Chapter VII
\"The developers are finishing their Ojaveda tunnel,\" Said Murtagh while facing the oldbie council. \"But I believe they will have to keep all the power-levelers interested with something until all that will come into existance. By spreading false rumors we can make few of the power-levelers leave before they find out it is nothing more than a bunch of lies. If it shall be done accordingly, the threat will be reduced and the number of enemies, we will be forced to face, shall decrease. We will have to send few groups with enough skills in leet speak, just to make sure that our targed doesn\'t get suspicious because of us using proper language.\"
\"The council is well aware of the seriousness of the attack, captain Murtagh.\" Said Kada. \"We allow you to do whatever you think is necessary to prepare the defense lines of the Ojaveda city.\"
\"Thank you, councillor.\"
\"However, we ask if there has been any message from Draklar or from his group.\"
\"No message, nothing.\"
\"Then we request a group to be sent to find out what happened with them.\" Aendar joined the conversation.
\"But we need all of our forces in here. It is enough that this madman left already. We cannot spare any further fighting force.\"
\"But ... We will have ... to ...\" Said Annah. \"Even though ... we are oldbies ... we still need to ... care for the ... newbies ...\"
\"Fine, fine. But it\'ll take days for one group to find them.\"
\"Quite frankly, Planeshift isn\'t nearly big enough for that to be the issue.\" Said Kiern.
\"This is insane!\"
\"Watch your mouth, Murtagh.\" Replied Aelya.
\"I am truly sorry, but I just cannot understand the council\'s decission. It seems to stand against any form of common sense.\"
\"Well what did you expect?\" Asked Kiern. \"This -is- Planeshift.\"
\"But I cannot order anyone to go on this suicide mission.\"
\"The orders will be unneeded.\" Said Kada. \"All the groups are here, let them decide on their own.\" She moved her eyesight over all the people behind Murtagh. \"We need one group to go on the said mission. Any volunteers?\"
\"Let\'s just make sure that this group won\'t follow the absurd of the last mission.\" Added Kiern.
\"Did he just insult me?\" Whispered zanzibar.
\"What? Keep quiet, zanzibar.\" Replied Seytra.
\"No, I\'m pretty sure he just insulted me...\" Zanzibar stood up. \"Hey, you!\"
\"What the hell?\" Kiern made the scary baby face.
\"I appreciate that you put a lot of work and creativity into your \'smart\' comments, however, I\'m sure you have a better use for your time than insulting me and making up lies about things you obviously do not understand!\"
\"Cut the drama, peanut.\"
\"No! I will not stay silent when the council members are constantly making up insults and throwing them at me in the public! If you have something against me, take it to PMs. But in this situation I feel obligated to report the behaviour of the council member to the proper authorities.\"
\"Congrats peanut, you\'ve just won the drama queen crown.\" Kiern made yet another scary baby face.
\"You keep digging your hole further and further... Just wait until I reach the authorities. Then you\'ll have to deal with every single thing you said at my person. Just to think of all the explaining you\'ll have to do... my oh my.\"
\"Shut your hole, zanzibar, before I put you in one.\" Whispered Bora.
\"Hey! I have the full constitutional right of defending my name and I am sure to use it. None of you will stop me! None, you hear?\"
\"The peanut\'s losing it...\"
\"And for your information! It offends me that you call me by the name of an edible, nut-like, oily seed! A petition containing all your words is being formulated as we speak and soon will be sent to the proper authorities.\"
\"This is so sad that it becomes hilarious. Hey, can I send a petition about you being an idiot?\"
\"You\'re asking me to take the radical measures.\" Zanzibar has quit Planeshift.
\"Heh...\"
\"We\'ll go.\" Said Bora.
\"Are you sure about that?\" Asked Kada, still feeling unease from the odd conversation.
\"Yes, maybe zanzibar will do less damage when... he isn\'t here.\"
Draklar, Karyuu and Unitearica jumped down onto the tunnel behind Zak and glitched in afterwards. After that they moved further into that tunnel.
\"That wasn\'t here before.\" Whispered Karyuu.
\"Aye.\" Draklar nodded. \"I see some modding work here.\"
\"What can you see, Uni\'o?\"
\"Uhh... Walls... darkness...\"
\"No, no. I mean what special things you can see in the map.\"
\"Well, the walls seem to be filled with C4...\"
\"...Just great.\"
Finally they reached a large hall. In the center, behind a desk sat leji.
The Dermorian glanced at them. \"Puis-je vous aider?\"
\"Fius re nali portahier.\" Answered Draklar.
\"...I asked if I can help you.\"
\"Aye, take us to the bunny rabbit boy.\"
\"Bun--\"
\"Seperot.\"
\"Right, follow me.\"
They walked after leji and soon found themselves in a temple-like room. Lots of people were there, in the far end sat Seperot and Moogie. Leji moved onwards and upon reaching the two, jumped onto Moogie\'s bakc.
\"My bakc!\" Yelped Moogie.
\"Aha, here hes at last.\" Said Seperot. \"Uni\'o, the one himsefl, right? And the legendary Draklar. And the beuatiful Karyuu of course.\"
\"You know why we are here.\" Said Draklar.
\"Of course I knwo! I hav various inforemers running all acorss the Planetrix. I know eevrything. The questien is do you know why youre heer.\"
\"We are looking for the storymaker.\"
\"Juh, juh, the storymaker. But do yuo knwon why youre looking for him?\"
\"To save the Planeshift.\"
\"And why do you wnat to do taht? Becose its right? Because its good? What is good? Dose it difer from evil?\"
\"Are you getting anywhere or just felt like making up some random questions?\"
\"My my, impotent as always.\" Seperot patted Draklar on the head.
\"I seriously hope you just horribly misspelled that...\"
\"Did yuo ever look at thoes peolpe running around screming \'Im evil! Im evil!\'? I hate it. They dont knoew whats evil about. Just look at deveolepers. Did anyone ever see them as evil? Until introdecing of monethly fee I mean. No, they were praised. They wer hiding wiht their evilness. Until it was the time to strike. Now thats evil! Not soem kids play. And just look at this place. It holds so much power, more power than ayn of tohes evil kidides ever had. It startd so innocentent. I startd the Cult of Seperot. I gave the suckers some cool sounding ranks and evryone started sucking up to be in it. It kept growing and growing and noone knwen waht I truly wantd to get by it. Power, Drakler... Power. Befr anyone could react, the cult was so big that it becam unstotable. And now yuo see me on the high point of power.\"
\"...Back to the storymaker.\"
\"Just look at that woman.\" Seperot pointed at Agara. \"So obvies, so nicely goody good. Gathering everyones atention by sending her smiles, amany smiles and grins. So much need of atentien. Well I have a little gift for her. Watch.\"
Someone delivered a package to Agara and quickly ran away. She opened it slowly, with curiousity on her face. The package opened... Before she could react it exploded.
\"Charming...\" Draklar arched an eyebrow.
\"Great wasent it?\" Seperot burst out laughing. \"Beats running around yelling youre evil.\"
\"...Storymaker.\"
\"Fine! The storymaker. You dont exepect me to just give him away, do you? I grew in powre because I collectd it, not gave it away. If you wantr me to give you some of my power, you have to give me some power of yours. Do you have such power? The power taht Id want?\"
\"No...\"
\"Then I beleiv we have nothing to talk about. All we can say is goodbye.\"
\"This isn\'t over yet.\" Said Unitearica.
\"Oh yes it is. This place is filld with C4 and I haev the button for detonaeting it all. So if you wont--\"
\"Fine, we\'ll go.\" Draklar muttered under his breath.
They turned towards the tunnel.
\"Well that went well...\" Karyuu winced.
\"It couldn\'t go any other way.\"
\"How do you know?\" Asked Unitearica.
\"I talked with Seperot many times already... It\'s just something you take as given.\"
Once they left the tunnel, they noticed Moogie standing in front of them.
\"If you want the storymaker, follow me.\"