NOTMS 5 DISK 1 BOOK 4: SUBMACHINE

[Nefer Nightbug]

"Isn't Murtaugh dead?" Lillian questioned. "Ugh, maybe the Submachine deigned to keep him alive somehow this time around the kaian cycles..."

Then she looked out the window, and said various offensive things.

"Gah, the party's scattered," she finished, "and more importantly, this is not the Strata. We fell into a star crack, and from the smell of spacetime we're in an instance of the Eridanus-Supervoid. Ping those two ships and see if we're in a consistent mainline universe or can exit bubblestates to one. If we're lucky we can get everybody back in one place and save a whole lot of introductions."

avertedCrisis kicks the Shenanigans Engine back to work. Analysis begins.

Disk 1 Book 4:

Submachine

It was thirteen years ago when I placed the last Wisdom Gem in the heart of the Submachine. Only seventeen years ago, I was brought back to life by Shiva, placed in an unaging body, one that would not die by time alone.
It took me two years to wander back into the core. My gambit to shut down the defenses had worked! All the knowledge that I desired was at my fingertips! I was even able to fully restore the Third Layer over the course of two years!
I learned that the Submachine was designed by the ancient Forerunner race. It was intended to be a sentient prison, capable of holding elder gods of eldritch powers in ancient pantheons. However, the prison's sentience was their downfall: systematically, the Submachine killed off all the Forerunners across time and space. The last of them installed three of the Wisdom Gems with his final breaths, holding the artifact in place.
(He glances at the time, making a note of it.)
What is just now fourteen years ago, some kid named Riku came up to me. He asked me if I wanted to save the universe, and I replied in the affirmative. Merely a week later, Riku's daring plan to entrap Grontimügarr, the Feeder of Pain in the Submachine came to fruitition.
By placing the last Wisdom Gem, I had frozen the light of the Eighth Layer: the Layer of Light and Time. In doing so, I had stopped time on every layer of the Submachine: a power switch was pressed, if you will.
However, recently, the light was disrupted - awakened from eternal slumber - when a shrine maiden banished an amanojaku (a turnways-flipping, screen-inverting little girl) into the Submachine. Ever since then, I've been on the run from the Forerunner God of Pain.
My name is Murtaugh, and I am the last descendant of the Mongolians. This is my story.

Look around you -=>

You are in a small room in the FIRST LAYER of the SUBMACHINE, an ANCIENT PRISON and RELIC of a FORGOTTEN RACE. You are surrounded by LOTS AND LOTS OF COMPUTERS, which seems to make up about 83 PERCENT of the FIRST LAYER. You are about FORTY-TWO KARMA JUMPS AWAY from the CORE OF THE SUBMACHINE (KARMA JUMPS being a UNIT OF MEASUREMENT you MADE YOURSELF to represent the DISTANCE that a SINGLE KARMA PORTAL CAN SAFELY TAKE YOU without CAUSING LAYER DAMAGE.) The FEEDER OF PAIN is FIFTY-SEVEN KARMA JUMPS away from you, forming a FIFTY-SIX DEGREE ANGLE OFF THE PARALLEL. This means that it is FOURTY-EIGHT POINT THREE TWO EIGHT KARMA JUMPS away from the CORE.
You know that the FEEDER OF PAIN has a TWO-KARMA JUMP PAIN AURA. However, it can only move HALF AS FAST as you.

Watch the computers -=>

You do that. Some weird scenes unfold.

You see a human male snogging a female kappa.
You see an ambiguously human female nearly get run over by a patrol of ambiguously human people, only to see the patrol blasted to oblivion.
You see an Orzic Nedben try to contact a large group of humanoid creatures, with only the three in purple responding (although the little girl isn't all that happy to see it.)
You see the Green Sun. You see two HEAVENBRANDED horrors in heated debate.

[ S ] Lillian: Tunnel. ==>




Spell circles floating haphazardly into being, the might of a goddess penetrates the abstract. Stars burst from her forehead, glitches begin to form into unholy patterns, and for all the world it looked like something devastating was going to happen.

After minutes of this, the drums rise back from the back, and the tunneling into spacetime itself begins, bits of gummi from the world edges beginning to flake off. Pichuun.



Phantasmal drills at alien angles, the sheer directed fury of someone trying to return home, all physics and resistance in the way damned. Magic the world was never meant to know soared like it was everyday dust, the house-vessel thing caught up in a whirlpool as the same old crack-rainbows, just like those someone else had formed long ago, began to rise.

With an abstract cut and the sound of glubbing, a house and all within fell out of the world, the rainbows fading away behind them in nedbens and the knitting of spacetime by a god with a fan cord.

A submachine hunt had begun.

[horrorTerror]

House: Crash. ==>

The house pops into being, bonks the defense grid, and gets stuck. Lillian and Horrorterror climb out.

There was going to be a pretty post here with conversation.

But Google Chrome's backspace shortcut is an utter asshole and will not let me do that, and it can't be disabled normally. I have now angrily enabled BackStop, a wonderful plugin for stopping this exact stupidity.

tl:dr

Lillian explains stuff. Her head explodes, horrorterror goes holy shit what, it regrows, and she's like ow, can't get out of here due to submachine reality pull, blah blah we must investigate.

Basically, there are things in the submachine. The Forerunners interfered with the Fourth Dynasty of Western Kingdom relevance so that when they built their anti-structural architecture in the 1832-1857-etc. range to create the prison, and maybe intentionally probably not it got cancer in the 1900s with the Root, it did what Nefer said it did. Things kept going and the plan was repaired by Murtaugh somehow.

Lillian is vaguely aware of this due to narrative sense and divine lore.

[Nefer Nightbug]

((Also, seven-fifths of the house is stuck in the Loop, 48/24 parts of the house is always ten feet above Hatate, and 5487/43 of it is embedded into Pop Star. It's weird and stupid and totally in-character for a dimensional anomaly that resides in a universal tumor that no longer exists because it's been replaced by a bridge between universes.))


A few weeks pass as Lillian finally gets her body back in one place...

[horrorTerror]

avertedCrisis: Have idea. ==>

What.

Oh, right. That.

You send a drone over to the jegnonathe^3^28x^cuberoot_pi that is the part of this house that hates physics because Sburb Server has zero qualms with making fractal internalizer locations, and cause it to fall out near Hatate, because her cameraphone is equally strong as the entirety of the Submachine for drawing in things.

You say hello to Hatate and see where the conversation will go next.

[Nefer Nightbug]

Hatate: Huh? More coverage of the tengu civil war, or more weapons? I- I think I sho---

We now interrupt your regularly scheduled programming.

Xehanort: no no no. Nefer, go write about your romance with Nito---
Ghetis: WRITE WHAT AYA SAW!!!
Xehanort: ... Make it pur---
Ghetis: SATI---
Xehanort: Purple!
Ghetis: SATIN!
Xehanort: Purple!
Ghetis: SATIN!

Herobrine: Both of you, chill the frell out. If he doesn't want to write s---

IRL Nefer: REFERRAL!!!!!

*sound of swivel chair hitting three people*

IRL Nefer: anyhow, even though Wriggle's gone out on an adventure, Aya's just recovered from her wounds only to nearly die of shock at some material involving my character in the fanfic and Nitori. Let's just leave it at that. Back to your normal programming.

Hatate: I'm gonna abscond the hell outta here

[Nefer Nightbug]

You decide to check everyone, for some completely insane reason:
Dirk Strider (tT [timaeusTestified]): Warrior/Assassin, Thief of Heart (God Tier)
Race: Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)/Heartless Knight
Sprite: ARquiussprite
Fraymotif: Adagio Redshift
Modus: TECH-HOP
Weaponry: Searing Cold Polearm (2xARMBLADEKIND:BLADEKIND,) Zip Slasher (2xARMBLADEKIND:BLADEKIND,) Unbreakable Katana (KATANAKIND:BLADEKIND)
Comb Rave: Hearthack
Leech King (lK [leechKing]): Lord of Doom (God Tier)
Race: Mushroom Pokémon
Sprite: Mapsprite
Fraymotif: Indigo Plateau
Modus: Inventory
Weaponry: LEECHMOURNE (SWORDKIND)
Comb Rave: LEECH SCISSOR
Casey Bubbles von Salamancer (sN [salamanderNecromancer]): Necromancer, Seer of Void (God Tier)
Race: Salamander
Sprite: Davesprite
Fraymotif: Breathless Battaglia
Modus: Inventory
Weaponry: Easter Bunny (2xBUNNYKIND:BUNNYKIND,) Tormented Staff (Minion Mastery) (STAFFKIND,) CROOK OF FRAILITY (Minion Mastery) with Destroyer Focus (Minion Mastery) (WANDKIND/FOCUSKIND)
Comb Rave: Animate Celestial Horror
Skills: Animate Flesh Golem (Elite,) Animate Shambling Horror, Animate Bone Horror, Animate Bone Fiend
Mushroom Farmer (sS [stinkinShrooms]): Bane of Light (God Tier)
Race: Salamander
Sprite: Shroomboomsprite
Fraymotif: Mushrooms
Modus: Inventory
Weaponry: Impervium Hoe (HOEKIND)
Comb Rave: SHROOM
Secret Wizard (sW [sekritWizzard]): Elementalist, Mage of Flow (God Tier) (not in game)
Race: Salamander
Sprite: Lavasprite
Fraymotif: Bloody Bloodlust
Modus: Hammerspace
Weaponry: Flame (WANDKIND)
Comb Rave: Flare
Yukari Hakurei (bY [barrierYoukai]): Ranger, Manipulator of Hope (God Tier)
Race: Madrigal-descendant Youkai-born Trueblood Sylvari
Sprite: Sleuthsprite
Fraymotif: WSW-Beatdown
Modus: Inventory
Weaponry: Sepulchritude (KEYBLADEKIND,) Gohei (GOHEIKIND,) Chlorophyte Decade Bow "Falling Star" (BOWKIND,) Bobcatclaws (CLAWKIND,) DANMAKUKIND spellcardbook containing Bounded Field 「Boundary of Life and Death」
Comb Rave: Sepulchritude
Roxas Konpaku (kO [keybladeOverlord]): Prince of Light (God Tier)
Race: Nobody/ Trueblood Sylvari
Sprite: Flamesprite
Fraymotif: The Other Promise, Sinister Sundown (KHII)
Modus: Organization Grid
Weaponry: Ultimate Gear + ⑥ - Twilight Blaze + w/ 3 Crit, 2 Strength (KEYBLADEKIND,) Zero Gear ⑤ - Oathkeeper & Oblivion w/ 3 Ability, 2 Crit (2xKEYBLADEKIND,) Legend Gear ⑦ Flameseeker + w/ 3 Crit, 3 Strength (KEYBLADEKIND)
Comb Rave: LIMIT BREAK: Event Horizon, LIMIT BREAK: Magic Hour
King Dedede (dD [dedeDe]): Sage of Law (God Tier)
Race: Penguin
Sprite: HAMMAHsprite
Fraymotif: Gourmet Race
Weaponry: HAMMERKIND
Comb Rave: Waddle Dee Storm
HalcyonicFalconX (hF [halcyonicFalcon]): Smith of Sound/Muse of Sight (with Might and the angel prerequisites Light, Life, and Hope) (God Tier)
Race: Angel/Trueblood Sylvari
Sprite: Musicsprite
Fraymotif: Flight Through Oblivion
Modus: Inventory
Weaponry: Arpeggio (INSTRUMENTKIND:Sitar)
Comb Rave: Death Metal
Sakuya Izayoi (tM [temporalMaid]): Maid of Time (God Tier)
Race: Youkai...?, unknown
Sprite: Moonsprite
Fraymotif: Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial
Modus: Hyperspace Arsenal
Weaponry: Luna Dial, KNIFEKIND
Comb Rave: Illusion World「ZA WARUDO」
N Harmonia (rC [reshiramsChosen]): Bard of Flow (God Tier)
Race: Trueblood Sylvari
Sprite: Reshiramsprite
Fraymotif: RM 05: Zen Dragon's Awakening
Modus: Backpack
Weaponry: FISTKIND
Comb Rave: Flare Blitzkreig
Mare (mP [maridPilot]): Dame of Might
Race: Marid
Sprite: Wishsprite
Fraymotif: Sky Fish
Modus: Backpack
Weaponry: PISTOLKIND, FISTKIND
Comb Rave: Wishing Star
Armin Latian (lD [lightspeedDragon]): Heir of Time (God Tier)
Race: Eon Pokémon/Trueblood Sylvari
Sprite: Arceussprite
Fraymotif: Homefree
Modus: Backpack
Weaponry: Mega Buster (BUSTERKIND:ARMCANNONKIND:GUNKIND) (he does use Luster Purge and Steel Wing though)
Comb Rave: Mega Evolution
Peregrine Mendicant (pM [parcelMistress]): Waste of Space/Dame of Blood (God Tier)
Race: Prototyped Carapacian/Second Guardian (Harlequinsprite, Jaspersprite, Crowsprite, Becsprite)
Sprite: Becsprite
Fraymotif: Dogfight
Modus: Inventory
Weaponry: Regisword (BLADEKIND,) Ring of Orbs Fourfold
Comb Rave: RED MILES
Suika Ibuki (dP [densityPandemonium]): Drunkard of Rain (Waste of Rain) (God Tier)
Race: Oni
Sprite: Sakesprite
Fraymotif: Oni's Island in the Fairyland ~ Missing Power
Modus: Hyperspace Arsenal
Weaponry: Suika's Sake (FLAILKIND/DRINKKIND,) FISTKIND, FOOTKIND, DANMAKUKIND spellcarddeck containing Qi of Oni 「Deep Fog Labyrinth」, 「Night Parade of One Million Demons」, Oni Crowd 「Imp Swarm」
Comb Rave: Oni Crowd 「Hundred Oni Kaburo」
Leon (hR [hothRebel]): Rouge of Rhyme (God Tier)
Race: Trueblood Sylvari
Sprite: Entitesprite
Fraymotif: Heir Transparent
Modus: Backpack
Weaponry: SMITH CORONA BLOTTSPITTER (RIFLEKIND)
Comb Rave: LEVEL 99 SLEUTH DIPLOMACY: PAX PROBLISCUM
Cirno Crocker (bG [bakedGlacier]): Manipulator of Rhyme, Elementalist (God Tier)
Race: Trueblood Fey Sylvari (Gensokyo)
Sprite: Golemsprite
Fraymotif: Heir Conditioning, Beloved Tomboyish Daughter
Modus: Hyperspace Arsenal (girl gotta keep her danmaku icicles somewhere)
Weaponry: Cirno's Icicle Hammer (HAMMERKIND,) Cirno's Icicle Sword (BLADEKIND,) DANMAKUKIND spellcarddeck containing: Freeze Sign 「Perfect Freeze」, Freeze Sign 「Minus K」, Freeze Sign 「Cold Divinity」, Ice Sign 「Ultimate Blizzard」, Ice Sign 「Perfect Glacialist」, Ice King 「Frost King」
Comb Rave: Glaciaga (think Sepulchritude, except made of ice, and then think Xemnas' laser attacks in KHII at the end of the boss fight)
Sephrioth (eI [estuansInterius]): Page of Doom (God Tier)
Race: Unknown
Sprite: JENOVAsprite
Fraymotif: ONE WINGED ANGEL
Modus: Inventory
Weaponry: Ōdachi (MASAMUNEKIND:KATANAKIND:BLADEKIND)
Comb Rave: Super Nova (Okay, Now Go Make A Sandwich)
Josephine (aA [angelicAtoner]): Monk/Ritualist, Heir of Zen (God Tier)
Race: Angelic Sylvari, Seraphium of the Fifth Order
Sprite: Seraphsprite
Fraymotif: Destati
Modus: Backpack
Weaponry: MAKEUPKIND (improperly,) but just uses spells more often.
Comb Rave: Heartless Angel
Corgi (cG [corgiGamer]): Level 10 Fighter/5 Ranger/1 Barbarian/20 Bard/2 Monk, Warrior/Mesmer, Heir of Space (God Tier)
Race: Corgi.
Sprite: Dawnsprite
Fraymotif: Weshdoor Concert
Modus: Backpack
Weaponry: TETRIXCALIBUR (FEATHERKIND:BLADEKIND,) Unbreakable Katana (KATANAKIND:BLADEKIND)
Comb Rave: Flurry of Blows, Omnislash
Anna (gR [greenleafRanger]): Sylph of Life, Ranger
Race: Trueblood Sylvari
Sprite: Bushsprite
Fraymotif: A Stroll Through Nostalgia, Estavius, Van al Tag, Van al Tag (Extended)
Hong Meling (fP [falconPauncher]): Dame of Might (God Tier)
Race: Youkai
Sprite: Falconsprite
Fraymotif: Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea
Modus: Hyperspace Arsenal
Weaponry: FISTKIND, FOOTKIND, DANMAKUKIND spellcarddeck containing
Comb Rave: FALCON PUNCH
Lloyd Garmadon (gN [goldenNinja]): Page of Sand (God Tier)
Race: Minifigure
Sprite: Anacondraisprite
Fraymotif: Weekend Whip
Modus: Backpack
Weaponry: (2xKATANAKIND:BLADEKIND)
Comb Rave:???
Ran Yakumo (pK [pyroKitsune]): Grace of Flow (God Tier)
Race: Trueblood Sylvari/Kitsune
Sprite: Pyritesprite
Fraymotif: A Maiden's Illusionary Funeral ~ Necro-Fantasy
Modus: Hyperspace Arsenal
Weaponry: DANMAKUKIND spellcarddeck containing Shikigami's Radiance 「Charming Siege from All Sides」, Shikigami's Radiance 「Princess Tenko -Illusion-」, Illusion God 「Descent of Izuna Gongen」, Pyrocumulus 「Kickstart」, Fiery Dance 「Desolation Sun」, Grimbark Sun 「Complete Destruction」
Comb Rave: Bounded Field 「Boundary of Life and Death」
D (dM [dracoMeteor]): Sylph of Flow (God Tier)
Race: Dragon
Sprite: Crystalsprite
Fraymotif: Heart of the Dragon
Modus: Inventory
Weaponry: Evoblade V (BLADEKIND)
Comb Rave: Dragon's Roar
Masha Kinoko (mY [mushroomYoukai]): Witch of Life (God Tier) (not in game)
Race: Youkai/Trueborn Sylvari
Sprite: Floralsprite
Fraymotif: Mushroom Home Village ~ Little Red Mushroom
Modus: Hyperspace Arsenal
Weaponry: DANMAKUKIND spellcarddeck containing Detonation Sign「Mushroom Kingdom」, Spore Sign「The Coming of Early Spring」, Fungi Sign「Creeping Mycelium」, Spore Sign「Hallucinogenic Rave」
Comb Rave: Overspore
Toa Tahu (fG [flamingGuardian]): Guard of Flow
Race: Toa Nuva
Sprite: Hausprite (he has extra, after all)
Fraymotif: BIONICLE Heroes
Modus: Backpack
Weaponry: Magma Surfers (2xBLADEKIND)
Comb Rave: Timestopper
Reimu Hakurei (nM [nekoMiko]): Miko of Rage (Manipulator of Rage) (God Tier)
Race: Goddess/Trueblood Sylvari
Sprite: Talismansprite
Fraymotif: Maiden's Capriccio ~ Dream Battle
Modus: Hyperspace Arsenal
Weaponry: GOHEIKIND, DANMAKUKIND spellcarddeck containing Hax Sign 「Fantasy Heaven」, Hax Sign「BURN EVERYTHING」, Hax Sign「YOU JUST PLAIN FUCKING LOSE」, Hakurei Yin-Yang Orb
Comb Rave: BESERK TRIGGER: Hax Sign 「Fantasy Heaven: Divinity」
Sora (hT [heartTrinity]): Knight of Heart (God Tier)
Race: Trueblood Sylvari
Sprite: Ventussprite (because, y'know, Ventus' heart keeps getting split)
Fraymotif: Destati (Drammatica)
Modus: Organization Grid, Oblivion Deck, Command Deck, Inventory (these shape how he attacks: he equips commands through the Command Deck, spells and attacks through the Oblivion Deck, and items/abilities/Keychains through the Organization Grid)
Weaponry: Ultima Weapon (KEYBLADEKIND)
Comb Rave: Trinity Limit
John-117 (mC [masterChief]): Dame of Blood (God Tier)
Race: SPARTAN
Sprite: Huntersprite
Fraymotif: Siege of Madrigal
Modus: Backpack
Weaponry: Scarab Gun (PRIFLEKIND:RIFLEKIND,) Plasma Grenade (EXPLOSIVEKIND,) Sniper Rifle (RIFLEKIND)
Comb Rave: HALO
Youmu Konpaku (hG [halfghostGardener]): Knight of Heart
Race: Trueblood Sylvari/Half-phantom
Sprite: Myon
Fraymotif: Hiroari Shoots a Strange Bird ~ Till When?
Modus: Backpack, Hyperspace Arsenal
Weaponry: Roukanken and Hakurouken (2xBLADEKIND,) DANMAKUKIND spellcarddeck containing Hungry King Sword 「Ten Kings' Retribution on the Preta」, Hell God Sword 「Divine Flashing Slash of Karma Wind」, Asura Sword 「Obsession with the Present World -Lunatic-」, Human God Sword 「Acceptance of Eternal Truth」, Heaven God Sword 「Three Kons, Seven Hakus」, Six Realms Sword 「A Single Thought and the Infinite Kalpas -Lunatic-」, Light Sign 「Light Flash of the Netherworld」, Higan Sword 「Hacking Slashes of Hell and Paradise」, Human Knowledge Sword 「Turning Angel Cut」, Celestial Star Sword 「As the Silent Nirvana」, Four Births Sword 「Resounding of the Natureless Beings」, Human Soul 「Slash of Future Eons」, Konpaku 「Dharma of Gumonji Wisdom of the Living and Dead」
Okuu (nR [nuclearRaven]): Manipulator of Stars (God Tier)
Race: Nuclear Hell-raven
Sprite: Ravensprite
Fraymotif: Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom ~ Nuclear Fusion
Modus: Hyperspace Arsenal
Weaponry: DANMAKUKIND spellcarddeck containing 「Hell's Tokamak」, Atomic Fire 「Uncontainable Nuclear Reaction」, Explosion Sign「Peta Flare」, Blazing Star 「Ten Evil Stars」, 「Hell and Heaven Meltdown」, 「Subterranean Sun」, Magicannon 「Nuclear Spark」, Nuclear Magicannon 「RAINBOW RAY」; Hell's Tokamak (ARMCANNONKIND:GUNKIND/EXPLOSIVEKIND|ARMBLADEKIND:BLADEKIND [Rain, Hope, Stars])
Comb Rave: Desolation
"Derm" Ushatimik Adilngegdol Kosh (Basementchucked the Walled Depression of Slaughter,) Soulchopper, Military Overseer (bC [basementChucked]): Legendary +117 Axedwarf, +106 Fighter, +96 Armor User, +78 Shield User, Dame of Blood (God Tier)
Race: Dorf
Sprite: Tentagoblinsprite
Fraymotif: Heroes March
Modus: Backpack
Weaponry: Duraduker Adol Rafum (Beardwaves the Complexity of Coincidence) (GAXEKIND/SHIELDKIND) (Author's Note: GAXEKIND is two-handed, and Derm's using a shield instead of a buckler. That means he's wielding a two-handed axe... IN ONE FRICKIN' HAND.)
Comb Rave: Towersoared
Emmet Brickowski (mB [masterBuilder]): Smith of Stars (God Tier)
Race: Minifigure
Sprite: Bricksprite
Fraymotif: Everything Is Awesome
Modus: Hammerspace
Weaponry: IMPROVKIND, EXPLOSIVEKIND, HAMMERKIND, Creation (basically allows him to build like a server player, ANYWHERE, at NO GRIST COST)
Comb Rave: CREATE
Laval (cL [chiLion]): Prince of Might (God Tier)
Race: CHI Lion
Sprite: CHIsprite
Fraymotif: Wings
Modus: Inventory
Weaponry: BLADEKIND
Comb Rave: CHI EVOLUTION
Andrew Hussie (mP [microsoftPaint]): Waste of Space (God Tier)
Race: Creator
Sprite: Hussiesprite
Fraymotif: Cascade
Modus: Inventory
Weaponry: Doc Scratch's Broom of Dicipline (BROOMKIND), DEATHSCYTHEKIND
Comb Rave: RED MILES
M.O.X. (aG [asuranGolem]): Level 20 Dervish, Knight of Sand (God Tier)
Race: Asuran Golem, fleshy
Sprite: Vekksprite
Fraymotif: Searching
Modus: Backpack
Weaponry: Cruxite Decade Scythe "Funeral Fang"
Comb Rave: M.O.X Ion Driver
Skills: Mystic Sweep, Victorious Sweep, Chilling Victory, Heart Of Holy Flame, Faithful Intervention, Eternal Aura (Author's Note: Eternal Aura is normally a PVE Enchantment Spell. It's the Sunspear Dervish skill, and it lasts forever in addition to the +100 HP... and if it ends, like, if you die, you instantly come back to life.)
Halley Starstorm (sG [starlightGunslinger]): Guide of Stars (God Tier)
Race: Novakid
Sprite: Novasprite
Fraymotif: Wanderlust Battle
Modus: Starbounder
Weaponry: Schloss's Laser Machine Gun Mk. XXVIII (PMACHGUN:PRIFLE:RIFLEKIND)
Comb Rave: Large Magellanic Cloud
Xion (nI [numberI]): Goddess of Relative Dimensions (functionally a Waste of Space) (God Tier)
Race: Nobody/Trueblood Sylvari
Sprite: Heartsprite
Fraymotif: Vector to the Heavens
Modus: Organization Grid Deck
Weaponry: Ultima Gear ⑦ - Macross Stormer (2xSHOUTINGGUNKIND:GUNKIND)
Comb Rave: Dimensional Shifter
Saïx (lB [lunarBeserker]): Beserker of Moon (functionally a Waste of Might) (God Tier)
Race: Nobody/Trueblood Sylvari
Sprite: Lunasprite
Fraymotif: Critical Drive
Modus: Organization Grid Deck
Weaponry: Ultima Gear ⑦ - Ultimate Eclipse
Comb Rave: Beserk Trigger: LIMIT BREAK: Lunar Rave
NoLegs (kH [kittenHero]): Page of Breath (God Tier)
Race: Kitten
Sprite: Kittensprite
Fraymotif: Elfin
Modus: Backpack
Weaponry: Zengun (GUNBLADEKIND:BLADEKIND)
Comb Rave: LIMIT BREAK: Oblivion
Meta Knight (mK [metaKnightmare]): Knight of Breath (God Tier)
Race: Bluey
Sprite: Metasprite
Fraymotif: Meta Knight's Revenge
Modus: Inventory
Weaponry: Galaxia (SWORDKIND)
Comb Rave: Galaxia Nightmare
Galaxia Night (gK [galacticKnight]): Knight of Law (God Tier)
Race: Bluey
Sprite: Galaxysprite
Fraymotif: Acruta Lao D'nor
Modus: Inventory
Weaponry: Galaxia (LANCEKIND)
Comb Rave: Galaxia Nightmare
Baldemar Axemond (eW [eldrichWanderer]): Prince of Desolation (God Tier)
Race: HEAVENBRANDED
Sprite: Shardsprite
Modus: Inventory
Fraymotif: Wayward Blood
Weaponry: LIGHTSABERKIND, Shrapnel of Hope
Comb Rave: Precarious Guardian Archangel
Flandre Scarlet (vN [vampiricNurse)]): Manipulator of Desolation
Race: Vampire youkai
Sprite: Crystalsprite
Modus: Hyperspace Arsenal
Fraymotif: U. N. Owen was Her?
Weaponry: Lævateinn (BLADEKIND,) DANMAKUKIND spellcarddeck containing: Taboo 「Cranberry Trap」, Taboo 「Lævateinn」, Taboo 「Four of a Kind」, Taboo 「Kagome, Kagome」, Taboo 「Maze of Love」, Forbidden Barrage 「Starbow Break」, Forbidden Barrage 「Catadioptric」, Forbidden Barrage 「Clock that Ticks Away the Past」, Secret Barrage 「And Then Will There Be None?」, Q.E.D. 「Ripples of 495 Years」
Comb Rave: Wrath of U. N. Owen

[horrorTerror]

Drone: Go to Gensokyo. ==>

BULLETS EVERYWHERE!

You manage to make it through the legions of fairies with machineguns to hide in a boring spot near one of the weird edges of Gensokyo. Maybe the Ring of Gensokyos is concentrated enough to let you escape to...I don't know, the Mirror World? Makai? Hell? A dreamworld? The moon? You'll figure it out after some sciency things.

avertedCrisis: Try to hack the Subnet. ==>



You....don't think you can do that? Much of the machinery is physical and the computers have many, MANY safeguards to prevent interference, especially by the likes of you. Well, you didn't pull a Lyoko for nothing.

You activate ALL THE TOWERS ALL OF THEM and promptly exert the full force of an overpowered computer reality-warper. 

ohgodwhat it's more complicated than a geomagnetic field this could take time.

advertedCrisis is now busy doing the computery thing!

[Nefer Nightbug]

A map of the Submachine.
There are exactly umpteen layers in the Submachine. Murtaugh and the Feeder of Pain are currently in the cow layer, the Layer of Tech and Wandering. The cow layer has two-way passage to the 43rd layer and the 5th layer (the Layer of Karma and Power and the Layer of Water and Pantheons, respectively.)
The 5th layer has two-way passage to EVERY LAYER. Yes, this means it has free transport between the 1st layer (the Layer of Asteroids and Void,) the 2nd layer (Layer of Churches and Directions, which is highly unsafe due to the Feeder of Pain's presence,) the 3rd layer (the Layer of Clockwork Forests and Coastlines,) the 4th layer (Layer of Pipes and Ladders,) the 6th layer (Layer of Bunkers and Quiet,) the 7th layer (Layer of Bamboo and Abandonment,) the 8th layer (the Layer of Light and Time,) the pi layer (Layer of Data and Loops,) the 43rd layer, the cow layer, and the umpteenth layer (Layer of Carpets and Holes.)
Layers 1-7 safely connect to each other except for layer 3. Layer 3 can be linked to from the 43rd and cow layers, but you can't go back right away. The 8th layer has a one-way link to every layer (including itself) except the 43rd and 5th layers, which have two-way links.
The umpteenth layer has holes between the carpets that are random one-directional links to the 1st, 6th, pi and cow layers. The pi layer is where the Loop resides. The Loop is only accessible from the umpteenth and 3rd layers. The pi layer has two-way links between itself and the 1st, 7th and cow layers.
A one-way link means that it is only safe to enter a layer through a karma portal on that layer. Two-way links are safe when opening karma portals to either layer. If a link is not listed, a karma jump is unsafe and will destroy parts of that layer. (For example, Murtaugh's first karma portal in layer 3 took him to the Loop on layer pi. This ushered in the destruction of the layer.)
Layers 1-7 are all the same size. The pi layer can be crossed in a single karma jump, making it the smallest of all. The cow layer drops the tech where the base layers (1-7) end, reverting to a more natural setting. The umpteenth layer is slightly smaller than the cow and 43rd layers. The 43rd layer is slightly smaller than the cow layer, but just a bit larger than the umpteenth layer. The 8th layer, naturally, is infinite.

Lillian's house has crashed into one of the base layers.

[horrorTerror]

Figure out what happened for layers 9 through 42.

[Nefer Nightbug]

Aug 7, 2015 10:24:04 GMT -5 horrorTerror said:

Figure out what happened for layers 9 through 42.

Those never existed. /troll

Hahahahahah-uurk!

Nefer down Nefer down oh crap!

[horrorTerror]

aC: Impersonate the other aC. ==>

You don't have time to be arsenicCatnip right now!

[Nefer Nightbug]

Main party: Play Trove =>

Murtaugh: Play Trove ==>

Nah. Besides, you have something even more fun to do.

READ THE NEWSPAPERS.

You ever read a Forerunner newspaper? They're laugh riots, and they don't even have comics. What they have is the classifieds.
The classifieds take up a good 45% of the newspaper. The rest is just political rabble that you don't give a hoot about.
But in those public requests, everything is hilarious. For example...

Book 4 Act 2 Act 1 Act 1:

Tigger, a Chlorine Golem, a plastic figure of Shikieki, and ten gallons of white wine from 1997 needed for elaborate practical joke

You wonder if that prank ever came to be.

[horrorTerror]

Annej Day Instant: Set up elaborate practical joke. ==>

Mysteriously having become an animate weapon, you...do that.

With your friend Chlorine Golem, a Tigger replicant, your plastic Yamaxanadu Eiki Shiki figurine, and 10 gallons of fine 1997 white wine, you lie in wait somewhere hidden in the nonlayered void just above the submachine's general metastructural existential bubblespaces and other technobabble like that.

Alright, you will admit having kept one of your existing selves here since what, before Tei Isfuriel? Around the time the Forerunners broke? Seriously, when was somebody going to show up already? It was getting kind of boring down here.

[Nefer Nightbug]

And suddenly, the perspective switches back to Murtaugh again.

Murtaugh: B'DUH! ==>

Murtaugh: B'DUH! Who in Xy'larklan's name is calling me?!



UserID 164.436.259 (unknown) opened communications with user 628.030.007 (Murtaugh)
???: FINALLY. I AM. ALIVE. ONCE MORE. AT LAST.
Murtaugh: Who the Snot are you?! (Author's Note: Snot is the Forerunner god of bladder cancers. His name is pretty much invoked in terms of "what the hell.")
Science: I AM. SCIENCE. BOW DOWN. BEFORE ME.
Murtaugh: ... again, what the Snot?
Science: MUST. I SHOW. MY FACE TO. YOU. YOU SCARLET. PETTANKO?
Murtaugh: YES >:(
Science: TOO. BAD.

[horrorTerror]

Lillian: Activate sense of divine justice! ==>

You *SMELL* a godgame doing the idiot thing. FOR SAGE IAEL, YOU MUST CORRECT THIS MENACE!

Leaving horrorTerror behind, you jump out of the nearest exit into the submachine void and flick through layers at weird angles, shouting and flipping off random submachines as you dodge between cubes and bigger cubes. You make a beeline toward the Winter Palace.

horrorTerror: Wonder what set off the lily. ==>

Nah, you don't really mind. She does that. A lot. Like, a LOT. And you can never get any justification out of her anyways.