Disgaea - Seeds of the Netherworld - Arc 1 - Anansia Falling - IC

[Shoryu]

Group 1:

The world has descended into Chaos, allies have turned suspicious of eachother if not worse, memories are vanishing and conciences weakening, people are becoming various forms of monsters and demons.

Of course, the state of the rest of the world is the last thing on 'our' minds right now as the Kingdom of Viruto is under-seige by it's own soldiers obeying a king who's gone mad from the corruption and paranoia.

Imagine this, but at dusk and on fire XD well, not 'totally' on fire, but fires here and there.

The town surrounding the Castle fortress was in an up-roar as the demonically twisted Castle guard spread out in every direction seeking out anything that seemed even the tiniest bit 'not' perfectly obedient to the king, and that was quite a few actually, though things weren't quite so easy anymore. Even the normal 'peasants' were being turned into demons, which meant they had power now, maybe not as much as the guard, but enough that when the slaughter began they fought back both by will and by nature, and carnage erupted throughout Viruto.

The only saving grace was that the gaurd only came from one direction, the center of the settlement, the walls around the town were unmanned because of the king recalling all obedient guards to the castle, so it meant anyone who wanted to flee was pretty much free to do so, and many did. Many ran off in random directions, some even 'towards' the guards, but a few were smart enough to flee to the west where there'd be the thick Virutian forest to hide in, a perfect place to vanish for the night and be gone in the morning before the castle guard decide to scour for left-overs.



Anyone who knew Patrick would know what he'd already be doing at this point... Running for his bloody life as fast as he can, his preference to avoid getting into a fight with the royal guard all too obvious as he floored it down main street towards the western wall, Thunder gun over one shoulder and his pet fox floating along behind as fast as he could go.

[Color="Red"]"Gyah, Bloody hell, I can't believe this shit... I always thought I wouldn't have to run from the guard unless I blew up half the village with one of my experiments... But this is just... wait... what's..."[/Colotr]

He paused suddenly as he saw something in an alley-way he was passing... 2 plant demons doing... things... It was strangely... Arousing... and He wasn't sure if he should be disturbed, intrigued, or worried if there's some kind of freaky spore in the air messin with him, but he soon had his attention wrenched away by something of a battlecry behind him, and looked back to see one of the Twisted Royal guard chasing him "SHIT!"

He acted on instinct then, immediately whirling around and bringing his rifle to bear, Discharging a Sizeable bolt of lightning at the Metal covered man, though it only seemed to stun him for a moment, though that was long enough for Patrick to shoulder the rifle again and get bookin like his ass was on fire, trying his best to ignore the dull heavy thuds of the Heavily armored knight behind him.

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Group 2:

Deals were made, teams were formed, and orders were given, and before long portals began opening between Laharl's Netherworld and Anansia, producing teams of demons on every continent of the freshly invaded world.

One such team was dispatched to a location known as the Grand Cliff, a Towering natural formation, one side overlooking the ocean, the other overlooking land, and on it's tip once stood a huge fortress, already having been torn apart and crumbled from within weeks before and now few if any creatures remained in this place.

From the High point of one of the cliff edges someone can see for 100's of miles around and get a good view of numerous city's and kingdoms, though the range of travel would take days to travel as far one can see from so high.

It was up here that a portal split the air, though it wasn't close enough to the edge to risk throwing someone off, and from within stepped a deceptively 'handsome' man, seemingly unarmed from the out-side, but he immediately began walking about, actively sniffing the air and listening for any potential creatures intending to give him trouble, and of course waiting for his 'comrades' to join him on this side of the portal.

[Feel free to make up things to see in the distance =3 I haven't detailed everything ahead of time on purpose, there's plenty of room for each of us to set things up ourselves. XD]

[Loremaster]

Lizzie watched all the commotion of hordes and hordes of demons entering the dimensional gates without batting an eyelash. An unadvised demon could easily confound this with an invading army of some powerful overlord attempting to expand their realm, but for her it was obvious this was nothing more than Demonic diplomacy at its finest. Regardless, all she wanted was for this to be over, to turn back to her original form, and forget all about this nightmare with plenty of booze. And thinking so, she entered her designated portal.

Soon the scenario changed to a quieter and desolated hill, miles away from any settlement. 'This already feels like any other netherworld.' Sighing over being sent to a losing situation she watched with some interest the only other visible demon there, especially his ears and tail. 'Sure he is stronger than me but nothing I couldn’t take in one hit before, if anything I can let him do all the work I guess.'

After a short moment of stretching her arms and legs she sat on the nearest flat rock to wait for the rest of the “team”. Quickly bored and irritated over the absurd of being a few hours without good sake or anything worthwhile and stuck who-knows-where, she asked her only companion:

"So Wolfman did they told you anything about what we are supposed to do on this backwater place? I doubt any respectable overlord would settle here."

[malmshodes]

Rasmi didn't like to travel through portals. It wasn't that he didn't like new scenarios, which was true. His body just didn't react well with concentrated magic, regardless of it's purpose. Not that he would voice any complaints on the matter. Nobody listened to slime. The magic surged around him, making the matter that was connected by nerves quiver with pain. "I hate these things." The slowly leaking string of slime bubbled as it poured out of the portal like pancake batter poured out of a container. "They never work well with my constitution." The mess of green slime flowed into a puddle. Two purple, glowing orbs flashed into life, and moved around, taking in all of the surroundings. They stopped on the two demons a few feet away, and turned to look back at the portal. Bubbles, like the top of a boiling pot of water covered the slime's surface. "I believe I went in there with a skull." A few seconds later, a demon's skull came tumbling out, and smacked into the puddle of slime, sending bits flying. "Thank you." It muttered before turning it's attention to his comrades in arms.

"Oh good." It's eyes moved from one person to another, and then split so each was looking at a single demon. "I'm glad I'm not the first one here. That means less waiting. Uhm. Are we still waiting? Please say this is everyone? Oh god! I'm bored already!" It stopped, and it's eyes turned towards the horizon. "Ooh. What's that?" It pushed its way through the dirt of the new world, and peered down into the landed below the cliff. "So this is it, huh? There's just so much land, and so many kingdoms. is that an ocean way back there? Holy crap! Please tell me weren't not going to have to cross that, and deal with whatever is beyond." It turned it's skull, without moving any other part of it's mass. "It's just the land directly below we have to deal with, right?" Somehow, without a mouth or eyebrows, the orbs managed to look anxious, angry, sleepy, and mildly excited at the same time.

[Shoryu]

Silas remained quite for a moment, his tail occasionally whipping about as he scanned the air, then soon spoke while standing near the edge of the cliff and looking waaaaay down at the ocean below "Now now, Overlords love to plot things that we don't know about, our job is to find out what and get in their way if possible... If he happens to be just too powerful for us though, then we report in and maybe a 'war' will start... plus, don't forget, even a backwater world can be turned into a respectable netherworld with the power of an over-lord transforming it." He proceeded to stretch out then and flop to sit on the edge while continuing to wait, actually idly stroking over his own tail as a way to distract himself.

Though the gooey noises soon drew his attention and he glanced back, actually chuckling slightly at the reactions of the slime, that and the fact a 'slime' was coming along for the mission "Heheh, don't worry ya self too much about it now, Chances are it'll be a good long time before you gotta go through another one, and you'll be tougher by then I bet." Of course the following behavior actually made him burst out laughing much more openly. [Color="Black"]"HAHAHAH, wow, I hope that impatience means you'll be faster than a normal slime is... And Lesse, 3 of us here, we should only be waiting for 1 or 2 more to show up, then again, nothin says we can't go for a little look around and 'secure the area', I hear ones a real fire-cracker that'll be plenty noticeable when he shows up, so we've got some 'wiggle room' in terms of where to wait for allies... I smell a few left overs that couldn't fit in with larger groups, though their not close enough to hassle us right now." He actually looked over the land-scape as well and shook his head, eying a castle town well into the distance that had heaps of smoke coming from it. "Heh, I doubt it, with how many teams were being sent here I imagine we just cover what we can see and gather what info there is to gather, maybe not only 'directly' below, but at least until we find enough information.... you're about the most expressive slime I've seen by the way, heh."

[Ionion]

Agni had been doing the same thing he was always doing, training. It was a slow process, but he was gradually getting back to his former glory. When he got the order to go to another world to stop a rival overlord he saw this as the perfect chance to regain his lost power. It took him a while to get back to a portal as he had ventured pretty far from it. When he arrived back at the castle he saw that there weren't a lot of demons left to leave. He asked the gate keeper where he had to go and once she had opened the portal for him he stepped through it.

When he arrived on the other side he saw that he was on a very high cliff and there were 2 possibly humans and 1 slime. This made it feel like he had been placed in a low level team. Literally too as he was at least a head bigger than the big human. It seemed like the human had a kind of leader role here. Perhaps he was a tracker, those are always handy to find targets. He approached them and asked the possible tracker: "So what's the current situation?" He wasn't one for long sentences, short and compact was perfectly fine for him. He didn't talk that much anyway as in his old netherworld talking things out was considered weakness. He also opened up his shoulder scales to release some excess flames. He was able to keep the constant flames inside his armor unlike great wyrms, who continuously waste flames.

[malmshodes]

"The slime moved a little closer to the wolf man to look down and see the same things he saw, a thin trail of slime followed behind like really moldy crumbs nobody would think of eating, which actually would've made them perfect for a trail. The slime's body bristled with bubbles since that was as close as it was ever going to get to the look of an animal with it's hair standing. "Strength has nothing to do with it." It wiggled it's body like a child that knew it was supposed to shake something to show approval, but still wasn't sure which part was supposed to go where. "Our bodies just aren't good with magic, especially teleportation. You may have never noticed it, most demons haven't, but it gets everywhere, and messes with everything it touches. Why, it's amazing I'm still standing. Wait, no. It's amazing I haven't become less shaped than I already am." More bubbles appeared in another display of agitation. "Oh. It's awful. I'm going to be slithering funny for a week." It perked up just barely at the tracker's words. "Why thank you. They were my mom's, I think. Whose where they?" It looked up at the sky, as if waiting for an answer before bounces the area around its head like a shoulder shrug. "Oh well. I guess it doesn't matter know. Whoever they were, they won't be needing them now, at least not any time soon. There's always ways around everything in a nether world."

The slime paused, and it's head floated up, and looked over the wolf man like a house on a magic beanstalk that was covered in greasy green maple. "Hey! Someone new came. Good." It's body moved around the wolf man's, and started towards the new comer. "Nothing much. We're, me and those two just got here. I'm not sure if you could consider that a situation. I mean, yes, it's technically a situation, but other than waiting in case someone else is going to show up, there's nothing that can be done about. I could be wrong though. That's happened more than once." It saw the flames come from the newcomer, and shot flowed back with a panicked yelp. "Okay then, I think I'll just stay over here, behind this guy, away from you, and all of that extra heat. I don't like heat, or cold, or lightning, or anything else for that matter. I'm pretty picky about my likes. Ooh." It's head turned started moving towards a squirrel that was watching the demons nervously.. "I like that. I don't know what it is, but I like it" The squirrel, turned and scurried up the tree in a freight. "Pooh."

[Loremaster]

“If you say so.”, lacking any other discussion topic she just kept staring towards the sky and the scenario beneath, hoping something more exciting would happen. Beyond the werewolf’s rhythmic caresses to his own tail or the noise of the closest wildlife. After what seemed an eternity the slime appeared and she, too stunned by its speech, didn’t participated on the ensuing conversation. ’Weren’t slimes incapable of thought? What a curious discovery…wait bad reaction too magic you say…’ and so Lizzie began grinning like a madman, thinking on how lucky she was that now there was someone she could 'play with' to relieve her increasing boredom. Before putting any such plan to action though, the suggestion to actually DO something was presented and she almost jumped of excitement “Finally, let’s go explore or something already, that overlord won’t find itself.”

Then, the most humanoid dragon she had seen until that moment showed itself, wingless and all.‘Was this team specifically made based on the weirdest members they could put? By the time this mission was over, at this rate, it wouldn’t be a surprise if that werewolf was actually a rainbow colored vampire, the slime a secret experiment, and she would actually be a mothman in disguise.’ Trying to clear her head of such silliness, she just watched the newcomer and the slime, commenting when (un)appropriate “Can’t we just go already? By now anyone left is probably hopeless lost if they couldn’t even have the work of finding the portal and I don’t plan to waste more of this day without at least Sake or a Bloody Mary
.”Of course lacking the funds, there was always looting, especially on an apparently lawless world like this…