The Nine Seals

On October 11th, 2014, Sakura Xadium Aino came to the realization that Valeria Xadium Aino was actually the future daughter of The Corruptor and Lady Ishtar, not Doctor Xadium and Aino Minako's manipulated DNA as previously suspected, making her the half-sister of Hazel Ninegate. That night, adherents of The Cult of The Nine, realizing they now had a piece of the puzzle that had been so longing to complete, managed to kidnap Valeria, ambushing her while she was attempting to stop a crisis of their creation.

Unfortunately for them, Valeria promptly began massacring their number upon awakening, and in order to regain control of the situation and put her under their power, they sought assistance from the Eldritch powers, making a demonic pact with forces aligned with the Scholomance. Hoping to capture the Widening Gyre and to use his power to render Valeria helpless before them, they could not reach his exalted self, managing only to summon the echo of him that lay dormant in the cells of The Iconoclast. On October 12, 2014, The Iconoclast's power was stolen from him by means of this sorcery, taking the form of Lucien the Avenger (in form only) and he was rendered wholly mortal.

Now the Cult of The Nine have the tools to begin their great game...

On October 14th, 2014, A cloaked figure infiltrated the lobby and pilfered a chunk of Sakura April, which he them tossed to the winds of Typhoon Vongfong, swallowing a cyanide pill thereafter. The body was later found to have been that of "Melvin Butler", the spitting image of Umino Gurio. On his person was a handgun and a business card for a "Ninety Nine Cent Store".

[21:00] <Dead Melvin> - So these are the heroes. -
[21:01] <Dead Melvin> - Digging around in the depths of hell.... -
[21:01] <Dead Melvin> - You're too late. -
[21:01] <Dead Melvin> - So arrogant. So rough. -
[21:02] <Dead Melvin> - Yuo're too late, the androids's flesh was the key. -
[21:02] <Dead Melvin> - The key to the door to the Seals. -
[21:03] <Dead Melvin> - And the Guardian of Virtue and Justice will be the Final Sacrifice™ -
[21:04] <Dead Melvin> ♦ The one called Valeria.
[21:04] <Dead Melvin> - with the key from the Android, we can open the way to the Space. -
[21:05] <Dead Melvin> - The Space where the Goddess of Judgement will be awakened. -
[21:05] <Dead Melvin> - Nine Goddesses for Nine Seals for Nine Levels of Hell. -
[21:06] <Dead Melvin> - and at the bottom... The Guardian of Virtue will be Sacrificed.. or Saved. -



[21:27] <Simon Kerrick> If you really don't fear us... why'd you kill yourself?
[21:28] <Dead Melvin> - It was the instructions given to the hoste -
[21:28] <Dead Melvin> - The Boy Melvin was instructed to kill himself after completing the post-hypnotic suggestion -
[21:29] <Dead Melvin> - I am merely here to give you the Good News™ -
[21:29] <Simon Kerrick> How'd you get into his soul, then? Who are we talking to, if you are not him?
[21:30] <Dead Melvin> A nameless messenger from the Great Beyond being paid for his humb;e services
[21:32] <Dead Melvin> ♦ I have no interest in working for heroes.
[21:35] <Dead Melvin> - Enjoy what is to come. Will it be Fire first, or Ice? Or perhaps Water. Maybe the thunderbolt of 



[21:57] <Nelius Raoul> Still, it's not as if they're gonna honestly tell us "Hey, we planted a Neon Sign over our base, come and get us if you have the balls."
[21:58] <David O`Cain> Considering who we're dealing with, Nelius, it wouldn't be a surprise.
[21:59] * a box gets thrown in the window
[21:59] * there is a note on the box
[21:59] * Nelius Raoul inspects the note.
[22:00] * the note says "Hey, we planted a Neon Sign over our base, come and get us if you have the balls."* *=location is printed on time sensitive paper, all will be revealed when the stars are right 

On November 2nd, 2014 a package was delivered to The Intern with this note:

The message on it was written in Valeria's blood.

On November 6th, another note was sent, seeming to imply the existence of a third Nonary Game.

Furuhata Motoki was beaten and left with a message:

[20:28] <Crwn_FruT_Gamer> Some people in thic brown robes...
[20:28] <Crwn_FruT_Gamer> They said... they said...
[20:28] <Crwn_FruT_Gamer> "We have the nine... but their fates are not their own to make..."
[20:29] <Crwn_FruT_Gamer> they said...
[20:29] <Crwn_FruT_Gamer> "Nine persons... nine realms... nine gods... one gateway to hell."
[20:30] <Crwn_FruT_Gamer> "Save them and save 'her'... or face the revival of our goddess."
[20:30] <Crwn_FruT_Gamer> "...d[BLEEP]ks"

And then this vision was shown to everyone... which Paisley identified as coming from Earth 1337-DiC.

November 20th

After The Intern managed to capture the Corrupted Senshi Pluto and brought her in for Interrogation, Shaldra Nightfall discovered that the Senshi are playing the game because they hope to be resurrected by "Valeria the LightBringer" who will help them all to become the one true forms of the Sailor Senshi as opposed to the bad copies they are now. She also revealed that Iconoclast is trapped in someone's body. Pluto was shot by an assassin.

Game 5 would have gone to Team HOTEL had Eliza McIntash not scuppered Intern's plan to use the De-Sacrificer to sacrifice a resurrected Pluto in order to clear the level and get Iconoclast back in one fell swoop.

Games 6 and 9 were played in parallel as the location and the mastermind of the game-- a possessed John Constantine who still had a fragment of Hazel Ninegate in him, were found. Sacrificing himself, Doctor Xadium managed to dislodge the soul so the others could fight it, which they did, ultimately destroying it and winning the day.