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VENIA: OK…
VENIA: We have a lot to talk about.
CHLOE: T-This is about Destiny, i-isn’t it…?
VENIA: I’ll start there, but if I was ending there I wouldn’t have brought Nia along.
VENIA: … So, just as a recap, so Nia can understand.
VENIA: Why did you lash out at Destiny? It wasn’t just the fool comment, right?
CHLOE: I-I, well…
CHLOE: T-Terry died.
CHLOE: I-I didn’t really know what to do, say, or just… a-anything…
CHLOE: And Destiny just… spat on him.
CHLOE: She… she didn’t care that he died. T-That’s just… d-disgusting! Shouldn’t someone at least care a LITTLE when their allies f-friggin, DIE!?
VENIA: Calm down a bit! Just a bit. I agree, completely, but, we’ll get back to that.
VENIA: ...Nia was there for that. There was… Stuff, with Destiny, that Nia wasn’t there for.
VENIA: At the fireblast encampment.
VENIA: You remember what happened there, right?
CHLOE: I-It’s a bit hazy, sorry…
VENIA: I remember, I was pretty closeby. You asked Destiny how she got so good at stabbing people, and she responded… “Center of mass, preferably straight in the heart.” Right?
CHLOE: R-Right!
CHLOE: Then she went on about giving those she called “heretics” slow and painful deaths…
CHLOE: J-Just, w-why!? Why prolong their suffering!?
VENIA: … I honestly do not get that, I’ll admit.
VENIA: But… Look at it from her perspective. It’s a bit warped, but…
VENIA: She responded to your questions immediately and calmly, did not get angry at you for your rage and instead tried to remain calm and explain why, and concluded when you did not calm down that she was unable to cross the ‘cultural gap’ as it were.
VENIA: And then, when she attempted to reassure you that you wouldn’t end up like Terry was, you lashed out and punched her near-unprovoked, amidst a whole crowd of people cheering you on, including a seven-year old and the last person who had to be on the wrong side of that rage.
VENIA: Basically, you only really pissed her off when you insisted that what she equated to be an ultimate insult was totally justified. She didn’t even get seriously mad when you slugged her.
VENIA: … She’s no innocent flower, and the whole heretic business is beyond me, but all considered, doesn’t that make you sound completely irrational?
VENIA: LIke after a whole story about how your rage totally ruined your life, you proceed to fly off the handle off of one comment after a very nasty, if indirect, brush with mortality. It kind of sounds like you didn’t really learn anything.

Chloe’s fists tighten, and she clenches her teeth. Her voice rises in pitch, and she seems to be seething somewhat.

<span style='font-family:courier new'>CHLOE: I-I, n-no, i-it’s not like that…
CHLOE: I-I did learn, I-I s-seriously d-don’t…
CHLOE: ...D-Don’t know w-why I…
CHLOE: I-I just g-got so angry, a-and this keeps h-happening t-to m-me…
NIA: C-Chloe? You alright there?
CHLOE: I-I… I...
VENIA: … It’s alright, just, let it out, if you have to.

The blonde begins to tremble, tears streaming from her eyes.

CHLOE: T-This… a-always happens…
CHLOE: I-I keep getting mad, a-and emotional, a-and I keep doing s-stupid, ignorant things…
CHLOE: W-Why do I e-even have t-these feelings? T-They do n-nothing for m-me but hurt e-everyone, a-and myself, a-and now I-I...
CHLOE: W-What a-am I meant t-to do with myself?
CHLOE: E-Every time I-I g-get mad, I-I explode, and do something l-like this…
CHLOE: Could Nia r-really f-forgive me for e-everything i-if I’m so… s-stupid…?
NIA: C-Chloe, i-it’s alright!
NIA: I-I… Y-You’re lovely because of your emotions! Y-You were always so happy, and bubbly, and honestly really attractive back before… y-y’know, all of this happened.
NIA: S-Sure, t-they make you… crazy and bonkers at times, b-but, they make you… you, right?
VENIA: … Well. Those same emotions let you charge into that portal…
VENIA: And now you get an opportunity to, uh. Uhh…you get a second chance. Your best friend is alive, and she needs saving, saving from the damages you caused her… Wait.
VENIA: Uh. Saving her from the Chaos Butterfly, which, uh... Ah, nuts. That didn’t sound nearly as good as I wanted it to.
VENIA: Point is, those emotions… Well, they do make you, well, you. As Nia said.
VENIA: I… I understand, that… Really, if anything, its the people who don’t really know how to release, or that they should release, at all, that are really choked up.
VENIA: … I was like that, once. I tried just shoving it aside, and then. Well. It ended poorly.
VENIA: … Very poorly. That whole ‘destroying my village’ thing.
VENIA: … It’s not always a curse, is what I’m saying. You just need to… Learn how to direct it, I guess?
NIA: she sure directed it into Destiny’s face-
CHLOE: N-NIA!
NIA: ...S-Sorry. Not the time. I-I just, geez…
NIA: I… I just h-haven’t talked t-to you in s-so long, and I’m used t-to just, joking around with you and gorilla...
NIA: I-I kinda feel like a wreck too, honestly.
NIA: I… I really wish I had a second chance, too. J-Just, to talk things out with you back then, and maybe avoid being an almost-really-cool robot…
NIA: Don’t think everything’s over yet, Chloe. I don’t hate you, or even really blame you for how you’re acting…
NIA: Just… be smart, alright Chlo? You have this chance to change, and I believe you can become the best Chloe that the world’s ever seen!
CHLOE: B-But...

Venia nods in agreement.

VENIA: Yeah! I… Hrm. I say that the best way to start with that, if any is… It’s not bottling it up, that’s for sure. Just know what to get angry at, and how.
VENIA: Put the rage and misery into the swings, use the fear to know where it's safe to step, stuff like that.
VENIA: It honestly sounds kinda corny, but… It’s a lot better to just stress out your arms with your emotional baggage than your head, Chloe.
VENIA: ...ok yeah that sounded really corny…
VENIA: Speaking of mental baggage, Nia…
VENIA: … You said, back on the bridge, that you… Well, I’m not saying you’re not sincere about the forgiveness, but you said you weren’t really over all of that, either, right?
NIA: H-Hey, I get mad too, alright?
NIA: I-I really thought that she’d just have… changed, after all we went through.
NIA: A-And… well, no. I’m not over it.
NIA: Could I even BE over it? She literally knocked me out, o-over a d-dumb argument we had! I-I mean s-sure, I c-could’ve been smarter there too, but…
NIA: T-Then I became a robot who has a gorillaing brain parasite that wants to kill me and basically everyone else in the area! I’d need to be a goddamn SAINT to be over that!
VENIA: And that’s kind of mildly disregarding that you kinda exploded on her for the fact she was straight…
VENIA: … Like. I’m not even going to joke-they say the whole ‘words can never hurt me’ stuff like they mean it but it’s a lie. That stuff scars even if it’s just like ‘Oh I’m asexual.’
VENIA: Honestly? I almost wound up in your shoes. Uh, on the whole ‘breakup from incompatible orientation’ thing… Guy I was into was not interested in romance, at all… He was like the nicest person I know to this day, too...
VENIA: But quite frankly, at the same time… I’ve also been in Chloe’s shoes. Getting yelled at for something that was… Immutable? I… Augh, can’t find the word for it…
VENIA: … Something I couldn’t control. Chloe wasn’t interested in you in that way… It’s not even remotely comparable, granted… I...

Venia presses a hand to her temple, breathing deeply.

VENIA: … Explain. Just explain.
VENIA: … OK, so, quick backstory. When I was nine, some very mean people basically told me that I would either join them, or they would kill me and every member of my family.
VENIA: Obviously, I didn’t pick option number two, but…
VENIA: They only really found out when I was sixteen, and… My little sister… She hated them.
VENIA: I hated them too, but she, she… Like… Augh! It’s honestly gorillaing agony to the day to talk about it, but she didn’t understand, and I couldn’t talk to her about it… She just felt so betrayed.
VENIA: And I just felt so… Angry! Like, I was… Protecting her! Protecting my dad! It was an awful, horrible way to do it-letting criminal scum get away with… that!
VENIA: … My, my dad showed up… He was just so… He just didn’t believe it, either, but he didn’t get angry… And it hurt so much worse, seeing him like that… I… He needed to… He wasn’t angry at me, he was just… but I… My sister left… I don’t know…
VENIA: …
VENIA: I don’t think that was actually really comparable at all now that I think about it.

Nia's taken aback by what Venia just said.

NIA: I, um, holy gorillaing gorilla.
NIA: I-I think we should be the ones comforting you, and not the other way around!
NIA: I-It’s just, w-well, y-you’re making it seem like w-we’re kids fighting over the last timbit or something…
VENIA: I’m sorry… It just… Ugh, I needed to think of something that really compared to what you were feeling… Eugh…
NIA: I mean, I totally get what you’re going for. It’s just that it seems like you’ve been through literal hell.
VENIA: … I haven’t.
VENIA: … Really, I don’t even want to know how you keep that smile up with that thing in your head. I have a bad condition, but... God. I don’t even know what hell must go through your head every day just with the limbs locking up, being under Xavier’s thumb… That sounds godawful beyond reason. Sounds like slavery.
NIA: Really, I…
NIA: ...I have no idea how I handle it all.
NIA: If it means much though, Xavier’s been really, really nice to be despite… y’know, literal slavery. He said that he’ll release me once he’s done killing the Sphere and such…
NIA: ...W-Would he, though…? I mean, he’s gonna need to avoid the cops, a-and it’d be hard for me to just sorta go “hey mom hey dad i’m back don’t question it”.
NIA: ...Enough about that, though.
NIA: ...What were we even talking about again? I think we’re making Chloe’s problems seem like, way less significant than they are, or something.
VENIA: No, they are significant. Chloe’s the person with the normal life… Chloe knows why its wrong. Some people have looked at what I was forced to do and say, “That’s just life!” And I only barely understood that it shouldn’t be like that at all.
VENIA: And that’s something to fight for. We’re here to… We, Spherebreakers, we’re here to right as much of that as possible.
VENIA: No more stupid monsters, no more brain parasites! No more going crazy. No more of any of that!

Chloe, after being quiet for quite some time, finally speaks up. She’s still crying, just somewhat less so.

CHLOE: U-Um, Venia…?
VENIA: Yeah?
CHLOE: I-I… i-it’s just that…
CHLOE: H-How do you cope with everything? I-I’m dealing with so little compared to you, and y-yet, I s-still freak out over m-my stupid, s-stupid mistakes...
CHLOE: M-Maybe you could h-help me?
VENIA: I actually thought of exactly that, well before I arrived. I’ve done a lot of things. Bottle it up, scream, get mad, grit and bear it, learn from it, try to be zen…
VENIA: None of it worked, really. I mean. Maybe it was just because I lived a screwed-up life with a social network in the single digits that I actually trusted. It’s all about your friends, I’ve felt… And, well… I’ve been rather long for friends. But someone like you-you can make friends easy, almost everyone likes you! Like, even Destiny isn’t really mad at you. I think.
VENIA: ...Well, one other thing worked, as silly as it seems. I just… Like, set up a target, a punching bag or something, and then start imagining the thing I hate. Then… I just wail on it, and keep doing so until I’m too exhausted to think.
VENIA: Funny… Thinking about enacting vengeance is more satisfying than causing it, so taking it out on something that literally doesn’t care?
VENIA: That’s not therapy, but it’s something.
CHLOE: S-So y-you want me to… p-punch out my emotions…?
NIA: okay chlo I think you’re missing the point
NIA: let’s focus on the other thing she said
NIA: You’re… you! You have a ton of friends here, right?
NIA: You can lean on us if you’re feeling down! There’s that… guy, forget his name, sorry. I gave him my blessings, something like that…
VENIA: Calibri. His name is Calibri.
NIA: Calibri! Yeah, Calibri!
NIA: Look, that’s just like, one person! I haven’t been around you guys long enough to really know who’s who, but… I think that enough people care about you!
NIA: Like… well, Venia here, obviously! There’s also that Toaster lady, and that chick who’s always using her scanner on things, that cute anime chick that I kissed that one time-
CHLOE: She left, actually. Also, Monika’s… not really cute.
NIA: ...Aw. She was totally cute, though!
VENIA: Yeah, strange, that… That Keiko lady from before kind of shoved her into a closet?
VENIA: And I… Uhh… Yeah. Yeah! Yeah.
NIA: But yeah! You’re not alone, Chloe! W-We’re all here for you!
NIA: And really, nobody likes it when you cry. It really, almost physically hurts to watch you cry.
CHLOE: ...

Venia just shuffles her feet, a bit unsure of what to say.

VENIA: … It really does hurt to see you cry too… It really hurts to see anyone cry, but even after all that’s happened, you really don’t deserve to have all of this stress heaped on you.
VENIA: Neither of you do! It’s just wrong…
VENIA: … Right, uh. There’s one more point.
VENIA: Err, the last thing to discuss. The Golden Dream Ring thing.

Venia closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. Chloe meanwhile, begins to sob, leaning into Nia’s shoulder. Nia wraps an arm around the girl, and simply lets her cry it out into her shoulder.

NIA: W-What’d I just say? G-God, y-you’re gonna make me cry, too...
CHLOE: I-I’m s-sorry, I-I…
NIA: ...
NIA: U-Um… maybe we should give Chloe a moment to mull it over?
NIA: She’s already had a long day, and well...
VENIA: Unfortunately, the decision’s already been made…
VENIA: And she needs to be here for this. I’ll wait a bit for her to stop crying, but… We need to talk while we’re here.
VENIA: It’s the last item of discussion.


The two give Chloe a moment. A minute or two later, Chloe’s all dried up, but still generally miserable. She stands near Nia somewhat timidly, seemingly a little calmer. Venia promptly clears her throat.


VENIA: … When you first were informed of the… Final result… Uh. Of the… corruption taking you over.
VENIA: You said that you’d be willing to do anything to allow us to fix it, Nia. Even if it hurt.
VENIA: And it will hurt.
VENIA: … I mean. This won’t actually, physically hurt you. But, between discussion between the only other available experts, the severity of the situation, and the nature of our enemy…
VENIA: … Yeah. It’ll have to happen.
NIA: B-But...
VENIA: BUT! I’m no jackass and I understand that just shoving it on you is wrong.
VENIA: I would only consider that in an emergency, or if the situation prevented you from being able to properly consent or deny. And I also have no intent on leaving you in the dark. I’ll explain why.
VENIA: … Simplest put; all of those things that you don’t want people seeing, all of those doubts and thoughts in your head that you’re not the person you want to be, or that you’re not a good person, or that you regret what you did-the collective sum of all of your negative thoughts and feelings, big and small, every last-it’s all a feast for that thing.
VENIA: It wants to block your recovery-and it wants to do that by keeping you miserable forever. This isn’t just psychology-it’s impossible to determine where the natural resent and grief ends and where the butterfly’s insanity begins.
VENIA: To have a clear view of what’s going on means that we know how to stop it best, how to separate you two easiest, what its planning, how far it is along, and most importantly, when it will attempt to take over your body next.
VENIA: And, with this knowledge… We could come back, and personally annihilate that abomination at the core.
VENIA: I offer you complete confidentiality. The only three people who need to see what’s going on in your head will be the three people here right now; you, me, and Chloe. Anyone else you want present, that’s fine too.
VENIA: And, there’s something else just as important that we also need to cover, first.
VENIA: Nia, I said to you before that I’d teach you how to use Pulchritude. I know a tutor, so arranging lessons should be easy!
VENIA: If by some unholy luck I can’t, I will figure out how to myself just to figure out some way you could start learning how to use it.
VENIA: In other words: I intend to live up to my promise to teach you how to fight back against that abomination, however hard it is.
VENIA: So, to review… As soon as I can give you the knowledge to wield Pulchritude, we’ll start the procedure, in private, with me, Chloe, and whoever else you want to be present, and not a soul further. Any data that must be shared will not have to involve your memories or woes, they’ll just be, like… ‘Thingy A.’ Something that doesn’t say what’s up. Anything else doesn’t leave the room.
VENIA: … Does that sound fair to you?
NIA: I… uh.
NIA: This is a whoooole lot to take in.
VENIA: I… I know.
VENIA: … Sometimes I talk too much.
VENIA: Uhh… too long, didn’t read, basically you get to learn how to kick the butterfly’s butt, then we’ll just privately poke around, not tell anyone anything that doesn’t need to be told, and from there, we can use what we learn of it to kill it, stop it, do whatever we can.
VENIA: … I know, even with that… It still must suck.
VENIA: But I have to balance being your friend, with being your doctor…
VENIA: … But I mean you well! To the full of my power and extent, I want you, above all else, to be free!
VENIA: Free of being a slave to Xavier, free of being infected by the Butterfly, free of all of it! And I will do everything in my power to see this through.
VENIA: … I sound like a shonen anime protagonist now, don’t I…[/size=-1]
NIA: ...T-This is all necessary, i-isn’t it…?
NIA: God, I wish there was another way that didn’t involve the whole “mind probing” thing…
NIA: B-But… I-I’ll do it.
NIA: Better to be an awkward mess than a dead mess…
NIA: J-Just swear you won’t say anything about w-what you see, a-alright?
VENIA: I swear it on...
VENIA: ...
VENIA: … ‘honor’ may be too strong a word for someone like me…
VENIA: … IF I am so stupid as to divulge anything you do not want divulged, I give you full, immediate, express permission to delve into my own Mindscape in kind and dig up whatever the hell you want about me...
NIA: Honestly, going into your Mindscape might be… traumatizing.
VENIA: Ironically enough… Quite the opposite.
VENIA: I’d elaborate, but that may take a long while…
VENIA: But, simplest put, the field really imposes on my Psionic ability.
VENIA: If it had not, I would literally be unable to have this conversation-reading minds like just, uh, listening.
VENIA: … Which is why I hate compliments.
VENIA: You get a lot of body issues when people keep imagining you naked…
NIA: …
VENIA: ...
NIA: ...N-Nothing! Absolutely nothing!
VENIA: that was an awful fib
VENIA: I’m just happy I don’t have to see it…
VENIA: …
VENIA: Well then… What a dumb way to end this whole affair… Uh, Chloe, as the last party in this whole thing, like, do you have anything to say about the… Procedure?
CHLOE: ...Y-You w-won’t hurt her, r-right?
CHLOE: G-Going into her mind and messing with things…
CHLOE: W-We sorta-slightly-technically d-did that t-to Lucid, a-and sure, it was an Iti, b-but it sorta broke after…
CHLOE: G-Getting rid of the Butterfly w-won’t hurt her… r-right?
VENIA: No. As long as we’re swift, removal will not harm Nia. The only harm that would come of Butterfly removal is if the Butterfly got too deep within her-if the corruption completed and cemented, in other words.
VENIA: The longer we wait, the worse it gets, the harder it is to remove, and the less leeway we have to do so.
VENIA: This is why time is of the essence.
VENIA: Anything else, Chloe, Nia?
CHLOE: N-No…
CHLOE: A-At l-least, not f-from me…
CHLOE: J-Just… b-be safe, alright? Don’t hurt her.
NIA: U-Um, yeah!
NIA: W-When do you plan to do this?
NIA: Gotta… mentally prepare.
VENIA: As soon as I can properly teach you Pulchritude, and then get everything set up.
VENIA: Once you figure it all out… It’d take, like, oh, and hour to prepare.
VENIA: I’m sorry I can’t peg it down much more definitely. It could be as soon as our next fight is over, if you really pick it up fast.
NIA: R-Right!

Nia takes a deep breath. Venia takes a hand and puts it on her shoulder.

<span style='font-family:courier new'>VENIA: This WILL end well. I swear.
NIA: I-I really, really hope that it will! I… I think you can do it, though.
NIA: ...Anyway.
NIA: Chloe still seems… distressed.
NIA: S-Should we take her back to… erm, wherever you guys camp for a bit?
NIA: She really could use the break, I’d think.
VENIA: I was thinking of that myself, unless Chloe has anything to say to the contrary.
CHLOE: N-No. M-Maybe some r-rest would help me…
CHLOE: I’ve been… o-on edge, as of late. Just a moment of peace and quiet sounds… nice.
VENIA: It’s settled then. I’ll head back home with you-I need to do a bit of stuff at the ol’ crafting station and the lab.
VENIA: I got some new schematics for some Rose Cultist stuff I’ll need to sift through.[/b]</span></span>

Items: Soldier's Journal, 5x (T2) Psychoid Seeds, 3x (T4) Mega bark, 3x (T2) Crystal Pens

A story based off the experience of the "Soldier's Journal", this guide will teach reader how to properly manage logistics. Logistics is the backbone of any army, and without supplies, the army will simply crumble. Using crystal pens to write the guide on processed Megaback imbued with Psychoid seeds. The guide is complete.


A Guide to Logistics (T4)
+1 SPC, +5MMP, 3 Summoners intellect, Unique

Items: Patch of Focus, 2x (T3) Small AI Core (bought from store), 2 (T3) Joltwires, and 1 Red Sap Blob

Using the Small AI Core, I programmed them units to assist their host in combat calculations with the enchantment from the Patch of focus. It gives the host increased processing speed, and it also allows the host to push just a little bit further with their body. All of this inside a small easy to implant chip.

Tactician Implant(T4)
(+4INT) (+1MP Regen) (+2MHP) (+2MMP) (-1skillslot) Unique

MATERIALS:
-Unset Cloak
-Rebellion Banners (x5)
-Rose Weave (x1)
-Tornadopetal (x2)
-Crystal Pens (x2)
-Skyroot Log (x1)

The Unset Cloak. An armor with so much potential, yet one that doesn't see any use for whatever reason. With the sheer variety of trinkets we have at our disposal, it's astonishing that nobody considered using it before now.

It's finally about to change.

It seems like Boshi's taking the reigns this time.

Boshi takes the Unset Cloak, several Rebellion Banners, and the remaining Rose Weave. He finally decides to put his time with Hat Kid to good use, what with watching her sew and knit and all. He tears the Rose Weave into two pieces, one twice as wide as the other. He then tears the wide piece in half lengthwise, and stitches one of the ends to one of the ends of the other.

Using the power of very normal dye, he paints over the burning part of the Rebellion Banners' image of the burning sphere, to make just the Sphere. He takes one of the Crystal Pens and draws cracks on the spheres on the Rebellion Banners. He stitches the Rebellion Banners around the Unset Cloak, and trims off the excess stuff. He then stitches the Rose Weave to the neck of the coat, then to the base of the coat, folding it over the ridges of the coat to create a somewhat seamless cutoff point for the coat, and to hide the Unset Cloak's base form.

From the inside of the coat, he cuts out that extra trinket slot from the Unset Cloak, and sort of reforms it into a pin. He slots it onto the arm of the coat, ready for a trinket to be placed there. He seals it in place with a bit of the Skyroot Log. With the rest of the Skyroot Log, he slides the wood into the still-opened seams of the banners, and enchants the wood and the coat itself with the Tornadopetals, making the piece light enough to provide massive agility boosts while simultaneously boosting defense.

Boshi concludes by stitching the banners to the coat beneath it to seal it shut (and to make it more fireproof), dyes the edges of the banners the same red he used to cover up the flames, and lines the neck of the collar with broken-up pieces of the Crystal Pens. Boshi does some magic stuff, and the ink of the pens flows down the cloak, flowing down the entire coat, giving the coat a jagged, lightning-like look. The ink drips down from the coat, constantly, endlessly dripping the ink below it. The ink itself doesn't seem to be covering any of the cracked spheres, or be threatening to cover the entire coat in inky blackness. It's just there to look interesting.

RESULT: Crimson Storm (T4)

MATERIALS:
-Darkmatter Rocket (x1)
-Silkweed Bundle (x2)
-Tornadopetal (x1)
-Titanium Ingot (x2)
-Durasteel Ingot (x1)

And now for something completely different. It's Hat Kid's turn.

She first creates the badge itself using the two Silkweed bundles and some dye. The finalized image is that of Hat Kid's Umbrella shooting out an orange Hookshot from its tip. So what, it's just a badge, right?

Well, right now, yeah.

It needs the actual Hookshot and some magic to make everything work, though. She takes the Titanium Ingots and makes some chain links out of them, and puts them together to form a long-as-heck chain that is lightweight and durable. She then creates the two or three prongs of the Hookshot out of the Durasteel Bar. She attaches them to a clasp made out of leftover Durasteel, and links it to the chain. Noting the hookhot's lack of orange color, she transfers the color out of the Darkmatter Rocket, making it a grey mess, but still retaining it's rocketing qualities. The hook is now orange.

She then picks apart and attaches the Tornadopetal's petals to the top of her Umbrella, and links the chain to the very tip of the umbrella by pulling the chain through a hole in the tip of the umbrella. Because that works somehow.

It seems to be able to fade in and out of existence, too. Which is... strange. But ok.

Finally, she infuses the rocketing powers of the Darkmatter Rocket into the badge itself, as a sort of propulsion mechanism for the hookshot. This leaves the Darmatter Rocket completely devoid of power, save for explosives. She just tosses it behind her, and walks on as the explosion happens.

A testfire on a nearby branch confirms it's in working order as she swings around on it.

Just like old times.

RESULT: Hookshot Badge (T4)

Nezira: +3 SKI, -2 RES. Psyche Shard created from the Core Shard.
Sapphile Silverwareweave created with 2 Silver Ingots, 1 Sapphire, 10 Silkweed, 1 Silverwood Log, the Investigator's Vestments, and 70 Crafting Credits worth of materials.
Battle Scanner created with 1 Titanium Ingot, 5 Wire Scraps, 1 Shock Crystal, 1 Throwlem Crystal, 1 Galeforce Crystal, and 1 LED Display.
Nutrient Snack Bars created with 1 Green Sap Blob, 3 Soulblossoms, 1 Gaiaroot Potato, and 1 Whole Bag of Salt, Somehow. This accidentally forms three bars of snack. potatoes be thick
Celefruit Shot created with a Celefruit Mix, a cup of Goneblossom Tea, and 1 Fresh Manabloom.

Terry: RESPEC, AGAIN. Didn't I give you a restraining order earlier...? Whatever. I'll just write you up...

TERRY ACCOMPLISHMENT GET: Flux State

Wings of the Video Valkyrie made with the Riftedge Wings, the Replica Arc Armor, 3 Joltwire, 6 Green Sap Blobs, and a Pyro's Pulsepack charge. Item is too powerful, so DEF has taken a blow, and some additional weaknesses added.
Launchpad Rune created with 2 Accursed Storybooks, 1 Silverwood Log, 1 Skyroot Log, 1 Crystal Pen, 8 Galeforce Crystals, and 1 Darkmatter Rocket.

...Looking through your respec, it seems it actually can't go through for now, since you're using a cubic gorillaton of Tier 4 equipment. At least wait until the next boss goes down, geez. As a result, your equipment remains unchanged (despite some of it not actually existing), so that you at least have your old build at the ready.

Toast: Respec. Cardcana purchased with 300 Credits. Spell missing...

Packo: 3 units of Licherian Bread made using a Bucket of Salt Water, 20 Wheat Seeds, 5 Psychoid Seeds, and 1 Ashen Crystal!
Smelly Star created using 8 Splinters, 2 Compost Blobs, 1 Refined Wood, 7 Clay, and 3 Greatwood Logs as material tax.

The Man: +2 SKI, -1 INT.
As for the Electro-Tie... that's a low amount of resources and effort. I'm gonna need to pass this one up for now. Either increasing material use or effort would work fine.

Daskter: +1 MMP. BUT WAIT, YOU MADE A SECOND POST. Ahem...
...Crafts processed, but not equipped! Like Terry, your old gear will remain unchanged, despite not actually existing. 5 Psychoid Seeds, 3 Megabark, 3 Crystal Pens, 2 Small AI Cores (50 Credits), 2 Joltwires (15 Credits), a Red Sap Blob, and a Soldier's Journal charge. The world then takes 35 more credits as tax.

Destiny: +1 SKI.
Holy eggs, you're the first person to only do a skillpoint!

Venia: +1 MHP. If only that was it...
Magician's Cell made using her Energizer Module, 20 Wire Scraps, 7 Shock Crystals, 7 Aurora Crystals, and a charge from the Adaptive Shielding Unit and the Death Egg Barrier.

NIA: Aww, thanks!
NIA: I'm pretty strong, so the extra weight shouldn't be an issue~
NIA: Y'know Venia, despite being sorta... wordy and awkward, you're pretty cool!
NIA: We should hang out sometime! Like, non-mandatory hanging out!
NIA: We could invite Chloe, and then have a lil' tea party or something!

...

...

...Venia longposts the universe to near-death, using 1 Mantle Cluster, 5 Psychoid Seeds, 1 Fizzy Beverage, 1 Cup of Coffee, 1 Accursed Storybook, 5 Greatwood Logs, 5 Megabark, 30 Fresh Manabloom, 3 Entropic Biomass, 3 Throwlem Crystals, 8 Thyme Matter, 1 Crimson Idol, 1 of all the T1 Elemental Crystals, 1 Paper Sheet, and a Cultist Robes charge. The game throws a fit at a new spell being brute-forced into the character creation screen- it seems like attempting to add another won't be possible for awhile.

VENIA ACCOMPLISHMENT GET: Spellsmith

Pope: +1 Cardboard Box.

Brutishace: +1 SKI. He attempts to brew a bunch of Soulblossom Tea, but only ends up making 3 using 3/8ths of the requested ingredients. It seems like making too much tea would disrupt the economy, or something.

Boshi: +2 DEF, -1 SPC.
The Crimson Storm is created with an Unset Cloak, 5 Rebellion Banners, 1 Rose Weave, a Tornadopetal, 2 Crystal Pens, and a Skyroot Log.
The Hookshot Badge is created with a Darkmatter Rocket, 2 Silkweed Bundles, a Tornadopetal, 2 Titanium Ingots, and 2 Durasteel Ingots. It's changed slightly, to have three charges a battle. Otherwise, it's a +1 MOV w/ Flight that has some rather light requirements. Still a lot of uses, though! Also, you fail to equip the Hookshot Badge, due to temporary restrictions on T4 equipment.

Bergilmir: Done now because he wasn't that far off the mark. +6 MMP, -2 AGI, -1 DEF. Phial Burst equipped!

The game promptly declares that all posts beyond this one will be handled in the following update. If you didn't get your stat boosts today, sorry!

Experiment 15
report compiled by: the h0indred strong temmie research division! yaya!
(and bob)

h0i! As per your request, we have analyzed the data regarding Experiment 15, and have written this report to give you the important bits of Experiment 15's design. There is quite simply a lot of boring, uninteresting systems to Experiement 15 that likely aren't what you're interested in. If you're curious as to how most of her weaponry and sensors work, I'd advise referring to the attached document, unless you're viewing this on a fax. In which case, you'll need to ask for that too. (It's mostly meaningless fluff, however.)

Anyway, there are two standout components of Experiment 15's design; the External Projector, and the Meldpoint. Otherwise, Experiment 15 is simply just an incredibly high-quality kill-bot controlled by a sophisticated neural interface at a distance of several millions of lightyears.

External Projector: A strange device, for one reason. While it's designed to be a weapons system for the Experiment, it's design seems to indicate some weird properties. First off, the device is so mechanically complicated, that it'd take something of a far higher brainpower than Nia to use it properly- possibly a higher brainpower than Xavier himself. It also doesn't just have the ability to project "hardlight holograms"- apparently, it can project real matter under specific circumstances, somewhat like a 3D printer. There are notes from Xavier admitting that he doesn't fully understand how it works- he followed advice that Nia apparently gave him. When questioned, Nia barely knew what she was saying as well.

The Meldpoint: Not located on Experiment 15, this piece of equipment rests on Nia's head back on Earth. It uses neural uplinks and wired connections to allow Nia and the Butterfly to communicate with one another. It appears that it appears to suffer from a bit of push and pull- Nia is mostly in control of her mind, but under stress, the Butterfly can push into her mind and seize control for a moment. However, there appears to be a flaw in the system- if the Butterfly pushes hard enough during a point of sudden tension, it can completely take over Nia's mind for a unit of time known to the staff as "one battle". The change in mood needs to be sudden and drastic- I'm sure you can find or think of examples.

And there you have it. One last note is that if you're looking to exploit some sort of vulnerability in the software, we have some advice. Glitch Temmie temself has noted that you have a weapon known as the "Entropic Key", which possesses a technique known as a "purge". Successfully performing a purge against Experiment 15 would, in theory, force the Butterfly from Nia's mind. We believe that the process is safe, but only do it if the Butterfly has (mostly) complete control of Experiment 15- otherwise, the Key might not actually purge anything. The Butterfly isn't truly in Nia's mind- most of the time, it's clawing at the surface. During a moment of full control, it'd be possible to completely expel the Butterfly, as it's rooted deeper into the brain.

Hopefully, this report covers what you're hoping to see. Good luck with your future endeavors, Mindscapers!

-The H0indred Strong Temmie Research Division

Items used: 1 Turbulence Charge, 1 Spiritblossom, 3 Galeforce Crystals, 5 Skyroot Logs, Enchanted Hookshot Daggers

Destiny the Enchanted Hookshot Daggers out, examining them for a bit before putting them aside and taking out the 3 Galeforce Crystals, Tornadopetal, Spiritblossom, and Skyroot Logs. First, she takes the Galeforce Crystals and the Turbulence and decides to extract the wind energy of the Turbulence before putting it in the Crystals, creating the Windforce Crystals. She then takes the Spiritblossom and does the same, creating Soulful Crystals. These Crystals are then taken to the Fusion Altar, along with the Enchanted Hookshot Daggers. Using the Fusion Altar, the two are combined to create the Dual Windforce Daggers. Finally, the bark of the Skyroot Logs is used to create both a more stable fusion of the Soulful Crystals and the Enchanted Hookshot Daggers.

NEW ITEM!

(T4) Dual Windforce Daggers
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dfd...dit?usp=sharing

Starting off, Koharu picks up 10 iron ingots, places two of them to the side, and uses three iron ingots and two sticks to make an iron pick. She tosses the iron pick into a crucible, where it is decomposed into Instrumentum essentia, and then drops the last two ingots into it, acquiring two Alchemical Brass Ingots. She then empties the crucible, refills it, dumps in a Possessed Storybook, and places five iron ingots into it, creating five Thaumium Ingots.

Then, she picks up two Thaumium Ingots, hammers each one into two gears, and sets those gears aside.

She continues by buying a Glass Sheet (-15 Credits), slicing it into six smaller sheets, and then placing five of them in an Arcane Workbench with a Copper Gear, two Brass Ingots and a Circuit Board. With a wave of her wand, this creates a Electromechanical Mind.

Then, she manifests a Golem Press with her mind, and crafts a Thaumium Golem.

She then crafts a Control Seal using one Clay Ball and a Red Sap Blob, adds in some Desiderium from a Throwlem Crystal's desire to throw stuff, destroying the crystal in the process, and pastes the newly made Collect Control Seal to the Thaumium Golem.

Finally, she provides the golem with a backpack crafted using a hollowed out Skyroot Log and some Silkweed Bundles. It gladly takes the pack.

She then presents the newly created golem to Chloe, telling her she can bring it along when scavenging to increase yield.

(T3) Electro-Tie
desc: Known in the state of California to kill you.
+3 CRT, +3 CAV, Counter inflicts Blind(2) for 2 rounds and deals (6-6) Electric damage.

Venia approaches Emerald. "Hey, Emerald. I noticed that you were kind of, well, uh, lagging behind on equipment. You're a tough guy but I think you'll need the best you can get to make sure you can't get hurt easily... If you'd let me have your lightningrod, I could probably improve that a bit.

With Emerald's permission, Venia takes the Lightningrod, as well as 3 Megabark, a Storm Cellystal, 4 Titanium and 10 Wire Scraps.

Venia begins her mission with a small forge, with which she smelts a small frame for the rest of her chichanery in this post. She takes her 10 Wire Scraps and, as described before, bends and twists the wires into specific forms as dictated by magical design. In this case, its a magical design loosely equivalent to the Elveil spell in function, but unlike before, this Elveil spell's elemental affiliation is unset-just raring to be empowered by an item of great potency.

That item is the Storm Cellystal, a crystal empowered by both lightning and wind. Venia carefully affixes it to the center, and with an extremely fine cutting knife, scratches in various leylines on the surface of the Storm Cellystal, taking pause at various periods to enable it to discharge lightning. The wiring and discharge is to overpower the Storm Cellystal, improving its magic, which in turn empowers the wires, which in turn empowers the Elveil abilities with both Lightning and Air resistance. This done, venia closes up the casing, enabling the whole thing to function.

With this little bit done, Venia then decides upon something-aesthetics. Aesthetics is clearly what this little thing needs, as in its current state it looks awfully ugly. Venia takes the three Megabark and calmly hammers it in around the Lightningrod at every angle. As the Megabark is still metallic-like, and trees are notorious for getting struck by lightning, this does not disrupt the purpose of the LIghtningrod, and instead makes it look like a tiny, leafless tree. Venia adds in a bit of T0 foliage to the top, somehow, which enables it to look like an a regular tiny tree, and presents the finished product to Emerald.

"Uh, uh, basically... Short 'n' sweet, Venia, Um, the Lightningrod's been tuned up to protect from not just Electric magic, but Air magic as well, thanks to the upgrades I've given it. Also, uh, now it looks like a tiny tree."

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Materials Expanded: 3 Megabark, 1 Storm Cellystal, 4 Titanium, 10 Wire Scraps

(T4) Storm Ward
*This is literally just a miniature tree at this point.*
Electric (50%), Air (50%)

Venia approaches The Man. "Yo, I see you're busy over there, with the lake," Venia says, as he presses Z on everything. "In any case, uh, if you're OK with it, I'd like to tweak your little book there to see if I can empower it to have a stronger effect." Venia says.

If The Man Accepts, Venia takes his (still T1) copy of How To Barrel Roll, as well as a Silverwood Log, the Book of Joshi sitting unloved in the player crafted inventory, a Throwlem Crystal and three Galeforce Crystals.

Venia takes the crystals and mutters a magical incantation as azure strings appear between her fingers, expanding as she slowly stretches them out. Once they're of a size that fits her purposes, she stops muttering, which cuts them off by her left hand. She takes these magic-made strings and wraps them around all of the crystals-which seems to attach to the crystals as well as themselves without any prompt. Venia looks carefully over the arrangement, and then grabs the whole affair and starts pressing both of her hands on it, intending to crush it together.

The magical incantations of the strings activate, causing the crystals to 'soften' into a more claylike state, enabling Venia to mush it together and ball the whole affair up, creating what she will dub a Skybounder Cluster, which would be an affable long-range projectile unto itself; even the mildest force would accelerate this bad boy at an intense rate to the point its basically a thrown bullet. However, that's not what she's using it for.

She takes a quick skim over the Book of Joshi and the How to Roll, and from mere minutes of reading, determines that both books are actually also magical-they get their properties to enable the wielder to curl up into a ball and not only precisely control their motion but also rapidly accelerate it, enabling them to swiftly move through harsh terrain without any vertigo or other motion problems. Both seem to do it in different ways, but they both share enough similarities that their combined techniques could be filtered in, minus anything about throwing eggs. They would just need a cover-a cover more magically potent than either of them.

Venia rips off most of the paper from each book and re-binds it appropriately, using mostly pages from the Book of Joshi while maintaining a few from the original text, and re-binds them together. Then, she takes the silverwood log, carves off the think bark as a means to obtain a cover, and places it onto the book as a hardcover read. The reamining wood is swiftly sapped of magical energy, turning it into a dry husk of dust, which is then infused into the whole book to give it stronger magical strength and control. To finish it off, she carves a small indentation into the front of the book, where she slots in the Skybounder Cluster, which quickly acclimates to the book and pumps its energy through. Done, Venia returns to the Man.

"OK, Uh, finished. This is the book on How to Barrel Roll. It's close to the same, but your roll ought to be faster due to the improvements I've made, easier to maneuver so you can slip around foes, as well as enable you to counterattack with greater efficiency afterwards... Oh! And due to the momentum, you can, uh, ram into foes? Not too efficient of an attack but it can be better than nothing."

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Materials Expended: 1 Book of Joshi, 1 How To Roll, 1 Throwlem Crystal, 3 Galeforce Crystals, 1 Silverwood Log.

(T4) How To Barrel Roll
DO A BARREL ROLL DO A BARREL ROLL DO A BARREL ROLL
(+2 DGE) (Barrel Roll) (Unique: Maneuver)

Barrel Roll: Replace your Sprint Action with Barrel Roll. Barrel Roll doubles your MOV, DGE and CNT, grants you skirmisher for the movement, and disables your retreat. If you end your move directly next to an enemy, you may deal (6-7) Crushing Damage to them. This damage scales at a half-rate with STR.

Rolling also allows you to move over all non-wall terrain with no penalties.

Venia feels like she's done, but then, some kind of premonition hits her mind-a newcomer?! Or, rather, some guy returning?! Venia's takes the futuresighted information and immediately scrounges up whatever she can-which, happens to be a Spell Scroll, a handful of plushies, 5 sheets of paper, a crystal pen, and enough sticky notes to constitute a crafting charge (which is apparently more than one).

She hastily creates a series of leylines upon the pieces of paper, traced with the crystal pen. She shaves off the glue from the sticky notes and uses them to put them on the larger pieces of paper, which she tapes to the Spell Scroll and her three plushies. The leyline patterns are... Unusual; they will almost certainly destroy whatever they get put into, but in exchange create a quick-access pocket to, well, the inventory. Theory holds, the items within would be able to be put on the fast-track for quick access.

Of course, there's also the pressing matter that those leylines will also be automatically activating pretty shortly thereafter, which, outside of a closed space, would be a disaster.

But she doesn't have much time to contemplate that as she shoves the items into a convenient burlap sack. The leyline patterns begin to glow as she seals up the sack with another convenient cord of rope-just as she hears a sound quite like a mixture between fabric tearing and eldritch abominations screaming out in sheer agony at what had just occured. The burlap sack begins to reek of trinket-esque power, as Venia peers into the hole.

"OK, great, it works!" Venia says, mostly to herself, as she rushes up the stairs. and rushes her way back to...

...Pionobot?!

"Hi there! Sorry, we haven't met, I'm Venia Praefortis, Mr. Krab's creator and pilot-yes he was a robot the whole time, long story-also the resident expert on Flux. And a roboticist. And a thief, I guess, but I haven't really thought about thievery much these days... I had some weird premonition about you returning, so I just kind of, uh, cobbled this together for you? You can use this to have a few of our items in the inventory to be 'on call' so you can use them very, very fast in a pinch."

"It's nice to see you again! Every hand we have helps, and the more we go on the more help we seem to need." Venia says, extending a hand for a handshake (and another to give Pionobot the sack), one that, due to cutscene limitations, will likely be returned next round.

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Materials Expended: 1 Spell Scroll, 1 Wyvern Plushie, 1 Toast Plushie, 1 Venia Plushie, 1 Emerald Plushie, 1 Sticky Note, 5 Paper, 1 Crystal Pen.

(T4) Player-Crafted Inventory
It's Inventories all the way down!
Effects: (Personal Space) (+3 MMP)
Resists: (Physical 10%) (Magical 20%)
(Personal Space): The first time you join a battle, make three choices from items in the inventory. You may choose the same item multiple times. For each choice you made, you may use that item once as a Free Action.

Items used:
Greatwood Logs x3
Skyroot Logs x5
Silkweed Bundles x10
Megabark x1
Durasteel x1
Gallowsdown Fluffball x1
HEX: Hey, Astrec! Can you do me a favor?
uC: *sigh* What is it?
HEX: I need a new trinket, except I suck at crafting. So, can you make this? Here's the design.
Hex tosses over a piece of paper that's half Hex's scribbles and doodles and other half a design for a trinket that he totally didn't steal from venia no sir.
uC: Sure, I can do this. You owe me, though.
Astrec heads to the house or nearest table, then rummages through the inventory, assembling what he needs.
First, he takes out some large, needle-like instruments, and takes the Greatwood and Skyroot logs. He begins bending and manipulating the Greatwood, slowly assembling a frame. He then takes the one remaining greatwood log, and lays it down. He sticks the needle-like things into them, and twist the logs, "weaving" them into a second layer of frame above the first. He then sets that over the first, and turns to the Skyroot. He presses down on the Skyroot. It stubbornly refuses to bend. He frowns, and presses down harder, slowly pushing down the skyroot into a thinner shape. He takes this, then takes a single Silkweed Bundle, and wraps it around, weaving it in and out of Skyroot, melding the two. Then he turns back to the Greatwood Frame, and wraps the Skyroot stuff around the frame, filling it in. Now he has a blank charm. Now to improve it. He reaches into that bag he brought, and retrieves some cosmetic materials he had determined the Thyme Field wouldn't effect. Dyes. He takes a few eye droppers, then cuts up the silkweed bundles. He then begins the painstaking process of dyeing all the silkweed. Half a hour later, he's finally done. He wipes off his hands, lets the dye dry, and then begins making a mini tapestry on the charm. He weaves it in and out in out, and forms a pretty tapestry of a pair of boots. He applies it to the charm. He then grabs the Megabark and Durasteel, and melts the Durasteel a bit , then mixes it with the Megabark, making Barksteel. He then forces the Barksteel into a wire shape, and applies it over the boot picture. Finally, he takes the Gallowsdown, and wraps it around, making the charm feel good and fluffy.
He takes a step back... and realizes they aren't boots. He just ignored the plans and made a charm. Shit. He'll just call it Assassin's Boots anyways, and hope Hex doesn't kill him.
Trinket created!
Assassin's Boots
It's actually a charm with a picture of boots on i-
(+1 AGI)
(All Terrain)
(Unique)
All Terrain: All non-abyss non-wall terrain costs 1 MOV to enter.

Materials:
x2 Throwlem Crystal
x1 Electromagnetic Clusters
x2 Seer Crystals
x2 Accursed Storybook
x1 Cardcana
If a T4 item is necessary, add 1 Megabark.
First off, the deck needs to be even faster. So, Toast places a few Throwlem Crystals nearby, and mutters a quick incantation to achieve this.
"Kira Shren'na Soma Shill!"
The cards briefly glow purple as the Throwlem Crystals' colours are drained, before they become boring grey crystals with absolutely no special properties. So, she tosses them. A few experimental tosses reveal the cards having gained the velocity-increasing properties of the Throwlem Crystals. However, this speed leaves something to be desired in terms of accuracy. To alleviate this, Toast takes an Electromagnetic Cluster and performs a similar process as the first set.
"Kira Shren'na Raso Eranx Shill!"
Just like the Throwlem Crystals, the cluster is drained of colour. The cards develop a soft blue aura about them, and start sticking to Toast's left hand. She stares at them. "You know, I feel like making them magnetic might not have been the best idea." She attempts to shake her hand in order to rid herself of the cards, but they remain persistent in their attempt to magnetise. "Maybe I can use this somehow? Hrm." she wonders aloud, "um"ing and "ah"ing as she thinks of the best way to make the best of this. "Maybe... if I change certain aspects of the electromagnetism... and then if I replace them with... ooo, yes! Although... hrm... might have to change the method..."
She pries the deck away from her left hand using her right, and tosses those cards onto the central pedestal of the infusion altar. On either side of the centre she places Accursed Storybooks, pacified by stroking their spines. Perpendicular she places two Seer Crystals, forming a + shape on the altar. She figures that she can afford to let the infusion leech off her own aura once last time without putting her into too dangerous of a spot in terms of aura. With that confirmed, she starts the infusion process, feeling the familiar tingle of aura drain. About halfway through, she begins incantations once more.
"Rass Kira Shren'na Shill! Rass Kira Shren'na Losga!"
The altar shudders for a moment, as if adapting to a sudden change in the composition of its crafting subjects. Since that's pretty much exactly what happens. The infusion otherwise finishes without a hitch, consuming a chunk of Toast's aura, the storybooks, and the crystals. The card now crackles with newfound magical (and physical) power, and doesn't just stick to Toast's hand constantly. She returns with her new Deck of a Number of Things, once again hopping such that no time at all seems to have passed. Though, one has to wonder what she thinks about in all that time she spends alone, walking between locations in the future or the past. She's probably used to it.
Anyway, she equips her new item.