Apocalyptic Logs

The reminder from the voices of their current state of dress sends a rush of embarrassment through the group and Yulia squirms a little, "right we're still in our swimsuits..." she looks around for somewhere to change before realizing even if she could find one, the voices would still be watching. She sighs and begins to strip in the middle of the terminal. Taking off her two piece swimsuit before starting to redress, the rest of the group begrudgingly follow suit except Lri.

"I don't really have an alternate outfit other than this swimsuit..." she points out.

The rest have finished changing and Yulia looks thoughtful, "well we have the Queen's armor, you could wear that?" she suggests and Lri looks thoughtful.

"As I understand it, Dahlia will not actually be on every floor, only floors that have some connection to the Tower Below already," Cherchiel states.

"Yeah... She appeared on the second floor, but Ash was on that floor, in disguise. She wasn't there on the third floor, the Tower Above, she was in the fourth floor forest, but again Ash was there and she was in the depths, where Liloth was. Then of course she was on floor five which was the Tower Below and then she was in floor six, Calumia, which had Aqua and Levateinn potentially. If there really is no Tower Below presence on this floor, there isn't any reason Dahlia would be here in either of her capacities," Yulia comments.

Goma speaks up suddenly, standing by the food, "food covered in something. Chemical, make food last," she explains, poking the hot dog, "weird goo," she adds with a sage nod and the rest of the party come over and notice that indeed the hot dog is covered in a strange, transparent gel that seems to have preserved the hot dog.

"Hopefully that..." Yulia hesitates, "e-reader?" she says testing the feel of the word in her mouth, "will shed some light," she says and then an announcement suddenly comes over the speakers, "your protection on behalf of Dreg enterprises would like you to know that it is still active as long as you remain in the terminal, but of course once you venture outside of the terminal area and away from the train, the Directive can find you, like it would have just now if not for me," Dreg announces, "you're welcome," he adds and Isalia looks around confused.

"What? Is he implying the wandering monster was here? I didn't see anything?" she asks.

"Was it... Outside? Did Dreg's presence prevent it from entering or something?" Cherchiel asks.

Yulia glances around, but she also spots no sign of anything that might have changed or been the presence of the floor monster, "well as long as his protection extends this far and we're not trying to rest, we can take advantage of that, let's go check that reader thing," she says.

Entering the bookstore the group approach the small brightly lit screen in the back and struggle to see what it says, eventually the rest backing off and letting Yulia read it alone.

"Dear Diary, this is likely my last entry. Del created that thing to protect us, but something went wrong, his sally as he called it, it's gone overboard, it... arrested Del yesterday and it's rounding up everyone in the city. It's standards are too high, it considers everyone a criminal. With Del gone I don't know if there's anyone who can stop it now. Everyone is scared, anyone might be next. It's always watching and just waiting for... For you to mess up," Yulia reads and then pauses before continuing, "Mess up like writing a diary entry critical of it that it's watching you write..." she finishes and coughs, "I don't think the writer of this 'book' lasted long after writing it," she says and then looks at the diary entry again, "Um... Does anyone know what the current year in the Tower is, cause the diary page is dated, but I have no idea what 7, Illid, 2476 means for us since I don't know what year it is in the tower and Illid is not a month I recognize assuming it's a month and not a weekday," she asks and Goma raises a hand.

"Goma know! It year 12 of reign of queen Margitte!" she says proudly and the rest of the group look to each other.

"13 ATF or 13 years after the fall of Levateinn," Lri supplies with a shrug.

"We measure our years since the split from the elves," Isalia admits.

"We've been measuring one solid block of time since the creation of the Tower or at least the One True God and that's quite a bit more than the date on the diary, but I don't know if that means much," Cherchiel admits with a shrug and Lemiel nods in agreement, apparently still not having left yet.

"Okay, so this diary could be hundreds or thousands of years old, or it could have been yesterday as far as the date is concerned," Yulia growls annoyed, "great way to learn the Tower doesn't use any sort of unified year system..." she grumbles.

"Knowing how long ago this happened isn't super important at least not for the moment," Isalia supplies, "I do have a more pressing question though," she states and the rest look at her curiously, "why is a diary page on display in a book store, a place I would assume is normally used to sell public works, not ones private diary?" she asks. The rest all look thoughtful about this and then everyone jumps as the e-reader suddenly flicks off, plunging the bookstore into darkness. The women hurry back out of the bookstore into the relatively better lit terminal, all of them seeming a bit flustered by the sudden startling experience.

"Okay... So," Yulia starts, but then stops, catching her breath a bit, "someone wanted us to see that and is somehow listening or watching us, "Could it be this Sally thing?" she suggests and the rest look nervous at the idea, a whirring noise catches their attention and the glance up, a simple mechanical device is mounted on a stem from the ceiling and it's twisting around, a simple glowing light on it focusing towards them, nothing else seems to happen and they watch it nervously.

"Back on the train or do we have more to do here? We haven't seen outside yet, but I'm a little scared I'll admit," Cherchiel asks.

(Health: 100%

Mana: 100%

Equipment: Simple black one piece swimsuit(cutrrently removed). Ceramic Beaked Mask, Reinforced Monastic Scapular, standard bra, Standard Panties, 2 poison gas grenades, 3 healing kits, 1 syringe of poison, 1 sewing kit, 1 vial of strong aerosolizing aphrodisiac, 8 days worth of rations, 3 two liter water jug, 1 health potion, 5 mana potions, 6 vials of Semen, Ornate Rapier (-3), 4 arrows, Quiver, 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Apples), Ash's Quiver, 6 charm arrows, Smithing Ingredients (3 steel ingots), 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Vegetables), Grenade Launcher, Grenade Bandolier with 3 grenades, Silver Staff (-2 added to the effect of all spells), Smithing Ingredients (1 silver ingot), 12 silver throwing knives, twenty feet of Spidersilk rope, 1 sack of Cooking Ingredients (Fish), an Onahole, a shard of Illustone, A tarnished Silver Ring of clear mind (warded against demons and angels, can bind a Demon or Angel), Demon Horn Hairband, Gloves of Harvest (-3, heal for all damage dealt), modest two piece swimsuit, Leech Mask, Blade of Envy, Cloak of Turbulent Waves, Binding Bandages, golden bangles, silk gloves, Siren Queen's black heavy armor, black bikini bottoms.

Spells known: Great Heal (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 25%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 12%)

Great Cure (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

Energize (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 25%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 12%)

Icicle (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

Masterful Unlock (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 10%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 5%)

Repair (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 5%-20% depending on factors, Cost currently halved rounded down: 2%-10%)

Undermine (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 25%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 12%)

Life Drain (lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 2% per 1% Health healed, Cost currently halved rounded down: 1% per 1% Health healed)

Blizzard (Mastered, cost: 5%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 2%)

Lightning Strike (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

Identify (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 10%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 5%)

Fireball (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

**** Lance (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

God's Light: (Mastered, cost: none. Passive ability. Fully heals mana and health outside of combat)

Fetish: Bondage Rank: 3, Masochism Rank: 3, Lesbian rank: 3, Submission Rank: 3, Incubating Rank: 1, Large Insertions Rank: 2, Degradation Rank: 2, Exhibition Rank: 1, Anal Rank: 2.

Status Effect: Permanent increase to physical attribute. Combat level raised to medium

Atrophied: Permanent Decrease to Physical Attribute. Combat Level lowered to weak. (Countered previous Permanent Increase)

Faithless: Yulia gains no effect from support spells cast on her, but offensive spells cast by her double in effectiveness. Lasts until faith is restored or replaced.

Psychosexual Break: In order to deal with her trauma, Yulia has begun to subconsciously fetishize her experiences.

Deflowered: Virginity Lost, sexual experience changed to: Inexperienced, non-virgin.

Companion: Cherchiel, Goma, Martin, Isalia, Lri.

Cherchiel Health: 100%

Cherchiel Mana: 100%

Cherchiel Equipment: Ultra Durable Spear( -5, -10 with Boar Mask), Ultra Durable Shield (-5, -10 with Boar Mask), Solanium Reinforced Bodysuit (add -1 to all physical actions, Staff (-1), God's Favour (Halo. Prevent **** one time), Bikini(currently removed), Boar Mask.

Cherchiel Status Effect: Divine Grace. Combat Level raised to High

Goma Health: 100%

Goma Mana: 100%

Goma Equipment: Ritual Knife of Escaping Threads (-1, -3 with boar mask, automatic -5 when being used against tentacles, webs or other binding methods), Hunting Horn (-2 for each ally affected), Reinforced and Nethicite Augmented Thick Hide Outfit (Negate most physical damage,), Swim Trunks (currently removed), tentacle dagger (-3), Scepter of Still Waters.

Goma spells known: Heal (Mastered, 15%), Puppet (Mastered, 10% per active command)

Goma Status Effect: Atrophied: Permanent Decrease to Physical Attribute. Combat Level lowered to weak.

Pregnant: Starting to visibly show her pregnancy. Combat Level already as low as it can go. No further effects at current.

Isalia Health: 100%

Isalia Mana: 100%

Isalia Equipment: Isalia's Sword (-3), Masterwork Trident (-3)(Unequipped), Isalia's Shield (-3), Black Leather Armor (becomes invisible in complete darkness), One Piece Swimsuit (Currently removed).

Isalia spells known: Life Drain (lvl 1, Unmastered, cost: 5% per 1% Health healed)

Isalia Fetish: Submission Rank: 1, Domination Rank: 1.

Isalia Status Effect:

Lri Health: 100%

Lri Mana: 100%

Lri Equipment: Twin Daggers (-3), black swimsuit, Veil of Hidden Depths.

Lri Status Effect:

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