PART III: AFTER THE UNSEALING OF THE BLACK MAGE

Chapter 27: Detective Rave’s Case Notes

• A traveler was scammed into a fake luxury tour package, for which they traveled to Savage Terminal in order to claim it. There, an Angler Company bot posed as the facilitator of the event and tricked the traveler into accidentally shooting down a spaceship.

• An escape pod from the ship crashed into the office of a thug named Toole, a local thug and the one who had actually created the scam. From the ship emerged a girl named Senya, who explained that she had lost precious cargo when her ship had been shot down. Seeing an opportunity to make money, Toole forced the traveler to recover the cargo, claiming that they needed to cover the cost of destroying his office.

• After finding that the cargo had already been stolen from the crash site, the traveler began working with the infamous Detective Rave in order to find out who had taken it.

• In order to scare the local lowlifes of Savage Terminal into revealing the truth, Detective Rave claimed that the cargo belonged to the Angler Company, a fearsome and ruthless arms-dealer company which had allegedly met its end in a cataclysmic explosion at headquarters.

• While investigating the cargo, Detective Rave interrogated Senya and learned that she was part of an environmental organization called Sea Lantern, which helped reclaim polluted places across Grandis. She revealed that the cargo aboard her ship was a powerful cleaning device that could boil impurities out of any substance.

• After chasing down rumor after rumor, the traveler and Detective Rave found the cargo in possession of Maroni, a former employee of Mr. Hazard. Eventually, however, the device was teleported to the sewers, where they encountered a masked man named Cosim. Cosim revealed that the device wasn’t a purifier, but an Angler Company weapon that would turn the waters of Savage Terminal acidic, boiling everyone to death and leaving behind a source of pure energy.

• While the traveler worked with Cosim to stop the weapon, Detective Rave confronted Senya and learned that she was actually Senya Angler of the infamous Angler family. Rave began to fight Senya, who revealed that she was a cyborg enhanced with the technology of the Angler Company.

• After Senya retreated, Rave used a teleportation device that he had stolen from Senya during the fight in order to transport the unstable weapon aboard her escape craft, causing it explode in the sky.

• On the city skyline, Cosim noted that the Angler Company had returned, and the the Apostles of Darmoor were making their move. Because of this, he wondered whether it was time to meet with the elders from the realm of the sages.