Glayp'neir (Arc 1)

Sharpe nods at Clarent's reasoning.

"A'ight, then we'll proceed up the northern route. Stay close to the buildings, out of the street so you're not out in the open." he says. He looks up at Airgetlam.

"We're moving north, staying away from the other group. We'll have the element of surprise if someone tries something, ad we'll see if we can tail a guard patrol if we find one! You should stay up, but I'd advise you to move with us instead of remaining in one place!" he yells.

"OK!" Airgetlam yells back, and she looks around for a way to cross but finds none. Looks like she'll just have to go back to street level. She lowers herself off the ledge and down into a window, then she makes her way down a flight of stairs, and then another until she finds herself on the ground floor. She looks down the street to see if someone is watching, then crosses, running into the next building. She looks around to see if there is a stairway.

"Should have bought some flares or something..." she remarks to herself aloud.

Jian grabs onto Clarent's hand, with a concerned face towards both her and the doc.
"I... Am fine, trust me. Man... Doc... You really don't have to do this, you know... You make me get all worried myself!"
He gets back on his feet and looks back to Clarent.
"And you don't worry about me aswell, I will be alright. There's been worse times so far... The biggest achievement being, that you are with us", he smiles. He's aware that she doesn't know that he was the one getting to carry her out, but he knows for himself that it felt like the biggest achievement in the long while. He didn't even get to wipe off the blood off of his face that ran down of when he hit his head to catch her back when Dahaka was sealed, so of course he looks in a worse state than he feels.

Dr. Atrium Smiles at Jian and pats his shoulder.

"Next time, please tell me. I will never charge to heal my friends."

He then looks over at Jack and sighs.

"Yes, Soultraps normally would keep what ever soul it has locked inside forever or until it is used up. But this Soultrap is damaged. I can tell by looking at it that Lady Dahaka's soul is leaking out. The reason I don't want to rush giving it back, is because Clarent just became freed of Dahaka. It would be much easier for Dahaka or any spirit to posses anyone they have possessed before....And there is nothing poetic about this..."

Doc gets the sadden look on his face and starts to walk ahead, leaving only Mitsuki fallowing him. He truns down the fist ally he sees to avoid being seen by the checkpoint that was a head of him. He doesn't look back to see if the others are fallowing him, he is sure they are. He just keeps looking down and walking ahead.

Jack gets a small cringe with his poetic thought turned sour.

"Oh bullock, she's...uh...leaking out of that? That seems to be a bit confusing choice of words to describe a single being, but still, what if she breaks out...er...I mean finishes leaking out, I guess? She's not gonna be happy with being locked in there."

The boredom of the still atmosphere was almost literally painful for Jack

"Ugh, I still think we should've followed that group just to find out what there doing here. Probably can't now because of how much distance they would've covered while we are just standing around. Other than that, there's nothing here to investigate other than a completely deserted district with no one else to question. What happened to everyone's sense of urgency. We rushed our way over here because Sharpe was so sure about finding clues, and now, we're just wandering aimlessly. There's a girl missing, one we just rescued this bloody morning."

"It's fine. We might aswell see what there is to see while we're here. We can leave anytime." Clarent says while going into a light jog to keep up with the Doctor who has wandered around the corner up ahead. Coming into the alleyway where Atrium is walking, she returns to a walk, having caught up to him. "Hey, are you alright?" she doesn't press further, giving the man the right to remain silent should he not wish to talk about it. "It certainly does seem like there is a lot of bad blood in this group. I'm surprised they are even together after seemingly so much conflict with one another. But then, what do I know about people."

She keeps on walking but then stops abruptly as she notices a figure standing on the other end of the rather short alleyway. The figure is hard to make out, and simply stares at Atrium and herself, before turning and walking away. "Huh?" Clarent ponders curiously as she is debating whether to run after them or stick with the group- Best to probably stick with the group. By the time they  reach the corner, he will surely be gone. "That's how these things usually work, right...?" she thinks to herself and keeps quiet.

Surely enough, as they come to the end of the alleyway, they are at another road of sorts. Next to it various buildings making a square box around them. There is quite a bit of space, but like the rest of the  district it seems rather empty. Some lights are burning in the small apartments, and there are various balconies with open doors. Down the road between the complex of buildings and the alleyway the building with the checkpoint is more visible, but no one seems to be around. Clarent just waits on further instructions on what to do.

Sharpe looks about buildings and the narrow passage sprouting into the road. He can't help but feel more tense now, what with the buildings all around them, save for directly ahead. It would be the perfect spot for an ambush, and while he's not exactly expecting a sizable force of any level of organization, it's still a bit suspicious; enough to keep him on his toes with his heart beating a bit faster than usual.

Sharpe doesn't say anything, he simply goes and walks a bit further in, and he looks up at the rooftops to see if Airgetlam has caught up with them yet.

Airgetlam spots a staircase in the back of the building and walks up to the second floor. She looks about the room and spies an open window, which she jogs up to and looks out to see if there is anyone out there, or for a way to continue north. She notes that there is a pole above and in between within a gap between this building and the next. She stands even-balanced in the window, and jumps out towards the horizontal pole, swinging back and forth on it. When she has enough momentum, she swings off of the pole and grabs the tiling of the roof of the next building, and hauls herself up. She runs across the roof and looks down, seeing that group has progressed through what seemed to have been an alleyway, and she gives Sharpe an "O" sign with her fingers, and looks out over the city again for an update on their location.

Jian swiftly walks after the doc.
"Hey... Hey, listen... No need to feel downed about it, I mean, sure, it is a bit of a... bad topic. What I mean though is, you out of all people know the most about what happened, I just saw you trapping them inside, I don't know how you did it. And... The last thing I remember thereafter is catching Clarent, having my head getting smashed against the floor in that process. Sure, it was a tragic way to solve it all, but... You did it for a good cause, and that's what counts. So please, don't feel depressed about it, everything has a price one has to pay... You, me, basically everyone, has been there."

Jian hopes to leave a bit of an impact on the doc with his words, but he can't guarantee it.

Dr. Atrium hears someone rushing up behind him as he keeps walking but doesn't look to see who it is. When he hears Clarent, he looks behind him to look at her.

"I am just a little sad is all. Kinda funny really, I was raised to be an assassin and yet I don't like to hurt people or see them die. Mother would be so disappointed...We had to kill a girl that had gone a bit mad and I trapped a soul who has already been trapped for over 500 years. I just feel as though it could of ended more peacefully is all...As for our group. We may not see eye to eye on a lot of things, but we all trust each other to get the others back. We are pretty close an have been trough a bit together. You don't need to worry about us fighting each other."

He sees Jian run up to him and he smiles at what he tells him.

"Thank you. I understand what you mean. We all did pay a price didn't we?"

He bends down and pets Mitsuki for a moment, then jolts up right quickly when he hears something moving a head of them. His hands glow bright as he readies an attack.

"Be on your guard, we aren't alone anymore..."

"Actually, I've only joined the group recently. I was partly forced to by...someone else. I suppose I trust the doctor and Jian just because they've been more open telling me about themselves. Speaking of not seeing eye to eye..."

Jack's voice almost unnaturally shifted from its high class well mannered tone to a sudden cockney accent.

"Oi Sharpe, ye best gimme one damn reason I shouldn't just waltz in to the most open area I can find, scream at the top of me lungs, and just wait for whatever the bloody hell drove everyone outta this district to pounce at me so I can kill it!"

Clarent simply watches the ordeal as Jack has a sudden random outburst. She nervously looks up around the balconys, making sure there aren't any people watching, or worse. Nothing form what she can see. She sighs a little. This place is really unnerving, and it doesn't help that all this is so close to society.


Airgetlam looks across the roofs and streets of Central. Now that they are a block closer to the checkpoint, Air has an easier time seeing them, though some buildings still abstruct her field of view. She definately can see some people wandering about the roofs though. Judging by the faintly visible uniforms they are guards of the city, rather than any other number of random things she might encounter here tonight. Turning a bit, she sees the road that the group were just earlier traveling on. The figures from earlier are roaming around, hard to see in the shadows as they dart from place to place. Something about them is uncanny and odd as they shift their way up towards the checkpoint. She gets this feeling as if she was being watched, which sends shivers down her spine as she looks around but sees nobody.


Mitsuki gives a gentle meow and wanders calmly around the bend and around in a circle at the building. She then sits down and licks herself a little before lying down on the ground. She lays there and expectantly cocks her head at the doctor and his group before resting her head and closing her eyes a little.

Sharpe just stares on at Jack yelling to the world, hands in his coat pockets. He shifts his mouth to one side and lowers his eyebrows.

"Well then, good job making an ass of yourself, now you're gonna be dinner." He says, backing off a bit away from him. If something does indeed come out to grab Jack, it's on him, not Sharpe. Why'd he even decide to randomly do this? Was it for what happened back in the market? That was just something he'd think he'd have gotten over, not something to hold a grudge over.

"You done completely? I'd like to keep going north if you please."

"U-uhm, guys?! You might want to keep pressing forward, that group back there that i mentioned... they don't look right, the way they move i mean, really uncanny. As well, the people at the checkpoint are city guards, so proceed with caution if you move ahead!"

She sees Jack walking into the center and yells in a manner unlike his usual behavior. While she yells to the group for the sake of information, he seems to be doing it deliberately to make a scene.

"Jack, are you really that dumb to try and attract everything that might be causing the quarantine to your location?!" she yells down to him.

Jian can't believe this kind of childish behaviour with people getting revenge on others about rather minor things, Jack yelling around like that in this area really doesn't win him points on Jian's end. Not only does he endager the group, he also makes it a smaller possibility to ensure the success of finding Ayame in a safe state, or at all.

"Jack, would you KINDLY stop? I am really not in a mood to fail the task I was given because of you dwelling on something else, keep it to a later situation to talk it out, or I will take this matter in my own hands and just look around alone... It's nice that you all wanna help, but with how you're doing it, it's making it harder!"

Jian's a bit in a rage with them not being able to behave, he can't help but sigh afterwards, sitting down, leaning against a wall for a moment.

"Gah, I am not being myself, I need to stop getting so mad and depressed about everything..."

He looks up a little, sighing once more, taking a moment to think

Dr, Atrium spins around quickly when he hears Jack  start yelling. He grins his teeth with anger. The man is going to ruin everything! He walks to Jian.

"I know you aren't going to like this, but I need to in order to help save the girl. Don't let this make you think less of me..."

Doc then holds his hands up and the shadows from the walls reach out and grab Jack. He makes sure on of them is covering his mouth so he can yell any more. He also makes the claw remove the tracking radar from him. He then walks over to Jack, anger fuming off of him. He speaks in a low so he can't be hear by anyone that isn't in the ally with them.

"You want to help? Fine. You want to go into a blood rage? Fine. You aren't going to be near us when you do it though!

Doc then makes the shadow claw throw Jack in front of the nears group of guards that are near the checkpoint. When he hears Jack land, he turns to the group.

"Jake just bought us time to go past the checkpoint and go deeper, lets go!"

He tuns out of the ally and makes his way to the now empty checkpoint.

Jack get's to his feet.

damn it docta, bloody shadow claw of his. Does he ever use that on anyone else or does he just like fling me around with it. Can't believe Jian of all of them got pissed at me. Loves her so much he porbably screwed her in the couple of minutes no one had eyes on them and yet she's probably dead cuz of all this wasting time, assuming the cops were brain damaged enough to take a prisoner to a quarantined area."

Jack notices that he's been thrown in front of a cluster of police

"Use me a as a giant diversion? That's bloody brilliant. Obviously they won't ask who threw me and why."

Jack quickly dusts himself off.

"Greetings gentlemen. I was just mugged by some thugs who I guess didn't get the memo about this place being quarantined and what not. They moved way too quickly and vanished so there not much choice chasing them I guess. I am private detective Jackson. Normally, I'd show you my badge, but that was in the pocket of my coat they just took. I am here investigating a missing persons case. A girl, named Ayame, dressed in a tattered maid outfit, she was apparently apprehended by the authorities. My client assumes this somehow means she was taken here even though that doesn't make sense since the areas quarantined. Hmph, maybe my client and those thugs are related. Anyways, while I'm here, could any of you tell me why this place is quarantined in the first place. Obviously its not a plague or you all wouldn't be here, I assume."

Jack spoke every word as if he believed all of it.

A seemingly random police guard stands in awe and surprise of the man who just blew into the checkpoint like a rock being catapulted by a trebuchet. He tugs on his officers cap and scratches his head in confusion as his men surround the man, swords drawn.

"Eh... Mister, ...Jackson, was it?" he begins to regain his composure and frowns, shaking his head in disapproval. "Sir if you knew this was a quarantined zone you should have evacuated with the rest of the citizens. No one outside the guard is allowed in this zone, and therefore you are trespassing on secure grounds." from behind him he can hear one of the guards snicker at the mans excuse. "What a joke." The guy utters, being quickly cut off by the officer. "Hanson!" he barks, having completely regained his authority in the few moments of passing confusion. "That is inappropriate behaviour, cut your tongue before I do it for you." he then turns back to Jack and pulls forth a stun-rod. "By my authority as officer of the guard, I place you under arrest for trespassing. You shall come inside with me until my superior arrives in the morning to question you. Resistance will be met with force."

The man directly behind Jack pokes his sword at his back, enough to nudge him forward, but not enough to hurt him in any way. Surrounded by a whole nine guards Jack is escorted into the giant building that is the checkpoint for this part of the district.




"Ahm..." Clarent begins to speak but then decides it would be better to just stay quiet and go along with it. "Will he be alright...? This just suddenly got out of hand completely."
She decides not to dwell on it and takes the initiative, jogging up to the end of the road leading past the checkpoint. The building is rather large but it seems to her that the main entrance is the only one baricaded and guarded. She sees most of the guards move inside and turns back towards the group. Her face expression is rather blank, given the entire situation and she simply gives a thumbs up and slowly makes her way around the corner, to wait for the others.

Mitsuki follows Clarent closely, but stops at the corner of the road, seemingly waiting on the others aswell.

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• Jack was sold out by Dr. Atrium
  
• Dr. Atrium caused a distraction
  
• Jack failed social roll.
  
• Jack is arrested.
  
• Jack left the Main Quest.
  
• 6 of the 9 guards have left into the building.
  

Sharpe just stands there, amused but still somewhat annoyed.

"Well, that solves that problem but it kind of opens another can of worms. The checkpoint was where i was thinking we'd go, but if you think Ayame is at some other checkpoint that we currently have not observed, then ok." He says, and starts following Clarent.

He gives Airgetlam a "move this way" sign and he turns around, going around the corner and meeting the girl and the cat.

"Clarent, I need to ask before we move any further, what do you know of fighting in any sense?"

Airgetlam nods and she runs, jumping the gap between the buildings and she ducks on the roof-slant facing away from the checkpoint building. She crawls up and magnifies her scope and searches for any immediate threats on the building. The only threat seems to be a few guards left after Jack went into the building. She keeps on the look out, still nervous of what else might be coming their way.

Simply in shock by what just happened, he can't help but sigh.

"You're all turning into maniacs... You just fail to realize it so far..."

He pushes himself up, shaking his head. He's starting to think that mentioning this situations to the others was a bad idea.

"Just look at yourselves, Clarent just woke back up and now leave her with an impression like this. It's simply not how it goes. You all wanna help? That's great, I appreciate that I got people wanting to back me up. But, by all means, cut out all this bullshit. If this causes anyone to be left with any permanent scar or anything of the sorts, I am afraid, that I will have to part from the group.

Sure, we got quite far, but I am done with chaos and havoc for now, everybody just get rid of their hostile attitude, please, for crying out loud."

He starts walking down the path Clarent took, simply having his hands in his pockets, his head lowered, looking at the floor.

"I'm not being myself at all aswell...", he then says to himself rather silently...

Dr. Atrium rushes over to catch up with Jian and Clarent. He moves them into a dark corner. He then turns to Jian, His eye giving off a glint of silver do to it being so close to a full moon. Anger boils inside of him.

"Going mad? Indeed I am going mad! It is the curse of having control of the shadows. I thank you for pointing out a fact that is very painful to me...However what I did with Jack was not an act of insanity. You see I was going to give myself up to the guards at first, but then Jack went and ruined my plan...look."

He makes a shadow claw come out of the ground and it is holding the tracking devise.

"I put one of the still working crystals on Jack so we can see where they bring him. If I had to make a guess, they are going to bring him where they brought Ayame. I like you Jian but...Don't you ever question my sanity again.

Doc them turns to Clarent and smiles.

"I am sorry. I know this is a very off fist impression. I promise that everything will be alright. I did what I did to help save Ayame. I swear."

Doc then hands the tracking devise to Sharpe.

"Here you go. I am sure you will be able to use it better then I can. lets keep moving."

Sharpe nods to Clarent, she probably knows, she's shown herself to be rather perceptive and intelligent so far, and she likely has some fighting ability, considering she's probably been alone for a while. At least, that's how she looks anyway. He looks to Doc and Jian.

"Sorry we've had some drama, guys. From now on, we should probably focus on the mission here. Least we don't have the loudmouth to deal with now." He explains. He looks 'round to the checkpoint building, which seems to be rather large and was likely meant to be a municipality of some sort, perhaps a city office or administrative center. He spies a fence off to the side, and points to it.

"I think we should try around the side instead of something from the front. We only have four people here, and Air's covering us from the rooftop, so we should all just stack up to one door. Front could work though since it's only three guys approx, maybe less. For now though, we'll go to the side. Check yourselves over, and we'll commence"

Airgetlam wonders what everyone else is deciding on. Aren't they going to enter the building?

She pans the crossbow a few more times, but something doesn't make as much sense, for a checkpoint, not much seems to be going on. One would think it'd be a bit more busy-bodied than usual, but apparently not. That, or the city guards are lazy.

She aims the weapon to the roof, just to check if there's anyone watching her back, like there was last time.

Jian looks the Doc dead serious in the eye as he's being glared at by him.

"Tch. And how was I supposed to know that? If you don't want me to question anything of the sorts, then you better point out that you had something in mind first. Are you expecting me to just remain all in proportion if all of it is blown out of it's borders already?"

He stands there, balling a fist for a moment, then having his hand hang loose thereafter again. They're then interrupted by Sharpe anyway as the Doc went to talk to Clarent.

"At this rate I might aswell just shut up so they'll cut me some slack on this insane crap", he simply says to himself with a slight feel of frustration. "Of course it would look like they're all going insane", he adds thereafter, still mumbling to himself.