OMOQUEST

BEHEMOTH: Move to (D8), Stampede (D9 > E9 > E8)
FALLEN: Move to (C4), Past Mistakes on Omo, accept fate
OMO: Move to (E5).
CONSTRUCT: Move to (E6), Reposition Omo to (E7).
OMO: Focus Willpower on Construct and Behemoth
BEHEMOTH: Move to (F8), attack TPyro2.
CONSTRUCT: Move to (E8), Reposition Behemoth to (D8).

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Boshi wipes the blood from his mouth, and chugs a Restoration Potion from the Inventory. He mnoves to (S14) and baps the Reverie on the head. He notices Bass a few meters away from him.

"(Hey, decided to help out? Oooooor did you feel forced again? I'm gonna assume the latter... something bothering ya from... then? Tell me about it later when this is all done.)"

Hat Kid sprints to (H16), and hauls Venia back to (J18), ending up back where she was before, (K19).

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Mustache Girl heads into the cave, and uses the last bit of the Iron Pickaxe to mine out the Gold. She looks up to the iron, and figures that the best way to get at the iron ore would be to use a Throwlem Crystal to launch herself to the Iron Ore.

Once close enough, she hooks onto the nearby wall with her climbing gear, and shuffles to get closer to the vein.

Once she's there, she jams the entirety of an Ashen Reap into the ground above the ore, and sets it to explode, repeating as many times as necessary. She catches the ore and shoves it into her pockets, which lead to the inventory for some reason. Also how big are her pockets!? She slid the entire vein into the damn thing!

Satisfied, she climbs down carefully, and ties either a Luminous or Aurora crystal (whichever glows brighter) to a Titanium Stick (which uses half a Titanium Ingot) with a Feather Rope Coil (of course, killed and such). She then heads deeper.

Airship Zone: 0

Using key properties of the Resistor (T2) I create a Command Bridge inside the airship. I quickly steal the Screen TV from Zone 2: Pop's Hideout, and reprogram it to able display the Airship's status, and a real time map of the surrounding the airship. I consume some (7) wire scraps and (3) circuit boards reprogramming the TV.

Battle of an Office
I snipe the Harpy2

The Sniper moves to M17, changes its name to "Marksman", it proceeds to finish off Harpy2.

Shocktrooper1, fires against Reverie6.

The Sapper skeletal toss the Zweet to the abyss... T16.

"Also, do note author's intent when trying to do things like the strings- I didn't know the strings were to make them easier to inventorize. I mean, they probably wouldn't have worked still, but it'd be nice to know your intentions so I don't accidentally slaughter everything in a five-hundred mile radius instead of spawning a few crows or something."
yeah, sorry. ( i thought i specified, but i have now checked the post and determined i did not, in fact, specify.)
moves to K15, researches clone (clone summoned to K14 unless the clone can head to the mindscape alone, in which case it does that), and creates an illussory trap at O11.
Afterwards, if acceptable and necessary for crystiliary defence, JOE leaves the battle. the crystiliary needs defending, and people'll probably be fine.
Out-of-technically-post-battle-actions!
with a minor trion expenditure (instantly refilled by normal guy even without being in battle), JOE sends out an order to 2/3 of the Abyss walker trion soldiers to convene on his location. (the ones who where guarding the farm).
also a couple blade drones probably come with.
the walkers are stealth-bots, so this won't hasten enemy action. the drones split up, each watching one of the enemy arrival points, each with a medkit walker hiding nearby, prepared to heal it. the bottom section is not directly watched, since there are spikes. instead, double-duty to the middle section and they look towards the bottom occasionally. after putting the oven in the inventory, JOE walks over to the manabloom eye's center and casts as many illussions as he can- making them unobtrusive rocks for now but with the ability to morph to look more threatening later.

The Man moves to D16 and shoots Harpy 1.

This RP post is long, so instead of trying to tuck my action into it, I'll just put it up here, as well as NPC actions. Anything attacking the Ashen Knight should move after Venia's move, though the order after Venia's first move isn't of too much importance.

Taeda: Move to H16.
Chloe: Move to K15, Basic attack the fighter.
Taeda: Use Holy Dew on Chloe, chug a mana vial, then use Retribution (bonus action) to hit the Ashen Fighter, killing it. Retreat to I17.
Chloe: Retreat to L14.
Venia: Move to L9, use Slayer's Mark on the Ashen Knight. Hat pings the Ashen Knight. Toss a Lumipod at the Ashen Knight.
Ga'aunt: Move to L8, basic attack the Ashen Knight. Venia targeted the Knight, so his trait should activate.
Calibri/Operative: I'm not your dad but a reminder to give Marron your drone to counteract blindness before her action.
Marron: If the Ashen Fighter is dead, move to K16 and basic attack the Knight. Sugar and Spite should activate as the Ashen Knight hit her last round. If the Ashen Fighter lives, move to J15 and use Material Transfer on the Ashen Fighter, with Chloe as the recipient of the heal.
Omorika: Activate Null Solumn on Venia and Ga'aunt.
Ga'aunt2: Stay put, use Prepare for the End on Venia.
Venia2: Move to L10, switch to Entropic Key and attack the Ashen Knight. Thank you, range 1-2 upgrade. Hat pings the Ashen Knight again.

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Venia's sojourn within Lucid's grasp is as hellish as she envisioned it, but also brief. Either due to the ongoing fight preventing Lucid from concentrating on the rest of its victims, Omorika acting fast on freeing her, Venia's own psionic wards, or something else, her nightmares fail to be realized beyond anything she already frets about, and she soon finds herself face-first on the ground, the dream logic of the mindscape negating the pain of falling.

"...OK, hopefully I'm actually 'awake' inside her head this time. Stupid recursive dreams, he had me for a second... All considered, that was better, and worse, than I thought it would be... Though I suppose Lucid didn't get too much time to wind-"

Venia beholds herself and and is silenced.

Venia's whole form has completely lost its cohesion to her giant form, now instead a mass of half-silver goop, half liquid skin, and only barely wrapped up in a proper humanoid shape. Her hair is a mane of liquid silver, her feet are more like puddles, her arms, four in number, all sag, her whole body lacks the strength to move to its full height, and she can't tell if she's sweating from heat or consistently dribbling down little tiny bits of herself on the floor. She's nude bar for the Whispering Gauntlet upon one of her left arms (which now misses its eyeball as Ga'aunt has vacated it), but anything a man would fantasize about is lost; her lips, her fingernails and toenails, her eyelashes and eyebrows, and far more have almost been totally vacated from her body... Barring the distinct exception of a second face, left-of-center upon her stomach, jutting out just far enough to be visible from her chest-down position... Which Venia almost immediately tries to hide with her left arms while she attempts to stand. It's not really enough; anyone could tell that there's at least two small red horns. It's also not enough for her to stand up, either.

"... Oh. Well," Venia says, as if her current predicament is akin to learning her shower is busted.

Her whole body shudders, and for those who actually paid attention to Venia in all of this, the reversion to some gigantic eldritch silver spider larger than the vast majority of the party is perhaps a blessing. Once she finally settled in, she made a point to actually look around, and quickly sets her eyes upon Ga'aunt. "Ga'aunt, oh, jeez. Wow. You look... Worse than I expected, I'll be honest, but any more and that'd be the pot calling the kettle black... Well. This is probably-"

Venia is inexplicably cut off by a sudden blast of music emitting straight from her body-and no less than perhaps the worst possible music that could've been played at a nightmarish battle featuring an evil nightmare creature impersonating a dead lover who burned to death due to rash action, featuring tons of deadly fire employed by said evil nightmare creature, just after a whole day of awful 'dance' music and even a major fight on a dance floor after having been plagued by the music for ages.

It just had to be Disco Inferno.

Venia's closest arm-tentacle that isn't clutching a weapon is clutching her apparent head. The battle has actually full-on stopped, and even Lucid/the Ashen Knight and his myraid minions have paused in confusion to look at Venia. The only thing that hasn't stopped is the sound of The Trammps singing "Burn, baby, burn!" (In case you're wondering, this is about the time Venia 'arrived' on the map.)

"...Ignore the music, I'm just using it as a tell for this kind of stuff!" Venia says, gesturing to Lucid and the whole area-and then she properly spies Omorika, way off in the distance. She sends a psionic signal to everyone in the party, quickly detailing a rather complicated plan to keep the pressure on, as she turns her focus to Omorika off in the distance.

"STELLA!" Venia shouts. Venia pauses for a few good seconds-what would she say? Lucid's power was fear and nightmares, so she had to say something that reassured and comforted her, at least. Something to make her find peace, however temporary... But Venia hadn't enough in her to think of anything particularly powerful on its own merits, and she doubted her own super-charisma would work in a world born of a nightmare.

She had to try something, though. "Stella, we're all here for you! You can't let Lucid overwhelm you now! He's trying to break you, and if he succeeds we'll all die! The pain... It's hard! It's really hard, it's just awful! You, you lost a loved one in a horrible way and you feel responsible, and it makes you sick to even think about it! I can relate! My mom ran out on the family when I was ten, and then my whole hometown got destroyed and almost everyone I ever knew got killed, because, because I didn't believe that my own adopted sister was the daughter of a really ruthless emperor, and I, I keep getting nightmares about all the people dying, my mother not loving me, my dad blaming me for his death, and worse! All the time! It keeps following me around and it never goes away! But, what happened with you and Aibes, what happened there, that's different! You may have lead him up to that ship thinking you could solve everything, but he came with you despite thinking it was a bad idea because he couldn't let you go up there alone! He stood up to IKEA despite being terrified because he couldn't bring himself to stand down and let him kill you instead of running away! He was scared that you'd die up there and that he'd be the one running! If he was in your shoes, Lucid would've turned into you right now and screamed that you were killed by him! He loved you-not this monstrous thing! He died for you! He'd have done the same thing ten times over if it meant you had a chance at surviving! He'd be destroyed to see you like this now! You didn't kill him, Stella, Aibes gave himself up for you!"

Venia paused to catch a breath, concluding that turn-based conversations were really just awesome for not getting shanked in the middle of an emergency therapy session.

"If Lucid gets to you now then the stupid rock will have made Aibes sacrificing his life to save you pointless, and I don't think there'd be anything worse to you right now than making his death be in vain! You have to focus, Stella! Focus, and either focus on helping us kill him or focus on, on something happier! Yeah, just try to focus on the happiest moment in your life you've had with Aibes, because you can't forget why you're fighting! Lucid can't focus on fighting us and keep complete control over your head! This isn't Aibes in front of you-this is some monster trying to destroy everything he sacrificed himself to save!"

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The little girl turned around just in time to see Chaos shove glitch down his throat. The little girl screams in fright and immediately dives for the side of the couch facing away from Chaos, her four cats following closely and yowling.

"I'm not supposed to go to the candy store with strangers! Stranger danger! You can't see me!" The little girl screams from the other side, waving her stick in the air from behind the couch.

Clearly the actions of a cold-blooded killer. Chaos is dealing with a dangerous professional here.

Comet moves the hailstorm one square east. She then blinks to C12, casts Shadow Clone at D11 and D12, loots the cache, and retreats to D14. She also sends the clone at D11 to F9, and has it scan Lucid. Finally, Comet sends the clone at D12 to E16, and has it scan the Harpy.

Simeon looks down, avoiding Omo's gaze. "...Oh. I'm so sorry. After all this, should I... should I stop using these?"

After scarfing down a Carnival Corndog (which was surprisingly good), Simeon advances to K12, attacking the Ashen Knight head-on and retreating to J12, casting Riposte while he's at it.

Cloudwalker Vox has logged on.
Vox: A mind-screwy nightmare-wielding monster.
Vox: Haven't we seen this before?
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Terry moves to L12, fires to the east, retreats to I12, then throws a Lumipod at the Zweet on F11.
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A meteorite squashes the Seeker in Zone 0's C41 tile.

Teag loads a fire round.

I move after Toast.

Berg moves to G12, and uses Hidden Flame on Crystal Cluster 1!

Irongutta acts after Auth and before Toast.

He moves over to K13 (triggering Unstoppable Force) while momentarily eyeing Lucid. However, he hears a noisy commotion behind him that stood out from the cacophony of battle. Whipping around, he sees Toast being grabbed by a Harpy.

"Gah! Get outta 'ere ya bloody squigeon!"

He immediately uses Skeletal Toss on the Harpy, chucking it through the window at E17 and releasing it at B17, allowing Skeletal Toss to apply its damage.

Action queued - before Marron's move, switch hand drone thing from Chloe to Marron. Because anti-blind. Also, move to K15, scan the Ashen Knight to figure out what's going on, and stay there for now to figure out what to do.



The Operative pauses for a time, thinking things through, then turns to Chloe and nods.

"That would be correct. The... boyfriend thing, that is. Heh... and I suppose you're not wrong about the robot thing either. Technically was a cyborg, but decided that the remaining, uh, fleshy parts weren't doing me many favors. So... Heh."

There's a pause. He's about to say something more, but then Marron interjects. And with what she says, he promptly turns a bright shade of... blue. Huh. Well, he does happen to be sort of, you know, manifesting from Calibri right now, and he's turned blue before...

"I, uh. Uh. Uh. ...Marron, why. That's not... I... Moment."

Beat. He closes his eyes, inhales deeply, exhales just as deeply, opens his eyes, and seemingly actively forces himself to stop blushing. Somehow. He turns to Marron, and there's a "please don't say something like that again" look in his eyes now.

"I'm not going to do that. Come on. Yes, I know she's technically still Chloe, but still, she's a different Chloe. For one thing, slightly less fire-elemental-y, for another, different timeline of events and different memories as a result of the different timeline of events. So, well... It'd be like if you, well, took interest in Alt despite, you know, the main Toast being... primarily the one I suspect you have eyes for. If that analogy makes sense. I think I got the names right... It's confusing, I'll admit."

Another pause.

"...As for the question, doing quite fine. If you're wondering how the other fight is going, the one back in the mindscape, well... I'll be quite honest, the Temmies quite simplify things. Kind of wish some of them were here right now... could probably use a few more guns on deck right about now, and all. Hell, I wouldn't particularly mind if Mari showed up again, as much as we didn't see eye to eye on several things... Come to think of it, this here pistol. It looks like something she would have made."

Oppy closes his eyes for a moment. It's possible to hear him thinking out loud. There's only a smallish part of his speech that's audible enough to make out properly...

"...Maybe she's out there in the waking world or something. I'd hope so. Got the feeling I owe her an apology over... something, at least..."

Another pause, as he falls silent, then he turns his attention back to Marron, eyes flicking back open.

"And how have you been? And, come to think of it, how have the others been? Certainly, I'm already seeing some people showing up that I definitely don't remember from our adventures in the Mindscape..."

He gestures over at Venia, hoping he really doesn't need to say much more on that matter. After doing so, he turns his attention to Taeda in order to answer her words with some of his own, smiling faintly.

"That's a nice name. I don't believe I've seen a version of you in the Mindscape yet... Only recently started accompanying the others, I suppose? If so, I hope they've been, at the very least, enjoyable company. Although if any of them are like what I'm expecting, they've gotten highly overprotective of you at least once already... not that I have much room to talk about overprotectiveness, admittedly."


Meanwhile, down in the sewer, the giant mollusk that's proud of itself would soon find itself not being alone. Specifically, for whatever inane reason, Verdana has temporarily wandered down there to check things out, apparently completely impervious to the awful smell of the sewer, and quite literally glowing a little. He stands nearish to the mollusk and stares into the waters a little, trying to see what the mollusk might have taken an interest in, then once he pinpoints the object he turns to the mollusk.

"Do you mind if I just lift that out of the water? I can't see what that thing is... Don't worry, I won't make off with it."

Should the mollusk somehow communicate that it's okay with that, Verdana proceeds to back off a little, then reaches out with gravity manipulation. Slowly, gradually, the Helix crystal should "fall" upwards out of the water and into the air, then hover while being dragged over to drier ground, perhaps onto the dock itself, before being set down again on the ground. From here, Verdana decides to inspect the object closely, albeit staying a certain distance away from it to avoid risk of provoking the mollusk.

Keiko just slashes the Zweet5.

Toast casts Aerobeam north-west. It turns north after hitting the zweet, then east at G8.
She also noms on a Sap Cake.

Destiny moves to D13, hookshots onto Crystal Cluster 1, landing at F11 before retreating in to E13.

Emerald quickly snatches himself over to J18, stepping over Venia's unconscious spider form or whatever, and drags Calibri over to J20, moving himself to J19

Brutishace wakes up in an unfamiliar place. His eyes open to the cackling of the fires around him, with the Ashen Knight in the center. That should be the enemy he's after.

Brutishace climbs up to his feet, then moves to K9 and fires Twin Photons at the Ashen Knight.

It's pretty standard, but it'll have to do for now, since Drain Life isn't very good in this situation.

Kokichi, looking fabulous in his dress, enters the Lucid Boss fight.

KOKICHI
Brings the Nee Hee Heat.

...that is to say, he just kinda neeeows over into Omorika's office at M19 and scoots over to M18.

/prolly edit later to screw with Lucid, prolly.

Zed tosses the Yggdrasil Vessel to Bass, then flies to S13. He uses his staff to attack the Crystal Cluster.

+2 Ventus.

Auth throws Hope over to K15.