destinystrings | THE AGE OF AQUARIUS - ASTROLOGY BOSS BATTLE [CLOSED]

"Are you their boss?" Cause he seemed to be the one leading things, as far as they were concerned. "You don't smell very demonic..."

Sarah takes a small metal disc out of an inner pocket of her coat and starts rolling it over knuckles, making sure to very conspicuously incorporate the set of four spikes growing backward from her hand into the routine.

"Actually, I'm the boss. He's just better at talking."

"That's right! And I'm, um..."

Oh god, why did she start talking.

"...I'm here to write the report!"

One of the slimes coughs.

"Where's your paper and pen to write it?"

Atsuro rolls his eyes in an exaggerated manner.

"I'm the one who presents as human so the guards think we're intruders and you'll respond accordingly. She's from one of the less organic demon families - she's typing up the report now."

He stares at Nano in what he hopes is a 'pull out your typing/writing functions now please' fashion.

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Sarah finishes up her coin tricks by spearing the disc with one talon, spending a few seconds widening the hole before slipping the resulting loop on her right hand and inspecting it critically.

"Ah...!"

Hang on, give her a moment.

"U-um! I don't have any. I'm recording it all up here because I'm a robot, see?"

Nano points at her head, and then turns to the side to let the slimes see her key. She also makes 'beep boop' noises because that is totally adding to the realism, right.

"Recording!"

BEEP BOOP.

"Well in that case!" The slimes seem convinced by their bulls--their incredibly power of conviction. The upper slimes slide off to open them a space.

"Okay, so as you already know, the shortest pathway leads to the hardest guardian!"

"So in order from the corridors, it's left in the first corridor, and then right."

"If you want to test the treasure system, gloop, then take left twice!"

Good to know.

"But be careful, cause the guardian's been pretty grumpy lately. He's been waiting for humans to show up and test him but no one's done it yet."

"So he might just pretend you are and try to eat you thinking you're humans! We know you're not, but he's very violent. And he doesn't like to be woken up."

The other slimes nodded.

"Good luck! Just make sure not to press the button after him if you get there!"

"You wouldn't want to wake up what he's guarding!"

"Yeah, gloop, we promised!"

Wow this was incredibly helpful. Atsuro vaguely hopes Nano really does have a recording function just so they can be absolutely sure what the directions are.

"Thanks! ...When we submit our reports later, we'll be sure to mention what a good job you guys did. Keep up the good work."

He'll glance towards the other two with a slight grin. Time to abscond!

"We'll see you later, then. Back to your stations, now."

And Atsuro will quickly head down towards the left corridor. They could discuss the situation once they were out of earshot...

That was the most ridiculous bullshit session Sarah has ever witnessed, which is saying a lot, all things considered.

She'll just wait until they're out of earshot to actually say so.

"So... left and then right?" Nano asks, before she forgets the directions from before.

"We should probably hurry. We could go get the treasure, but I think defeating the monster is more important."

"...That's probably true, but I half wonder if the treasure isn't like the Staff of Banishing Nyarlathotep Forever and Saving Hinoto-Ri or something. I wouldn't put it past them."

Atsuro will continue whispering while glancing around.

"We probably should go on, though - what were they saying about a button?"

"Pressing the button will wake up something that's being guarded."

Sarah pauses for a second, clicking her talons together.

"By the way - would you prefer I change my arm back?"

"The thing that's being guarded might be the zodiac monster..."

Nano blinks, looking over at Sarah nervously.

"U-um... that's up to you, I suppose."

"...In which case, we need to press the button to wake it up to destroy it."

Atsuro glances at Sarah as well.

"Maybe you should keep it in case anything else tries to check up on us."

It wasn't that big of a deal compared to the demon apocalypse.

"Understood."

She pauses for a second before continuing.

"Just so you both know - my God Arc can fire healing lasers. If you cluster up, I can set off a radial bullet that should be able to heal all of us."

"Healing... lasers?"

That sure is a thing.

"That's good to know!"

Yep.

What happened to good old Mediarahan....

"...R-Right. Should we... move on?"

Left, then right it was. Although the treasure is honestly kind of tempting. Maybe they could go back afterwards.

Sarah is an old-fashioned girl that likes sticking with the classics, thank you.

"Let's go."

And with that, she takes point again.

"Okay. Let's hurry, then."

Nano falls into step behind them.

With the advice of the slimes, following the maze ends up being a piece of cake. As the enter the last corridor, everything starts to take on a much more science fiction-like appearance. The stone walls turn metallic with lights all around them. Even the walls seem to pulse from the flow of information.

Ignoring the treasure, the team turns towards the area where the guardian is supposedly waiting for them but...

A door blocks the way. A red sphere stands on top, with pink, blue, yellow and black ones right underneath.

"Please Enter The Password."

The voice is metallic and unidentifiable. The only problem now is...was there a clue about this anywhere?

Atsuro looks for the swordfish-shaped button but fails to find one.

"Erm. ...Maybe this is our punishment for cheating or something."

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

Sarah steps forward, shifting her God Arc to blade form, and grabs the red sphere. immediately shifting the Arc into Shield Mode.

"S-Sarah-san...!"

Nano screams, summoning Geppetto and hiding behind Sarah as she takes the red sphere in hand.

"I don't think brute force ever solves these kinds of puzzles..."

Atsuro will not hide behind Sarah but he gets his Persona ready just in case.

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oh god what even is the post order anymore WHATEVER YOLO

CHAOS that's whatit is.

i give up on trying to make notifs work

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I can't believe you guys are getting good rolls for this

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