The Party has entered the false bottom and sees strange plants and creatures living inside, including stray Meraki hunters.
Sissinoe: Looks like some of my people call this place home
Aoenen: I wonder if any of ours call this place home?
Neve: Maybe they do, but we probably won’t find them
Atoll: It looks like there might even be Oxyegn down here
Aoenen: Keep your suits on anyway, you might get a nasty disease
Neve: That makes sense
Atoll: Alright, let’s find Sinners Sextant
Begin False Bottom #1
When The Party is 15% through False Bottom #1, they run into someone else without a diving suit
Atoll (Narration): The shock of who we saw under the bottom was deep, as we had come across a pioneer lost to time
Illinois: So, what are you kids doing under the Mariana Trench?
Atoll: Illinois Aeryuat!!
Illinois: Hehe, that’s me
Neve: But you went missing back in the 1970s?
Illinois: I did yeah, but time is no object to me
Atoll: You look way older than you were when you disappeared
Illinois: Well no duh like 50 years passed by, I’m probably 80 years old no wonder I look old
Aoenen: I had not heard of such a remarkable missing adventurer
Neve: You grew up in the Nightlands of course you didn’t know
Sissinoe: It is an honor to meet you Ms Aeryuat
Illinois: The honor is all mine, now you kids want to tell me what you’re doing at the bottom of the ocean?
Atoll: We wanted to go here, mainly to do what you were declared dead doing but also we saw some bad guys called The Sinners Sextant down here and we want to know what they’re up to
Neve: More or less how it went
Illinois: So you came looking for me and those invading Centennials, looks like
Sissinoe: And me and Aoenen came along for fun
Aoenen: I bought the submarine that took us down here?
Illinois: Well if you want to fight against the “Sinners Sextant” as you call it, they are no chumps, I’ve fought against all matters of powerful foes, including the legendary Acantha, and none have given me this much trouble.
Atoll: You fought Acantha?
Illinois: Yeah I did
Atoll: I fought her as well looks like we have a lot in common
Illinois: Oh that’s neat
Sissinoe: As much as I enjoy small talk, we should get going
Aoenen: That is true, lead the way Illinois
Illinois: Sure thing travelers
Neve: This is pretty cool
Atoll (Narration): The endeavor we had found ourselves in was that of one where we were frankly out of our depth for, but being the eager warriors we were, we charged in there without hesitation.
Resume False Bottom #1
When you’re at 30% completion
Illinois: So, The Sextatnt down here are working for someone mysterious I have never seen before?
Atoll: What was so mysterious about them?
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Illinois: They felt ancient, primordial, the kind of aura only emitted from someone with power
Neve: Like, some sort of dietetic desire
Aoenen: Like a living god of sorts?
Sissinoe: Sounds, powerful and mysterious
Illinois: I’m just warning you kids to prepare for a foe you may not be able to contend with
Resume False Bottom #1
When you’re at 45% completion
Sissinoe: This hidden world is quite beautiful, almost as beautiful as the fleeting gaze of a life
Neve: Atoll why did you recruit this weirdo
Sissinoe: I’m a weirdo
Atoll: Listen, Sissinoe is a friend of mine, and she’s knowledgeable, it made sense to bring her along
Aoenen: You could have just asked for a double date
Sissinoe: You’ve got a real strange mind
Aoenen: YOU’VE GOT A REAL STRANGE MIND
Illinois: I wonder if my kids are like this with their friends
Atoll: You have kids??
Illinois: Well I look after them down here, they’re not mine biologically speaking
Atoll (Narration): Sissinoe was someone I admired for their strange demeanor yet being such a competent force, she was also my age, and…well you get the idea. She wasn’t the most qualified girl in the world, but she would be a surefire bet to come along with us
Resume
When you’re at 60% completion , a figure high up in the Sinners Sextant approaches the party
Kieghan: Hello Illinois
Illinois: Hello Sextant
Kieghan: Who are the tag-alongs?
Neve: Tag-alongs?
Kieghan: Yeah I’m talking about you
Atoll: My name is Atoll and she is Neve, we’re here on Century Corps business
Sissinoe: We are?
Aoenen: Just go with it
Kieghan: Oh I didn’t know the Century Corps caught onto us
Illinois: Century Corps…oh Acantha’s guild
Kieghan: Yeah, now please step aside, our client is busy with some more important matters and I’d like to leave them undisturbed
Atoll: What does your client require down here?
Kieghan: I do not know, but I must force you to turn around
Neve: We’re here to see this world for ourselves, you have no place telling us to leave
Aoenen: You tell them Neve
Sissinoe: Our excursion shall not be delayed by someone only in it for a bag like you
Kieghan: Don’t say I didn’t warn you
Fight against Kieghan and The Sinners Sextant
When Kieghan is at 75%
Kieghan: So, why are you Century Corps kooks even down here in the first place if it had nothing to do with us
Atoll: I wanted to see everything this world had to offer
Kieghan: How noble or how naive
Neve: You really are a piece of work
Aoenen: Yeah, quite a prick
Sissinoe: You seem pretty prickish yourself Aoenen
Aoenen: It must be my refined manners
Sissinoe: It’s not that, I just sense a strange aura from you
Atoll (Narration): Aoenen was really someone that you kind of had an odd feeling about, even before you really knew him. You could kinda tell, the way he flaunted his status and heritage, that he thought himself above some others. I probably should have caught onto his true nature earlier
Resume
When Kieghan is at 50%
Illinois: Do you have any regrets?
Kieghan: No, I have no regrets
Illinois: If you were to die, right here and now, you would have no regrets
Kieghan: Absolutely not
Atoll: I respect your commitment to yourself and your actions
Kieghan: What’s the phrase you humans use, “I’m my own man”
Resume
When Kieghan is at 25%
Neve: I do not like you
Kieghan: That makes sense, of course you would not like your enemies
Aoenen: When you put it like that it’s a no brainer
Neve: Me and Aoenen sure don’t like our enemies
Atoll (Narration): Aoenen and Neve really did not like their enemies and their later encounter with Kieghan after this expedition really shows.
Resume
When Kieghan is defeated, they are knocked down against the seafloor and the party moves on
Illinois: Great work kiddos
Atoll: It’s all in a day's work
Neve: You bet it
Sissinoe: I suspected my combat abilities would not be as good as my intellectual abilities, I was happy to be proven wrong
Aoenen: I’m still not the best at this
Neve: That’s ok Aoenen, we can protect you
Illinois: Let’s continue our journey, the client must not be too far ahead
Resume False Bottom #1
When you’re at 75% completion, the party can begin to see what looks like a large metal sphere
Neve: What the hell is that?
Illinois: What the Sextant were protecting?
Aoenen: It’s huge
Atoll: Without a doubt it’s large
Sissinoe: I have a strange feeling about what we’re about to come into contact with
Resume False Bottom #1
When you’re at 90% completion, the large sphere looks even bigger, they can hear strange whirring
Atoll: Oh my god, look at that
Illinois: Who is doing this?
Neve: I think we might have been meant to come down here
Aoenen: What do you mean by that?
Neve: Do you really think Illinois could have made it here alone?
Illinois: Hey…probably not
Sissinoe: I get what you mean…
Resume False Bottom #1
When you are complete the course, the Party enters the metal structure
Atoll (Narration): The structure the Sinners Sextant was guarding was something strange, a jumbling of wires and steam, like a weird machine, grinding and coming together and apart all at once. And that the center of this sphere was a watery center, a strange thing that seemed to leave it. One thing about this sphere was it appears to be built into the bottom of this false bottom.
Illinois: What is this place
Strange Figure: So you’ve made it all the way here, looks like you deserve to know
A strange armored Centennial walks forward
Pandora: My name is Pandora, an immortal soul, I was made to guard the evils of the world that were in a box, forged in the Garden of Eden. My connection to the past is all but gone as I’m far removed from everything else that made me real
Neve: The Garden of Eden?
Pandora: The Garden of Eden is a lost paradise unknown to us, one that was lost long ago
Sissinoe: That place is real
Aoenen: Fascinating
Atoll: Ok Pandora, what is it you want here?
Pandora: I’m going to seek out the one thing that has remained constant since my creation, this place I made out of wires, metal and memory will help me achieve my goals
The Party begins ready for yet another battle as Pandora begins to approach them
Atoll (Narration): We were too far gone and were now about to face off against an enemy, one with absurd amounts of power and strength far above what we could muster on our own. It truly felt like we had stepped into a hopeless battle.