Looking at the Romani as I finished carving out my compound ritual that ended up covering every inch of an empty room, I made sure he understood what I had already told him once more. Chaldeas locked the room behind us to keep the ritual safe until Mash would do her new daily treatments until I said otherwise.
"Now I'm repeating this once more just to make sure this is drilled into your skull Romani. Everyday at twelve in the afternoon, unless deployed, Mash is to enter this room for treatment to repair her degrading body and soul. Under no circumstances is anyone but myself allowed to even touch that ritual, if someone tries then they'll cease to exist. No haha death, it will ERASE them from existence in this timeline because of the properties involved with it. Understood?"
"Yes, I understand Lockhart. Thank you…. This means a lot to me and the Director more than you'd realize…."
"Yeah yeah I get it's the blame of self imposed inherited sins, and sins of guilt for letting the man who summoned you get away with his atrocities."
"Thank yo-.... What did you just say? How do you…. Oh right, different rules for worlds and conceptual mumbo jumbo."
"I won't say shit, but I will say… as long I live in this world I'm not going to let you sacrifice yourself. Because like Mash, you deserve to live a normal life as well, Jedadiah…. Romani… whatever you want to call yourself when you're not essentially a damn emotionless puppet."
Romani said nothing as I walked away from him, Jack rocketing from around a corner and claiming my shoulder as she shouts that cursed word with deranged giggling.
"You're grounded."
"You can't ground me! I'm already dead and you're not my master!"
"GROUNDED!"
Jack flinches and rather meekly relents as I shoot her a glare, the small serial killer being cowed for now as she looks away from me. A small part of me though, that insane voice ever present within my head, makes me bend a knee slightly at the sad look on the fucked up spirit of children face.
"As you're grounded, guess that means you'll be helping me fix things around Chaldea until I say otherwise. I was needing a hand or two to help fix life support anyways so you saying that word was such a nice thing as it all but volunteered you for some hard work."
Jack froze, her eyes looking at me with various emotions behind them. Yet that didn't stop her from smiling and giggling madly as she screamed the WORD multiple times. I could only sigh with dispassionate amusement at the killer acting her age with me for some reason that I couldn't understand.
"Knookie knookie knookie!"
"Why do you even like me you fucked up mess of children souls?"
"Because mister you actually spent time bonding with me~! You're even giving me an experience of something we never truly had while alive! Everyone else tells me not to go murdering people, not to play with their insides, not to paint with blood, stop juggling knives, stop having fun, why can't we be like other children?! If my master could give you my contract I'd bind my VERY EXISTENCE to you so that you'll never escape me because you understand! I want to carve your heart out and hold it close to always experience the warmth you're giving our miserable existence even if it's temporary…"
Sighing I changed course, Chaldeas guiding me to Jack's master as she was depressed currently and trying to not cry. So I was going to ask for Jack's contract since aside from Rulebreaker, if two people agree then a servant contract can be changed from one master to another. It's an obscure thing but I know it has been done in some form in this parallel multiverse of a world. When I found her master he was eating dinner with his sister with a troubled smile on his face.
The kid didn't even look towards me, he asked a simple seemingly innocent question.
"Will you take care of her? She's not a BAD kid, just broken and I'm not a good fit to help her…."
"I've been all but adopted by the little shit so I won't be getting rid of her so easily even if I wanted to. Who knows, maybe it'll be more like having a murderous puppy around?"
Those words sealed something I started a fight with the Undying over, as what I saw pop up was absolute bullshit! I DON'T WANT THIS KIND OF THING! SHE EVEN KNOWS! SHE KNOWS BECAUSE SHE'S SMILING LIKE A DEMON! Oh hey her companion sheet is pretty decent.
[Curse of the Mist: You've been marked by the mists of White Chapel to forever experience the nightmare that comes from it. Jack the Ripper's legend is now tied into your existence, should you attempt to summon Servants or anything that could qualify as a Servant, you have a high chance to summon both Assassin and Berserker Jack the Ripper together. If you have one with you already, the second will never be far behind. Should you meet a Jack the Ripper in a different world, they will not be hostile towards you, instead your curse only gets worse for they're added to Mist of White Chapel.]
[Jack the Ripper
Heroic Spirit, Small Spirit(s)
Armor Class: 14/17 (natural armor)
Hit Points: 360
Speed: 200 ft.
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STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA NP LUK
16 (+3) 20(+4) 16 (+3) 16 (+3) 16 (+3) 12(+1) 16(+3) 10(+1)
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Saving Throws: Dex +4 plus PB
Skills: Perception +20 plus PB x 2, Stealth +26 plus PB
Damage Immunities: Poison
Condition Immunities: Exhaustion, Poisoned
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Senses: darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception +16 (PB x 2)
Languages: understands the languages you speak
Challenge: CR8
Proficiency Bonus (PB): equals your bonus
Evasion: Becoming incorporeal nullifies physical and magic damage unless the damage targets spirits.
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Actions:
Stabbing: 10d4+4 Piercing
Slashing: 10d4+4 Piercing
Knife Throw: 12d4+4 Piercing
Presence Concealment
Surgical Procedure
Extra Attack
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Buffs/Debuffs:
Mad Enhancement
Murder on a Misty Night
Mental Pollution
Information Erasure
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Reactions
Berserker Rage: If Papa or Mama get hurt, has a chance to enter a berserk state until the enemy is dead.
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Legendary Action(s):
The Mist
Maria the Ripper]
"UNDYING YOU BASTARD! I AIN'T NO DAYCARE FOR MURDEROUS CHILDREN!"
The lights flickered briefly with the sound of a haunting wheezing laugh before they stopped flickering. A second Jack that snarled randomly as she spoke threats appeared in a flash of light as she stabbed into my free shoulder and sat upon it. Snarling and hissing at everyone around us while the first Jack almost killed herself from laughing. The only masters still standing look at me with worry, and before anyone could ask if I'm alright I just left using Misty Step, Jacks coming with me as given they're acting like equipment by refusing to let go of me. We went directly to life support as I wanted to convert power or magical energy that can be supplied to it into oxygen using some rituals if I can.
Arriving at the room I opened the door and as soon as we saw into the room I hit the door frame while Berserk Jack and Assassin Jack went silent seeing the mess I'd have to fix while Da Vinci's NP keeps everyone alive. That Demon God really hated life support in particular as the entire system was destroyed so while I likely had shit to fix some of it, I'd need to heavily do a ritual to keep it fully operational without Da Vinci's help. Poking the brats I sent them a silent request to go get all the life support parts from my room as I shared a mental image of where they are in my room. Both of the smaller killers bolted from my shoulders, Berserker ripping her knife from my shoulder in the process. With them gone I started to use Fabricate on less complex things like ducts to fix them as good as new. Using their old base to do so with a small, but still significant, amount of metal and glass shards in the room to do so in order to not sacrifice structural integrity.
By the time they returned I had already fixed at most thirty percent of everything that wasn't heavily mechanical in nature. With the things they brought though I got to work on gutting and fixing the rest of everything else that I could, using Fabricate on what I didn't have to make replacement parts of the same thing if possible even if it was broken since I could fix it the rest of the way with Mending. BJ was surprisingly helpful in holding up heavier stuff while AJ was good at using her hands to help me replace things. I honestly don't know how long we spent in Life Support, but when the doors opened and Romani stepped in, all three of us turned to look at him. Even if I was half inside of a tank engraving magic symbols, with BJ and AJ holding tools or the tank in place as I worked on it.
"Oh… So the twins weren't lying about there now being two Jack the Ripper's… That's kind of concerning that there are TWO OF THEM. Please stop glaring at me like that, no knives! I prefer my insides being inside of me thank you! AAAHH LOCKHART STOP BERSERKER! STOP HER FROM TRYING TO THROW THAT KNIFE AT ME!"
"Jack, stop trying to knife him, he's not going to steal me away. What the hell do you want anyways, Romani?"
BJ stopped trying to throw a knife while holding onto the tank when it wobbled with me inside of it much to Romani's relief.
"Thank you… Anyways it's been eight days since anyone has seen you or Jack… and that means you should be able to revive the Director right?"
"Yeah alright just let me get this finished up and then life support will be thirty percent operational meaning that the most used area's and hallways can get air consistently. But Da Vinci's NP would still be required for the rest of the operational functionality until I can fix it further."
Climbing out of the tank after finally finishing up with it, I hefted it out of BJ's hands and set the tank in place, water flooding into it to begin a more mundane way to create humidified oxygen. Reverse engineering my Purify Food and Water spell into Create and Destroy Water was surprisingly easy given my intelligence and knowledge of the spell. So with an unlearned but known spell carved into certain sections of Life Support, plumbing and oxygen are no longer an issue. Just need to fix the rest of life support to actually get it all the way operational once more. Both Jacks rode on my shoulders while I followed Romani to the FATE room as that's where Marie's soul is and likely where they brought her corpse. Entering the room I ignored everyone else as I walked up to the corpse and said a simple demand.
"Release her."
FATE powered on and a ball of light was ejected from its database, that ball of light spun around frantically as if looking for something. With a snap of my fingers Reincarnate triggered. The corpse and soul disappear into a coffin shaped pillar of light. From that light a slightly changed but otherwise the same Marie steps out, her elongated ears twitching as she holds her head in confusion.
"Seems she came back as a Half-Elf, lucky her that means she has a slightly longer life span and more natural magic aptitude."
Hearing my voice she squeaks before rounding on me and screaming at me.
"Y-You1! Chief Lockhart what did you do?! Where is Lev?! Why am I in FATE?! Why are there two Jack the Rippers on your shoulders?!"
"You died ten days ago, got sucked into a history error, Lev was a Demon God, I killed Lev and corrupted Arthur, Congrats you're alive again, I've been cursed to be eternal family to Jack the Ripper."
Before she can freak out or anything else Romani escorts her out of the room, leaving just me and Da Vinci in the room, BJ and AJ staying quiet on my shoulders. Looking at the inventor I asked something because I was curious about the outcome and by the look on her face so was she.
"So want to see if I can summon a person from the Sword Coast?"
"While it's not something we should do… I really want to see what that result will be though, so let's do it! Starting summoning sequences… Whenever you're ready, Lockhart-san!"
Cutting my palm and dripping my blood into the circle while drawing the most iconic Sword Coast icon with it. A dragon circling a sword and shield while breathing fire the best I could I began a chant that felt more right to me.
"I call forth into time
To heroes and villains of legend
Through wishes and dreams crystallized
Born an individual
Born of the collective
Born of civilization
These are the dying wishes of humanity
As I stand upon the infallible boundary, before the brink of its destruction
Take form from legend, armed to fight once more
From the end we reforge the wrongs
And from those wrongs, we will carve a future
Through you, I embody change
And through me, you embody will
To those written into legend, of Heroes and Villains
from Men, from Kings, from Gods
To those who hail and heed the call
Come forth in duty, from desire, under will"
Light floods the room as FATE trembles for a couple of minutes, once the light fades away the four of us stare at the person who answered the call. While the others may not know who they are, to me though? I knew them. I've killed them, I've saved them, I've helped them…. Hell I even shot my shot as a joke in a campaign before!
"Where goes the stench of evil, so goes the cleansing wind of Minsc and Boo! Hm? Well this is new… Certainly not a first I've been to another realm, but certainly a first I've been summoned after death! Well met regardless my new friends!"
"Well damn… I wasn't expecting you and Boo of all people to answer my call since I'm not exactly a GOOD man or technically from the Sword Coast."
Minsc tilted his bald head at me with Boo pointing at me before the pair seemed to smile toothily.
"You may not be good or evil, but you've a heart of a blackened gold Master. Many were eager to heed the call, but I and Boo beat them to it! For we just KNEW the forces of evil needed a helping hand in being brought low once more. However, that Beholder Xanathar and Drow Drizzt Do'Urden were eager as well to heed the call!"
I couldn't help but cackle at the fucking bastards words because it was obsured! Out of countless heroes and villains that could come Minsc and Boo, Drizzt Do'Urden, and FUCKING Xanathar were the ones most eager to heed my summons! Looking at Da Vinci I said a simple demand.
"Make me the sole recipient of the drain, I'm bringing those two here! Because fuck if I don't get some of the best fighters and the greatest crime boss of the Coast on our side!"
She wanted to say something but didn't so I got to work and summoned two more times. We managed to get Xanathar who extremely likely has a Reality Marble, but we also got someone completely unexpected… someone I'm not sure is a good choice to have around…. Because they're the God of Artificer, Gond.
"Da Vinci…. Meet Gond, the GOD of Artificers…. Class Grand Artificer. The non-human is Xanathar, Class Grand Assassin, and Minsc and Boo are… Class Grand Avenger…. The fuck how did you two become an Avenger?!"
Minsc just gives a carefree toothy smile at my question.
"Our hatred for evil burns bright even in death, and the greatest evil has been committed here. So how can we not burn with rage and desire to snuff it out with maximum effort?"
"Lockhart-san I both love and hate having summoned servants with you. Though I have to ask, do any of them have a reality marble like you thought at least one would?"
That question terrified me but I looked at their information regardless and I vomited blood because fucking shit they all have some form of Reality Marble! Xanathar literally has his criminal empire as his, Gond has a workshop and labyrinth sounding one, while Minsc and Boo have fucking Bauldrs Gate as theirs! So I just raised a thumb for her because honestly I was terrified looking at their noble phantasma's since some were just outright broken like a certain holy sword….