Synopsis

A general synopsis of each phase. Not going into detail on everything, so bits and pieces may get left out. Each phase, bar the first (and second, if I don't remove it), is approx. 24 pages long.

Some of these get a bit more detailed than how I'd prefer, so I'll try to cut them down. Some may be direct copy-pastas from Word documents (meaning I like how they went and will probs not rewrite the synopsis of that phase). The final three phases contain bits and pieces I know for sure I want to happen - but have significant holes in them (e.g. Alice's whereabouts, what's going on at the same time this is, etc).

The copy-pastas up to Phase XII are last edited 16 July 2010. The copy-pastas following Phase XII are last edited 11-13 December 2009.

Phase I - Ignition

 * Before Chrono rescues the girl; he looks about for the two Noirans that resided in the city as a form of security. In this fantasy world, the cities/towns/villages don't need cops or whatever. While there is a government with soldiers and whatnot for war and foreign-related affairs in the continent (it's all ruled by like.. one.. thing... erm, like a combination of the judicial/legislative/executive branches of the US), instead of having cops and whatever dispersed throughout each town, a Noiran or two reside there instead to take care of any issues that may arise in said region. During the frantic search for them... Chrono finds both of them dead.

Autumn afternoon. During the bombing of the town known as Ferris, as everyone else evacuates the town and others trapped in some buildings born, Chrono spots a beautiful girl trapped beneath a fallen building. He hesitates as first, concerned with his own safety, but is unable to take his eyes off of the beauty, realising that her "pretty face" would haunt him if he leaves her to burn. Today was the day he was to approach her for the very first time - crushing on her from a distance for months now and never having a chance to come up close - but not like this... He rescues the unconscious girl from the fallen building and begins to make his way after the other evacuees, who were being escorted out the town in two groups led separately by a man with a scarf and a girl with a giant teddy bear. Chrono was of the last bunch to head out - and on his way out of the entrance gate, he was stopped by former childhood best friend, Rafael - a jester... and an assassin, after Chrono's necklace and life. Rafael admits to tossing the first few baby jingle bombs (miniature explosive jingle bells; his weapon of choice) to toy with Chrono before taking his life, but denies the entire bombing to be his doing. Before moving on to take his life, the jester gives Chrono a headstart, allowing him to flee through Ferris' back, through the graveyard and out the opposite way as the others.

Rafael did not give chase, but Chrono is under the notion that he was being followed, experiencing multiple hallucinations during his run. Eventually, his former hometown - the assassin's kingdom - was in sight...

Phase II - Hysteria
Flashback from ten years ago. How Chrono was exiled from his own kingdom - after going insane and gouging out his twin sister's eyes with her own pocket knives.

May remove this phase... ... ...

Phase III - Courage
Chrono has trouble passing the guards and entering the gates to the assassin kingdom, but Messenger, childhood best friend, and Rafael's older brother Dante comes to his help. Chrono faces some nasty looks and scoffs from the surrounding assassins, all who remember or know of the incident that took place years ago. He faces difficulty in finding aid for the dying girl on his back, so he and Dante rush to his old room. On his way, he is met by his pet dragon (specific specie name WIP) Gallium, who had grown over the years from a pup to cougar-sized. (Gallium has rich white fur, a ridiculously large tail, and four wings.)

The three come to his room - everything is untouched as was before. The blood on the walls have stained. Chrono wastes no time as he moves to his old laboratory, a metal door not too far in. Chrono lays her atop a surgeon table; though it had been about 10 years since his last full-blown mechanical surgery, he has had practice over small instances (such as fingers, feet, elbows) in his old town. Before making any move, Chrono removes her necklace locket, [something he had never noticed before]. Inside lie two diminutive photos, obviously taken when she was about three or four. One side is labeled "Charade" - the girl - and the other is of a boy with the same purple eyes and a few years older - however his name had worn out.* Dante remains supportive throughout the entire surgery. (Cuts off at beginning)


 * Chrono realises he never knew Charade's name until just now.. shows how pathetic he is, har har. Nor did he know anything about her family, really... "They didn't burn, did they?"

Three days later. Morning @ Luciville - the armory, which is being attacked by a...n angry mob? Inside, two girls cower below the shielded window. One a hazel-head (Mariah), the other a platinum-blond. Mariah makes a deal to break out and lead the mobsters away. She'd come back for the other chick once it's all clear. Mariah, armed with a handcrafted sabre, escapes through the back door, taunts the mobsters, and flees the city. Once realising she left, the other girl apologises to Mariah (to herself, really) and leaves in the opposite direction.

Morning @ Chrono's laboratory. Dante is no longer in the room, and Gallium is curled into a cat-like ball by Charade's bed, snoring. Charade's eyes peer open and nearly breaks into hysteria upon seeing where she is at and what has become of her. The entire left side of her face and body have been mechanised. (Dante realised much earlier that her arm's bones had been crushed beyond repair, and the left side of her face also faced nasty wounds, scars, bruises, and infections.) Chrono attempts to calm her down (a bit saddened at her wordlessness), but the lights break off; the power throughout the entire kingdom has went out. He realises something went wrong upon noticing the generator's failure to start. The metallic door creaks open, but, eyes not yet adjusted to the darkness, neither of the three can make out the figure in the shadows.

Throwing knives come flying into the room. Chrono hangs the locket around Gallium's neck and tells him to help Charade find the boy in the locket; obviously he'd be older, but they've the same eyes, and Charade would be able to easily recognise him. Gallium escapes through the window. The assassins outside, knowing of the blackout, believe Chrono to be culprit; he's returned to wreak havoc yet again! Knowing Gallium belongs to him, they target the dragon with ballistae. Gallium nearly flees completely unscathed, but is snared by an onslaught of arrows last second in a wing, throwing him off balance.

Dante enters the room - also after Chrono's necklace and life, like Rafael. As Chrono defends himself against the multiple knife-wielding assassin, his necklace's glowing blue bead morphs into a shield and prevents Chrono from harm. When the two see this, they instantly halt all advances as it returns to its normal form. When Dante charges in again, Chrono parries with a morphed spear before taking after the route Gallium had fled in. He barely manages to escape through the window and over the roofs; once Dante catches up, after passing all the hindrances and mess Chrono leaves for him, he realises Chrono is long gone.

Morning @ dirt trail by Luciville. The blonde from earlier is walking around, pondering about her sister. She spots the shadow of a four-winged dragon flying overhead haphazardly and gives chase.

Morning @ foresty trail away from Luciville. Mariah hides behind the trunk of some trees (grateful for her brown outfit that day) and waits for the mob to pass by overhead. She hears noises of people dying and moves further into the foresty region. She sees the backside of a girl, who is taking out villagers and what appeared to be demonic figures with her kicks and iron greaves. Once the demons and villages (!) evaporate away, Mariah approaches the girl, who appears to be reluctant to speak, claiming to be on a mission and can't afford any breaks. (Mariah can still only see her backside.) Mariah promises to help her out if she agrees to help Mariah out with a simple task - just escorting her back to Luciville so she can find the other chick and make sure she's safe. (Mariah is confident this girl is badass enough to take out any hostiles that come their way.) After Mariah introduces her name, the other girl, still reluctant, finally agrees, turns around - revealing a white blindfold covering her eyes - and introduces herself as Alice.

Phase IV - ?
Undergoing revision. Basically;
 * Chrono makes it to Calvin and encounters hostiles/demons ("Hostiles" (dunno what to call them) are basically dead people converted into demons; like zombies! The demons rise from Hell. When either of them die, their bodies evaporate into nothing.)
 * - Chrono is running, running… passed by Ferris …

- Fights off familiar demon. Crosses over some bridge and arrives in a new city – Calvis

- Almost mistook it for another Ferris – “Demons were like fire”

- Notices soldiers fighting off demon invasions lol (apparently some of the Ferris residents came there too, as Chrono recognized a few of them)

- Some demons begin to attack him so he knocks them back

- Girl fighting saves him; “mercenary?” He moves on

- While fighting, he notices on of the archer soldiers fighting off millions at once LOL

- He’s eventually stabbed on the back of his left shoulder by a bloody axe

- Turns around, “You’ll have to refine your arm… if you want to kill me in one hit.”

- Jabs an arrow down the middle of the skull into the throat of the demon, and falls back against a tree

- The archer is heavily damaged, seemingly starting to black out; some demon attempts to attack from above, but Chrono knocks it down

- Chrono helps him up. “Hi, can you please tell me what the f*ck is going on here?”

- Mariah and Alice make it back to the armory in LV ; Promise is gone

- Mariah is flipping out; Alice tells her to chill. Says she’ll leave; has own agenda

- Mariah agrees to help her out

- Al, “If you see someone wearing a ridiculously loud clown hat, wave at him for me… that’s my friend.” + golden eyes + crimson hair

<p style="text-indent: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">“Why are…”

<p style="text-indent: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">“You better not be asking me why I’m helping you.”

<p style="text-indent: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">''“No, you grouch… you saw what- what happened back there. You… why are you alone?”''

<p style="text-indent: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">“…alone?”

<p style="text-indent: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">''“You should know… to never be alone in life. ‘else you’d end up screwed. … Like me.”''

<p style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 150%;">- C drags W to the pharmacy; C digging for pain-killers (when he gets there)


 * Thing is, yayayay @ meetup between Chrono and Will. But Chrono is ooc here. He doesn't care about anyone but himself. Will should be the one following around and helping out Chrono (as, idk, payback for helping him/saving his life against a multitude of demons?). Perhaps Will saves Chrono's life first (shoots down a demon or so when he starts to get ambushed), then as Chrono approaches him, the scene with the other demon happens? So when Will is about to pass out, Chrono reluctantly helps bring him to a pharmacy as thanks. Probs tried to talk to other mercenaries as well about what's going on, but has difficulty speaking with them. This one seemed a lot easier to speak to.

Once I get all that worked out, then... @ pharmacy;

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Some demons show up; Chrono, “let me handle this”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Necklace transforms into a spear & he brings them down

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Archer asks him about it, but Chrono changes the subject and demands explanation

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- He (Will)’s a mercenary

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Team got sent out to end the cause of demons

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Lucky for them, demons stop showing up after the sun sets <p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø W claims demons are on the search for something, as they rummage through buildings before they destroy them occasionally
 * ^ NUUU CHANGE THAT. ^ I've changed the stuff about demons! The "hostiles" stop showing up after sun sets. Demons show up whenever they want. Hence night shifts and stuff.

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² Others apparently assume it’s a fun-crazed invasion, but it doesn’t seem so

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² After seeing two other villages destroyed, claims that the demons don’t leave towns until the buildings are all gone

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² Noticed some demons glance around before they attack someone in the way

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø W doesn’t know what they’re on the search for

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Could be a person/thing… (Chrono clutches necklace @ thing)

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² W reassures it’s not him otherwise he’d be ambushed a long time ago

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Dark outside. Most of the buildings torn down (save for a few random houses); demons advancing on to other cities (forward // away from Ferris). Just about no more in Calvin - bar the few demons popping up here and there

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- W, “I… guess I’ve got my hands busy… recovering isn’t too much for someone like me, haha. … Still on the search for the cause, so…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “What then?” ; “Uh… haven’t gotten to that part yet.” Either return or destroy; no other option; either is dangerous (ret > fun with power)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- C, “I’ll go with you then. (It’s good to have company when you have assassins trailing your back everywhere you go. -_-)”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “It’s getting dark; the demons all seemed to have died out here. Some soldiers and other residents are still alive…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø C, “We’re staying at the inn tonight. You said the demons are significantly less at nighttime. (The ones trying to kill me don’t attack when there’s too many others around.) We can move on tomorrow. I’ve had enough for one day.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø W laughs, “Sure thing.”

<p style="text-indent: -21pt; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 40px;">^ I'm iffy about this entire section (@ pharmacy and after), but I'm keeping it here for now.

<p style="line-height:150%">Nighttime.

<p style="margin-left:72.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Some hill near Alma, possibly closer to Lucy’s Ville?

<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Promise climbs some hill/mount and finds Gallium & the mute

<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Upon seeing mute being half-robo, says, “Oh, you’re-”

<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Demons leap in from behind, and Promise kills; “It’s dangerous here.”

<p style="margin-left:72.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Is Promise a mage?

<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Mute only makes gestures

<p style="margin-left:72.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “Are you mute…?” ; thumbs-up ; “How are you managing it here?”

<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “It’s getting dark. Lucy’s Ville should be pretty close to here. The demons don’t seem to be around at night; should be pretty safe over there. I’ll keep on watch.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm;margin-right: 0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;mso-para-margin-top: 0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Unable to find Rafael, Alice and Mariah are heading towards the kingdom (Alice has been staying elsewhere for the passed three days; free of charge b/c assassin, lolol)

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Mariah is excited

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Searched entire LV and (other city nearby not Calvin)

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Mariah suggests they head some place to sleep; getting dark

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Alice insists they search on, but Mariah slaps her; “…sorry. I’d really rather not look around in the dark.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Alice suggests again that they break off; she really never liked being in groups—

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Mariah groans and yells at Alice to come to her senses. Alice finally gives up

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Upon reaching the gates, Alice says to the weary guards: “Hey. I’m bringing in a friend. If you’ve got any problems with it, you talk to me about it.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- The guards; “N-no ma’am, no problems at all!”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Good.” Alice walks right in; Mariah is tentative but follows after

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- M, “Wow, this place is humungous.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- A, “I can give you a tour if you’d like tomorrow.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “I wonder what the guest room’s like?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Alice pauses. “…we don’t have a guest room, now that I think about it. Hm.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “I don’t mind sleeping on the floor. Really, I don’t.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Alice shrugs. “Okay then. That’s all worked out.” They enter in the castle

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Mariah, “…Alice, why is it so dark? (Do you guys not keep the lights on?)”

<p style="margin: 0mm 0mm 10pt 36pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 150%;">I'd like for Terra to do something else here, but not get caught by Will and Chrono yet (as she originally did).

<p style="margin: 0mm 0mm 10pt 36pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 150%;">This is where things go downhill / move too fast.

Phase V - Preface
16 July 2010

'''This scene is too fast, pacing-wise. Chrono and Will should not be omg besties after one day.'''

<p style="line-height:150%">Morning. (7 AM)

<p style="margin-top:0mm;margin-right: 0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;mso-para-margin-top: 0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Will catches Chrono gambling and drags him out

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Why are you gambling at this time of the day?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Erg, I… can’t really help it. I just love the rush of excitement.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “How long have you been—? Oh, whatever. Come on, get something to eat and we’re out of here. Need to head to Placir.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Tower’s closer by than LV, and tower has the armory Will needs

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Upon leaving the building, they hear a jingle. Chrono face-palms. “Don’t tell me.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Where’s that music coming from?” ; “Watch out for it, Will. It’s my… friend.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- They stand there for a while. No noises. Will just looks at Chrono; “Friend, huh?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- All of the sudden, there are sparks all over the ground (like those poppers at festivals); Will and Chrono start… dancing? There’s laughter.

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Chrono leaps out of the way, necklace changes into spear

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Will’s back against the inn’s wall

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Rafael is sitting on a town house’s rooftop again. Jumps down; axe slung over his shoulder. “I knew if Dante didn’t get you at the kingdom, you’d come over here.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Will, “Man, you sound so much like a stalker. Is this your friend, Chrono? He seems pretty mean.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Chrono sighed, “Yeah, that’s Rafael all right. :/ What do you want this time?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “What I wanted last time, Sherlock.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Seriously? Now, Rafael? I finally got my share of rest—it wasn’t even a full night’s sleep; I got woken up at three AM last night.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Wasn’t my fault. I really can’t back down on this, Chrono! As much as I want to.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Rafael. No, please, just… just go home and leave me alone.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Raf: >:/ Swings axe at Chrono, who blocks with his spear

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Raf, “I never knew it could do that… if I had known, Id’ve…”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “You’dve what?” ; “Nothing.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Chrono guard breaks. He looks to Will, as if to ask for support; Will merely shrugs at him, “Dude, I’ve got no ammo. What do you want me to do, jab my last arrow into him? Chase after him with a fork? He’s not stupid like the demons.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Chrono grunts and fights some more.

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o As they’re fighting; “Rafael! I thought you said there was only one!”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “Only one what?” ; “Well, there’s Dante too, and apparently—”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “Ohh, that? I said that? Whoops, my bad!”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Right before he grabs hold of Chrono’s necklace… falls flat on the ground

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “Oh, my God, what is this?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Inn-keeper stands over him with a giant book; “Stay away, you foul monster?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “What? Foul-monster? What did I—??”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- The inn-keeper (maybe others start to come over?) whacks him some more; he grunts and tosses out a smoke bomb. As he flees… “I’ll be back for you later, Chrono! When there aren’t any more ridiculous interruptions!”

<p style="margin-top:0mm;margin-right: 0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;mso-para-margin-top: 0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Will, “…that guy’s kind of a freak.” “Tell me about it.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- (Alma) Jill (girl with teddy bear)’s running around, checking on residents; ensuring safety

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø We find out her name from an old lady thanking her

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Notices a small shadow by the woods (Alma’s surrounded/protected by its forests)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Follows to a river; figure’s gone; is at some point pushed into the river (by small hands)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- While flailing, notices a giant stick reaching out for her; grabs it & is pulled to shore

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Sees a green-haired boy, looking at her “with worry in his eyes”. He’s crazy bruised

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Blames the kid for this incident, but he shakes his head and freaks out (nearly silent); “…I… I just got here…” ; “…I’m going back to Alma. Thanks for helping me out…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- The boy just smiles; “No one my age around where I live… want to be friends?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Friends? …yeah, that’d be nice… what’s your name?” ; “Morpheus.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm;margin-right: 0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;mso-para-margin-top: 0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “That’s a cool name, Morpheus! I’m Jill.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm;margin-right: 0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;mso-para-margin-top: 0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Morph insists she follows him home. Jill finally agrees to go with him

<p style="margin-top:0mm;margin-right: 0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;mso-para-margin-top: 0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- I kind of want a Mariah/Alice scene here, but I’m not sure what. Is Alice giving Mariah a tour or something? What’s Dante doing at this time? Has he fixed the generator by this time?

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Alice talks to him later; “Hey, my friend here Mariah said that there was something up with the lights last night.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Oh, that. I just got done fixing it up. It… busted last night.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Really? That’s weird; the generator’s the backup for the actual lights. What happened to those?” ; “Uhh…”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “That’s cool if you don’t want to tell me. By the way, this is Mariah.” (“Hi!”)

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Have you seen Rafael at all lately? I didn’t hear from him last night.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Nah, he didn’t come home last night. He’s taking care of the mission right now; he said he won’t be back until later today. Probably crashed some inn last night.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Bummer. We’ll be out in a few to go look for him and help out.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Dante suggests they stay behind; he’ll go instead. They don’t need too many people all out at once. (NEED BETTER REASON THAN THIS)

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Alice grunts; Mariah pulls her aside, “Yeah, you still owe me a tour of this place.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “Geez, you’re like a little kid!”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “Good! This place needs some. There’s no children anywhere here.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “This is going to take all day… I still have to find Rafael and—”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Dante, “Alice. I’ll go yell at Rafael for you. I don’t know how or why you two got separated—he’s doing a pretty bad job at being your eyes. But I’ll find him anyway.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Alice smiles, “Thanks, Dante.” He runs off. Mariah nudges Alice. “So…”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Oh, uh… that’s just my old, old friend, Dante. We’ve been close since the day I was born, pretty much.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm;margin-right: 0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;mso-para-margin-top: 0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Ooh, close?” Smiles smugly. Alice is slightly pink. “Knock it off. Do you want a tour or not?” ; “Hmm hmm ♪”

<p style="line-height:150%">Noon.

<p style="margin-top:0mm;margin-right: 0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;mso-para-margin-top: 0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Chrono and Will are trekking up the hill to the Placir

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Spot a dead mailman + Draco on the way (black/yellow)

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- W, “Oh—oh! That’s Joe! This sucks, if he died here, then that means my last mail didn’t make it through.” (I love how he’s so casual about it XD.) “Your last mail?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Will digs through his bag. “This one!” Small blue envelop; opens up. Lots of bills (“pounds” is the currency). “My last paycheck. 300 pounds. Enough to feed one person for a month.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Holy—well… what’re you gonna do with it now? Should we keep it?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “I… guess so. I mean, this was supposed to go to my sister in Ferris, but—oh—ah, man! I forgot about Ferris! Chrono, can we please head back?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “…hate to break it to you but… Ferris burned down.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “What? Seriously? No way! Aw, no, nonono, that’s not…”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Most of the civilians were evacuated on time.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “No, no, aw—aw, man, that’s still not cool…”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “It’s okay. I mean… unless something happened to her along the way, she should be safe. A couple of people evacuated the citizens.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Dude, she’s mute. If she got lost, or separated, or eaten up, no one would know because—” “…she’s mute?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Yeah. I mean, unless I can amount enough money for some surgery—which is supposed to take place at the Placir, but the stupid tower is closed for some reason.” “Wait… mute… that would explain why…” “Do you know her?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Chrono pulls out the locket from his pocket and clicks it open. Shows it to Will.

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Will gasps; snatches it; “omg Charade! You do know her! How is she right now??”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “She’s… she’s all right, she’s alive. Okay. Uh. Long story.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “It’s okay, we’ve got time. What’s up? What happened to my sister?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “…nothing. Seriously, she’s in good hands. She with my pet Draco—like this one? Except pure white.” “Holyyy craaappp—”

<p style="margin-top:0mm;margin-right: 0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;mso-para-margin-top: 0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Come on, let’s get going. We’re not gonna make it anywhere if we keep dawdling around here.”

<p style="line-height:150%">Afternoon.

<p style="margin-top:0mm;margin-right: 0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;mso-para-margin-top: 0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Morpheus sneaks Jill around inside the tower’s gates through the back

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Jill, “Whoa, it’s broken! I wonder what happ—”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Morph, “Shh! Please, Jill! If they catch you, they’ll send you away.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- They make it in the castle; J, “Wow, this place is huge!”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- They make it up the stairs, around corners, in and out some rooms (J, “It’s like a giant game of hide and seek! My favorite game!” M smiles), passed some guards

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Eventually they bump into a lady in a checkered outfit; busty; 22 years old

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Hello, Morphie! I haven’t seen you in a while. Where have you been lately?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “N-nowhere, ma’am…”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “Hun, I told you to just call me Lulu. I’m not a petty noble who needs to be addressed by titles.” Looks around, “I hope no one heard that.” Jill smiles.

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o M, “Oh… sure, Lulu.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “Always the quiet one. Well, Harken and Valor have been searching for you like mad lately; have you been skipping out on your piano practices?” “…”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “Oh. Well, what else is there to expect from you? At any rate, I—oh, how did I miss you? Hello to you too, dearie. What’s your name?” “Jillian!”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “Jillian, what a pretty name for such a pretty girl. Is this your new friend, Morphie?” “…” Lulu shrugs; “I expected that. Can’t ever talk to this boy. It’s no use trying to get word out of you. You know what the punishment is for bringing in outsiders. But hey—I’m no rat. You’re just a cute little boy with his whole life ahead of him. It’s not your fault there’s no one your age around here.” She continues walking on. “Bye-bye, Morphie. I’ve got some things to take care of.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- The two look to each other. J, “So I’m really not supposed to be here… we really are playing real-life hide and seek, aren’t we? That’s pretty cool.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm;margin-right: 0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;mso-para-margin-top: 0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- M shushes her and they dive into the next room

<p style="margin-top:0mm;margin-right: 0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;mso-para-margin-top: 0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Chrono and Will finally make it to the Placir

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o It’s a huge mount/hill, not on level with Calvin, Ferris, Alma, or the kingdom

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- As they’re heading up the last few steps, Chrono stops; “Wait, Will. I hear something. Footsteps behind us.” The footsteps halt. The two turn around – Terra.

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o C, “You’re that girl from last night…”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o W, “The pretty Terra! That’s right, of course I remember you.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Terra freaks. C, “What’re you doing following us around?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “I was sent by the queen to be your bodyguard.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o C, “…by Mom? How does she…?”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “She heard about what happened in Ferris and—”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “How do I know this isn’t a trick?” Chrono turns back around. “Terra—whatever your name is, just get out of here. I’ve already been backstabbed by the two—…three people I’ve trusted the most in my life, and I’ve had it with all these people coming after me.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “No, you’ve got to understand! That’s why I’m—”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o “If you really were sent here by Mom, go tell her I’m doing fine and that (with that sarcastic tone) I love her and I’m still alive and… you know. I don’t need a personal bodyguard. I don’t need to be backstabbed again.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">o Terra sighs and leaves. W, “…harsh, man.”

<p style="margin-top:0mm; margin-right:0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; mso-para-margin-top:0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- They get closer to the tower. C, “Door’s locked.” Kicks, etc.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Can’t you just form a bunch of arrows from your necklace or something?”, “I doubt this little thing can change into eight million things at once, Will.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Been to 3 cities; none of them seem to have armories; LV is on the other side of the tower

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- The two look around for a bit… head to the back, looking for a way to get inside without breaking in. See some open window upon reaching the back.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Almost immediately after, Chrono freezes. Hears ringing/jingle.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “You hear that?” ; “What, the ringing?” ; “Oh, goddammit, not again!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Bell rolls out from behind Chrono; explodes. Both end up leaping opposite directions

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Dante, with lightning speed, appears behind Chrono; Chrono dodges a few of his throwing knives… possibly gets cut in the arm by one, but w/e

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- D chases C down a new path, away from W & the Placir

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- W begins to pursue, but is cut off by Rafael; “Not you again… seriously, it hasn’t even been one day yet and I’m sick of you already.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Dante catches Chrono near the end of the route (nearing a cliff); they fight or something

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Still after the necklace? … Why?” ; “Against our policy to question the client.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “I bet he’s paying you so much for this.”, “…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Chrono’s near the cliff; “Call it off!”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “I can’t, buddy.”, “WTF, why not?” , “…she’ll destroy the kingdom.”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² MAKE SURE THAT CLAIM DANTE’S MAKING IS WARRANTED

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rafael and Will are seen catching up (explosions in the bg)

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Will’s running like a freak as fast as he can

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Manages to catch a bell, and out of shock, chucks it forward

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Dante leaps out of the way; Chrono attempts to move, but he’s along a cliff and doesn’t see it until after Dante leaps. Bell explodes, cliff breaks, Chrono falls

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono’s necklace forms into a hooked spear and hooks self onto the cliff’s wall

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Slides down slowly. Upon reaching the bottom, he punches the wall; “Dammit!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Will screams over the edge, “Chrono!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rafael looks down the cliff; “He’s not dead. … There’s a way around, down the hill.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Why should I listen to you?”, “Normally I’d have a comeback, but…” Looks to Dante, “Dante. I’m gonna go take a nap now. You can do whatever you want.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- D, “I’m heading back to the kingdom as well. Alice is there looking for you. You have some explaining to do, Rafael. You’re doing quite a bad job at being her eyes…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Will, “So now you’re just going to leave?” Raf, “…mm, yup.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- After Dante leaves first, Will, “Wait, wait, there’s others?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “I really wish she didn’t involve herself either.” “So why-”

<p style="margin-top:0mm;margin-right: 0mm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;mso-para-margin-top: 0mm;mso-para-margin-right:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “You ask more questions than I do, and I do that for a living! [Get it? Cuz he’s a jester lol.] Go find your buddy and keep him safe!” leaves

Phase VI
<p style="line-height:150%">4 PM.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono enters Alma (city of the trees)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Everyone’s inside their homes, hiding. Except one fat guy is seen running

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono, “Where is everyone?” … “Hiding. No time. They’re coming.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- C follows man into the town

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- While running, hears tree tops overhead, trees behind him; fights while runs

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Dead end of some part of the city; turns around; more approaching

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø The necklace > spear; Chrono is slightly spazzy at this part

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Before charging in, arrow from behind a demon comes up and hits one; the demons part and “freak out” for a second

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø W darting to C. C, “Thought you were out of ammo!”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “I am! That was my last one!”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² Will probably found something like a pole to substitute. Not skilled.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “How’d you make it here?” ; giant dragon flies overhead; “I trailed that thing.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Chrono looks up, “Ah! Gallium! … Looks like he brought…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G is zapping things from the sky lol; Promise calls out, and G lands

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Will notices long brown hair trailing in the air from atop G and immediately darts to it; Chrono follows, killing the demons in his way

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Will, “Cha… Charade? Sis, is it really…? What happened to you?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono, “Long story. Watch yourself.” + MOAR FIGHTING

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Terra enters during one of the fight scenes

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Chrono about to get attacked from behind, but hears some noise behind him; Terra

<p style="text-align:left;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan">(Is Alice giving Mariah a “tour” of the kingdom, like Dante suggested, at this point? If so, how will you fit it into the narrative, if Raf’s storming and Alice’s tour are at the same time?)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rafael is storming to and fro in the entrance of the castle. Others are avoiding him

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Doesn’t want to do this anymore. Doesn’t care what happens to the kingdom; doesn’t feel right trying to kill his best friend. Rather have someone else do this

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Dante is there trying to talk him out of it

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Obviously cares nothing for his friendships if the kingdom is in danger

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Don’t you understand? She’ll destroy the kingdom if we let him be. How else are we going to work our way around this issue? We can’t find another morphing necklace. We have to retrieve Chrono’s.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf basically tells him to piss off and kill Chrono himself

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Alice overhears this and, telling Mariah to wait back there (the children are also eavesdropping) storms up to Raf

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Doesn’t know about the target nor about the kingdom being endangered

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Gets in Raf’s face and tells him he can’t back down on his responsibility

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “But… but I…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “But what? But what, Rafael? You made a commitment, Raf. You’re putting your – all of our reputations in danger. Who or what is it that is making you want to drop this?”　(she doesn’t know about the kingdom being threatened)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Dante says nothing. Rafael says nothing.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Al, “You’ve been acting so weird lately… I know something’s up.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf, “No… nothing’s up, Alice. I’m just… I’m tired. Could I go take a nap for a few? Please?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Dante, “We need to get that necklace soon, Rafael, or—”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Al, “Go ahead. Get some rest early tonight. Sleep in or something, okay? I know something’s bugging you. I’m sure rest will clear it up.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf, “…thanks, A-Alice. I sure… hope so.” Darts (or just walks?) off

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² Make sure readers know by now how arrogant Alice is

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Alice goes back to Mariah. The two children are gone

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Mariah, “so who are the two kids?” “Kids? What kids?” “Never mind…”

<p style="text-align:left;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan">Dusk.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- They later approach the residents that it’s safe to come out; the demons are dead; they’ll guard them if any others show up, but it doesn’t seem like there will be. Residents rejoice.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- People at inn agree that they are life-savers and let them stay for free however long they please; Gallium takes the yard

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Terra re-introduces self + re-explains (“I was sent by the queen to protect you.”)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono’s relation to the assassins is revealed

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- W reminds them (?) that if they get attacked again, W can’t do a good job at helping with lack of ammo. Could make his weapon/pole/substitute break lol

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono volunteers to go to LV to get him some ammo. Charade tags along

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Will, “You better explain what you did to my sister when you get back.”


 * Is this before or after the armory scene? If it’s after, move to the next phase. This one’s getting too long.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Jill and Morpheus; + hide and seek

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Eventually they crawl into the library (HUGE)

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Jill glances around, shocked.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Do… you like to read, Jill?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Ahh, Papa does, but I’ve never gotten into it.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “… …That’s okay. We can just talk here… and stuff…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf can’t sleep (dif outfit; no hat); wandering around halls, avoiding A & D, thinking

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø What are Dante and Alice doing at this point, with regards to Chrono/necklace? Does Dante finally say he’s going to talk to the client for more time? Alice still giving Mariah a tour? (“You’re such a freaking kid! Seriously!”)

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² Or Raf could bump into Dante, who was heading out

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² “Gonna ask the client to extend our time. We have two days.” “If she refuses?”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² “Then I guess the attack on Chrono is off.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Stands outside the library and ponders… enters

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- In one of the multiple columns, Rafael is looking toward the two. “Huh. You don’t see a cute face (Jill) like that every day. Don’t get caught, little Morpheus.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- He yawns and continues to search through the books

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- After some time, he pulls out a hardcover crimson book; “Myths of War”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “This is the eighth book I’ve looked at. Ugh, you would think this kind of treasure hunting would be fun. Please, God, let it be this one.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Waltzes over to a table across the kids. Opens the book & eavesdrop for a few seconds.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Jill, “Hide and seek?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Kids always have fun in the books… everyone here is too old to bother with me.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “But, you heard what Miss Lulu said. What would happen to me if I get caught?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “…nothing. (You won’t.)”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rafael unintentionally smiles. “I miss my childhood. Hide and seek with Alice was fun… that is… until…” Shakes head and flips open the book to the TOC. “…oh, well, look at that. They do have something on… accessories. Okay.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Pages forward & back a bit until he’s somewhere near the end. “Blue, blue, necklace, neckla- AHA. X marks the spot!”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø The children glance his way, then turn their attention back to each other.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Mm… war raging on… people begged for more power… God said NO, but the ‘fools wouldn’t listen,’ so he sent down the necklace to end it… Okay, that’s interesting. What else… blah-blah-blah, ‘don’t use this more than you need to, turn this in to the king afterwards, it is to be forgotten afterwards, blah-blah-blah’… transformation… giant shield… giant axe… yawn… … … Oh, what’s this? … …”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø ' TEMPORARY MYTH. MAY CHANGE '

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø The myth hero defeated the enemy general and 1/3 of the soldiers. The rest fled or already died. Was celebrated and congratulated on such achievement.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Didn’t head to the kingdom right away (not of royalty, but granted entrance) to turn the necklace over to the king. Prob kept to show off to friends what it can do

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Returned it later. Upon leaving, he feels as if something was missing. Not the necklace, but his strength. Disregards the feeling, says it’s normal, leaves.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Nearing the gates, felt himself getting sweaty. Hands were twitching, etc.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Darted back to the castle and to the king’s room.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø He apologizes for such a situation, but requests for the necklace

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Says he can’t get over this strange feeling; hands won’t stop twitching

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø The king denies and says he’s keeping the necklace somewhere away, safe, and to be forgotten; if gotten into the wrong hands

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø The hero dubs that idea as bullshit, apologizes for language, and begs again

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø The king denies once more, and the hero, twitching, pretty much attacks the king, “Where did you put it? Where did you put the damned necklace??”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø The king says nothing. The hero kicks him in the stomach, jumps off of him, and scrambles all around the room for it, eventually finding it, and fleeing ASAP, nearly stumbling out and down the stairs.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Uncontrollable smile, uncontrollable shaking. The bead is glowing, trembling.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø IT ENDS WITH HIM GOING POWER-CRAZY AND KILLING PEOPLE

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø AND THEN HE GETS SMITED BY SOLDIERS, THE END

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rafael blinks blankly. Reads some footnotes around the book. Notes that if wielder abused its power to a point, would be impossible to keep it away. Mind would “corrupt” with the power and he would do whatever was possible to get it back if ever lost.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø If he doesn’t lose it and uses it to a certain extent, the power within the necklace will surge through him. Wearing it already gives you a bit of power, but nothing too noticeable. Wearing it idly would produce strange visions of sorts – God did not want people to carry around the necklace as it may get stolen//abused at any moment, so he gave the illusions as a warning.

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² If you wear the necklace idly, but rid yourself of it, your mind won’t go power-craving, as you’ve never used/abused its power.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø ANYWAY, if you’ve ever used the necklace to a certain point, your mind will go crazy with the power. You’ll want to kill things & abuse your new found power. Killing simple things would only feed it – even though not enough to satisfy the thirst.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “…ahh, shit.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Apparently Rafael was thief at childhood too. He burrowed through the king/queen’s stuff occasionally. When he was almost 9, he found the necklace in some random box in the dungeon. He was enormously infatuated with Alice at that time, so he gave it to her as a birthday present when she turned 9. – A few days before her “inauguration” to the Title.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rafael smacks his head for a moment and lets his face sink into his palm. “…so that’s why our client wants us to kill the wielder. Because he’ll charge after us if we don’t. …I don’t know how much Chrono used its power, but it can’t be too much. He wasn’t… corrupted last time I’ve seen him. … Whatever, I’m tired.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- He gets up, takes the book outside with him, and heads to his room.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- The children were no longer in the library.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø STILL NIGHTTIME @ Luciville

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- No demons around; Char and Chrono journey through some trees until they reach Luciville && enter the armory

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- The two goof off for a bit, playing with some of the armor/weapons lying around

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Char suggests to Chrono that he should get some armor for protection

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Even pantomimes being injured

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono laughs and thanks for consideration

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “But I’ll be okay. The necklace’s got me covered. Besides, heavy armor would slow me down, anyway. You could always grab yourself something though.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Charade picks up an ugly, heavy helmet. Nearly topples over. Both laugh.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- They return to Alma later on that night w/ R’s arrows. Instead of heading straight off to his room, Chrono heads downstairs to gamble and drink.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Hands Char the arrows & asks her to deliver them to Will for him.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Char sad, but leaves him anyway.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Would be hilarious if Will was already downstairs and drinking

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “…I can explain.”

Phase VI - old/save
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      Alice and Mariah are nearing another city (possibly Jason’s Ir; far from the Placir, and where everyone else is at)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      Alice eventually hears noises/screams

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      Alice and Mariah follow the source; Mariah sees a male in a white shirt, gray pants; slicing down people

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      M charges over to him, “WTF are you doing??”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      Male holds the sword to her and she freezes; “Saving lives, dearie.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      M, “My ass you are! You’re killing all these innocent residents!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      “Do you not see how badly injured they are? They’d die anyway.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      A, “You call that saving lives?” >> “In a way. For you, at least.” >> M, “What?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      Male sighs. “At least I’m not running around bombing cities, like mister clown-face over there.”  (Mariah, “Isn’t that…”)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      Rafael is entering the town, sees blood, thinks male is attacking A, and charges in

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      Male moves to side and elbows R in the back; R falls; A goes to his side

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Tsk, tsk, mister jester. You’ll get yourself killed one day.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Who the hell are you?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “You didn’t say the magic word.” Others glare at him. “Okay. It’s Glitch.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      Alice turns attention to R; “So, Rafael. You burned down the city of our trackee.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “I didn’t kill him, Alice. At least, not yet…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Told you splitting up would prolong the mission. Do you know where he is?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “No. I mean, erg. Um…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø M, “Can you at least tell us what he looks like?” R turns to M. “So I can help Alice track him down better?” – R remains silent

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      G laughs; “OIC. R, you’re not too slick. Kiddo (or M), the trackee has a green jacket and an obnoxious red hat. A, he has your hair.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø R, “You’re such an ass.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      Alice, “…my hair? Brother? … (nonchalant) Rafael, is the trackee really him?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      “      “…yeah. I told you not to tag along.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “And you tried to kill him by bombing the city.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “No. I wanted to scare off the residents, to fight Chrono alone.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “I see. So, what happened to the residents?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø R points to G. “He led them to safety.”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² G, “Correction. I only led half of them away.”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² M, “I really doubt that they’re still alive now.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø G, “Hey, don’t look at me. I wouldn’t ever bomb my own hometown.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      Silence elapses; the three look to Alice for a moment, then Rafael, red, flees

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      More silence; Glitch, “Well, that was interesting.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">-      M, “Shut up; you’re no help.”

Phase VII
<p style="text-align:left;line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan">Morning.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- M managed to ask Lulu’s permission to stay in her room the previous night, at the end of their hide & seek. Jill is using the shower

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Jill would use some of the old clothes meant for Alice/other young girls

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level3 lfo2">² Maybe Lulu sews

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø There’s the little hallway-like area in the room with the sink and giant mirror… and a door behind // the shower/toilet room

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Jill is using the shower; M is in said area, looking at mirror at self – hair’s a mess

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Lulu is putting on make-up. Jill’s singing in the shower lol.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- M’s not paying attention; Lulu silently pries open the shower room. Steamy hot

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Swings the door open and tosses M inside; darts out. Jill screams

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rafael heads outside. Alice, Alice’s friend, and Dante were nowhere to be found.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø ''' Where are Alice and Mariah at this point? ''' Dante’s still off talking to Yoko.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Rafael heads outside. Sun’s up, but not too many people are wandering about. As he approaches the gate, he notices a crowd building up. Darts down there.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Squeezes btwn the crowd. G is outside the gate, talking to/threatening the guards.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Sees Rafael, then immediately rushes passed the guards into the gate.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Oh, you’re that boy with the funny hat. Hey, I know what the hell you guys are up to, and I’m warning you to knock it off. More like I’m threatening you, but either way, you and your happy little teammates need to stay where they belong. Here.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Is this about Chrono? The necklace?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “…what? What the hell are you- no, you know what, I don’t give a rat’s ass about that. Go kill your childhood friend if you really want to; I could care less. The fire from a few days ago doesn’t bug me. The fact that you burned down my sister’s AND my wife’s graves doesn’t bug me.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø G, “Tell your buddies to stay behind the gate until the whole demon-thing is cleared up. Then they can go off and massacre however many hordes of people they want.” Turns around. “I’d just like to have one night to myself without being anal probed by a demon.” Walks off. Stops. “Oh, and could you stop tossing those bells around every other minute? It’s… giving me a headache.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Rafael just stares blankly, and the crowd starts to dissipate. Lulu and Valor are remaining, and they approach Rafael. L, “Hey Rafael, don’t listen to him. He’s not making any sense. Carry on with your business and what you need to do.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø V, “Sucks that you had to be so horribly singled-out like that.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø R, “Wait, where are you guys going?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø V, “You honestly think one little man younger than Lulu is going to keep us in?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø L, “Are you implying something, Isaiah?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø V, “Shut up, oldie. Anyway, we’re heading out for a bit.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “To see if anyone out here is in need of a bodyguard or two from the demons. We don’t want you guys taking all the spoils.” L just smiles; the two walk out.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “I’ll be back by evening. Knowing V, he’ll probably prance around for a bit b4 he returns. Don’t worry about us; we just need some fresh air around here.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Prancing. Lulu. Prancing.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Well, you’re a strange person. I assume that’s what you do.” Laughs. “Anyway, Rafael, some of our buddies have gone missing over the past few days. I believe that foul-mouth has something to do with it.” The two leave.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf closes eyes and contemplates for a moment; heads back to the main tower/castle

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Over at Alma, in inn in lobby room, W’s laying on a sofa in front of a non-burning fireplace. Just laying there, chilling, & looking at the ceiling above him.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Hears some noise outside, like loud footsteps, possibly a cry for help. Curious, Will gets up and waltzes over to the door, where the footsteps seem to be stumbling to.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Opens the door, and some boy with messy orange/brown (undecided) hair bursts in, panting. ~13-14 years. “You were… one of the heroes from last night… correct?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Will laughs. “Sure; that’s my new title, I take it.” He peers outside, but there’re no demons around. “What’s going on?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “They’re… not demons… but some people are here… and… attacked my sister… neighbors… shop owners…” > “What’s this?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- At some point, Chrono jolts down the stairs, necklace bouncing about. “I heard some strange shouts outside. Was that you?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø The boy has a sweatdrop. “Erg… it wasn’t only me, but…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø W, “Kid claims that there’re some attackers outside. Wanna go check it out?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Sure; you first.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “No, I meant you. My EQ’s upstairs.” W salutes & leisurely heads upstairs.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Chrono turns to the boy and is about to speak, but some assassin jumps through the window at him; necklace turns into a shield, C blocks him, then throws him to wall

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø After throwing him, the necklace turns into a spear, then eyes widen

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level3 lfo2">² Red blood. C, “What? Wait, that’s not a d-”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- The assassin gets up and charges at Chrono again, but Chrono dodges, and the assassin, limping, heads outside upon missing

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Promise screams upstairs. Chrono turns to the boy, “Hey kid.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Neil…” / “Okay, Neil, whatever. Do you have a weapon?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “…n-no… I’m weaponless.” / “Figures. Stay here.” Chrono jolts outside

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Will, who is upstairs, jolts out from his room (from the right), facing his room.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Fires an arrow, some assassin jumps out of the room, dodges the arrow, and kicks Will to the wall, who then slides down the wall down stairs, fires another arrow and catches himself at the end. The arrow flies through the assassin’s skull and breaks part of his head. Red blood spills all over the stairs.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- W, “…yuck.” Gets up immediately. “Oh, hey, is Chrono outside?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø E, “What… just happened?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “I believe you. Assassins are attacking. Two of them ambushed P’s room.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “The scream…?” / “Promise. One of them took her weapon, so she bitchslapped him, took it back, and jabbed his lungs.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “…violent…” / “Well, you don’t expect us to get butchered, do you?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Terra comes down. “It’s a mess up there.” Tags along with W & heads to door.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Sees Chrono standing there. “Why is he just standing there?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- C’s conversing with V (24-27 yrs), who’s standing on a building across from the inn

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “WTF are you doing here, Valor??” > “Haha, you still remember my name!”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø T & W block themselves from random assassins attacking them

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Assassins are in the background, attacking town residents (14-16人)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- At some point, Will catches a new voice behind him—“And stay out!”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Lulu. She’s slicing down a random bewildered assassin.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Will, “Huh, you’re a new face.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Lulu waves; “Hi, I’m Lulu. I was sent by the queen to protect Chrono.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Terra’s WTFing in the corner; if Chrono overheard, “oh my God, another one?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Their attention direct to one assassin, who sliced open a resident’s neck & the resident falls dead on the ground with blood squirting out from his neck.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- The assassin’s head slides off and the body is tossed aside – Glitch.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø He steps on the dead resident’s head to knock it off his neck

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Some more assassins go to attack Glitch, and he decapitates them as well

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Glitch goes after some dead residents and kicks/steps/slices off their heads

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- The rest of the assassins begin to flee. Valor twitches.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Oh. It’s him again. Um. You’ll see more from me.” Flees as well.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Glitch, “That’s right. Run like the cowards you are.” He turns to Chrono. “So you’re here too. Not dead yet.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Obviously…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Well, watch yourself. I can’t predict the future, but something’s brewing. If any more assassins jump by—I don’t care who they are—kill them. They’re pissing me off.” Turns around and jolts off, decapitating more dead people.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Chrono shakes his head. “…I don’t get it. I just don’t get it.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Perhaps Lulu tries to talk to him, but Terra gets in the way

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Chrono, “Stop it, just stop. I’m not in the mood to figure this out right now. I just want to rest. Calm down. Chill out. I’ll figure out what the hell’s going on out here later. No one say anything. No one do anything. Just. Chill.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- I’d like a Jill/Morpheus scene here.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Inside inn (Alma) later on that evening, C, Char, T, & Elias sitting in the lobby room

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Chrono’s playing with his necklace & miniature transformations, such as a slingshot

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Eventually Will steps in with another girl; seems to be flirting with her

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø The girl has shoulder-length orange hair and blue eyes

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø She notices Neil, who stands up, and the two dash to each other and hug

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level3 lfo2">² “Apricot, I thought you were…”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level3 lfo2">² “What, d’you think I’m dumb enough to just stand there and get smited? I hid, bro. This Will found me a little while ago and brought me over here. I was worried about you, with all your screaming.” They sit

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Will proceeds to sit on a cushioned chair (like Charade) across from Chrono

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Soon, Promise walks in, says, “Gallium is unharmed.” Charade moves to the floor, Promise tries to tell her not to do that, but Charade doesn’t even let her speak.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- They sum up the situation.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Will looks to Chrono, “So, you know those guys.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Chrono, “Some of them… ah, no.” Looks to Terra, but she shakes head; she doesn’t know many of them either. “Mainly Valor. Childhood buddies.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Neil, “And these guys are after you…?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Charade looks to Chrono as well; Chrono, “Well… not these guys…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø W ?s why he wasn’t at the kingdom anymore. “You owe me the whole story.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Chrono grins, then it fades. “I was exiled ten years ago.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Charade hangs her head. Chrono continues. “I haven’t seen my family or friends since.” Hangs head similarly to Charade. “Until a few days ago.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Chrono briefly goes over what Dante did in Phase III. Charade blushes at the “had-to-work-on-her-overnight” thing, W & T laugh; Chrono, red, freaks out

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level3 lfo2">² C chucks a die at R’s head. “N-no— I mean— it was—”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level3 lfo2">² Will, “I get it, I get it. Just chill, Chrono.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Chrono says now, Dante, Rafael, and, from what Dante says, even his own sister, are all after his necklace – and his life as well, but he has no clue why.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Will asks to see the necklace, and Chrono (hesitantly) hands it over to him

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Apricot, “Okay… so these guys have nothing to do with you or your necklace.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Apparently not. Otherwise,” Chrono can’t take his eyes off of Will messing with the necklace (not transformed), “they would have ganged up on me. They were more interested in taking the lives of others.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø T reinforces this with how they even went after W/T more so than Chrono

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Will looks up at Chrono, notices his attention drawn to the necklace, then tosses it back. Chrono takes it back, watches it glow, then looks outside the window. Notices dead people outside and about 20 alive. “There’s a chance they’ll come back. But if it’s lives they’re after, they’ll probably want to go somewhere else. That man probably went off to another city, and…” Buries head in hands. “I’m so confused.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Scene with Mariah and Alice?

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Dusk (5 PM)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- The group argues about who to send to get the food. (Mainly C/W; P is watching in the bg, terrified at the hungry men, attempting to calm them down. T is outside.)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Charade volunteers to do so (by getting up and leaving the room w/o warning)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- As she’s heading towards the restaurant, notices T talking Lulu

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Char watches them argue for a bit before heading inside the restaurant

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Raf is watching in the bg atop a giant hill… or the same building V was on

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Char exits; the argument seems to be more… intense/angry

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Char enters the inn again, holding big bag of food

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- R was calling at Chrono downstairs about his food problem, but C’s ignoring

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Turns around, sees Char; tackles her, takes the bag, & heads back to his room

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Charade watches him leave and approaches Chrono downstairs

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Chrono wins a jackpot or something, iono it’s hilarious, and the others congratulate

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Before he’s about to take beer from someone, Charade taps him on his shoulder

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Oh hey, already back with the food? R’s been going sick.” Looks back. “Hah, guess you already did.” About to take a drink until Char taps shoulder again

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-align:left; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Was there something you wanted to show me?” Charade nods and Chrono rises. “Sorry guys. I’ll be back though.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- T/L still arguing outside. C and Char walk outside. L tries to make T seem evil.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “I know what you’re doing here. You’re here to take Chrono’s necklace and his life, aren’t you??” “WTF?” “Just like little Rafael and Dante.”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level3 lfo2">² T’s apparently tagged with R/D and is spying on C/waiting for opportunity

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- During this argument, Raf sneaks behind C and cuts the string of the necklace, swiping it from him and darts off. C chases after.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Raf feels erratic pulses. Awkward turns. Chrono gets closer, lunges, falls.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Raf comes to complete stop. “Whoa… it’s… it’s so…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Chrono going nuts. Starts crawling. “Give it… back… to me…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Raf lightheaded. Things melting. Almost loosens grasp.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Arrow zips through the back of Raf’s neck, and he collapses on his side. (Will)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Necklace flies to the side. Chrono pounces at it, catches it and falls forward, breathing heavily, his grasp uncoordinated. Fumbling with the bead; its glow starts to dim down.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- C heads back to inn, wide-eyed, delirious-looking. Char helps him back inside. “It’s… it’s all good… no—no one’s harmed… haah…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- T freaking out over Raf’s death @ moment, but Lulu brings the fight back.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “I was hired by Lady Young herself to see if her beloved son was doing just fine. She knew about the explosion and knew that some folks were after his necklace. Apparently Terra and some other assassins wanted this power for themselves and went after you. …”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level3 lfo2">² Of course, Lulu’s lying. Q knows nothing about Chrono’s necklace/power. She heard this info from eavesdropping on Raf’s chat with Glitch

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “You liar! Lady Young said nothing about the necklace! She knows nothing about Rafael’s and Dante’s hunt for him. She knew Chrono lived in Ferris, heard of its explosion, and sent me to go check on him.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Then why are you still hanging around here?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø T replies with something about company, friends, yadda.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- @ some point, T is enraged and lunges at Lulu. Lulu slices Terra’s neck

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- She looks to W, who’s looking back at her with wide eyes.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø L, calm, “She even planned on killing me when I didn’t lift a finger. I’m telling you, she was out to get you guys.” Worried they might revolt, nervously flees

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Sometime after Will walks back into the inn… Alice enters with Mariah.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Why are they here? Maybe they followed Rafael…? But what were they doing outside the kingdom in the first place? UGHH

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- M, “I could’ve sworn I saw your little clowny friend enter here sometime ago, and—”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- She sees his body and rushes to it; Alice follows behind. Mariah places some bandages on his neck wound… Alice lifts the body. “Ohh… he’s kind of cold…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Both immediately dart off, towards the kingdom

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Promise heads outside, seeing figures taking a dead body away. Curious, she walks outside, halts, and just looks at the direction they ran off in.

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level3 lfo2">² Was she watching the fight the whole time? Probably in the lobby rm.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Ponders whether to tell C/others, but decided not to bother them.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Checks on residents of town instead.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Possibly peers into an open house, and some random demon pops up in front of her

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Surprised, she backs out or something, and as the demon comes out, it falls/dies from KNIFE TO THE NECK – by none other than Dante (is app injured)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Dante nearly collapses back, but Promise helps sit him down “Are you—”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- She notices a box to D’s side. Has her name on its label. “Ahh… that box.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø **Remember, as D’s talking, he’s injured. There should be a few pauses.

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² He failed in asking Sophia for another day, obviously. There was one day left.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Oh, is this Promise girl you?” >> “How’d you—” >> “Long story made short, I went to go talk to my client earlier today, she asked me to deliver this to some girl in Alma, and she told me to leave.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “How’d you get in such a terrible condition?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “On my way back over here, I was ambushed by assassins. They didn’t notice who I was – apparently there was a killing spree going on here, by the looks of it. I killed a couple of them… defending myself, of course. But I had no clue they’d resurrect like f*cking zombies. Unless this is a sick joke or something.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “I’ll just rest here… it’s empty, and I’m too tired to move on.” Before P could offer the inn… “Seriously. I have somewhere I need to be later, and I don’t want to cause a disturbance and have a paparazzi of wonder-doctors attacking me. Don’t worry about me. It’s just a flesh wound.” (lol Monty Python)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Promise leaves house, walking back, opens the box, “…oh, sis… I’m… so confused.”

Phase VIII - Contrition
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Still nighttime … @ kingdom. Mariah & Alice are rushing

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø A is old/smart enough to bring in visitors, && she has authority

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- M says they just need a place to rest him; she’s “kind of a medic” (not really one)

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Plus it’s nighttime; most of the assassins/medics were already asleep

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- As they head up the stairs, they pass a(n extremely narrow, rectangular) washroom

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Laundry basket’s lid lifts – a green head pokes out, eyes shifty

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Morpheus slowly removes cap and glances out the door. No one

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Dashes towards the left, straight down, around the corner

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Checks halls before doing this (doesn’t want to be questioned)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Darts straight into the bathroom, then straight out and into another room

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Continues this for a while until on the other side of the castle, near the entrance

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- To recuperate, just walking, glancing side to side down a hallway

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- V and a few others are around the door, some entering leisurely, some bursting in, others bleeding. V is one of tired ones; hands on his knees… talking to the others

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- At some point, he sees M, who is approaching him

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Ah, hey bro. What’s going on? I haven’t seen much from you lately.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Morpheus “examines” his brother for a second; “You… look tired.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Just ran, buddy. Um, what do you guys call it… a work-out?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Morpheus feels himself trying to grin, but doesn’t.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Valor, “Anyway, have you seen Lulu?” M shakes his head.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Valor twitches his mouth for a second. “Oh. Well, if you see her, tell her I’m looking for her. I, uh, had to run alone. Kinda sucked.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø M watches him walk off. At some point, he stops, and M just stands watching.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- V, “Morpheus. You’ve got me a bit curious. Stop staying out so late, or I’ll have to probe you.” Leaves. > M blinks a few times, then darts off another direction

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- He heads up the stairs and around the corner

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- First door is the library; heads towards back with the aisles of rich books; Jill

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- M smiles, “I’m glad you didn’t pick a hard spot… this place is so huge…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- J, “I’m not sure about you, but I’m getting pretty tired, so…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Lulu enters. Obviously holding back her panting. “Hey there, Morphie. Hello, Jillian.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- M turns. L, “’s been some problems going around lately, + I’ve been thinking…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- V enters. “L, where the hell were you? I had to work-out alone earlier. Of course, the other guys were jogging alongside me, but no one had enough speed to catch up.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Working out?” Lulu laughed. “Sorry, buddy. I got caught up with cleaning.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- V looks to Morpheus. “Morpheus, wow, it’s the second time I’ve seen you all day. I hardly do anymore, and— …who is this?” > “…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- L, “M found a new friend, Valor. This is Jillian.” Jill doesn’t wave or greet him.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- V crosses his arms, but doesn’t frown. “So, Morpheus, did you leave the kingdom? Was she the reason why you’ve been ditching your lessons? Your tutor’s been complaining to me for the past few days that you stopped showing up.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- M is silent. V walks over to Jill and knees down. “Oh! You look familiar.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Familiar…? Do you know Papa?” > “Papa, huh? I’m not sure if it’s him, but your eyes are awfully similar. Any siblings? A mother?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “…no sir, it’s just Papa and me.” > “Interesting.” He looks to Lulu and grins. Back to Jill. “Does Papa know you’re here, Jillian?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Uhh…” Jill looks to Morpheus, who’s just looking back at her, wordless.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Valor looks back at Lulu. “Well, Lulu. What do you suppose we do?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Lulu shrugs. “I told the children I wouldn’t rat on them, Valor. Sorry if you wanted to watch evil things happen.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- M flinches. V, “Is it really ratting, Lulu?” Looks to M; M’s eyes widened. “Sure, letting him bring in one friend is okay, but what if he starts to bring in more and more? He never asked permission either. You never know, they could be thieves. (Goes on about what they can do; reveal info or someth.) & M shouldn’t be leaving the campus. Ooh, double whammy, M.” Approaches J. “Hey, Jillian. Come here for a sec.”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² M never requested permission for friends because he was scared

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “…no, sir. I will not.” “Oh, she fights back!” V reaches for her, J slaps hand away.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- J, “Please stay away…” > M, “Brother, please…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Valor, “So now my own little brother is against me. Huh.” Reaches for Jill again, but she swipes at him with her teddy bear; “I said stay away, you freak!”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² The teddy bear’s been in the library the whole time, hidden in the back

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø As she turns to flee, Lulu steps in the way. Jill reveals the chainsaw inside of the teddy and swipes at Lulu. Lulu jumps out of the way, and J&M escape

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Valor calls for help or something… “Stop them!” > Assassins attempt to block the two’s path, but Jillian either frights them away or kills them

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- The two end up going through many rooms and doors and hiding places as they get near the entrance – sharp turn into kitchen

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- M sees door in the back; “here.” They enter the slaughterhouse.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Giant meats hanging from the ceiling

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- M, “I… I don’t know what to do… we’re gonna get caught, Jill…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “We will if you keep worrying! Come on, try to be a bit hopeful.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “It’s really… hard.” Looks to J. “We can’t stay here… you’ll get hurt… I might too. Maybe… we can manage to escape tomorrow…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “But if you leave, who knows what could happen! Might not be able to come back”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “I don’t want to stay here… if I’m w/o you.” J smiles. M, “I don’t like being alone.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- J, “Okay, we’ll leave together.” >> “This place is huge… it’ll take a while before we get to the exit… it’ll be really hard to not get caught…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- J, “Anything’s possible. We’ll make it.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- After a while passes, J, falling asleep, “I’m hungry.” (She’s practical.)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- M offers wheat crackers in pocket, but J allergic to wheat

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Always brought them with him when he left the kingdom

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- J stands, “I’m gonna sneak something to eat. I mean, it’s really dark out there anyway, so I’ll just hide if they come in. I’ll be okay.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- M stands, “N-no Jill, I’ll go.” >> “How about both of us?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “It’ll only take a second. Please just wait.” M exits.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Goes to a closet (shelves) on the wall/side. “Ahh…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Voices heard outside room. M hides himself inside the closet (he’s tiny).

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² On the bottom, there’s no shelves, and he’s small enough to fit

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Checked in here yet?” “No.” “C’mon.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Footsteps enter. “Hell. Little runts aren’t here.” Valor. Kicks something, leaves.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Sigh (feminine); Lulu. Looked to slaughterhouse door… and leaves as well

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- M slowly emerges, stares at door, then darts back to slaughterhouse room

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Heads to back. J, “What happened?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Oh… uh…” Hands J the jar. “I grabbed this at random—” J takes, smiles. “Thanks!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Twists open jar cap, eyes widen. Looks to M and smiles again. M, “…ah? What?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- J, “It’s chocolate.”

<p style="line-height:150%">Morning. 8 AM.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- The two chilled at the slaughter house that night, unable to leave.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chefs enter to make breakfast… one waltzes into the room; “Hey! Kids aren’t—”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- The two dash out and head forward towards the entrance, tired

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Hide fest. When the guards leave stand at the front door, the two quickly sprint

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- But then they run into Harken, who apprehends Jill

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- V shows up shortly; H tells him to send little surprise for their new friend; H tells Morpheus to confiscate her chainsaw, M abides

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Ends with:

<p style="text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:150%">I’m scared, she said.

<p style="text-indent:18.0pt;line-height:150%">I’m so scared.

Phase IX - Infection
<p style="line-height:150%">9 AM. Alice’s room.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Alice and Mariah are sitting beside Alice’s bed, in which Rafael is lying down

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø A is just sitting on chair beside wall beside R’s bed. Indifferent

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø M is thinking, nearly fretting. Noticeable loss of blood, pale body. Not really a medic; just didn’t want to worry Al with people going “OMG RAF’S DEAD”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø ''I… I don’t know what to do. As far as I know, they were extremely close friends… but what if someone else bursts in… what if…''

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rafael awakens. Alice happy. Mariah dumbfounded.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rafael gets up almost immediately after Alice hugs him. He seems a bit fretful. “I have to go back. I… I have… I’ll get him this time… I have to…” Darts out

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø ** For the necklace, not reason like Charade. Could be freaking out over the destruction of kingdom – client threatened, & today /was/ the deadline.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Mariah and Alice follow – Raf is extremely quick… they already lost sight of him

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Men’s room; C’s laying atop bed, staring at n; W’s putting vest on

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Chrono, you’ve been staring at that thing for an hour now.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “I can’t help it. I feel so… unstoppable with this thing. I’ve never really realized its value to me until all this mess happened.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø W sighs. “Just don’t obsess over it. You’ve already got yourself a gambling addiction; you don’t need a power-hungry one too.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Yeah, I won’t. It’s just… I usually have visions – strange visions, like fire, blood, and… things melting. Happening ever since exile. Since my sister… figured that it was from guilt. Now the images are gone, and—” > “Guilt?” > “Erg, well-”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Banging on the door, followed by erratic footsteps + far away thud (downstairs)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- W twitches his mouth, tosses on quiver, heads to the door, “Alarm went off.” C follows; n > sp; both head out door; sprint Vstairs & see Char, trying to raise herself

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Both immediately run to her side; Will helps her stand and helps her outside

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “We need to get to a pharmacy.”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² '''Hey. Na saan ang parmasya?''' Kailangan ko ang layon para sa bakit hindi sila pwede pumunta sa isang parmasya.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Promise steps out from behind the building/gate to the backyard. “It’s abandoned.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Eyes direct to her; “I woke up early to go and feed Gallium. Charade was still sleeping. But… he was acting strangely, and…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- W, “So you’re pretty much saying we’re screwed @ this point b/c there’s no pharmacy in this town and the one at LV is useless.” Laughs nervously. “That’s nice.”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² No one there has medical knowledge. Could incorporate this in.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- C’s looking @ Char’s arm. “Someth’s up with metallic parts… her eye’s going nuts. I don’t have the equipment to do anything. I can’t diagnose viruses.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- A bell drops in front of them and explodes – smoke scatters everywhere

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- A figure jumps in, hurriedly pulls aside Will, and leaps out of the smoke

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Char > knees, coughing; C helps her up (腕＞肩), brings her over to G’s area, pass P

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Gallium nearly dead; coughing up blood, bristled discolored fur… C, “Gallium! Gallium!! Gahh, he’s been poisoned! …Charade, please bear with me for a little longer. We’re going back to the kingdom. Will can handle Rafael.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Lulu watching from a distance and follows Chrono

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf brings Will behind one of surrounding trees where smoke hasn’t reached

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf is a bit frantic. Will coughs, “So… what the hell. What are you—”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “GODDAMMIT, wrong person!!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “You planned this, didn’t you?” Calmly takes out arrow. “You did this to my sis?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “I’m a jester, not a liar. I admit I planned a surprise attack, but I’m not part of whatever happened to your sister.” > “Right. So can you tell me what’s going on?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “No time; I have to—” Will fires an arrow that lands on the tree behind Raf; Raf turns, still frantic; Will, “Not going anywhere until you tell me WTF’s going on.”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² P prob went to toss the bells into the river in order to dissipate the smoke

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² Will, “Didn’t you die last night?” R ignores. W sees bandages on his neck.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rafael notices that Chrono & Charade are gone. “Wow. I can’t believe this.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- A & M enter Alma thru other side; M smells smoke. “I wonder what happened- A?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Alice jolts behind inn… kneels beside G. “I heard you coughing from the entrance…” Rubs his fur, but doesn’t feel him look to her. “G, stop… I… where’s my brother?” Stands, shivers. “Where’s my brother?? If you’re here, then he’s—”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Will is watching through the bushes. “Oh, look at that. Pretty girl just running down the lane, and… seems to know Gallium?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “This is just…A-Alice? Alice is here? Sh—milord, please help me right now…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Her name’s Alice? Fitting name for such a beauty…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Hey, just stop and- …keep your eyes off of Alice. Just because she’s blind doesn’t mean you could— okay, you know what, fine. I’m leaving. Chrono’s heading for the kingdom, and I haven’t a clue what the hell’s up with that girl.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “And you’re expecting me to just watch you run off like that?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Yeah, pretty much.” Drops j-bomb; as it explodes, darts to direction A came from.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Al turns attention to the area the males were at and jolts there; W, “dammit”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- As Rafael heads for the entrance, he crosses Mariah, who stops him promptly

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf runs right pass; M follows, calls him out + wants to talk. Poss =/= trust

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- W, “Um… Alice!” > A turns to W; “W-who are you? Where’s my brother?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Will, “Brother? Who, Chrono?” > “S-so you do know him. Where’s he at?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Will notices that she’s trying to “keep her cool”. “He’s heading back to the kingdom, from what the jester said.” Laughs for a sec. “Kind of sucks that I don’t know where it’s at. He has my sister with him. But I’m sure she’s in good hands.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “I see.” She turns back to the yard; “we can take G there.” > P steps out of the yard, looking other direction. “That’s… nice, you two… but… G is dead.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- (Have V hop over buildings back over to the kingdom, nearly unnoticed? [Reikun can misfire.] Demons charging in after, and landing in the city…?)

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø @library : eyelids barely opening; listening to the convos around. Lulu absent

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Door bursts open; V & a few others blunder in. V, “Alright. Got him coming.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- H, “Where are the others?” > V, “I had to leave a few of them behind. The weaker half was lagging, and um… yeah, they were slaughtered. I wasn’t going to risk my life for people who aren’t fit enough for a mission as simple as this.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “We have bait for a reason. Now you don’t have to worry about the pay’s distribution. … Look who’s waking up! Don’t worry, J. Your father should be here shortly.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Jill’s eyes open a little more. She’s slouched forward, knowing that she’s tied up.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Glances to side – M, + bruised, standing in the back w/ bear, avoiding her eyes.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Jill merely blinks and hangs her head again.

Phase X - Mutation
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Front gate of kingdom ; C, “Let me in. My buddy’s dying.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- One of 2 guards, “Again? Look boy, we know damned well that you’re exiled. Hell, you shouldn’t have been able to come inside to start with. Too bad that annoying little messenger isn’t out here to let you in this time.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- C pauses, sets Char sitting against a tree; smile. “Char… you’ll be okay. I promise.” Char smiles back weakly. Steps back up to guards, hand around necklace. It glowed.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G1, “Get some reinforcements.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “That won’t be necessary.” The necklace immediately > spear, and Chrono cuts down the guards – attacks their necks/heads last. Charade is looking away.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- When Chrono re-approaches, Charade looks back at him and forges a smile. Chrono tries to smile back as well, but fails. “…I’m sorry, Charade.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Carries her inside; smaller crowd surrounds him. Just pushes pass. Others watching from a distance. Comes up to Lulu. “Move.” > “Hey, be nice, Chrono.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono looks up at her. “Oh, it’s you. Listen, I’m in a hurry, and—”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “You know, most of the assassins here think you’re responsible for the black-out a while back. They thought little Dante was nice enough to let you in, but now they seem a bit angry over it. Took him a lot of work to get around the busted generator. Esp since Raf wasn’t back yet.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- C looks away. L, “these assassins are after your life. Still angry, Chrono. You know how badly most hold grudges against traitors.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “It wasn’t me. I’m not a damned traitor… I didn’t even touch the lights. I’m not…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “I know all about what happened with your sister, ten years ago.” Chrono looks up at her. “But you were just a little kid back then. You didn’t know what you were doing. ‘nd I don’t think you deserve to have all these angry killers on your tail for something that happened far too long ago.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “I’m not trying to be rude or anything, but, can you please get to the point?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “I know you have an injured friend on your back. I’ll help you get to the surgeon tower. There’s no way you’ll be able to make it to your room unnoticed.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Okay, sure, whatever, that’s nice. I’m already noticed anyway. Please…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “I’m trying to be your friend, Chrono. Do you want my help? I can keep these assassins off your back while you’re trying to do something righteous.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono ponders for a few seconds, then accepts the help and thanks her.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- She takes him to the lab tower and glares at any assassin that even waltzes by. Once they arrive, she leaves almost immediately; she says she’ll distract the others if they try to get near. '''Idk what she’s actually trying to do though. Leaves?'''

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono bursts inside the surgeon room somewhere in the tower (n > spear already)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “All right, you bastards. You better help me figure out what’s wrong with Char.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Whoa, whoa, Chrono! You… There’s no need to—”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Make threats? Good. Help my friend out or I’ll slice you down and find out myself. I’ve lost my mechanics skills over the years, and it took me all night to fix her up when it should’ve only taken about four hours. I don’t have time to waste.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- One of the other surgeons (there’s three), “Okay, Chrono. We-we’ll help you out. Just… just wait out the room. You can watch from the window over—”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “No. I’m standing right here.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Charade is put in a giant glass cylinder. Two of the surgeons are working on these weird computer-looking machines with all these weird… bar graphs. The other surgeon is inside the cylinder and examining Charade.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø BTW, Charade has all her clothes on, has all these weird wires attached to her

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- The numbers on the charts begin to go ballistic; Chrono rushes over to one of the outside scientists to look at the machine… which ends up overheating and goes out.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono stares back at the cylinder. Dr. Oscar is inside is trying to mess with some wires on her arm, but the arms immediately come loose of the wires, grab him, and throw him against the wall of the cylinder.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Glass cracks. Char immediately flings herself at him and starts to shred him apart.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Chrono just watches, mortified. Begins to back away, toward the door.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Charade, clueless of where the door’s at, just starts banging on the walls until they burst open, and the glass shards begin to cut the other two surgeons. She moves on to attack another, and he experiences a similar fate.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono leaves immediately. Cries. Upon nearing the exit, stopped by guards/assassins

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Get out of my way!” The necklace changes into a spear

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “You’ve broken far too many laws, Chrono.” / “Move, or I’ll f!cking kill you!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- He slaughters everyone before they have a chance to say anything or move. Continues out; some more begin to surround him… weapons drawn

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “It’d be best for you guys to move.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Why should we listen to you, traitor??”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono immediately stabs the guy in the heart, and a few of them take a step back. “I’m not a traitor. I’m not. I…” He looks back at the tower – Charade.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Tears begin to fall from his eyes; “I said move…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Char lunges at random assassin &  slaughters  him. Tears off his arms and junk.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- The others see this and their eyes widen. Chrono attempts to push passed them, but when he notices they begin to attack her, he turns around. “No!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- One nearly gets Char’s head, but C kills assassin. “Stop! Don’t… don’t hurt her!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Char dodges another attacker & she kicks him into C, who falls over. C stabs the guy over him and tosses him to the side. Couple more charge from C’s direction to Char, C: n > staff, knocking 2 down simul. Char, behind Chrono, strikes one of his arms; C, on impulse, rotates, tossing her right off him. Flies across the crowd and skids.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- C’s fighting off tears. Bleeding arm. Stumbles backwards; n > spear. Rushes to her again + notices random assassin holding her human arm; C attempts to look at her robotic arm, but it’s filled with random wires, + his vision was already blurry from the tears

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Charade tosses the other guy off of her and glares at Chrono, who’s backing away

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Nearly all the surrounding assassins are dead. Chrono starts to run away with a few of them, while Charade is tearing apart another assassin’s face

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Stops – 2 assassins running b4 him get beheaded. G is behind – extremely angry

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Some bastard’s setting me up.” Notices Chrono. “Looks like you’ve got a problem. Clean yourself up; you’ll end up crashing into someth if you shed any more tears.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Glitch looks passed Chrono and sees Charade. Sighs/twitches. “Oh. So someone’s already doing my job for me.” > Voices behind; “He’s here! He’s here!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono, thinking they’re calling him out, spazzes and heads for the main castle

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Glitch remains and looks back; some group of assassins are charging after him

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G smirks. “Haha, so it was a set-up! You guys must think I’m dim or something!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Char is approaching Glitch from behind, and he sees this. One of the five assassins is ahead; G aside and watches him sprint right into Char. Another one jumps in and sword-fights with him; G isn’t invincible – he gets minor injuries.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- The third/female assassin attempts to attack over head, and Glitch either swaps places with the one he was sword-fighting with, or he throws him into her, and they fly off somewhere.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- The last one is young – about 14-15 years. He has this uber long staff and uses it to fling himself at Glitch. Glitch notices this, slides under him and slices part of his stomach. The kid falls, Glitch approaches, and grabs his collar. “Where’s the redheaded bastard that started all this?” Mortified, the kid hesitantly points to the main castle. The main castle is huge, so Glitch stares blankly for a few seconds.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Okay, kid. Thanks.” He drops him and decapitates. Proceeds to other two.

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² (Of original after lives of others, 4 – 6 left)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Notices Charade’s gone. Huge trail of mutilated corpses where she was.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Headache/pulse; blood… someone powerful lurking

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Heads towards castle

Phase XI

 * side note; R (not Raf) = Will [Reikun was his old name, lol]


 * also side note; Iris = Terra. [Iris was her old name, lol. I'm saving it for later.]

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf and M are nearing the kingdom (from Alma)

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø M manages to catch up w/ R. “Can you please tell me WTF is going on—”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Sorry, hun. I don’t think I understand it much myself.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- As the two get closer, at some point, Rafael passes some trees and bumps into Charade, who grips him by the arm. Charade’s extremely bloody. (Red)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rafael flips out and drops about four bombs – which explode/smoke at once

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Charade is distracted for half a second, and Rafael manages to get himself free

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Arm is bleeding from the uber grip

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Wow. She’d win at Mercy, hands down.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Mariah, “Look out!” > Charade lunges after Rafael, but Mariah pushes him out of the way. The two land on the ground ahead. M, “We need to get out of here.” “She’ll follow us back to the kingdom if we do.” They both stand.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- At some point, Charade is knocked to the side – Dante is bolting forward. “Rafael, what the hell are you doing back here?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Took you long enough, Dante.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “At least I have a legitimate reason. Head back to the kingdom. Now.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Yeah, that’s what we’re doing.” Notices Charade rising, slowly. Backs away. “Though, is there a reason why you’re seemingly rushing?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Client didn’t even reply to request. She gave me another ‘mission’ and told me to leave. I got ambushed by undead freaks, & they’re stalking me here.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Okay, that’s cool, Dante. I thought you were rushing. Let’s go before that freak tears our heads off.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rafael tosses another smoke bell and flees with Mariah and Dante; Char is left behind. A few demons loom overhead; Charade sees this and heads towards Ferris.

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² Do the demons fly? Have we ever established this?

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Upon reaching the kingdom, the three pause for a minute to take a breather.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Guards are dead. Raf tries to move forward, but fatigued + sees trail of corpses

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf, “Get Chrono… that necklace… it might drive him nuts at any point. Do whatever you can to get that necklace away from him. Before corruption starts…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø D, “WTF, corruption?” + M, “WTF, necklace?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Rafael, “Just cooperate, you two! … I saw him head for the kingdom from Alma. He’s around here somewhere. I’m pretty sure the girl didn’t kill him.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Dante just gives him a weird look. “Okay, then. Heading to the castle to look.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Demons start showing up. R, “You do that, Dante. Mariah and I will fight here.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Calvis : R, A, & P were actually chased there by demons… fighting off demons as they entered. When done, they checked the corpses and ensured their death.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- A, “Don’t move. Someone’s is here.” It vanishes. “This isn’t it. + coming. Can feel it”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “How would you know? Good hunch?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “I’ve been blind for ten years, R. Have to get used to my surroundings… smells, sounds, reverberations thru the ground… They’re not going to let me sit on the side lines.” > R, “Look out!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- A ducks down, a demon swoops overhead, misses, & R fires an arrow thru its face.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Fires a few more – a small group flying overhead.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- P slightly breaks away from group; either behind or to the side; sm group of demons

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- A, “Back to back. I’ll take care of the grounded ones *kick* and you, the aerials. Tag when we need to.” > “Tags? Ah, so it’d be like a dance, then.” > “What??”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- R makes such delicate movements that A gets distracted here and there.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Ah! Such majestic movements!” “Hm? Impressed?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “I… could feel the tensions from the grounds from you. It was as you said – a dance… a beautiful dance, even as you fought. And yet, here I am, one from nobility, all my movements dull and rugged. It’s a shame.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Haha, well, you’re blind, so it’s understandable that—whoa, wait, nobility?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “…Sorry, R. I’m not used to fighting alongside someone against groups. Generally alone… or with Dante against some groupie.” Looks to R. “Could you teach me?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Huh?” > “Those movements of yours.” > “You mean how to dance?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “…Sure.” > “Hm. For who?” > “What?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Is it for, what’s his name… Rafael?” > “No. It’s… for myself.” > Hmm~?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “And… maybe to impress Dante…” Red streak. “But mostly for myself.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “…all right, then. Let’s make sure the rest of the demons are dead first.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Inside castle of kingdom, Chrono is blundering through. Kills people in his way. “Move aside… don’t get near me… I don’t want to kill anymore… hck…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- He looks back to the people he killed – the corpses (頭) rose. Follows. “Why won’t they just stay dead…? Why do they… why…” Nervous chuckle? Upstairs, less.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Soon ran passed k/q’s room. Guards gone. Hides n & opens door. Mother is sick on bed. Jolts in. “M-Mother!” > “Chrono… child, is that you?” “Mother… I…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “It’s been 10 years, darling…” strokes his cheek. “Oh, Chrono…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Mother! I’m… I’m so sorry… I…” > “I am being cared for, Chrono… I’m fine. How’s Iris?” >> “I-Iris? She… she’s…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø C sees outside window; a couple of assassins outside fighting off demons. “You’ve got to get out of here, Mother! Demons have arrived, and… and…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “D needs to see you, C.” > “What?” > “He would aid me in getting away… he told me all about it… but… he’s desperate to see you.” > “How long ago?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Only minutes ago.” Coughs. “He’s in… the mech-surgeon rm… your room.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Mother… please live. I’ll come back.” Mother smiles, C darts out.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Heads to m-s room. Searches thru mech parts & glances around for Dante… “Anything that can be helpful… anything… what am I… looking for… ha… haha…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Can feel self trying to sob, but laughs instead.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Hears noises; door closing, footsteps. “Dante, so you are here…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Chrono.” Dante approaches. “You’re making this hard for yourself.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “F!ck that, why does the client want my necklace to begin with?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Yeah, I think the don’t-?-the-client policy should be changed too.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Chrono’s necklace > spear. “I don’t want to fight, Dante.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- D, “Hm. I’ve an idea then. Let’s make a compromise. I’ll bring the n to the client, tell her the holder died, & we can get it back together. B/c someone’s gonna die if we don’t turn it in to her. Hell, a lot of people died b/c of your will to live. But we can get it back. You, me, A, R, & other buddies. Everything’d be back to normal.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- C has eyes widened. Agrees. Approaches D, heart pounding. As he hands over the reverted necklace, grips harder, withdraws hand. Turns back, watches n with trembling eyes. Maniacal/crazy expression. “You’re better off killing me, Dante.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- ( kingdom ) Mariah turns & sees demon coming towards Raf (while he was fighting off other ones). Immediately slices down. Twirls to hit the next one.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø R, “Mariah, that twirl of yours…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Haha, I knew dancing with my dearest would pay off! It’s how we met, hehe”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø R offers to fight alongside her, maybe to learn how to fight as “gracefully” & knock down multiple demons at once. M jokes about “dancing at a time like this”, but R points out knocking down numerous @ once with an axe = valuable.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø During fights, M teaches R about feet placement, movements, hints, etc.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- ( Chrono’s room ) C nearly gets hit a couple of times by D, but he either blocks D’s moves or D misses. Laughs creepily for a few seconds.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “And Alice. …She willingly gave me this… this power… oh, why were we never told of its brilliance?” (etc., w/e)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Dante, “Geez, this guy just doesn’t want to die.” Still can hardly land a cut.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- C looks around. “Ooh, Dante! Our new buddies are coming in to play! They want to play, Dante! They… ug…” kneels to side + grasps head

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Dante approaches, but C slices back; “G-gahh… images…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Door bursts open and some assassin enters. “Dante! The queen! She’s- aughh!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- D heads over there immediately; fights off demons; C still knelt. “C, snap out of it!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Demon > C; D kills it. “Don’t worry, C. If someone’s gonna kill you, it’ll be me.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø C curves mouth into smile, rises. “Alrightie then, Dante. …gah… g-go to mother and get her out of here. She would be so upset if I let her die. Oh, that’s right, it wouldn’t… wouldn’t matter then… g-gahh… hah…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Dante just stares at him, then flees. C soon rises & eradicates the demons so badly to the point where they start to flee. “That’s right, you'' bastards! Run!''”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Staggers to door. “I… I can’t… this… what… what is… hahh…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- ( Library ) Faint piano music in another room. Jill just listens blankly. Can hear beats in background, & disregards the noise… until the door bursts open. GLITCH!

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Kills a few. “Where is he? Where’s that red-headed son of a bitch?!”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “Papa! Papa, you really came!” > “Oh, hi Jillian. I’m glad to see you’re unharmed.” Looks back to the assassins. “So, where is that little coward?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Right here.” V attacks from above/behind (hiding). Others attack while they fight.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Jill’s freaking out; other assassins threatening her

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø G, not showing weakness/concern, pauses fighting for a moment

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø As others are about to attack… Chrono opens the door.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Smiles. “Oh! It’s you! I heard noises upstairs and trailed the origin to here, but I didn’t know that you’d be here!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- Glitch, “…shit.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø C, “Language, buddy, language.” Looks to assassins, twitching. “You look like you need some help.” Plucks Sp off of G and throws him to wall. Valor backs off. Slaughters him. Looks to others; “…boo.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- They back down; some flee thru window; C laughs + stumbles out the room…

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- G kills last few + helps Jill out. “Where’s your teddy bear?” “Morpheus has it…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- She starts heading for the piano room. G, “Jillian, I trust you.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø “?” > “I’m heading for the remaining cowards. They’ll cause more damage if we let them loose.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- “Okay, Papa. I’ll see you.” Glitch exits thru the door.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- J & M embrace. “Thank-you, Morpheus…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">-

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- On Chrono’s way out of the door, he bumps into Dante again

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2">Ø Dante is w/o the Q; it is apparent she died (from D’s expression?)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">- STILL WORKING ON WHY THEY FOUGHT

Phase XII
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- ( Calvis ) Al & Rei are still dancing, until Al tells him to stop. Freezes/shudders.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Reikun… something’s here. It’s…” > “What is it? 6th sense? Built-in radar?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Reikun! This is serious. I-”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Promise comes darting in from where she was at. “Ahh… ah, she’s here!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Reikun lifts an eyebrow and prepares his bow… until Charade, bloody, shows up out of nowhere. Rei freezes. “Cha… Charade… You’ve…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Al, “I’m getting a strange vibe. Reikun, Promise, we need to scat. Now.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Reikun doesn’t move; P, “Reikun! Please!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Al begins to drag R away; P motions where to run to. “I saw Raf head this way…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Kingdom: M & R are finishing off the demons. M compliments R on gracefulness.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø While finishing off demons… M catches sight of a shadow.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Tells R she’s gonna check out someth around the gate; R’ll take care of the rest.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Notices the shadow has a figure of a child; follows shadow into dungeon; “Stupid!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Cells to sides, empty + open. Prison. Dead end, girl is staring at wall. Sm fire

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Hey, it’s dangerous in here.” Girl turns. “You’re old enough to know that. Come on, I’ll get you out”—sees bandages—“of… here…” Clenches sword.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “I cannot – not until I find him.” > “Looking for a friend?” > “May say that.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Okay. I’ll help you find him.” > “You’d do that?” > “Yeah.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Castle : J&M exit the library. C standing at entrance. D’s dead body behind.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Turns to notice J&M; “oh hey, kiddies, what are you doing here? It’s dangerous.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Attacks them; separates them… chases Jill out of the kingdom; M is left behind

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- ( dungeon ) As they head out, M, “Demons are gone now, so you’ve no need to worry.” She continues walking until the girl stops and says, “Mariah.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø [That was creepy.] “What?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “You have… a close friend. A lover. One you’d give your life for.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “…my beloved. Yes.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “You both endlessly shower each other with love.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø M’s hand trembles. “Of course. Why are you—”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “You humans take your bonds for granted.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø M shoots her the look. “What? For granted, what the f- kid, I take love seriously. I would do anything to be in his arms again. You think that—”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Ud do anyth? Really? Do you really know what anyth means?” > “What??”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Have you ever felt what it is like to be truly alone? Solitary, w/o one to even talk to? When the one you’ve devoted your life to is free from your arms, gone, gone?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- M’s hand trembles more. “What the hell are you trying to say??”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Girl grins. “That’s right. Grow angry. Know what you do now won’t aid you in finding your loved one any time soon.” M backs away. G, “So, you will leave me too? You offer your assistance only to take it back?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- M says nothing. G, “Okay, b/c you won’t want my assistance either.” Points forward, and something beyond the stairs ignites. Girl walks up said stairs, opens the door, exits, & closes it behind her. (Just a summary. Make it more epic plz.)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Fire crackles. Steps begin to fall. Fire in front & behind encroaching Mariah.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Mariah falls to knees. “Beloved… I’m sorry.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- ( N Ferris ) A shaking R. “Snap out of it, Rei!” “Ah… Charade… she’s… she’s…” “R, keep this up, & we’ll be vulnerable! Don’t let your love for your sister get everyone killed!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- R stares blankly. A, “You care for her too much, she’ll kill you before you can react, and hell, we’ll freak out over you to the point that she’ll kill us off guard and move on. Then there really will be no way to fix her.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø R’s silent. Al glances to the side. “Whoa, someone’s here.” “…again…” “I told you to snap out of it!”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Rei smiles > laughs. “There’re too many people bugging us, Alice. First those 2 friends of yours, then demons, then the horde of assassins. And now-”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- J, tired as hell, steps out from the bushes. P is ready to attack, but Jill yells not to.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “I… came from the kingdom. Have you seen my father? Anyone…?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rei & P shake their heads. R, “Sorry, cutie. We’ve seen a lot here, but not someone that’d be your father.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- J hangs her head. “I… don’t know where to go.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Char appears behind. R nearly freaks out again. P pulls him along. “Reikun, let’s get out of here.” “…what’s the point? She’ll just follow us.” “Come on!!”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø P, “Could you please direct us to the kingdom?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Hesitant. J, “Y-yeah… the demons are gone, s-so it should be fine. Maybe…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “All right then. Let’s- Alice! Alice, come on, we’ve—”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø A, “I’ll meet up with you guys later! Let me distract her first! Get Reikun out of here!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- P, R, & J reluctantly flee towards the kingdom.

Phase XIII - Corruption
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- ( kingdom ) Chrono is nearing the front gate. Rafael is not in sight at the moment.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Using spear to keep self up. Coughs blood, trembles, laughs.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf shows up, calling M. Sees C, eyes widens, backs away. Hesit. calls C’s name.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø C, “H-hey, Rafael. Been taking care of yourself and of my dearest, beloved sister?” Opens arms. “Go on, kill me. Come on. I’m vulnerable. I’m open. Th-those undead bastards won’t interfere now.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Hallucinating. Things melting // on fire. Sweating.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø R/J/P arrive, halting im. Raf looks to Rei. “Reikun… where’s…?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- C, creepy expression. “Rafael! I owe you so much for all you’ve done. In fact, I’ve got something fun we could do. S-something… fun.” He shakily pulls out a coin from his pocket. “How about this… heads, you kill me… and tails… I kill you.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Flips coin. Raf’s heartbeat. Necklace > spear.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- C’s name called by female voice. C disregards at first, until A bursts thru the trees.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- She heard his voice as she ran towards his direction. (near Rei) “B-brother?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Coin lands on heads

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- C’s eyes widen. “Alice?? Dearest sister—n-no, stay away!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Brother, I… We need to get out of here! The girl- I tried to hold her off, but—”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Charade shows up on other/opposite side. Everyone pretty much freaks out.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono’s headache takes over. Drops to knees. Necklace reverts, glows.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Charade sprints towards – OMG REIKUN! Al, “Reikun!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- R shakily fires few arrows back. Most miss, but 1 hit her on robo arm, slowing her.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Before Char could sprint again, C approaches from behind her & interlocks arms. Trapped, attempts to break loose. C’s necklace bouncing about his chest.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø C, “Get the hell out of here! I hold her off!” > R, “You better make it out alive.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø A, “…C… Ch-Ch…” > J begins to drag Al with him away. “Come on!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Chrono manages to rework on her wires, pulls out, trying to immobilize. Char keeps attacking. (i.e. every time she attacks him, she has “lag time”, so he pulls out another wire? Lol) At some point… while nearly done…

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- C, “Charade… I’m so sorry.” Char freezes for a second, w/ eyes widened.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “I never meant to drag you into this mess. I never meant to… let my selfishness endanger everyone… I was greedy, yeah… but I didn’t want… people to hurt for it. And now…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Reworking complete. Only needed min/so to kick in + freeze virus completely

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Char > berserk; bashes head back against C’s (father) and breaks loose. C staggers back. Char strikes him in the chest with robo arm (son). C falls back against a tree, slides down. Char slams her robo hand against C’s left hand against the trunk (holy). C just looks at her, bloodies, eyes half-opened, almost smiling. [“I always thought… the lives of everyone here… were in my hands… but I guess mine’s in yours now…” (“Into your hands, I commend my spirit.”)]

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Char holds up left hand (in an attempt to punch him senseless), drops to knee. Tears arouse. C’s clenched right hand opens up; closes eyes.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Char slams left hand into his right. (Still holding his other hand to the tree.) Punches it numerous times (spirit). Tears.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- At some point, drops his hand to hold her robo-hand & backs away from tree. Stands + shakes violently. When the shaking stopped, she looked at Chrono.

- Lifted him in same fashion he did in Phase I. Walked after group

- Chrono's necklace no longer glowed.

Phase XIV - ?
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">11 Dec 2009 <p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">- ( Along cliff of route from kingdom to Ferris [the kingdom is along cliff above sea])

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">- Pausing, catching breath. Will was carrying Jillian on his back; lets her off. Rafael catching up. Promise freaking out. “I… I… what… what have a done? I’ve… created a monster.” Everyone (ex. Alice, who’s turned away from everyone) turns to her. “H… I…” Backs towards the cliff. “I… I can’t… First Gallium… and now…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">Ø J darts up to her. “W-we’re gonna fix everything! There won’t be a… monster anymore… Don’t worry, things’ll… please… don’t do what I think…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">Ø She tugs at P, but P knocks her away. Will, “Promise!” Promise backs off, down the cliff…

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">- Raf, to himself; “There you go, madam client. The kingdom was nearly destroyed. A lot of people are dead. No amount of money can make up for this.” Pauses. “She’s… the cause of the demons. There’s no other explanation. The demon-saga didn’t start until moments before our hire.”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level3 lfo1">² [Sophia reveals the whole “aura-spreading” thing near the end.]

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level3 lfo1">² **Does he question why the demons started randomly attacking kingdom?

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">- Will, “Then the mindless freak-demons are all on the search for her. Still doesn’t explain how the corpses convert. They're not zombies or anything. I mean, I've been fighting these bastards for months now and I'm okay as okay can get.” J & Raf just looking down the cliff; Will peers too. Promise's remains.... all over bulky cluster of boulders jutting out from the lapping sea....

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">Ø Raf, “Dante said there were a few "zombie"-like persons around her when he spoke to her about lengthening our ‘mission’. (add?; "Didn't think he was too serious about the zombie thing though. Agh! I should know Dante better; he doesn't like to joke around. -__-") More likely than not searching for something – or someone – else.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">- Al, “Nonetheless,” everyone turns to her, “We should move on. That girl will catch us if we just dawdle.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">Ø Will, “…cold, man.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">- Group heads for Alma. Will says the assassins (Valor, Harken, Lulu, and their groupies) are flooding that area, and J concludes that G would be there. Will wonders about Neil and Apricot.

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level3 lfo1">² (Pass thru Calvis first… something about Alma path burning down?

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;text-indent:42.0pt;line-height: 150%">Poss from Raf’s bombs?)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">- Raf lags. Hears running noise from behind. “I’ll hold her off + meet up later.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">Ø Alice, “And that’s a promise you’ll keep.” Runs on

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">- As Rafael waited (tolerable headache)… a wild Glitch appeared!

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">- R, “It’s you! But what are you…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">- G, “Assassins really are cowards at heart, aren’t they.” He found Valor and tracked him here, but some other assassins jumped in and screwed G up.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">Ø “But that’s okay. Because I’ve found you.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">Ø “What are you talking a-”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">- “Sorry buddy!” G attacks; ends up chasing him towards the Placir

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1">Ø Apricot is watching from some bushes near the mount @ beginning of story, follows

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">- Will, Al, and Jill cross demons as they head to Alma.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2">Ø As part of W’s personality, mention he enjoys the company of two beautiful girls, in hopes to make them feel better. But fails.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">- Upon arriving, split up to take care of the unwary assassins & demons + keep the residents alive & safe. Al eventually finds Neil, who claims that Apricot ran off towards the Placir. Ran to retrieve meds to help the injured residents.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2">Ø “You know how girls are when they make up their minds.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">- Al & J fight side by side. An assassin waltzes up to them. “Well, well…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">- Jill turns. “Ah… Lulu? What are you doing out here?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2">Ø “What I was hired to do, sweetie…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">- Pinatay ni Lulu si Neil, sa likod ng leeg. Tapos, umalis si Lulu.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">- Bumalik si Will, “Hey, I’ve – omg what just-”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">- Then Neil rises OMG ZOMBIE and lunges at Jill (who was shocked/confused)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">- Neil gets his head lopped off. Jillian noticed Lulu ran towards Placir & suggests they follow

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2">Ø The rest might be there, and possibly G as well.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">- W requests for a “breather” first. The trio rest for a short while before heading off in a leisure pace. However, it’s not so leisurely. They’re tired and paranoid.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0gd; text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">- Then Dante appears behind them, chasing them towards the Placir. TEEHEE

Phase XV - Redemption
<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² Long phase. 13 Dec 2009

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf’s heading inside the Placir, dropping some bombs behind him

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Uses bomb to blow up an entrance… or some magic key for the entrance, idk

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Once inside, about to toss another out, realizes he’s nearly out of bombs (4)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Glitch enters, Raf battles with [not an axe; some random sharp object]. G refuses to reason with Raf.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Apricot is peering through the hole. G tells her to piss off. Raf sees an opening. R jabs [weapon] into G’s left arm/elbow… tears off forearm

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Ap sneaks in through a window (Phase V). Behind boxes to semi-conceal self. Glances around for meds.

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² @ farthest left… wall. GR slightly left of entrance.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G falls, coughs out blood… laughs. Goes nuts.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “What’s… the point of keeping this part of the arm now… worthless” // Slices it off, licks lips, moar fight

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Ap’s watching, terrified. Nudges on box… filled with chained scythes

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² Poss a popular method of fishing there. … idk lol

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Grips one tightly upon G talking

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Lulu enters from same window behind Ap. “Boo.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Ap backs off, fumbling w/ scythe; “I—I remember you…! You’re… one of…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Screams outside approaching. Lulu exclaims, “We’ve got company, folks!” - also catching the attention of G/R

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Alice, Will, & Jill burst in. “Alice!” “Rafael?? What the hell are you—”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G, “D-don’t ever turn your back…” G slices Raf’s back. Raf falls, G laughs

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² (Walang dugo pa.) - no blood yet

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G attempts to stab, but Raf blocks (he turned as he fell). Turns his head; “D—Dante??”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Dante arrives behind JAW. Alice is stunned. “…you mean… the demon was…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- J, “Alice!” Tackles Al out of the way (towards the right). D charges @ G

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² Will is more towards the left of the entrance, with G/Raf ahead him

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Door around center pillar is open. G catches self & throws D inside. GR fight

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Will turns around to see arm; Jill/Al look from distance.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Lulu chases Ap towards the door (downstairs); they are nearby it

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G manages to fling Raf inside the door and follows shortly

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Ap tries to throw hook, misses. Delayed reaction, Lulu kills. Ap thrown into door

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- JA go around pillar R, Will goes around pillar L, towards Lulu

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Lulu lures in W, wanting to talk about something. Elbows him & knocks him down

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² “Semi-unconscious” // momentarily “unconscious”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Bago subukan niya patayin si Will, Jill pounced on Lulu. Gripped her hair tightly. “Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t kill you right now.” <p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">(PISSED about her betrayal in an earlier phase) <p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- L shudders. J smiles wryly. “That’s not good enough, buddy.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Slams her head onto floor until she dies from major brain damage. Goodbye

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Alice comes around corner. “Found a door.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- J helps up W and they quickly head towards Al’s direction.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf & G still heading down the stairs. G’s back towards end

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- D @ entrance to bottom floor. Starts attacking G

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G throws D off of him, nearly lunging at him

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Barrels of (rubbing) alc knocked over, spilt. Raf watches. Ap coming from above.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf steps aside, Ap completely ignores, charges in after G. Raf confused.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf enters. G returning to fight Raf, but attacked by Ap’s scythe, + D

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Dante tossed towards Raf. Raf about to knock down… D kicked down by boots

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Al turns to Raf. “Like I said. Why split up? You’ll hurt yourself.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf, “Al something’s happening to me. I’m not myself. I don’t know how I’m… if I’m”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Al, “Rafael. Shut up.” D tries to reach up for Al, Al kicks his head down. R surprised at what she’s doing to his bro. G/Ap still fighting.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “ You’re still here, alive. Talking to me. You’re still the Rafael I know – laid-back, sanguine, stupid… you haven’t changed. The fact that you’re still here with me is all that matters.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “B-but… Dante… I… I’m so confused—”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “Rafael. Shut up. Don’t be confused. You haven’t… you’re not…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G, “Don’t think th-that I forgot about you, even… for a s-second.”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² I guess G’s just determined to kill Raf now, even though D/A are there too.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G darts up to R, R GUARD BREAKS with [weapon].

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- D clawing @ Al. Al kicks him to the side & rushes after him.

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Seemingly sobbing, pero walang luha. Hindi lumuluha sya

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Kicking the shit out of Dante, but he’s not dying

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø More barrel/s of (rubbing) alc knocked over

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Throws him in G’s direction. Then just stands/lags… trying to suck everyth in

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² Everything’s… melting again… it’s so hot…

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- A comes after G again. G spins & toss Ap away, but D attacks w/ knives sa likod.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf throws D off of G.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G, “G-gah, fool! Why are you he-helping…” Attacks R again; R blocks

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- R: “I understand now… why you…” >> G laughs + knocks Raf down

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Arrow pass G’s head. W, “Hey, freaks! Don’t think you can party without me.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf, “Will, WTF? Don’t get yourself killed!” >> Will, “Look who’s talking!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Will charges in to help Raf; G elbows him down

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G attempts to stab him; Will rolls over to jab his foot. D attacks G again

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø “So. Um. Being bloodthirsty is in now, huh?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Gah!” Raf shoves Will; Ap charges thru, stop @ end. “Is everything a joke for you?”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Will, “Like freaking out about it will do any better.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Looks towards Alice, WTF is she thinking—

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Ap’s near door; door flies open, knocks Ap down. Al snaps out of it + rets to R/R

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- J, “Sorry I’m late… I managed to find a few meds… pain-killers, maybe… I’m not too sure… but— oh… oh no… Papa…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Raf, “He’s been acting strange ever since that arm’s been ripped off. He’s bound to die from blood loss sooner or later. What is he, a god?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G fighting off A/D, goes after Raf again

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Will fires arrow @ head, misses. (Distracted?)

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø J, “Will! No! Don’t hurt Papa! Don’t…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf fends off G; R attempts another shot, but jumped by D. Al atks D from behind

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Raf, “Kiddo, that… that’s not your father. He’s…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø J, “I—I mean… I know that!! But—”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G, “Do you humans… e-ever… shut up??”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G stabbed in the back by Ap’s chain scythe. G falls forward, slices Raf’s cheek

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “G-guh!” Raf knocks him off as he falls back. ''Purple blood…? S-so I’m—''

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Al, “Rafael!” Tosses D off Rei & runs to him. Raf sitting against a wall

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- G yanks Ap’s chained scythe & throws her ahead of him. Slices her in half

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø Showered in purple blood. Kneels down, bleeding from shoulder + back.

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² J, “Papa! Papa!!” Runs to him

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² “Sh—shut up! G-get… away… I’m not your b-bloody… … J-Jill…”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² Jill hugs

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Will, “Holy shit, you… what is this… purple blood?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Al, “P-purple…” >> Raf, “I’m gone.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Thump upstairs. Al, “We need to haul ass out of here.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- D comes after G. J, teary, strikes D’s head (chainsaw), misses, targeted instead

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø J falls under D, saws legs instead. Approaches G. “P-Papa…”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø G, “There are… still… more assassins…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Jill looks to door – “Sh-she’s… she’s here! Th-the monster…! She’s here!!”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Charade approaches entrance w/ Chrono in her arms. Necklace glow completely gone

(She's not infected by this point. But everyone thinks she still is.)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Rei shudders terribly. “Monster? N-no… Charade… Chrono… I…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Thuds upstairs. G, “Oooh, reinforcements… how… f-fun…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Glitch is nearly dead; unconscious.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf, “You heard Alice, Will… get out of here. Now. She got Chrono… she’ll kill you, Alice, the girl, Glitch… me… everyone. No one to save her… She’ll move on until someone kills her. I will throw you out the window myself if I have to.”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- JAWG head towards window; G’s arms around Al’s neck. Al “glances back”, leaves.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf closes eyes. Memory of Alice @ 9, smooth features, wonderful green eyes. The day he gave her the sacred necklace Sapph...... (it's all explained how he got it in the flashback lolols)

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Char’s just watching Raf, wide-eyed. Turns back to see demons approaching

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “Alice… I love you… I’ve been such a coward all my life…” Takes out a jingle bell, tosses it + catches. “But that’s all about to end.”

<p style="margin-left:63.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">² “I’m sorry.”

<p style="margin-left:42.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-21.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Ø (rubbing) Alcohol all over floor from the barrels

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Raf drops the bell

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Outside, group turns around for a few seconds, staring at the tower

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Al, “Rafael… you’re so… brave. Thank-you…”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- Tower explodes

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">- “…for everything.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Nighttime now.

F-II - Absolution
<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Glitch, Alice, Jillian, Will, and Sophia burst into the room; Glitch and Will are towards the door, while Alice, Jillian, and Sophia are further into the room. Morpheus is already inside, atop the red carpet (where Dante died), standing before and facing Valor's direction. Valor is standing beside the staircase's pillar thingy. Morpheus turns around to see the others when they burst inside. "J... Jill?" <p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Sophia staggers forward, smiling maniacally. "Wh... where is he!?" <p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Valor laughs and either pulls a rope trigger thingy dangling somewhere nearby, or pushes a button? idk. Morpheus catches this and runs to push Jillian out of the way; both children fall over. A square trap door opens up and Alice, Sophia, and Morpheus fall in.
 * I lost my copy-pastas for the two or three phases that lead into this. o.o

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Glitch battles Valor. Jillian watches helplessly. I have no clue what Will is doing at this point. Probs runs off to search for Sophia.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">The three continue to fall - at the bottom awaits a spiked ground. (Think MORTAL KOMBAT, YAYAYAY) Before the three can face their death, a giant (tangible) hand crafted from shadows catches them in its palm and safely carries them to the side of the spiked pit. (Obviously Sophia's doing.) Sophia I think wanders off at this point - probs runs ahead of Alice and Morpheus as soon as they land, while Alice/Morpheus check up on one another. Alice and Morpheus agree to catch back up with the others - but neither have a clue where they're at, though they have both lived there their entire life. Neither of them have been down in this region; Alice is blind and has no reason to be, and children aren't allowed down there/Morpheus' freedom in the castle is restricted.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">After searching for sometime, Morpheus suggests splitting upon arriving at a fork. Alice refuses, saying they need to stick together; it's risky to split, and what if one finds them before the others and- (lolol irony from Phase III) Morpheus cuts her off - voicing himself for the very first time. He boldly states that he can finally make his own choices and no longer takes orders from anyone else. He realised if he has to get anything done, he can't rely on others to help him through his issues. He's not a baby anymore and doesn't need to be treated like one. blahblahblah. After giving the child a long look, especially noticing his bruises and scars from his abuse from Valor & Harken, Alice reluctantly abides by the child's wishes and the two split.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Glitch loses the swordfight with Valor by a major stomach wound. Frostbite's aura escapes his body last minute before dying with him, traveling towards Jillian along the ground like a shadow. Jillian comes after her fallen father, who says his last words.......

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">"Jillian... don't cry."

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">Weak.

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">Glitch closed his eyes.

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">Jillian screamed.

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">"D-don't... please, don't leave me, Papa..." She crawled closer, tremulous, shaking, repressing her tears behind her wide blue eyes. "Papa...?" She reached for his motionless chest. All the while Valor stood beside Glitch's fallen body, merciless eyes resting on the grieving girl. "P, Papa!!"

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">Weak.

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">I'm not weak.

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">Much too weak.

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">"Don't leave me!"

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">Jillian let out a final scream towards the heavens. The black aura encasing her body thickened, darkened. The room lit up, brighter--the candles could barely hold their enraging flames. Valor backed.

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">Weak, just like your father.

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">Jillian keeled over Glitch's stomach, shuddering madly. Sweat trinkled down Valor's neck. His grip tightened--

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">Jillian began to laugh. A snicker. A chortle. A cackle. Valor backed once more, his fingers trembled atop his sword's hilt. The child rose to her feet, hunched over immensely, swaying from side to side as her posture rolled into a straight stance. She locked eyes with Valor, her father's killer, and licked her lips.

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">"What in the..."

<p style="text-align:left;mso-pagination:widow-orphan">Jillian swiped her chainsaw from the floor, still sticky with crimson, and she dove in on the assassin.

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Valor is slaughtered. Jillian moves on.

F-1 - Glory
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH ALICE IN THIS PHASE. She, Will, and Sophia are all downstairs at this point

Jillian, murmuring crazy stuff to herself, moves into a dungeon-like room down the stairs, preceeding passed the empty barred cells. Before moving down the new set of stairs, she turns to the wall opposite the cells and bashes her head into it, screaming - Frostbite is trying to take over completely. A figure emerges from the shadows near the new set of stairs - Harken - and prepares to jab a dagger into the child's back. Before he could make a move however - a blade protrudes from his heart. Jillian turns around at his gasp and, eyes widened with insanity as the assassin falls to the floor. Morpheus stands where Harken was. He had done it. He had finally faced his fears and killed the one who had abused him for years...

Jillian looks to Morpheus. Silence. Sophia, Will, and Alice are beyond this room. Jillian takes a single shaky step forward and Morpheus holds out his arms, causing her to halt. He knows something's up with her - and he refused to let her through to cause more havoc... "I can't let you through, Jill."

Jillian struggles to come to her senses and talk to Morpheus, but fails. Morpheus watches with silent eyes as Frostbite comes through.

{C}Morpheus weakly closed his eyes. ''In the end... In the end, I'm still weak... I thought maybe I had gotten better at this... but I haven't... I'm still scared.''

He held his breath as the roaring chains crashed down upon him. All the while, Jillian's screams echoed throughout the palace...

"MORPHEUS!!"

{C}Jillian proceeds and stops again after the staircase, barrel-rolling along the walls, completely insane, screaming bloody murder. (She doesn't handle mind-control very well. LOL) Will is in sight; completely shellshocked from Sophia's words about his sister's and fiancee's deaths. I think Sophia reveals everything here (while Jill's going crazy?). Not sure about Alice's whereabouts.

Jillian finally decides what she has to do to rid herself of the monster for good...

… Jillian trembled, her heart as thunder, matching her irregular breaths. She glanced to her sides erratically, eyes widening each second. …

Jillian lifted the chainsaw. It roared above her stomach.

Jill, you demented little child.

"Shut up!" she screamed. Her mouth curved into an unbalanced smile, and her tone lowered considerably. “If… if you’re not going to leave me alone… I’ll make you…”

So you really do have your father’s genes.

...

Tears squeezed through her quivering eyelids. "I'm sorry, Papa."

She ran the silver through her stomach.

But it was too late. Frostbite had already fled.

Knees first, Jillian collapsed into the growing pool of blood beneath her. Crimson seeped through her clothes, dampening them, reddening them, (crawling) about her skin.

''I'm sorry, Morpheus. I'm sorry, Papa.''

Frostbite's aura crawled towards Will's direction, wispy, lapping (like a wave provoked by the moon).

I'm sorry.

F - Revelation
Frostbite's power strengthened/released with the death of Sophia. He was a "pet" and not made to be the strongest. An experiment gone wrong. Created from her imagination. And now that his maker was gone, no one could hold back his power any longer.

Frostbite gets a hold of Will - but doesn't take over him? Will tracks down Sophia.

This ending isn't permanent btw; I've still stuff I want to add onto Frostbite and his ambitions/Will's body eventually converting into.. idk something disgusting or other, lmao.

Will stood firmly before Sophia. His glaring eyes shined with an unquenchable thirst for revenge. Sophia's lip quivered. She murmured, "Frostbite?"

"No." Will readied his weapon--and released the arrow directly into her brow. Sophia fell back. "It's me. Will." He turned away from the screaming carcass. "Frostbite has no part in this."

Will trembled, his eyes lingering on his crimsoned bow as the corrupted shadows behind him disintegrated into nothing but screams. The demon bodies surrounding them quickly evaporated into nothing. Salty tears trailed down his warm cheeks, but he quickly wiped them away. He trembled. "The war's done. That's it."

Charade. Her smile. Her innocent eyes. Her fluorescent brown hair. Her unmistakable beauty.

"Sis..."

Mariah. Her graceful steps. Her voice of an angel.

["My beloved..." Tears seeped from his unwavering eyes. "Time can't be reversed. I'll never get them back." His eyes loomed ahead. Alcie was partially hidden behind a pillar, her image detereorating with the rising heatwaves. Chrono?--No, Chrono was dead. But it's okay. The war's done now.]

Will smiled.

His impish grin curved into a devilish smirk. His eyes reddened with bloodlust--freedom. Will began to dart towards Alice--unstoppable. The power--the power--''everything is--mine now! No more--nothing will hold me back--ever again!''

Sophia was gone. Frostbite's power was released. This body belonged to him--him--me and me alone!

Alice grimaced. Vicious footsteps coming near. Ferocious like the blazing fire engulfing her home. Her life. She knew.

Will was gone.

Devoured by madness, by his revenge - just like her brother. By a monster.

Alice stepped away from the pillar into the open.

I will rule--

The footsteps came closer.

She waited.

Everything will be mine--

She charged in towards Frostbite - and silently cried. Cried as her boots collided with him. Cried as she blockaded his frivolous attacks. He was blinded with freedom - blinded from his actions, his accuracy. She cried (as her skin cut open). She cried (as she returned the favour).

But she cried no more when Frostbite was knocked down a final time, her (sole) planted atop his head.

Shadows viciously emitted from Will's fallen body, quickly evaporating into nothing - nothing but screams, replicating Sophia's fall, until they were nothing. Alice turned away from the cursed cries and walked on, passed the flaming pillars, passed the outraged candles, passed the singed assassins scattered throughout the castle, trying to catch their breath and life.

She wiped off a tear and exited the castle.

<p style="text-indent:42.0pt">The sun was orange, still high above the wavering ocean. Alice stood in the kingdom’s doorway. Her head turned to the side once, twice, as if to search for something. She knelt down and began to trace her finger along the dirt of the sidewalk; it seemed to have hardened.

<p style="text-indent:42.0pt">“It’s always been this way,” she murmured, “You’ve been alone from the start, and you’ll be alone in the end. One cannot rely upon others to bring them up or break them down; they can only act upon themselves. It is not a matter of choice regarding your solitude… there is no one to accompany you through your life… there is only you. And yet…”

<p style="text-indent:42.0pt">Alice lifted her finger delicately, feeling the wet blood drip off. “Who will dance with me now?”

<p style="margin-left:18.0pt;mso-para-margin-left: 0gd;text-align:left;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">(final question is a reference to an earlier phase, when Will taught her how to dance [and Mariah taught Rafael]; old ending; may redo?)