JOE hears a loud explosion. before getting to that, he harvests the shadow crystals and silkweed. with that out of the way, he investigates...
and sees a Entropic substance (sic). not willing to touch it, he inventorieses it from a distance, and walks over to his furnace. this might render it unusable for the future, but... ah, screw it. the original plan's a bust anyway.
He deinventorieses the entropic substance into the furnace,and turns it on. with the galeforce crystal, it doesn't need constant maintenance, but he stays on guard, using trigger - scorpion to replace any parts of the furnace that destabilize too much with its ever-shifting blade. After the entropic substance is suitably hot and has melted into liquid, he lowers a very thin, low-temperature (near 5 Celsius) rod of titanium (part of the furnace) into the goop. since the rod is cool, entropic substance near it cools as well, no longer being molten, and begins to crystallize. with the reaction started, JOE doesn't need the rod any more... but he does need to keep things cooling, which he does by unloading a weakened and diffused elemental blaster (ice) shot into it.
Perditio [which is also entropy but another word and from thaumcraft so clearly it exists and since they represent the same thing they're probably interchangable hopefully?] crystal get! hopefully, anyway.



Originally posted on 2018-04-26 14:38:00

Pionobot runs up to F7 and uses the gaster elemental blaster on the Chosen.

Originally posted on 2018-04-26 16:54:00

Boshi looks to the North. As does Hat Kid. "(Looks like we've got a friend. But... why are they waiting around like that?)" Hat Kid seems to agree. After some discussion, they decide to give the Seeker Sphere a little surprise before it rams into the barrier. They do let Auth meet up with Omorika first, though.

As if they were ninjas, they skedaddle out of the library and towards the main entrance with extreme speed. Probably some time related shenanigans. They appear riiiight behind the Seeker Sphere, revving up like Pac Man does in the Pac Man World series (i guess), and-

"(hi) hi"

-annihilates it and any seekers that decide to spawn with their Teslathrower (thus making the ball unstable), and Hat Kid's umbrella (specifically used to redirect it into the wall), throwing it so off balance and becoming so redirected that, when it does decide to move, it careens into the wall instead. That sweet, sweet 2m thick wall. Boshi hollers to the ones behind the barrier first;

"(Hey, you guys gonna just stand there or what? If so, just keep the librarian safe when and if they do get through, alright?)" Meanwhile, Hat Kid just waves (adorably) to the people behind the barrier.

He then shouts to the ones not behind the wall;

"(HEY, A LITTLE HELP OVER HERE?)"

Originally posted on 2018-04-26 17:48:00

The Man whacks Jester 01, and follows up with a JUDO CHOP. He then retreats to H10.

Originally posted on 2018-04-26 21:29:00

I'm bad at thymeposting hory shet

Anyway, now that Reisz has been taken care of, Calibri sighs.

"Honestly? Could've been worse. Heh... I'll keep that trophy for the sake of memory."

Beat. He glances over at Taeda, noting her whole being silenced thing.

"...That silence should wear off soon, don't worry. Maybe we should look into getting you something to stop that happening again... wouldn't want that to happen in an actually dangerous moment."

He then glances at the Reisz's Cell accomplishment trophy thing, closes his eyes, and inexplicably teleports off to the Ruined Hall. After a moment spent staring at the books, he decides to draw a giant eyeball in one of the blank ones, using a blue crayon that he very much didn't have earlier to do so. At least, if he had any drawing skill whatsoever, he would have... The result is... not really that impressive, let's just say. Why'd he draw that? Because.

Meanwhile back at the house, uh. Oh yeah. EN nods, tucking the Gallow's head back into the inventory, then she shrugs.

"Yeah, ah get the feelin' we'll all be keepin' a reminder o' whate'er big bad enemies o' note we've dealt with. Jus' cause it's nice t' keep track, an' all. Heh."

Beat.

"...Ah wonder if Cal's done fightin' that Reisz thingy o'er at th' stage..."

Originally posted on 2018-04-27 18:27:00

Irongutta enters The Entryway, ready for a fight.

Originally posted on 2018-04-27 22:57:00

Destiny hookshots to K10, Phase Shifts with the Onlooker2 and retreats to O12.

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 00:00:00

<ROUND FIFTY-THREE>
Simeon decides to talk to the Iti within the Hall of Sages, extending his hand out in greetings. He's promptly grabbed, and flipped into the nearby pool of Thyme Matter.

ITI: Oops. Hand slipped. Are you upset?
ITI: I'm not upset.
ITI: Anyway, my name is Pip.

...She (probably, anyway) goes back to idly sitting on her pile of credits, acting like she totally didn't just bean Simeon. He promptly pulls himself out of the thyme, and walks back outside of the library. Zahlia meanwhile, heads deeper into the library. She finds aesthetic curtains. She totally can't see beyond them. Nope. Terry then drops 50 Credits on items, and then tosses 4 Processed Fabric, 1 Shadow Crystal, 2 Gold Ingots, 1 Greatwood Log, 3 Silver Ingots, and charges on the Woodsteel Helmet and the Scroll of Focus to create the Primed Helmet!

JOEbob then harvests 4 Shadow Crystals and 27 Silkweed, before harvesting three units of Entropic Biomass from one of the blobs in the Hidden Grove. He then uses his little furnace to melt one unit of the flesh down into a liquid (ew), and uses 1 Titanium as a rod to cool the biomass. The rod is instantly consumed by entropic energy, and decays in his hands. He obtains 1 Perditio Crystal! Was this a good idea? Only time can tell. Calibri then talks with Taeda, noting that her silence should wear off soon. She nods hopefully, still unable to say anything. She then follows him to the Great Library, unsure of what to do next. She does however, seem to light up upon seeing the place... and grimace in horror as she sees the state of ruin its in.

EN then puts the head of the Gallow away. Suddenly, Salix stands up.

SALIX: ...We've been gone for too long.
SALIX: Thank you for your hospitality, but we must be going.
WILLOW: Whaaaat? We still don't have a proper excuse for being out!
WILLOW: They'll lynch us! Or Acacia us!
SALIX: Well, we'll be in deeper trouble if we come back too late.
SALIX: I guess it's almost goodbye, then.
SALIX: We'll be off... soon.

It looks like the trio will leave next round. You probably won't see them for quite some time, so if there's anything you want to do, you should probably do it now. The Author then goes to meet Stella. On the way, he scans a Seeker Sphere. Codex Updated! Omorika turns an eye to him, most of her attention still on maintaining the barrier.

OMORIKA: Oh, you're here.
OMORIKA: Interesting. I didn't think I'd be seeing you this soon, Author...
OMORIKA: Given the direction that you've approached from, and the recency of the broken window... I'm assuming that it was you who broke the window.
OMORIKA: For shame.

She sounds... cold. There's little emotion in her words. Then, the slightest smirk crosses her face. It quickly vanishes as she fully returns her focus to the barrier. On the outside, Boshi runs into position, and fries the Seeker Sphere from behind. Or at least, they try. Turns out, being made of Seekers makes you have eyes everywhere, and the ball swerves out of the way and crashes into a wall, cracking it. A seeker falls off of the ball, dead.

OMORIKA: Ah, clever. You've set up a flank.
OMORIKA: Why don't we abuse this?

She drops the barrier, and allows Auth to fire Overwrite down into the entryway. It strikes the Seeker Sphere, detonating it and slaughtering the Seekers within it. Their fragments fall to the ground like some sort of twisted rain.

OMORIKA: ...
OMORIKA: Thank you.
OMORIKA: I have a lot I'd like to ask, but I believe I must wait.
OMORIKA: Perhaps I- or we, I should say, can take this place back...

She turns around, grabs a tome from off the desk, and strides forward with an air of elegance and confidence. The two faceless wooden soldiers next to her move in by her side. She gestures for Auth to follow her into the fray. Nezira and Irongutta both reinforce Boshi as well!

S T R I F E !

<ALTAR ISLE, ROUND FOUR>
The Cultists and Carnival have been beaten back! Anyway, as you've seen, the Carnival has a heavy focus on their musical mechanics! Maybe it'd be worth grabbing some Beatmap weapons from various places, or making ones of your own? You're also free to press deeper into the sewers! What sort of mysteries await you there? Except more nasty scents. That's a give-in.

<VS MARRON, ROUND SEVEN>
Ette watches as the Hacktype next to her collapses. With no other options, Ette flops down into the ground and plays dead. Marron lets out a sigh as Ette lands next to her, rubbing the bruise on her cheek.

MARRON: I... I guess I l-lost... a-again...

She nearly breaks into tears, but with Toast right next to her, she manages to remain calm, instead burying her face into Toast's shoulder. She doesn't speak as she remains there, leaning on Toast. Chaos walks forward, seemingly disappointed.

CHAOS: okay firs(t) off, wew (t)ha(t) was a good figh(t)
CHAOS: ni©e ba©k and for(t)h, e(t)(t)e almos(t) made a good re©overy

He heads over to a corner, rotates himself 180 degrees, and then leans into the corner.

CHAOS: so uh
CHAOS: marron
CHAOS: you alrigh(t) or
MARRON: no
CHAOS: he©k
CHAOS: anyway, i be(t) you're wondering why i wan(t)ed you (t)o figh(t) her

...It's a little hard to take him seriously with the way he's positioned.

CHAOS: i (t)hough(t) i(t)'d be good for her self-es(t)eem if she won
CHAOS: (t)he idea of (t)he duel ©ame up one day, and we spen(t) like a few hours planning how she'd do (t)hings
CHAOS: she ©ame up wi(t)h mos(t) of (t)he (t)a©(t)i©s herself- pulls, buffs, oh man she was a©(t)ually (t)hinking for on©e
MARRON: Wait, what the gorilla does that mea-
CHAOS: i mean (t)he plans wen(t) ou(t) (t)he window ra(t)her qui©k as we saw
CHAOS: bu(t) she was kinda happy for on©e
CHAOS: kinda bummed (t)ha(t) i(t) failed
CHAOS: deal's a deal, (t)hough

Chaos produces two achievements from his right ear.

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: The Branded
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: The Woven

CHAOS: hey (t)oast.
CHAOS: Take care of marron, ok?
CHAOS: if you ge(t) my firs(t) o© killed i'll be upse(t)(t)i
MARRON: W-Wait, so I'm free to go?
MARRON: I can stop doing dumb work?
CHAOS: no, you're allowed to go join (t)oas(t) on adven(t)ures
CHAOS: i'll run (t)il, bu(t) you s(t)ill need (t)o make (t)hings
MARRON: ...
MARRON: And I thought you were being sweet for once in your life.
CHAOS: w(t)h does (t)ha(t) mean

Anyway, with the duel done, Marron and Ette may now be brought into combat! Hopefully, their abilities will prove to be of some use! Marron certainly hopes so, anyway. Marron's still available to craft things, but she's capable of doing it whilst in combat and such.

MARRON: O-Oh, Toast.
MARRON: I... I wanna make you something. J-Just... t-to say thanks for being here.

...Marron promptly cues up a Toast plushie in her own workflow. Cute?

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 02:00:00

Before the other players, but after Toast, in the duel really quick, I move to J6 and use Breath of Nia to the north!

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 02:59:00

Mr. Krabs switches out Cure for Watchful Eye as I said he'd get that. He also switches his UNBORING Splintercast for the Killer Bow. He then pays Chaos to clone the Cultist Card Deck, for reasons. Finally, he just quickly snatches up Reisz's corpse and presents it to the trio of Chairians. "Here 'ya go, you can just say Reisz attacked and you killed her. Reisz's been causing havoc on the outskirts so I think they'll find this an acceptable outcome."

With his new Watchful Eye, he watches the Cultist Card Deck. He then channels the power of CORPORATECLUSTERTRUCK to play a game with him with the cards. The COPRORATECLUSTERTRUCK accepts and they immediately set up a game of Meme Labenaou. A thoughtful instruction on how to play Meme Labenaou will have to wait; Mr. Krabs has just secured Numberwang, and is wanging his numbers all over the cards, while the CORPORATECLUSTERTRUCK struggles to raise his trexicons to secure a coveted Hankerchiefmobile to gain an edge over the old sea dog. Alas, it is not to be, for Mr. Krabs borgolons a graviton Gramicio, gaining an astonishing 1994792 Memetokens and putting him squarely in the lead over his adversary. the CORPORATECLUSTERTRUCK has one last move available to him in a desperate attempt to win the game-execute the dreaded and most highly dangerous maneuver of MEME CONFETTI. He attempts to tear up the <0> OF THORNS.

The <0> OF THORNS promptly obliterates the CORPRATECLUSTERTRUCK in an explosion of entropy, which Mr. Krabs sees, and uses his spell to snipe it preemptively for a good deal of damage. It didn't expect to get sniped, adn becaues it didn't, the <0> OF THRONS becomes the <0> OF DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING, which <0> cannot be, which causes the card to undergo conceptualization collapse and annihilate itself, leaving only excessive entropic energy behind. Mr. Krabs proceeds to bottle the Excessive Entropic Energy, then bottle the bottle, then take the Bottled Bottled Excessive Entropic Energy, or the BBEEE, to the Entropic Research Wing to unlock the Twisted Rose.

He then proceeds to The Entryway to join that battle. He spawns at V10, moves to R12, pings the adjacent Pageling with his hat and Fires his Special.

PRAISE HELIX, FOR HIS GLORY IS ETERNAL AND HIS ANARCHY DIVINE

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 05:18:00

+1 to HP. Terry switches out the Hunter's Mark for the Deviant Radio.
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Terry warps in at D8, then uses his weapon skill.

ATTACK -> MOBILIZE -> STATUS

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 05:48:00

Simeon is easily flipped into the pool of Thyme Matter facefirst, and spends few seconds in that position.
"It's alright, stuff happens," he says smiling, as Zahlia pulls him out. "As long as you're not angry, I'm not angry." Ass he says this, the Thyme Matter on his clothes is quickly absorbed by the feather fabric of the Verdant Shroud, becoming glossier in the process. "See? No problem. So, what does your friend look like, exactly?"

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Zahlia walks through the curtains and into the coat check area. When the Coat Check Clown asks her whether she wants to buy any items, she turns around, looks them straight in the eyes, and asks in her most authoritative voice, "Don't you know who I am?"

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Simeon +1s his RES, Changes Soulseeker's Resistance to Dark, Switches the Pike to Griever, Spawns on B6, Moves to F5, casts Counter, and Guards. Black Smoke rises from the shield, forming an obscuring cloud around him. From within the cloud, he speaks. "Let's do this."

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 05:57:00

Teag puts 2 skillpoints in SPC.

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 06:38:00

uA: I did no such thing! I can make no promises about my allies, however... I assure you, the treatment of this library at this moment offends myself as much as it does you! Comes with living in a library, I assume.

He shakes his head and shudders slightly...

uA: Ah, right. Yes. Let's retake this place.

Firstly, two points are added to STR to balance out the negative points added into it. Before Mr. Krabs joins the battle, Auth spawns on V12, walks to R12, and fires an Overwrite west. Then, he retreats to S12.

Auth at the duel walks over to Marron, and offers a hand.

uA: Well done, Marron! If what Chaos says is true, about you having come up with the strategies (mostly) on your own, then you did a wonderful job! You had us in a bind for a couple of turns. Truly laudable. Don't feel too bad about it, okay? Even though you lost, it's a valuable experience. I may not have been there for the first one, but I can say with near certainty that you'd have improved significantly. How do you feel? Please permit me to tend to your wounds, just point me to where it hurts...

Auth points towards where Marron indicates the pain is (and where he can see injuries), relieving pain and healing burns and other wounds on the body.

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 06:49:00

Destiny puts a point in SPC and then SKI. 10 crit bois.

Destiny then does some crafting.

She takes the blades of her daggers and melts them down back into ingots. He then takes 2 Silver Ingots and 2 Gold Ingots and smelts them with the Titanium Ingots to make Enchanted Titanium. That's how metallurgy works, right? Destiny proceeds to forge the Enchanted Titanium into two dagger blades. She then takes a Galeforce Crystal and a Shadow Crystal. She combines them using Level 100 Alchemy, creating a Shadowwalker Crystal, because shadows are fast. She then takes her daggers with the new blades and the Shadowwalker Crystal to the Infusion Altar. She puts on the Enchanted Daggers and the Shadowwalker Crystal and infuses them, making the Daggers very swift.

Items Used: 2 Silver Ingots, 2 Gold Ingots, Titanium Hookshot Daggers, 1 Galeforce Crystal, 1 Shadow Crystal

Result:
(T3) Enchanted Hookshot Daggers "Emenates with a dark green fire aura."
(9-10) Slashing Damage
1 Range
2 Retreat
Hit: 7
Counter: 5 (Reduce by 1 if too much)
WEAPON SKILL: Grapple. Choose a tile within Range 1-4 and move there. If you grapple on to a solid tile, land on the tile before it. If you grapple on to an enemy, deal (8-9) Piercing Damage and move to a tile within Range 1 of them.
Stat Bonuses: +1 SKI, +1 AGI

Destiny equips these daggers.

Now, if I improve these enough, I'll be able to replicate Daggerfall. Now, having my signature weapon back would be pretty amazing.
Anyways, we have a librarian to help, I guess.

Destiny rushes in to the Entryway at D9, rushing to H9 and attacking Pageling6 before retreating to F10.

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 15:15:00

I'll join the Entryway, but not before putting 2 points into RES. I also set my Tactical Vest to be resistance against Piercing attacks, It seems I have forgotten to set that up properly, woops.

Before leaving however, Daskter uses his healing spell to heal up Chloe before leaving.

Daskter suddenly warps into a new combat! No rest for em. (Please don't ask how Daskter got this teleporter) Though not before he makes his Tactical Vest into a Tacticool Vest! (T2) It has the added propeperty of making the wearer feel more special (atleast +1 SPC)! "It's like a Tactical Vest, but cooler!"
Using 1 LED Displays to act has a status updater, where some of the lights flashes when I get a status effect.
I use 6 bars of Titanium, and 2 pieces of Refined Wood to craft a bunch of accessories to make the Tacticool Vest. It even has a Titatium Knife! Purely ceremonial sadly. Upgrading my Tactical Vest! I'm also equipping this.


I'll commence combat at D9 then ignoring the Pagelings I run to H7, I proceed to open fire on Zweet.

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 15:24:00

JOE replants the silkweed. Now, since planting a perditio crystal of unknown propertys which may be explosive and is probably out to kill us in the crystiliary would probably be bad manners, he analyzes the existing crystiliary , and trys to create a mini-crystiliary in the tunnel between the grove and the other place. if it works, he plants the perditio crystal there. is it a bad idea? probably.
Also in thaumcraft perditio crystals aren't sentient or fleshy, they're just dark grey crystals with the perditio aspect which is entropy related but whatever.

JOE then runs off to grab one of those crystals sticking out of the thyme if he has enough time to do it this round.

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 15:48:00

Boshi simply grins, seems he proved an adequate distraction for the seekers that got obliterated. He applies a point to SPC.

With that, he spawns at (D8) and Egg Rolls to (H8).

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 16:41:00

The Man does a small victory dance. He then puts both of his skillpoints into STR.

...he then does some crafting, 'cuz why not?


materials used: judo rifle, 3x titanium, 2x green sap, 50x paper, 2x greatwood logs, 1x crystal pen[/spoiler]
(Feel free to nerf this, it's probably kinda op anyways.)

Anyways...




Well, now that that's done, the Man decides to check out what's to the east.

...oh yeah, and he equips everything he just crafted. That's kinda important.

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 18:04:00

Comet takes two points out of HP and puts four in AGI. She also adds 10% Electric resist to her Solar Array.

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Comet takes off her Aeraskates™ for some quick adjustments. They're still designed to be more effective when used with greater physical force, which doesn't seem... particularly applicable for her. She grabs a few skyroot logs to make the Aeraskates™ lighter. While that might normally make them less effective as weapons... it's pretty clear that physical force isn't really affecting how lethal they are. Making them lighter would just make them easier to use. And maybe make any magical force applied more efficient. Comet, uh, thinks about it real hard, trying to transfer the floatiness of the logs to the titanium of the skates. Somehow. She gives the skates a tentative lift... they're lighter. It worked!

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Aeraskates™ [T3]
-STR scaling
+1 DEF
+1 lower range for basic attack
+1 damage for weapon skill
+1 HIT

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Assuming that works out, Comet also takes a point out of DEF and puts it into AGI.

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Comet spawns at V7, and puts a teleporter on U7.

Originally posted on 2018-04-28 19:33:00