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Ch04: Finale ~ Heartless Ambition

2024-03-06 - Terminal Two Main Floor - Completed

The Wayfarers in charge of subduing Cipher's leaders find that the admins, Milotic Venus, Darmanitan Dakim and Manectric Ein, were expecting them. A difficult battle ensues, but the Wayfarers eventually manage to bring the admins down, and take out Terminal Two's major generators in the process. Then it's just a matter of hoping they'll answer some questions.

Logged by: Phoenixsong

Characters: Archie, Wes, Bellatrix, Mhynt, Koa, Ghaspius, Isidora

Tags: Venus, Ein, Plot, Cipher Admins, Finale, Cipher, Combat, Seth, Dakim, Shadows

Word count: 23.7k

Public notes

* The three admins and a group of peons are prepared to battle the intruders, with extra shields, drones and other technology powered by Ein's control room. The group makes sure to take out Ein's devices and also destroys the generator, which does power down much of the facility.

* Ein tells Wes that they already have an "extra Lycas" to deal with, presumably referring to Leona down in the holding cells.

* When it looks like the admins are cornered, they somehow turn themselves into "perfect shadows", with all the extra power of Shadow aura but completely in control of their emotions. The group is still able to defeat them, but they seem oddly unconcerned about this.

* Terminal Two is not Cipher's only base of operations on Forlas. Their primary efforts are carried out in Terminal One, which is contained in a mystery dungeon far to the north known as Eremus Fault. Eremus Fault is actually the location of the original "natural" rift in reality that Cipher discovered; Terminal Two's portal was just an auxiliary one. Destroying the generators will have de-powered Terminal Two's portal to Seth's Earth, and Ein figures it won't be operational again, but Eremus Fault's portal should still be going strong.

* Cipher's primary leaders are still back on Earth, but Ein confirms that Nascour is present on Forlas, in addition to the other known admins (Lovrina and Miror B.). Seth suspects that Gorigan, Ardos and Eldes are likely also here.

* Cipher has at times cooperated with the Covenant of Light, who were interested in their technology and impressed by their status as an organization of humans. The Covenant began to take issue with Cipher's actual goals, however, so Ein has been on the lookout for interference from them.

* Ein insists that Cipher has not made any effort to research how to undo the shadow pokémon process; given that they've already figured out how to create "perfect shadows", what would be the point?

- Phoenixsong