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june ii event results
EPISODE 4: Duels in Duet? Unlocking the Secret Stage!
June 23 - June 30
TIMELINE
6/23-6/30 Aquarium Cleanup & Midnight Diner
6/23 Investigate: Shelley Lustre
6/25 Investigate: Track & Trace
6/27 Investigate: Duet 77
6/30 Showdown: Amplitudina

Aquarium Cleanup Hope Mutsumi Natalia Jamil	Midnight Diner Natalia Mutsumi Dirk Maya Jamil	Investigate: Shelley Lustre Maya Mutsumi
Investigate: Track & Trace Dirk Natalia	Investigate: Duet 77 Maya Mutsumi	Showdown: Amplitudina Hope Dirk

aquarium cleanup
Hope - 5
Mutsumi - 15
Natalia - 4
Jamil - 17
+1 SP to Hope, Mutsumi, Natalia & Jamil
Well, you guys sure did try! Hope and Natalia managed to damage one of the glass panels along the walls, so that'll need to be fixed before you can think about what fish you'd like to fill it with. Jamil and Mutsumi got the filtration system up and running, though the room could still use a little cleaning...

midnight diner
Natalia - 14
Mutsumi - 6
Dirk - 4
Maya - 11
Jamil - 5
+1 SP to Natalia, Mutsumi, Dirk, Maya & Jamil
Great job, everyone! While you all enjoyed (or didn't) your meals at the Midnight Diner, Nautis comes away from the experience very much not enlightened.

Midnight Diner order results

Natalia: Although Master isn't equipped for any of the ritual aspects of preparing beshbarmak, he does manage to make a decent single-serving approximation of the dish with a mix of beef and mutton and some hand-cut flat noodles. Even if it doesn't taste like home, Master clearly put plenty of effort into it.
Mutsumi: Master takes Mutsumi's cucumbers and makes them into dainty little cucumber-and-cream cheese sandwiches with the crusts sliced off.
Dirk: Master serves Dirk a plate of hardboiled eggs, cut in half for ease of serving. He includes a small dish of soy sauce for dipping just in case Dirk wants something to go with them.
Maya: Master serves up an open tin of Atlacian sardines in oil and a few pieces of warm, hard-crusted bread. She also gets a heaping bowl of hot noodles in a spicy pork broth.
Jamil: Curry is a popular order at the Midnight Diner, and Jamil gets a plate of rice with an exquisitely seasoned curry. It might not be fancy rich people fare, but nothing beats homestyle comfort food.

library: shelving project (june i)
Natalia - 18
Mutsumi - 4
Jamil - 18
Cynthia - 18
Kalim - 11

Book search results

Natalia: Found a magical primer as well as a small encyclopedia set on Hassalean communications technology.
Mutsumi: She did not find any more picture books, but she did find a book full of genuinely terrifying monster tales.
Jamil: Located a hand-bound volume detailing the ways various ship systems have registered or reacted to the Abyss. The author is listed as Delia Vale, the captain of the Nashira. It seems to have been written less than a year before the final battle.
Cynthia: Found a detailed training manual for combat on flying mounts, with an emphasis on how to balance and maneuver while fighting with melee weapons in aerial combat.
Kalim: Stumbled upon a dry and clinical volume on Hassalean birds. Although the book isn't as accessible to the layperson, the hand-drawn illustrations sure are colorful!

investigate: shelley lustre
TEAM: Maya & Mutsumi
Roll 1: Gain new information about the Harbingers - FAIL
Roll 2: Follow Shelley undetected - FAIL
Now that the Nova Knights know that Shelley Lustre is actually Prince Shellustria, they have the advantage in intelligence gathering. Maya and Mutsumi try tailing him one day, but he picks up on it before they have a chance to learn anything new. Although they successfully escape being captured, Harbingers now have a lot more information on the Nova Knights' magic — especially Maya's.
+2 SP to Maya & Mutsumi

investigate: track & trace
TEAM: Dirk & Natalia
Roll 1: Discover the identity of the hacker - SUCCEED
Roll 2: Don't attract the attention of the enemy - FAIL
Nautis has traced the source of the intruding signal to a particular neighborhood in the city, but there's some kind of interference that prevents her from pinpointing its exact location. Their newly-upgraded dowsing machines lead them to Random Access Lock & Key and its owner York, whose primary occupation is as a hacker for hire with a checkered military past. Once she finds out about the nature of the work she's been hired to do — and the fact that Chalra City has its very own magic superheroes fighting evil by starlight — she's more than happy to call off the job and help the Nova Knights out instead. They seem like good kids.

Unfortunately, making contact with York alone seems to tip off the enemy, and they send Abyssal monsters to attack in short order. There is one upshot to being exposed, however: they learn that the magic behind the monsters isn't Glamour domain, but Dream domain, meaning that a Harbinger other than Shellustria must have sent them.
+2 SP to Dirk & Natalia

investigate: duet 777
TEAM: Maya, Mutsumi & Natalia
Roll 1: Gain information about the enemy - SUCCEED
Roll 2: Unlock the Secret Stage - SUCCEED
Maya, Mutsumi, and Natalia have an absolute bangin' karaoke session, during which they discover that the provided microphones are actually harvesting the energy of the people singing into them — the more passionate, the better! Since karaoke is a pretty tiring activity on its own, it hasn't been as suspicion-raising as previous energy harvesting plots.

And when all three of them sing together, they inadvertently unlock the Secret Stage: a pocket dimension where the harvested energy is being stored, fiercely guarded by the monster Amplitudina. She closes off the pocket dimension before they can get into a proper fight, but now the Nova Knights know how it works, and they can come back more prepared another day.
+2 SP to Maya, Mutsumi & Natalia

showdown: amplitudina
TEAM: Hope & Dirk
Roll 1: Defeat Amplitudina - SUCCEED
Roll 2: Minimize injuries & mitigate collateral damage - SUCCEED
Using their newfound intel to unlock the Secret Stage, Hope and Dirk venture into the pocket dimension to fight Amplitudina, an eight-foot-tall monster whose vaporwave silhouette resembles some kind of techno-angel, with a circle of magical guitar amps rotating behind her like arcane wings. A shiny opaque visor covers the top half of her face, displaying waveforms when she speaks, and when she sings into her magic microphone, it deals actual psychic damage.

But Hope and Dirk absolutely crush it. Whether by Star Suite magic or just plain badassery, not only do they defeat Amplitudina, they manage to come out relatively unscathed...as does Duet 77, much to the relief of its troubled and confused owner! After defeating Amplitudina, the pocket dimension collapses in on itself, but Hope and Dirk are able to mitigate the magical blowback as well.

It seems the supplier of the sound system — who seems to have mysteriously vanished — was the one behind the energy harvesting plot, rather than the owner. So the day is saved, and karaoke is here to stay!
+ 3 SP to Hope & Dirk

summary/aftermath
It's another eventful month for the Nova Knights, but at least all eight of them come home at the end of it. The Aquarium is looking a lot better, but there are still some repairs that will need to be made before they can fill it with fish. The Midnight Diner has hosted most of the Nova Knights this week — perhaps some of them will even become regulars. Master's little hole in the wall is never less than anything welcoming.

Maya and Mutsumi's attempt to learn more about Shelley Lustre fails, with the Harbingers gaining further information about the Nova Knights' magic — especially Glimmer's, since they already have considerable data on her from her time in the Abyss. This doesn't mean their cover is totally blown, but now that Shellustria knows his secret identity has been compromised, future investigation attempts will be more difficult.

Dirk and Natalia successfully identify York, the owner of Random Access Lock & Key, as the hacker for hire who ran into Nautis's security protocols. She was hired by a mysterious employer to look into any security around Lucky Stars Arcade as what she thought was a pretty run-of-the-mill security probe, but it turns out one of the Harbingers must have employed her in order to trace the source of the signal that Nautis broadcast into the Abyss. And how did a run-of-the-mill hacker like York dig deep enough to run into the magic supercomputer's security layers? Well, she's not quite as run-of-the-mill as she seems at first blush, considering she's got an AI named Delta in a neural implant, and while neither of them is magical, combined they're apparently skilled enough to find Nautis — which was, it seems, what the Harbingers were counting on.

Once York discovers just what she's been hired to do and by whom, she's more than happy to help the Nova Knights instead of the bad guys trying to dominate their planet. However, the mere appearance of the Nova Knights seems to tip off the enemy, and they're soon attacked by Abyssal monsters that look like mechanical shrimp, each about the size of your hand. They may be small, but there's strength in numbers: let enough of them swarm you at once, and they'll temporarily short out any technology — mundane and magical — with some kind of magical EMP attack. Using their dowsing machines, Nautis is able to determine that the Harbinger who sent the techno shrimp must be someone other than Shellustria, as the magic is of the Dream domain.

York seems to have a checkered and experimental military background, but she's not divulging any details beyond that, and knowledge of both her presence in this city and Delta's existence is on strict lockdown. She'll keep their secret as long as they keep hers.

Duet 77 turns out to be perfectly normal (and rad as hell) karaoke joint cursed with a bad sound system supplier after the Nova Knights' investigation: the provided microphones are (rather more subtly) capturing the excited energy of karaoke singers and channeling to a pocket dimension known as the Secret Stage. Maya, Mutsumi, and Natalia figure out how to unlock the Secret Stage, where the Abyssal monster Amplitudina guards the stolen energy. Hope and Dirk return to Duet 77 for a showdown, and not only do they defeat Amplitudina, they destroy the pocket dimension where the energy was harvested and make sure no real harm comes to the establishment or the people inside it.

Now that Duet 77 is replacing its sound system with something much less...sinister...all is well, and the people of Chalra City are safe once again! (For now.)

+6 SP	Mutsumi Natalia Dirk
+5 SP	Maya
+4 SP	Hope
+2 SP	Jamil

Please comment if you have any questions! The event log will have a top level for each limited mission, and if you're curious, here are the rolls for this event. All rolls are d20 unless noted otherwise, and the skill ratings of 1-4 are converted into modifiers of -1 to 2. Other modifiers such as the headcount for each mission, combat type, and eclipse are added to the total modifier.

Don't forget to take down your new SP! As of this post, event SP is immediately granted and you can go hit up the rewards page if you so choose.

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