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You start the process of searching and end up checking every place. Genuinely, you two check *every* place. The perfect beat is no longer here on Earth which means one of two things: it has either been moved up into the heavens, or down into the underworld. You start to understand the weight of the situation now, a perfect beat is something that, through its perfection, carries a responsibility. You and the scorpion, now bonded in this geas, have to travel to the immortal planes to retrieve it before it can be misused.