Story Quest - Locked Out
The Nation of Eternia is under lockdown. Every border sealed, every checkpoint manned, no traffic in or out. Government officials say it's to protect us from some sort of epidemic disease, but what people are saying (despite the censorship) on EternoScape seem to suggest otherwise, and the rifts have been getting worse and the streets keep filling with things that don't make sense, and people and things keep going missing.
We're stuck inside it like everyone else, except we've got a robot on us that the whole city is now hunting. Johnathun Nightwood III says he can get us out, but he won't open that door for free, and Ekks came back from Shadowsphere with a shard that's got Nightwood spooked. Rifts tearing the Umbral Skies open, and an Auratachi hovercraft hovering right beside a pod just like the one Achilles came out of. He wants to know what Auratachi knows, and that means taking a visit to their Research Center and jumping into their Bytescape ourselves.
Reach the Auratachi Research Center in New Kyori and find a Bytescape Dataport.
Locate Auratachi's records on the Shadowsphere Rifts.
Recover any data on Achilles, the pods, or their origin.
Bring it back to Nightwood to earn passage out of Eternia.
Side Quest - The Skies Are Falling
During a somewhat normal day in New Kyori, a large metallic pod seeimgly fell from the sky and crashed into Deniferu Avenue. Upon investigating, we found several dead Enforcement Officers, a ton of fire, some strange alien critters feeding on corpses, and most importantly, this strange Cognibyte who calls himself "Achilles."
We grabbed him and ran, straight down into the Kyorian Sewers, where a Xenocryptia name Pot redirected us to a hideout to lay low. After some investigation and remarks from Johnathun Nightwood, it appears this Cognibyte isn't like many others. It appears to have some sort of otherworldly connections, marked by a symbol nobody quite seems to recognize. Whatever Achilles is, we've all agreed that he's important, and especially dangerous to be seen with.
Learn more information about Achilles' origins.