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Guess you'll be going with teamwork over memework.
But not before interlude part 2, totally not featuring a cheeky reference to an arc from a previous Fate quest that dragged for an unreasonably long time. Mainly because I don't want the timeline to get too convoluted by the release-order.
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Jen’s vision spiraled into darkness. She wasn’t in the shop with Perseus and Wukong; she had no idea where she was. It appeared to be a dark, stone chamber lit only by the fires of a few scattered torches and pyres. Thinking about how this came about, she remembered feeling as though her consciousness was twisted and kneaded in her body before being suddenly compressed and forced into her eyes.
At a loss, the white-haired vampire sighed, “Where the hell am I?”
A menacing voice echoed, “Well well, to think I’d be paid a visit.”
Turning around, Jen saw a woman with monstrous features, such as a thick, serpentine tail sliding along the ground, scales covering the ends of her limbs, and hair resembling an array of serpents swinging about. She also wore some kind of device over her eyes that served as a blindfold. Addressing the woman, Jen asked, “Are you… Medusa? You’re far more beautiful than I expected.”
“I’ll accept that as clumsy flattery.” The monstrous woman replied, “I am a fragment of the consciousness of the monster known as Gorgon, which that hero’s Spirit Origin happens to carry with him. Normally I wouldn’t do anything but faintly observe as he used my severed head as a weapon, but your arrogance in trying to assimilate his Spirit Core has given me an opportunity.”
“What do you mean by that?” The vampire asked nervously, “And can you tell me how I even got here?”
“Your body hasn’t moved: your mind simply had its consciousness shifted into this mental world. You needn’t worry about the passage of time either; we could be here for hours, days, perhaps even months without the outside world being any the wiser.” Gorgon replied.