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Game Update: May II 2377
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may ii 2377
EPISODE 2: Bathhouse Blitz! Save the Black Cat and the Golden Butterfly!
May 17 - May 24
Weather: Chalra City is enjoying a balmy and sunny late spring with some light rain here and there. The inland breeze from the nearby beaches brings a cool touch and the promise of summer, and flowering forsythia adds splashes of bright yellow to many parts of the city. The highs for the month average around 72°F/22°C, with lows around 50°F/10°C.
Star Suite: The Library has been unlocked! Every Nova Knight will also recover a memory from their past life. More details in the post below.
Recap: In Episode 1, you successfully investigated and foiled your very first plot by the enemy! After Nautis identified the high-end complicated-patterns fashion craze around the Dan Flashes boutique as originating from the Harbingers, the Nova Knights did some thorough investigating and then, in their first serious battle since the night at Lucky Stars, defeated Dan Flashes himself. You can find the previous month's event log here.
You can see what the Harbingers themselves are up to in the aftermath of the event in the Episode 1 Harbingers Gaiden! Mostly a lot of bickering, but they're now aware of the threat posed by the Nova Knights, and they're already making plans to eliminate them.
BY DAYLIGHT
⭐︎ Now that Dan Flashes is out of business, a new business has taken over the space — so quickly, in fact, that it doesn't seem like it was ever vacant at all. There's now a frozen yogurt joint in its place called FroYo Better Believe It!. The only thing Nautis finds suspicious about it is the fact that people like frozen yogurt at all.
⭐︎ Shelley Lustre, art teacher at Everwave Academy, has announced that he'll be holding an art contest for the students. The theme: hidden beauty. Given his already very polarizing personality and deep fondness for seashell-studded sculpture, this promises to be a very...divisive competition.
⭐︎ Public bathhouses are a staple in Chalra City, and they're no exception to the march toward modernization. Newer public baths are bigger and boast much more amenities than their more traditional counterparts, which is precisely why the historic Golden Butterfly Bathhouse is at risk of going out of business! Run by Granny Chocho, whose family has been operating this bathhouse for the last two hundred years, the Golden Butterfly is located right around where the red-light district and the most historic part of the city intersect. But what the Golden Butterfly lacks in fancy amenities, it makes up for with its historic charm, attentive service, and hard-scrubbed cleanliness — which is exactly what its faithful regulars have been trying to spread the word about.
If you pass through that part of town this week, you might meet some customers and even Granny Chocho herself handing out flyers to try and recruit new customers — and if you bring the flyer with you, you get 50% off your entry fee. Not a bad deal, especially if you like quiet and simple! It might be worth checking out, though you'd have to enter as a civilian.
At the end of the week, though, the flyers are a little different — now they're offering a discount on the new scented bath salts the Golden Butterfly is selling! You're not familiar with the brand — a pearl in a stylized oyster shell, bearing the text Seaside Lustre — but they're being advertised as being great for both relaxation and rejuvenation. Apparently, you can have it all!
BY STARLIGHT
⭐︎ Recovered Memory: In the couple of days following the Dan Flashes fight, everyone will recover a memory from their past life — specifically, their final moments in the fight against the Abyss. More than just the dying wish, this is a full memory of whatever last conversation, fight, or whatever they had before dying in the final battle aboard the Nashira. You're not required to, but you're welcome to detail the contents of your character's memory in the thread for recovered memories below. You can also keep track of your character's past life memories with our handy-dandy info page template!
⭐︎ Hideout Status: As a result of everyone's tidying efforts earlier in the month, it's actually pretty nice in here now! There's a big sectional couch for lounging around, at the very least. It's even starting to feel kind of homey.
Another fruit of your labor is that a new part of the crashed ship has become available: you can now access the Library, a modest-sized room with floor-to-ceiling shelves, every last one of them packed with books. Magic books! Much like a modern tablet but with actual pages, these individual books can hold a wealth of magically-stored information and recall what you wish to learn on its pages. Naturally, none of these books are in the local language, but in standard Hassalean. That's not a problem for you guys, though — perhaps due to your recently recovered memories, you all discover that you also have the ability to speak and read Hassalean, as though you simply downloaded the knowledge into your brain. Neat!
If you'd like to have your character peruse the library, you can reply to the thread below to have the mod roll for what they find.
There's also a small hydroponic garden along one corner, though nothing is currently planted in it.
⭐︎ The Rewards page has been updated with the next Star Suite upgrade: the next room to unlock is the Aquarium, and the reward will be a Silver-level Star Suite power. Save up those SP!
⭐︎ Intel: Thanks to the missions earlier in May, you all know quite a lot more than you started! To recap: you now know that one of the Harbingers is named Prince Shellustria, and his magic is of the Glamour domain.
You also learned that the data Nautis needs to locate the Star Map fragments was stored in the soul of the ship's mascot, a black cat named Niangniang with whom Nautis does not seem to have been on good terms. Nevertheless, she's definitely been reincarnated on Earth too, so you'll need to find this cat so Nautis can retrieve the necessary data. Apparently recovering data from someone's soul is a perfectly safe, painless process, but the way she emphasizes these points makes you feel like maybe she hopes something bad happens to this cat. Anyway, she's working on a means of tracking down this elusive mascot, so she'll get back to you with more info later!
⭐︎ The Fate of Nova Zenith: Late at night on May 17, everyone receives an uncharacteristically subdued update from Nautis. Apparently Nova Zenith read through some books in the library about what was known to the Hassaleans about the Abyss and decided to investigate on his own — and ran afoul of Prince Shellustria himself. Unfortunately, Nova Zenith was outmatched on his own, and before Nautis could summon any backup, he was overpowered by Shellustria and claimed by the Abyss. He isn't dead, but captive, and he can be saved if they defeat the Abyss — but all the same, the loss of the oldest member of their group will doubtless rock the rest of the Nova Knights.
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When they kick themself back to the lobby, they pick up their phone and start typing out a reply.
Sure
I'm getting my butt kicked anyway
Did you have anywhere in mind
And then, after another moment.
I just have to stop thinking about it for a bit
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what do you like to do? if u don't pick i'll make you take me to a stage show instead✨
oh, or maybe an action movie?
It's not like Maya thinks it's good— or okay, really— to not think about it forever. But getting out of the dwelling zone can be really tough. Sometimes funerary assistance had involved sitting with certain clients in their grief. Other times, especially when kids were around, it involved giving them a break from it.
If Maya can manage to give her new teammates— her new friends— anything, she's sure it's that.
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I'm already out so we can just meet up at the theater or whatever
They're being more curt than they'd like to be, especially when Maya is just trying to help them out. But everything just feels like... it's the only way they can react right now, which is miserable in its own right. They're already on the way out of the net café and hoping that they run into Maya fast so they can actually talk instead of flailing around inside their own head. They're not listening to anything in particular when they spin up their Walkman and block out the rest of the world with their big ear-covering headphones, but they just kind of look miserable.
Already on my way there
Thanks.
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Maya doesn't really mind the curtness. She's had to deal with worse things said in sweeter tones her whole life. At least Hope is pretty clear about their intent.
talk to you soon!
With that, Maya's off to the races. She throws on something fairly plain just because it's quick, a light-woven lavender sweater over a long, formless dress, like she's just going grocery shopping. Easier to avoid Morgan's interest that way, despite the bright orange socks she wears under the ensemble.
She walks the first block away from the Kurain House— and then picks up her skirt a bit, starting to jog the rest of the way. Still, by the time she's a block away from the theater, she slows back down to a walk.
Because Maya is cool, casual, and definitely didn't run here just to save money on taking any kind of transportation, though thanks to her efforts she's made it there well under that 20 minute timeline. She starts fishing out her phone to contact Hope, but looks around too, in case she can see them before calling.
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"Hey," they say, eloquently, as they walk towards Maya with the sounds of Afterglow bleeding through the speakers. They shove their hands back into the pockets of their jeans and give Maya the worst attempt at a smile that they think they've managed all week. (At this distance, it's clear their eyes are brown. Contact lenses are too much effort right now.) "Sorry about the way I was typing at you. I feel like..." A weak laugh. "Complete garbage. And I was on a losing streak, so that wasn't helping either."
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"Aw, thanks for looking out, but it's cool. That's why I'm here, anyway!"
All of a sudden, she puts on a coy smile, leaning forward, clearly teasing.
"See, I talked to the apothecary the other day and it turns out the best cure for the blues is to hang out with the one and only Maya Fey. Well, basically with any friend, but even better that it's me."
She doesn't... actually believe that, of course, but if making a joke of herself gives her the chance to maybe disarm someone, it's always worth the effort.
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They don't really have a clever way to follow that up, but it does make them feel a little less miserable, and that's kind of the goal, right? Besides, Maya is going to all these lengths to try to cheer them up in the first place. It would be rude to not show some kind of effort. (Fake it 'til you make it, right?)
"Well, I hope this movie's dumb enough to push everything out for a while. You like action movies?" they ask, realizing how little they know about Maya. "You kind of struck me as... either an artsier person or a die-hard comedy fan. Maybe both at once."