Mission: Photoshoot (2)

The journeyman's journal: entry xx year yy

With the Shroud of Black Power in hand, there is no turning back. There were only 2 ways possible: portrait or landscape.

The unassuming Shroud of Black Power has a mind-controlling power so grappling that nobody, nobody in SxNSD that is, could resist. It turns even the most reticent personality into a charming, attention-seeking beast.

Down the Yew Chaff Hole, in the Dense Sturdy Yow, our beloved 8 (Edwin was somewhere else running errands) underwent total transformation. It was as if the enclosure was replete with their wild energy unleashed. Fortunately, before things went out of control, Danny took out his original master bolt. (Being a good friend of Percy, he managed to cunningly replace Zeus' one with a counterfeit he could only cry on top of the Empire State Building. But anyways, this is not the main point.)

The master bolt zapped the other 7 into consciousness. An average of 2 zaps were required to bring them back to sanity. Dire cases such that afflicted Harry and Cei required much more zaps. But after releasing so much power, Danny himself began to be affected by the Shroud, and the rest needed to coup his master bolt and casted it on the rogue owner.

When Edwin caught up with them, he was still able to regain some sense, but nevertheless the rest needed to be sure and zap some consciousness on him as well.

They now realized the impending danger of premature possession of the Shroud. There was no other option but to return it to the Sacred Shrine at Bukit Batok immediately.

-- (unlikely) to be continued...

Jo[r]I, the r is silent