The Party is in fighting stance as Pandora walks towards them
Pandora: I should show you what I’m capable of
Pandora takes out what looks like a strange void hammer
Pandora: This is the Box of Evils
The Box of Evils begins to morph into another form, Greed Form, it goes from a box on a stick into a something of a massive mace
Illinois: Well what’s our move
Atoll: Dodge
As Pandora swings the mace, The Party dodges out of the way as it leaves a burning trail on the ground where they swung it
Neve: Pandora is a powerful foe
Sissinoe: Can we fight back?
Aoenen: I’ll try
Neve: But you can’t do anything to them
Aoenen: I have to try
Aoenen tries to strike Pandora but they dodge out of the way as more soldiers of the Sinners Sextant appear to repel him from Pandora
Atoll: Can you people get out of our way
Kieghan enters the Metal Sphere again, with even more Sinners Sextatnt agents
Illinois: Our goose might be cooked?
Pandora: Thank you for generous assistance Kieghan
Kieghan: All in a day’s work
Atoll: Hey it’s what I said earlier
Aoenen: Way to stay positive in the face of doom
Pandora: I have matters to attend to in here, deal with these interlopers
Kieghan: Yes Ma’m
Pandora leaves into the strange blue center as Keighan prepares to once again face our heroes
Atoll (Narration): We had no idea about what true power we were really faced with here but we were about to learn, learn the hard way
Fight against Kieghan and The Sinners Sextant
When Kieghan is at 75%
Illinois: So errand boy, mind telling us what’s inside
Kieghan: I would never reveal the details of that, to someone like you
Illinois: But clearly it’s important
Sissinoe: I think that gelatinous blue substance is some sort of memory bubble
Kieghan: What the-
Resume against Kieghan
When Kieghan is at 50%
Kieghan: How the hell did you brats figure out what it was so quickly?
Atoll: Sissinoe is just built different
Aoenen: I’ve really warmed up to her
Resume against Kieghan
When Kieghan is at 25%
Atoll: Kieghan, where are the rest of your cronies?
Kieghan: Why do you want to know?
Atoll: In case they show up
Kieghan: No…it’s just me
Neve: They’re saying they aren’t really a threat
Kieghan: I’ll show you…not a threat
Resume against Kieghan
When Kieghan is defeated, they begin to stagger
Kieghan: I’m not done
Illinois: Accept your loss
Kieghan: No…I WILL NOT
In an erratic mad dash, Kieghan grabs onto Sissinoe
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Sissinoe: GET OFF OF ME
Atoll tries to intervene against Kieghan but they manage to throw Sissinoe into the blue mass, Kieghan tries to then run away but is swatted down by Aoenen, who breaks their legs with single swing of his weapon
Atoll (Narration): At that point, I had no desire to do anything else but run into the blue blob after Sissinoe, drop everything I could and run after her. I felt an unimaginable pain shoot through me as I wanted to run after Sissinoe.
Atoll tries to run after Sissinoe but Neve stops him from doing so
Neve: Hey bonehead, we need a plan before you can go all knight in shining armor to save her
Aoenen: I’ll check all the computer systems
Illinois: I’ll help
Illinois and Aoenen begin checking the computer systems for what to do
Atoll (Narration): Everyone was telling me how I should proceed logically, but I wasn’t listening, saving my friend became my number one goal. I wanted nothing more than to see her safe and sound, and see that smile. See that she was ok. I needed to do this.
Atoll: Neve, you can’t convince me to wait
Neve: It was worth a try
Atoll: Wait for me, I’m counting on you to get me out of this if I fuck up
Neve: I know you are, and even though I shouldn’t I will, because you’re my friend and I believe in you
Atoll: Thank you Neve….I’ll see you on the other side
Atoll (Narration): Despite everything Neve would do, I still considered my friend, and maybe my friend was lost the day she set her grand plan in motion but for this moment and all prior, she was someone I had the utmost respect for, someone I would have considered part of my own family. However, I was going after one of my other friends, someone I can never view the same anymore.
Atoll begins running and jumps into the memory bubble, beginning to float in a strange motion
Atoll: SISSINOE! CAN YOU HEAR ME!!
Atoll was met by silence as he kept trucking through the memory bubble
Atoll (Narration): I made my way through a world that was made of my memories, one that was like a living slideshow of my entire life. I saw my life literally flash before my eyes, but I was not dying, just seeing the past.
Atoll: I’m going to find you no matter what
Atoll’s Uncle (Memory): My home is no place for a child, we’re sending you off to be a slave
Unknown Girl (Memory): Aren’t you tired of living here like me, we get nothing but pain and torture
Gladian (Memory): Yes this is Bunk 45, what’s your name?
Indica (Memory): Oh yeah, You tell that son of a bitch
Atoll (Memory): Closer to a loaf I’d say
Anmai (Memory): I’m never here in this city
Vendil (Memory): Well why would he be mad about that? He has been weird around her for a while, I was thinking the violence was beginning to put him off.
Erhan (Memory): But you have to be there with him
Optica (Memory): YOU DARE MOCK ME
Gladian (Memory): Yeah, you won’t be seeing me in combat for a while
Neve (Memory): This place that’s ours under the stars, that belongs to us and us alone
Atoll (Narration): I kept pushing through, kept going, no matter what I was going to be there for Sissinoe, as I made my way through my memories. However, I did stop and hold one memory in particular with my hands, it’s nothing more than a callous momento now but I did take it with me.
Sissinoe (Memory): Yeah my name is Sisisnoe, I do like how the waves look
Atoll: SISSINOE!! ARE YOU THERE!!
Atoll (Narration): I thought this would be a hopeless pursuit for a brief second, before I heard something else
Sissinoe: Atoll…leave me alone in here
Atoll: Don’t go anywhere
Sissinoe: No! Stay Away!
Atoll (Narration): It didn’t matter what Sissinoe said next, I was running after her at full speed now
Sissinoe’s Mom (Memory): I left you to a prestigious inventor friend of mine, she’ll take care of you after I go
Inventor Guardian (Memory): Sissinoe, you can’t always get your way in this world and you can’t always be yourself
Unknown Girl (Memory): I despise you, I despise you in all your entirety
Unknown Figure (Memory): Go back to the waves before we catch you in our nets again
Atoll (Narration): As I heard the echoes of Sissinoe’s past, they only compelled me further. If there’s one thing you know about me, I want to help people rather than hurt them, so learning all the tiny details spurred me on even further.
Unknown Man (Memory): You should give up on your dreams, like everyone is telling you to
Unknown Villager (Memory): Man, she’s a real weirdo, always carrying around that head
Pawn Shop Owner (Memory): So what you’re just gonna collect heads and sell them here to get what you need? I don’t know if this is the place for that?
Sissinoe’s Dad (Memory): I left you and your mom because you were WEAK
Atoll: That’s WRONG
Sissinoe: …
Unknown Wanderer (Memory): So you just lay by the roadside all day, does your life mean anything to you?
Atoll: It means something to me
Atoll (Memory): You are one of the coolest people I have ever met
Atoll finally finds Sissinoe kneeling on the ground, in what looks like a state of pure despair
Sissinoe: So now you see my entire history, all my memories, all the tragedy, would you still want to be my friend, if you knew everything that happened…
Atoll: I still, I would be with you through everything, everything
Atoll sits down and pulls Sissinoe into a sitting position as his memories come to float around Sissinoe
Atoll (Narration): In this world of memories, I saw all the sides of Sissinoe, she had been through so much. Her dad left her family when she was a baby, her mother died when she was young, she was sent to a place she didn’t belong and was alone all her life, with no friends, no drive, no passion. I wanted to ask her to join the guild, to follow her passions again, but in our moment, that idea was lost as we just learned more about her. And I showed her everything, all my tragedy, all my sadness, all my sorrow.
Atoll: So what now?
Sissinoe: I’m glad I met you
Suddenly a strange voice begins calling
??? (Distant): Hello my children
Atoll: Who is that??
Sissinoe: Also you’re not our parents
??? (Distant): You are my children in other ways
Atoll (Narration): In our lowest moment, we were faced with a greatest wonder.
An effigy of what looked like the entire world appeared before them, a green giant.
Sissinoe: You’re….you’re…
Earth: Hello Sissinoe
Atoll: How is this possible?
Earth: This bubble of memory is here because it’s a part of my memory
Atoll: YOUR MEMORY
Earth: Correct Atoll, everything that happens above me is my memory, I’m alive after all
Atoll (Narration): Our world was alive, The Planet was another sovereign being like us, something else that thinks, feels and forms memories
Sissinoe: If you’re alive, what do you do
Earth: Right now I am slumbering peacefully, but Pandora wants to wake me up and gain that connection they felt was lost. It’s up to you whether to stop them or not. But just know, I will always be a part of you from this day forward
Atoll: What do you mean by that?
Earth began glowing brightly and Atoll and Sissinoe also began glowing and then the Earth departed
Atoll (Narration): I could feel the Earth coursing through me at that point, and like I had another voice in my head. The Earth was communicating directly with me.
Sissinoe: This is cool….
Atoll: Let’s leave out the other end, see how to go from here
Sissinoe: That would do
Atoll (Narration): And thus, Sissinoe and I went through the rest of the bubble, putting our past into every step, to reach the outside.
