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Corrupted Water [Mission] [5/5]
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Post by Doyle Brothers on Nov 1, 2017 9:36:11 GMT
Mission Info thread here
Whitewater Harbor was in a pretty bad state these days. Mainly because with the threat looming upon the Macro Ocean, the harbor was full of ships that dare not risk the journey out to sea. Their crews filled the local inns, their cargo stowed aboard to rot and become worthless. Things were in a terrible state right now, and as the councillor in charge of the ports of Whitewater, Pandamon was in a state of distress these days. It would take the arrival of one more ship that would raise his spirits. Not just any ship though. The craft said to be the fastest ship of the seas - a corvette class vessel simply named the S.S. Chutzpah. And, lo and behold, there it was, at last. With its arrival, perhaps this whole situation could be rectified? Pandamon certainly hoped so. Before long, the corvette moored at a low wharf. There, its crew disembarked. Pandamon was slightly surprised to see that its crew consisted of a variety of digimon. The only Champion was an Orcamon - the rest were rookies. Koemon, Flamon, Alraumon, Psychemon, Shamamon, Strabimon, Dracmon and Veemon. Then, a final digimon disembarked, humming a song that probably originated from the humans. This was a digimon that Pandamon had never seen before - a small masked digimon covered with purple armor and armed with a gun bigger than he was. "Ah, you must be our greeting ceremony" he said, noticing Pandamon with his one eye, the other seemed to be covered by a lens of sorts. Pandamon at once tensed up. Was he offended by the lack of other digimon here? Pandamon was about to apologize before the digimon waved a hand dismissively. "Eh, nevermind. Our ship's so fast we obviously got here before you could set up"."Er, yes, that seems to be the case" Pandamon said, seizing at the excuse. "Pardon me for asking, but you are Captain... Scorpmon?" "Scopemon" the digimon corrected him. "Yeah, that's us, sir. Captain Scopemon and the S.S. Chutzpah, in service of the Whitewater Council's pleasure".Pandamon noticed that Scopemon sounded slightly drunk, but didn't wish to displease him by commenting so. However, his awkward expression didn't go unnoticed. "Yeah, I can see that you think my crew's a bit unusual" Scopemon continued, waving an arm to indicate them. "All for perfectly valid reasons. You see, I only accept digimon with opposable thumbs for the most part. But, by sheer coincidence, none of us can swim a stroke. Except for Alraumon here, but unfortunately sea water poisons her. So in the end I had to get a first mate that could swim and who better than an Orcamon?""Yes, quite" Pandamon said. "Well then, welcome to Whitewater. It appears you've arrived before the human volunteers, so, would you like-""That pub there looks alright, let's go there" Scopemon said, pointing to a nearby tavern. Pandamon sweatdropped. "Tell the humans to meet us there will yah? We clearly don't have much time and several of us might die out there so, best drink our fill beforehand eh?"He didn't wait for permission, immediately walking the crew over to the pub. Pandamon sighed. Well, Scopemon was the only volunteer for this mission, so, he supposed he'd best accommodate these digimon as well as possible.
OOC: You would have received notification of this mission over your D-Terminals, in which you would have expressed interest in performing this mission. The time is morning, and we'll meet up in a Whitewater pub for the briefing.
Tag: @oboro05 , vating , Ayaka and Coolmon , darkblade , tetsu
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Post by darkblade on Nov 1, 2017 23:14:48 GMT
Whatever this force was, it should have known better than to mess with Whitewater.
That was Iko's thought when he first heard of the news of a weird, inky hole growing far off the shore off the city. It had been the talk of the town over several days, in greatly varied form: from blaming the oil rig bigwigs to notices about sharp pains when entering the water, to even claims of some kind of wild pirate haphazardly throwing cannonballs out into the ocean. And, against all odds, the last of those claims seemed to be the one that held the most weight.
For Iko, it was a matter of protecting the city.
For Dr. Mikemon, it was a matter of seeing just what kind of data that weird black 'ink' was made of. And after a little discussion, the three of them - Luke included - decided to take on this task together, with whoever else would show up for this literal dive of a mission.
"Ah, that must be our cue." Feeling the D-Terminal vibrate in his pocket, Luke checked the message: "'The Rusty Whamon', huh?"
"Tch... that place is just a dive." Iko, in his champion form, just gave a shrug. "Well, its not our job to judge their taste in alcohol."
"Still going to do it, though." Mikemon rolled his eyes, Luke just a touch lost as the two spun on that line of conversation. The three of them made their way to the outskirts of Whitewater, far along the coast, to the murky bar at the end of the wharf. With the scent of 'fishing dock' freshly in their nostrils, Iko pressed his way into the bar, his shoulder pushing through the door as the other two slipped in. Scopemon, right? The Digimon that looked like it was made of guns? Easy enough to find, and it seemed that they were the first to approach!
"Yo." The wolf gave a small wave. "Iko and Luke. We shot you our number last week."
"Mikemon." The cat gave a nod, giving a thumb over his shoulder, pointing at Luke. "Merc for them today."
"So, what all's the plan here?" Clearly, the three didn't add swimming to the table, but at least it was another few sets of hands!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2017 7:36:12 GMT
Gomamon had taken Oboro to Whitewater once again. He kept trying to coax his Tamer back out into the water now that he could reach the Ultimate level, but the boy seemed to be disagreeable. The only reason they were in town today was because they had recieved a request for assistance. Apparently the corruption they had faced in the desert had spread to other areas of the Digital World. Gomamon had at least a little knowledge of the subject, and the affected area seemed to fit his specific set of skills, so he convinced Oboro to come along and help.
They reached the designated meeting place, but weren't sure who to look for. Gomamon looked around and settled on a pair of Digimon, Scopemon and Pandamon, that were nearby. "Hey," he said calmly. "I'm guessing you're the ones that we're looking for about this mission?"
Oboro was relieved to see another human nearby for some reason. He hoped that Tetsu and Gryz would make an appearance, but figured that they might still be off on their own. The tag and crest around his neck weighed heavy on him as he remembered their last adventure together. He didn't really want to be there in the first place, so he stayed quiet and let Gomamon handle the talking.
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Post by Ayaka and Coolmon on Nov 6, 2017 3:08:14 GMT
Well, it was a really nice day out and it sure was SALTY in the air. Didn't seem to affect Coolmon too much, however. She approached the pub she was very specifically instructed to go towards and, with an adjustment of her headphones and her scarf, eased herself.
This was it.
Don't screw this up.
It took all of five seconds for Coolmon to utterly ditch that and just run into the pub and to where she swore the meeting point was at.
Coincidentially, she ran to Scopemon and Pandamon. "...Hi. This for the mission?"
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Post by vating on Nov 7, 2017 12:27:00 GMT
Getting down to the Whitewater Harbor for some job had been a bit of a trip. Timothy had driven down there before, so that was rather easy. It took him an hour or two before he got to his destination a few minutes late. He skidded to a stop, dedigitized his bike, and clicked a button on his Digivice to release the twins.
The trio walked into the pub and headed over to the gathering of humans and Digimon. It looked like it was gonna be a little crowded this time around... No matter, just means that it'll be harder and probably worth more as well. "Hey, we're here for the mission?"
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Post by tetsushi on Nov 11, 2017 10:16:39 GMT
Another corrupted mission. For Gryz, he had told Tetsu that he's fine... and this time around, the corruption wouldn't affect him all that much, or so he promised. The duo currently going to designated place. It's the harbor apparently, or at least, somewhere near there. The designated place was a tavern. Gryz goes there on his usual Gryzmon form. Having corrupted by the last corrupted mission, he has now undergone a rather drastic physical change. His fur become far grizzlier and his claws also looking slightly more wicked. Perhaps to also to get in the mood, Tetsu changed his clothes to fit the bear. He wears vest with sleeveless shirt and long jeans that got ripped on the sides in claw-mark like manner. He also cut his slightly longer hair to shorter one. Gryz found this pretty funny, but said nothing further. If he's fine being like that, then he would be fine with it too.
"Leeet's see, what's the name? SS. Chutzpah? What name is that?" Tetsu muttered.
"Apparently it means gutsy."
...And gutsy indeed had he know that the guys cannot even swim an inch. The bear entered first, followed by the boy. Looks like he's the last to came. He's not surprised to see Oboro and Gomamon here, though. But he can't say he know the other save for the Coolmon from before. Would she know that it is him, the same Bearmon from before?
"Shishidou Tetsushi and Gryz," the bear introduced themselves. "Pardon for our lateness. We were coming from Rustport."
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Post by Doyle Brothers on Nov 12, 2017 0:41:23 GMT
It was remarkable that Scopemon hadn't been to the Rusty Whamon before, this place was perfect! Or, if he had been here before, he had probably drunk a bit too much. However, none of his crew recognized it so he probably hadn't been.
Nonetheless, the crew was aware of how dangerous the voyage ahead was, and wasted no time drinking their fill with grog. Scopemon didn't tell them off for that, he understood that the boys needed it to put a dampener on their fears.
To Scopemon's delight, the drink was delicious. "Ha! Best ale I've had since Rustport!" he commented.
"Captain, how did you get a ship all the way over to Rustport?" a Veemon crewmember asked, his voice slurring a little.
"Well it's a bloody port isn't it?" Scopemon scoffed. "Dunno why they'd call it a port if there wasn't water nearby".
He turned to see some humans beginning to arrive. "Aha! Look alive, boys, our esteemed digidestined have arrived!".
The crew simply raised their glasses at the arriving humans, although Scopemon would be the one to talk to them properly.
"Ah, Captain, these ones has been with us the whole time" a Koemon said, pointing at Oboro and Gomamon. Scopemon blinked at him.
"...sorry about that young man, I thought you were a Flamon" Scopemon apologized, only now talking to him even though Oboro and Gomamon had apparently met them on the wharf. After everyone had made their introductions, one of the many lenses on Scopemon's body lit up with light, and he pointed it at a bare part of the pub wall - projecting a map of the area onto it.
"Straight to the point then, lads" he said. "...and young lady" he added in regards to Cutemon's presence. "Our mission will take us from Whitewater to these coordinates here" he then added a laser pointer to the mix, directing it from Whitewater to a spot of open sea, marked with a black "X".
"Not to frighten you off or anything, but I'm not going to lie that this mission's gonna be a doozy" he continued. "So far any ship - sea or air has been shot down in approaching this area by a Frigate sized vessel, and worse still it's corrosive underwater too, so we haven't been able to shoot it with a submarine. Our only choice is to take that delightful Corvette you may have seen moored at the wharf over there and take that bastard as fast as we can".
Scopemon was the type of digimon that simply got to the point. He also wasn't a very good public speaker, evidently.
"I've heard that a few of you have dealt with a situation like this before in the Flatlands, yes?" he glanced at Tetsu and Oboro. "Mind sharing your experiences with it to the rest of the class?" he prompted, hoping to hear more from those that had actually seen this kind of corruption.
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Post by darkblade on Nov 12, 2017 22:09:26 GMT
Well, it didn't take long for the rest of the group to get here. For the first few moments, though, Scopemon seemed rather distracted to each of their original introductions, instead enamored by the swill that this bar provided. Well, it gave them a chance to look over the rest of the team as they approached, and a couple of them made Luke raise an eyebrow.
For example, a ten-or-something kid with a Gomamon? A pink bunny who didn't seem intimidating at all? And despite the group gathering, all of them seemed to introduce themselves to the Scopemon quite directly. The overly formal air didn't fit in well with the bar scene at all, causing Iko to sigh, scratching the back of his head. "If this keeps up, I'm going to need a drink..."
"Oh, just roll with it." Luke returned a mutter, just giving a shrug. Fortunately, the Scopemon finally addressed the group as a whole, first directing the group to observe a map - to a black 'X' in the middle of the water. There were no islands, major routes, and as far as the Mikemon could tell, no previously-important underwater currents in the area. Why this spot in particular was selected seemed highly random...
... Which made it even more curious of why it was being so harshly defended! Hearing the situation, the wolf gave a nod. Mikemon, however, rolled his eyes: "Or you could take a Blimpmon and drop in from above." Hindsight was twenty-twenty after all - it had its own risks but those things were quite armored in their own right!
But that wasn't the strangest thing - this had happened before? Hearing that, Luke spoke up: "Wait, this is a repeated occurrence, and someone's already defending it? Wouldn't focusing our efforts on capturing the frigate get a lot more answers than simply blowing by it?"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2017 23:32:50 GMT
Oboro grinned as Tetsu approached, and wasn't the least bit concerned by their sudden change in appearance. He was just happy to see that they were alright after their last adventure together. "Hey!" he grinned, greeting his friend. Any other normal person would probably feel annoying, but Oboro knew not of social etiquette.
Gomamon, meanwhile, had to listen intently to Scopemon, since Oboro was already off in his own little world. He explained the mission well enough, then turned to those who had been in the Flatlands during the prior incident.
"Yes," he confirmed. "My partner and I were in the ruins and helped to clear the corruption in that area. We just happened to be in the area, and didn't get all of the specifics, but I vaguely remember a core in the deepest part of the ruins putting out all the corruption. When we destroyed it, everything cleared up well enough." He looked relaxed as he spoke, but recalling that fight was rather unpleasant for some reason. He looked over to Gryz, who had just arrived. "My friend there could probably tell you more about it."
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Post by Ayaka and Coolmon on Nov 13, 2017 1:15:09 GMT
Coolmon didn't really say much. That was mainly because she was listening in. To everyone. Scopemon, Oboro...Everyone. So. "...I mean I could use one too before we get going. Walk here made me a little thirsty." She mumbled. She gave a nod and a wave to...Gryz? And Tetsu.
She remembered.
She remembered very well. Her friends. That made this a little easier. "So...Is that core gonna be in the ship too...?" Coolmon wondered.
This was so weird...But she felt like she could handle it. Something in her told her she could. "How do we plan on getting that small ship in there, too?" She felt like that had already been covered.
All in all she just waited to hear the rest of people's questions. Maybe she could learn.
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Post by vating on Nov 19, 2017 5:29:23 GMT
((Sprry about the wait, school is destroying me atm))
So they were gonna have to board this Frigate to solve the problem. That sounded doable at least, but seeing as everyone was now drinking, and scared out of their lives, it probably wasn't as doable as he thought. He decided that if this was where he was gonna die, he was at least gonna scratch chugging down some alchohol off his bucket list.
He motioned to the bartender to give him some ale. While waiting for it, he'd listen in on what else they needed to know. They were riding a corvette at this frigate in hopes of him successfully. They couldn't attack by underwater because they'd die. They couldn't attack by air because they'd die. They also were risking a lot by attacking by boat because that's just as dangerous.
He looked over to Mikemon suggesting a Blimpmon, shaking his head, "Attacking by air is already confirmed, remember, attacks by air failed already." Timothy leaned back and continued on, "Alright, so what's the plan to getting there?"
The two birdbrains sat in their respective chairs, Faluo to Timothy's left, and Bibi to Timothy's right. Neither of them were really doing much right now. Bibi was just looking around, ignoring the whole situation. Faluo was listening, but not throwing in any input just yet. Timothy cleared his thoughts for now.
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Post by tetsushi on Nov 19, 2017 8:13:52 GMT
"Ah yeah, Corrupted Earth," Gryz commented, "and now Corrupted Water, Homeostasis have mercy. Acid water, now that's just charming... Tetsu, do you want to explain whatever happened to us in that mission?"
"Right, I guess I should explain." Then again, he was rather curious where does the captain heard, but then again, there is that Pandamon... Might heard that from the Coredramon. "Alright, so... you people, this mission is called Corrupted exactly for that reason. Everything here is corrupted, down to the digimons, down to the field. Acidic water was part of it... but I guess you can guess that easily... I don't suggest to bring a Digimon that can be easily corrupted or you will..." Tetsu trailed off a bit, but Gryz finished it by showing his own marks. He was slightly different than other Gryzmon. Let's say, more grizzled, wilder looking, and looked sinister.
"......Or you'll be like Gryz, I guess. He got corrupted in Corrupted Earth, luckily not fully."
Still, the Mikemon suggested that they should just dropped by Blimpmon or something. "The guy over there is right," Tetsu quipped. "It failed, and said to be failed. But even if it's not failed, I can testify that it most likely will fail. If Corrupted Earth is anything to go by, the barrier that protected the corrupted core is too strong. Most likely we'll die before we could reach it."
The guy that came with the Mikemon instead suggested for capture. Tetsu once again shook his head. "...Capturing it... would prove to be more harmful more than good, I think. These thing corrupts everything around it. Digimons, Digital Stuff... what's worse is that this thing apparently rather sentient. The corrupted core have guardians too. As long as there are Digimon around it--no, as long as there is data around it, they would be able to produce more and more guardian to guard it."
Coolmon asked if the core will be there. "...At least in our case, it was in a construct," Tetsu answered. "It was a temple, and yes, it hosted the core. So high case that the core is in the ship, just like the one back then."
"...Also take caution," Gryz interrupted "...that if you got corrupted, and become that core's minion, if you die, you die permanently. I have no idea how effective my healing is now that I'm in semi corrupted state... but let's hope it's strong enough.-- oh, right, yeah, healing apparently is effective to reduce corruption, or at least, it is effective in our case in corrupted earth."
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Post by Doyle Brothers on Nov 20, 2017 8:11:11 GMT
As the drinks were served, Scopemon's eye turned to the Mikemon that suggested the use of a Blimpmon. "Tried before, matehundred. A Blimpmon evolution in fact. Poor bugger was almost shot down into the sea if it weren't for some miracle that evolved him, according to reports from Pandamon here".
"Yes. Colin James of PROFIT submitted a recon report of their attempts to approach this site by air" Pandamon said, having been silent through proceedings so far. "He claimed that the vessel survived both a strike at the Super Mega level, and shot at his AirVessemon mercenary, almost destroying him".
"But the key part of that recon report was that the shots weren't entirely accurate to start with" Scopemon continued. "First hit was a glancing blow, second hit would've caused fatalities if they hadn't moseyed out of there, took three hits on a 75x40m target to take him down".
Scopemon then looked to the human. "Of course we're gonna capture the bloody frigate. We're not simply going on a recon mission here" he said. "That's why I've hired you lot. But the corrupted core... it has to be destroyed. No ifs or buts".
There was then a bit of silence from Scopemon and co as Oboro and Tetsu explained what happened at the Corrupted Temple. Scopemon glanced at Gryz for his more wild form and noted it. It seemed it could turn a digimon's data quite nasty indeed.
"And there you have it" Scopemon said to the group. "The corrupted core sounds to me like that thing you humans call "cancer". It has to be destroyed or it'll keep on spreading until the whole sea is this corrupted filth. And us digimon seem to be most vulnerable to it, so..." he turned to the four humans in his company. "Seems like this is definitely something you guys will be needed for in this particular quest". He glanced at Coolmon. "And your efforts are most appreciated too" he added. "I'm not joking or anything, you're a Cutemon right? You can heal?"
Hopefully if that were the case, she'd be useful in that regard.
Gryz's interruption meanwhile was interrupted in turn by Pandamon. "I'm not entirely sure if that particular part is confirmed" he said. "I've heard rumours of a similar thing happening in the Tyrant's Labyrinth, but, it's unconfirmed if the corrupted digimon encountered there have been permanently erased, but yes, it would be best not to risk it".
"However if a corrupted bugger's trying to eat your face off, don't give them any quarter" Scopemon advised. Then he turned to Coolmon again. "Not sure where this core is. It could be in the ship? Or in the sea below. Either way, only way we'll find out is if we succeed".
Then Coolmon asked how they'd get the ship in there. At this, Scopemon gladly changed the projection to a new diagram. "We'll get that ship in there because it's the best damn ship in the world" he declared, showing the SS-Chutzpah's schematics on the wall. "Her beam is only 13m, and her height's only 6m above the waterline. As long as we head at that thing head-on, we should be able to punch through. I assume some of you have good defensive techniques?" he glanced at the hired crew.
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Post by darkblade on Nov 20, 2017 23:13:11 GMT
'Blimpmon was a no-go! Air wouldn't work!'
Even as those points hit the Mikemon's ears, the doctor's expression didn't change much - he simply folded his arms as Timothy and Tetsu explained. Actually, he seemed more interested in the description of the source itself - some kind of 'core'? Actually, it seemed like quite a few here already had an idea of what they were dealing with, and the Gryzmon itself was already corrupted by the core! It was this last fact that caught the Mikemon's attention, his focus settling on the side of the bear.
Before the cat could comment, though, Scopemon and Pandamon would address the group as a whole. Apparently air wasn't the way to go - Of course its going to go that way if you use a single vessel - but the mission itself was the same. Blitz through, destroy the core, capture the boat. Luke nodded at the boat's specs, the engineer perhaps one of the few in the group who could understand it! "Heh, sounds good to me!"
"Going by water, I'm sure we can piece together some sort of defense. Though it looks like we'll have to do a run of the frigate anyway to see of the core's there. Oh, Gryz, right?" Iko nodded. "Good ol' Doctor Mikemon here's an expert on corruption, so he might be able to-"
"It's not corruption." Mikemon's sudden word caused Luke to blink. "Wait... how can you just say that so certainly? That core turning the ocean to a vat of acid isn't corrupting it?"
"If a program's doing what it's intended to do, would you call it corrupted?" The Mikemon's challenge brought a pause from the tamer, before the cat would continue: "I've been examining Gryzmon's data ever since he brought it up. The affliction's too consistent, too 'intentional' to call corruption. Carelessly going by that's going to draw the wrong experts. No, 'Blighted' is a far better way to put it."
"Well," Iko shrugged! "Interesting, doc, but it really doesn't change the matter at hand, right?" And to that, the Mikemon smirked: "Well, not really. Now I'm glad I tagged along!"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2017 6:03:46 GMT
Oboro was a little bummed that Tetsu and Gryz barely even noticed him, but figured that they were just more focused on the mission than he was. He quickly got back to the task at hand, returning to Gomamon's side.
"I have a few slight defensive capabilities," Gomamon admitted, "but nothing too extensive." He answered the captain's questions amicably enough, but rather wished they'd just get on with it. Just standing around talking about things was a surefire way of losing Oboro's interest entirely, and without his Tamer he wouldn't be much help.
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