<ROUND EIGHTY-TWO>
First off, all crafts and skillpoint distributions have succeeded! Save for the Author's, which hasn't been completed yet. You'll need a little more than just a Parasite, by the way.

Anyway, Daskter decides to do some crafting, experimenting with Green and Red sap. He tosses 3 Red Sap Blobs into 3 bottles, and 2 Green Sap Blobs into the other 2. This yields some Restoration Potions with the Red Sap Blobs, and some Green Sap Curatives with the Green Sap Blobs! He has a feeling that mass production will be sufficiently harder than it was to create these potions for some reason. Boshi then goes to snatch Omo, carrying her off to the Dueling Hut. Whilst in transit, Venia goes to visit the Office. Of course, we'll be saving that for the end of the post! So keep on reading!

Toast then decides to get Omo to go and research the Magitek Lens for the Elemental Blaster! While this is impossible due to varying factors, she decides to start it up for her... which has the intended effect. Auth then uses 35 Coffee Beans and a cast of Purify to create 5 cups of Coffee! Their flavor might be questionable, but at least they won't cause sleep instead of preventing it! While preparing for her office raid, Venia decides to try and extract some Flux from some items. First, she blends apart two of the Iris Cookies, extracting 5 usable Flux from them. Apparently, the other one can't be used to get Flux, so maybe use it in some lethal confectioneries? She then expends 6 Rose Weave in a time bubble, extracting another 5 usable Flux. She then researches Mirror Form, upgrading her Entropic Key and unlocking another mode of usage for it! Apparently, holding it like a rifle gives it a decent range. Mr. Krabs meanwhile, loots the Stone Rose from the Cart Cultist, who then wheels off with his cart and no rose. He seems grateful, though!

JOE attempts to get his soldier to work with the LED Screen again. He does vague, unexplained things, getting vague, unexplained results. He spits out the items again, none of them worse for wear. He then decides to attempt to harvest the titanic crystal outcroppings in the Bridge. Unfortunately, it's hard to inventorize something the size of those outcropping... especially when they're still in the ground! Cutting it up is probably a better bet.

Also, Auth quickly calls Glitch Temmie to see what tem has to say about Gladius and the Operative's duel against Lucid. Glitch Temmie picks up, and he swears tem's text color is a little different. Mainly because forum swap.

GLITCH TEMMIE: Ah, greetings sir Author.
GLITCH TEMMIE: We've actually assigned a squadron of Swat Temmies to help deal with the threat. No further updates on that front, sadly.
GLITCH TEMMIE: I got a call from Chloe recently, however- apparently everything is going alright.
GLITCH TEMMIE: If you're worried about your battle with the beast... it should be no problem, according to them!
GLITCH TEMMIE: Good day, sir Author!

Then, as we discussed earlier, Venia goes to visit the Office. As she steps in, she engages her Special, transforming into an eldritch spider-being, which careens through the door and obliterates it. It screams at Lucid, telling it to skip the pretenses... but Lucid doesn't seem to be in the office. The shadowy figure has vanishes, and all signs of the dark flames have left the room. The room appears to be in a state of disrepair- glass shards litter the ground, and crystalline growths litter the room. Omo's desk sits on the opposite side of the room, marks in the wood revealing that it was pushed a sizable distance. It also looks like a carpet on that end of the room was torn open, revealing what appears to be a trapdoor, the desk propping it shut. Behind the desk lies a gigantic chunk of pink crystal, resting snugly on the chair. The crystal suddenly shoots up into the air as a gigantic form of black condenses around it- a tall yet slender form made out of black, flame-like material. Where its face should be lies a crystal imbedded deep into its face, a beautiful octahedron of purple. Purple tentacles flutter around its lower body like a cape, and one might call it the final boss from a certain game I swear this was by accident.

The creature then slams downwards with two fists, the wave threatening to blow Venia away despite her current gigantic size. Pages, glass, and actually just whole books flutter throughout the room, several glass panes of the triangle-made dome fracturing into dust-like particles. The creature then stands up tall, its head and horns quite easily towering over Venia. Upon hearing this commotion, Chloe, Marron, Ette, and Taeda rush into the room. The beast draws its attention from Venia, floating quietly and ominously as it observes the group of girls.

CHLOE: W-What is this thing!?
MARRON: I-I don't know! Why are you asking me!?
CHLOE: I wasn't specifically asking you though-
MARRON: SHUT UP
TAEDA: E-Everyone, s-stay calm! W-We need to slay this monster to save miss Omorika!

Venia then yells at the creature to do the stupid obvious thing it was going to do with Omorika. Lucid shrugs. It does a quick twirl, shards of white crystal ripping out its back as it does. The purple glow of Lucid's face slowly grows paler until it becomes a pure white, the rest of its purple highlights following suit. It then looks skyward as its face rips in two, unleashing a beam of light towards the dome. It pierces right through, sending what little glass remains in the office's dome upon the group. They can hear a voice, calm and collected- possibly the creature's own?

LUCID: The shrieks of a decaying mind.
LUCID: A mindscape on the brink of collapse.
LUCID: The perfect environment for the weapon of peace. The weapon of dreams.

Another gem erupts out of what seems to be Lucid's neck, another octahedron-like eye gem. It continues to pipe its beam into the sky, lighting up the now-dark sky. Marron raises a hand to shield herself from the intensity of the beam.

MARRON: Something that causes forced sleep. A pillar of light.
MARRON: The only thing we're missing is an insane red glitch thing and a mindscape.
LUCID: Establishing uplink...
LUCID: Connection made.

A twist of light purple light begins to twist into the column of light that Lucid is shooting towards the sky.

Elsewhere, near the front of the Grand Library, Boshi is hauling away Omo. Suddenly, a single root rips out of the ground, appearing directly around his leg. Momentum and general physics laws cause him to faceplant into the ground, Omo being freed of his grasp. She tumbles across the ground, before standing up, eyes closed. She begins to scream.

OMORIKA: NO STOP
OMORIKA: GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD

She claws at her own face for a few brief moments, before seemingly regaining composure, ceasing her screaming. She begins to smile towards Boshi, eyes still closed. She tilts her head to the side very slightly- it'd be cute if she wasn't just screaming in agony earlier.

OMORIKA: Connection established.
OMORIKA: Beginning deletion process.

In the office, the girls there can hear Lucid speak.

LUCID: Connection established.
LUCID: Beginning deletion process.

A pillar of wood suddenly springs up beneath Omo, catapulting her into the sky. A Reverie swoops in from out of nowhere, catching Omo on its back before taking off back towards the library. Boshi runs back towards the office, unharmed save for the bruise he probably got from being rooted. Back in the office, Chloe, Marron, Ette, and Taeda all look around cautiously, waiting for something insane to happen.

MARRON: What's going on!?
MARRON: Shouldn't it be... dunno, deleting us?
CHLOE: ...
MARRON: ...Chloe, this is the part where you're meant to make a snarky quip back at me.
CHLOE: W-why am I...

Chloe falls to her knees, prompting Ette to run to her side. There are heavy bags underneath her eyes, and she doesn't seem to be capable of motion.

CHLOE: I-I... d-don't want to d-die... h-here...
CHLOE: ...h-help... l-less...

She collapses forward, in front of Lucid. Taeda too, seems to be having a hard time standing.

TAEDA: S-So... sleepy...
TAEDA: H-Hopefully... nobody minds if I... take another... n-nap...

Taeda collapses rather suddenly, her head smacking into a nearby bookshelf as she loses consciousness. Marron takes a few steps back from Lucid, absolutely terrified.

MARRON: Oh god no.
MARRON: I-I can feel it... s-slipping into my head...
MARRON: A-Are we... a-all going to d-die... here?
MARRON: I... never g-got... to...

Marron falls backwards, failing to exit the room before blacking out. All three girls are sleeping- rather soundly at that, it seems.

LUCID: Minds collected. Deletion in progress.
LUCID: More minds must be culled to accomplish the creator's directive.
LUCID: Expanding harvest range. Prepare for elimination.



You are accosted by...

LUCID
The Dreamer's Judgement

PLAY - Chimera (Hyper Light Drifter)




<OMORIKA'S OFFICE, ROUND ONE>
Okay, so here's the gist; Lucid is nigh immortal with his 150 SHP and pretty godly resistances. There's probably some different way to take down his defenses which you'll likely discover... next turn, but for now, it'd be wise to prepare! Buff up, protect the sleeping NPC's, and wipe out as many of Lucid's minions as you can!

<OMOQUEST, ROUND SEVENTEEN>
Give this a second. I'll have it prepared... tomorrow?

Battle of Omorika's Office

Hah... This battle sure looks hopeless, let's give it a shot.

The Fallen Legion has arrived to assist!

I spawn at L18 and hurriedly move behind cover to O18, I call for reinforcements, calling 2 Shock Troops at Q16 and O16. A Sapper appears at P18.

The Shock Troop at O16 attacks Reclaimer 2, then moves to R14.

Now, Boshi has a pretty high Resolve. But the second Omo did the weird thing, it dropped to near 0 in no time flat. He books it back to the Library as fast as he could, easily outrunning the Reverie.

Once there, and after picking up Hat Kid, he rushes into the Office, hyperventilating out of extreme panic. Something definitely scarred him this time.

"(OMO'S GONE B-BONKERS, S-SHE"LL BE HERE A-A-ANY SECOND!)"

Then Chloe, Taeda, and Marron collapse. It put Boshi into even more of a panic, and sent Hat Kid into tears!
"(NO! NO, I-I, I, AAAAAAAA)"

They were both incredibly still, trying to hold back their infinite fear, panic, and tears...

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She saw it.
She saw it all.
She heard it all.
And judging how Boshi's, of all people's, resolve was broken, it was bad.
She'd heard of the Mindscape within the Chaos' being. Or at least, heard about the possibility of what they were hunting being there.
Given the description provided by the Scanner, she decides to use the Mindscape Radio. She dials Glitch Temmie.
She speaks in a weirdly British accent...

"Hi? Is this Glitch Temmie?"
"I may have something that concerns this Lucid creature you're hunting..."
"You sent these 'Chloe' and 'Operative' people to hunt it, right?"
"That... thing... is capable of instantly putting them to sleep. A deep sleep."
"So deep the end of your world wouldn't wake them! Would explain why Calibri couldn't get a hold of them, too..."
"I have also heard that there's a guy named DarkSide around? One that's oddly warrior-like?"
"Send him. And tell him to drink so much coffee and sugar that there's no way he'd fall asleep!"

"...My name?"
"...Just call me... Mustache Girl. Or MU, whatever!"
"Yeah, weird, I know! Anyway, see you, Tem!"

After ending her call, she jumps out of the trees; dressed in a red hood and cape, pink dress, long, blonde hair, and a blonde mustache for some reason (don't ask), and determined demeanor, Mustache Girl runs to the Library with awesome speed.

---

Mustache Girl is directly outside the Office now, looking in. She proceeds to set up a large speaker system using 5 Speaker Systems, some Wire Scraps, a Shock Crystal, and a Mic Scythe (doesn't use up a crafting charge, seems the weapon itself is unaltered). She proceeds to shout into the Mic some words of encouragement and inspiration, out of an ear-piercing set of speakers;

"DON'T LOSE HOPE! NOTHING IS UNBEATABLE!"
"YOU GUYS HAVE KICKED SO MANY BAD GUYS' BUTTS, WHY WOULD THIS BE ANY DIFFERENT?"
"DO NOT LET YOUR OWN FEAR GET TO YOU! DO NOT!"
"YOUR FRIENDS WILL BE ALRIGHT IF YOU JUST FIGHT!"
"FIGHT YOUR FEARS! FIGHT YOUR DOUBTS! FIGHT THE FOES IN FRONT OF YOU!"
"FIGHT FOR YOUR FRIENDS! FIGHT FOR EXISTENCE! DO NOT FALL HERE! DO NOT SUCCUMB TO FEAR!"
"FIGHT UNTIL YOU CAN'T FIGHT ANYMORE!"
"FIIIIIGHT!"
etc, etc, etc.

This keeps going for as long as it needs to; probably until the end of the battle. It's a wonder how the Iti aren't even looking in her direction.

Boshi and Hat Kid instantly recognize the voice. Somehow, it soothes Hat kid's nerves almost immediately, with Boshi's returning soon after. And with that, they're back in fighting condition.

---

((Attack happens after Venia))

Boshi chugs a Coffee (because apparently he never did last turn, eh), then moves to (L12). Hat Kid jumps off, landing at (M11). Deadly Duality activated!

Hat Kid uses Phase Shift on the Patche, then Zweet2. She drinks a Green Sap Curative and Consecutive Normal Punches the Patche. She retreats to (N13).

Boshi also slams his guitar down on the Patche. He then uses Phase Shift on the Corpsetaker, then Zweet1.

And now both summoners are horribly out of position. Hell yea.

Venia looks at the horrifying gorillashow and promptly explodes.

"..."

Oh, no. She doesn't. At least, not verbally. Utterly grim, but expected.

"...Right, NOTHING more than a mindless beast. Have to remember that... Though. If you're really paying attention, pal. I'll..."

Venia shudders. Goop sprays off of her, into mask-spiders and... Much tinier spiders.

"...Purge you?... Nnnnnno. Too dangerous to leave independent..."

Mr. Krabs, being a robot and probably also some unspeakable mechanical abomination, walks up behind the party and casually bonks Venia on her head-analogue.

"OW!" Ow ow ow."

Mr. Krabs is unfazed by this, as well as everything else. "Matey, don't be thinkin' about that. You know that's going too far. No-one and no-thing deserves that."

Venia remains silent, apparently. Mr. Krabs walks away without any further ado.

"...Right. Uh. Don't, don't do that."

"I MEAN it." Mr. Krabs shouts, far away.

"I MEAN IT too!"

Venia readjusts herself on the spot, surprisingly clumsy-almost as if the beast will fold in on itself. A leg slips up, corrects itself-and plants down directly on Chloe's face.

"ohgorilla, sorry!" Venia says even though Chloe can't possibly hear her.

Her movement is so clumsy it is not even funny, even after that-Venia repetitively steps all over Chloe in an attempt to steady herself. It's an insult to spiders everywhere how clumsy she is with her eight legs. Her body trembles, subtly, still-fright, subdued? For some reason it almost feels as if her mind's drifting elsewhere, though at least not off to dreamland. She isn't in this properly. She shakes her Entropic Key-hand-it hasn't powered up properly? She focuses herself for a moment.

"...BOSHI, COME HERE. Or, I'll go to you." Venia somehow manages to not-trip up over to H15, motions somewhat more fluid.

"Make EVERY SHOT count," Venia says, casting Eagle Eye upon herself and Boshi. "KILL THEM. Kill kill KILL. Do NOT let up!"

Venia's hat somehow surfaces from the silver liquid to ping Reclaimed 1 shortly thereafter.

AFTER Boshi and Hat Kid have acted, she somehow withdraws a Cinderfruit from her body and tosses it to M11, attacking the Patche that should be there.

((Due to various OOC debacles I would like to keep to a minimum here, I am requesting a refund on drinking the coffee from before, removing Venia's Insomniac status.))

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Meanwhile, Mr. Krabs, completely divorced from this battle, opts to engage in actions that have no bearing upon it whatsoever, and head all the way back to Zone 0. He finally, and gracefully, retrieves Calypse from his 'slumber,' moving to the Dueling Hut to inspect it further. "Matey, I think it's time we had a little talk... Though, you don't have ears. So! I've got just the trick to make communication easier."

He keeps a good eye on Calypse-literally. He pulls out one of his eyestalks and has it hover around Calypse to ensure it doesn't get into havoc while Mr. Krabs works. The questionable entity proceeds to move into the basement to hit up the crafting station, as is typical for these situations.

Mr. Krabs takes 40 Soulblossoms and Goneblossoms, 3 Seer Crystals, 3 Reverie Fragments, 50 units of Thyme Matter, 1 Gold Ingot and a single bag of salt, to start with. He first patterns the salt into an arcane hole to Purgametory, the fabled place where all 'meh' moments and matches in video games toil and trouble for eons to atone for their myriad unmentionable qualities, purify themselves of minor misplays, and reach Prohalla. Mr. Krabs sojourns into the hole, leaving a suspiciously normal rope behind so he may be pulled back through when the time is right. In the meanwhile, the suspiciously normal rope turns out to be sapient and capable of powerful telekinesis, so it gets to work on making what Mr. Krabs wants instead. And also finalizing the legal documents to legally rename the suspiciously normal rope into 'Ted,' who never talks.

Ted realizes that his materials are short for what Mr. Krabs desires, and thus plans a complicated heist of Brimhold. Brimhold is not an expy of Grayhold because Brimhold is a single section of library on magical tomes that itself is, barring its deepest sanctum, constructed entirely of flesh golems bearing a suspicious resemblance to a certain bound Isaac, who themselves form the walls by endlessly firing a interconnected weave of Brimstone lasers, aided by Ludivico Technique and an infinite supply of liquid sulfur. The 9-Dimensional maze of brimstone that protects the library shifts constantly and unceasingly, offering no way to map the way to the library; passing through the brimstone fountains will summon some of the most powerful guardians of knowledge across Fiction to attack the interloper and defend the Brimhold with their lives; and most dauntingly, magic from outside the Brimhold is absorbed into the Brimhold upon the entrance of an intruder to ever-strengthen the defenses.

Ted's plan: Use extremely long-range telekinesis, which is nonmagical, to attempt to drag the books out of the library. As the books are levitated out of the safe area and into the Brimstone maze, the guardians of knowledge are summoned, and upon noticing the damage of the books, grab onto the books in a desperate attempt to keep them secured-but the guardians of knowledge are unable to resist Ted's powerful psionic grasp on the books, enabling him to use the guardians of knowledge to bypass the maze and defend the books. Once free of the Brimhold, the guardians of knowledge are forced to retreat and abandon the books, lest they be lost forever in the void that surrounds the Brimhold.

Ted makes no further use of the books-they are tossed into Oblivion itself to forever rid the multiverse of the scourge of abominable spells contained within. Ted is no monster and would never exploit such dangerous magics for his own gain! It helps that he can't cast magic at all. Instead, Ted secretly stalks the guardians of knowledge after the incident; they are unsurprisingly fired on the spot for failing to account for such an obvious oversight in the defenses, and are given pink slips. Ted snatches up the pink slips with his incredible telekinesis and teleports them back to the house-inscribed upon each is a powerful magic that, if activated (by handing it to another), will cause them to instantly be revoked of all occupations and thusly fired. Ted has no hands, so he cannot hand them off without some outside help.

While this is ongoing, Ted uses his psionics to breach a hole into an alternate universe. This one is similar, but different, to ours; in this universe, Project Thymium and Chaos are the same game, with Chaos only being part one, and thus everyone has kept the same characters from before as well as similar builds; Roxxanne is a proper seventeen year old instead of some weirdo with a weird age that basically changes to be 'whatever is most uncomfortable with you at the time,' and thus is in a gay relationship with Nia; Nia and Chloe have 'swapped roles', as Chloe has been the one roboticized by her sister's hand and implanted with a Chaos Butterfly instance; Xavier is naturally Mari in this timeline and Lyra's genderbending prank back in Chaos was to turn her into a man; Emerald is Emerald, but he's a military tactician and the primary party planner, so he's Generald; DTG0 is a proper prequel with an unusually sparse plot, but was still cancelled at the same time due to a hacker maliciously deleting the entire thread and Tazz losing all motivation to continue; Marron is the person-turned-puppet while Ette is a scottish expy of Yang; Ire is actually a player while Pope Bill GMs; Aibes deals with the crushing guilt of murdering Acacia in a blind rage while Sequoia's ultra-xenophobic polities and blind faith in the sphere threaten to doom the multiverse, with Taeda and Gum forced to guard two of the runes that keep the Sphere intact (with their semi-incompetent but loveable lackeys Spark and Bass); and Cypress defects to the players to defend the library of the late Omorika (the previous head of the Chairian Council until the Sleuth unwisely summoned her to the frontlines of DTG2's Massive Clash of Legions) from the horror of a necromantic abomination known as Marwolaeth-who is not only partially composed of Omorika's body and threatens to consume the entire library with endless hordes of Reclaimed, but has also corrupted Cypress with a special plague that forces him into a magical trance that enables him to be asleep at all times; if ever it is broken and he awakes, his body would begin a process to turn himself into a second Marwolaeth and bend his mind to the Iti legions.

As you can tell that's all quite complicated, but what matters is that one thing's stayed the same; Berg has cut off his arm to exchange it for Chloe's mechanical arm, leaving a fleshy arm from another dimension hanging around and doing nothing. Ted nicks it through the hole and closes it without further intervening in affairs. Alternate Berg's Severed Arm, though perfectly akin to the arm already in the inventory, has the benefit of being from an alternate dimension; as such, alternate dimension magics are in play, and when alternate dimension magics are in play, things go wonky with regular magic. As such, Ted proceeds to stuff one of the Pink slips into Alternate Berg's Severed Arm, and uses this to fire Ire from being the GM of Project Thymium.

Yes. You read that right. But hold your horses! No-one said this was a permanent expulsion from GMing! How dare you to assume it, good sir. In fact, it only lasts long enough to skip one update, giving Ted the time he needs to activate a chronological nonsensicator machine, enabling him to retroactively justify how this is happening and ensuring neat and handy time-slotting. The remainder of the Pink Slips are wrapped around a Reverie Fragment and Seer Crystal each, and are subsequently compressed in this state, creating three Dreamcrystals-echoing remnants of slumbering power and the 'evolution' of a Seer Crystal. Ted engages the Gold Ingot in a shoot-off, which Ted looses, enabling the Gold Ingot to utilize the generated Conflict energies to turn itself into a thin circle with three indentations perfectly fitted for these Dreamcrystals. Ted slots them in, creating a Golden Dream Ring.

Mr. Krabs returns at this stage, having captured a key component of the ritual; a Hard Read, formed from a bad assumption and purified in Purgametory to become a nowhere-near-as-bad assumption of enemy moves. The Hard Read is essential to the plan, but is not part of the Golden Dream Ring. Not directly. Mr. Krab's return is also well-timed, in that the last part of the Golden Dream Ring is a bunch of magical psionic power, which, alas, Ted cannot generate on his own and no item currently in the inventory can provide on its own in sufficient amounts.

The Goneblossoms and Soulblossoms are arranged in pairs by Mr. Krabs on a specific machine, which looks like a set of 80 hammers-2 per row-designed to crush whatever is between them and nothing else. No points for guessing what happens. After Mr. Krabs deals with the Yolion menace and saves the magical land of Felyion once again, the Goneblossoms and Soulblossoms have been crushed together. Their magical powers neutralize in close proximity, but the magic itself does not-purified of both light and dark, it is now in a state wherein the magical energy can be attuned to Psionics. Mr. Krabs throws the Golden Dream Ring into the mix, and the three Dreamcrystals provide a small feedback loop wherein the magic is attuned to Psychic power and catches to the Gold, which in turn generates more psychic power to attune more magic-it only lasts until the ambient magic is mostly absorbed into the Golden Dream Ring, enough to make it proficient for the task at hand. With the Golden Dream Ring ready to go, Mr. Krabs dismisses Ted, who flies off into the sunset and immolates, turning into ashes and later becoming the birthplace of a lineage of Phoenixes.

Mr. Krabs returns to Calypse, who has presumably not moved, especially not with Mr. Krab's eye on it. "Ahoy again, matey! Now, just stand still. If it hurts, which it should not, please do not obliterate me with dark matter reaction explosions, please and thank you."

With that, Mr. Krabs settles his Golden Dream Ring in front of Calypse, hovering ominously between the two. Mr. Krabs pulls out the Hard Read and centers it in the Golden Dream Ring, causing the whole apparatus to hum. The Hard Read expands into an abyssal portal as black as the Calypse, and Mr. Krabs, without any hesitation, sticks his head straight in it.

The optimal goal is to get into Calypse's Mindscape, or its loose equivalent, to see what's going on there, and hopefully interact meaningfully.


Materials Expended: 40 Soulblossoms and Goneblossoms, 3 Seer Crystals, 3 Reverie Fragments, 50 units of Thyme Matter, 1 Gold Ingot, 1 Bag of Salt.

Destiny runs up to H15 and activates Ultra Instinct!
Pers teas orbune en pervaiie ejen!
GODDESSTECH: SEER OF SPACE: ULLTRAA INSTINCTT!!!!
Destiny is surrounded by green energy. Her hair begins to turn silver and the lime green jewel on her necklace (though mostly hidden by her cloak) emits neon green flickers of light. The green energy turns into a neon green shell around her, with more energies swirling around. Finally, after a few seconds, a beam of neon green light bursts out of the shell, and more spew out before the shell cracks entirely and the field is blasted with light. Out of the shell comes Destiny, with silver hair, glowing green eyes in contrast to her former hot pink eyes and a look of tranquil fury on her face.
I did the whole shouting my special thing for the extra cheese, and the fact that I haven't done it in forever.
Anyways, my power is unleashed somewhat now and my senses are improved.
Lets get slaughtering, shall we?
Destiny hookshots on to Zweet 5 and retreats to F15.

Terry's "armor" shifts into a sort of camo hoodie, some denim pants, and black-and-white shoes. His scarf reassembles into a mask covering the bottom half of his face. His eyes both become a bright, literally glowing shade of blue. You can faintly see a pair of crack-like patterns behind him, resembling wings on his back.
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"Stand back! I know Cho Kwon Dese!"

Terry moves to P16, basic attacks south-east, then retreats to M14.

Emerald moves to K15, planting himself firmly in front of Chloe, and takes a breath, Guarding.

He unfolds his umbrella, electricity arcing along its length. You know, from this angle it’s clear that the thing almost covers him. He glares at Lucid fiercely, determination clear in his eyes.

”I will not let you harm them. I will stand in your way as much as I have to, even should I fall, I’ll simply get back up, stronger than before. I have that Special ready and everything.”

He shifts his stance, holding the Ravenous Umbrella forward (ignoring the gnashing of teeth coming from the handle), and bracing himself for the incoming attack.

”I don’t usually join in in big parties like this, you know. But at the same time... I like these guys. I refuse to allow you to destroy their minds. On top of that... you’re in our way. And that is why you must be annihilated. On top of the whole mind destroying thing and all.”

"...I feel wrong."

Calibri, who up until now had not been doing much, now has his eyes focused directly on Omorika's office. He immediately begins walking there, a new blue fire beginning to burn in his eyes. And on the ground. He seemed very pissed off about something. On the way there, Verdana moves to block the path.

"Brother, I cannot let you through! You're not in the right mindset to do this fight!"
"Out of the way."

Verdana doesn't even get to speak another word before a gigantic eyeball descends from the heavens and blasts him into a wall. Suffice to say, getting in the way would be a terrible idea for anyone now. Calibri just continues walking, and walking, until eventually he arrives in the office. He glances, first, at Taeda.

"A shame to see you have fallen asleep there. EN would not like this at all."

Then, over at Marron.

"Hmm. I bet Toast will be mad once she sees that."

And finally, his gaze drifts over to Chloe. There's no words, just pure silence from Calibri. The air has become absurdly thick, so thick one could cut a piece out of the very air itself and bake it into a pie of some sort. And all the while, Calibri's body seems to be writhing with pure hatred over a particular responsible entity... He turns to gaze directly at Lucid, his eyes suddenly turning a daunting shade of green and he himself beginning to speak in a voice that is not his own.

"...Lucid. Oh, Lucid. Your very existence is an affront to my happiness. The mere fact that you would do this to even one Chloe, even if this is not the same as the one I'm more familiar with... I despise you, with every fiber of my being. The sheer hatred I feel for you is indescribable. If scripture were dedicated to explaining my sheer hatred of you, and every atom that makes up this planet were to have that scripture written out in full, and that scripture extended across all four far corners of the land around us, it would not even begin to come close to describing just how much unfathomable hatred I hold for your continued existence. You are a blight on everything I currently hold dear to me."

There's a sudden spark of electricity in the air... then, of all the people, it seems as though The Operative himself is standing there, at least in spirit if not quite in form.

"And for committing the dreadful sin of your mere continued existence, that which enrages me to beyond the limits of the concept of anger, you shall perish, and I will personally see to it that your body is ripped to shreds, your grave defiled, and that whatever remnants of you are left over beyond that point are cast into the sun to burn in flames until the end of eternity itself."


The Operative moves to K17, channeling Calibri's power to summon an illusory trap at M16. Briefly, he turns to acknowledge Taeda again, since the illusory trap is standing between her and a bunch of nasty things.

"I know not your name, lady of wood, but may you at least sleep in relative peace for now."

He then turns to face Lucid. The sheer hatred he's expressing might be enough to make the thing recoil, at least for a moment...

"And as for you... Go ahead. Let me see for myself what atrocities you dare render upon the mind of the other lady of wood. Omorika, I believe her name was. It matters not, right now. I will have time to talk with this version of her once you are no more, both in life and in concept."

Keiko, fueled by a pure rage rivaling that of the gods themselves, moves to I16 and constructs a Patchwork Totem at H16, as a protective measure. She quickly slips a Mana Well underneath Venia at H15 to help her offset that spellcasting cost a bit - you never know when a few points of MP will become critical.

Comet spawns at L18, moves to M13, and attacks the Corpsetaker.

Toast spawns in at J18 and uses Prime with Deep Thinking! Using Prime, she sets Deep Thinking to go off at the end of regen. i.e. Before meditation resolution, after status tickdown.

With spellcasting pushed to the back of her mind, she's free to notice a certain puppeteer collapsed on the ground.
"Marron!" she calls, "Y-you're not... y-you can't-"
In a flash, Toast next to her, lightly shaking the girl's shoulders. She places a crystal finger above her mouth, seeing if the surface fogs up with her breaths. Assuming she gets a positive response, Toast takes a shaky breath as she rescinds her arm and stands to her feet.
"I... I don't know what you d-did to her, but you're gonna get it now!" Toast promises, energy arcing between her fingers and the ground.

"Jesus Christ how horrifying."

The Man spawns in at J18, moves to G18 and shoots Reclaimed 1.

First, Irongutta puts his skillpoint into SKI.

Irongutta spawns in at L17 and moves five spaces up to L13, triggering his trait and Charging Vest as usual.

He then basic attacks the Patche!

Brutishace advances onwards to Omorika's Office. His eye catches on the Corpsetaker, and he glares at it as if there were some sort of rivalry between them.

"Another of those abhorrent abominations. It will die like the rest I've dealt with."

He sees it get warped all the way to the front lines, where it is weakest. Time to punish it.

Brutishace spawns in at J18, moves over to I15 and casts Twin Eclipses on the Corpsetaker, weakening it heavily. He could kill it, however, a dead Patche is in its reach that it could use as a shield. Brutishace throws a Lumipod at the Patche's corpse to destroy the Corpsetaker's line of defense.

Brutishace then uses Soul Siphon (again) to restore HP to whoever needs it.

I buy a Factory Fullplate and a Straw Effigy, and replace my Reactive Armor and Lucky Charm with them.

Meanwhile, Bergilmir is shaking with impotent rage at the sight of Chloe aslumber.

cA: ...I've sworn to protect them, you do realize? To be their shield. But before I could even turn and face you, you blighted them, cursing them with nightmares. I couldn't even... I couldn't uphold...

cA: ...

cA: ...You.

cA: You craven, low beast. I shall focus all of my might into being your bane, your own PERSONAL nightmare for what you have done.

cA: I do not care for the consequences, but that my charge stay unharmed. To fulfill and atone for my broken vow, you must be cast down.

Bergilmir casts Teraveil, spawns at K18, and sprints in fury to K11!

cA: COME HERE.

I first craft like 4 thyme matter and the clay pot together. logically, if you throw this pot, it will break and spill the thyme matter. I got 4 thyme matter per tile when terraforming in the reisz fight, so this is probably 1 tile of thyme matter, but since it's in a pot you can throw it and have it end up there.
maybe it'd also do splash slashing damage or something i dunno.
Spawn J18, move to J14, research resourceful, Use the thyme pot at K10, because omo, despite being controlled by lucid, is not an iti, and so will take %MHP damage from thyme matter, maybe possible probably not get some kind of boost at that from resourceful.
And, since that was just an Item, I then use illusory trap with the split effect and make them a-
Wait, my character sheet says I have only 14 int
but the skill point area says I have 11 from there, 2 from hat and 2 from my armor, which means 15... so...
J11 and L11. get illusions there. yey.

The drone walks over to the DM Missiles, ties them up with spider silk, holds on to the sorta-leash thing tightly, then grabs 2 of them out of the ground and inventorizes them before they can hit anything.

Teag spawns at L18 with a fire round loaded and annihilates the Corpsetaker.

Miki suddenly bursts in, holding a more compact version of her hologram projector in her hands. She tosses a skillpoint into MHP, spawns in on M20, and immediately clones two Reclaimed onto M19 and L19. This takes out all but 8 of her HP, and she immediately doubles over in pain.

Miki-chan33: oof that hurts!!
Miki-chan33: eheh... didnt realize i could actually feel pain with this new setup

She ends her turn there after downing a Chairian Brew.

uA: LuuuuuuccccciIIIIID!

The fury coming from the normally quite calm vampire is tangible. The air itself tainted red by the pure hate coming from his body. There's only one thing to say about this... Auth is pissed beyond all hell. The only thing stopping him from going all out and trying to kill Lucid himself is his knowledge of having absolutely no ability to damage right now.

Though, given the way the light shines around him, it seems that is about to change.

uA: I'm going to DESTROY you! There will be nothing left of thee!

Forty samples are burned up, and Liberation replaces Overwrite.

Auth then appears on K18 and moves to L17, behind Ette.

QAZLAL: I SEE YOU HAVE BEEN REVIVED. I HAVE SOME GIFTS FOR YOU. IN BLUEPRINT FORM, SINCE YOUR PLANET SOMEHOW DISABLES WEAPONS FROM OUTSIDE.
Zedros: Alright, thanks.
QAZLAL: HEY, YOUR NEW BODY SEEMS FAMILIAR.

Also, +1 AGI.
If the trait change goes through, Zed upgrades both his weapon and robes using a total of:

5 Galeforce Crystals
5 Shock Crystals
5 Circuit Boards
20 Wire Scraps
15 Silkweed Bundles
5 Gold Ingots
2 Titanium Ingots
10 Copper Gears
3 Greatwood Logs
10 Fresh Manablossom
1 Turbulence Crafting Charge



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