat if needed. [She extends her hand:] Meslamtaea!

[ A pretty massive massive spear appears in her hand. She's ready to fight if so needed!

Is the spear bigger than her? Yes. Does it look like it weighs more than her? Absolutely. Is she wielding it with one hand the same way someone would handle a stick? Yes, yes. Best not to read too much into it, it's a regular occurrence in her world. ]

Holy shit.

[ He takes half a step back, eyes a bit wide as he takes in the spear. Logically, he knows she’s a goddess and so carrying such a ridiculous thing is easy for her, but that doesn’t undo the way it looks.

Oh, right, tactics. ]

I’m a spellcaster, so range is my preference. With luck, we won’t have to worry about engaging anything up close.

[ Ehehe, it sounds like he's impressed! Never before have her efforts to look cool worked so well. Well, the spear is doing most of the work here... But she's the one who made it that way, so! ]

I can protect you if needed.

[ She looks very confident and sure of herself right now.

Which means, of course, a disaster is going to happen ere long. ]

[ A disaster like, perhaps, even the highly observant Winter being distracted enough to miss a pressure plate on the floor? And one of them stepping on it with a soft click?

Yeah, that's happening. He goes stock-still, breathes out a soft curse in Elvish, and with a sudden whirr of ropes on pulleys, a cage comes crashing down around them both, slamming to the floor with a thunderous noise. ]

[ Click...?

Gasps! What is the meaning of this? ]

H-Huh...? [And lo: all of her confidence vanishes within a split second. All that remains if sheer panic. She'd been so cool and confident, why is this happening to her? To them?!] What in the Underworld?

[She's the one who puts things in cages usually! What a strange experience. She doesn't like it, not one bit!]

Tch. It looks like we've sprung a trap.

[ He goes over to push on the bars, testing the weight of the cage. Definitely way too much for his abysmal strength stat. It was probably made to stop wayward experiments just as much as intruders. ]

I don't suppose you've the means to get us out of here, hm?

[ She puts a hand on the bar to test them as well. ]

I could probably break those bars... [They seem sturdy - perhaps even enough to resist her uncanny strength - but not protected against magic. Unfortunately:] H-However it is almost certain you would be hit by the attack as well!

[ She's not going to risk hurting someone who's been so nice to her! ]

[ Well, he sure doesn't want to get hit by an attack from a goddess. ]

I see. I was hoping not to have to use a spell, but if needs must. I can lift it telepathically.

Telepathically...?

[ Does he mean a form of telekinesis? That would solve the problem easily and unlike her attacks, not hurt either of them. ]

It sounds ideal, but... Why were you hoping not to have and use it?

My ability to use magic is not infinite, so I must use my spells wisely. That said, setting us free is definitely a worthwhile endeavor, so I don't mind it.

[ Spell slot management is very serious business. ]

I understand.

[ A common limitation of human and human-like bodies. She's in the same boat, technically. If only she had a Master to solve that problem... ]

I can give you mana if you need it. I have reserves in case of emergency.

It's less a matter of mana and more a matter of what my patron affords me. Still, I appreciate the offer.

Now— [ He lifts his hands, preparing to cast. ] Be ready to move. Not that I doubt my abilities, mind, but it would be a shame to ruin such a pretty face by dropping a cage on it.

▶ 001. IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL

▶ 002. BOO WHO?

▶ 003. LET'S GECK-GO!

▶ 004. A RIFT IN SPACE-TIME

▶ 005. AFTERMATH.

▶ 006. AFTERWORD.

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the way i definitely meant to write "telekinetically" instead

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