-Goro emerged in hellaverse, suddenly surrounded by family and friends. Also a bird, because Hell does not take kindly to the human form. With him came Denji, Dante, and Lady. -For a brief moment he was convinced that this was more or less the end of his days as a Doer of Crime, but a few snags caught him. The King of Hell, Lucifer himself, had found out about the intrusion, and was curious to see what, exactly, the fuck. -After a most-inadvisable argument with the King vis-a-vis the yearly Exterminations, Goro found, much to his surprise, that there was a new- or rather old- app on his phone, one claiming to be the Metaverse Navigator. Gone, however, was the red eye motif and the familiar color scheme, replaced instead, simply, with this:
-Experimentation showed that many of the same functions had been preserved, but who had made it? Who'd installed it on his phone? Old Palaces and Mementos were either gone or out of range, so he tried for the closest person he could think of that he could be certain had a Palace: his adoptive father's abusive (and now, murderous) wife, Stella Noctis ars Goetia. -Stella had a Palace, alright, and finding the keywords wasn't hard, but he came to the conclusion that it would be wrong to tackle this without consulting any of the people who'd been most wronged by Stella. He explained the situation to Octavia, and the two entered Stella's palace, which took the form of a vast garden full of rare and dangerous plants. -During a confrontation with her mother's Shadow, Octavia awoke to the Persona Mulan, and between the two of them they were able to force Stella's Shadow into submission, and find her Treasure. -Octavia made the call. Stella would confess to her crimes- and in the course of composing a Calling Card, a name was decided upon. Nautilus, the name chosen for Captain Nemo's famous ship. The Shadow-
(too late)
Date: 2024-03-19 09:25 am (UTC)From:-Goro emerged in
-For a brief moment he was convinced that this was more or less the end of his days as a Doer of Crime, but a few snags caught him. The King of Hell, Lucifer himself, had found out about the intrusion, and was curious to see what, exactly, the fuck.
-After a most-inadvisable argument with the King vis-a-vis the yearly Exterminations, Goro found, much to his surprise, that there was a new- or rather old- app on his phone, one claiming to be the Metaverse Navigator. Gone, however, was the red eye motif and the familiar color scheme, replaced instead, simply, with this:
-Experimentation showed that many of the same functions had been preserved, but who had made it? Who'd installed it on his phone? Old Palaces and Mementos were either gone or out of range, so he tried for the closest person he could think of that he could be certain had a Palace: his adoptive father's abusive (and now, murderous) wife, Stella Noctis ars Goetia.
-Stella had a Palace, alright, and finding the keywords wasn't hard, but he came to the conclusion that it would be wrong to tackle this without consulting any of the people who'd been most wronged by Stella. He explained the situation to Octavia, and the two entered Stella's palace, which took the form of a vast garden full of rare and dangerous plants.
-During a confrontation with her mother's Shadow, Octavia awoke to the Persona Mulan, and between the two of them they were able to force Stella's Shadow into submission, and find her Treasure.
-Octavia made the call. Stella would confess to her crimes- and in the course of composing a Calling Card, a name was decided upon. Nautilus, the name chosen for Captain Nemo's famous ship. The Shadow-