As Packo grabs hold of the weird object that the Secretary drops, he gets assaulted with a headache that causes him damage.

"I-I don't feel so..."

It is then when the Operator's next attack hits, trying to hypnotize Packo into bashing Bruttishace. As he expertly manages to stop him, Packo regains his senses and tries to apologize.

"O-Oh my goodness! I am so, so sorry for what I d-did... Remind me to make you some bread after we are done here... My apologies again." He says, as he bows frenetically. Just what the hell happened to his mind back then? Was it...

"I-It's you again?! He angrily shouts towards the Operator, once more. I feel like my feelings for you are not going to be any more friendly if you keep doing this!" He sounds really angry, despite his very odd word choice.

The Operator attacks Chloe and Venia while Packo keeps ranting.

As the Slenderman-like creature is done attacking, however, he seems to congratulate the crew since no one died while he was attacking.

"Are you mocking us?!" He shouts. "Fine then, let me hold all of these weird things for a second, and then I'm going to smash your b-" He gets interrupted by the Attendant's spell before finishing!

"..." The screech not only shuts Packo up, but fills him with fear. Not just Fear as a mechanic of the game -- Packo is already scared of that weird creature with a bat as is.

Instead... He feels something more than just fear.

As he gets hit with that last attack, Packo starts trembling. He starts thinking about pain, about Ette, about Venia, and Marron, and Echoss. He also thinks about the person who told him that fighting was futile in the first place...

uA: In time, nothing is going to exist anymore. We failed. Badly. Those words sound in Packo's head over and over again.

Was that person right...? He thinks about destroying the Sphere, hoping that doing so will forever stop... The fear.

However, how can he do that, though, if he is in Space? There must be a way of doing that... But a raging battle is going on, and he feels desperate. More so... What will happen to everyone else? Will this fight have been for nothing?

A feeling of dread and pure terror, enough to shatter even the fiercest of bosses, builds up in Packo's heart. Packo's Special Gauge is filled, and his special is ready to be used!

________________________________________________________

As Packo snaps back into reality, realizing it's his turn, he briefly says:

"If you will excuse me for a second."

Packo then walks a few steps backwards, and picks up a Page from a previously defeated Secretary. He passes next to Ette, and he decides to say a few words.

"Y-You seem to be doing fine... I'm glad. Hang in there...!" Shyly, as he picks the page up, he continues. "I never thanked you for this..." Packo pulls out his new plushie, which looks just like him! It smells like bread, and it's fluffy and soft and... Most importantly, it calms him down. "I will be fine. I think..." As he smells the plushie a bit more, he ironically feels less ready to fight, as if he had less energy than before. However, his "mechanical fear" has at least disappeared from him... He starts feeling better and better. However, the underlying feeling of dread within his heart cannot be dispelled that easily, it seems. They are still stranded and in danger, after all.

"Thank you, again. I am going to see if your sister is doing okay." He says, while smiling. Then, he moves right back where he used to be.

Getting ready for action, he repeats a special tactic. He touches certain parts of his clothes, magically hardening the fluffy cotton inside, and turning them into very hard pieces of armor. Collapsable Shield cast!

"P-Please leave... That scary thing needs to be addressed..." He says, as he readies himself and WHACKS Secretary6 in the head with his flail. He seems to have some remorse doing this, but ultimately, the hitting motion is direct and confident.

After having attacked, Packo decides to move aside a little, retreating. It is there where he sees Marron.

"I-I really don't like that faceless guy... We should calm him down when we are done with these people..." He says, feeling scared of him again.

"Ette seems to be doing fine... Are you okay too?"

And awaiting an answer, his turn ends there.

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Packo moves to O6 and picks a page from the ground as a Bonus Action. As he does that, he spends 8HP to activate his Packo Plushie, dispelling the fear he used to have towards Attendant5 and his Erroblight. Then, he casts Collapsable Shield, moves back to P8, and whacks Secretary6. Finally, after attacking, Packo retreats to Q9.

If Secretary6 is downed before Packo can attack it, then Packo aims for the holographic barrier next to it, instead.

Destiny looks at Chloe once again.
The page is very dangerous, young Elem. Give it to me, I believe myself to be a safer option for the holding of the Page.

Destiny points at E11. Once Chloe drops it, she runs to F10, she picks it up and she puts a few cuts on the Attendant before retreating to G9.

Nidra waits to be revived. After that, she moves to F5 and Last Dreams Secretary2.

-Battle: The End of Creation-

Meanwhile, Irongutta has never felt better. Quite possibly having the time of his life, even. This was the kind of environment he felt home at, second only to tinkering away in a workshop. "I'll thump ya lot 'till there's nuffin' left!"

He charges over to P12 and smacks Secretary8. That would've been the end of it, but Irongutta suddenly felt another rush of adrenaline thanks to Nia. Whipping around with eyes full of murder, he runs back to J11 and attacks Secretary7 as well.

With the plan continuing after Omo uses Null Somnum on him, he turns his attention to Secretary8 again.

"Oi, ya still standin'? I'll make sure that ya aren't!"

Irongutta then charges back to P12 and attacks Secretary8. One last Isaac time, Irongutta is reinvigorated again by Venia. The Ork whips back around, taken over by bloodlust and ready to ensure that Secretary7 is down for good.

"I'LL STOMP YA FLAT!"

Irongutta moves to J11 again and abuses Secretary7 with another basic attack! Whew, what a mouthful.

((As a note, all of these attacks are boosted by Unstoppable Force)).

Ziah grins as he takes aim at Secretary Six.

"I've got a good feeling about this one."

He then lets the arrow fly, aiming to hit something vital.

Auth smiles with Nana, as she praises him as a greater hero than Omo for saving her. He understands where she's coming from with that.

uA: I... understand where you're coming from with that. I can't really dispute it - honestly, I wouldn't want to.
uA: As I said... sometimes I forget how much... how much all my actions do for people. I see it as so... banal I forget that the people I save can be like you. Thanks.
uA: I appreciate the sentiment. I think I've said that about six times now, but it's true.

Auth laughs quietly, but looks slightly concerned as Nana seems to be experiencing some... feelings within her core. Feelings Auth can't quite connect with, seeing as he's not Charian and doesn't have an understanding of Chairian biology... a problem that he should fix when the world is restored.

uA: Alright, so long as you're okay. I'm... not really sure how to help, since I don't really know what to connect that feeling to, but...
uA: If you stop feeling alright, and start feeling bad, please let me know. I don't want you to be sick or hurt or something...
uA: Take as long as you need to breathe, we've got all the time in the world here.
uA: That was terrible, I shouldn't joke like that, sorry.

Auth groans at his own terrible pun. He seems pretty happy though, as Nana finds relief in the fact that the universe will be restored.

uA: Yeah, that big terminal is supposedly fixing things.
uA: Although, I'm not sure how much we can, y'know... we'll remember after this.

Auth decides that a change of topic would be quite nice, and he's had an idea for a little while relating to Nana. He's reminded of it when he sees her arm unwind itself a little.

uA: Your arm... it's sharp as heck and it hurts about that badly.
uA: I wonder if you could take the edge off it for general use? And put the edge back on for combat. It would make everything much more comfortable for you and everyone else while we aren't fighting...

Auth remembers his brief death as a result of being stabbed before, shuddering.

uA: Even if you can't, we should probably do something about the sharpness of it for while you aren't fighting in case... we really don't want someone getting accidentally stabbed, right?

----

In Battle, Auth maintains his Specter's protection of Nana, and moves down to J7, where he'll be pinged by Tentacle X. From there, he casts Perseverance on Echoss.

Hex moves to Q8, and C O N S U M E s the corpse, then Lunges at the sixth secretary and shanks it.

Uhhh for the previous round, my character sprints to L12

If that ca be processed thanks

αROUND ONE-HUNDRED TWENTYα

To begin, Nia finishes up her crafts! 1 Perfectly Generic Bottle and 8 Magrail Parts obtained!

---

Venia does a fair amount of things. What if she's actually like, a Word Transcendent? Eh, I mean this post isn't that long but I wanted to make a meme shut up. Anyway, she talks with Mari. Who turned her into a Transcendent?

MARI: It was some chick named Roxxanne.
MARI: ...She's like a... vampire magical girl sue loli who punched people to death, colon three.
MARI: And I do mean "colon three"; she kept freaking saying that! Why not just... make the cat face your damn self? You have a keyboard! I mean, not really, but...
MARI: Basically, she's kinda unpleasant if you don't like hyperactive people. She does do some good stuff like turning me into this, but... well, she also got a fox girl to turn me into a chick.
MARI: ...Which isn't really BAD, but it made a lot of people upset. Kinda. It's complicated.

Venia then goes on to talk about how she'll need to eventually face Chloe and Nia. Mari sighs, and fiddles with a little console on some sort of bracer on her right arm.

MARI: I know, I know...
MARI: I-I just don't k-know what I'd say...
MARI: But... well, if you say Nia's totally fine with me, then... I guess I'll try talking with her?

MARI: B-But first, let's see those notes.
MARI: I'm not really an expert, but I'll probably do better than you nerds.

Mari receives the notes in a non-specified manner, which she flips through.

MARI: Huh.
MARI: The way entropy is used in these schematics is kinda... weird?
MARI: They don't really seem consistent. Like, there's that Void Well thing which sounds like a great way to troll people... but most of these were designed to fight against entropy.
MARI: The Key, Fluxblade- things like that. Meanwhile, some of these things seem like general evil entropic stuff, like the Tome of Ancient Art.
MARI: ...Who made these schematics, anyway? Mind telling me that?

MARI: As for Nia... I believe those orbs are... like, control units...?
MARI: I dunno. I didn't design them.
MARI: Maybe they're like, a way for the Butterfly to control Nia easier. The Nia in the mindscape was kinda stiff and slow- it's a little hard to steer something as complex as Nia's body through an interface that was meant to be used with a HUMAN mind, when your mind probably resembles a bowl of spaghetti shot through time and space.
MARI: Those orbs look like they'd fix the problem, being an interface suited to the Butterfly. It could actually be pretty snazzy, as being able to use the Butterfly at full tilt sounds awesome, if kinda irresponsible.
MARI: Hell if I really know, though. If they are controllers though, that's probably not great.

Elsewhere, Venia seizes the red X that Creation generated. Denial Cross obtained! It's Tier 5, somehow. She then asks Creation if she can scan it. Creation proceeds to not do anything in response... so it's probably fine. Venia's hat meanwhile, switches Omo back to Super Smash Brothers.

OMORIKA: ...Oh, good.
OMORIKA: Terry refused to stop doing that weird dance. The one with the pointing?
OMORIKA: It made me strangely uncomfortable. Then he was sucked into a machine with a flash of blue light, and the other man on the screen in a suit started dancing while making one of his hands into an "L"...?
OMORIKA: Terry seemed unhappy.
OMORIKA: Games are confusing.

A query is then made with the Database to look up the Netwyrm, and the Prophecy of Crimson Wings! The Codex is pinged with a ">Codex Updated!" for the former, but the console simply throws an error in the case of the Crimson Wings.

ERROR: The system has not given you permission to access files with the tag "MAJOR PLOT". We are sorry for the inconvenience.

...That's annoying.

---

Nezira gives Chloe a lecture on things like update terminals and magic. She seems unsure as to whether to take notes or not, but she listens as attentively as she can. Once she's done talking about Terminals, Chloe interjects.

CHLOE: So it's like...
CHLOE: ...I can't think of an analogy for this.
CHLOE: But anyway, who's creating these terminals? It's like, there's probably some benevolent force giving it to us. Maybe it's God?
CHLOE: If it is God, then religion just got really, really weird...
CHLOE: I'm thankful for it, though! Otherwise, I'd probably be dead...
CHLOE: ...Then again, I might've not been drawn here in the first place, either.
CHLOE: Meeting you guys makes up for it, though~

Nezira then launches into a spiel on magic. Chloe tries her best to summarize it.

CHLOE: So...
CHLOE: Magic is what you think it is, assuming you know a form of it.
CHLOE: And your magic... is simple and neat! Or at least, it seems simple enough...?
CHLOE: Or at least, simpler than what I thought, but it seems like it takes a certain amount of mental discipline...
CHLOE: I wonder if I could use it.

CHLOE: ...Wait, did I use it? With the sword beams and stuff?
CHLOE: ...Am I a wizard!?

Chloe's eyes seem to light up. She's probably fantasizing about obliterating Iti with powerful magical spells. She does eventually snap back to attention, though.

CHLOE: Um, anyway...
CHLOE: I wonder how many different magical systems there are. There's just, so many different forms, and they all seem so cool, and aaaahhhh...

CHLOE: Oh, right! You might be interested in this...
CHLOE: I remember hearing that Marron uses like, blood magic of sorts. Given that she's from like, Chaos's head, I bet it's custom made!

Chloe smiles at Nezira.

CHLOE: Could you teach me some magic?
CHLOE: It'd mean a lot to me!

She waits for a response.

---

The Author keeps on chatting with Nana. He promises to help Nana with her core... and gets his promise rejected.

NANA: N-No no no, it's fine! Really!
NANA: My core doesn't feel bad- i-it's actually kinda good!
NANA: L-Like, geez, I dunno...

He then tries to tell a joke. Even if it's a bit of a groaner, Nana still chuckles, at least a little. They then end up talking about her arms, and if they could take off the edges...

NANA: I... guess I could try.
NANA: S-Stand back! I-It might get... dangerous!

Nana's arm unfurls, and she manages to get her blades under control. She tries pulling on her tendrils with her unconverted arm, but nothing happens to them. She also tries to manipulate the blades themselves, but they're not actually made of wood. They're made of Itistuff™, or at least some sort of metal.

NANA: I think they're permanent. Unless we try and lob them off, or s-something...
NANA: B-But, if you could do something about it, t-that'd be nice! I-I don't wanna accidentally stab a-anyone...

---

Calibri chats with Chloe. What might she want to practice...?

CHLOE: Let me think...
CHLOE: ...
CHLOE: O-Oh, um, feel free to decline, b-but...
CHLOE: M-Maybe... w-we could spar, o-or something?

CHLOE: Like, maybe not with our actual swords and stuff, but like, wooden ones or something.
CHLOE: As much as I've learned coming to this place, I don't actually have much experience against non-Iti opponents...
CHLOE: I've fought a pretty low amount of Chairians and stuff compared to you guys, and w-when everything fixes itself, I might be in trouble later...
CHLOE: So, I'd like to practice with you, if that's fine with you.
CHLOE: Don't worry about beating me up or anything- I think I can take a hit or two. I mean, I ate a few rifle rounds and was left basically unharmed, so I think I can survive a few bruises.

CHLOE: ...
CHLOE: Also, it might help if Destiny ever jumps me, or something.
CHLOE: I can't tell what's up with that girl sometimes...

Chloe waits for a response, and tries to secure some safe weapons for the fight if at all possible. Taeda and Verdana meanwhile, have a bit of a chat. He mentions space being like the sea for the sturdy boat that's like the station.

TAEDA: I suppose it is...
TAEDA: I don't get motion sick though, so don't worry about that...
TAEDA: I-It's just like... a-a bit of vertigo?
TAEDA: N-Not a huge fan of h-heights. And w-we're like, as high up a-as we possibly can...
TAEDA: Things that fall through the atmosphere light on fire, a-and, well...
TAEDA: That... that d-doesn't sound fun! Not at all!

Then, with Verdana's notes about ice resistance... opts to don Marron's old Energy Poncho due to its high Ice resistance and light weight. This doesn't do anything for her stats, but she seems snug enough.

TAEDA: ...Cozy.
TAEDA: I do feel a bit better, I think...

Taeda is content with lounging around the station, trying to fully reclaim her nerves without thinking about the fact that she's like, fifty trillion billion meters up. EN and Mari then tidy up their conversation. From like what, a year back? How long ago was the beta?

MARI: Aw. I was hoping I could learn more about your nuances n' junk.
MARI: ....Hm, that raises the question- are you like, an AI, or a "brain in a jar" sort of deal, or what are you?
MARI: Hm, maybe I'll scan you or something...

MARI: A-Also... u-um, t-the date...
MARI: Y-Yeah, I remember. L-Let's not bring it up, a-alright?

---

<THE END OF CREATION, ROUND FOUR>
While you're in control of basically every page now, the Operator has torn into your ranks! Omo, Taeda, and Daskter all went down, and they'll need your assistance if you want to keep your DPS up. Otherwise, just be careful- while now is an ideal time to DPS the Operator, he's about to pop off his special, and his damage is now officially absurd! Good luck!

Pope Bill moves to J6, and heals Echoss with the Cardboard Box, boxing his Brainburn up inside it.

FOR THE 120DOP

Calibri nods in agreement with Chloe when she notes that it worked on limbs as well as weaponry. The idea of it being feasible, though... he hehs quietly to himself.

"It works on limbs... That's neat, but I don't see a practical application. Fists are kinda weak compared to all the weapons we've got... wait, stick exists, make that most of the weapons. Heh. Still, maybe we'll get lucky and find brass-except-better-material knuckles or something."

The stage is set. The area is clear. There's open space... probably not much space, but enough space to swing a sword around, and that's probably what matters more here. Time to do something with that space. Cal takes a look around, then turns to Chloe with something of a faint grin.

"Well, we've got some room. By the look of things and comparing the dimensions of this room to the one down south a way, it's larger than how this map represents it... S'pose we could use this room for something. You got any ideas? Things you wanna practice, et cetera?"

Verdana, meanwhile, doesn't seem to mind Taeda briefly using him as a steadying device. He does notice her concern and coldness, though.

"No need to worry, if this station is anything like the average craft from where I'm from, there's not a whole lot of things that can break through the hull. Think of it like standing on a sturdy boat, and space is the sea? Or don't think of that if you get motion sick easily."

"If you're feeling cold, you could put more things on. I have no idea how it works, but if you set the resistances to some pieces of gear from the inventory to ice, that'll probably keep out the cold? It makes sense that ice resistance means cold resistance, except for that one glacier cap. There's also probably some more traditional things in there if you don't trust my 100% truly genuinely accurate logic."

Meanwhile, EN grins at Mari.

"Eh, a'ight then... So, yer interested in me, eh? Hehe. Yeah, ah s'pose fembot's kinda accurate, all thin's considered. Exact details, ah can't provide, ain't really let known o' 'ow ah were made fer some reason... Prolly confidentiality or somethin'."

...Then, she lowers her voice to a whisper. For Mari's ears only.

"A'ight, ah know th' beta's technically non-canon... but ah do remember somethin' 'bout a date from all o' tha', eheh. Maybe ya remember too?"

BATTLE ACTION: EN quickly runs something through her mind, speaking out loud while doing so.

"Lessee, ya used tentacle cross... tha' means this round, yer usin' tentacle X... A'ight..."

She turns her shield to the... um... southleft. If Nidra isn't going to be revived by someone else, she uses the shock therapy item thing on Nidra. If otherwise, she just fires another flame at Attendant1.



FOR THE 121DOP because I'm too lazy to make another post when I could just edit this one

"A sparring session, huh...?"

Calibri seems interested, to say the least. He considers for a few seconds, just checking Chloe over to make sure she'd be ready for a duel if the two of them were to spar. He decides that yeah, it'd be fine, and so he nods.

"Sure. I think with the right abilities, I could temporarily mimic most humanoid enemies well enough to make for a proper test."

He smirks, and for a few seconds, his body flickers. The image of different types of enemy play through in a sequence - at one moment, a Raider. Another moment, a Patche. Then he goes through a sequence of different Chairians, some legionnaire and some rebel... He seems incapable of copying most of the Iti going by his skipping over the vast majority, and all of his different disguise forms have obvious indication of it being him due to the glowing blue eyes, but aside from that, they're pretty convincing. Currently in the form of a Rebel Eviscerator, he speaks again - and it's pretty obviously still him due to his voice remaining the same.

"If you're wondering why I never used this ability in combat, it's mostly because I don't want to be on the receiving end of accidental friendly fire, or mistaken for someone with a very different ability set. The heat of combat obscures some of the obvious tells... Still, makes for a nice party trick."

His appearance shifts again, and Chloe would find the image of herself (with blue eyes and it's obviously Calibri) winking at her before Calibri reverts to being his normal appearance again, albeit now clad in a standard Scouter/Tacvest combo and wielding a spare Assassin's Kris. He then shrugs.

"Anyway, the point of that was mostly to present options. I could try and mimic the appearance and behavior of any kind of humanoid enemy we've fought so far, or another party member... or I could just be me. Your call."


Verdana nods satisfiedly when he sees and hears that Taeda is feeling better and can probably handle himself. He promptly runs out of possible things to do in regards with chatting with her, and so he prepares to go find other things to do.

"Alright, since you're feeling better, I'm not feeling necessary anymore. If you need something, just call for me! I'll be there."

He proceeds to rocket off and engage the camera motherfucker take a look out the window, immediately seeing that the bottlepocalypse has progressed significantly.

"...Oh. That is probably bad! I need a better view..."

He then rockets off to the spare Scrying Orb, using it to first take a look at the center of the Snarl, then turning the focus over to Tabletopia if at all possible. Might as well see why there's still lights there.


EN just shrugs to Mari.

"Well... closest ah can say fer now be ah'm an artificial humanoid o' sorts. Kinda like... y'know, if robot parts behaved like people's cells. Dunno if tha' fits anywhere into yer classifications... Eh, ya can prolly jus' write up new ones if ya feel like, heh. Anywho, scan away if ya feel like it, though ah'm naw sure if yer scan results will be full accurate, given th' thymefield's still some'ow in effect 'ere e'en now."

She grins, then lowers her voice to a whisper again.

"A'ight, ah'll try t' avoid speakin' too much o' it. Though jus' fer th' record, if ya wanna cash tha' in, go ahead anytime. Yer cute 'nuff tha' ah wouldn't object. Hehe~"


MEANWHILE IN A FIGHT

EN stares at the Attendant, then turns her attention to the Operator, then back to the Attendant, seeing the wild disparity in number of people focusing on the weaker of the two. She raises one hand.

"Uh, me lads... we ain't done wit' this one yet. Why're y'all slappin' th' big man when this fella's still 'ere?"

She promptly rotates her Aspis Shield to the east(?), then basic attacks Attendant 1. If the Attendant is alive at the end of the player actions round, she promptly panics and uses an emergency Stinky Splinters on Attendant 1 in the hope she can peel for her teammates.

(For last turn) Brutishace heads to P6 and takes a shot at the sixth Secretary with his Avenger Pistol.

He also destroys the fourth Secretary's corpse, restoring HP and Mana to himself.

astrec hands the Stick to Nia to upgrade to T4.
He then yanks the TV out of the inventory and scans the iti floating in it.
/wip

/RP maybe?

---

After the Operator's SHP drops to 0, Terry moves to O7, uses the Helix Totem, then applies a Zaliska shot directly to where the Operator's face would be, if he had one.

The Man stays where he is, and uses his special on the Operator.

insert some lengthy cutscene of him using his special here

Nidra moves to H6, plays Valor, then casts Last Dream on the Operator.

RP: Mari

Venia takes in everything Mari says.

"Most of those schematics were made by the Rose Cult-former guardians against Entropy turned into loonie worshippers of the 'Rose,' AKA the Chaos Butterfly. They're... Eccentric, but dangerous. Case in point, my Gauntlet here... Isn't a guantlet. This is Ga'aunt, a former member and the other major expert on Entropy I have access to that isn't myself," Venia says, pointing at the Whispering Gauntlet. "The schematics to fight against Entropy were made while they were still guarding against Entropy, while the more trollish or generic evil stuff is afterwards. As far as I know."

"As for the controllers... I suppose, then, that there is some very good reason why we can't just destroy those orbs, even if its just the Butterfly reacting and stopping us. Actually-let's just cut to the chase. Do you know of any way to cut the Butterfly out of Nia's mind entirely?" Venia asks. "Any at all, however theoretical or impractical, or even just a possible process to theoretically start? I'd hope that you may have something. I have an answer already, but its impractical, impossible to test in advance, and a last resort I can't speak of too openly, plus I want second opinions. Anything you could input is useful, however little!"

---

THE QUEST FOR PHAT L00T

Venia scans Creation, cautiously and deliberately in case it gets second thoughts..

Her hat inputs for Eletrophorus and the Xeno type Iti. It then gives Tabletopia a decent look over with the Scrying Orb before the Bottles start consuming it.

---

Shopping/NPCS

Venia uses the 20% off Discount Coupon to purchase Omorika's Assistant for 800 credits. If reasonable, she asks the Assistant to start research into the Nesting Shield

She will then take the Samples and hand them off to Nia along with the Bloody Scarf, then purchase the Quickpour Flask, spending 82 Samples in all. Someone else can buy the other stuff.

---

Battle: The End Of Creation

Echoss realizes that now is the time. He won't move as he's fine where he is, but he will use Cure on Nana. He then whips out the inventory from the PCI, taking aim at THE OPERATOR, even as his heart pounds from fear or something. He tosses out the whole thing and an extra Lightning Striker, in order of Spray Pack, Icestoolcle Slings, and both Lightning Strikers (the second comes from his regular item use action). This means that Ice and Electric elemental damage will do more damage against THE OPERATOR (and thus the other three attacks he made will do more damage).

He also fires a handwritten note at Nia, politely asking her to use her weapon skill on THE OPERATOR at this time, assuming she doesn't have a better alternative in mind.

Venia, meanwhile, seems unhealthily obsessed with looking at THE OPERATOR's face, to the point she's completely ignored the triple kill THE OPERATOR just performed. Looking at THE OPERATOR's face is usually what people avoid doing. Even an eldritch spider abomination isn't exempt from the universal rule that its a bad idea to look at THE OPERATOR. Probably.

In any case, Venia moves to L7. Her hat pings THE OPERATOR with full force. She then activates Unexisting Theorem, which just got a full charge; glitched spears of unexistance pierce THE OPERATOR with full force. She will also use the Elemental Blaster to give the GM a chilly reception (IE Ice Damage). She then activates Phantom Menace: Spectral Crash (a bonus action), and nearly burning all of her SP (with six to spare), she manifests her soul above her target, half of its arm-tendrils and its actual arms raised up and balled in fists. A second later, it crashes down on THE OPERATOR with immense, stunning force.

"COME ON! WE CAN TAKE YOU... I just need to understand how to break through..."

She's muttering a bit too low to be understood in the thick of a fight.

There's a long pause in which neither Toast nor Marron speak, being contented with each other's company. In this time, Toast makes a conscious exertion on her crystal arm to reduce its bulkiness- better resembling a normal one in terms of proportions. As a bonus (though probably why she did it), it allows her to lace fingers with Marron more comfortably.
"...Do you think we'll remember all this when we 'go back'?"

~~

Toast moves to K10 and basic attacks Secretary1. This gives her the last Signature stack she needs to activate Deep Thinking at the end of round, and some SP. Now at three stacks, she manipulates her cards to hover in an arch behind her back. Humming a little tune to herself, she feels... electric.

RP Action, last turn

Packo witnesses how a mighty orc destroys everything in their path, so much so that even the game trembles. Packo trembles as well, feeling happy that he is on this creature's side.

The Operator praises the cast again on how well they are doing. This doesn't make Packo much happier, considering he thinks the Operator is the source of all of the problems attacking Sussui right now. He seems unaware of the truth...

"T-That is why you will surrender right now and revert whatever is happening to that world to normality! Or else we will have to force you to do it... It's all your fault!" He concludes, feeling enraged and revitalized, despite the damage taken.

Meanwhile, Packo talks with Marron, who thanks him for spending time with her sister.

"N-No problem!" He says, now that he is less worried about both sisters' state. "I already got a special favor from her!" After a pause, he clarifies: "She taught me how to speak like she does!" He happily states, as he nervously moves and flails his arms around.

(Sff? Prettz mvch got ht rhgit!)

There is no time to talk, though, as he starts feeling dizzy again, and takes more damage than before, since he is holding two Pages now. Despite this, he seems to be doing okay... That is not the case for Omorika, though, as she falls to the ground.

"Oh no!" He shouts.

He also sees how one of the Pages, ripped from Irongutta, falls to the ground as is picked by a Secretary.

As such, Packo starts moving, without too much clue as to what to do.

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RP Action, this turn

As Packo moves towards a certain place where he can hit the Secretary while not being hit by the Operator's multiple attacks, Packo sees another page on the ground, left by a summon. He picks it up.

"The more pages I grab... The stronger the headache is going to be..." Packo seems very scared about this... But he tries comforting himself with the idea that if he is getting those headaches, then no one else will get them. Just in case, he will need to prepare...

Because of that, he grabs an Emergency Medikit, mending all of his wounds, getting ready in advance for the massive headache that is going to come.

Finally, he decides to step away from everyone else...

"No one is going to control m-my mind anymore..." And with that, he hits the Secretary at full force!

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Battle Action

Packo moves after Daskter to O13, grabbing a page from the floor during the way, and taking a Emergency Medikit. Finally, he whacks Secretary1.

"That hurts... I thank you for the revive"

I move to L5, and the Skirmisher moves to L4.

Attack formation everybody! (Activate Special)

I mark the Operator, and the Skirmisher strikes.

Conscript 1 moves to M5
Conscript 2 moves to N11, drops the page at O10 which Packo would pick up
Conscript 3 moves to L6
All of them starts opening fire on the Operator.