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Cast

Inner Senshi

• Usagi Tsukino
• Ami Mizuno
• Rei Hino
• Makoto Kino
• Minako Aino

Outer Senshi

• Haruka Tenoh
• Hotaru Tomoe
• Michiru Kaioh
• Setsuna Meioh

Other

• Asagao Uekawa
• Erythrite
• Mamoru Chiba
• Zoisite

NPCs

Dark Organizations

• The Death Busters: A... cult? A group of scientists? A group of witches? All of these are accurate; none of them quite grasp the full truth. The Death Busters are widely understood to be targeting Pure Heart Crystals, and increasingly are understood to be trying to get the Holy Grail to bring about the Silence. WHY they want to end the world is less clear, given that they also live in it. The Outer Senshi think they're extrasolar aliens of the sort they used to prevent the invasion of during the Silver Millennium, but even then the Death Busters' full motivation, in terms of 'why apocalypse?', remains murky. Still, with an apocalypse at hand, the why may not really be that important.

• The Witches 5: A subset of the Death Busters; Eudial and Mimete have introduced themselves as the first and second of this team respectively; presumably there are three others. They seem to be mid-level operatives tasked with collecting Pure Heart Crystals in general and Talismans in particular. Also, Eudial and Mimete do not get along; they have disagreed in public before.
• The Professor: Eudial, Mimete, and daimons have mentioned him; he seems to be a highly placed figure in the organization who everyone wants to please. Suspected to be the creator of the daimons. He has never made a public appearance.
• Grand Magus Kaolinite: A leadership figure, above the Witches 5, who might or might not be competing to REPLACE her based on some comments they've made. Bears a striking resemblance to the Principal-General of Infinity Institute, Kaori Kishi, who is very close to the Tomoe family and has occasionally been seen taking care of and/or bullying Hotaru.
• Mistress 9: After the fall of Beryl's court at the North Pole, the social center of Dark Fall moved to a secret chamber in a sub-sub-sub-(many sub)-basement of the Infinity Institute, connected to the sprawling underworld below Tokyo. A little girl is sometimes sat on the throne there, seemingly unconscious, dressed in ceremonial garb. The Death Busters call her 'Mistress 9,' and she is understood to be the cult's secret leader, a higher authority than even Grand Magus Kaolinite. Very rarely, she'll contribute a few words to the day's discussions, whispered so softly that huge amplifiers are the only way she can be heard. As former/current Dark Fall agents, Mikoto Minagi and Westar have both been in the presence of this individual and can connect her to Hotaru.

• The Black Moon Clan: A close-knit organization with the feel of an extended, and possibly royal, family. They used to be based out of a huge crystalline spaceship hiding in orbit above Tokyo, but the magical girls blew it up. Since this didn't significantly affect their operations, they must have a more permanent base somewhere else. Nobody suspects it's someWHEN else, except for Chibi-Usa and Sailor Pluto, who have kept it to themselves so far. Their goals are extremely unclear, but clearly involve the Rabbit, and increasingly obviously, the subordination of the Silver Crystal to the Black Crystal.

• The Four Ayakashi Sisters: A fractious group of superpowered sisters who were unleashed on Tokyo to pursue the Rabbit: Koan, Berthier, Calaveras and Petz. They were very dangerous combatants, but roughly equally determined to outcompete one another for their boss Rubeus' affections as they were to acheive their collective goal. Eventually Rubeus gave them a conduit to the Black Crystal that would have killed them, effectively turning them into unknowing suicide bombers, but the Inner Senshi and allies rescued them and Sailor Moon purified them of Black Crystal energy. Now they're four normal sisters living quietly in Tokyo and keeping their heads down -- they really don't want to go back.
• Rubeus: Originally the boss of the Four Sisters, he took over operations in a more hands on way after they were redeemed. He was a lot more successful than they were, and managed to actually capture the majority of the Tokyo magical girl population at one point(!!) by allying with the Homeworld Gem Jasper, but unfortunately for him that scheme ended in their freedom and his defeat. Esmeraude showed up to mock him, then left him to go down with his ship, a fact currently only known to her, but he hasn't been seen since that day and is widely (and correctly) assumed dead.
• Esmeraude: More highly placed than Rubeus, she's taken over since he died. Strong ojou-sama personality, though she's a fully grown woman, not a schoolgirl. Powerful, though it's easy to forget since she's also very obnoxious and tends to fight through youma rather than getting her own hands dirty. Changing up tactics, insofar as she's in pursuit of the Rabbit but seems more interested in tainting specific locations of modern-day Tokyo with Black Crystal energy for some reason.
• Others: Esmeraude isn't running the show, clearly, so there must be others she answers to. While escaping from Jasper's ship, the magical girls overheard Rubeus mention 'the court of Prince Demando,' which it sounds like he was a part of. The redeemed Ayakashi Sisters probably know more about this but no one has ever asked them. Mikoto and Westar have seen the often-insubstantial, cowled figure of Wiseman lurking at the periphery of the occasional Dark Fall meeting, but he seems to act in an advisory role.

Youma

• Protodaimon: Scary as hell. Absolutely deadly, especially considering they're 'just' youma; made of darkness, evil, claws, fangs, and ruby-red eyes; cthonic and otherworldly; emanate a terrifying, energy-draining aura which has to be overcome before they can be effectively fought. Killing them without purifying them will also kill their host (see below). EXTREMELY bad news.

It is fairly well understood by the magical girls by now that a protodaimon is born from some kind of process wherein an ordinary person is infected (or possibly... implanted, yikes) with a fetal monster by the Death Busters; the victim incubates for a while, innocent of their doom, and then the monster emerges from their body all at once and leaves them behind in a coma. When the protodaimon hatches, the person's Pure Heart Crystal comes out with them, acting as a sort of engine of the monster, which must be defeated quickly so that the crystal can be returned before the victim dies. Once they're out, protodaimon are effectively berserkers, predators that rampage around killing and eating other humans and adding their Pure Heart Crystals to their bulk. Deadly, but not always the ideal Death Buster tool.

• Daimon: These monsters seem to be created from a strange pink egg containing some sort of alien or demonic essence, merged by some means with an ordinary item (anything will do) -- open the suitcase in which they can fold up into, and hey presto, instant evil agent. Unlike the beast implied to be their prototype, daimons exhibit not only a predator's instinct but the intelligence of a member of (evil) society, have individual personalities that seem to be connected loosely to whatever object was baked into them, and are generally loyal to the Death Buster cause. They are usually tasked with extracting Pure Heart Crystals, and/or covering the getaway of less expendable operatives like the Witches 5 and Kaolinite. Some of them even have feelings about this. Once defeated, they revert to whatever object they were made from; then the egg pops out, cracks, and a black smoke-spirit is born, only to instantly die when exposed to the open air.
• Droid: The Black Moon Clan's shock troops of choice, they spring into being from a small black crystal. There is a faint feeling of organic nanotechnology from them -- they look like gloopy women with pointy ears and pointier teeth, but depending on where their crystal lands, can also theme themselves a bit on their surroundings. Only really started being used often recently, as Esmeraude considers herself above personal combat.

2023 State Of Play

Some known knowns and known unknowns on the MUSH:

• The Rabbit: A little girl with familiar (though pink) odango tried to take Usagi Tsukino's Silver Crystal at gunpoint, then brainwashed her family into believing she's their visiting cousin (also named Usagi Tsukino, dubbed Chibi-Usa for sanity's sake), and she's been staying with them ever since. She's accompanied by a floating, eerily sentient toy called Luna-P that also looks a lot like a take on Usagi's feline companion of the same name. At first suspicious, even hostile, of the Sailor Senshi, she has softened over time as they have proved themselves trustworthy and capable. She's been enrolled at Juuban Elementary School for some time now, where she is a well-liked new transfer student.

From the moment she appeared in Tokyo she has been pursued by the Black Moon Clan, an extended family of great cruelty and power who wield darkness itself through their Black Crystal. What they want from her is unclear; some members of the family seem to find her death acceptable while others aim to capture her. Their nickname for her is 'The Rabbit.' She seems to know more about them than she's telling.

She also answers to 'Small Lady,' a nickname mostly used by Sailor Pluto, who obviously also knows more than she's telling; Pluto prioritizes Small Lady's safety above most other things. Uranus and Neptune have found out that she is Usagi Tsukino's daughter from the future, but not what that future is like nor the circumstances of her return to the past.

When Chibi-Usa is cornered or otherwise under extraordinary stress, the upturned crescent moon symbol of the Silver Millennium's royal family sometimes appears on her forehead (a la old Queen Serenity and Princess Serenity), and an extraordinary but wild and uncontrolled power emerges to protect her. The chaos it causes (for example, gravity reversal) can endanger her or others instead. This is a widely known fact; it has happened numerous times, including when she used one such tantrum to rescue most of the magical girls of Tokyo who'd been imprisoned by Rubeus on his spaceship.

Recently her powers drew Sailor Senshi and other allies into her nightmares, to rescue her from a very real monster that had the visage of the Reaper himself. In that dream she conducted herself with a certain royal imperiousness as she fled the Reaper; she even tried to protect the magical girls, afraid that they would fall to its scythe. The dream, though blurred in setting as all dreams tend to be, took place in an eerie, shattered cityscape that didn't seem to be made of modern concrete and rebar, but something sleeker and stranger...

• Usagi's Silver Crystal: It is widely known that Sailor Moon is the reincarnation of Princess Serenity and possessor of the legendary and mysterious Silver Crystal, one of the most powerful artifacts in the universe. The Black Moon Clan seem to be actively interested in laying hands on it; the Death Eaters haven't mentioned it specifically but presumably wouldn't, you know, TURN IT DOWN.
• Chibi-Usa's Silver Crystal: The Black Moon Clan know that Chibi-Usa is also packing the Silver Crystal (future edition) and they want it very badly. The Outer Senshi and Hotaru have seen it; no one else has.
• The Black Crystal: To hear the Black Moon Clan tell it, the crystalline source of their might is on equal footing with the Silver Crystal, but this could be optimism on their part (wouldn't they have already won?). Black Moon Clan members wear earrings made of black crystal shards, and sometimes wield other black crystalline magical tools, implied to be pieces cut from a greater crystal not yet seen outside the Clan. In any case, the power of the Black Crystal is capital-E Evil, a font of death and destruction; being bathed in its power causes major personality adjustments in that direction; having purified the Ayakashi Sisters, the senshi and their allies have a pretty clear understanding of this.
• Dark Henges: Starting with Esmeraude, the Black Moon Clan have taken to kind of messing with modern-day Tokyo's feng shui. Not LITERALLY (and that is a point to raise, since there absolutely was a whole plot about the actual feng shui of the city, with fights over the mystical locations that controlled the World Tree). But Esmeraude does seem to be following some map of her own, in terms of infecting places with dark power to some mysterious purpose. The protagonists know that's happening, and how to fix it (at the center of each Dark Henge point is a Black Crystal statue of Esmeraude; just break it), but not why she is doing it.
• The Silence: The most mystically sensitive, premonition-prone senshi (for example: Michiru and Rei) have been having regular nightmares about the apocalypse for over a year now; as time has gone by, more and more magical girls are starting to be forced to tune into this horror channel at night, as though the power -- and likelihood -- of the prophecy is growing. It's a very bad dream: the Silence is called such because all life on Earth is dead, so there's nothing left to make noise. It is a world of ruin. The sky and sea are both red as blood. There are no lights, only void-black shadows. The cities are completely shattered. The people (both in general and in the particular of any and all specific loved ones) are stone; they, too, break or turn to dust before the dreamer's very eyes. Atop a ruined tower is a dark figure with twin violet stars for eyes, carrying a large scythe. She sweeps it down, and the dreamer awakens, knowing they, too, have just died in this terrible, seemingly inevitable future.
• The Dark Messiah: The figure in the dream who will end the world; the herald of the Silence. Believed by the Outer Senshi to represent Sailor Saturn (associated with the color violet and a scythe-like weapon known as the Silence Glaive, who, last time she woke up thousands of years ago, initiated the apocalypse that finished off what was left of the Silver Millennium after Earth's attack on the Moon).
• Hotaru Tomoe: Uranus, Neptune and Pluto believe Sailor Saturn was reborn in the modern day as Hotaru Tomoe, the young daughter of Infinity Institute's founder Souichi Tomoe; this is probably true, as the sigil of Saturn appeared on her head once when she was endangered. That was right before she sucked all the energy straight out of the Book of Darkness and into herself, which seems like something someone evil would do. This was right in front of a small army of magical girls of all affiliations so it's a very widely known fact. The Tomoes are also suspiciously close to the Death Busters; after getting all weird and Saturny and evil, Hotaru was spirited away by Kaolinite. She stopped attending classes after that but has been seen around town occasionally. Under normal circumstances, she is a weak and sickly waif, sweet in a kind of pathetic way. She's prone to seizures and fugues, where she behaves wise and cold beyond her years, knowing things she couldn't possibly know, and it is rarely obvious if this is great precociousness or evidence of the dark warrior within her stirring in her slumber. The Outer Senshi and their allies want to kill her before she awakens as Saturn in order to prevent the apocalypse. The Inner Senshi and their allies are not on board with this plan. Chibi-Usa is her best friend, which some suspect is an evil ploy on Hotaru's part.
• The Holy Grail: A legendary artifact. In the hands of the Dark Messiah, it will cause the Silence. In the hands of the 'True Messiah', it will save the world from the Silence. The Death Busters want the former. The Outer Senshi want the latter. This is the core of their conflict. The Inner Senshi have heard both sides mention the Grail as their goal, but it hasn't been explained in very much depth. Chibi-Usa once molded a version out of clay for art class (fully bedazzled, of course), so she must know something about it as well.
• Talismans: According to myth, the Holy Grail is said to be sealed away beyond the reach of mortals by both fate and Serenity's Decree; to summon it back to the world requires bringing three sacred Talismans together. The Talismans are said to be hidden in three truly selfless and beautiful Pure Hearts; extract the right Pure Heart Crystal, and it will transform into a Talisman. The Death Busters can only make that determination back in the lab, which is why they try to carry them off. The Outer Senshi can make that determination in the field, which is why they try to get them before the Inner Senshi can -- were they to find a Talisman, they would refuse to return it to the victim, as the Holy Grail must be found in order to save the world, and have made that position all too clear. So far, however, no Talismans have been revealed. Eudial of the Witches 5, though, has recently implied that she knows who's got them and is planning to make a big move.
• Pure Heart Crystals: A beautiful, pink and red, many-spiked crystalline structure that resides inside the hearts of humanity. Despite the name, almost everyone has such a crystal regardless of the purity of their lives; however, they are not all created equally. Besides the long-sought three Pure Heart Crystals containing Talismans, the hearts of certain extraordinary individuals contain crystals of immense energy. There is some evidence that the Death Busters are not only seeking the Talismans but also starting to initiate mass harvesting schemes in order to use Heart energy for some other purpose. Known means of Pure Heart Crystal extraction include:

• Kaolinite's Protodaimons: Horrific monsters that explode out of a victim from within, taking their Crystal with them as the engine of their existence. Were seen all too often back in IC 2014 (two years ago) but have become a much rarer sight since the end of the World Tree/Book of Darkness inciden. Nobody ever went back to clear out the catacombs full of sarcophagi under Tokyo where they seemed to be being created (having, at best, barely escaped that discovery with their lives; also, the entrance conveniently collapsed...)
• Eudial's Gun: Eudial has developed a gun she can use to shoot the Pure Heart Crystal out of a victim from afar. This does not harm them, except for how they will die very quickly once their Crystal has been taken from them.
• Mimete's Daimons: Mimete has daimons extract Pure Heart Crystals for her; her particular breed of the youma rush their victim and -- glurk -- inhale it out of them, through their throats, in a very nasty, difficult-to-romanticize, "kiss." The daimon swallows the Crystal immediately in order to get it back to the lab in one piece, so it must be defeated in order to save the victim's life.
• Viluy's HeartBeats: These cutesy fitbit-like devices have been given out as prizes, party favors, and festival goods for a couple of YEARS now at Infinity Institute events. Officially, they're a product of the Computer Club, led by Yui Bidou (who is a creepy genius but has never made a move to reveal herself as more than that). There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of the accessories out in the world. One of the most recent major events was the revelation that HeartBeats are actually Pure Heart Crystal collectors; one push of a button, and the wearer collapses as their crystal pops right out. This was very public and is well known by magical girls; what they don't know is why the Death Busters haven't yet activated all of them at once.
• Tellu's Tellun Flowers (not yet known, but in play): Lulu Teruno, an Infinity student and instructor, has opened her florist shop. She gave away her product for free to her very first customer, Hotaru Tomoe, who was told that the little potted plant, called a Tellun, would bless any friendship and bring that friend good luck. It has been growing on Chibi-Usa's bedroom windowsill ever since. It has yet to bloom. Popular (and cheap), many other Telluns have since been bought by Tokyo citizens and are scattered throughout the city. Surely nothing bad will happen.

• Infinity Institute: Infinity itself has become super suspicious as the epicenter of the protodaimon outbreak in 2014; the Outer Senshi think that most of the staff are Death Busters, and they're right. Although they have not shared this opinion very widely, there are undeniably enough dark mysteries around the school that even the Inner Senshi and other magical girls have good reason to be increasingly suspicious of the institution as a whole. Of course, it's officially run by the Magic Association, and the magic school itself is full of good and kind (if not always friendly) professors, so there's a good reason to laugh this off as a conspiracy theory or even as prejudice against witches, too.
• Mamoru Chiba: Mamoru Chiba aka Prince Endymion aka Tuxedo Mask never came back from the North Pole; his friends and loved ones watched him die, though his corpse was lost in the chaos of the battle against Queen Metallia. Still, his death has been accepted as a tragedy for years. That is, until Mamoru recently popped back up on the radar out of nowhere. Apparently, he's suffering from amnesia, with no memory of his past. He seems deeply immersed in an ordinary (if privileged) life at Ohtori Academy; he's engaged to fellow college student and Student Council luminary Shizuru Fujino, and tucked closely under the wing of his mentor, Ohtori Chairman Akio Ohtori. He is often seen sitting on a greenhouse bench, nose in a book, quietly enjoying the roses all around him. Mamoru's new civilian circumstances are public knowledge, though of course not everyone knows who he used to be.
• Moonlight Knight: Around the same time Mamoru reappeared, a mysterious cowled figure, enrobed in white with a crescent moon clasp, began to appear also. Like Tuxedo Mask, the self-proclaimed Moonlight Knight is prone to interceding on Sailor Moon's behalf at critical moments, giving her a few words of encouragement, and fading away. Nobody knows who he is. However, he has been seen in the same room as Mamoru Chiba the amnesiac civilian, so the most obvious explanation seems to be ruled out.

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