Adventure Twisted Side Story - CRAZZZZY RAT AND HIS CAST OF

[Carthrat]

With no plans, no arrangements, no friends, and a wallet packed with yen, Carthrat starts going about his business...

Firstly, he changes a large portion of his money; a hundred thousand pounds in 'Spending Money' should suffice, at least until he sets up some kind of regular income.

Secondly, he catches a train to London central, and starts searching for either an open Real Estate agent (ready to wince at whatever horrible, horrible prices they throw at him), or, failing that, a cheap motel for the night.

[Anastasia]

The money chaging is done by a clerk that looks bored and tired, fitting the rainy demeanor of the city this night.

When that's done, it's fully nighttime. You're hungry, sore and you have a feelling it's too late to catch a real eastater.

[Carthrat]

"Fuck."

Carthrat pulls out his dirty cloak and goes looking for a motel within the area..

[Anastasia]

Luck is with you, as you find a simple motel within a few minutes.  The price is better than you figured, and so is the room.

OOC: Do something now or timeskip. Your call.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat collapses into bed, making a note that he really, really needs to find an apartment or a rental house or something.

[Anastasia]

It's a sunny day...Downtown Tokyo always looks so sparkly with it's shining entrails in the frying sun. Carthrat walks down the acid filled streets, enjoying the gentle cries of the populace dissolving in it's acidic bath. Ah, the tree planting project as gone well, and all the bodies hanging from the are so artisically pleasing...and the pike mounted heads that you placed just to compliment everything else. My, you had fun ripping Shizue and CyMage's heads off. They go so WELL with the trees...

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Carthrat wakes up with a scream.

[Carthrat]

Breathing heavily, Carthrat flops back into bed, trying to stop his arms from twitching..

Calm.. calm.. don't alienate yourself from London.. calm..

[Anastasia]

After several long minutes of calming breaths and mental sparring, you get to a state of relative calmness. Yet, sleep is now outside of your reach.  In boredom, you happen to flip on the crappy TV... A Breaking News story is playing on all the channels.

MONSTERS ATTACK SAPPORO, JAPAN!

From what you are able to gather, two titanic, pinkish monsters are tearing Sapporo, Japan apart. Cries of 'Ratty' have been heard from the monsters, but officials have not commented on this. Current reports say that much of Sapporo is burning or in ruin...

The national defense force has been mobilized, as well as the US troops stationed in Japan.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat flips off the TV, exhaling. Yeah. Japanese Forces are extremely capable of dealing with overgrown monsters. And Mecha. And whatever. They'll bounce right back.

Two Tarrasques?

He should probably catch a plane straight back to Japan. Yeah.

And go to Falx. And-

And what? He couldn't go back. Not while he was like this. He had to find some way to.. to.. repress himself. Or, when he went back to Falx.. who knew what would happen?

He'd probably forget his purpose or something..

But it was starting to seem to him like he had to.. atone.

For what, he knew too well.

And what did he have to do to atone?

Go to Falx. Cure everything.

But he probably had to do that *FIRST*, or there'd be nothing left on Falx to cure...

What to do. What to do.

Well. Sooner or later, someone would figure out what the Tarrasque's wanted, and they'd come for him.

Carthrat estimated he had a few days before they caught up with him, and decided to spend this time trying to figure out what was wrong with him.

To start, he scans himself..

[Anastasia]

Well, this is surprising.

Firstly, you have several new 'Anomalies detected' on your person. To be expected...but...

Your hand and finger bones are slightly odd. The iron content of them is off the charts(for a normal human), and the bone structure seems to be changing slowly.

Furthermore, your metabolism is somewhat faster now. The scan seems to indicated that this is a result of the finger problem.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat sighed...

More things were hitting him. Without his curse, he couldn't go back to Falx.

Without his.. *CURSE*, he couldn't atone.

And if he died without atoning, would he ever see Yuki again?

He pulled out something from his pocket and slung it around his neck.

It was a sapphire amulet. Carthrat had bought it for Yuki, a long time ago in what seemed a different, less cold world.

Unfortunately, he never got the chance to give it to her.

He hadn't worn it... but kept it for some reason.

Sometimes, he swore it gave him strength.

Now he wore it. To remind himself of what he was trying to do.

And his first goal was to get rid of whatever had just happened to him...

Which, inconveniantly enough, he had no idea how to go about doing.

Well. He had one lead.. Gehenna. Gehenna. What was on Gehenna?

Sai would know, but he was currently in Japan, probably pondering on coming out here and dragging him back to Japan...

Shizue could doubtless find out, but she was probably pondering on assassinating him.

Who did that leave?

<->

Carthrat steps out into London, and starts hunting for a library..

[Anastasia]

You find the 'Westchester Library' after a bit of footwork and asking of the locals.  It is a older building, sprawling over a large plot of land with it's stone construction.

[Carthrat]

Upon entering the library, Carthrat takes a quick stroll around, scanning the general area.

He figures that, like most libraries of these age and size, they'll have some hidden section/catacombs/nymph whatever floating around..

[Anastasia]

This library is a large, rambling place, with sturdy wooden bookshelves that speak of age in all directions. It is a single story construction that winds and wanders, with several large rooms and countless lesser rooms. It feels like a cross of old, old architexture left intact and a rabbit maze.

Despite this, the signs of technology are evident. Computers sit at various desks, along with halogen lights and other machines.

Your initial search does not turn up any such section, but admittely it usually takes scanning or through searching to turn these things up.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat shrugs to himself, and sits near one of the computers.

Opening a search prompt, he is direct, and looks up.. Gehenna.