Fish of Oblivion

Digimon- [The Uncanny Frontier]

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Digimon- [The Uncanny Frontier]

Digimon- [T̼͕͜h̢̟̼e͇̝͜ U͚͎n̦̘c͚͓͇a̠̫͎n̼͍͍n̻̻̙y͚̦͚ F̞͚͇r̢͜o̡͉͖n̡̢̦t̢̙i̺̼̟e̟͇͖r͓̫͔]

Tokyo, Japan, 2019. Over the last fifty years, rumours have spread around the world about how the ever-forward march of technology has brought man into contact with beings outside of our understanding of the world. Perhaps among whispers of moth-like humanoids haunting small American towns and plesiosaurs who survived the K-Pg extinction event to thrive in a Highlands loch, you may have heard of Digimon; monsters of all shape and sizes from a world just out of our reach, where matter is digital rather than analog.

The truth is, if you’ve heard of one, you’ve heard of the other. Though they long predate the Digital Age, recent technological developments have brought us back into regular contact with these beings, a state of affairs that the powers that be in both the Analog and Digital Worlds have come to an uneasy accord in order to navigate. Though this accord holds steady for now, the fact remains that both worlds fear this convergence as an omen of some great cataclysm; for as the boundaries of our worlds become blurred, so too do the boundaries between their inhabitants…

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The Rules and Such

• 1- First and most important rule, be respectful towards other players both in and out of character. OOC-wise, disagreements can and will happen and we're presumably all grown-ups here, so we'll only prod you if we think you're seriously crossing a line. IC-wise, besides the usual warnings about godmodding and powerplaying, if your character interacts with a character controlled by another player, please allow them an adequate chance to respond before moving your character on.
• 2- Myself and @RBYDark are perfectly happy for everyone to get creative and passively build the world with their characters, but in return for this respect we expect that a) you check with us beforehand about anything that would majorly affect other players and their characters, and b) if we ask you outright to drop a certain idea or stop doing something, you listen to us (we're perfectly happy to hear you out 99% of the time, but we will be firm when we need to be).
• 3- Like we said in the Interest Check, this RP is going to have a significant horror theme and approach some fairly heavy subjects, but we will be doing our best to avoid crossing the line from 'dark fantasy' to 'edgefest'. When in doubt, keep it PG-13, but generally try and keep away from excessive foul language, violence or grodiness for the sake of grodiness: you're welcome to ask us if anything you have planned or ready to post is inappropriate, but we'll keep to gentle reminders otherwise unless you're consistently crossing the line.
• 4- Canon is wildly inconsistent with the power levels of certain Digimon and the official profiles from the Reference Book are prone to some pretty remarkable hyperbole. As such, certain Digimon may be nerfed while others might be buffed above their showings in canon material; please understand that this is for the sake of maintaining a steady internal balance and avoiding situations that might seriously derail planned plotlines.

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Background and Lore

Digimon-Human Partnerships

In this world line, there are two kinds of Digivice and thus two kinds of Digimon-Human partnership; D-Tector contracts and the more informal partnerships enabled with the Digivice iC.

D-Tectors are ‘the’ partnerships of the story in the same way a partnership facilitated with a Digivice is ‘the’ partnership in Adventure or Tamers. They are created when a contract is formed between a dead or dying Digimon and a human with the right mindset to perceive and accept them; the human accepts the burden of the Digimon's unfinished business and becomes a vessel to anchor their Digital Spirit to the world of the living, and in return they are granted access to the Digimon's powers by evoking them to assume myriad Spirit Forms. While dependent on the relationship between human and Digital Spirit, unfettered exposure to the volatility and transformative power of the human psyche will allow for the full potential of the Digimon to be released, and through achieving mutual understanding and purpose, heights of power seldom seen in either world since antiquity may become reality once more.

Digivice iC's, meanwhile, facilitate a more 'traditional' Digimon-Human partnership. Similarly to how they worked in Savers, they are 'artificial Digivices' that do not bind humans and Digimon in contract, but rather but rather amplify the emotional energy of humans that Digimon feed off of to both allow spontaneous temporary evolution to otherwise inaccessible higher forms, and accelerate their natural growth if desired. While they are nowhere near as powerful as D-Tectors, only permitting evolution up to Perfect, they are far more common; in times past, the deities of the Digital World have summoned humans and equipped them with iC's so that they may solve disputes. While the increasing communication between the powers that be of the two worlds have seen these gradually disappear, the Four Holy Beasts who oversee the lower planes of the Digital World have provided the governments of the Analog World with Digivice iC’s, and a number of them have been replicated and sold on the black market over the years.

The Digital World and Analog World

While in most continuities the Digital World was created from human networks, that isn’t quite the case in this world line. While they fell out of more than extremely sporadic contact until the mid-twentieth century, the Analog and Digital Worlds have existed alongside each-other since time immemorial, with partnerships believed to have existed as far back as the classical period! It’s generally believed that the nascent Digital age of mankind is what brought about this current state of affairs, with modern technology and telecommunication networks providing more weak-points and openings for Humans and Digimon alike to cross from one side to another, but that isn’t a certainty: though they’re cagey about the matter, there are Digimon who have survived from antiquity who allude to similar periods of crossover without the same phenomena to bolster them.

The Analog World

In the Analog World, other than the governments we know in reality, the bodies responsible for maintaining order between the worlds are DATS and HYPNOS.

DATS is a non-government organization largely made up of those who have partnered to Digimon and decided to contribute their knowledge and experience to keeping the peace between the two worlds, and was founded in the 90’s when those who had been pulled into the Digital World to solve disputes in prior decades organized between themselves to petition the Sovereigns for a better system. Rather than spirit away children without their knowledge or consent to resolve petty disputes and separate them from their partners when the matter is solved, they would monitor the Analog World for individuals of potential themselves and give them the adequate training to both neutralize and return Digimon that passed over and resolve disputes in the lower planes of the Digital World where the influence of the powers that be is at its weakest.

HYPNOS, meanwhile, predates DATS and proper contact with Digimon. While it currently operates globally, it began in the US in the early sixties as a response to the first recorded Digimon incursions, monitoring disruptions in telecommunications that indicated the appearance of Digital Lifeforms and either working pre-emptively to quash the disruption before a breach occurred, or moving in afterwards to capture or otherwise neutralize them. While the UN now has a friendly if not massively stable relationship with the equivalent powers in the Digital World, and so HYPNOS isn’t quite as hostile towards them as they were before, they’re still not exactly the most trusting of or comfortable with Digimon crossing over. While they’ve ceded to allowing DATS to handle affairs on the ground level, they have continued to operate in the background by monitoring potential disruptions to limit the amount of Digimon crossing over and researching means of combating Digimon other than relying upon the ‘mercurial whims’ of humans who have partnered with Digimon and the good will of friendly Digimon.

However, not all humans who are aware of or partnered to Digimon are members of DATS and HYPNOS; besides those who slip through the cracks, a number of Digivice iC’s have ended up on the black market and been replicated over the years, so there are now a multitude of rogue Tamers of varying moral alignments and attitudes towards both Digimon and the current state of affairs. Among these, there is an emerging third pillar of sorts in the form of the ‘Cyber Unit’, an 'agency' of Tamers and Digimon run by the Tenryu-kai, a Tokyo-based ninkyo dantai or yakuza syndicate. While they lack the central organization of DATS and HYPNOS, and don't have any explicit links to the government of either world, they have nonetheless become significant due to the power and ruthlessness of their contractors and informal role of internal balance for the growing underworld of rogue Tamers. While they are a criminal group often accused of simply misusing the power of Digimon to confound the authorities, the fact remains that their presence intimidates independent rogue Tamers and discourages them from acting out, as the Tenryu-kai underboss responsible for managing the Unit encourages his contractors to police their territory on their own terms and ‘pacify’ troublemakers by whatever means they see fit.

The Digital World

In the Digital World, there are three main governing bodies; the Four Holy Beasts, the Royal Knights, and the Heavenly Host.

As in canon, the the Four Holy Beasts oversee their own domains as well as one of the four cardinal directions of the Digital World; and among the three bodies they are the closest to human-positive, having an arrangement with DATS. Those working for DATS will be generally kept safe from any Sovereign agents, but will be expected to answer calls from the Sovereigns to help manage affairs on the ground level. DATS meanwhile can call upon the Sovereigns in the case of rogue tamer incursions. Sovereigns mostly work to keep the digital world intact and have occasionally removed entire zones that ended up destabilizing.

The Royal Knights, meanwhile, attend upon Yggdrasil and are largely neutral towards humanity: while each Knight has a personal agenda and beliefs, they serve Yggdrasil above that agenda and thus dedicate themselves to keeping the digital world stable. Overflow from the Dark Area, minor destabilization of regions, unknown assaults outside the Sovereigns' immediate territory, that sort of thing. Yggdrasil itself is able to detect massive surges in energy, sudden increases/decreases of population, and glitching, and dispatches Knights accordingly - or, if within Sovereign purview, may send a message to them via a Knight. The Knights have little concern with humans but are not hostile.

Last is the Angelic Host - Seraphimon, Ophanimon, Cherubimon, and the angels directly serving them. The Angelic Host cares for digital life deeply and will try to ensure its safety. They're largely responsible for the firewall around the digital world. However, they take a poor view of humans and consider them as beings who should never be in the digital world. Approach a member of the Angelic Host with great care if human - you're totally safe and could probably even ask for a piggyback ride if you're a digimon, though.

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Character Sheet Templates

D-Tector User and Digital Spirit

D-Tector User Character Sheet:

Name:

Age: (Ideally between 14 and 20; anything higher or lower and we’ll have to make a value judgement based on the contents of the sheet?)

Gender:

Appearance: A faceclaim if you have one, otherwise a description plus a short blurb of how their general demeanour displays their character?

Digivolution Line + Attacks: Spirit Lines differ slightly from regular Digimon lines in that instead of Baby I up through Ultimate II, they only have a Human Spirit, a Beast Spirit and a Double Spirit by default, with a seldom-seen Ghost Spirit as a failsafe for when a user is unable to revert to their human form. These forms are roughly equivalent to Adult, Perfect and Ultimate, with Ghost corresponding to Child. There is also a ‘Hyper Spirit’ which is analogous to a level above Ultimate, but due to the conditions needed to achieve it and the rarity of D-Tector users compared to informal partnerships, no examples of this form have been observed since antiquity.

As a note, while Human and Beast Spirits correspond to Adult and Perfect, the fact that they work slightly differently and the specific theming of the forms means you’re welcome to treat an Adult as a Beast Spirit or a Perfect as a Human Spirit if it helps tie a line, pending GM approval. (We’ll probably be stricter on the latter than the former, but both of us have at least one character with something in this vein planned, so we’re not made of stone.)

Special Equipment, Gear, or Skills: Do they have access to any resources or have any kind of skill or talent that you wouldn’t expect an ordinary person you’d meet on the street to have? Note it here!

Backstory: It doesn’t have to be too long, but consider what we’ve noted about the psychology of those who form these contracts with Digimon. What is it about them that would put them in this kind of situation and give them the kind of mentality to approach a Digimon in a moment of life or death and shoulder that kind of burden?

Miscellaneous: Anything that doesn’t fit anywhere else in the sheet, like character themes, habits or tics, or voice actors (if you’re that big a nerd)?

Digital Spirit Character Sheet:

Species: What were they when the contract was formed, and what do they manifest as in their spirit form?

Gender: This can differ from that of the human they’re contracted to!

Appearance: An image of the form they appear in by default and, as with the human they’re contracted to, a brief description of how their personality manifests when their spirit is idle?

Backstory: (What led up to them encountering the human they formed a contract with, and what kind of unfinished business or motivation did they have to make them want to bind themselves to them in death?)

Human NPC/iC Tamer Character Sheet

Name:

Age: (You have a much freer hand in terms of age, though as with D-Tector users, we’d need a good reason to permit someone under 14?)

Gender:

Appearance: A faceclaim if you have one, otherwise a description plus a short blurb of how their general demeanor displays their character?

Special Equipment, Gear, or Skills: Do they have access to any resources or have any kind of skill or talent that you wouldn’t expect an ordinary person you’d meet on the street to have? Note it here!

Backstory: As with D-Tector Users, doesn’t have to be too long; you do have a freer hand here on account of the various circumstances through which they could have come to possess an iC?

Miscellaneous: Anything that doesn’t fit anywhere else in the sheet, like character themes, habits or tics, or voice actors (if you’re that big a nerd)?

Digimon NPC/iC Partner Character Sheet

Species: (What form are they in by default?)

Gender:

Appearance: An image of the form they appear in by default and a description of their demeanour, plus any deviations from the norm?

Digivolution Line + Attacks:

Special Equipment, Gear or Skills: Do they have access to any resources or have any kind of skill or talent that you wouldn’t expect an ordinary member of their species to have? Note it here!

Backstory:

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If any edits are made to the rules or content of this post, they will be noted here. Until then, good luck, and have fun, all!

Digimon- [The Uncanny Frontier]

Hi all, sorry for the radio silence: was at work all day yesterday and was basically comatose by the time I got home. Set up the Discord, link's set for a day so if anyone's joining after than and ahead of the OOC going up, give me a shout and I'll update it!

With that done, a few specific responses:

@Sifr Absolutely not a problem; life comes first, if you're interested in joining and sticking around despite the absences we can always factor it in and help you figure something out to work around it!

@JDubs Got your PM: I didn't get the chance to respond yesterday but rest assured, I filled RBY in and there are some definite keepers in there! Give me a shout when you're on and we can talk through, I can see a few of those ideas working well as introductory arcs.

@Duthguy Ben provided a great rundown and RBY followed up, but last word is that while we are drawing heavily from that series (and others- you'll soon see), we're endeavouring to make it all work sensibly in a new context; so long as you're familiar with the basic concept of Digimon, we'll catch you up on everything important through the RP itself?

Digimon- [The Uncanny Frontier]

So, I'm a little fuzzy on how this works? I'm going to keep rereading the OP if that's what it takes, but I'm uncertain how the horror fits into this? Are the spirits treated more like ghosts, and if so, what does that mean for regular digimon? I'm having a hard time painting a clear image of the setting and themes presented...

Edit: after a thorough reread, I can say I understand much better, now.

So, will this primarily be in the analog world, and are the digimon still largely regarded like their cryptid counterparts and such?

@BenG85

That's fair- we held off on giving out too much information ahead of the OOC, but a little extra clarity never hurts!

Outside of the Digimon who have entered a contract with a human to become the Spirit component of a D-Tector partnership, Digimon are more or less the same as they are in canon; a colourful, varied bunch of creatures with different dispositions, moral alignments and desires. For the most part, humans only know them as cryptids and urban legends, but the way we've had things planned, player characters would have the option of joining one of the organizations that works with the Powers That Be in the Digital World to keeps the peace between Analog and Digital? Not all Digimon are malicious, but besides the fact that even an ordinarily friendly Digimon can be dangerous if pushed by circumstances, there's a masquerade to maintain and no shortage of humans who pose a threat to them through greed or ignorance; not to mention, not all Tamers or D-Tector users are on the level, so to speak.

In terms of setting, we'll be moving around according to the needs of the plot, but I would say at first we'll mainly be set in the Analog World with occasional forays into the Digital World? It'll honestly depend on what people want to do, but that feels like a good overview of current plans.

Digimon- [The Uncanny Frontier]

@JDubs If you wanted to use a line based off of the Spirits, you're quite welcome to, but as RBY said it's absolutely not required; all you need for a basic line is three Digimon who form an aesthetically and/or thematically convincing Human, Beast and Double Spirit set? To piggyback on their example, Leomon -> LoaderLeomon -> HeavyLeomon would be a perfectly valid line!

Digimon- [The Uncanny Frontier]

Digimon- [T̼͕͜h̢̟̼e͇̝͜ U͚͎n̦̘c͚͓͇a̠̫͎n̼͍͍n̻̻̙y͚̦͚ F̞͚͇r̢͜o̡͉͖n̡̢̦t̢̙i̺̼̟e̟͇͖r͓̫͔]

Tokyo, Japan, 2019. Over the last fifty years, rumours have spread around the world about how the ever-forward march of technology has brought man into contact with beings outside of our understanding of the world. Perhaps among whispers of moth-like humanoids haunting small American towns and plesiosaurs who survived the K-Pg extinction event to thrive in a Highlands loch, you may have heard of Digimon; monsters of all shape and sizes from a world just out of our reach, where matter is digital rather than analog.

The truth is, if you’ve heard of one, you’ve heard of the other. Though they long predate the Digital Age, recent technological developments have brought us back into regular contact with these beings, a state of affairs that the powers that be in both the Analog and Digital Worlds have come to an uneasy accord in order to navigate. Though this accord holds steady for now, the fact remains that both worlds fear this convergence as an omen of some great cataclysm; for as the boundaries of our worlds become blurred, so too do the boundaries between their inhabitants…
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You may have already guessed by the title and the above, but this is a Digimon RP that uses the Digivice and Partner system from Digimon Frontier, the D-Tector and Spirits. However, this RP isn’t aiming to be a remake or ‘fix’ for that series; rather, it'll take elements from it and use them in a setting with a science fiction and horror focus more akin to Digimon Tamers and Digimon Ghost Game. Accordingly, the D-Tectors in this RP’s universe don’t use physical artifacts like the Spirits of the Warrior Ten to transform humans into Digimon, but rather the lingering spirits of Digimon who have formed a contract with a chosen human. Through unfettered exposure to the volatility and transformative power of the human psyche, the full potential of these Digimon is released; and through achieving mutual understanding and purpose, heights of power seldom seen in either world since antiquity may yet be reached.

This RP is looking for a relatively small group size - perhaps 4 to 6 people - to participate in what will be an RP that goes to some dark places, including cults, death, and human experimentation. This is not to say there will not be any light-hearted or comedic bits, but simply that the RP draws a lot of its inspiration from horror sources and there will be times where such light-hearted/comedic bits won’t work. This RP is intended to last for quite some time as, much like the series itself, it will have story arcs and may include player-suggested arcs as well.

Once we have sufficient interest I'll see about setting up a Discord Server to provide further detail ahead of the OOC; until then, please do feel free to tag me or my Co-GM @RBYDark with any questions you may have!

Digimon: The Convergence of the Human and Digital Worlds

Well, it's been almost six years, but Moon's finally awake again!

Good luck everyone, try not to die! 😄

Digimon: The Convergence of the Human and Digital Worlds

Beelzemon had remained quiet as BanchoLeomon arrived, at first almost oblivious to the lion’s presence as he wallowed in the torrent of emotions running wild in his mind, and then thankful that he was more concerned with talking to Examon than upbraiding him for running off. Not for nothing, but while he could have dealt with that ten minutes ago, it was all he needed now to completely lose his grip on the situation.

‘No more running away, Dirk.’ With uncharacteristic gentleness, Impmon nudged his partner within their mind.

‘I know, I know.’ He didn’t sound sure of it, but a moment later and they turned from Dorugoramon, looking over towards Examon and BanchoLeomon as they spoke, sparing only a slight wince as he watched the lion react to being told about Siggy’s predicament. ‘We have bigger fish to fry.’

Making his way over, Beelzemon gladly accepted the cigarette that BanchoLeomon offered him. Besides the reassurance that the lion could still think rationally, cliche or no, a good smoke would certainly help settle his frayed nerves before they dived into the chaos once more.

“I can’t really add anything to this particular conversation.” He began, taking a steady drag on the cigarette as BanchoLeomon lit it, “But-”

He paused, suddenly noticing that BanchoLeomon had seized up. He narrowed his eyes and leaned in-

“Sovereigns be damned, Ulforce was over the water, wasn’t he?”

The dam burst, the raging waters behind it crashing through Beelzemon’s mind all at once. His cigarette fell from his gaping mouth to the ground as his neck snapped around to look at the waters a short distance away from them, the words and actions of the people around him fading out to a seemingly-distant mumble as the full implications of BanchoLeomon’s words hit him.

He didn’t even process Examon vaulting over him, nor the torrent of water that crashed down onto the ruined asphalt around them as the tell-tale signs of panic crept into his sudden deep, rapid breaths.

Dorugoramon, silent as she has been since talking to Beelzemon, had been listening in eerie silence once again, piecing together the conversation and implications. Given that the two components of the draconic digimon were neither whole nor entirely rational at this point, it took Dorugoramon much longer to finally let the pieces click together. A chirp echoed inside her metallic maw as draconic head turned towards the bay where Examon had given his less-than-stellar diving performance.

“Ulforce… He’s in the bay?” A deep growl, but a more coherent sentence with a feral undertone. Of course, Dorumon once more exerted control with her unstable partner shifted to the back seat, not that Zei was in any condition to make coherent conversations anyway. Suddenly, her feet began to shuffle as she flapped her wings, clearly wanting to follow Examon’s diving performance, but not wanting to go anywhere near the aquatic expanse. Dorugoramon started pacing anxiously, tail sweeping up dust and water from what remained of the asphalt road and screeching angrily at the dark crimson reflection.
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Meanwhile, in the waters below…

At Examon’s current depth, the waters of Tokyo Bay would have been dark at the best of times. With the obscuring veil of red and black blotting out the light of the day, he could only count himself fortunate that Alphamon’s presence bolstered his life-force enough that the glow from his form and the intense light from his eyes afforded himself enough of a field of vision to pick out some details of the seabed he was descending to.

”You know, I’ve always wanted to try diving myself, but Dorumon wasn’t built for swimming and Zei was, well, not suited for the water,” the ethereal Alphamon quipped, wanting to break the dread while keeping a second pair of eyes out for their missing azure comrade. ”That said, I doubt my own bulky form would’ve made swimming any easier, so I really shouldn’t complain.”

Indeed, it was almost fortuitous that he was the one to make this dive. While not exactly a marine Digimon, the sharp, aerodynamic form and lingering draconic biology of Examon Mordred made their descent through through the bay a relatively simple task, the movement of his tail and the force exerted by his limbs allowing them to cut through the water at a respectable clip.

“Look, if we survive this, I’ll take you diving for Gusokumon when we get back to the Digital World.” But while Examon tried to take Alphamon’s words for what they were, this latest development had clearly put salt in wounds he’d been doing his best to keep closed. “For now, can we focus on finding Ulforce before things get worse?”

Not helping matters was the seeming impossibility of the task before them. Besides their limited vision, the audio interference and pressure of the water around them made it difficult to pick out any signals that may have feasibly led them to a living UlforceVeedramon; as effectively as Examon could swim, that was where his affinity for marine traversal ended, and he was left relying on his severely-limited senses to pick out the possible location of their friend before time ran out.

As if on cue, Alphamon’s presence within Examon Mordred suddenly expanded outwards, his senses flaring with untold power and sharpness as if they’re being supercharged from the inside. The other digimon within began pulling her own weight while the dragon was left to wonder about what had happened, scouring the darkened water for any signs of Ulforce and tuning out the interference like shrugging off a breeze from her jet black armor.

“... Thank you.” It was a start, at least, and if nothing else Alphamon’s contribution was letting him think and act more clearly and confidently amidst the remaining impact of the pressure and interfering stimuli. His senses were still nowhere near as powerful as if on land, but now at least he could see perhaps fifty meters in either direction around him before his vision tapered off into the darkness of the waters, and separate possible tell-tale sounds from the ambience around them.

An ability he was all the more grateful for as the faint sounds of something struggling feebly against the water around it emerged gingerly into the very edge of his senses.

“Alphamon, do you hear that?” Wasting no time, Examon began to swim towards the noise; adjusting himself as he went to get his bearings for where the sound was coming from in the vast three-dimensional space around them.

”... 4 o’clock from our position.” Alphamon calmly replied, reinforcing Examon’s intuition on the matter. ”No other enemies, fortunately. Keep swimming.”

“On it.” Without another word or thought, Examon adjusted his trajectory again, moving through the water in the direction Alphamon beckoned. As he went, closing in on the sound, he began to focus, pushing against the remaining interference to attempt to tap into the link of the Hazard-users; it had been drowned out by the chaos of the enclosed space before, but anything was better than nothing to put the others at ease.

“No need to panic, I think I’ve found him. Hang tight, and keep an eye on things up there.”
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A number of increasingly heavy minutes had passed since Examon dived into the waters of Tokyo Bay, with a similarly heavy and tense silence settling over the group gathered by its edge as they waited for something- anything- to clear the air on UlforceVeedramon’s survival. Besides the barely-repressed anxiety of Dorugoramon and Beelzemon, even Parasimon seemed visibly rattled despite his vocal dislike of the blue knight, with his copy of Avalon flickering impatiently as he looked out over the dark waters, as if he himself were debating following Examon into the depths below.

‘I –hink I’-- -oun- -im.’ But as a static-riddled noise intruded into his thoughts, he froze as the flickering stopped, straightening up and looking around in confusion. A moment later, something seemed to occur to him, and he raised one of his hands to his temple, and forced himself to concentrate upon the strange noise with all the focus he could muster.

“... It’s faint, but I think I’m picking something up from Examon,” he said after a moment, as he confirmed his suspicion; the other Hazard Knight was attempting to reach him over the link their kind shared.

At that, Beelzemon started with a jolt out of the wordless panic that had come over him, looking up hopefully towards Parasimon. Likewise, like a deranged beast, Dorugoramon’s head made a sharp turn towards Parasimon before the rest of her body followed suit, crawling in a mad frenzy towards the person on the other end of Examon’s Hazard-hotline. Any news was better than no news, but the zeal from the metallic dragon was certainly more intense than normal.

“I’m having trouble making it out,” Parasimon clarified himself, clearly not wanting to give the others too much hope if he wasn’t correctly picking out the garbled communications from Examon, “But it sounds like he’s found something that might be that blu- that might be UlforceVeedramon.”

“Thank fuck,” was Dorugoramon’s succint reply. While the dragoness hadn’t stopped whipping up dust and water droplets, she had at least stopped tenderizing the already battered asphalt road.

Meanwhile, BanchoLeomon paced impatiently back and forth as he waited with Beelzemon at the waterfront.

“I’m almost surprised drowning for this long hasn’t caused Ulforce to devolve and end the Biomerge.” He grunted, gazing out over the water.

“We’re already going to have to explain one unfortunate disappearance to a family member as it is. Wasn’t looking forward to making it two.” A pointed look at Beelzemon.
At that, Beelzemon turned to BanchoLeomon, staring at him with a mixture of shock and indignance. But before he could say anything-

“You lot are unfairly tough, take it from me.” Parasimon was the first to respond, sighing as he stared down at BanchoLeomon. “That aside, let’s just be thankful for whatever we can get at this point. If he’s still with us, maybe you all have a chance of getting through this in one piece.”

It seemed as if the lion’s words had hit the giant insect somewhere too, and Beelzemon was suddenly reminded of the profoundly uncomfortable conversation that they had had mere moments before Examon and Dorugoramon had turned up.

No, he thought, shaking his head. He couldn’t dwell on that now, Parasimon had said as much himself. He’d fucked up, he really had, but despite everything he was there with everyone else right now to put their best foot forward against the monster above them. He had come back from death to end this. If it wasn't too late for UlforceVeedramon, then perhaps it wasn't too late for all of them to join him, throw themselves into the dark waters and sink quietly into oblivion.

Beelzemon choked violently, his claws moving to his throat in a panic as he fell back to his knees. As he did, Parasimon tore his attention away from BanchoLeomon, staring down at the Demon Lord in confusion. Okay, that had been a low blow from the lion, and neither the Demon Lord or the human whose lingering soul upheld his form were known for subtle expression, but this was nowhere near the reaction he’d have expected.

"You all should have just laid down and faded away, and spared us the trouble of crushing you like the insignificant pests you are." Neither would he have expected the Demon Lord’s next words, a chill coursing through his body as he spat venom in a monotone voice alarmingly devoid of any of the impertinence, cockiness or wryness that the others had come to expect from the duo.

But perhaps more alarming yet was the vicious red light that suddenly cut through the dark haze and burned at his turned back. The chill deepened, and Parasimon was suddenly very conscious of how every single byte in his body was screaming at him to run.

"Before we smite your festering nest of a world, we shall relish every moment of your painful demise," Beelzemon finished, Moon=Millenniummon's baleful glare bearing down upon those gathered at the bay as the fog around them tore into a frenzied, roaring gale of red and black; and as the air above them exploded into a violent hail of crystal.

Digimon: The Convergence of the Human and Digital Worlds

So... I got card art of Jordan comissioned.

@tobiax

Nice! Got anything back from that yet?

Digimon: The Convergence of the Human and Digital Worlds

Like I said, no rush, but no worries if it's a brief one? We'll hopefully be moving back to shorter, snappier individual posts soon as is so wouldn't hurt to get the ball rolling.

Feel free to tag me with or PM me any ideas you have in any case?