The party enters Legion's Penthouse. The room is completely dark and nobody is to be seen.
There are... notable changes outside the windows, though.
Nothing for the Lust window has changed.
For the Gluttony window, it's still dark as usual, but in the distance... There's a castle being rebuilt. And around it, a kingdom lit by bright red flames.
For the Envy window, it's the same flower forest as usual! Bright as ever, with the radio towers looming in the distance. But, what has changed is there seems to now be an increased population! Lots of log cabins have been built around one particularly prominent lake.
There is a closed door with bright light shining from underneath.
“Oh wow!” Luna exclaims, looking out the windows.
“That’s cool!” Knight comments.
Cole walks up to Fenrir and presses his snout directly against him and fucking sniffs.
“So this is Hell. Nice.” Says Drew.
"𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐚𝐬 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚... 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮-" He swats Cole away, but Cole is still able to get a good whiff of lavender.
"Greed is super cool. It's a massive library with a small casino attached to it." Luna says.
“Wow. Rude.” Harmonia says about Fenrir’s comment.
"Lavender, just like me fucking copy cat.” Cole woofs quietly and nips at Fenrir’s hand.
A bit of nectar bleeds from Fenrir’s hand.
Luna notices the door with the light and inspects it.
It's the normal door out into the library.
"Ah right. The normal door. Alright, we need to find the casino again." Luna says.
Cole slurps up the nectar. “Tasty.”
“Cole, no biting!” Harmonia exclaims.
“So let’s go then.” Spider says in response to Luna.
Luna opens the door. "Stick close by. The library is basically an infinite labyrinth."
“He tastes goood,” Cole says.
Harmonia sighs, following Luna.
The others follow as well.
Fenrir wipes his hand off, walking up to the door and following Luna. "𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭."
Once they’re all outside the penthouse, Luna turns to them. "We need to stick together, otherwise we're going to get hopelessly lost."
“I made it through on my own.” Cole says.
“Sounds fun.” Spider snarks.
“That’s nice Cole. Just saying what Greed told me.” Luna responds.
"Greed doesn't take risks cause he is a little buff hunky bookworm.” Cole says.
“He’s also hot,” Luna says.
“Mhm,” Says Cole.
“True,” Says Knight.
"𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 '𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝' 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟." Fenrir says.
A spray bottle and newspaper appear in Harmonia's hands.
Through the door, the party steps out into the labyrinth. The space seems endlessly big and the bookcases are tall. The architecture is fancy, lots of dark wood and gold accents. The whole area is lit by warmly glowing gold lanterns which emit a comforting light.
The party is in a section full of medieval bibles and books with extravagant and bejeweled covers.
This section also seems to have a green carpet, for some reason!
"You smell and taste like a woman, stop acting like a king of the castle.” Cole says to Fenrir.
"Whoa. Green carpet. That's new?" Luna comments.
Harmonia looks at the objects in her hands then proceeds to spray Cole with water.
Cole bites at the water like a dog. It tastes extremely crispy and clean of any impurities.
“Finally, somewhere with taste.” Spider jokes.
“Why is it so cleaaaaaannnn?” Cole whines.
Harmonia baps Cole with the newspaper. “Be nice.”
Cole a heem heem whimpers.
Eventually, like a wrestler atop the cage during a Hell In The Cell match, a crow wearing an WWI army helmet and general's coat jumps off the top of a bookshelf to tackle Cole.
"COOOOOLLLEEEE GENESONEEE!!!" (said like roxy remsleep does)
Fenrir can see that Harmonia's neck appears to be fucking gone now.
He tilts his head in confusion, gently putting a hand on Harmonia’s neck while attempting to ignore all outside stimulus.
Cole gets tackled and giggles. “Hello crow buddy!”
“Hey there.” Luna says.
The crow squawks at him, grinning.
Harmonia flinches back at the touch. Her neck is still there, evidently the skin is just completely black. It reflects no light like a black hole.
"𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞..." Fenrir removes his hand from her neck, turning to the others.
"That’s great, do you wanna come with me?" Cole asks, trying to pick the crow up and put it on his shoulder.
"What? Oh is the mark back?" Harmonia asks, feeling her neck.
"𝐘𝐞𝐬. 𝐘𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬. 𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭?" Fenrir asks.
The crow is short as fuck and is able to be picked up. They sit on Cole's shoulder and squawks.
"Oh uh- sure why not. Basically whenever I die, the skin where the wound was turns back and more demonlike." Harmonia rolls up her sleeves and shows her wrists. "This is from being crucified but the weird part is that I didn't die from that..."
"𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐞. 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬... 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝐄𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐢𝐭."
"Yeah...." Harmonia looks away. "The former Prince of Gluttony kidnapped me and crucified me then had me marinate for about 4 days in orange juice... The other night my friends came to save me and we killed Beezlebub."
"𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐍𝐢𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐚, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐫. 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞."
"I see... I'm sorry you had to go through that." Harmonia rubs her wrists.
Cole is staring at Fenrir like a puppy.
Harmonia sprays Cole and he bites at the water again.
“So Crow Genesone, Do you know the way to the Casino?” Knight asks.
"Anyway, hey little crow, do you know where the casino is?" Luna asks.
The crow nods at Knight and Luna.
“Would you mind showing us?” Luna asks.
Fenrir yawned. "𝐈'𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐲. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭." He says, pulling out a can of wet cat food.
Crow Genesone pecks Cole's head and points forward, squawking.
Luna noticed the Fancy Feast.
“Is that fucking cat food?” Cole asks as he walks forward.
"Jesus Christ almighty…” Spider mutters.
“Fancy Feast???” Luna makes puppy dog eyes.
Harmonia just follows the group, putting her head in her hands.
"𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭!" Fenrir starts eating out of the can, following Cole.
Luna follows Cole but feels hungry.
Fenrir acquires a spoon.
Fenrir eats the spoon.
You know what? You know what??? Fuck you. Fenrir falls into the pit before Cole despite the fact the pit is in front of Cole.
...Then Cole falls into the pit.
“Great.” Spider sighs.
“Bonzai!” Knight jumps into the pit.
Harmonia falls in next. “Weeeeee-“
Luna jumps in.
Fenrir is screaming as Cole glides over to Fenrir. “I will eat you.”
Drew drops a rock into the pit and listens for it to hit.
The rock goes back up and hits Drew in the face.
"Well that's just rude." Drew says.
"Well I don't fancy dying, Do you Drew?" Spider asks.
"I'd prefer not to die, yeah." Drew replies.
"𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐄𝐍𝐃?!" Fenrir yells.
The crow squawks. “IN 3.”
“2.” Knight says.
"Yeah, I didn't come here to watch." Drew dives into the pit.
“1!” Luna exclaims.
"When you give me a milk bone dog treat.” Cole says.
"𝐈 𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐉𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐓!" Fenrir yells.
Spider mutters something and jumps into the pit.
...
"OK NOW 1!!" Yells the crow.
The falling suddenly stops as the entire group ends up in a dog-pile on a now absolutely BROKEN pool table.
They're in the small casino now. It's... unnervingly empty.
Fenrir’s fall is broken by a large, purple flower he created at the bottom of the pit. "𝐇𝐞𝐡𝐞."
Harmonia face slams into the wood. “wwwwaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH-“
“Oh sweet, shits gonna go down” Knight gets out of the pile and heads for the chip trade-in place.
Spider groans and pulls herself out, getting to her feet and glancing around.
“Owwww-“ Luna gets up.
Cole snaps and a comically large pillow cushions his fall.
"Mmmmmmm" Drew says, inexplicably under Cole's pillow despite being one of the last into the pit.
It's a casino room. There are tables for pool and poker and blackjack and also slot machines. There's a chip-trade in place basically entirely walled off from the rest of the room aside from a small window. The Top Hat Crow sits sleeping on top of a finished game of solitaire.
“Owie…” Harmonia gets up, holding her bleeding nose that seems to be broken.
Knight takes out an air horn and honks it at the Top Hat Crow.
"𝐎𝐡, 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞!" Fenrir runs over to the Top Hat Crow.
Luna also heads over to the crow.
The Top Hat Crow squawks and tumbles backwards out of his chair, landing with a thud. "AUGHJWHHWHJGHSGF?!?!?!?!?!?"
Cole whines as he walks over to the Top Hat Crow. "Asshole.”
Harmonia follows and pokes Cole. "Will you heal my nose..."
“Wakey Wakey! I heard you have a rat problem and we have come to fix it!” Knight says.
Cole heals Harmonia. "Aww you sounded funny.”
"..whhwhw..." The Top Hat Crow stands up and adjusts the aforementioned Top Hat. The helmet crow slinks away. "..Do you mean you found the thing???"
"Thank.” Harmonia jumps to try and pat Cole’s head.
“Yep!” Knight exclaims.
“Yup!” Luna presents the emerald dagger to the crow.
Cole bends down to let Harmonia pet him, his tail wagging. "I should get you a portable foot stool,”
Harmonia pets him.
The Top Hat Crow smiles, looking it over. "Great! I'm assuming you remember where to put it???"
"Yeah, that one hole over there,” Luna points in the direction of the hole.
The crow glares at Cole. "WAIT THATS THE BITCH WHO WANTED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!"
“Yep!” Knight walks over to the hole, Luna following.
Cole's tail wags faster as he whines happily. "Uh oh.”
Harmonia scritches behind Cole’s ears before following the others.
Cole's tail wags as fast as a blur as he follows Harmonia quickly, the others in tow.
Walking around the exchange area leads them to the dead end hallway with the blade-shaped hole in the wall.
...An apparition appears.
On the right hand side of the hallway, a ghostly green vision of the Prince of Envy appears. It's almost as if a moment has been caught in time.
"Now, to seal it," says the Prince, speaking with a tired sigh as he steps back, "Can't have anyone stumbling across the corpse."
...The apparition fades away.
“…Wow.” Says Knight.
"The corpse?? Wait, hang on... oh gods." Luna says.
Harmonia watches curiously, staying quiet.
Cole jokingly shakes. "Shiver me timbers"
“Welp, We must continue on!” Knight exclaims.
"𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐮𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫." Fenrir jokes.
"I am so glad that tossers dead.” Spider mutters.
Luna takes a deep breath and inserts the dagger into the depression.
The blade shatters as soon as it enters the slot.
The wall cracks, then crumbles.
Up ahead is a decrepit hallway filled with dust. Ancient fluorescent lights that line the ceiling flicker, barely functioning. Nobody has walked this hallway in decades.
“Holy shit, it worked.” Luna says.
The group walks in.
Harmonia pets Fenrir’s head and two cat ears unfurl from the top of Fenrir’s head.
Harmonia grins.
“Oh my God.” Luna says. "Holy shit catboy alert!"
Drew draws in the dust on the wall and then runs to catch up with everyone.
As soon as everybody enters past where the old hallway had been blocked...
It disappears.
Where they had entered from disappears, shifting to a different position as one would expect from the labyrinth.
Hopefully someone brought a light!
Or has headlights for eyes.
Fenrir walks with the others as the ears slowly disappear.
“Well that’s just great.” Spider says.
“Huh, it’s a bit dark.” Knight comments.
Luna pulls out her phone and uses the flashlight function.
Cole's eyes comically click as they illuminate the area in front of them.
Knight grabs out a literal torch and lights it before he continues on.
Drew pulls a headlamp out of his backpack and clicks it on.
Fenrir’s eyes do the same, just without the click. A yellow light is projected in front of him as he keeps walking.
...As they walk, they begin to hear voices.
"AWWW DAMN IT. THIRD TIME THIS GOD FORSAKEN NIGHT!" one voice howled, followed by a table being flipped. It sounded... far away.
"ONE MORE, FOR ALLLLLL THE BOYS AND GIRLS TONIGHT!" cheered another, followed by a cacophony of drunken laughter. It sounded closer.
"...Regicide seems to be in style, nowadays." said another in a familiar, yet strangely confident tone. It snickers, and footsteps echo throughout the hall. This voice came from behind. The footsteps approached, then passed.
Harmonia shivers.
“That’s fucking weird, Anyway!” Knight continues walking forward.
Cole’s ears twitch and he looks around. “Fucking hate audio tricks.”
"Well that's uncomfortable as fuck." Luna continues forward.
"A hall of memories, nice.” Spider chuckles.
"I think this is certified ghost shit..." Harmonia mumbles.
“That is offensive to violent ghosts.” Cole says.
"What,” Harmonia says.
“You heard me,” Cole says.
"This is a certified Ghost Moment," Drew says.
"But is it a hood classic?" Cole asks.
"𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚. 𝐆𝐨𝐝." Fenrir jokes.
Harmonia rolls her eyes, smiling a bit. It definitely helped her calm down a tad.
They reach the end of the hallway and exit out into the main room of the casino. They appear to have entered through the "front door." Ahead is a set of glass double doors. Behind them cannot be seen. To the left, a different door. To the right, another door. Up a set of stairs, there's another door. There seems to be a reception desk in the center of the room. Nobody is running it, obviously. The entire casino is still decrepit and full of dust. It's all... old. and abandoned.
“So who goes where?” Knight asks.
Cole sneezes and groans. "I have a slight feeling I know this place,”
"𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬." Fenrir says.
"Uhhh, I think it's best we stick together," Luna says.
"Fenrir, I will eat you,” Cole states.
"I'm with Luna on this one,” Spider says.
A clone of Fenrir appears behind the front desk in a puff of smoke. "𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐢𝐫? 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐠𝐨 𝐢𝐧?"
"𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐢𝐫. 𝐈'𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐭."
"𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬, 𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐢𝐫!"
“What.” Says Cole.
"What the." Says Luna.
“The hell?" Spider says.
"Interesting." Harmonia says.
“Neat.” Knight says.
Fenrir turns around to face the party. "𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧!" He leans back on the counter, pointing upstairs.
"Guess we're going up,” Luna says, going upstairs. The group follows up the stairs.
As they walk up the stairs, it's kinda just a.... balcony overlooking the lobby. There's a single set of double doors.
Harmonia pushes open the double doors.
"𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭." Fenrir leans on the edge of the balcony.
Through the double doors is what appears to be the 2nd floor of the casino proper. It's all one big room, but this level is like... a balcony with more stuff overlooking the bottom floor.
Harmonia looks around. "Woah... this place is fucking cool as Hell."
"Ancient casinos are fuckin sweet!" Luna exclaims.
“Neat.” Says Knight.
Cole looks around and almost instantly stares at the floor.
"So where do we find this corpse?" Spider asks.
Fenrir goes through the double doors, noticing Cole looking at the floor. "𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭? 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬?"
"No, I just don't want to look at the machines,” Cole says.
"Heh, cool as hell." Drew admits.
Fenrir looks out at the machines below. "𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝."
As they enter the room properly, all of the lights and machines suddenly flicker to life. Ghostly apparitions of various draconic demons appear seated at different places. Playing different games, drinking different drinks, chatting different chats... The lights closest to the apparitions change to match the color of said apparition.
The room grows cold. It's as if they had walked directly into a different time. They don't fit here.
So... much... SHINY. Luna's eyes glow with excitement. "Shiny. Also god it's cold here."
Spider sighs. "And of course, it's now cold.”
Harmonia shivers and looks to the others as if for confirmation.
"𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭."
Cole heem heem whimpers. "I'm not looking up.”
Knight starts coughing. “Ack-“
“So shall we pick another door?" Spider asks.
"It's a remnant problem and this seems like a remnant of the past, right?" Harmonia asks.
“Yeah,” Knight says. “Let’s find out what’s keeping them here.”
There's so much dust. Rip anyone with asthma.
Harmonia uses her shirt to breathe better as she heads inside.
The others head in as Harmonia walks into the railing and fucking falls into the first floor.
Cole fucking dives after Harmonia.
Knight ends up tripping on THAT SAME PEBBLE and falls off of the railing.
They are now on the first floor of the main casino area. There is a fuckton more machines and tables meant for gambling here. Like a lot more. And thus a higher population of ghosts. And it's a fuckton colder too.
The door they could've entered in the lobby area behind the reception desk is there. There are bathroom doors too.
Harmonia shivers and looks around for anything super noticeable.
Spider sighs and climbs over the rail, dropping herself down.
“ACK-“ Knight lands on his back.
Cole lands on his muzzle and stays on the floor as he whimpers and shivers.
Luna jumps down and lands on her feet.
There's surprisingly nothing much unless you'd want to gamble.
“So what exactly are we looking for?" Spider asks.
“Either a way to get rid of the remnants or Mammon,” Knight says.
"Yeah, maybe Mammon?" Harmonia says.
"I have no idea. I assumed it was Mammon's corpse, but all we keep finding is more ghosts. And cold. And shinies!!" Luna exclaims.
“Or we could kill every ghost here,” Knight says.
“So we need a priest then.” Spider chuckles.
Cole sniff snoofs the air, hoping to find the scent of something interesting.
He smells a long dead yet still rotting corpse, yet he can't tell where the scent is coming from.
He ALSO smells like... a wholeass skeleton. A lot of skeletons. Like... a lot of skeletons. A lot of them. In a different room. Following it would lead him back to the lobby.
"Cole?" Harmonia asks.
Cole perks up and his eyes light up with joy. "I got a smell of bones.”
“Where are them bones at?” Knight asks.
"Where?" Harmonia asks.
Cole fucking sprints to the lobby while sniffing and snoofing.
The others follow, the scent leads him to the door on the left of where they originally entered.
Cole enters the door on the left as his tail wags slowly.
They enter a big lounging area.
There's a large bar area, tons of couches to sit on, and more than a few pool tables.
Said lounging area is also full of skeletons! A lot of dead demons. A lot.
24 skeletons in total, plus one behind the bar. They seem to have been caught completely unaware. They have more or less fully decomposed.
As they walk in, a scene flickers to life. The lights in the main area turn to a variety of colors, while the lights behind and around the bar turn a pleasant blue.
Many ghosts casually chat, drink, and play pool while the Bartender seems to be speaking to someone.
The 5'11, somewhat muscular dragon in a bartending uniform leans forward, hands on the bar. He speaks to an unseen figure, seemingly somewhat irritated.
"Alright, alright, I GET you. You want to talk to the big guy. That's understandable. You know your information and came to the right guy. But, unfortunately for you, I'm not givin' you the damn ke-!"
The demon is cut off as a somewhat suppressed gunshot is heard, causing the demon to recoil back. He clutches his chest and, just before hitting the shelf of alcohol behind him...
All apparitions fade.
“Interesting,” Spider says.
"I found the bones,” Cole says.
“Damn.” Knight says.
"𝐀𝐰, 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭! 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐭!" Fenrir exclaims.
"Whoa." Luna says.
Harmonia flinches at the gunshot, taking a deep breath in. "I don't like this..."
Drew pulls out his detective's cap and puts it on. "Investigation Start!" He laughs to himself knowing he's probably the only one who gets the joke.
Cole shrugs and leaps behind the bar and tries to take the bartender's femur bone. “Shush Phoenix Wright headass,”
"Ace Attorney Investigations, fuck yeah!" Luna says.
The joke visibly flies over Fenrir’s head.
Luna puts some fitting music on her headphones and joins the investigation.
It's there! Near the Bartender's corpse is a shattered keyring. A handful of different keys are scattered nearby.
Knight starts collecting keys.
"Ooooh, shiny keys." Luna grabs whatever keys she can get.
Fenrir starts searching for keys as well.
Drew looks around and sees if there's anything of note on the bar.
Harmonia stands away from the skeletons, visibly a tad shook.
Cole stares at the keys and just starts tossing them over the counter and the keyring gets tossed too as he takes the femur bone from the bartender
All of the keys are now on the bar. There's 5 in total.
All of em seem kinda old fashioned honestly. Like each is from a different period of key design development.
"𝐒𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝟏 𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝟓 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐬?" Fenrir asks.
"Hmm. I'm going to guess the uber door." Luna says.
Cole is too busy gnawing on a femur bone to answer.
Knight pockets the keys. “Let’s go find said door.”
Luna looks for the door.
None here.
"Hm. No locked doors?" Luna asks.
"𝐎𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧!" Fenrir turns into a puff of purple smoke, revealing a purple cat with a wide grin and yellow eyes.
“Since this is where left door led, we can try the right one.” Knight says.
"God, you're fucking cool Fenrir." Luna says.
"Cat moment.” Harmonia says.
Cole sniffs the air again and jumps onto the counter to stare at Fenrir while gnawing on a femur.
Knight leaves for the right door. “Good luck Fen!”
Everyone follows and the right door is unlocked. They all head into the room.
It appears to be a stone staircase downwards into the underbelly of the casino. On the floor is a key, broken in half. It's the most... "modern" of all the keys they've seen so far.
"Anyone got super glue?" Harmonia asks.
“Well fuck.” Knight collects the pieces of the key and goes down the stairs, the others following.
"Or someone who can mend objects?" Luna asks.
“I can do that but it might not work.” Knight says.
"𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐲!” Fenrir follows, now walking on the ground.
"I might have something in my bag," Drew says.
"Is it just me, or does this feel pointless?" Spider asks.
"Like we're just going through room after room, door after door, it doesn't really feel like we're getting anywhere.” Spider says.
"𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫, 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞?" Fenrir floats in front of Spider’s face.
"I mean we're just cleaning up someone else's mess. Basically." Harmonia says.
“Not when I'm mortal I don't.” Spider says.
"I dunno about ny'all, but I'm having fun." Luna says.
Cole would retort but he is now just crunching on a femur, loudly at that.
"𝐈'𝐦 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭!" Fenrir boops Spider on the nose with his paw.
As they walk down the steps, it continues to get colder and colder. Eventually, they reach the basement. It's a stone hallway with 4 doors and then a large vault at the end.
"Shit. It was 5 doors." Luna says.
“Huh.” Knight attempts to fix the key using his time powers. “Looks like we got keys to try.”
"𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭! 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝟏!"
Spider glares and swipes at Fenrir.
Fenrir just laughs it off, holding his head with his paws for a little bit.
Cole loudly crunches the femur at Fenrir.
"Anyway, let's try all of the keys on all of the doors. The good ol' Phoenix Wright strat." Luna giggles.
Fenrir floats up to Luna, turning upside-down and opening his mouth to hold one of the keys.
Luna gives him one of them. "Have fun."
He starts trying the key on all of the doors.
Luna does the same as Fenrir, one of the keys on all of the doors.
The key is fixed and all of the doors are unlocked.
“Oh.” Knight says.
"Holy shit." Luna says.
“Sweet.” Says Knight.
Harmonia walks up to the bigass vault.
"𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤."
The vault is slightly ajar. Very much slightly open.
"Ace Attorney logic at its finest." Drew says.
Luna attempts to pull the vault door open further.
Spider follows the two heading up to the vault.
It's a big heavy metal door.
Knight and Cole help Luna with the door.
Fenrir grip onto the door with his paws, trying to open it. "𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐬."
"Imagine having thumbs,” Cole says.
The vault is open now :)
The hallway is filled with air cold enough to rival the artic.
...The vault is completely dark inside.
"C-cole can I have a coat-" Harmonia asks.
"Gods damn, I hate the cold," Luna says, trying to turn on her darksight.
Drew shines his headlamp in the doorway.
Knight lights then yeets a road flare into the vault.
"Christ.." Spider sighs.
Cole snaps and 2 coats appear and flop on Luna and Harmonia.
"Thanks," Harmonia wraps it around herself.
"Ah, thank you Cole!" Luna exclaims.
Fenrir forms purple flowers all over his fluffy body to try and warm himself.
The light doesn't pierce the darkness and the flare goes out immediately.
...Luna's darksight works! Slightly!
She sees gold.
"Not a problem,” Cole says.
"HOLY SHIT SHINY!” Luna exclaims.
“Huh.” Knight says.
"Gold. Lots and lots of gold!" Luna exclaims.
"I can't see shit." Says Drew.
“Welp, Let’s go grab some.” Knight walks into the vault.
The others follow into the vault.
"𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩."
"Sure does," Luna says.
“Agreed,” Spider says.
The vault slams shut behind them, sealing shut.
All the lights in the vault flicker to life, a deep red.
The vault is filled with enough gold, jewelry, gems... Just, all kinds of riches to make any dragon's hoard in fiction envious enough to heel over and DIE!
And, in the center, at the far end of this huge room...
The 20' tall, decomposing corpse of a red-scaled dragon, leaning back in his throne formed from a pile of solid gold bars. Half of his head is fully decomposed along with other parts of his body. Still... mostly intact. The room stinks of death and rot.
The corpse has a lot of jewelry on it. Rings, bracelets, necklaces... A lot.
Although, most importantly, a large hole directly where his heart should be. Torn out by hand. There's a glow that matches that of the light from inside the corpse.
“Ok so we've found him, but we're also fucked ourselves,” Spider says.
Harmonia backs up into the door, starting to hyperventilate at the smell. "Not again not again-"
Luna yelps in surprise and holds a handkerchief to her nose to filter out the stench. "What the fuck is that thing??"
"𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞." Fenrir says.
“That, Luna, is a dead body.” Says Cole.
“That’s gotta be Mammon,” Knight says.
“Well the smell of one anyways,” Spider says.
"No shit Spider, but I mean... ohhhh, that's Mammon." Luna says.
Cole heem heem whimpers and tries to push the vault door back open.
It doesn't budge. There's a keyhole, though!
“Key, key, key, key-” Cole starts searching the room for any type of key while still whimpering from the smell.
Harmonia is having a panic attack.
"𝐁𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲, 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝." Fenrir says.
“Call me Bunny again and imma commit ARSON.” Knight tosses the key to Cole.
Cole catches the key and tries it in the lock on the vault.
It works.
Cole tries to kick the door open.
Harmonia is shaking and holding her head. "I'm not food- I’m not food-"
"Oh thank fuck. Let's get the hell out of here!" Luna exclaims.
“Don't we need the soul?" Spider asks.
Fenrir attempts to push the door open, rotating his body in the air like a fucking drill.
Fenrir is extremely successful and actually breaks the vault door in half.
"It looks like it was forcibly removed, Spider," Drew says. "I mean I don't know I'm not a soul expert."
"So why is it glowing?" Spider asks.
Cole sighs in relief and walks over to the corpse and takes a deep breath and plunges his hand into the corpse to search for a soul.
Drew pulls a bottle of hand sanitizer out, ready to give it to Cole when he's done.
The corpse suddenly jolts to life, grabbing Cole's arm with a dead man's grip. Its empty eye sockets are filled with the same color glow as from inside the body.
"Slow your roll, ɦօȶֆɦօȶ."
"What the fuck?????" Luna exclaims.
Knight goes to grab his revolver but it’s missing. “Shit”
“Fuck off, do not call me hotshot.” Cole tries to sucker punch Mammon in the face.
Harmonia looks up, eyes widening.
Luna pulls her broadsword out, ready to kick ass just in case.
Fenrir grows in size a bit, revealing sharp teeth and spiny quills on his back.
Spider sighs and pulls a knife out. "So he's haunted too."
Cole is flung across the room with the force of a speeding truck as the Corpse pushes itself off of its throne, joints snapping back into place.
Harmonia looks out of it but forces herself up, extending her claws. Her eyes are somewhat glossed over.
Luna calls out to the previously dead person. "Yo, what the fuck? Why aren't you dead?"
Knight grabs his grenade launcher from his bag and opens fire. “GO BACK TO BEING DEAD YOU OLD FUCK!”
Cole slams into a wall and groans. "DANGER CLOSE.”
Luna gets the fuck out of the way of the grenade launcher.
Cole's jacket rips and shields everyone.
Drew snaps and a sword and shield appear in their hands.
The Corpse slaps the grenade into his hoard, causing gold and jewelry to fly at high speeds toward the shielded kiss.
Mammon gives an echoey laugh, cracking his neck 90 degrees to the right, then 90 degrees to the left, then back into its proper place.
"I'm suuuurrreee we can talk this out, can't we? C'mon. Be reasonable."
The voice is raspy and deep. It SOUNDS like it's coming from a corpse, echoey and ghost-like like what they heard in the hallway.
"I'd rather talk than violence!" Luna exclaims.
“Fine.” Knight says.
“Knight the next time you use a grenade launcher in close combat I will fucking choke slam you.” Cole says.
It's echoey and ghost-like like what they heard in the hallway.
“Bet.” Knight readies his grenade launcher.
"You are a fucking idiot, Jesus Christ,” Cole says.
Harmonia waits until the shield isn't being hit before running around it and running at Mammon.
Knight just puts the grenade launcher away.
Fenrir disappears in a puff of smoke before reappearing behind Mammon, sneaking up on him.
Fenrir then wraps his arms around Mammon’s neck, digging into his neck with his claws for extra grip and biting into his neck.
Mammon has no reaction. "...What the fuck is this cat doing?"
Harmonia runs and tries to claw at Mammon's leg
“Eating you,” Cole says.
“Can we just talk?” Knight asks.
"The time for talk has passed, the lord's work must be done.” Says Cole.
"Ugh. Fine." Luna says.
Mammon shakes his leg to get Harmonia off. "This is the worst attempt on my un-life ever. And the only. What the fuck." Mammon literally tastes like a nearly 100 year old dead body.
As Fenrir is biting him, purple vines burst out from the walls and wrap tightly around Mammon’s neck.
“Okay then.” Knight takes out a fucking laser gun.
Harmonia doesn't seem to be completely there as she keeps slashing and attacking as much as possible.
THAT Mammon has a reaction to, stumbling back against his throne.
Luna sighs then clicks the app on her phone, transforming her into her magical girl form! She imbues her throwing knives with the power of lightning and launches one at Mammon's face, intended to shock him into submission!
Mammon tries to grab and pull them off.
Cole stares blankly at Knight. “Where did you even get that?"
More vines subdue Mammon’s arms and legs.
“Walmart,” Says Knight.
"Seems reasonable. Hahaha.” Luna says.
“In what fucking isle?" Cole asks.
“In the back,” Knight says.
"Where in the back?" Cole asks.
The knife hits his skull, crumbling where it hits away into dust. The shock of lightning leaves lightning scars on his decomposing flesh.
“Near the wormhole generators and nukes.” Says Knight.
Mammon is thoroughly subdued but he tries to struggle.
Harmonia climbs up to where the glow is.
Cole draws his revolver and shoots at Mammon’s knee cap. “And where are those?"
Yeah no, Mammon’s kinda getting bodied right now.
“In the back.” Knight shoots at Mammon.
Luna throws three more lightning knives into his other kneecap, the one not shot.
Fenrir lets go of Mammon with his arms and teeth but the vines stay holding on as tightly as possible. "𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐲."
He can't really dodge stuff. "This sucks so bad," Mammon says.
"This feels awful, but it's kind of fun," Luna says.
“THE FUTURE IS NOW OLD MAN!” Knight exclaims.
Cole nods. "Take his soul, im searching for the treasure."
Cole then starts searching for NFTs
Harmonia climbs to the glow and tries to pull it out.
She is able to find his soul. It's frigid to the touch.
Cole finds a laptop within Mammon's hoard.
"𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐍𝐅𝐓𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞?" Fenrir asks.
Harmonia digs her left claws into his chest, pulling out the soul with her right hand.
Luna notices what Cole's doing. "What the fuck, he has NFTs???"
“Of course the elderly guy has NFTs,” Knight says.
As soon as she tugs on his soul the Corpse turns to dust instantly. Harmonia is now falling to the ground.
Cole snaps and a comically large pillow appears beneath Harmonia.
"Well, that was... fun," Luna says.
Cole then starts searching for NFTs on the laptop
Harmonia drops the soul as she falls.
All of the vines fall to the ground before slowly receding back into the walls.
“Sweet, Now for the loot.” Knight starts going through the gold if he can.
Spider sighs. "So we have what we need?"
A leather pouch filled with... something. Clatters to the ground.
On the laptop, there are thousands of NFTs.
“Oooh shiny!" Luna exclaims.
Knight grabs the leather pouch.
Luna pockets some of the random bits of shiny gold.
“Mine,” Knight says.
The pouch feels heavy. Knight feels inclined to open it.
Cole snaps and a cable appears and he plugs himself into the laptop and starts downloading the NFTs at light fucking speed.
Knight opens the pouch.
Harmonia is just laying on the ground, looking dazed and out of it.
Fenrir floats down to Harmonia, shrinking in size a bit before laying down in her lap.
Everybody in the room is immediately filled with intense greed. Lust for wealth. If they see something they want... Well. It's either they have it or they die.
Inside the pouch is a variety of gems, jewels, coins, and poker chips. Everything inside radiates a deep red glow which slowly shifts to a radiant gold.
There is an NFT of Drake wearing a cowboy hat.
Knight puts the pouch in his bag.
Luna just fuckin grabs everything she can fit in her pockets. Oh wait, she's wearing a dress.
The feeling fades instantly when put away. Just as suddenly as it started. Knight now has the pouch in his bag.
“Sweet.” Knight starts grabbing any and all gold he can.
Cole is just chilling while downloading the NFTs.
Harmonia shakily places a hand on Fenrir, confused. "W-who are you? How did you get here?"
Fenrir looks up at Harmonia, moving his neck 360 degrees like an owl. ”𝐌𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐢𝐫 𝐀𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐮𝐬. 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧."
Drew realizes he's been zoned out for the entire fight. He zones back in and sees everyone being a bit silly.
"How... how are you in Beezlebub's palace?" Harmonia asks Fenrir.
"Can we please just leave now?" Spider asks.
The scent of death and rot begins to fade.
"𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐨, 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚." Fenrir levitates in the air, floating closer to her.
The cold air is replaced with warmer, fresher air.
“So I'm assuming this means we solved the problem,” Spider says.
"So uh, ny'all ready to go? Let's get the soul to L1M." Luna asks.
“Yep,” Knight says.
"I'm..." Harmonia holds her head, blinking. "I'm not crucified?" She stares at her hands.
"𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰." Fenrir reassures her.
"I have? It wasn't a dream…?” Harmonia looks around.
“Harm look at me, you're ok, yeah?" Spider says.
Harmonia turns to see Spider. "I- I am?"
While Cole is downloading the NFT his toe stubs.
Luna kneels next to Harmonia. "You're safe Harmonia. Beelzebub is dead. Thrall is the new prince."
Cole yelps in pain and holds his foot but cannot speak because he is connected to the laptop. text appears on the laptop in place of his speech. "OWWWWWWWWWWWW FUUUUCK"
“Hehehe,” Knight says.
47 NFTs corrupt, eat shit dogboy.
"𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨, 𝐲𝐞𝐬?" Fenrir asks.
“Yep.” Knight says.
Harmonia nods. "C-can someone help me walk..."
Spider walks over and helps Harmonia up. "Sure,”
Fenrir turns back to his human form, offering his arm to Harmonia.
Cole picks the laptop up and tucks it under his arm and walks out of the vault.
Knight follows Cole.
Harmonia just leans on Spider, still kind of out of it. “Ough."
“In any case, I hope my Greed key works down here."
Cole puts his Wrath key in a door and turns it and then opens the door and walks through, Fenrir following.
Spider chuckles and walks out, helping Harmonia out.
Luna goes to a different door and puts her Greed key in, the portal goes home! "If you wanna go home, follow me. If you want to go to Wrath, go with Cole." Luna goes through her portal.
"I'm gonna head home, Harm?" Spider asks.
Harmonia nods, staying with Spider.
Knight follows Luna.
Cole's door shuts.
Spider walks through Luna's portal, bringing Harmonia with her.
The door shuts.