Outfits combining the aesthetics of caveman and butler. Installing a computer on a spaceship. A training montage. Fishing. A class on how to solve a crossword with its setter. Impersonating a famous business tycoon fromEarth. The Yin Yang round of the puzzle championships. Pyrography. Porn. Comedy music videos. The going out for an English sketch. A trial for impersonating a federal official - a former president of the United States being tried for using powers they no longer had and claiming to be their successor.
These scenes and more assaulted the mind of Thalia. Some of them were visions from Earth, others were figment of imagination - though not all of them her own, they included other people's dreams as well as her feverish ones. The most frequent scene was a super villain invented in 2023, about three months after the coming of the humans, and his army being inserted into a horror movie called Delta Epsilon Delta as a supplemental antagonist when it already had two.
The quarantine was going to have to continue but it looked like the concept of that super villain was being transmitted.
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A new dungeon that was an abandoned factory had popped up inside the quarantine zone themed on said super villain and another that took the form of a maze like hotel had appeared outside.
The hotel maze was Stealth themed and was focused on evading capture. It had appeared in Demon territory and been detected by the guild, they were going to send John as part of an investigatory group as they did not yet have this information.
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Rajesh had delved into the factory dungeon, which had a mind control villain theme. It requested acknowledgement that temporary control of the body by the dungeon was a risk. Fortunately Rajesh had thirteen Violet for his mental resistance score and was able to reach and defeat the Hypnotist boss based on the super villain without falling to its traps, though he did consider coming back and failing deliberately when he needed a break next.
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The hotel dungeon was attempting to issue shares as rewards but that was a form of heresy that attracted fines of five thousand percent of the shares issued - in other words, for each unauthorised share the church of Astria was entitled to fifty.
John knew intuitively that was wrong upon being presented with a splash screen detailing the dungeon before he'd even entered. Still the group was going to have to go in and make an attempt.
John found himself in a strangely sterile room, separated from the others, and decided that the first goal was probably to reunite. He wandered into the maze like corridors. He still didn't have a reliable supply of glass but had improved his Telekinesis to the point where he could use it to wield a dagger.
It felt like hours before he came across a scene of two small girls singing a rhyme and blocking a corridor that he needed to backtrack from. It continued but eventually he found a room resembling a shop, with a counter, behind which was stored rack upon rack of keys. He ducked beneath it and made for what appeared to be the front door. Although he still hadn't met the others, he was spat out of the dungeon where the Stealth specialist was waiting. Moments later the warrior was spat out "Did both of you lose the fight with the girls?" They asked.
"No, I managed to exit the level through a window and the fall to the next one got me." Replied the specialist.
John commented "I managed to find a door which was the intended exit to the next level but it is not ready yet."
The mage appeared Moments later. "Those receptions are brutal if they catch you, I hope none of you had to go through that."