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[Endgame: rise or DROWN]
[How long have you been exploring Nessa's palace now? You've met her family, viewed her memories, learned how to fight as a witch and tried to find the source of her power and the Treasure of her palace: the Voidheart. And along the way, you've tired your best, with mixed success, to avoid the incarnation of her eldest cousin and the representation of her trauma and fear, the Nightmare of Esmau.]
[Wherever you are in the Palace right now, you feel the ground briefly shake under your feet. Little shakes here and there haven't been out of the ordinary - Esmau is trying to blow the place down to the studs, after all. But that felt different. That felt....worse.]
[Your phone beeps as you receive a message.]
[Wherever you are in the Palace right now, you feel the ground briefly shake under your feet. Little shakes here and there haven't been out of the ordinary - Esmau is trying to blow the place down to the studs, after all. But that felt different. That felt....worse.]
[Your phone beeps as you receive a message.]
WORKSHOP
You eventually come to a large, open room that appears to be a study or a workshop of some kind. There's a bookshelf, a record player that seems to be responsible for that jazz, a fireplace and a large work table at the back of the room. And at that table, underneath a glass box...
Is the Voidheart. You recognize it from the first memory you saw when you arrived. The hundreds of lights twirling inside it. It casts a purple glow over the room.
It was underneath Agnis' home and depending on where you went, right under your feet, the entire time.
Which is why it's very bad that a certain someone is in here.]
Hahahaha! You're putting up a way better fight than the big bad big sister! I'm almost impressed!
[And she's opposed by...]
Talk your shit now. You're gonna have to kill me to get your hands on that Heart.
[Nessa's older brother, Caesar. He's huffing and puffing. It's taken a lot out of him just to hold her off.]
That can be arranged.
[She swings at him, ferociously, one blow after another. Caesar slips in and out of her blows and tries to counterattack, but Esmau seemingly refuses to show any signs of damage. Caesar is pushing his own power to the limit just to hold her.]
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Wait, Caesar? when did you--?!
[WE JUST SAW YOU IN THE LANTERN COVE GOOD SIR]
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-- wait, how the fuck do I know that?!
[He just barely ducks under a swing from Esmau.]
Get the Voidheart out of here! Find Shadow Nessa!
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[. . . right. focus!]
[anyway he's going to make a mad dash for the Voidheart now]
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[Esmau raises her glaive up....]
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While Akira talks to Caesar: ]
Hey! Leave him alone--!
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[Esmau jabs at Minato's stomach with the butt of her staff.]
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[she turns off the smooth jazz.]
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[Esmau swings at Tsumugi. She hits the record player.
That jazz has been stopped. For good.]
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--Because the enemy wins when you do that.
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[ what if i just go for the Voidheart box
uhhhhhhhhhhHHHHH ]
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[Esmau raises her glaive up....]
!!!!
Bubbles of Void energy suspend you in the air, preventing you from attacking Esmau, helping Caesar or grabbing the Voidheart -- Akira and Sprezzatura in particular are stopped just inches away from the glass box.]
None of you are gonna stop me....!
[If you use a spell to attack the bubble, it starts to crack, but it's happening too slowly...Esmau is right back to Caesar being the only thing between her and the Voidheart.]
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[he just punches it]
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No!
[ pure furious instinct drives her. she will attempt to yank the Wizardly Quill facet back out of her Voidheart and pierce the bubble with the literal point of it ]
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Desperately, he'll also try. ]
W-wait--!
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[Caesar seems to realize he's alone. For a second, he looks like he's at a loss for what to do....but he sucks in a breath, plants himself between Esmau and the Voidheart and slaps his shoulder with his hand twice.]
Come on. Like dad taught you. Vulcan spirit.
[He looks up and glares at Esmau.]
Come on, motherfucker.
[He lifts off the ground. Gravity manipulation. He shoots at Esmau, then suddenly changes direction in mid-air, flying around her back. Esmau spins on her feet. She catches a knee in the side of her head and stumbles back. She swings. Caesar drops to the ground and slides underneath her. He stands up behind her, back-to-back and hooks one of his arms around one of hers. His own gravity increases dramatically, pulling him to the ground and giving him the leverage to pull her down with him, flipping her over top of him, so they're face to face again. His gravity goes back to normal the second they're face to face and he leaps up, kneeing her in the chin. He steps back, then thrusts his foot at into her forehead. He plants one foot, then spins in place, delivering a spinning heel kick into her jaw with as much force as he can muster.
Esmau stumbles to one side...]
[Then lunges at him, thrusting her glaive directly into his shoulder. The attack happens almost instantaneously. One second, Caesar was raining down kicks and knees on Esmau from every angle. The next, she's stabbing him with enough force to send him flying into the opposite wall.]
[She massages her jaw a bit. But seems no worse for the wear as she walks over to the box and punches right through it, grabbing the Voidheart.]
It all starts with this...
[She turns and grins at the four palace explorers, still trapped in their bubble.]
You're gonna wanna leave now. Things are about to get messy.
[She vanishes. The bubbles and the glaive pinning Caesar's shoulder to the wall vanish a second later, leaving everyone to hit the ground in a heap.]
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[at least Akira is quick on his feet. he drops to the ground when the bubble vanished and lands adeptly on his feet, immediately jolting to Caesar to heal him, too]
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[He holds his hand over his shoulder as Akira heals him.]
She got it...we gotta tell Agnis and Shadow Nessa what happened...
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We need to get the Voidheart back.
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[He slams a hand against his own head.]
Shit. What do we even do to get it back....!
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...You are injured.
[she's going to kneel to turn him on his back, at least.]
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[He's clutching his shoulder. Akira is healing him at least, so the damage is slowly going away.]
We gotta...we gotta find Shadow Nessa. We gotta tell her what happened.
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