Twentieth session of The Abyss: Just horror after horror. What a session.
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After talking with the kimlaskan king (and going back to the flower field to get a Miew power-up, Mieu can fly now) the team goes to Malkuth to talk with the emperor. He says he's happy their countries can stop the war, and asks for a meeting of world leaders to discuss the following measures. But because half of the land is now underground, and they need a vehicle to get them all to Yulia City, the team decides to go after the flightstone, to power up the planecopter and bring the world leaders to Yulia City. Apparently, the flystone is being hidden by Dist on Daath, so that's where they go. They reach the Chatedral of Daath, and suddenly a paper plane hits Anice. It's from Dist, who teases the group in his own bombastic way. He challenges them to a duel somewhere else, but Jade inmediately points out Jade isn't there to stop them from getting the flightstone, so they just ignore him. They hear that one of Dist's hencheman might have some info about Dist (and by info, they mean stone), so they go back to the oracle headquarters for the guy. The place is filled with soldiers, but they are easy, and the place is open, so the team finds the hencheman, and politely knocks him down. They got the flightstone, so they talk about going back to Sheridan to repair the planecopter. But first, two things: talk with Chesedonia's chef of State Astor/Waluigi, and to check with some guy that is surprised I got a black sword. Apparently it has a very powerful fonon, and I forgot about it. Just keep going.
They go to Chesedonia, and Astor tells them that the war refugees are geting sick due to the miasma, and supplies are running low. Luke is frustrated because, even if they lower the lands safely, the miasma is still going to kill everyone. After a day of rest, they go with the world leaders to Yulia City, and have a great meeting there to solve this problem. They all sign the peace treaty, they all look happy, our heroes can continue their journey... and then Guy puts a sword under King Ingobert VI!!! WHAT!! WHAT THE FUCK, GUY!! He says his mother was sent to Hod as a sign of peace during the Hod incident, and that's the reason she died. But still, WHAT ARE YOU DOING GUY?!?! Duke Favre and all the rest of politicians pull a "I am Spartacus" and say it was their fault too. Apparently Van was there too, and that is how he knew key things about hyperresonance and fomicry. Ion tells Guy to stop (thanks ION!) and Guy says he stopped wanting revenge years ago. THEN WHY DID YOU DO THAT!!??!?!? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?!
After that... incident, they go to Sheridan to see how the operations on the Tartarus are going. The scientists seem to be doing a great job, but even then, the Tartarus can only last so long in the center of the Earth. They reequip things, they buy some guns, and they accept the scientists offerings.
And then things go south really bad.
Inmediately after exiting the workshop, Legrietta appears with her troops and surrounds our heroes. She has followed them thanks to Spinoza's treachery, and the Oracle Knights are seizing the whole city. Out of nowhere the old lady scientist appears there WITH A FLAMETHROWER AND ROASTS ALIVE SOME OF THE ORACLE MOOKS!!! The old scientists ask the team to run to the Tartarus before it gets captured, and they run away. At every corner of the city are oracle knights trying to kill them, and there is always civilians who use themselves as a meatshield. We can see multiple killings and summary executions to civilians, very grimm stuff while the heroes are trying to escape from the city and reach the harbours. Some kimlaskan units appear and manage to create a diversion for the team to escape. We suddenly see the old lady scientists being unceremoniously killed by an oracle soldier! You fuck, it was an old lady! An old lady with a flamethrower powered by her sheer baddassery! You can't kill her! Legretta just says it's the civilian's fault the amount of dead in the streets. You bitch! Class M and Class I's first and final collaboration rests upon the hands of our team now. The team reaches the docks, and there's a huge cloud of poisonous gas, which Jade clears inmediately. It turns out that was made by the remaining scientists, who put it there to block the oracle forces. When the team tells them the tragic news of their friends's deaths in Sheridan, Van just appears and sends a sonic wave to throw away everyone! Spinoza is with him, and it's obvious he's both guilty and afraid of Van. Jade attacks Legretta and goes to the ship, and while Van tries to kill Luke, the scientists go in his way. While all of the team goes to the ship, the remaining scientists are quickly killed by Van.
After a bit when the team shouts to themselves and argue a bit, we get a cutscene of the Tartarus using magic to enter the planet's core. Once they are there, Guy comments about a light he saw on the way there (foreshadowing incoming). They realize they can put their plan in motion because someone has erased part of the magical runes on the boat. And that person is... Sync! He apparently snuk aboard the boat and sabotaged it from within! So we have a fight! It's a decent fight, it used a lot of gels, but eventually he's defeated. His mask falls to the ground, revealing... ION!!! What!?!? Apparently, our Ion is a replica of the original Fon Master, who died of a rare disease without descendance. Sync is just a clone without the spiritual powers of the original. Ion tries to talsk to him, but Sync justs slaps him and throws himself out of the boat, effectively killing himself on the center of the planet. Everyone is shocked, Ion is crying, and they still need to remake the erased runes.
When Luke finished with the rune, he has one of his headaches and starts hearing a voice. It's not Asch, it's someone else, and when Tear is trying to see if Luke is okay, it possesses her. It turns out to be Lorelei herself, the seventh fonon's sentience! She says something is absorbing her power, and that she needs to be free to do something. Her message is cut and Tear falls almost unconscious. They decide to pick the planecopter and go to Belkend, so that Tear might get a xam after her possession (which is something I see very rarely in fiction, someone with enough common sense to go to a doctor after being possessed). When they go to that revission, the doctor tells them that Tear is poisoned with the miasma, and that she's dying. Everyone is shocked once again, Luke is trying to confort her, and Tear deals with it in her own way.
Well, that was a really bright and optimistic session! More other day, but other play like that is going to kill me! How long do I have left of the game!?
