An Infernal Abode [Ambrose]

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

Quest Name:[/b] An Infernal Abode

Who can participate?:[/b] Ambrose

Quest Time Frame (How long it takes):[/b] [Time has no meaning in Hell]

Quest Setting (NDE/DE):[/b] [NDE]

Quest Synopsis:[/b] [The impossible has been found, a safe spot in Hell. While wandering in the vast expanse that is torture and death and pain and rebirth only to go through torture and death and pain, Ambrose has stumbled across what appears to be the corpse of a Gate Guardian, the near invincible Giants. Upon examination, Ambrose discovers he can enter the massive body that has been hollowed out over the ages and finds a McGuffin that will allow him to visit Hueco Mundo, the Soul Society, and/or the Land of the Living. The McGuffin is in need of calibration before it will get him reliably to a target location. Once he makes a leap into the unknown he'll need to survive wherever it is he lands until the device is ready to return him. When he does come back in between calibrations to his Abode he'll need to prepare and manage defenses if he wants to be able to continue to claim the spot as his own.]

Maximum Number of Participants:[/b] [1]

Overall Goal:[/b] [Foray into the Three Worlds to calibrate a transdimensional device and defend his new Abode in between forays.]

Number of missions involved:[/b] [11]

BASIC Synopsis of each Quest mission:[/b]

Easy: Discover and Claim the Abode

Medium: Activate the McGuffin and complete its first Calibration Foray: Land of the Living 1

Easy: Return to Hell/Abode Part 1

Medium: Activate the McGuffin and complete the second Calibration Foray: Soul Society

Medium: Return to Hell/Abode Part 2: Electric Complications

Medium: Activate the McGuffin and complete the third Calibration Foray: Land of the Living 2

Easy: Return to Hell/Abode Part 3

Hard: Activate the McGuffin and complete the fourth Calibration Foray: Hueco Mundo

Medium: Return to Hell/Abode Part 4

Hard: Activate the McGuffin and complete the final Calibration Foray: Land of the Living 3

Hard: Return Triumphantly?

Recommended Class for entry:[/b] [1]

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

It had been an ambush.

Ambrose had been minding his own business when he was attacked by a pack of Feral-aligned Hason, Sinners whose sin had consumed their minds and left mere bestial urges. That wasn't to say they were weak and powerless, but all but their pack “leader” were short of strategic prowess and overall intelligence. Without their leader they would have been easy pickings and pushovers, but organized by the tall and slender Hason they would have put up a decent fight. Not decent enough though as their bodies littered the sands of Hell waiting to sink to the next layer of Eternal Torture and Damnation. The leader of the group was alive, for now, but she had been dealt a serious wound before escaping with something belonging to Ambrose that he considered Most Precious. Important enough to him to pursue the wounded Sinner over many miles of endlessly stretching sands.

The trail was not at all hard to follow, but it would take a long time to overtake the fleeing thief. The Hason’s Primus of their Aeterna Delicti had something to do with a vast store of Stamina to draw upon. Even wounded such as she was, she could run faster than Ambrose and run longer without tiring. A thick green blood painted her trail and the splatter pattern showed just how incredibly spry she was. Every dozen miles or so though the trail would show deceleration, then a short pause, followed by a course adjustment and a return to breakneck speed. At each of these adjustments there would be a broken glass canister of the size you'd use at a bank to send in a deposit. Ambrose would have seen a dozen of these protruding from her back filled with the same thick green blood when he had fought her and her pack earlier. At least he'd have a sense of how long this pursuit may last. The trail, though, would be particularly curious. Each stretch between rests was eerily straight. Nearly perfectly straight, followed by changes of angle no more than 30 degrees or so to the left followed by a correction to the right at the next stop again with a very slim margin of change.

This Hason definitely had a destination in mind, but where would one go amongst the endless sands of Hell?

As Ambrose reached the eighth shattered canister he'd see something large looming in the distance in the exact direction of the blood splatters. It would take him most of the rest of the dozen mile stretch to reach it, but what could be worth running a quadruple marathon to reach? In stark contrast to the flat terrain of the endless sands it appeared to be mountainous but was shaped more like a large hill jutting out of the burning desert. Upon arriving at the foot of said hill he'd find the Hason clutching at his precious possession he'd run so far to pursue. She'd hiss threateningly and prepare herself for a desperate fight for survival. Depending on how hotly Ambrose had pursued, she may be more fit for a fight with her “full tank” of stamina but she'd already been wounded by him and knew she'd have to pull out every stop if she was to come out of this alive.