After her capture, Yoni was blindfolded and gagged, she felt humiliated that she could get caught off guard so easily. She was currently unaware of her surroundings, but she knew she was in a damp warehouse. After several moments, the blindfold and gag were taken off, and she was alone in a room with Ayev.
Yoni: …
Ayev: Aren’t you going to say something, you were pretty snarky earlier.
Yoni: I’m just contemplating my current situation, running through the variables, running the calculations in my mind about what led to this
Ayev: Well this was a last minute decision, we were set to leave and never come back but our client said she wanted you out of the way…
Yoni: Out of the way…
Ayev: Yeah what about it
Yoni: I’ve deduced only two possible people could be your current client
Ayev looked stunned for a quick minute
Ayev: You sure are annoying for how little I’ve known you, but it makes sense, bratty little nuisance from a lovely fucked up family held together by notions of a grander past and old money
Yoni: I mean you left the only family you’ve ever known so do you have any right to judge me for mine
Ayev: They told you…
Yoni: Yup, you’re pretty silly for that, it’s clear you still care for them even though you left them long ago
Ayev: Well yeah, they were my family after all, I only left them to fight for my people
Yoni: Yeah you left them on a selfish revenge quest
Ayev: …
Yoni: Maybe if you admit you’re in the wrong then you can go back to the life you once lived, just under the Century Corps..
Ayev: I will NEVER join The Century Corps, I’ve been left to rot, humiliated and broken by the corps, there’s no way I’ll ever work with people like them
Yoni: Alright…your choice..
Suddenly the door opens, and Yoni’s eyes go wide
Lorenza: Hello sister
Yoni: …I didn’t want to believe it was you…
Ayev: Ah the jigs up
Lorenza: Sorry I deceived you like this Yoni but, you should know the truth so follow me
Yoni: …Fine…
Ayev unties Yoni and the two begin following Lorenza.
Lorenza: So, I bet you're wondering what I want with a paltry goblet?
Ayev: I don't actually
Lorenza: You really don't want to know?
Ayev: No, not really, you want to make more wine or smth for a bootlegging operation or smth
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Lorenza: You think too little of me
Ayev: Ok so what is your master plan?
Lorenza: It's what I'm about to show you
Ayev: Does it have to do with all the burners and explosives we also stole?
Yoni: What…
Lorenza: Yeah yeah hold on bucko
Ayev and Yoni arrive at a diagram Lorenza has planned, it's a model of the treasure tower with burners
Yoni: What is this?
Ayev: Ok so uh, you want to melt everyone's gold?
Lorenza (pointing at the Chalice): What does gold turn into when it melts…
Ayev: Oh I see what you're saying
Yoni: So you want to melt everyone's gold, cause a gold flood and kill thousands of people via an infinitely replicating gold flood.
Lorenza: No Yoni, this gold is going to help the poorer citizens of Rome like you wanted too
Yoni: Bullshit, like you ever cared about them
Lorenza: Our hands were tied, this is the only option
Ayev: Do you believe that?
Yoni: I can think of at least thirteen other ways to use Sinners Sextant to help Rome's poor and instead of doing any of those, you want them to help you drown it scorching molten gold?
Ayev: Wait are we another acsessory to genocide?
Lorenza: It's not genocide it's probably not gonna kill them it'll help them ever heard of equal distribution of wealth?
Yoni: You're so ignorant it honestly hurts
Lorenza: Well when gold floods the streets of rome, you'll see how better off everyone is about to become
Yoni: Maybe if you consider death mercy?
Lorenza: Why don't you j-
Yoni: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ayev: Damn
Lorenza: Ok ok ok no need to be rude about my offer
Yoni: You're a narcissistic sociopath why the hell would I ever consider this plan?
Lorenza: Well we've got a date with smelting so I gotta go
Ayev: Who's we?
Lorenza: You and me, I need your people guarding the vault from intruders
Ayev: Ok, sure
As Lorenza and Ayev turn to leave a massive white beam blows open a hole in the roof
Wjenx: Hey guys
Ayev: Oh brother
Elybe: Hey look who we caught with their no good plans exposed
Lorenza sees Dassu stealing her diagram
Lorenza: You know I worked hard on that diagram
Monact: So uh how about you come quietly
Lorenza: Uh how about no
Lorenza and Ayev leave the building through the hole in the roof
Wjenx: Looks like we now know what Sinners Sextant was doing back at the Treasure Tower after stealing the chalice
Yoni: Yeah, helping my sister set her idiotic plan into motion.
Dassu: So how long do you think we have?
Yoni: Maybe an hour there's A LOT of gold there
Monact: So Yoni how do you feel about your sister being a sadistic prick?
Yoni: Not a fan of her disposition
Elybe: I figured yeah
Yoni: So looks like we gotta fight our families
Wjenx: Yeah
Monact: Alright, so let's get moving
Faithful Night and Yoni exit the building, and step back onto the streets of Rome
Begin Streets of Rome II
When you're at XXV% a small contingent of Sinners Sextant get ready to engage Faithful Night and Yoni
Monact: Trying to slow us down?
Elybe: I mean yeah we got a strict time limit
Dassu: Yeah…yeah…
Fight against The Sextant
When you win
Wjenx: Well…that was a waste of time
Elybe: That was the point!!
Dassu: I guess we can't delay any more
Resume
When you're at L%
Yoni: I didn't know my sister was such a wacko
Elybe: I didn't either so it was shocking to me too
Yoni: You barely knew her
Elybe: That doesn't mean I wasn't surprised to see her have Sinners Sextant kidnap you
Yoni: I mean I assumed she thought those kinds of people were beneath her
Monact: Keeping up a charade sure takes a lot of work
Yoni: I can see that now
Resume
When you're at LXXV%
Yoni: So…are you going to try to convince Ayev to turn back?
Elybe: We probably cannot
Monact: Why do you think we'd try to reason with them?
Yoni: My sister may be too far gone but, maybe you can save what's left of your family, I can sense a sort of conflict in them.
Wjenx: If what you say is true, I may be willing to try
Dassu: I don't want to hurt Ayev…
Elybe: Me neither…if we can convince them to abandon the warpath…we can save them yet
Resume
When you're complete, the five of them come face to face with The Treasure Tower
Yoni: We don't have much time
Elybe: Well, let's not delay
Dassu: Ayev…we're coming for you
The group enters the Tower, preparing for a confrontation against their family.