Golden Age: Revival

N"I just suggested we find a city. All we know is that Koshkey was staying with the Emperor. We don't know what he's been doing since the Nobunaga died. Maybe we can find out."

"Wait, isn't this the guy with the egg?" Noct asked, "The magic soul egg thing that Arthur was talking about."

N"What the Hell are you babbling about?"

"Koshkey," Noct said, "He is immortal by way of an egg. We don't know what it looks like, but it is some kind of soul egg thing."

*Nero googles that shit.*

N"Hey, she's right. 'Koshkey was a villainous sorcerer Tzar who rendered himself immortal by way of placing his soul into an egg.'"

R"...I was kind of hoping that 'Koshkey the Immortal' was just an intimidating name."

E"So, in other words, it's pointless to fight him unless we have that egg?"

N"He might have the egg."

E"But what if he doesn't?"

"We need to get the egg to hurt him, so even if we do go to him there is nothing we can do before getting the egg."

R"So, in other words, we're just going to ignore him until this egg somehow just falls into our laps?"

"If we get to him, and we don't have the egg, there will be nothing we can do to stop him," Noct explained.

R"So then what would you suggest we do INSTEAD?"

E"Are you feeling all right?"

R"No. Now that you mention it. I have a terrible headache. Why?"

"Are you asking why you have a headache?" Noct asked, "Its because she punched you in the head. If you're asking why she cares, I have no idea."

R"It's not that! It's more...at the base of the neck."

E"It's just, you seem irritable."

R"I FEEL irritable...."

E"Why?"

*He glares at her.*

R"I JUST said that I don't know."

E"I suppose you did. Well...I hesitate to suggest it, but maybe we should visit Thiera again. At this point, she's the only one we can reach who would possibly know more about the Illuminati than we already do."

"Why do you seem so reluctant to go back to Thiera?" Noct asked, "I thought you guys were all some kind of group."

E"Her brand of help is very...utilitarian. From what I can piece together, I turned into a statue after magic disappeared from the world. Thiera found that statue and chained it up. When I turned back to normal, she force-fed me some dirt that taught me English--"

N"Don't ask, that part's really not worth knowing."

E"--shipped me off to some adoption center she runs, & enrolled me into some school I knew absolutely nothing about. Just so I would meet these knuckleheads, & go adventuring with them. She also fractured my leg once. Granted, we were attacking her. But still!"

"Wow, Thiera sounds like a bit of a bitch," Noct said.

E"Well, in spite of that, she is...useful, when there is no one else to turn to."

"Is there anyone else to turn to now?" Noct asked.

R"Unless you know how to reach King Arthur, no."

"I do not," Noct replied, "Besides, he had important matters to attend to last we talked."

N"Then I guess we're going to London."

"Lead the way," Noct continued, kind of bored of waiting.

*The group reappears in London &, presumably, heads over to Thiera's penthouse/office, finding her at her desk.*

N"How many Illuminati are left?"

<It's about time you asked that. The way the Illuminati is set up, very few of the workers actually know the organization they're working for. Instead, they are hired by a front. This minimizes leaks in the group, but it also makes it difficult to promote new members. It is probable that no one was promoted to any of the positions you've defeated. There are 8 leaders of the group, codenamed Selecus, Ptolemy, Claudus, Lysimachus, Cassander, Jinmu, Qin Shi Huang, & of course, Koshkey. Judging from whom you've killed & where, I imagine the only ones remaining are Koshkey & Qin Shi Huang.>

N"And where is Quinwhateverthefuck?"

<Somewhere in China.>

N"Can you be a little more specific?"

<No. We try to keep ourselves secret from each other. I've looked into all of the crooked business & politics in China & the surrounding countries, but I can't find anything that definitively points to an Illuminatus who isn't Koshkey.>

Allina: <Do you think there's any particular way we could find out where he is if we went there?>

"Why am I not surprised the Terracotta Army guy is another one of you people," Noct asked, letting out a small sigh. "Speaking of which, why don't we start there? In Shaanxi, where he was supposed to be buried. Or, wait, is this one of the ones that really isn't their namesake, but just took the name."

<Thus far, Koshkey has been the only member of the original Illuminati to still be active. But I suppose it is possible that Emperor Huang attained immortality as well.>

Noct looked less than happy to hear that, "Amazing. Doe he have a magic soul egg too?"