NOTMS5 DISK 2 BOOK 1

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A new session is created, with Chen MIA and Ran in a state of berserking rage. Yukari's Kernelsprite fills her in on the Night of the Mongolian Safari as Corgi wins WWII for the Allies and Karkat is revealed to be alive, but holed up in his house, currently drifting in the middle of nowhere.

Afterwards, it's revealed that Chen has wound up married to the enemy, and M.O.X. wakes up on what is essentially a Far Side Island. A bunch of other guys start to show up: Seprioth, Hussie, Master Chief...

Baldemar Axemond, a HEAVENBRANDED Horrorterror with a storied past, awakens in some ruins and gets to do some time-traveling. D then winds up in Gensokyo to control a Dargon problem.

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Black Hat Guy then takes over the narrative and kindly reminds the author to open up an act as the whole of South America erupts from the ass of the Reader. (The Reader literally pooped out a continent.)

Axemond literally ends up outside the server on the forgotten world of Neopia. After some shenanigans, the party sets out to save him and quite a few posts are wasted on shenanigans: most relating to the Cyodrake’s Gaze.

The book ends in the Ignite Cascade, the main party’s first showdown with the forces of the Green Sun. Meanwhile, JASPROSESPRITE^2 awakens, Axemond and Josephine evolve, the god Nefer Nightbug gets yanked into Gensokyo, and Ultimecia Irulan shows up to save the day.

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At the same time, Murtaugh awakens in the core of the Submachine’s cow layer and encounters Seija in his flight away from the core. Something (presumably Seija, but it could be the disintegration of the six Wisdom Gems that did the trick) disturbed the Eighth Layer: the Layer of Light and Time.

As Godcat and Dogtac reminisce, Murtaugh is pinged by Science, who (almost as if on cue) begins to rant, even reaching into the comments. With Science’s help, Mur rescues Demo Roseclair from further abuse by the Zebras, ancient extramultiversal extradimensional entities of horrific eldritch miasmajesty that would make even the likes of Chara, Riku and Purring quake in their boots.

Unbeknownst to the Submachiners, Lillian and her friend the Nedben literally tore through canon itself to supplant themselves inside the Submachine. Lillian, being Lillian, goes charging off to try to beat some sanity into Science. Grontimügarr becomes Lillian’s first victim.

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Meanwhile, Yukari and Armin go on a trip to the Dimensional Dreamlands which is promptly crashed by Dream Beasts. As they prepare for battle, a voice from afar speaks in garbled ROT13... The edit reasons on several of the posts start to change, revealing cryptic epithets that number seven in total...

However, the oncoming storm is quickly interrupted by gentlemanMannerism, who after her ascension to godhood and defeat of SBURB and Chara (recently revealed to be jennyEverywhere and azureGoddess) had been wandering the Dreamlands.

Some Shellcores from the Central Sectors attack the Cyodrake’s Gaze, but get pushed back. Meanwhile, everyone but Murtaugh seems to escape the Submachine, so Mur goes on an adventure to escape, finally finishing the job that Riku started: kill the Forerunner God of Pain. (Said adventure is going to be made into a ph3 Danmakufu game.)

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The third book begins with Mobius Trip and Hadron Kalideo (lovers, Agents, Exiles and Carapacian youkai) discussing the “Dreamers”: Hadron Kalideo even mentions the epithets from the end of the last book. Karkat, being Karkat, complains about not being able to find them.

gentlemanMannerism shares her story about her last game of SBURB and her fight against Chara Rosemary. Riku gets his hands dirty and shoots up some Ignitions much to the awe of the Covenant Allied Corps and Luke Skywalker, Galactic Emperor.

Then the universe spazzes out, and both Youmu and Cirno get pregnant. AND THERE WAS NO PREVIOUS INDICATION. The plot begins to spaz as armies converge on Skaia.

THE BLACK KING OF THE GREEN SUN SHOWS UP. Everything goes to Makai in a handbasket, Chen’s pregnant, Josephine flips out, Cirno gets massively hurt, and the disk ends.

(oh, and despite being pregnant, Chen's never even been given the Mystias and Wriggles speech. SHE DON'T KNOW WHERE BABIES COME FROM.)

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ACT... 7?

The Symphony Impossible to Play

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Act 7 Act 1:

Overture

Calliope is discovered trying to dismantle the Green Sun in this multiverse. The Dreamers try to protect her, but get their butts kicked and have to be bailed out. Not like this keeps the Ignitions from following her to Gensokyo, where both sides throw everything (except Peregrine Mendicant) at each other.

The only non-casualties of the ensuing battle are gentlemanMannerism (who was asleep at the time) and a faerie named Suzanna. Said faerie ends up becoming gentlemanMannerism's shrine maiden on sole account that she literally scrubbed the SOULS of the heroes clean.

In the Dimensional Dreamlands they bump into Q'bthulhu, who has accidentally overstepped the boundaries of Asriel Dreamurr's old kingdom. A deal is reached, and the Shadow Forces join the Covenant in a space battle.

In said battle, Riku wins in a dogfight with Chen, knocking her out and letting gentlemanMannerism purify her. She is unceremoniously dumped in the Submachine for safekeeping, like Calliope.

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And then the Ignitions fish Chen out of the Submachine. Naturally, gentlemanMannerism has to deposit Calliope in the Digital Realms.

Of course it wouldn't last! There has to be a choice that allows for character death SOMEWHERE, right? This is the Undertale era, godsdarnit!

Tyria quickly becomes its biggest clusterfrell yet, with Ignitions fighting pretty much every major power bloc in existence on the world.

(Obviously, the Ignitions get pushed back when the Covenant troops scatter and retreat.)

During the battle, Nedben begins to snipe from afar with a Skaian Siege Engine. He even manages to land a hit on Chen, knocking her out of the air...

And straight into a rift opened by Suzanna, dumping her straight into the Skaia of server 0. Ouch. That's one powerful faerie.

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(A picture of most of the gang, rendered in Walfas. You can just barely see D behind Armin and Yukari behind mobiusTrip.)

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Act 7 Act 2:

Sarabande

In the Dreambubbles, there is a Gungeon.
Suzanna has been reunited with her friend Pameel, who was lost in The Void: the underside of the Multiverse, a sort of Zebra-less Zebraspace.


gentlemanMannerism, searching for her lost lover, discovers the Gungeon and pokes her head inside. She basically rejects the Gungeon, because for her, the past cannot be killed: Chara was always stronger than her.
Of course this means an asskicking! The Lich gets utterly smashed to bits, and then they settle down at a campfire with Sans and a Horrorterror leader. They finally get around to waking Vriska up, who was sleeping for at least seven years.


A small Can Town is discovered on the edge of the Furthest Ring: the precursor to the sizable Hegemony. gentlemanMannerism, of course, is quite stunned.

But what now? gM's long-lost lover isn't in her dreambubble, and isn't in The Void, and Gaster hasn't heard of a psionic dolphin trapped in Zebraspace...
And he's certainly not going to be asking questions about it, because that would probably get him discovered before you could say Zebra. What to do, what to do...


[ ] Explore other dreambubbles.
[ ] Send the Dreamers up against the Kanohi Dragon. They can take it with their armor.
[ ] Push the Covenant Allied Core further into Ignition territory.
[ ] Something else instead?

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[x] Explore other dreambubbles
[x] Send the Dreamers to fight the Kanohi Dragon

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Act 7 Act 3:

Serenade

gentlemanMannerism makes her way through the Dreambubbles, managing to fight her way through the Daughter of Skaia to obtain a SOUL and then use the Gungeon to retrieve the memories of her long-lost lover.

However, the peace doesn't last.

The following day, the psionic dolphin is stuffed into the Green Sun, and gentlemanMannerism flips the fuck out on the Black King of the Green Sun. (and is pretty much stabbed in the back by Chara, who she released to deal with the Black King.)

The very next day, Gensokyo comes under siege by the Ignitions...

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It's obvious what happens next: gM gets herself a new friend, reaches Jenovia Tier, and Primeus goes on a rather... adult rampage. (Yes I'm implying what you think I'm implying, where did you think all those mermaids in Misty Lake came from?)

Soon afterwards, a large supply of Hourai goes missing from Eientei...
Erin gets sent to the moon as punishment.

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END OF BOOK 1:

Anthem

Dear Yukarin,
It seems that Gensokyo once again needs your help. There's this really nasty and promiscuous hermaphroditic male giant electric catfish in Misty Lake that's been kidnapping people and placing them in some kind of piscine sex dungeon.

In addition, Sariel is currently trying to retake Makai, the Goliath Doll has gone rouge, and the Ayakashi is currently on the fritz. Normally I'd just say kill 'em all, but I'm the sporting type. I'd like to request for someone (i.e. you) to bring over a Pokémon Trainer: preferably someone who nobody'll miss.

Signed, Baldemar Axemond