Incident Report: OI8-1

Metaphysical / Paranormal event

Incident Report: OI8-1

(412:01): Hashinara Yoshiyuki retrieves robe, reverts from The Scavenger to original form   (412:01): OI6: Star Shambler focuses attention on User: Oyama Hikari   (412:01): Ryūzaki Sanosuke strikes OI6 with blunt force sufficient to kill it instantly. OI6 vanishes from view.   (412:03): Hashinara Yoshiyuki, Ryūzaki Sanosuke, Matsumoto Ooawagaeri, OI7: Zvonimira, and User: Oyama Hikari (henceforth: the Party) regroup and proceed to proposed location of OI8: Guardian.   (412:05): Party arrives at proposed location, confirms presence of OI8. User: Oyama Hikari asked to remain behind in more secure location. OI7 remarks that OI8 is not as expected. Posits that another creature has devoured the original Guardian and OI9: Cure with it. OI8 redesignated from "Guardian" to "Blooming Abomination."   (412:06): Party chooses to retreat and regroup. Hashinara Yoshiyuki channels magical energy from OI7 and proceeds to experiment with spellcasting. No magical transmutation observed. Yoshiyuki prepares several spells before regrouping with Party and returning to OI8's lair.   (412:07): Party takes up position out of OI8's sight. Ryūzaki Sanosuke observed—error: not observed—to benefit from a spell of concealment and vanish from sensors.   (412:08): Yoshiyuki presents self to OI8, drawing its attention. Releases a prepared spell. Bonds of manifest darkness attempt to ensnare creature, but fail. Second spell released is observed to transmute into a psychic matrix upon contact with OI8. No additional effects noted. Assessment: direct magical interference ineffective.   (412:08): Ryūzaki Sanosuke appears behind creature, punches through its back and out chest. Assessment: fatal blow. Error: OI8 does not die. Multiple limbs observed clawing through the created wound.   (412:08): Sanosuke follows with two more strikes. Assessment: ineffective except in the creation of more limbs. OI-8's skin is damaged enough to fall off, releasing—error: cannot identify quantity—limbs into chamber.   (412:08): Sanosuke reaches into pile of limbs. Hands grab on, pull him in, begin to—error: temporal anomaly detected—hands attempt to grab on but cannot match Sanosuke's speed. OI9: Cure identified in Sanosuke's hand. Assessment: objective completed.   (412:09): OI8 limbs observed to multiply at an unchecked rate. Chamber begins to fill. Sanosuke orders a retreat. Assessment: concur. Further assessment: Ryūzaki Sanosuke's physical condition is rapidly deteriorating: extreme fatigue, temporal rupture detected.   (412:09): Party evacuates the area. Collects User: Oyama Hikari and OI3: Void Mirror. Matsumoto Ooawagaeri enacts emergency containment with magically-manipulated wall of water. Party begins to move rapidly toward proposed extraction point.   (412:10): Cave walls begin to rumble. Sound of crashing water detected in OI8's containment chamber. Assessment: emergency containment has failed.   (412:11): Party arrives at proposed extraction point—error: cannot identify quantity—limbs begin spilling from nearby pipe. Party produces unknown items. Observed to be similar in shape to corvus skulls. Unknown spatial effect begins. Assessment: OI8 limbs too close, mission failure.   (412:12): Party arrives safely in unknown location. Analysis of underlying magical energy suggests somewhere in the Dreamlands. Other individuals are observed outside waiting. Assessment: allies. Threat level: low. Proposal: Register for future—   Error. Error. ERROR. ERROR.   L2 Entity detected. Threat level: Imperial. Emergency report submitted to Sūra Anāhīta per standing procedure. Awaiting further instructions.