MATERIALS:
-Sprint Hat
-Skyscales (x1)
-Galeforce Crystal (x1)
-Greatwood Logs (x1)
-Throwlem Crystal (x1)

Hat Kid begins with making a weave out of the Skyscales' bark and innards, and Greatwood Logs, with the Spirit Loom. Seriously makes making different weaves easier. She then melts down both crystals with a bit of fire from a potion she concocted, stirs, and uses a simple stick and her Ice Hat to crystallize the new mixture around the stick.

A crystal that really wants to be really fast; fast as the wind, if not faster. Perfect for the hat. She melts down the uniform crystal once more, and basically soaks the entire hat and the weave in the stuff. With a scary amount of speed, Hat Kid stitches the Skyscale-Greatwood weave through the back of the hat, allowing it to be so much lighter it's hard to tell if it even has a weight anymore.

As the crystal hardens, it's definitely near weightless. She adds a bit of unimportant string to the hat to keep it from flying off in a spectacular fashion.

RESULT:
Sprint Cap (T3) - A hat dipped in liquid crystal. This is gonna be a pain to wear...
Same stats as before.
(Super Mobile) - Allows the user to Sprint even when a Maneuver item that replaces Sprinting is being worn.

Result: As many coffee cups as is appropriate.
Used: 35x Coffee Beans

Seeing as Omo is asleep, the logical course of action would be to try and wake her up. Unfortunately, Auth has to do that from very far away. So, he thinks, the best way to do that would be freshly made coffee. He hopes that will do the trick, anyway...

And, fortunately enough, he has coffee beans to work with. There's just one problem, and that Auth does not like the taste of coffee. At all. So he can't tell if it's any good or not... he will do his best though. His talents at cooking are renown among his family, after all.

So he collects the coffee beans that were left in the inventory and heads down to the basement, where there is a coffee machine and probably some grinders. All of these are necessary to make the best coffee possible. Before he can even do that, though, he washes the beans in a sink and then casts Purify on them.

Auth places some beans in the grinder, and grinds them down until they have a consistency similar to a large salt. The reason for this is the drip coffee machine that is next to him. After the whole grinding coffee deal, Auth loads the machine with the ground coffee beans, and ensures that the machine has plenty of water. He then lets the machine do its thing, creating the coffee that he feels is necessary to create.

Auth then pulls the pot out of the machine when he sees that the machine is finished, and looks within the pot, checking that it smells right (it does) and that it looks right (it does). Auth then proceeds to pour the coffee into a cup, and he tastes it, taking a small sip from it. He feels some obligation... and then he spits it out into a sink, because it's still disgusting. At least, it is to him, an ardent tea drinker. There's plenty more coffee though, and so Auth pours out several more cups and carefully places them into the inventory.

Auth repeats the process with as many coffee beans as he can handle, making quite a number of cups of coffee, as he's fully aware that the next fight is unquestionably going to be against Lucid, who could cause some serious issues with sleep (especially with Omo, if she wakes up).

+3 MMP
+1 SPC

(T3) Strength Mask - Only with strength can one endure suffering and torment.

Stats: (+8 MMP) (+2 INT) (Fortitude) (-2 DEF)
Resists: Slashing (10%) Ice (10%) Dark (20%) Light (-30%)

(Fortitude) Your Restorative spells have Manafuelled1.

Once per battle, you may cause a Restorative spell (or a non-Restorative spell healing effect) to restore no HP, and instead deal Dark damage equal to the amount it'd heal.

Venia retreats to the laboratory, her sanctum, the perception filter unable to distract her; she needs to prepare. Prepare for It. Fortuitously, she prepares fast. She does not, however, even bother with her usual recordings; she is just far too irritated to even set up.

She aims herself at the Iris Cookies, or at least, one of them. No need to use all three, right? (She uses two Iris Cookies if one will not suffice for Flux reasons.) Then, she takes some of that silver goop she's constantly sweating at this point and covers the Cookies in them. The silver goop is tainted red as the cookies melt and diffuse. To speed the process up, she proceeds to take this small setup and shove the whole thing in a blender and set a timer for five minutes.

The blender is no ordinary blender; it's been enhanced with temporal and spatial magics. The enhancements screw with time within the blender; it doesn't necessarily make it faster to blend things, but rather it makes the blades of the blender itself faster by exploiting hyper-localized time dilation to make blending faster and using spatial anomalies to force the blades to go as fast as they possibly can; the resulting time dilation means that the speed, to the 'proper' perspective (IE the rest of the blender and the outside world) is going at FTL speeds.

The goop and the cookie soon lose all molecular distinction. The goop, however, is not normal goop; it fades away very fast upon creation without intervention by other substances, like the entropy-infused cookies. The end result is that what's left in the blender by the end of it is a relatively safe, extremely pure sludge containing the raw power of entropy-or, if you would, Flux.

Venia pours this flux into whatever safe container the crew have been putting Flux in before now.


Resources Expended: 1 (or 2, GM depending) Iris Cookies
Result: Some amount of Flux.

Venia then turns to the newly-aquired Rose Weave. She has had plenty of time to test and observe a similarly-empowered type of cloth, that being the clothing of her Ephemeral Jacket. Still, this had the obvious distinction of the influence of the Rose-the Butterfly-the Curse-the whatever. She didn't care for what fanciful title that it possessed, only how to make herself the entity's antithesis, and subsequently the bane of omnicidal maniacs that cause these scenarios everywhere-whether spiritually or otherwise. (That this has a fair chance of circumventing her issue with her metaphysical cancer is definitely an additional motivating factor.)

She stretches the cloth upon a wall-about six units, to be precise. She figures six to be enough. Units of three. Trinities. She could use the other six later to help tweak her jacket, she thinks, as well. Doesn't matter in the end, though; she has to.do this. Venia proceeds to press her bare right hand against the fabric. This stings, a little, but nothing to worry about. Venia then works her knowledge of chronological magic to do something relatively similar to that which she inflicted upon the Reclaimed Chairian a ways back; alter time around the fabric. Except, instead of just slowing time down in a localized area, *this* stasis bubble has two effects; the first, outer layer is a proper stasis chamber, a thin layer of time wherein things screech to a halt; the second, inner layer that is the majority of the volume, and which the pieces of fabric initially comprise in their fullest, is sped up dramatically (Venia's hand excluded), exabercating the decaying effect of Entropy in and around the fabric pieces.

Needless to say, this destroys the fabric in record time, but it also leaves a substantial amount of Entropic Energy in its wake. At the sight of the fully-decayed clothes, Venia breaks the inner barrier, leaving the outer barrier to freeze the Entropic energy in-place. From there, Venia just splashes more of her liquid goop all over the Entropic energy; the lack of 'middleman' ensures no blending is necessary, creating more Flux, which is vacuumed into the appropriate containers.


Resources expended: 6 Rose Weaves.
Result: Some amount of Flux.

Slayer's Splintercast

Mr. Krabs siezes the bow and immediately shoves it back into the inventory to pull out a regular Splintercast, and then moves to put a specific type of Apple upon Venia's head. Mr. Krabs then takes aim at the apple upon Venia's head. The joke is immediately understood as a reference to William Tell's famous act of shooting an apple upon a friend's head. Mr. Krabs laughs, the GM laughs, the parasite in the apple laughs, Mr. Krabs shoots the apple. Good times.

The resulting burst of chaotic energy from the arrow impacting the apple somehow metamorphasizes the bow into a rather powerful-looking handgun and makes it more murderous in its aura. How interesting.


Materials Expended: Splintercast (1), Apple (1).
Slayer's Splintershot(T4)
Ceci n'est pas une splintercast
(9-10) Piercing Damage, Range 3-5, 0 Retreat, 1 Counter, 7 HIT. +3 MHP.
WEAPON SKILL: Slayer's Mark. Target a foe in Range 3-5. That foe has Ensnared3 for 2 turns, and all allies attacking this foe gain Lucky3 for 2 turns.

Rose Eater's Coat

Venia's attempt at upgrading the Ephemeral Jacket is far less ridiculous than Mr. Krab's attempts at upgrading the Killer Bow (or so she thinks; he's really upgraded a Splintercast instead, not like she'll really care). In fact, you could almost argue it as basic, if not for the very specific manner in which she attempts to do this.

Of the six remaining units of Rose Weave, Venia takes three, leaving three remaining. She also takes half of the remaining Processed Fabric, mostly due to its white-ish textures. She also takes one of the nice coats from the Carinval party check and takes the one closest to her fit. It's just a little bit too small, but Venia can easily fix that. She proceeds to rip out most of the fabric from in the coat and remove it, leaving a pile of normal cotton stuffing.

Her first point of interest is to take her Ephemeral Jacket and induce its effects to the wider coat. The natural increase in surface area and mass will in turn generate more power. Of course, this also means that she'll need a bit more Entropy-infused fabric, which one of her three units of Rose Weave swiftly solves; she quickly unwinds the whole thing into piles of Entropy-infused string. She tears most of her jacket up, removing the buttons entirely as well as the collar, and then tearing off both sleeves, leaving a mostly-flat vest-like thing. The torn sleeves are stuffed into the emptied Coat's sleeves, and the remains of the jacket proper (now mostly a vest) are inserted into the coat. Most of the cotton is inserted back into the jacket to stuff it properly, leaving only a small portion of it out to compensate for the added mass of the Entropy-infused clothing. The Rose String is then used to stitch up the coat and begin creating a decal on the back-one, specifically, of the signature symbol of the Chaos Butterfly. Mostly. Some of the center zero's top is obscured by something. After the Coat is completely stitched up properly, Venia's more solid understanding of Entropy magic enables her to properly distribute the Entropy among the coat, leaving most of it as red... But in the process, the buttons on the coat (ten in all) go flying off, unable to handle the Entropy like fabric can. Venia sighs-she'll correct that.

Venia takes the remaining two units of Rose Weave to fill in the outlined Chaos Butterfly insignia upon the back of the jacket. Then, then she does something that will almost certainly piss the hell off of every Rose Cultist to walk the earth. It almost quantifies as stupidity if her kit was not almost perfectly created to brutally counter them.

She takes the processed fabric-all three units-and upon the back of the jacket proceeds to weave in a massive spider, which was the obscuring element of the Chaos Butterfly sybmol. The spider takes up most of the jacket's back, much larger than the Butterfly symbol and partially engulfing it with its legs and its giant maw. Whatever that beast was, this jacket was symbolically insulting its power and reach, but also insinuating that there could be an entity that could actually destroy it-no, completely and utterly consume it.

Venia always thought spiders had an affiliation with her, and this Chaos Butterfly fellow was already catching her ire, if only because it was not-so-indirectly responsible for everything. Though, if the Rose Cultists mistook this as the form of some anti-Rose entity out to destroy them, then, well, Venia would be right pleased about that. Either works for her. She's just angry now. Her ability to knit is very basic, and very telling, but it is definitely sufficient to keep the whole thing together. She then exploits a basic-level cantrip (a bit of a requirement to know magic is to consequentially know a lot of very unimpressive, not-terribly-useful minor spells of near-zero consequence) to change most of the jacket's outer material into denim, morphing it blue in the process. The Entropy would still emit as red, but now, at least, both the purposely-broken Rose sigil and the massive spider eating it would stick out, while the jacket itself was actually in a color she liked. That denim jackets were of questionable style did not bother her too much-it just made the jacket tougher.

With that, Venia puts it on, and almost dubs it complete, and then she remembers the buttons, which are now thoroughly slain. She sighs, reaches into the inventory, and pulls out ten Shadow Crystals. 3D shadows or otherwise, Venia intends to use them for something relatively cheap; using a small cantrip to forcibly morph them into button-like shapes so she can button the coat properly. She only needs some spare twine to properly attach the buttons to the denim coat. With that done, Venia dubs the jacket complete for real this time.

Materials Expended: Ephermeral Jacket, Nice Coat (x1), Rose Weave (x3), Processed Fabric (x3), Shadow Crystals (x10)
Rose Eater's Coat (T4)
...And on its back was the Second Great Heresy; a spider encroaching and devouring the Horizon-Eater. We knew this as a Heresy for there was no thing that could devour the Horizon-Eater; but we knew it was beyond a normal Heresy for it was written in the fabrics of the Horizon-Eater, subverting the Horizon-Eater's will, a sickening subversion of its pure Entropy. And we knew when we saw it that whoever wore this garment was an enemy of the Horizon-Eater and of Their followers, and must be destroyed. - anonymous Rose Cultist.
(+4 STR) (+3 SPC) (Ezekiel 25:17) (INT-1)
Glitch (10%), Fire (20%), Crushing (-10%)
Ezekiel 25:17: When an ally is downed, gain 10 SP. Anytime you gain SP, gain +5 more SP regardless of the source. (including whenever an ally is downed.) (No, the second effect does not trigger itself indefinitely, but it does trigger off of the first effect.)