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Nowhere To Rome: Chapter IV

Nowhere To Rome: Chapter IV

Faithful Night and Yoni enter the tower, and see Sinners Sextant and all kinds of destructive equipment.

Elybe: Well, this is quite the warm reception

Wjenx: Yeah

Sinners Sextant Member: We definitely didn't bring enough people to deal with a Century Corps intrusion

Dassu: We on a time crunch, you on a manpower shortage, seems like a fair fight

Sinners Sextant Member: Ok why is it called MANpower, seems a little human centric

Sinners Sextant Member II: I have no clue, I'm not a linguistics expert

Monact: YOU'RE STALLING

Sinners Sextant Member: Stall? I don't know the meaning of the word?

Sinners Sextant Member II: It means to slow or delay

Sinners Sextant Member: Thanks Resident Linguistic Expert

Sinners Sextant Member II: I'm, not a linguistics expert

Sinners Sextant Member III: Are we going to fight them or not?

Yoni: I'll start if that's cool with you

Yoni leaps over and punches them in the face, starting a brawl

Dassu: Oh we should probably help her

Monact: Gee you sure are a quick one

Fight against Sinners Sextant Wave I

When you win

Sinners Sextant Member III: Should we wait for…any backup…any at all?

Sinners Sextant Member I: There's no time we've got to hold the line until Ayev comes back

Elybe: Wait, they're not here?

Sinners Sextant Member II: You want to pause the fight till they arrive? That's awfully generous of you

Elybe: Wait no we don't

Sinners Sextant Member II: it was worth a shot

Sinners Sextant Member IV: Yeah…worth a shot…we can SHOOT them

Sinners Sextant Member III: You HAVEN'T been doing that

Monact: I DO NOT CARE about your problems

Sinners Sextant Member V: How rude

Wjenx: You're trying to kill us or at least knock us unconscious!

Sinners Sextant Member VI: For the paycheck, kaching

Fight against Sinners Sextant Wave II

When you win

Yoni: So do any of you have any fight left in you?

Sinners Sextant Member VII: Me

Monact: Were you people this chatty when you worked under Ghice?

Sinners Sextant Member V: This has certainly devolved

Sinners Sextant Member II: I need a raise

Sinners Sextant Member I: Maybe mention your linguistics expertise

Sinners Sextant Member II: I'm not a ling-actually it's not worth it to correct you anymore

Yoni: Ok I'm just gonna

Yoni punches Sinners Sextant Member VII in the face, and moves along

Elybe: Well, let's follow her

Wjenx: Alas, farewell you entertaining jobbers

Sinners Sextant Member I: What does jobber mean?

Sinners Sextant Member II: It's a wrestling term, it means someone who is routinely defeated at big events

Sinners Sextant Member II: Wait fuck

Moving on past the defeated Sextant, Faithful Night comes across the main vault tower and all the destructive equipment there, burning holes into the treasure vaults filled with gold. The Chalice of Bacchus is also right in front of them, surrounded by a little cage

Dassu: So, here comes the demo team

Elybe: Think I can knock them down in a single strike?

Yoni: If you get the angle right

Elybe: Well there's no harm in trying

Elybe fires off their string ball using its maximum range, the ball flies into the a large portion of the melters, destroying them on impact

Wjenx: Nice shot

Elybe: Thanks, although I need more range to destroy the rest of them

Yoni: Well it's a tower so we should get to climbing

Dassu: Before that, let's not forget what we came here for?

Dassu cuts the bars of the cage, and takes the chalice

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Dassu: There…it's safe now

Wjenx: Alright now let's go and-

Ayev swoops down at The Century Corps, grabbing the chalice

Ayev: I'm afraid that chalice is still under my possession

Elybe: Hey your goons said you weren't here

Ayev: I wasn't

Ayev flies high into the tower with the chalice

Dassu: Well…

Yoni: Up we go

Begin scaling The Vaults

When you are up X vaults

Elybe: Ok, (lines up their ball with the melters), and fire

Elybe's ball ricochets again, destroying even more of the melters

Elybe: Good job me

Yoni: Yeah, we're doing great

Wjenx: So how many of these do we need to destroy?

Yoni: All of them, a little drop of liquid is all it will take for the chalice to do it's thing

Monact: Let's continue to follow the path then

Resume

When you're up XX vaults

Elybe: Ok, this should destroy all the melters that remain

Elybe takes another shot with their ball and annihilates the remaining melters, except for one they miss.

Yoni: So, uh, what was that

Elybe: It almost looks like it was deflected

Dassu: I can bet on why that is

Dassu points from across the vault tower, seeing Lorenza in a golden armor

Yoni: She's really gone and lost it huh? She's gonna try to take out our family's legacy.

Elybe: Well, we've got a job to do

As Faithful Night tries to move off the vault, Ayev swoops down and prevents their movement

Ayev: I've got a job to do

Elybe: Ayev…

The two stare at each other for a long second

Monact: Ayev, surrender the chalice to us and we'll allow you to go free…

Ayev: I'm not going to surrender to the Century Corps…

Elybe: Then surrender to your family

Ayev: … I cannot

Dassu: Ayev…

Ayev: I'm not giving up this chalice…

Wjenx: Give it up!

Ayev: No

Elybe: C'mon, give the chalice to us, and then go live a normal life

Ayev: I'll never stand idly by, not while Sinners Sextant needs me

Monact: I guess we know where you stand…

Yoni: Well, you tried your best

Elybe: We've hardly tried enough

Ayev: This Chalice is property of The Sextant now

Monact: Well, we warned you

Fight against Ayev

When they are at XC%

Ayev: Don't make this harder than it needs to be

Monact: Your stubborn unyielding will is the reason this is so hard

Ayev: That's what always made me a great fighter

Monact: Yeah, it's one of your better qualities, but you need to see that this isn't right

Ayev: It feels wrong..but inside..I know it's right

Resume

When they are at LXXX%

Dassu: Do you really think that this will make a difference for the better?

Ayev: I don't know, but I don't care anymore

Dassu: You used to care

Ayev: When my heart is marred by war, I can only care about where my next meal will come from

Dassu: Unfortunate

Ayev: Don't pity my plight, it's the one I choose

Resume

When they are at LXX%

Wjenx: Why won't you release the chalice?

Ayev: I've got a job to do, that's why

Wjenx: There's got to be more

Ayev: There isn't, sometimes, we've got our own paths to contend with

Wjenx: Seeing the person you've come has become revolting

Ayev: Sorry you hate what you see

Resume

When they are at LX%

Ayev: Elybe? Do you have anything else to say to me?

Elybe: I'm at a loss for words, you've become so much like Ghice after their death

Ayev: Ghice and Keighan…they're my family

Elybe: No…

Ayev: And who killed them? That's right your little guild

Elybe: I…

Ayev: It doesn't matter what you think, you killed my family

Monact: That wasn't us

Ayev: You're still aiding and following a guild of butchers, who minces my family, why would I care if you did the deed yourselves or not.

Resume

When Ayev is at L%

Yoni: Do you have anything else you wish to say? Anything at all?

Ayev: I can't say anything else I could say that would be of much significance

Yoni: Are you sure, speak now or forever hold your peace.

Ayev: …

Yoni: Well Ayev, I can't say I expected anything else from you.

Resume

When Ayev is at XL%, they begin to struggle keeping their grip on the chalice

Ayev: Damn it, I have to hold on

Elybe: Ayev… I'm sorry

Ayev: What?

Elybe slings the ball at the chalice sending it through the air and falling down the tower

Ayev: NO NO DAMN IT

Ayev dives after the Chalice but Monact launches a brick at Ayev's booster pack, send them veering off course

Ayev: No!

Lorenza: Catch it you BUFFOON

Ayev tries to grab it but it hits the ground, shattering

Ayev: Damn it! I failed again, all thanks to the Century Corps!

Lorenza: Oh Ayev, you disgrace

Ayev: You know, I have no obligation to follow you anymore

Lorenza: Hey hey wait

Ayev: You won't be paying us jack shit from behind your prison cell

Lorenza: Hey come on, don't you want revenge?

Ayev: Maybe another day…you fraud

Ayev blasts a hole in the tower and escapes

Wjenx: Shouldn't we go after them?

Monact: We have a bigger problem to contend with first

Yoni: You're absolutely right

Faithful Night begins making their way to Lorenza

Lorenza: Come, I posses the armor worn by Julius Caesar himself and the Li Cadenzo family luck, I'm not scared of a confrontation

Yoni: I also have our family's luck

Lorenza: Oh sister, how I detest the thought of harming you, but you stood in my way today, and now my plan to help the poor is finished

Yoni: Your plan was going to help no one

Lorenza: Oh can it, however I can still destroy our family's legacy

Yoni: But why?

Lorenza: Becuase I-

Yoni: Oh I GET IT

Lorenza: Get what?

Yoni: You're a spoiled little brat throwing a tantrum because things didn't go your way, being "daddy's little princess" must make one so used to getting whatever they want

Lorenza: Ok that's not it, I have good reasons

Yoni: No you don't

Elybe: Let's take you in

Lorenza: I'm NEVER going to prison

Fight against Lorenza Li Cadenzo

When she is at LXXV%, some of the gold in the Li Cadenzo vault finally melts

Lorenza: Heh, it's begining

Elybe: Thanks for reminding me about the problem

Elybe makes a trick shot with their ball, smashing the melter

Yoni: Nice job Elybe

Lorenza: I'M SICK OF YOU PEOPLE

Monact: Tough crowd

Resume

When Lorenza is at LX%

Lorenza: I could have changed…EVERYTHING FOR THE BETTER

Yoni: Aww you didn't get to genocide the city…you poor little baby

Yoni punches her sister in the gut

Dassu: Looks like that hurt

Resume

When Lorenza is at XL%

Lorenza: You think they'd let me rot in prison forever

Yoni: It's not like our family is gonna bail your sorry ass out?

Lorenza: THEY WON'T MOURN YOU EITHER

Yoni: Geez, escalation much, oh right, you're a big baby

Wjenx: Well Monact, you were right about one of them being a brat

Monact: Wrong kid but same spoiled rotten family

Resume

When Lorenza is at XV%

Lorenza: I..have to win

Wjenx: Looking unlikely

Yoni: Lorenza…you make me feel ashamed to be related

Lorenza: THAT'S RICH, coming from the family outcast

Yoni: That's you now, genocider

Lorenza: SHUT UP

Resume

When you win, Lorenza gets wobbly

Lorenza: I HATE YOU

Yoni: Sister, I'd be careful if I were you

Lorenza tries to attack again but she slips on some of the liquid gold and falls to the bottom of the tower, where she is surrounded by police.

Yoni: Holy

Dassu: Who called

A familiar voice begins to be echo throughout the tower

Eili: Hey Yoni!!

Yoni: Eili!!

As Faithful Night heads down the tower, the police begin taking Lorenza into custody