Mission 1

[strawberryredgrave]

Sender: Dante Sparda
To: Everyone
Subject: Introductions

Can't say I mind this new locale very much. Would mind it a lot less if I didn't get separated from my brother, but if this place really is some extra elaborate dream thing, then he'll be fine.

So while I wonder if my nephew smacked me hard enough to send me here, I should make myself known. The name's Dante, the founder of Devil May Cry. We're guns (and swords) for hire who specialize in the supernatural and lemme tell you, we've seen a lot of weird stuff. Ancient portals to Hell reopening, cults using demonic power to pose as gods, blood sucking demon trees, we've handled them all. I ain't suggesting this is all demonic powers at play here, but it wouldn't surprise me.

"But Dante, you handsome devil" you're probably saying, "there's probably a few demons here already that are pretty cool. You're gonna offend them with this." And maybe I would, if I left it there. I've taken enough cases to know that not only are there good demons just getting by, but also bad people - human, demon or otherwise - manipulating who and whatever they can to get their way. Those are the people we kill. Like a Lady friend of mine once said: even a devil may cry when they lose a loved one.

I was just about ready to go into sort of retirement, but given the circumstances, I got at least one more job to do. Wanna collaborate? Chances are it won't be my weirdest.

Comments

[strawberryredgrave]

Ooh, healing magic. That's gonna come in handy.

I'd say I wouldn't need it, but all this dreamotion stuff might change that. Haven't messed around with it much. Gonna guess it's one of those "relevant to the person" kind of things.

[pricklybloom]

Yeah, it all seems pretty touch and go, especially while we're first learning how to handle it. My healing seems to be fine, but I think I'll have to learn to use dreamotion better in order to do some of my other stuff.

[strawberryredgrave]

That mean it can get the way of what we can already do?

That's gonna be a challenge, but you master this thing and the pros can outweigh the cons. Can't say I'd mind the challenge a whole lot, either.

[pricklybloom]

Maybe a little bit. To be honest, I haven't tried out all my abilities yet, so I'm not sure how much is still workable or not. I'll have to try it out a bit.

But it's fine. I don't mind a challenge either.

[strawberryredgrave]

Sounds like we're on the same boat. Wondering what kinda dream powers I'm gonna wind up with. Maybe I can summon pizzas and save on delivery. Or always have enough money to pay my bills.




Man, I'm getting old if that's what comes to mind.

[pricklybloom]

I imagine that the only way dreamotion can pay your bills is that it would help you with whatever job you're working at.

Though the pizza idea does sound kind of fun.

[strawberryredgrave]

Then maybe I ought to get that figured out before I start working. Get that extra affinity going, just in case it's useful somewhere.

That might have a little too much dream and not enough motion.

[pricklybloom]

Hey, you have to start things somewhere, right? I mean if you think about it, this whole world technically started off as just a dream.