A little history lesson for you on magic and Automata, then? Alright then.
Automata is the name we have given to our people, as they live on giant golems named "automatons," which are usually turtle-like. It's extremely advanced for its time, already having advanced siege tactics and creative use of magic while people in the other parts of the world were still chasing their food. Magic here is used mostly for utility, such as heating up the fire or healing a burn. However, since only 30% of the population can actually use magic, we still have medicine and all because you don’t want a mage on your butt all the time.
Magic does not automatically make you an elite, as to properly use more advanced and unique trees of magic, you need to study magic. For that, you either have to spend a decade or so studying magic or go to magic school. Most people can't spend the time to learn to read and school costs large amounts of money, so about 80% of the mages that exist are still craftsmen and such. The other 20%, however, often serve the ruler of the automaton and can perform extravagant things.
While magic is often used to serve oneself, it is also extremely versatile, as humans have made golems of many materials with magic, among other things. Those other things include temporary flight, breathing in water, telekinetically moving things, and plowing land.
I should get this out quickly before I get on this next part so that the next part makes sense. We came to rule our universe through a mechanism called SBURB. Through SBURB, we escaped our dying universe, which was far in the future and had things like firearms and such.
Now, magic for combat is where it gets interesting. Magic is better channeled through objects, such as a staff or wand. For a very long time, we did not interfere with their technology besides introducing magic and placing down the fact that we were humanity’s gods. That eventually changed when Chero, the God of War, pulled out gun in panic while getting swarmed during a siege against the demons. Immediately, everyone got interested in the firearm, and soon they came up with what is essentially a magic gun. You can shoot any type you want, fire, ice, lightning, whatever. The “Arcane Blaster” as it was dubbed was supplied to mages during the middle stages of the war, and eventually the arcanely unable could use it when the mages thought “Hey, why don’t we just make a load of the magazines and fill them all with magic so we don’t have to fill them with magic every time?” After the demon war most of them are kept in the armories of the cities because of how potent they got at the end, but earlier models were supplied to farmers for crop irrigation.
Oh yeah, proof that I’m a space goddess. Well I can’t activate Ultra Instinct for some reason. I mean, I used it while battling Lucid, but that shouldn’t disable my ability to use it. I guess I could show you my short range teleportation?

Destiny warps around around 5 meters each time, leaving a green puff of sparkles behind. She eventually gets back to her original position.

That’s proof, I guess. Coming to Sussui has greatly weakened my powers and destroying most Iti would be like breathing for me. I really can’t show anything else, if I could I likely would have shown you the temple they built for us.

Hat Kid walks with Maria and Venia as they do stuff.

The realization hits her when she realized she went too fast. "O-oh... s-sorry, Maria!"

She strangely seems a bit confused by her being a Princess, until she remembers what they were, recalling the Mushroom Kingdom's princesses, Peach and Daisy. Then she lights up like a lightbulb. "A princess!? Wooow! That's so cool! I haven't met a real princess before! Boshi only told me about the two at his planet, but I've never met them! So pretty~"

When Maria says the names of her cats, she's unnoticably dumbfounded at the names of the first three, but decides to go try and pet them all after Maria's done naming them. She runs over to Skunk first. "Hi, Skunk~" Out of all of them, she gives him the most pets. She does and says similar things to what was done with Skunk, only with the different names and less pets.

Finally, she returns to Maria, very happy at the cuteness she just witnessed. "Aaaaa they were so cute! I really want a cat now~," she says ecstatically. Clearly she's never had a pet before.

A mild curiosity comes over her rather suddenly, but she refrains for now. Seems like food is here. She follows Maria and Venia to the kitchen, paying no heed to the sleeping Boshi.

From the depths of the house, Mustache Girl catches a whiff of food as Marron goes by, rousing her from sleep, but slightly annoyed.

"...mmm...? oh... right. Food." She struggles to get up as she says this; that work must have worn her out almost completely. She walks downstairs, slowly. As she passes by the living room, she notes Boshi on the floor. "...Oh. Good. Someone brought you up," she says, before continuing her trek to the kitchen, groaning.

As she walks into the kitchen, only one thing could be heard from MU: "uggggh... what's for dinner...?" Obviously, MU is extremely drained. She looks at the table, and sees a Celefruit. She hops up a bit to grab it, and takes a bite. Her energy's back, if only for a little while. "Aaah, better!"

As she hops up on a chair, she reaches over and grabs a small portion of steak and digs in. She doesn't speak again until the steak is gone, satisfied. "Mmm. Been a while since I had proper food," she says, eyeing the celefruit. "Hopefully I won't need to eat fruit to survive anymore - no fire to cook stuff with. Last time I tried got people mad. Ugh." She starts thinking for a bit. "How long was I down here for... a week? Oh well."

She spots Omo across from her. "Oh yeah, thanks for the help, miss. I appreciate it," she says. "Mustache Girl. weird name, I know. Anyway, no. Hat Kid just landed on my planet one day. Aaaand that's a story, alright-"

The Celefruit seems to have worn off, and MU starts feeling extremely heavy and even more exhausted than ever. "...uuuuugh... r-really gotta crash tonight... well, meet you at your tent, Hat Kid."

"Alright~ wait how did she know that was my tent aaa"

MU then slowly hops up the winding staircase, walks to the Hat Tent, and goes in. She unfurls her own sleeping bag, slides in, and sleeps like a brick the entire night.

Daskter: +4 INT. Trait and special edited. Archrobes equipped.
Toast: Cardboard Box created with 3 Cardboard, 2 Durasteel Ingots, 1 Rainbow Parti Foci, and a Temmie Ears crafting charge. Promptly equipped.
Bergilmir: +1 INT, +3 DEF.
The Man: +2 HP, +2 SPC, -4 INT. Item made- it's not actually a rechargeable item, however. Boo. This consumes 4 Iron Ingots, 2 Titanium Ingots, 2 Assorted Gun Parts, and 30 Crafting Credits worth of gunpowder. This surprisingly doesn't take a fridge to create.
Destiny: Backup created with 40 Crafting Credits worth of Silver, 5 Wire Scraps, 2 Luminous Crystals, 3 Greatwood Logs, 1 Red Sap Blob, and 10 Soulblossoms.
Brutishace: Potential Unlocked! Trait jumps to Level 2. Unsettling Skull made (but not equipped) with the Uncanny Skull, 2 Zweet Fragments, and 3 Corpsetaker Legs. He also makes 2 cups of Soulblossom Team with 10 Soulblossoms and 2 Uniform Logs. Is this really respeccing? No, but it's crafting!
Hex: +1 INT, +2 SKI,-1 STR, -2 MMP. Equipment rotated.
Wyvern: +1 AGI, +2 INT, +2 DEF. Equipment upgraded.
Zedros: +4 AGI. Custom Spell crafted.
Author: Potential Unlocked! Trait jumps to Level 2.

First, Venia needs a defractor for her Entropic Key. The Entropic Key's Purge is exactly what the doctor ordered for this little problem, but the Key's Purge is... Deadly. It would easily destroy the eggshell, and the egg, and the baby bird in the process. She'll probably need assistance to make sure the egg hatches well in the process even as she's destroying it... That needs little more than Taeda's assistance, though. She'll also probably need to feed it... Baby birds typically aren't capable of being fed on their own, after all, though she has ideas for proper bird feed for an eldritch abomination. Namely, other eldritch abominations.

Can't possibly go wrong.

Mr. Krabs is fetched, as is the custom. A Mirror, a Reading Lamp, five Luminous Crystals and five Iron Ingots are given to him. Venia waves him off to go do his thing. Mr. Krabs instead hands her a completed Defractor, seemingly immediately.

Venia silently takes the Defractor after a few seconds of looking at Mr. Krabs suspiciously.

"... What did you do?"

"I chiseled it, pretzel'd it, handheld it, veiled it, mailed it, nailed it, ukelele'd it, fence'd it, entrenched it, wendigo'd it, bartholomew'd it, colon'd it, colon three'd it, yee'd at it before yee'ing it, glee'd it, CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED, pried at it, scried it, fried it, lied to it, shoe'd it, moved it, coo'd it, woo'd it, married it, had babies with it, sent the babies off to baby college with it, lie about those last few things so you'd be lead on for a few seconds, crowed it, lowed it, know it, voe'd it, doe'd it, woe'd it, exod'd it, exodia'd it, blue eyes white dragon'd it, black magician'd it, black musician'd it, averagetrey'd it, laid on it, gray'd it, fifty gray'd it, nay'd it, naded it, neigh'd it, frayed it, craid it, craig'd it, kraid'ed it, bladed it, menaced it with spikes of obsidian and bread depicting the image of dwarfs being mauled by elephants'd it, brent'd it, oh, and-"

Mr. Krab snatches back the Defractor just in time to block a laser shot aimed directly at it. Venia's hat pings the offender, which, in a rare twist, kills it. The foe in question is the Laser Light Laser, leader of the Laser Light Laser conspiracy attempting to assassinate the Defractor in an ill-adivsed attempt at firing a laser at it. The Defractor, president of the united states of Defractor, offers up its services in sincere apology for not believing in the Laser Light Laser conspiracy. He also disregards how that wouldn't have killed him, at all.

"nailed it," Mr. Krabs says, handing the Defractor back to Venia.


Materials consumed: 1 Mirror, 1 Reading Lamp, 5 Iron, 5 Luminous Crystals.
Item Created: Defractor (exactly one use)

(T?) Defractor: It's meant specifically to enable Venia's silly attempt at purging the Gallows Egg of corruption before it's too late, namely by enabling Venia's 'soft purge' to work without killing the host. It splinters the beam off-still offering full power without it being concentrated. That said, the power of Venia's purges mean that additional assistance will be required to prevent the death of the egg, and also, it has only one use. This isn't over just yet...

Venia proceeds to call from downstairs. "Hey! Yo. I need some help down here. Someone with healing magic, of the strong variety. I could use any help though I'll only need a person or two," Venia shouts.

There's a brief smack against a window from upstairs, followed by things being shifted around slightly, and then by the sound of someone falling onto the ground outside. In brief order, Verdana walks inside once again, looking as though he fell out of a window. Probably because he did.

"Hello, yes, I heard someone needed healing magic? I am here!"

"Hey, uh... Whoever you are!" Venia clearly doesn't recognize the voice. "Just come down here, into the basement. Uh. I'll need help for something delicate!"

"...Okay! Now, where are those stairs..."

Thankfully, his descent down into the basement is done in a more normal fashion, albeit with him pausing at the foot of the stairs and hesitantly backing up a little as he sees the water that's splashed everywhere. And potentially some mollusk pieces. Still, he's needed for something, so he continues in anyway, seeking out where in the basement Venia's calling for him from... Which turns out to be the lab. Venia's hustling and bustling over an egg laid upon a small table, some delicate metal arms clutching onto the cheap defractor from before. The Cosmogone Box it was in is pushed to the side, on the Perception Filter.

"Oh, it's... You. I don't know your name," Venia says. "Uh. I'm Venia, Praefortis, in case you didn't already know," she says. "... In any case, uh. I need, uh. Help. With this. The egg!" Venia gestures to the egg upon the table.

Verdana's attention is first drawn to the perception filter for obvious reasons, but then to Venia. He seems to recognize her from the events of yesterday, and she might recognize him if she remembers certain gravity-related shenanigans...

"Oh hi miss Venia. It's me, Verdana! Or... did I forget to say my name yesterday? Anyway..."

His attention now goes to the egg. There's a pause. He takes a look over it. It's an egg. A big black egg. Probably.

"...Okay, what about this egg do you need help with? I think I saw that one in the inventory some time or other!"

"Ah, Verdana, yeah, I'll try to remember that," Venia says. "Anyways, the egg. That egg... Not sure if you were there for that, but that egg came from the Gallows. You know, the crazy bird that hangs people we had to fight like two days ago? Well. I didn't fight it, others did, but we got this egg from its nest," Venia continues. "I... Hrm. The Iti's mind, naturally, uh. It naturally formulates a ball of internal corruption around a sphere of a regular mind. The corruption is the Iti Hivemind, and the Entropic Key here-" Venia gestures to the key, held tight in her hand, "-can remove that corruption."

"Uh, normally this would also kind of 'break' the Iti's mind. Which is what happened to Calypse and Lucid, the other two suckers we used it on. They're not just corruption free, they're... Unable to think, I believe, due to the inability of the mind to properly form." Venia says. "The baby Gallows in this egg, if it even can be called that... It doesn't have a fully formed, uh. It's mind isn't fully formed. That means the corruption that would be within isn't protected. So, simply put, this is the optimal time to Purge the corruption, and get an Iti that won't try to kill us." Venia finishes.

"... The only issue is Purge is kinda murder-y." Venia adds. "The defractor here... Abates that. But only just... It'll still need to be healed in the process. Uh, that's your job, basically. Heal Egg, while I purge it." Venia says. "Feel up to this?"

"...Hmm... I believe I get what you're going for here, even if I have no way of understanding the more complex details! But if all you need me to do is heal the egg, then I believe I can do that! Er..."

Verdana glances to one side, then raises one hand, a few strands of Light magic gathering around his hand - the sign of healing magic being concentrated. Some part of him is still a little uncertain, but after a few moments, the strands of Light gather into more of an aura around his hand, a similar aura beginning to glow around the Gallows Egg...

"Uh, something that my trainers have been telling me is that healing magic does tend to interact a little oddly depending on the recipient. For beings in a premature state, it can cause aging processes to speed up, as they've yet to reach their physical peak and most of the known forms of healing magic shared at my employer's company tend to go more for... bringing things to their physical peak, if that makes sense! So... What's the plan if this causes the egg to hatch early?"

"Pray it isn't murderous." Venia says, bluntly. "There's a few other issues. Uh. Healing Magic is still, energy. Which means even with the defractor in place, uh, the egg could overheat. It'd require something very strong to get it at that level, though. That's basically the only other real complication..." Venia says.

"I'll begin when you're properly ready- Oh, yeah, almost forgot. Uh, the process could take, uh, like... I'unno how long. Purging is quick in the past but I'm basically diluting the effectiveness. It could take... Eh, I'd say a quarter-hour at worst," Venia says, shaking a hand upwards. "So, yeah, if you need any time to prepare, now's the time."

"...Alright... Typically, I've only used healing magic in short bursts to get things done quickly, but... I believe this may warrant more continuous, drawn-out healing! Let me see if I can get a connection..."

Verdana closes his eyes, concentrating hard. The aura fluctuates, shifting and dimming and flickering slightly, but still holds. If one looks closely, the crack made in the egg earlier in its lifetime would slowly mend over... He then opens his eyes again, the aura remaining persistent, yet dim for now.

"Okay! I believe I have established a connection! I haven't taken any advanced courses in healing-specific magic yet, but I'm confident that this will work! If the potential damage of the purging process does not outpace the healing, and I maintain it at this level, then I should be able to hold this level without running dry on mana! ...Using mana is annoying, but with the thymefield active, I don't have any other workaround to it yet..."

"Eugh, I know the feeling. The Thyme Field..."

Venia pauses.

"... It's made me feel normal. I haven't felt properly normal in an age, to be frank... Getting off topic. Yeah. If you're ready... You are ready, right?"

Verdana tilts his head a little, just staring at the egg, then back to his hand with the aura around it, before going back to the egg. He then nods, turning to Venia and smiling at her.

"About as ready as I can be, assuming we're to do this without taking anything from the inventory... Whenever you're ready, miss Venia, feel free to do... whatever it is that you were going to do!"

"OK, get close to the egg. Just in case. Minimize the amount of time the energy has to hang in the air, that dilutes the potency needlessly," Venia quips as she approaches the egg. The Entropic Key begins to glow white. "... Ga'aunt, if you can keep an extra eye on this while I work, that'd be great," Venia says towards her left-hand gauntlet for reasons that may or may not make sense to Verdana. She proceeds to open her palm towards the egg, revealing a single eye.

"...Alright then."

Verdana nods, moving to get a little closer to the egg, to the point where it's possible to see magic strands jumping between the auras around both his hand and the egg itself. He briefly glances at the gauntlet on Venia's left hand, tilting his head again in mild confusion, but decides that it's not really a problem to him, turning back to face the egg, somewhat ignoring the glow of the entropic key for now. As a matter of interest, he himself seems to be glowing faintly, although not in the same way as his hand or the key - rather, it's more of a calming red light, mainly for himself, but possibly something to help calm one's nerves from if they need it...

Venia reaches upwards to put the Entropic Key's tip upon the Defractor's lens, a feat possible due to being seven-foot-six and all. Then...

"Here it comes!"

The Entropic Key lights up to unbearable levels, and a beam travels downwards into the Defractor. The Defractor... Defracts the beam, splitting it off into several smaller beams, most of which still impact the Egg. A few hit the table, leaving obvious burn marks. The light is hard to look at... And eerie, as it seems to just eat color in the area, turning everything subtly duller, rather than just be some blinding light.

"Keep healing energy centralized on the points hit by the lasers if you can!" Venia shouts as she continues to pump power into the Key. At the same time, a dark purple smoke begins emitting from the Egg, almost the same color of Thyme Matter.

Verdana watches closely, just trying to judge how much damage the egg may have taken from the impact, wanting to see if the amount of healing he's putting out is enough to keep up with the potential damage done... Venia's recommendation does cause him to shift the concentration, mainly putting that healing energy into focus on the points of impact on the egg.

"Doing so. I don't know if it'll hold at this level..."

There's a pause. The healing energy fluctuates as he moves to invest a bit more power into it, then reconsiders within moments... He then turns to Venia, then back to the egg, noticing the discolouration and turning back to Venia once more.

"Is it supposed to discolour and smoke like that?"

The beam shrinks as Venia responds. "I haven't noticed the discoloration of the air before, and yes, in that order!" Venia says. "The smoke is the corruption leaving the body!"

The egg smokes even more. This would look familiar to anyone who saw Calypse or Lucid get purged, except far more... Gradual. The Discoloration does not continue to intensify or further move, just leaving a slight aura of paleness around the main beam

"It's healing the creature in the egg, right?" Venia asks. "It must be extra painful- oh hell it's cracking at the bottom!"

And it is-smoke wafts from the bottom much more intensely than from the top, but the signs of a crack could be seen within.

Verdana nods.

"I see! Yes, I believe that the healing energy should be able to reach the little one inside, even at this reduced severity... Ah!"

Once he hears from Venia that the egg might be cracking down below, he shifts his attention and there's a power surge from within himself, a surge of healing magic moving to cover the bottom of the egg and stop the crack from getting worse. He does seem to be taking the matter seriously enough, thankfully... For a moment, his form flickers. The room seems to almost light up in that one instant... Something about that flicker seems to have him worried, as he quickly asks something of Venia.

"I'm assuming we're trying to get this all done in one go?"

"Unfortunately, yes! Until that egg stops smoking!" Venia shouts. "How much you've got in you, abouts?"

The egg's smoking continues, the excess smoking from the bottom repaired. The smoking feels somewhat more even now, along the whole of the egg.

Verdana remains quiet, focused on maintaining the egg's integrity, although he does still need to answer the question. His form flickers again, then he sighs quietly...

"Not enough to do this and keep up appearances. I hope you don't mind too much..."

He closes his eyes again, and in a flash of light, the humanoid appearance is dropped entirely. Much like Calibri, it seems as though he's not really humanoid in actuality, but this form appears to be more akin to, for lack of better description, a miniaturized sun floating at around heart-level. Magical energies flash up and down in roughly the path that they would take if there were the rest of a humanoid body still present, mostly mimicking the form he had earlier. There are some energies that don't follow the pattern, flashing in other directions as though to signal possibilities, some moving behind where he'd be standing and forming what kinda resembles a pair of feathery wings... The light changes, as though a pair of eyes were opening.

<Alright! Dropped that form... This will have to do instead!>

Thankfully, upon dropping the humanoid form, it seems he's got more focus and more potential energy to use on the task at hand. The intensity even seems to increase somewhat, more rapidly mending the egg from whatever damages it may be going through...

"Not a bit!" Venia says, completely unfazed.

At about the same time, the smoke starts to thin a bit.

"...Looks like we're near done," Venia says, still pumping energy into the Key. She's sweating from magical exertion. "...Is it just me or are the lasers closing in?"

It's not just her-the lasers are closing in. The Defractor isn't perfect, it's deforming under pressure.

Verdana's nonhuman form flashes, and part of the glow his body is giving off shifts to focus on the Defractor for a moment. It's akin to having thermal vision and looking at a security camera's area of focus. The glow then goes back to the egg. He can't sigh in this form, but he can still speak normally.

<I think that device might be starting to break... That, I can't fix. Hopefully it holds!>

Thankfully, healing is a non-issue. The only deciding factors remaining are the amount of integrity left in the Defractor and the amount of purge that the egg still requires. It seems as though Verdana is preemptively channeling a notable level of healing into the point where the lasers would focus, should the Defractor break and it become necessary to hold the egg together... But it is unneeded, it seems. The egg stops smoking altogether after several more tense seconds.

"That's enough!" Venia shouts as she pulls herself back. Energy flees the blade almost at once. Venia's sweating, quite a bit. That on top of her coat makes the cause of her red face obvious. "...That's enough, thank you." Venia says. "...Check over the egg for me to see if there's any cracks, or something, something like that."

Venia leans against the wall of the lab, breathing heavily. "...Nice catch," she says, directly into the palm of her gauntlet.

The Defractor, meanwhile, is beyond doubt malformed. No-one is going to be using that thing in crafting after that! ... Unless they like, want to upgrade T0-trash. That lens isn't going to be useful in its current state, either way.

Verdana remains in the more energy-like form for the time being. Seems he's going to be stuck like that for a while... There's a pause, and a red spotlight dances across the shape of the egg, other magic now dimming down to be less in the way. A few flashes here and there as he patches up the egg, and in due time, it eventually seems like he's done with checking the egg.

<Hum de dum... Looks fine to me! Well. Feels fine. I can't see anything in this form! Everything's touch-based!>

Beat. The ethereal humanoid-shape that is Verdana's body moves to back away from the egg, just letting it rest in place where it lies, and he turns to Venia. If it weren't for him being very much not human in appearance right now, he'd be staring right at her.

<I think that's that sorted. Happy to help, miss Venia! ...Even if I'm now going to be a very shiny light for the next few hours.>

"Eh, I'll probably remember you better as a very shiny light, if not for the other issues this imposes," Venia says. "... Ho boy... Yeah... Yeah. Thankful we're not heading out immediately..." Venia says to herself. "...You can go now, if you need to."

Venia observes the egg for any sudden signs of premature hatching, just leaning her back against the wall, until she's thoroughly satisfied and less like she just ran a triathalon. Once she's assured the egg won't hatch yet she returns it to the Cosmogone Box, re-storing it, and heading on her way.

Venia heads downstairs with Ette (and Marron), and takes out the Spiritloom. She readies the silkweed for refinement upon the loom, and gets Mr. Krabs to refine it. Mr. Krabs does so slowly and without crazy randomness for a change.

It's not as if to day there's something to do, though. Venia then pulls out an accursed storybook. Naturally, the Pageling-like thing attempts to kill Venia, and naturally, not being a full Pageling with a Patche to control it, the creature fails to do much damage to Venia's arm. Venia takes the Entropic Key and bludgeons the storybook off of her arm, and then a few more times, away from Ette and Marron. The storybook is quickly subdued; Venia proceeds to take a Crystal Pen, mutter a few words to it, and then stab the Accursed Storybook. It immediately turns into a regular storybook-the animating esssence captured within the Ink of the pen. Venia puts this pen aside, for now.

Venia pulls out... Another accursed storybook. This one is bigger than the first one, and thus its initial attempts at murdering Venia seem a bit more successful, at first, but a swift kick in the middle of the book's contents is enough to send it flying back. Undeterred, the book charges up some kind of magical spell, but Venia glares. "Halt!" The creature stops mid-incantation. Venia sends the Entropic Key flying downwards at it. It predictably falls flat to the floor. Venia reaches for a pen, but the book is not quite done yet, and bites at Venia's ankles. Or, 'bites,' as the case may be. Venia kicks it into a wall a few times, and it spirals over, defeated, enough for Venia to mutter her few words into the pen and stab the book. A second pen.

Venia attempts to pull out a third book, but the third book is even larger than the last two-in fact, it's probably like a Chairian version of War and Peace. "Oh come on," Venia shouts as the book slams down on Ga'aunt, causing both him and Venia considerable distress. Thankfully, Venia's saved because her Entropic Key is on the other hand, and she delivers several semi-effective blows to the book before unleashing a Skeletal Toss at the book, forcibly prying it from her hand and slamming it into the wall. Venia flips to the Splintershot as the book comes roaring back, firing a single splinter into the center of the book. The 'splinter' at this point is more like a thin stake; the not-Pageling reels back, injured but not quite defetaed, as Venia moves in with the Entropic Key for one, two, three, four smacks. Venia moves for the pen just in time for the book to keep up the assault, gunning for her chest.

Venia's torso is larger than the book's mouth-Venia just stabs the book while it latches onto her. The magics that moved the books abruptly cease. A third pen. Venia figures that's enough.

Mr. Krabs finishes with the Spiritloom, returning six beautiful threads of white silk. Venia takes the ink from the crystal pens and dyes the silk threads black, infusing the threads with the latent charm of the books-the ability to forcefully mobilize themselves. On the books, the charm was just enough to enable the books to move and clamp down with mild force-the much thinner threads, however, would enable pseudo-telekinetic effects. This, of course, assumed the threads had energy; the Patche would source the energy for the Pagelings, and the Accursed Storybooks ran on fumes, but Ette would likely have a lot more energy *and* little need to require an outside source.

Venia ran a few additional charms over the threads-namely to smooth over the process-then went to Ette's arms. "I'll just stitch these threads in, Mkay? A simple enchantment, about as similar to the Guiding Hand spell, will enable these threads to activate and move things. Works best in 'close range' to fiddle with objects, and it may take some getting used to, though you could lift heavy objects with this... I don't think they're good enough to handle a weapon, though, or give you legitimate fisticuffs. For combative purposes, well, it's basically a Guiding Hand spell. Not perfect, but it's a start..."

Venia stitched in three of the threads per arm, muttering magic into them all the while to ensure Ette wasn't too harmed. "We found something in the Library called a 'body creation scroll," Venia starts. "Requires a few materials. Blood of a relative, soul of the deceased, and some rare magical compounds. So we basically have half of the needed materials, and I think the other half can be found around Sussui... I'm not sure if we'll be finding them soon, or before most of us will leave, so please don't get your hopes too high up, but I do wish to help you out, so I'll do all in my power while I can," Venia says.

"... I'll admit, I kind of want to help everyone out. Everyone just feels... Well, I was thinking of going into humanitarian work or the like, let's put it that way, but life's been mean about that. Feels like it's been a while since I've been able to do something honestly constructive. Uh, talk to me if there's any problems with the hands, Ette!" Venia says.

Materials Expended: 6 units of Silkweed, 3 Accursed Storybooks, 3 Crystal Pens
Item Created: Puppet's Phelanges

(T3) Puppet's Phelanges
Disclaimer: Ette did not gain an endoskeleton of any variety.
(1-1) Crushing, Range 1, Retreat 2, Counter 2 (SPECIAL), 5 HIT.
Stat Changes: +2 MHP, +2 DEF, +2 SPC, -2 STR

WEAPON SKILL: Puppet Push (12 MP). Cast Guiding Hand without any spell modifiers. This Weapon Skill is unaffected by silence. Passively, if an ally in Range 1 would take fatal damage, you may take the attack in their place. This can absorb a maximum of 10 points of damage. This weapon is Fixed, and can't be changed.

COUNTER: Shove Away
Range: 1
Perform a basic Counter, then push the attacker 2 spaces away. Costs 6 MP to use. Can be toggled on and off.

Although the stew itself isn't an item, hopefully the on-the-road stuff made near the beginning might?

(x15) Quick Foodstuffs ("So unhealthy...")

Heals 4 HP.

Irongutta first takes one of the Nice Coats in the inventory and carefully disassembles it. Primarily he keeps whatever pockets the coat had, while any extra materials from this disassembly can go into the inventory.

Taking the pockets left over, Irongutta uses x5 Silkweed to sew a few pockets together into one larger, superior pocket. He then threads the string from his current Sapgem Necklace through the large pocket. Taking the remaining sapgem from his sapgem necklace, he carefully pours the single Red Sap Blob from the inventory over it, creating a more potent form of the sapgem. This upgraded sapgem is then studded into the large pocket.

Irongutta takes a bag of salt and two barkfin from the inventory. First, he descales the two barkfin and cooks them in the nearby forge. (So tasty!) As an afterthought, he punches tiny holes through a few of the barkfin scales and adds them to the necklace string for extra style; three on each side of the pocket and sapgem. Grabbing one of the Accursed Storybooks (and taking great care to not let it eat his face), he decides to extract its essence in the forge by burning it and mixing it with salt from the bag to create a magical preserving material that he could infuse into the sapgem. Magic isn't an exact science to him.

With the enhanced sapgem on the pocket now infused with the powers of preservation (and probably hunger, judging by how the accursed storybook behaved), he places the two salted pieces of barkfin meat into the bag to finalize his portable, long-lasting food source.

Materials Used: x1 Nice Coat (Disassembled), x5 Silkweed, x1 Red Sap Blob, x1 Bag of Salt, x2 Barkfin, x1 Accursed Storybook, x1 Sapgem Necklace (not that it matters for success rates)
Item Created: Snack Pocklace

Snack Pocklace
It looks like a gem-studded pocket on a string stuffed with consumables.
Stats: +2 HP Regen, Consumable (Same as before, but upgraded to Mending6 for two rounds, while removing 2 HP Regen for the remainder of the battle).
Resists: None.

Your MHP, SHP and CRT are multiplied by 1.5 for the rest of the battle, and you gain a 10% Damage bonus on all basic attacks.. You fully heal upon using this special for the first time in a battle. Free action.

After using this special for the first time in battle, your special now costs 100 SP (at all times) and deals (30-34) damage.

-2 SP required per SPC. (Minimum of 150). (currently: 168)

DMG of second special scales with SPC. (currently: 38-42)

+1 MHP and +5% damage gained per 3 SPC. (Currently: +5 MHP and +25% DMG) (DMG boost caps at 40% DMG)

+1 SHP gained per 4 SPC and 3 RES. (currently: +2 SHP)

Irregular Apocalypse at 15 SPC. (When using your first special, you may also use the second special for 50% DMG. No SP refund if you choose not to.) (currently obtained) (IA damage: 19-21)

Basically: MMP raise swapped out for percentage-based damage boost.