Neo-Shogunate Mission Request Hub

[quote=]DragonierMan,

It's good that you've reported in. An SP core fit to tether a third SP to a navi will be difficult to come by, but an appropriate reward for a mission as dangerous as this one. Faction points will be included as well, based on merit.

We've been hearing reports from the GNA that some of the missions being accepted via the board, claiming to be hosted by our organization, are ending in missing reports. Some even have the signatures of our General and Subordinate ranked members attached. The navis who have accepted these missions have never reported in; this is straining our relationship with the GNA. It seems to me impossible that anyone could fool the GNA so completely when it comes to faking our identities, but we have a duty to resolve this.

As I said before, this is a risky mission; we don't know what is happening to the navis who are disappearing. That said, recognizing the urgency, our Shogun believes it would be best if Escort and Arch joined you in this mission. We've isolated a new phony mission that was placed, supposedly by me, and have asked the GNA to discretely freeze any applications for it. I'd like for you or one of your SPs to apply for this mission while in disguise... hopefully you have one. If not, a false name and a cross might do; you'll only need to be unfamiliar when you report to the mission coordinates. I theorize that the perpetrator may deny you entry if they believe you to be a threat: that is, on of our officers. You will report there alone to start, in disguise, and then Arch and Escort will teleport in to join you once you're in.

For reference, below is the mission request:

Quote (Phony Mission Request)

Greetings,

The Showbizz Women's Charity Martial Arts Bikini Battle is scheduled to take place in Yumland Net. We must show our power by dominating the competition in this battle. You will join Subordinate Escort and Subordinate DragonierMan in dominating the competition. Things are not as they appear. Act carefully. Keep your focus on the mission. There is a danger that Right of Operation Templar or the Alexis or the Blessers are planning to attack during the tournament. If you sense any danger, act carefully and cooperate with Escort and DragonierMan to contain the situation.

Succeed and you will earn faction recruitment and a uniform and a special title. We're counting on you, so act carefully. Glory to our leader! Also, report alone.

-First General Yasu, the Sky-Severing Legendary Ronin and Natural Blademaster

If you are willing to take on my request, please respond in the affirmative and also give me the disguise name you'd prefer to use. I'll provide you the coordinates and tell the GNA to give the mission over to you.

-First General Yasu, the Sky-Severing Legendary Ronin and Natural Blademaster

Funnily enough, we have just the disguise, courtesy of MachMan. And due to it being a Women's Charity Martial Arts Bikini Battle, we should use the one given to Suzume and Aya.

Quote (Mad Creation)

With these .GMOs active, both Aya and Suzume look very similar with a few slight differences to tell them apart. Their attire consists almost entirely of white medical gowns and bandaging tape, both stained and burnt to a slightly lower degree than DragonierMan's clothing. The gowns fit loosely and certainly don't provide the protection their normal armor provides, but thankfully they wrap entirely around their bodies (as opposed to having open backs). They have very short sleeves and the gown only extends just above their knees, but wrapped tape on their thighs and upper arms suggest there's an additional layer of material beneath the gown.

Their skin is lined with dark stitches and medical staples, outlining various limbs and variable-sized patches of skin, each with slightly different hues as if they were assembled from a myriad of different bodies. Even their eyes are different colors, Aya has one red and one hazel eye, while Suzume has one blue and one purple eye. Their golden hair looks mostly uniform, but Aya has a long diagonal line of stitches across her face from the left side to her chin up to the right side of her forehead, so the eyebrow over her crimson eye is black instead of gold.

Suzume has a pair of tarnished silver bolts with oversized hex heads screwed through her medical gown and into the midpoints of her collarbones, while Aya has a pair of identical bolts screwed diagonally into the sides of her shoulders. Said bolts are firmly secured, incapable of spinning or rocking; that's probably a good thing for Aya and Suzume's sakes.

Suzume seems to be the most likely candidate for a showy battle competition. She will be disguised under the name Mullonde.EXE.

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DragonierMan,

Very good. Have Suzume, or "Mullonde," rather, report to the coordinates attached. Arch and Escort are on standby to teleport in at your command, you can reach them by message as you would normally. I'd recommend you take in any details that must be done covertly before calling them in. Though, if my suspicions are correct, this 'bikini battle' is simply a trap. Don't get your hopes up.

Find out what is happening to the candidates, who is behind these false mission postings, and if possible, rescue the candidates. Do that and I'll arrange that SP base you wanted.

-First General Yasu, the Sky-Severing Legendary Ronin and Natural Blademaster

*Coordinates.DAT attached*

((Topic: Open here))

"DragonierMan here. Reporting completion of mission by Suzume/Mullonde. She's taking a nap so I am uploading the mission report and recordings."

[Attached: MissionReportandRecordings.DAT]

"Take your time with them and the GNA, and get back to me when you can." -- DragonierMan.EXE

Please see below communication from your employer.

Quote (Yasu)

DragonierMan-

My thanks to Suzume. Having viewed the footage, I'm pleased to see that she was competent and capable when faced with this perplexing scenario. I also received a sudden flood of messages from Aya, yourself, and Escort, which I assume are the messages Utopia had been redirecting. Most of all, it is a welcome relief to know that the deluge of fake missions will stop coming in.

I also understand that Escort will be testing a new recruit. Hopefully, we will have good news on that front as well. Please accept the attached reward with my thanks, with a small addition as a "scouting bonus".

-First General Yasu, the Sky-Severing Legendary Ronin and Natural Blademaster

Thank you again for using the Mission BBS.

-Global Network Administration

*DragonierMan receives 3rd sp base, 20 faction points, and 100 bugfrags*

DragonierMan is looking for a mission for the Neo-Shoguns.

Greetings-

We have sent your request to the Neo-Shogun Empire. They sent back the following request. Please reply confirming your acceptance and we will provide coordinates, or your denial, in which case we will provide another mission opportunity.

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DragonierMan,

Subordinate Survey has completed her analysis of the data brought back from the Alaki Reservoir. It turns out that ReservoirMan may have been playing two games there... you discovered his work for the pirate boss, Power, but we've uncovered a surprising hidden motive for his presence within the data. He was keeping notes on some sort of vessel, or "UFO" that had crash-landed there. From what we understand, an intelligent creature, most likely a navi, inside the vessel had denied him access on his several attempts to enter it and repelled what attempts he made to crack it open.

In an effort to investigate it ourselves, we had Kama lift the ship out of the water and onto dry land. To our surprise, the being inside the ship agreed to our requests for a meeting. I believe it best we send a team in to meet her and learn more. Due to the unknown nature of this navi, we should be prepared for anything... I've decided to send you in there as muscle and Dee along with you, to use her trickery if escape or subterfuge becomes necessary. I'll send Survey with you as well, for her technical knowledge. She's volunteered for this mission and it sounds like she'll be useful here.

The voice inside the UFO has identified itself as "SpaceAge". We really know nothing else about her as of yet, but if ReservoirMan was that interested in her ship, it may be worth our recruiting her or seeing if she has resources useful to the empire. I'm willing to provide the chips you've requested, for completing the following goals:

1) Make contact with SpaceAge and maintain a working relationship, if possible. Recruitment into the Empire would be considered a bonus.
2) Find out if she has useful technology and if so, see if she'd be willing to donate to our cause or perhaps accept a trade of some kind.

Feel free to contact me throughout the mission, should you need my input.

-First General Yasu, the Sky-Severing Legendary Ronin and Natural Blademaster

-Global Network Administration

DragonierMan accepts the mission. Please provide the coordinates.

DragonierMan- We have informed Yasu of your acceptance, as well as your other companions waiting at the mission site. Please follow the attached coordinates. Good luck.

-Global Network Administration

*Coordinates.DAT attached*

((Topic can be found here!))

Entered the building.

Mission Request for a first SP Core for Nightshade.EXE (DragonierMan.EXE and co. accompanying, requesting standard rewards). --DragonierMan.

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Greetings, DragonierMan-

Please see the below mission posting from the Neo-Shogun Empire and respond if you accept or would like to seek another opportunity.

-Global Network Administration

Quote (Yasu)

Well met, DragonierMan. We have another mission that could use your unique qualifications.

Our client, SafariMan, has asked for Neo-Shogun representatives representing the Chinese Zodiac, to join them on a hunting expedition... I cannot fathom their reasoning for such a request. Perhaps they are just lonesome. At any rate, with some coaxing, we have managed to get Roc to agree to participate. I figure that you can go fill the role of dragon and I'm sure your partner can find a way to fit one creature or another. It seems like a rather asinine requirement to me, but they're footing the whole bill for your rewards and then some, including funding for the empire, so that's good enough for me.

It sounds like your mission will be routine virus hunting in the wilds of Netfrica. I can only apologize that there is not something more intriguing to offer you. Perhaps the normalcy will be a welcome relief after the odd tasks we often put you on. These things never turn out quite the way they look at first blush, so I would recommend you stay on your guard. I'm going to send some extra back-up. Pest will be patrolling the sky to keep an eye on things. Feel free to communicate with Roc and Pest throughout.

If you feel this is beneath you, let me know. I'm sure we can scrape together something else for you to do.

-The Sky-Severing Ronin, Natural Blademaster, First General Yasu

DragonierMan accepts the mission.

When Nightshade accepts the mission, please provide the coordinates.

Nightshade.Rx Accepting the mission!

DragonierMan, Nightshade-

We have informed the client of your acceptance. The attached coordinates will take you to the meetup point in Netfrica Net.

-Global Network Administration

*Coordinates.DAT attached*

Mission Start!

Mission End!

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DragonierMan, Suzume, and a sleeping Pest appeared in one of the waiting rooms near the Neo-Shogunate mission request counters. Suzume lay Pest out on a nearby couch while DragonierMan approached a terminal to log the completion of the mission. Then they waited for Aya and Nightshade to get back.

Although Nightshade hadn't shown up yet, the receptionist at the counter was willing to see DragonierMan regardless. "DragonierMan? I recognized you. We've received word that your mission was a success. We have rewards ready for you and your companion," the receptionist navi spoke up, waving him over. "Although... I guess that's not Nightshade. We'll have the reward ready for him, though. If you'd like, we can let your superior, General Yasu, know her subordinate is here for pickup. Don't worry: this is a neutral zone, nobody can do anything to her here."

((Nightshade gets: SP core, 6000z, WyrmEgg1Damage: 110 + Ground Attack + Phasing + Homing
Accuracy: C
Description: A fire-attuned snake slithers across the field, hunting for an enemy.
Duration: Once
Element: Fire
Trader Rank: D x1, 40 bugfrags))
((DragonierMan gets: 12,000 zenny, ThunderBeam3Damage: 120 + Seeking x 3 Targets
Accuracy: A
Description: Shoots three beams of electricity at three different enemies. Pierces Invis.
Duration: Once
Element: Elec
Trader Rank: B x1, MetaGel2Damage: 130 + Slow + Drop Attack x 3 Targets
Accuracy: B
Description: Summons three Metagels to drop down on three different opponents. Causes Slow on contact.
Duration: Once
Element: Aqua
Special: Drop Attack: This attack originates above the battlefield, and falls to the ground. It gains one rank of accuracy against High Altitude targets.
Trader Rank: C x1, 20 faction points, 100 bugfrags))

((FXP to come tomorrow))

And in that precise moment, a cat-dragonier hybrid comes crashing down the door, which had been promptly exploded open, sliding face first all the way to the counter, stopping with a faint thud once his helmet hit the wood of the table. One claw poked out from down below, wigglign left and right.

"MADE IT!" He squealed at the top of his lungs, slightly out of breath.

The hybrid was back on his feet paws rather quickly. "Ayashade reporting for duty!" The navi chimed, more at Drago than the receptionist. If anything, he seemed more intrested in his "dad's" attention more than the rewards themselves. His tail sure was going a mile an hour.

DragonierMan looked up from the console, before he did much on it, as the receptionist flagged him down. He walked over to the counter with a nod. "Then please inform General Yasu about the situation and arrange a pickup." It was then that Ayashade came crashing through the door. Drago's head spun to look at the door, his body following the movement. He blinked before calling over his shoulder at the receptionist. "But tell her not to hurry. It looks like we will be here a while."

Drago then stepped forward toward Ayashade with a discerning frown on his face. Suzume looked up from tending to Pest, and did a double take, before noticing Aya sheathed on his belt. "Well, we completed our mission. How did it go on your end?" Drago!Dad asked. "I noticed Aya has equipped herself to you. Seems like you ran into quite the trouble if she went that far."

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The young navi hopped up on his clawed feet and stretched. "Wasn't too bad. We had to deal with alot of weird clones, a teleporter and Bull Lady." He replied, still gleefully enjoying his fusion with Aya. As a matter of fact, one could tell he was very proud of the armor he was wearing just by the confident pose he was in.

"No big deal though. We were wayyyy too strong for those guys. It was weird at first, having big sis inside my head. You know. Sharing thoughts and all. But now that my body has accustomed to Aya's code, we are beyond strong!" It was at that moment that the hybrid noticed Suzume staring at them. He waved at her, chuckling.

Returning his gaze to what he now considered his dad, the little feline navi drew Aya in a flash, showing Drago his proficiency with a weapon he had never really used before. Aya's presence was obviously still strong within him. In all honesty, Nighty would have guessed that his sister code was so deeply rooted in his own to have reached his core by now. Or something similar anyway.

"We...we're about 50/50. I mean. I'm still me, but I also kinda feel myself acting a bit more like big sis Aya. It happens alot in combat, but that's not a bad thing at all!" He reassured, wagging his tail at his dad. By now Nighty was already craving for the older navi's undivided attention. He sure wouldnt mind some hugs.

"In the end...this is nice. Feels nice, looks nice." Ayashade concluded,placing a hand over his chest,where the dragonier insignia was engraved in purple on his shiny black armor. He returned his weapon to its sheath.

"I was even able to turn into a dragon! Sure my dragon form isn't as big as yours, but it's a start. Besides, we accomplished our side of the mission efficiently and without problems. Pretty sure Safariman will think twice before messing with us again."

It seemed that the navi quite enjoyed his new Dragonier heritage. He twirled on his heels to give Drago a good look at him. "So? Are you proud of us, dad?" Nighty asked, really eager to just jump at Drago for cuddles yet Aya's influence keeping him from doing so due to her discipline.

"Man I can't wait to see big sis Magistrate's face when she sees us." Ayashade snickered.