Chronicle Zero | Equipment - Chapter One: L.A.S.T. (Open)

Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:12 pm

Lex was too busy staring at what was in front of him in terror, some awe, but mostly terror. This was clearly not Tokyo, whatever he thought this was supposed to be definitely wasn't that. Here in front of him was a large shielding that separated them from Karakura Central, the name he had to be told over five times to let it finally sink in that this was not Tokyo. After about three minutes of feeling intimidated and overwhelmed by the unknown city, he finally shook his analyzing nature and cleared his throat before walking forward, motioning for Nina and Minerva to follow him inside. The three would naturally get inside without any problems, but Lex was going to have trouble finding his wristband device in this area and he knew it. Once they got within the border, it became a bit difficult for the young man to try and get past that this place seemed to magically exist out of nowhere in comparison to all of his reincarnations who seemed to have no recollection of this city.

"Master... are you ok? Where should we start searching for the wristband device?" came the inquiry from the small vixen walking beside him. With all of the hustle and bustle that seemed to occur within the busy streets however, she didn't find it wise to keep trailing beside the tall man and decided to quickly hop onto his shoulder, not liking the idea of someone accidentally stepping on her tail, or even her for that matter since they didn't seem to pay attention to where they were walking. With Lex's response to her question though, her concern was pretty ironic. "We don't know anything about this place, so here's what I'm thinking, I need you and Minerva to find a central library and find out as much information as you can about this place. When this place was created, who runs it, and other history pieces if you can manage." he said.

The vixen had a look of terror of her own as she realized what this meant. "Wait wait wait, you mean I have to..." she began, but was interrupted. She would feel herself get gently picked up and then set down from Lex's shoulder before feeling a pair of goggles being set over her face, the same ones that her master was wearing earlier while being in the plane. Out of nowhere though, she could see several different lines of text lining up on the right blue tinted lens of it, giving information of how far Lex's current position was, saying that it was currently mapping the area, and recording how many people were in the city, amongst other functions. "Yes Nina, you're going to have to work with Minerva and collect data for me. I'm going to be searching for the wristband with the Prentium tracer, hopefully it'll lead me to it, but we'll find out." he explained before pulling out a small circular device that seemed like a simple compass.

This of course was the very thing he mentioned that could possibly track the wristband due to the Prentium chip he put inside of it, hoping that this wouldn't take too long to find. Nina would grumble but quickly nod, knowing that it was necessary for them to move along with finding this item successfully. "Alright Master, we will take a couple of hours to study on this place and then come find you." the small vixen advised. With that, she would look towards Minerva with pleading eyes, already trying to plead with a sad expression so as not to suffer the fate that she feared of being stepped on due to her small stature. "Minerva, may I hop on your shoulder?" she asked before warily looking around at the numerous pairs of legs that were walking past and around them at such a fast speed, not wanting to have to evade and dodge through such a hectic maze. But she mentally prepared herself all the same in case the woman said no, which so far, seemed like the likely outcome.

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Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:51 pm

Minerva didn't take to kindly of splitting up. They have not done so before. Maybe wherever Lex is going he doesn't trust me to know, she thought to herself. Perhaps she was less trustworthy because she tried to shoot Nina? Minerva looked at Nina wondering if she allow her on her shoulder. She wanted to tell her that animals belong on the ground and wanted to try to shoot her again, however this was not the time to start an unnecessary argument. In any case Minerva wasn't irritated by the question.

“Sure, come on” she said picking up the animal and rubbing her face against the soft fur. “Hmm... that feels nice...” she said with a smile.

She looked towards Lex.

“Why do you wants us to go find information about the city. Why can't I come with you?” she said holding on to his left arm. “Do you think it is wise to have a young lady travel alone in this large, unfamiliar city? Whatever would I do if I was accosted by unsavory brutes in a dark alleyway?” She said with a pouty face.

Wed Dec 09, 2015 6:06 pm

At least she was being nice to their companion, that was all Lex could come up with before she decided to ask him multiple questions. It was fairly simple to him, Minerva was strong and he had no doubt that she could take care of herself, however he was sure that she didn't want to hear that, and instead wanted a more concerned outlook for her safety. He felt there was no time for such roundabout quips and formalities, simply being blunt about what he thought on the matter. "Minerva, from what I've seen so far from you, it's easy to tell that you can handle yourself against just any riffraff. If there was truly someone that could pose a threat to you, I think you wouldn't hesitate to come get me right away through teleportation to help you handle it. As for why you can't come with me, it would just be less time consuming if we split up and all do our equal share. Even if you don't find any clues about my wristband in any of the information about the city, it will still pose as useful for defensive, offensive, and even countermeasures in politics, economics, and just plain military might that these guys may have. There is no such thing as knowing too much information about something." he exclaimed, watching the woman pick up Nina and nestle her face into the vixen's fur.

He was sure that his explanation was necessary and wasn't on the harsh side, but from both his studies and most of his visions that he had from other reincarnations of Lex, some women had a tendency of blowing things out of proportion and dragging things out as far as misinterpretations. Hopefully Minerva was not one of those so called women, even though already past occurrences with her would have shown otherwise. "Look... this is a really important task, if I couldn't trust you with it then I would be trying to do it myself, but I believe in the both of you that you can do this without my supervision and that you'll do what you can to gather anything important." he said, feeling that to be a much better way of acknowledging his trust in Minerva.

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Fri Dec 11, 2015 2:19 pm

With a masterful display of sleight of hand, she was able to pick up a loose hair follicle off of his arm as she let go of him and placed it in a hidden pocket in the fold of her dress.

She did not like his answer one bit and expressed it by turning her back to him and crossed her arms. The way he explained the situation was suspicious. She tried to pretend to be cute to persuade him from doing things besides looking for his item, as she can tell that his curiosity for information might get them in trouble.

“I don't like this plan. It sounds as if you want me to act as a spy. I wouldn't think the people of this place would take too kindly of an outsider snooping around. Take a look...” she said pointing her finger all round. “You don't have any idea where you are do you?” she said as if belittling a child. From every direction she could feel all types of magical presences, many of which were strong. There was much more than Szlanor that it was almost overwhelming as she detected millions of unique magical signature of individuals or items in the city. “I was almost throw into prison barely a week ago and now we haven’t spent more than five minutes here and you already want to do something that may be seen as suspicious. It seems to me that you don't want to tell me what your goal is, what you are going to do with you equipment, so I am not go along with your plan. Don't forget, I decided to accompany you on my own volition and I can leave at any time also. If it is so important why don't you have your little servant Nina do it?”

She deduced going to a library would be a waste of time as it would be full of sanitized information made for public consumption. Anything classified or secret won't be available to just anyone.

“You can do what you want, however I am going shopping.” she said as she began to walk away with Nina on her shoulder.

Fri Dec 11, 2015 4:23 pm

He was in no mood for Minerva's playful behavior, but he did understand why she was concerned since it seemed she misunderstood what he had asked. He was not looking for any secret information, nothing of the sort. Anything was better than nothing, and he knew nothing about the place. Looking through a library's archives would not be nefarious or be seen as suspicious if it was already accessible to the public, he thought for sure that she would be aware of that by now. "Minerva, I don't have time for this, for all we know the people here could be bred criminals or something, the library would certainly have such information on file. We're just making sure that we have what we need to survive. It's usually not the physical confrontations that get people like us, we're far more than capable of handling ourselves; it's the lack of information on how things work in an area and their beliefs and what not. All I'm doing with this equipment is making sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands, no one can be trusted with it, period." he said rather bluntly before walking into the other direction.

Lex didn't like wasting time, and if Minerva wanted to go shopping, then that was what he would have to deal with. He would have considered getting the information himself, but he knew that Nina could do it on her own, he just figured that Minerva would have been a bit more cooperative. Apparently he was mistaken, and he couldn't take up any more time debating about it rather than trying to find his wristband. 'Nina, make sure you get that information about the city, by any means necessary. We are to take no chances with areas that we are unfamiliar with.' he projected in his mind, speaking to the small vixen telepathically. This connection was more of a spiritual connection through the contract that he had with the animal, as if it was a sword wielder and his Zanpukto. 'Yes my master, I understand, I will get that information no matter what. I will come find you once it is done.' she projected back before suddenly hopping off of Minerva's shoulder. She wasn't sure if the woman would protest or not, if she did, Nina would wait and try to hear her out, see if she would change her mind about gathering information for Lex. If not, she would dash through the citizen's legs and scurry around their feet, heading to the main city library to go through their archives of information.

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Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:19 pm

Without saying anything Nina scurried away through the streets. Minerva assumed that Nina would go ahead with finding a library just as Minerva suggested. Lex walked away after his comment leaving Minerva to walk off in her on direction.

After making sure that she was out of visual range by the both of them, she entered a nearby alley way and summoned a clone of herself which came out of a portal next to her and performed the usual curtsy in respect.

“Alright, you job is to follow Nina and see if she carries out her duty.” Minerva joyful explained to the clone.

“Yes, Mistress.” The clone said happily.

The clone left the ally way using Nina's unique magical signature to guide her to her and it didn't take long to find her. The clone stayed about thirty meters behind in the crowded street just barely in visual range. As for Minerva herself, she left the alley and came upon a nearby fine dining restaurant with outside service. She eyed a waiter, a handsome young man with purple eyes and short, blue hair and about five feet eleven inches tall. She purposefully bumped into the waiter, pretending it to be by accident, knocking the charger and the food and drink on the ground.

“Oh my...I apologize, I should watch where I was going!” she said very convincingly, trying to help by dropping to her knees and began picking up the dropped, broken items.

The waiter, in his dark blue and white uniform, himself was befuddled and began to instinctively apologize and clean up the sudden mess. Minerva pretended to be nervous and her hands were shaking while cleaning up the broken glass and when the waiter tried to tell her that he could do it and reached for the broken glass, she made sure to 'accidentally' stab the edge of his finger in the confusion. He winched at the pain and a few drops fell on her hand. She withdrew her hand and stood up.

“Again, I apologize, I'll clean my hands in the bathroom!” she said before bowing and entering the restaurant and headed straight to the girls bathroom. In an empty stall, she smiled and brandished a small rectangular plastic slide about a inch long and half an inch wide and began to scrape the waiters blood off. Then, she revealed a syringe and began to suck up the as much as the blood as she could. After putting back the plastic slide, she pulled out a small glass vial, that already had a liquid mixture in it. She carefully spayed the contents of the syringe in the vial and shook it for a couple of seconds, seeing the bloods mix with the mysterious liquid, before swallowing the entire amount as if she was drinking from a shot glass. With that she had acquired the waiters signature genetic makeup.

She left the restaurant and returned to the alley making sure no one saw her. When she was satisfied she immediately transformed into a exact copy of the waiter and left the alley and began to hone in on Lex's magical signature, who was only a few blocks away. She stayed back about twenty meters. He shouldn’t be able to tell that Minerva was shapshapeshifted unless he was able to detect her specific magical aura. Like wise as far as she could tell, Nina shouldn’t be able to recognize the clone as not the real Minerva as it possessed the exact aura as her.

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Fri Dec 11, 2015 8:19 pm

The two would be none the wiser that Minerva would be relaying her own spy mission of sorts, going through such lengths to follow and observe the both of them from a distance. Nina could indeed feel certain presences, and after being around Minerva, she could feel that her clone was around. She had no clue however that it was just that, a clone, compared to the real one, just thinking that it might have been one of Minerva's shenanigans to see if she would in fact do what Lex asked of her to do. She would not oppose, letting the lavender haired woman trail behind her as she walked towards a nearby park. What did this leisurely park have to do with gaining information? Perhaps Minerva wouldn't catch on right away, but she would soon see just how important it was for Nina all the same. The small vixen dashed all throughout the park, seemingly running in small patterns of circles and in random locations as she scurried about. Finally, as if something had answered an unspoken question she had asked, she suddenly stopped running all over the place and carefully approached a lone group of tethered canines, watching them bark at her approach. She wasn't fazed by their empty threats, staring at them intensely the moment that she got about ten feet away from them. The owners of the dogs were rather startled about the approaching vixen, unsure why such an exotic looking creature was here and why she was staring down their pets in the way that she was.

The couple bickered about it for a few moments as they turned towards each other and then back at the vixen, a bit nervous that the unknown entity would try to attack their cherished canines. But that didn't seem to be the case, the graphite furred vulpine continuing to stare at the dogs with what seemed like unrelenting resolve, staying as still as a statue for more than an entire minute straight. Once it reached an unheard of three minute mark however of the vixen not moving and just staring intensely at the dogs, the owners decided that the awkwardness had reached its peak and that it was time for her to go. The moment that Nina saw them get up from the bench however, she would suddenly scurry away just as fast as she had approached, dashing towards the exit of the park in what seemed like full stride, dodging baby strollers and old men with canes before making her way straight to the library.

Nina had a gift of gathering information from anyone as long as she remained in their vicinity, but there were several factors that were heavily involved, like their cooperation to actually let her gather whatever details she wanted from their mind, their intelligence level, the amount of time allowed to get this information, and their awareness that it was actually happening. Because these were practically normal animals, house dogs that were taken out for a walk in the park, there wasn't that much intelligence to resist her probing powers of information, allowing her to get what she wanted in a matter of three minutes instead of the usual ten. However, in that same regard, there wasn't much to gain in the first place that was crucial besides the bare minimum that she wanted, the location of the main library, and where the address was that they called home. She wasn't able to get the library, but a quick tour to a nearby hotel where she could snag a tourist book near the entrance could quickly take care of that problem. She was basically doing a scavenger hunt before actually reaching her destination, but it wouldn't take but an entire hour before she finally made it into the discovered library. How would she actually go about obtaining this information? There was only one way of course! "Ahem... excuse me... excuse me! Yes, you, hi there. I'd like to register to this library please so I can start looking through some information." she said rather cheerfully, the puzzled receptionist looking down towards the floor at what seemed to be a talking fluff toy from how small she was. "Errrr... what?"

Across town...
Lex was casually strolling down the sidewalk as he looked down at his Prentium compass, occasionally looking up to see where he currently was and check his surroundings before glancing back down at the compass. He wasn't sure why, but from the looks of it, the device seemed to be pointing him towards the exit of the city. This didn't seem right, not one bit, as there were several red flags that seemed to go off in his mind. First, why didn't his compass direct him towards anything when they were already in the forest no less than two hours ago. If his advanced wristband was out there, the compass should have surely picked up on it while they were out in the forested area.

Perhaps he was just jumping to conclusions, maybe it was just on the outer skirts of the city and wasn't even in the forest. A few more minutes of walking cleared that theory right up, the young man finding himself at the edge of the city where he was staring right at the checkpoint leading in and out of the city. "Well... shit..." he grumbled lowly to himself. The compass could have been broken for all he knew, but there was always that chance that it was just fine, and that something Prentium related was certainly out there in that vegetation. That was a chance he couldn't risk, other people finding his equipment or weapons and then using it to wreak havoc on the world. He would have to eliminate the possibility that it was out there, and with an irritated sigh, the martial artist made his way outside the barrier of Karakura City and traveled out towards the forest. All the same, he was unaware of Minerva following him, as his scouter didn't pick up her magical aura nor did it sift through the large amount of people that he was walking past who seemed to have unique magical atmospheres and spiritual energies that were all different from each other. It was too much for his scouter to try and pinpoint anything specific with such little understanding on mapping and recording both magical and spiritual properties. He would just have to find out the hard way that he was being followed outside the city limits.

-Lex exits topic to Gaia's Plague (Dawn of Madness Mini-Event Series)-

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Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:06 pm

Artist: Homestuck OST - Song: Moonsetter - Word Count: 672

A wonderful adventure was to be had by Selia, a childish shinigami with a few odd features. Enough features that people either adored her or feared her, but no matter the case, it was still something that instantly got the attention of anyone within the same area. The girl found herself stepping along rather awkwardly throughout the stress of Karakura. She was supposed to meet up with a friend here... But, sadly, they had not shown up. Instead of her usual robes when on duty, she was in a simple outfit for today. A light blue, vibrate shirt with ruffles along the collar and near the base to add a bit of flare. The sleeves only went just past her shoulders, to reveal rather slender arms. Normal, blue jeans adorned her legs with awesome, to totally wicked rad sneakers that were black with blue laces. An obvious color scheme for her, and an easy guess as to what he favorite color was.

Adorning her body were parts that belonged to a dragon rather than a child, more specifically, a water dragon. Draconian horns jutted out from the top of her skull, poking past blue, flowing hair that fell down to her back. They seemed small and generally not useful for combat, but they had two sharp points each. Just below the horns were large fins that seemed to function as her ears. Every loud noise in the distance urged them to extend outwards and stretch out to be more receptive to sound. The last feature visible upon her face were sharp fangs. Every time she opened her mouth, sharp fangs were revealed. They weren't all too special really, just plainly visible and seemingly resembling sharper canines. The last feature was a large, thick tail that dragged along behind her with fins adorning it's length. It followed the same color scheme as her and adorned blue scales, able to reach the ground with it's length. Overall, this girl could be seen as Draconic by many, but lacked the actual abilities those of that race could sport.

What was her relevance? Well, rather bluntly, she had obtained a wristband from who knows where. It wasn't really hers but... Didn't look like it belonged to anyone else, and she seemed rather adamant about keeping it for herself. With how she was holding her arm outwards and staring at it, it was quite easy for anyone to spot it from a distance if they were looking for it. The coloration of this device seemed to be a light gray, wrapped around tightly on her wrist as a screen was facing Selia's face. The girl was baffled, in awe, totally excited to have a new toy to mess with. Currently, the screen was turned on, it's light somewhat visible as the girl's fingers tapped at the screen rather quickly with too much pause in between. She totally didn't understand it, and her intelligence would shine oh so much here... Not. It was totally confusing her, and with every passing moment, the large smile upon her lips began to slowly fade away into a grown.

This frown continued to grow until it was a pout, lips curling downwards as her cheeks were puffed out similar to a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. Luckily, she didn't want to really throw it unto the ground, but rather, kept it on as a normal bracelet. Hands fell down to her side as she leaned against the wall of a nearby building. Her friends still didn't show up... Well, all she was left with was her own thoughts now, and being alone didn't really appeal to her. So, might as well just think of how the other's will react when she showed this off. "I hope Hayden likes it. It's like, super cool and stuff and got lights... Maybe he'll know how to use it- Ohh, maybe it like, let's me look up those funny videos he sometimes shows me on the computer! Oh that'd be really cool... Darn, dunno how to use it though..."

Sun Dec 13, 2015 6:34 pm

For Minerva's clone, following Nina did not seem to be a fruitful endeavor. For some reason Nina ran around the park for what seems to be no reason whatsoever. Nina seemed to be staring at a pair of dogs and barely moved. Watching this, the clone decided to pretend to read a newspaper on a bench some distance from this sight, keeping an eye on this odd behavior. In an instant, Nina suddenly bolted toward the park exit forcing the clone to swiftly follow. Nina was fast but the clone was in no rush, and she didn't want to raise suspicion by being in a hurry. Se took her time and tried to figure out what was Nina doing. The clone could only speculate.

It was some time before the clone would catch up and be in visual range of Nina again and this time she found her entering what seemed to be a library. Is she just going to walk in there, the clone thought to herself. Would they just let a random animal roam around? She though about her choices. She wanted to walk in but feared being seen by Nina. However she couldn't see what was going on. She continued to stand outside behind a food cart deciding what to do and how to approach the situation if she decided to go in.

Maybe another disguise was in order. She spied a high schoolgirl in a black and white sailor uniform walking by and studied her for a couple of seconds, memorizing the girls physical characteristics. She went to the side of the building and transformed into that girl, with long black hair with a red hairband and brown eyes. This version of the shapeshift however would only last for a short time. Satisfied with the look, she proceeded to go through the front door of the library...

Minerva, disguised as the waiter, was concentrating so much on being inconspicuous that she didn't realize that they were heading outside the city. Was this a mistake? It didn't seem that Lex had noticed her. Perhaps his locator was malfunctioning? Something didn't feel right but Minerva pressed on and followed regardless.

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-Minerva exits topic to Gaia's Plague (Dawn of Madness Mini-Event Series)-

Sun Dec 13, 2015 8:00 pm

The librarian couldn't help but laugh nervously at what she was seeing. She knew about sentient creatures that spoke clearly in this world, after all, the act of Shinigami turning into animals was a bit known around the world at this point, talk of conversing pets and smarter than average animals spreading rumors by this day and age. But the woman didn't expect to actually see one, a live talking animal who was possibly a spirit? "Ummm, errrr... suuuuure..." she said slowly before walking over towards the computer next to her receptionist counter. She began to ask the required information of the vixen; where she lived, her date of birth, her name. Nina gave her real first name, but not her last, telling her that her name was Demina Miyuzaki, the surname of the family that she had been around while obtaining information from those dogs in the park. She also gave the location of said family thanks to that information, and finally, a false date that she was sure the librarian wouldn't look up due to her being an animal. There were certain perks to being a cute and fuzzy animal she figured, but she was sure that she would find its downfalls soon enough.

After registering with the library, the crafty female fox would bow with a 'Danke.' and dash towards one of the computers, seeing quickly that the revolving chair was too low for her so she scurried around taking random books from shelves to stack onto the seat of the chair before hopping onto it. She positioned herself to take out a small USB wireless chip that she could plug into the back of the monitor, directly linking it to the computer before she started pressing a series of keys in front of her on the keyboard to access the mainframe. It would seem that the vixen knew exactly what she was doing, but she didn't have a clue, instead, the device that she had put into one of the USB slots was in fact a custom program, network, and operating system reader, allowing the scanner and pair of goggles to not only copy data and display it onto the device, but also give a detailed yet simple tutorial on how to operate the system.

This caused the vixen to seem like a natural at using the computer, but she was simply reading the text on the blue tinted lens of the goggles on her face on what to press and what programs to use. In a matter of moments, she was massively copying information and data into the USB storage device, she would sit patiently at this point, not finding anything else to do now that her mission was practically complete, simply waiting for the download and syncing to the scouter Lex himself was wearing to be complete. Nina was unaware that Minerva was sneaking up on him at this point, not sure what her goal was since she knew in the beginning that she was following her. With a quick look around and not seeing her, she didn't see the lavender haired woman so she assumed that she was not around. Little did she know that a dragon girl within the city was holding their precious treasure that they came for in the first place, the wristband that could control every piece of Lex's advanced equipment. Without the password and memory scan, it would be tough to crack, but not impossible. Nina just hoped that she would be able to find the device before it fell into the wrong hands.

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