Nezira quickly does some crafting.

She takes the 5 vials of Soul-Mana Distilled Water, puts them in a pot, pours water into it, and adds 5 Aurora Crystals to heat the water to boiling, before leaving them to brew for a while and let the essences blend. Hopefully that should create something actually useable.

She also takes a Manabloom Seed and plants it in a pot that's been filled with soil mixed with a blob of compost, a blob of Red Sap, and layers of crushed Lifegems. Maybe that'll cause some life-themed alterations to it to happen once it fully grows.

---

She goes over to the Crystillery and aligns the lenses on her new Scrutinizing Staff, creating a configuration that seems to channel mana strongly through them. She points the newly-aligned staff at the Bouquet and hits it with several empowered Force Nails, and then impales each Petal that spawns from its corpse with another Force Nail. Once all the enemies are fully *dead* dead, she harvests the remaining crystals. She also cleans up the crystal fragments in H31, hopefully salvaging at least a few whole crystals from them.

She buys 3 Seer Crystals and 1 Shock Crystal for 40 Crafting Credits, and immediately refills the Crystillery, planting 3 Seer Crystals on F29, 3 Luminous Crystals on F31, 3 Shock Crystals on H29, and 3 Galeforce Crystals on H31.

Once that's done, she makes her way to the Untamed Woods and carefully scares the Seeker away with a few Force Nails (don't want to kill such a brave warrior, now do we), then harvests the remaining mush of compost.

---

With all that done, Nezira spawns at H15 (reminder: Starcrystal Scarf spell gen) in the Fireblast Encampment map, scans Chainknight2, and then casts Force Nail on him.

Emerald realizes he’s been napping and quickly spawns in Yggdrasil at J19, sprinting his way up to I13

1. He also realizes he has a promise to do, and begins casually existing in two places at once, heading back into the house to look around for a very specific scaly friend. No, it’s not a snake. Maybe. It’s a dragon! Perhaps some kind of... wyvern? Either way, there’s something he needs to with the fren.

3. Upon being tripped over, Emerald does a mental ! And turns around to see who tripped over him, noting... exactly he fren he was looking for! Oh goodie!

”I’ll be fine, my buddy chum pal friend. Speaking of which.. I was looking for you! Because I think I asked you a question before at some point when I got lost! Also I could use a scale for magic science experimentation purposes!”

...a very fast subject change, that. Those sentences are all completely and totally unrelated, definitely.

Toast hops skips and jumps to K15 and invokes Unsealed Spellbook: Intuition and Spectre to cast Proximity Burst on Sapper2 with Wallhack. Storm clouds gather above the Charian before a bolt of green lightning tears through the sky to strike him and his mates, as Toast hops back to J17. It also costs 20% less.

~~

Mirror!Toast takes an Elemental Blaster shot at the Migi and meditates where she is.

The Battle of Yggdrasil Approach

"I trust my fellow comrades to take care of the Migis"

Time to crack open some positions, Artillery move up to I18, it starts raining indirect fire on M11 with Careful Trajectory.
Unless toast completely eradicated the right bunker already, then fire at E11.

I move to H7 and the Infected Sapsqueal will not survive this shot... Hopefully. I shoot it.

Mr. Krabs engages in RAPID CRAFTING. MAYBE.

First, Mr. Krabs restores the Car to working(?) condition by restoring its four wheels. As this was ultimately the only thing 'detached' from the car in the inventory, I don't think I need to repair it any further than this and see what the result is.

He then does two other things.





Venia equips the Stunning Glove over her Venia Plushie and waves goodbye to that +1 AGI. In any case, she sets the Stunning Glove's magical resistance to Fire before joining the battle. Unless she can't, in which case, boo hoo.

Before she engages combat, she sends a psychic message to all of her allies joining in, as well as Stella Omorika: "I'm playing bad cop, someone needs to play good cop! Auth, use that crazy curtain power of yours and warp that Chairian to our position and revive them in a fell swoop. If something bad happens, it's probably Iti-related, so I could be of use..."

Venia (properly) joins the Fireblast Encampment Battle at J15, smiling way too hard and unbuttoning her coat to deal with the ashstorm's additional heat. The Entropic Key shines with the majestic light of purging. "I'm honestly kinda dissapointed in you lot? I mean. You look like twigs! I swear, the right swing at your heads would knock 'em right off, heehee! I won't be able to enjoy myself much. Well, except maybe you," she says, pointing at the Chainknight with the Splintershot, "But I'm gonna have to reserve the real fun for afterwards mkay?" Venia says, licking her lips.

"Still, even if most of 'ya are-urk!" Venia blurs out of existence, and the weird silver vanishing goop goes flying everywhere as she returns a second later. "...Oof. Hehe. That reminds me of somethin', but, later! LATER! SPHEREBREAKERS! SIC EM!" Venia yells, making exaggerated motions to the rest of the crew.

---- { <|0|>|----

Maria, left to basically her own in the house (and her weird pseudo-kitsune 'friend' standing eternal vigil at the door), wanders about, looking for something interesting in the house to pass time by. There's no TV or anything, and Maria doesn't even know the inventory exists, much less how to access it. So instead, she just opts to head down to the Basement.

"Goin' on an adventure!" She dramatically declares to no-one in particular as she winds the spiral staircase.

The first thing she notices is the Cache, IE the physical location of the inventory. "Chests! I'mma open them, like an adeventurer!" She declares as she moves in to open them. However, Maria's attempts to open the Cache are met with immediate failure due to safety locks on all of them. Really, really, unfathomably strong safety locks. After some futile attempts to kick or lift the chests open, she gives up, and continues wandering.

She turns right from the south entrance of the cache and notices the statues. "Figurines!" Maria squeals. However, her attempts at making off with them are thwarted-they're locked in place as well! "Why is everything stuck?!" Maria shouts in immediate frustration. She turns right, again-

"Ohmygosh it's a birdie! It's a fluffy birdie! FLUFFY BIRDIE!" Maria shouts as she finds the Baby Gallows and the other two, running right over to its nest.

"Can I pet it?" Maria says to Auth's Specter and Verdana, trying to reach up to pet it.

---- { <|0|>|----

Meanwhile, at Acacia's house, time chichanery is employed to bring Venia and Mr. Krabs in right in just as Hex attempts to leave. "Did you say 'fight us again' or something similar? I think you did. Oh, yes, yes you did."

Brought in through similar time chichanery is Keiko and Marron. "We of the Spherebreakers accept your request for a rematch, as you so desire! All we ask is for no killing and a favor to the winner. If you accept, bring three others for a four-on-four... Also, yes, Hex is number four here," Venia says, sending Hex along. "I'm one of the masterminds behind that 'assassination,' I was piloting Mr. Krabs. Yes, really," she adds, leaning on Mr. Krabs a little. "And you MAY just be able to claim your vengeance. If you've wised up from last time. If. I don't think you have, personally, but we'll see about that."

"We'll be waiting for you at the spot where we fought before," Venia says. "We won't give you a second chance if you bring anyone or anything more than yourself and three allies for this."

Venia and the crew vanish immediately afterwards to go wait at The Way Forwards.

The Man spawns in at K16 in the Fireblast Encampment, moves to L16, and shoots Assassin 4.

TO DO LIST:
Stuff
Things
Auth be confused about maria

Auth joins the Encampment fight with Priority to go first, assuming I get the all clear from Tazz, on I16. Auth uses his special on ??? on L4, teleporting the wounded Chairian over to H16.

/working

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Boshi spawns in at (I15) and creates the beat:
MOBILIZE -> ATTACK -> ATTACK

Nidra floats to K15, and casts Psycho Link on Fighter1 and the Glacrobe.

Hex dashes to H12, then Lunges forward with Helix’s Hand to H10z. He turns to the Fighter. He then slaps bad chair man with sword, and then slams a lumipod into the Fighter’s face, finishing him off. He then does a problem sleuth style victory dance!
Note: Cinder Rush no fire damage. Just the damage boost.

Upgrade time!

Kokichi goes through and, for the second time in three posts, ravages the inventory like some kind of beautiful lie vulture.

I'm tired of this scarf... come to think of it, it isn't even mine! Mine's back on Earth!

Kokichi haphazardly tosses the fake scarf to the side and pulls out two items that stand out to him.

Reskinned Apocalypse Flair:

Bottle of Panta Tasty Grape! Actually does Panta damage, not dark.
(Soda Stream) replaces (Apocalypse Conductor)

Reskinned Void Catalyst:

Soul Emblem Appears to be some kind of crest. Shrouded in mystery.

Kokichi takes a sip of his Panta and puts it back into his pocket. He then notices his tw- holy gorilla! Twelve... twelve skillpoints.

AGI: +3
INT: +3
SPC: +5
MHP: +1

Kokichi then skids into the Fireblast Encampment fight at G15 and confuses the gorilla out of ChainKnight1 with confuse ray (obviously), before retreating to cover at G14.

Brutishace sees the encroaching Iti in the flank- that Chairian soldier cannot die. He must take action.

Brutishace moves to D17 and casts Twin Photons on the first Migi. Hopefully one of the two strikes will hit. Brutishace makes sure to keep his aim away from the Chairian Lancer- he also makes sure his skull stays in his robe pocket. Ever since he put that Heart Key in it, he feels like it might have gotten a mind of its own.

He finally scarfs down a Quick Foodstuff to restore his energy. He wonders who made them- they're quite good.

All things considered, I really ought to do battle actions at the top, where they'll be seen. So, you know. Since I'm about to do battle. I'll do that. Yeehaw.


EN spawns in at G16, practically dances around the cover to G13, then turns to face the Chain Knight 1 just north of her.

"Heh. Ya look like ya can prolly 'andle a few hits... Do lemme know if yer 'boutta die, ah'm tryin' not t' outright kill anyone while ah'm 'ere. Bad fer public relations an' all. Anywho, FIGHT ME!"

With that cry of "FIGHT ME!", she promptly unleashes a blast of flame and ash north, also smacking the Chain Knight 1 with that blast. She glances over to the... um... left, and her Directional Shield on the power armor turns to face that way, her look showing she obviously knows there's someone waiting on the other side of those wooden barricades.


In the meantime, Verdana is still making sure to babysit the babybirb. Cause babybirb is cute. He seems to have taken the bobbing motion as a yeah sure on the birb's part.

"Alright, good. Hehe."

He... well, the energy flickers on his form vaguely seem to be intepretable as an expression of positiveness. Pretty much the equivalent of an "okay good" smile. His attention then goes to Maria, since she kind of just barged in there all of a sudden in a loud manner. There's a pause. The energy of his body flickers.

"I... Suppose I can permit it, as long as you are gentle. The little one is still little! I don't have a good idea of how tough they are yet, but I don't want to risk them being hurt!"


In the meantime, Calibri sighs quietly. Evidently, he's a tad worried, namely about the idea that he might have given Chloe more nightmares to think about.

"...Well. Yeah... there's a reason why I don't usually talk about my troubles. Heh..."

Beat. His voice wavers a little as he continues speaking. He might be hiding a few details about what he next describes, at least, that's the vague feeling one might get from how shaky he seems about the matter... Or maybe he's just not finding the conversation topic very pleasant?

"I... don't particularly wanna try remembering any specific details of that nightmare. Although if you're that curious... I recall that you did notice something was off rather early on. Got a phone, got wifi, contacted... someone, I think his name was Xavier, managed to organize a distraction, and kind of high-tailed it out of there."

Beat.

"...Huh. Haven't updated my gear in a while."

His loadout pops up, visible for a time in all of its stupidly clashing aesthetic glory. There's an anticlimatic rubber ducky noise as he instantly goes from his current setup to a new one. Like, he doesn't even have a transitionary phrase between loadouts. One moment, he's wearing... a military-style helmet, clown gear, and a tie, and the next moment he's clad in a witch hat, an oddly cute outfit, and has a journal tied to a thin necklass chain hanging from his neck. The new loadout promptly vanishes again, leaving him in the usual blue hoodie that people know and are familiar with.

"Heh. Glad I have the illusions, else I'd look ridiculous."

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1352...dit?usp=sharing


Meanwhile, the drone sort of doesn't quite what to do now. He takes a look at the thing the Harmonizer left behind. It's a sheet for singing and things. He stares for a while.

"This would be great if I knew how to sing. And also if I didn't have to use a audiovisual voice filter to make sure people don't mix up my speech colour with EN's. Even if I could sing, the background colour would make a mess of it. Ah well. Maybe I'll go see..."

He gets up, deciding that he might as well go exploring, see if he can find his way over to wherever those two specialists he sent down are staying. Well, technically three, but he can't really count Verdana just yet, surely? It does also occur to him that he has absolutely no idea where he's trying to go just yet. Eh, he'll figure something out, he's sure.


In the meantime, yeah, the Assault Craft can't really hold itself in the air all that well, and one unlucky sod almost falls out of the craft entirely before ducking back inside. The craft promptly goes careening off away from the crystillery, although someone inside decides to return the "favor" that Bouquet gave it by flinging a fireball at perhaps slightly too long a distance for it to be 100% effective.

...And then the craft crashes into a bunch of trees over in the Untamed Woods. A few people hop out, deciding to flee the area before the crash site might attract nasties, although by the look of it, not everyone survived - the craft is pretty much a wreck, and there's a dead pilot with a broken neck lying in the cockpit. One of the more agile people decides to take a minor detour...

The red dot of a laser sight appears in the Ancient Ruins. It drifts around aimlessly as whoever it's coming from scopes out the situation for a moment, then the red dot drifts over and holds itself on the Bouquet... One breath in. One breath out. The trigger is pulled. A sniper rifle fires once. A bullet flies. A Bouquet... maybe dies? It'd rhyme to say "a bullet flies, a Bouquet dies", that's gotta be worth something, surely. Because that's logic nowadays - not all that logical to be right proper honest.

Zed spawns in at G16 and flies to C16. He casts an Aerobeam north, which rips through Assassin3 and Rifler2 then turns east to hit Firebom2 and Assassin2.

+4 Ventus, assuming no targets dodge.

"Terry, you have learned nothing from charging into things, have you."

Keiko marches to I15, and casts First Aid on Terry. She is very deliberate in making sure the paper bandages are ever slightly too tight on him to cause discomfort in a non-petty way. She places cover at J14.

"If I have to come over here and bail your rushing ■■■ out again, I'm going to make sure to tangle your legs in these bandages next time. Comprende?"

Move to f18, load AP.

Irongutta moves to M17 and punches Sapsqueal 1 on the snout to establish his superiority, in an attempt to tame it.

Wyvern does Puppet Stuff

"I-Its..."

Wyvern holds the Wyvern Plushie in his hands, gazing into its yellow eyes.

"It's so cool!"

His eyes are light up in a mixture of awe and excitement. Wyvern hugsthe plushie tightly to his chest, then looks at the both Marron and Ette.

"I... really don't know how to thank you enough, but maybe I could... bake something for you. Yeah! That'd be fun for both of us."

Wyvern gives the sisters a small but genuine smile, closing his eyes.

"You remind me of... a friend I used to have. Maybe a sister? They liked to sew too. I don't remember too well. Sorry."

Wyvern equips the Wyvern Plushie, and puts one half of the heart crystal into his pocket, as he plans to form the full crystal later.

"Hm. I'll see you later then!"

Wyvern waves to Marron and Ette before turning around and bumping into-

==To be continued...>

...

Right now.

Wyvern does Gemstone stuff

[2] Wyvern feels himself smack into something hard, and trips over it, landing on his face.

"Ow...."

He puts a hand to his head and dusts himself off. Wyvern picks himself off up the ground and turns to see what he tripped over. There, in front of him, stands a blonde haired figure in heavy armour, a little shorter than he is. Despite the figure, known to most others as Emerald, being entirely unfazed by this Wyvern... does Wyvern things.

"Ohno,ohno. I'msosorry! Areyouhurt?"

Wyvern frantically rushes around, trying to make sure Eme is alright, before holding the fragment of the heart crystal in his palm and calming down. He sighs, and begins to talk slightly more rationally.

"Sorry. You are alright though, right? I don't need to call the vampire nurse or anything?"

[4] Wyvern tilts his head slightly, looking at Eme quizzically.

"My scales?"

He pulls up his sleeve, revealing various scales that seem to form some kind of natural armour. The scales themselves are rather large, and look more like plates than scales.

"I'm not sure they come off but... if you've got some way to get them off, I'd be willing to try. They do grow back, I just feel like taking them off might... hurt."

Wyvern does Hot Bread stuff

After managing to resolve that problem, Wyvern heads over to a girl in an orange hoodie, with two different arms, one of crystal and the other of metal. Wyvern wonders what happens to her arms, glancing at them curiously, before shaking his head. That's not why I'm here. He approaches Toast and attempts to speak to her.

"Um... hi? I heard you talking about a magic club or something and I was just kind of wondering..."

Idly, Wyvern plays with the plush, moving it around in his hands.

"...if I could join maybe? I'm not the best with magic but I've been reading some of the books back at the library. I can't read a lot of them, but I did find some that were actually written in a way I could read. If they're telling the truth... I should have some kind of affinity for magic. I just haven't discovered it yet."

His tone of voice seems completely different to the quick and immature way of speaking that he usually has.

"I'm hoping that maybe... joining this club will actually help me find that ability. And being around cool people like you who can actually do magic would be a really fun way to learn, I think."

He smiles at Toast, somewhat hoping to gain her friendship so that she'll let him in, but mostly because he's just excited at the thought of being part of a group.

"I'm Wyvern, by the way."


Wyvern does Battle stuff

Wyvern flutters into the Fireblast Encampment at G15 and smiles at a small purple haired boy who he seems to be sharing a space with. He seems more cautious than last time, almost planning out a strategy for his atta- nevermind. Wyvern darts to G11 and delivers and upwards slash to the Chain Knight 1, with a lack of fear present in his eyes.

<ROUND NINETY-THREE>
Nezira decides to do a spot of crafting, combining 5 Aurora Crystals with the Soul-Mana Distilled Water, in the sense that she's boiling water with them. This appears to awaken a bit of power from the mixture, creating two vials worth of mana-restoring liquid. In fact, it seems like this is rather similar to what Mana Vials are made of, so the game opts to add two Mana Vials to the inventory. She then decides to combine a Manabloom Seed, some compost, a blob of Red Sap, and a couple of Lifegems. They're all thrown into a pot, and placed outside of the House.

From there, Nezira decides to test out her Scrutinizing Staff by empowering several Force Needles through the Bouquet. Combined with the additional pressure of fireballs and sniper rounds, the Bouquet goes down. And explodes. Petals drift through the air, which Nezira pounds with nails and blasts from her staff. She then decides to harvest what she can from the damaged Crystillery, looting 4 Darkmatter Clusters, 16 Throwlem Crystals, 4 Gaia Crystals, and 16 Aurora Crystals. She then uses 40 Crafting Credits to obtain 3 Seer and 1 Shock Crystal(s). These are then used in the Crystillery, along with some Galeforce and Luminous Crystals.She also sweeps the shards away, finding nothing really of value.

To end her bout of crafting and harvesting, she scares away a Seeker with a barrage of force nails, before harvesting 30 blobs of Compost with her bare hands or something.

hm, i should hit the horizontal row button before addressing separate posts. might look nice

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Venia then decides to do some crafting, mixing 180 Disgusting Food with 6 Iron Ingots, creating six Acute Food Poisoning. Or, as it's actually called, a stack of six Paratoxin Shuriken. Then, 15 Gaia Crystals, 10 Aurora Crystals, a Rainbow Parti Foci and a Rope Necklace crafting charge are then thrown in a smoky blender. Out comes the Stunning Glove! Venia slips this on.

Elsewhere, Maria visits the baby Gallow. She reaches up over to the bird, and pets it. The bird does whatever the hell a bird purr might sound or be like as it snuggles deeper into its nest. Venia also does time gimmicks to challenge Acacia to a duel. She grins as she sees Venia approach- or at least, she retroactively grins once she realizes that she's the pilot of Mr. Krabs.

ACACIA: Oh? You've come back to die?
ACACIA: Very well! I'll meet you there soon.

ACACIA: I need to assemble a team first, however. This'll take some time, since...
ACACIA: ...Not many people want to... y'know, be near... me.
ACACIA: Look, I'll get to crushing you soon, alright? Just like, maybe go visit Yggdrasil first or something. I should have a group assembled by then.

...The duel doesn't start right away. Bummer.

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Kokichi decides that he's in need of an upgrade. He rotates and renames some equipment, and adds about twelve skillpoints to himself. He then takes a sip of Grape Panta, only to realize that his Apocalypse Flair hasn't actually transmuted into a bottle of Panta. He almost chokes on the rock that is the flair, narrowly avoiding death. Bullet = dodged.

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Elsewhere, Calibri decides to apply duct-tape to his build, updating it significantly. His drone then leaves the area, while that assault craft crashes into the Untamed Woods. It is promptly despawned by the presence of a single, but very hungry seeker. A memebr of said assault craft (probably) also slays the Bouquet, but that was covered elsewhere.

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Wyvern opts to visit the Puppet Sisters, during some random, undisclosed timeframe where they're not on a battlefield. He thanks them for the Wyvern Plushie.

MARRON: You're... welcome?
MARRON: ...
MARRON: It occurs to me how little people tell me 'thank you' after I make them something, the jerks...
MARRON: ...So, thanks. Thanks for being thankful, I guess.

MARRON: ...Also, if you're baking, i'd like a cinnamon roll or something, please.
MARRON: I like those. Ette likes those, even if she can't eat them.
MARRON: So, yeah. Thanks.

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<YGGDRASIL'S APPROACH, ROUND THREE>
Due to a devastating blow from Toast, the right bunker has fallen! However, there's still one fully-loaded bunker, and a whole defensive line of Chairians up to the north! Find a way to break their position! Also beware the two Hounds that have spawned down to the south- they're not the most threatening of Iti, and they might not even act this round... but they'll easily rip a squishy to bits if you're not careful.

<FIREBLAST ENCAMPMENT, ROUND TWO>
Pretty good first round, all things considered. Lots of dodges on your side, and no deaths! However, CERTAIN DEATH (not really) is falling upon your spawn area, so that'll suck a little. It'll land at the start of the Rebel Phase, so maybe you can take advantage of it? Also, be wary; your Flux Detector has detected a wave of Rose Cultists coming your way! How are they sneaking into this area undetected? Who knows? Anyway, brace yourselves for things getting interesting!

The Battle of Yggdrasil Approach

"Ette I require your assistance! Please help move the artillery farther forwards"

Artillery rolls up to H17, Ette will push it F15, then the Artillery will fire a shell at D9 hitting both mages.

I move to G17 and call upon a Vessel: Pioneer on I17 to assist me.
Damage Type: Ice
Resist: Earth and Dark, Weak: Crushing and Slashing