FOLLOWING DUNGEON
In the fleeting moment between waking and sleeping, there's a flash of pale blue light, bright enough to leave an impression and brief enough to leave you wondering if you saw it at all. You wake with the distinct feeling that you are forgetting something and pause at the nearest window on the way out your room. There's full view of Nanakamado from here - not the school, but the entire fortress. The crystalline structure at the center reaches up and pierces the clouds as always, refracting light on to them for an almost heavenly glow. You glance at the clock, next, and you are overwhelmed with real, palpable fear at the realization that you're already late for class.
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MILLENIUM CITY - The Tranquil City
Millenium city isn't really about order as much as it is about stability. It's a "tranquil" city, a world where no one would have the drive or the means to challenge their shadow in Paradise, because people accept the cards they are dealt.
Time hasn't appeared to move, but the team have lost their personae and forgotten Paradise, eachother, and themselves. Those who died in Paradise have returned as though they have never died. Only those who died by Paradise in the past year are returned to life - Kozue's grandmother and Reizo's father, for instance, are still dead.
The cast members lose the will to try to be anything more than what they are, shape their own future, and be true to themselves. They find themselves more complacent and more afraid of stepping out of line, or convinced that there is no point in doing so. You decide how to play this, but in a general sense, think of it as resetting your character's development.
Everything in Millenium City is rote, school included. There is a very going-through-the-motions feeling to everything. At the center of the city rests the Prism Tower, where "the angels" live - Micheal, Uriel, and Gabriel. They are known to citizens as the city's sworn protectors and enforcers. Prism Tower is supernatural in nature and populated with shadows such as Dominion, though the rest of the town is relatively normal, and Dominions are considered law enforcement above the police.
Surrounding Prism Tower is a fortress and prison, where Raphael the Betrayer, understood by everyone as Very Very Bad, is held. Political dissidents are also locked away here. Also at the foot of the Prism Tower is Nanakamado, the most prestigious school in Millenium City, said to be blessed by the angels themselves.