Actuals are fun, may need to throw more of them at the party.
Well, no one else posted a summary so....
Johnny finally returned to reality, realizing that he'd accidentally allowed something from outside the world to join him. Putting aside the hoard he went to connect with the others.
Meanwhile the sky shattered. Kitsune, naturally, turned into a bird and went to investigate. She ignored Johnny and came under attack from several reflection mirror-birds.
Johnny finally managed to get in contact with Ai, as a newly minted Family member, Cyborgs' Eve Casshan, arrived at the chancel just in time to help. Being a flying cyborg, Casshan quickly went to investigate and started to fight together with Kitsune.
No matter how many forms Kitsune took, her reflections copied her, gradually getting faster and faster till they shifted before Kitsune, slowly wearing down their prey and turning her into her own soulless reflection.
Casshan quickly realized fighting was only turning the reflections into super powerful elite combat cyborgs and, as a mirror-chancel appeared in the sky, decided the only thing to do was obviously to fold the sky inward so it was reflecting itself. Johnny created a risk to the Actual, pushing it through with strike to make sure that this was actually a feasible threat! However, no matter how far Casshan flew, the edge of the sky and its mirror city only seemed to grow further away!
While Johnny's pet sandworm fought its giant clone, Kitsune finally realized that the actual in question was using reflection based magical skills and, accordingly, turned into an invisible flying rod. Having lost the thing they were reflecting, the monsters vanished.
Realizing that it was Casshan's seeing it that extended the mirror world, the cyborg shut her eyes, grabbed the edge of the sky and started to bend. Desperately, the actual city in the sky reflected this damage back into the city, folding it together.
Ai created a giant lily to block out the sight of the chancel from its mirror and break the link and Casshan started to finish her work, but Kitsune demanded she stopped.
No one, the fox explained, deserved to be an actual. Invoking her store, the Fox wove them together, tearing out her own history and memory to bind the actual to the world with imperial power (Treasure 9 is hax that way).
This crafted the mirror actual into a very real magical teacher. Woven from Kitsune's memory, she found herself linked as the fox's mother.
Unfortunately a folded city tends not to hold up that well and the chancel needed some repairs. The group's imperator appeared briefly to introduce Casshan, congratulate everyone on the victory and collateral damage. Then he told everyone to clean up or change up the chancel some, handed Casshan a mysterious box, made some vague comments about Entropy and ran away without explanations.
Everyone tried to open the box, even though it rapidly became apparent that imperial miracles surrounding the box simply zapped anyone who interacted with it. Despite this, literally everyone got cursed, some more than once.
- Casshan was turned into a schoolgirl, but resisted till she became a gym teacher instead.
- Ai turned into a man before freaking out and changing herself back though found herself a bit more aggressive for it.
- Kitsune who tried to scry the box fell in love with Johnny
- Johnny swapped bodies with Ruin, but rapidly swapped back leaving only a mental link.
- Casshan, not sensing a pattern, hit the box again until she ended up a home ec teacher.
- The former actual, seeing that everyone real was trying to open the box decided she had to do it to, but they managed to stop her.
At this point the party decided that the
plot hook box was better left abandoned and just left it somewhere for anyone to find? (They did manage to turn it human, or rather robot-shaped first though. It didn't gain consciousness, but this may or may not have been a good idea.)
After this Johnny went to give Ruin back her hoard, learning that he'd only actually managed to find a part. Still, rather pleased with him Ruin decided that Johnny could make it up. JOhnny objected and the two decided to wager ownership of each other on an arm-wrestling match. Ruin won, but Johnny swapped the terms so that winning meant belonging instead of owning.
Ai and Kitsune went on a date.
Casshan tried to find Moldavite's secretary to lodge a formal complaint. He found her, 23 hours into her new job, about to commit suicide due to how awful it was. Naturally Casshan talked her down, made her pancakes and then turned her into an elite secretary cyborg.
This finally ended the first day in game time.
What will happen next week?!