Knowing that someone is probably gonna need it, Keiko crafts a Fake Hourai Elixir. She then jumps to F13, paper's Her because she has not much else to do, and stays there in pure defiance.

Boshi moves to (R19) and does another summon. This time it looks like a bipedal glowing pink fox with flames coming from it.



The Psy-Dweller spawns at (S18).

The Ice Sculpture fires at Nia with a Psychic shot.

Ziah is unable to keep himself from grinning as he sees the damage he's put onto Nia.

Ziah: I didn't miss.
Ziah: So... you still legally own me, right?
Ziah: Or is that not how it works?

Regardless, Ziah doesn't give Nia a chance to breathe, darting to G9 and using his free Orion Arrow. Although he's having trouble seeing with the whole... everything... Ziah hears Venia screaming dramatically at Nia and decides that's where she is.

Ziah: Shooting blind is a bad idea, but it's better than not shooting at all!
Ziah: ...maybe not, but still.

He fires the arrow at around the noise, knowing he'll almost definitely get lucky, and hit Nia.

Wyvern... to save us both time, I'm just gonna post the link. It's the one titled Battle Swap.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17BH...it?usp=drivesdk

Still at the Scale Yggdrasil, Wyvern makes his way up to the Upholstered Chamber at Q13, and, as if instinctively, his claws Evolve Strain on their own. Wyvern winces at the sudden pain, but takes a deep breath, before nomming some Breakfast Sampler. Figuring he's got some to spare, he shares with Mari and Auth. Wyvern then VVs up... or uses Vampiric Venom as the normal people say... and dashes to N13 and takes an upwards swipe at Nia, standing his ground.

M12, lunge to M13.
ohiwishihadtime

==BATTLE==

Nezira steps back to P7, levels her Silverglitch, and casts another Force Nail -- on Her this time. She then scans the Husk with a Quick Scan, gaining 2 MP, [something], 10 SP, and applying Weakpoint Analysis.

She also eats some Ice Cream.

-Battle: Upholstered Chamber-

Irongutta stays put and smacks Her with the force of fifteen or sixteen Orks!

<ROUND ONE-HUNDRED FORTY-TWO>
Simeon takes a moment to ask Mari some questions. Mari shudders as she recalls the memories of the not-too-distant-past.

MARI: Unfortunately, I was imprisoned while in Pane's hands.
MARI: He wasn't kind enough to give me a monologue explaining every facet of his plans, either.
MARI: What he DID do, however, w-was...

...Mari trails off.

MARI: ...IS NOTHING.
MARI: Nothing. Nothing at all.

It's clear as day that she doesn't want him to push the subject further. I mean, he probably could. It might not be smart. But he could.

---

Crya continues to explain her world. Apparently, being totally loopy doesn't disqualify you from running the universe. What a world it is! Anyway, Omo digests the information presented to her by Crya.

OMORIKA: ...Are you certain that the universe was created in the way you suggest?
OMORIKA: There are certainly a lot of creation myths, and I am not sure which one is proper... but you seem quite certain.
OMORIKA: ...I would also like to know what this "End of Age" was. An apocalyptic event foretold by the elders? A random culling? It seems like you're still speaking as if I know most of these things that you are referring to.

OMORIKA: And if you are the sole things that cause the universe to work... what of other great beings?
OMORIKA: It is known that entities like The Dark Carnival, The Operator, and of course, the Godmodder exist.
OMORIKA: And certainly, there's also something to be said about our own deities, like Lord Helix and Lord Dome...
OMORIKA: ...If you control the universe, why not simply suck the Sphere into a black hole, or something of the sorts? The Thymefield would surely be disrupted by a Godmodder, or something of a similar power...
OMORIKA: Of course, there are things we cannot comprehend about the Thymefield just yet...

OMORIKA: You also referred to "an unknown universe", that being your own?
OMORIKA: Do you perhaps, hail from another universe?
OMORIKA: How curious...

...Omo appears to be daydreaming a little. She's probably lost in thought.

---

Maria suffers from a moderately high-tier temper tantrum. Chaos doesn't seem to know how to deal with crying children.

CHAOS: wai[t] uh
CHAOS: why are you
CHAOS: ...
CHAOS: [t]his is my [c]hara[c][t]er ar[c] now i [c]an'[t]-

Taeda suddenly comes through the door, still exhausted from all of the fighting...

TAEDA: O-Oh thank Helix, I-I'm finally back!
TAEDA: M-Maybe I can rest-
CHAOS: you're hired
TAEDA: Wha-

Taeda narrowly ducks under a rather high velocity bag of credits, before Chaos rather suddenly clips through the floor, leaving a carton of apple juice in his place. He re-emerges at Scale Yggdrasil, where he decides to get to work helping the party! Maybe! We don't really know.

---

Calibri attempts to strike up a conversation. He drops down a floor, not actually really finding many people as most have gone up to fight Nia. There is however, one person left- Nana, who's apparently taking a well-deserved break.

NANA: Oh, hi!
NANA: ...Have we met before?

She looks blankly at Calibri, seemingly intimidated. Still within Scale Yggdrasil, EN watches Bass ride an elevator. I mean, he's technically gone at this point too, but oh well.

BASS: we can go up
BASS: and we can go down
BASS: this is like, the most mindblowing machine to ever exist

BASS: and i'm surprised we haven't implemented one in like, the everground or whatever
BASS: instead we got like, some doors
BASS: and that's boring
BASS: apparently it helps versus the sickness people feel down there, though
BASS: so that's cool

Back in the House, the couch is hit with drying spell! And is immediately soaked by the rain again. The Engie Drone opts to move the couch back inside the house before attempting that again. Couch dried! A shame it doesn't help with the stench.

---

King Fuffarious joins the game! Or at least, he tries- your character sheet will need a bit more work! Namely, he's missing hisHat, Armor, and Trinkets, as well as a special! King_Fuffy, If you'd like, contact me on the Discord server and i'll try my best to help you upgrade your character sheet!

A few suggestions though, just right off the bat.
-Your trait is... not great. You can generally get WAY more mileage out of your trait- take a look at the traits of some of your allies? If you want to keep the item-based theme, you could give yourself Evasive3 and Focused3 for two rounds whenever you use an item, or something like that. Simple, and a degree more useful!
-Your weapon might also want some work. While a randomly-changing weapon is a neat concept, you'll probably want a concrete damage value to go with it... and maybe some other effects? I'm thinking that maybe it could change element every attack, and then perhaps get some other random bonus effect?
-It also helps to list skillpoint distribution, instead of final stats. Fortunately, it's quite readable as you forgot equipment, but when you create your final sheet, keep that in mind! It'll save me a LOT of work.

---

<UPHOLSTERED CHAMBER, ROUND THREE>
The entire bottom-left side of the map is getting carpet-bombed with ice blasts! And nearly everyone down there has Lockdown! Have fun with that! Fortunately, you have a cubic ton of healing items, so maybe you can use them to mitigate the effects of it? Or maybe just straight-up tank the ice storm. It's totally viable. Anyway, of note, the wall between the halves of the map has hardened, which means you can no longer attack through it. Boo. Anyway, given your still-insane DPS, you might be able to kill the boss in two rounds! Or... one round, if you're crazy enough. I doubt it'll be one round, but hey. I've been blown out of the water by your raw DPS time and time again.

...In addition, everyone takes a moment to stop and freeze as Verdana seizes the Chair Glyph from its spot on the spiral podium! He hoists it up into the air, and a jingle plays as the plot device is collected.



YOU COLLECTED THE:

< CHAIR GLYPH >
2 Glyphs Remain

PLAY - Path Complete (VVVVVV)



He stashes the glyph in the inventory, but not before giving the Husk a good slam with its radiant power! He seems to take control of Scale Yggdrasil, and guides nearly all of the wood contained within it directly into the Husk! The effect is similar to nuking something from orbit with a gigantic beam of light, except the beam of light is actually a titanic pillar of wood. As the dust settles, a few of your companions bask in the weapon's radiance.

OMORIKA: ...Are you certain that it's safe to casually use items of such power?
OMORIKA: I suppose it worked, but do take a moment to ruminate on these things later...
MARRON: Don't listen to her- we should use these things more often!
MARRON: Like, that was AWESOME!
MARRON: Do that again!
OMORIKA: Bloodthirsty, are we?
OMORIKA: I doubt we can call upon its powers again in such a short time, though...

...While it'd be nice to celebrate further, there still is a boss battle to be fought. And so, everyone returns their attention to the storm at hand.

Toast uses Static Overcharge on Nia, then retreats to Q18. She then generates a spell in less-than-MP mode.

Terry prepares to fire his basic attack at Her once more... and then the wall of flesh grows taller, blocking the way. Irritated, he storms off to M10, and then fires his basic attack at Her once more, confirmed by the sound of searing and sizzling of holographic skin echoing throughout the room.

The Insanity

Formation! Spear Formation!

"This will not end the way you current desire Nia, we both know it."

The Reinforcement has already arrived.

I move to R12 and light the target of the attack (Her)

Ambusher moves to R11
Pioneer moves to P12

Together they unleash an extremely well coordinated volley of fire.
(Pioneer Basic Attacks Her then retreats to Q11)
(Ambusher Elemental Splitshot Her twice)

Special+Trait+Weakness+Weapon Equipment is in Effect

At the foot of Scale Yggdrasil, Calibri glances over to Nana upon realizing she's present. He tilts his head a little, giving her a quick lookover to see if there's anything particularly of note, then untilts his head and cracks a faint grin.

"Might have met. Might have not met. I'm pretty sure I recognize you from earlier events, though I can't guarantee that. Name's Calibri. Dunno if we've talked much."

His conversation is interrupted by something catching his attention, prompting Calibri to turn his gaze upwards to the upholstered chamber. He appears distressed for a moment, as though something happened that he's aware of yet can't be seen from here, but shakes it off soon and returns his attention back to Nana.

"With that said, guess neither of us are doing anything important right now... Sup?"

...His conversation is interrupted again by him noticing the presence of the Exhibition, eyeing it warily. He's ready to obliterate that construct if needed, or at the very least keep it from getting to Nana.


Meanwhile, EN is considering things.

"..."

She decides to take a look around the nearby area. By which I mean explore the other routes around the Summit. Best to make sure things are as empty and calm as they seem...


As it turns out, back at the house, the Engie drone has been forced to work inside. Only, he can't really concentrate as well as he wants to due to noise interference. He's still in the idea phase to start with, after all. After some time spent getting really annoyed at noises, he sighs, turning to focus his attention onto Maria and Taeda. There's a pause...

"Man that noise is getting annoying, but I have no idea how to handle tiny humans. Apparently duct tape is not the right way. Good luck dealing with that."

He proceeds to pull out a massive pair of headphones and put them on. They don't look like they'd block anything, honestly, but it seems to be working for him. He then turns to the couch again, finally knowing what to do, and raises... a can of some kind of anti-stink spray to blast the couch with, since a bad-smelling couch is not good for anything. Now it's time to actually do the thing.

Displaying his masterful and fantastical engineering processes in action, the Engie drone pulls out a comically oversized sledgehammer and smacks the couch with it, causing numerous things to happen all at the same time. For one thing, numerous Copper Gears, Circuit Boards, and Wire Scraps disappear from the inventory. Going by the sounds of machinery from within the couch, they've probably been used to assemble something inside there. How this was achieved solely by the couch being smacked with a sledgehammer is unclear.

Another smack is delivered in yet another brilliant display of craftsmanship, and this time, Spider Silk Spools and apparently some Silkweed have been used for whatever he did. This time, it's also possible to see what he did. The couch looks a lot less beat up now despite having been smacked with a sledgehammer, and in fact actually looks like it'd be pretty nice to take a nap on, or at the very least just sit on so one can enjoy the feeling of soft silk pillows and stuff.

More sledgehammer smacking. This time, some Ashen and Frigid crystals have disappeared. It seems like there's now a dial of some kind on the couch, and a closer inspection would reveal that it is a temperature adjustment device - turn it one way and one can make the couch quite cold, turn it the other and one can make the couch quite hot. Nothing that would be actively painful, although the machinery inside the couch that got installed there on the first smack might have some way of making it that way if needed.

Smack number four. Rose Weave and Rebellion Banners have been used for couch crafting? That might not sound right at first glance. But this is where the true genius comes in, as the Engie drone proceeds to put on a large beard that makes him look honestly kind of priestly, if one can ignore the part where he's also a big robot. He proceeds to strike a POSE.

"...What was that magic chant... oh, right. Wololo. Wololo. Wololo. Wololo. Wololo. Did it work?"

The Rose Weave and Rebellion Banners that were put onto the couch appear to have... somehow been persuaded to change their allegiance. It'd be more accurate to call them Spherebreaker Weave and Spherebreaker Banners now, as they appear to be displaying the colours one would associate with the Spherebreakers as a whole, along with radiating the same kind of general sense of "these guys are kind of idiots but also the most dangerous thing in line of sight by far". Truly, such a magnificent method of craftsmanship can only be the work of a master of his art.

He's still a bit unsatisfied. The couch is very cool, yes, but it's not cool enough yet. He proceeds to pick the couch up and yeet it, this act of throwing somehow failing to cause a repeat of the last time someone launched it out of the house, as the couch somehow just ends up back in the proper position it was in pre-yeeting. It looks pretty normal, although a quick inventory check would reveal missing Durasteel and Plasteel...

"Alright, perfect. Just need to make sure the transformative tech works properly..."

He dramatically holds up one hand and a button on a remote, stretching mechanical fingers as if about to press the button, but then promptly hurls the remote down the stairs. Somehow this works, as the couch proceeds to rise up and transform. A cockpit of sort emerges from the arms of the couch, a barrier of Duraplasteel alloy assembling around the part of the couch where people would be sitting. The lower parts of the couch unfold in a much more extravagant way, cognitized limbs with layers of strong and approximately medium weight armor assembling themselves together as the machinery whirs to life. An array of crystals, some hot and some cold, arrange themselves like sentry turret barrels around various parts of the mighty machine and glow with their various respective powers, looking like they could probably channel energy through themselves to launch elemental blasts upon whatever they were targeting. There's also a rather interesting arrangement of melee weaponry, as three different mechanical arms hold up three different melee weapons - one of them holds a razor-sharp buzzsaw, another holds a spear with a tip as sharp as an obsidian shard knife, and the third holds a bulky and dangerous Morningstar that no human could ever hope to lift, let alone wield in battle.

The Engie drone takes a look at his creation, nods in approval, and goes downstairs to retrieve the remote, giving the button a more normal press this time. Everything the couch mecha thing just displayed folds away back into the couch, making it go back to being a really nice place to sit. With that finally done, the Engie drone takes off his headphones, turning to Taeda and Maria once again.

"Okay I'm done doing a thing. Is the loudness still happening?"


Battle RP:

Verdana ends up giggling like an excited little girl right after using the glyph, looking like someone who just discovered a new favorite toy. He does reluctantly put it away once it's clear he won't be getting a second use out of it right now, smiling to himself at the thought of using it again...

"Hehe. That's a good glyph. Did anyone else see that happen? There was, like, this giant pillar of wood coming up from the floor and it totally smacked that guy from below! Ehehe..."

However, Verdana's celebratory jubilation is somewhat disrupted when he finds himself dragged to the other side of the battlefield, is blasted with malevolent energies from Nia, and then promptly shanked hard by Her. He doesn't seem to have that much of a reaction at first, preparing to do something... but whatever he was about to prepare doesn't seem to be possible right now. His form flickers to that energy being form, then back to humanoid again. He glances down at himself. There's a large gaping hole straight through where a human's heart would normally be, one that's slowly "bleeding" dust and appears to have a floating memory-orb-like structure right in the center.

"...Ah."

He doesn't have as much emotion in his remark as one would probably would expect from someone who just got stabbed lethally. Or, admittedly, from him in general. Verdana's gaze turns to Her, the construct that was armoring him earlier flickering out of existence as more dust begins to "bleed" from him. He seems... dissonantly happy, despite the circumstances.

"I thought something like this would happen, actually. It's a bit... weird, you know. Dying. I figured it'd be a lot worse than this. But if I had to describe it, it's sort of like being tickled over my entire body at the same time. Hehe..."

Another form flicker. He's lost a lot more of his form after restabilizing, gradually turning entirely to dust. Well, almost entirely. The core isn't. He smiles at Her.

"No hard feelings. If... If you're still around after we're done with this fight thing, wanna hang out? You seem interesting, it might be nice..."

He giggles a little more, body reverting to energy form in the areas where it can't properly sustain humanoid form anymore. If he were actually human, this would probably be an incredibly horrible way to die, but he's quite obviously not human. In the middle of disintegrating, he seems aware of something... Verdana sighs, glancing briefly around the room and noticing Venia, then smiles at her.

"...Oh hi there. Don't mind me dying, I'll get better... also, um. I get the feeling you're about to do something big... Heh..."

One more flicker. He won't survive any longer. He decides to lock in his final words.

"Good luck with what you're doing, miss Venia."

And with that, his body disintegrates completely, leaving behind a pile of dust where he stood, a bright red memory orb lying part-buried in the middle of the pile.


...Then All The Saints kicks in. The memory orb hovers into the air, shining bright as it rises, the dustpile on the ground starting to stir. As if a wind were blowing, the dust begins to swirl around, rising up into the air as well and surrounding the memory orb, tendril-like extensions of the red light reaching out to connect with the swirling dust. Lightning crackles in the air around the orb, bolts of a similar red colour flashing through the dust particles and setting a few flames burning among the dust. The flames rapidly spread throughout all of the cloud, then an explosion rocks the room, thankfully a small one that doesn't pose the threat of collateral damage. Right after the explosion, Verdana's standing where the dust pile was, fully intact and grinning.

"...Well, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be? Or as long-lasting. Now then, I guess I'd better get back to the important thing!"

He cracks his knuckles, then turns his attention to Her.

"Surprise! I am not dead. Even though you killed me. That tickled, by the way. I dare you to try again, hehe... Anyway, more to the point! You're still not free from that butterfly's influence... Not yet, at least. So! Even if my contribution is honestly kind of pathetic compared to what some other people are managing here... I will help too! Help you, that is! Help you get free from that thing, that is! Because... Well!"

Flames burn around Verdana's body. It's unclear if they're coming from him, the recent resurrection, or are just an aesthetic thing slash manifestation of the fact he'll be smacking things really hard for a bit.

"I know a thing or two about people, and from what I can tell, you're sort of... the bits of Nia she kept repressed, right? Let me know if I read this wrong... Anyway, to the point! You don't deserve to be locked away like that! The rest of Nia didn't deserve to be put through what she had to endure either! Neither of you deserved being hijacked by the butterfly! Fate has been unkind to you, it's not fair, and IT'S TIME THINGS GOT BETTER FOR YOU!"

Battle action:

After being revived by All The Saints, which is to say after Auth's action, Verdana takes one look at the Husk and uses a Fluxblade Scroll to run that thing through with a giant glowing glitch sword. He then slides up to L10 and targets Her with a Newton Hammer. Given the 70% damage buff from All The Saints and the 10% psychic weakness on Her, this is going to sting like an absolute bugger.

Toast moves to P15 and uses Blank Canvas on Mari once more! Then, Toast uses a Fluxblade Scroll on the Husk. If it didn't counter her, she also uses her own Fluxblade. If it did, she instead uses Static Overcharge on Her again.
Then, she retreats to R17. Trait: Exact/Lower MP, right now.

RP: Upholstered Chamber

Venia's whole body twitches as death dances around her-but Nia, and then Her, show a reluctance to attack her directly. As the Emergency Shield Badge braces against a Stormcell and Venia's rounds of tearing into the Husk and Nia with a bevy of assaults come to a close, she takes a moment, and...

"Everything today is gonna be OK, tomorrow's gonna take all my troubles away-"

-And Verdana siezes the Glyph, and the whole of Scale Yggdrasil hails the calls of the saviors of Sussui and the world seems to upheave to make way for a divine pillar of wood to smash the Husk into the ceiling like a bug-

"-Everything today is gonna be OK, tomorrow's gonna take all my troubles away-"

-Chloe and not-Nia yell hope and despair at one another the storm intensifies and rages and the crackle of ice and lightning is intermixed with the fury of Her's blades and tendrils-

"Everything today is gonna be OK, tomorrow's gonna take all my troubles away-"

-and a storm of fury rips into her allies as Nia and Her pirouette across the field, and the chaos makes it sigil known in a furious frenzy of bolts and beams and the Husk prepares to lurch at an unprotected Ziah while Verdana's strength leaves him-

"Everything today is gonna be OK EVERYTHING TODAY WILL BE OK!"

Venia refocuses as the Husk leaps down from above, the spider getting an uncomfortable recollection of her own abilities as the butterfly's puppet shoves its face into Lusierre's puppet. But that isn't quite her concern-its Her. Venia fights back more and more tears from manifold spider eyes as she talks, bellows, roars.

"It's SELFISH!" Venia screams, probably loud enough to hear through the wall. "It's selfish to just can all of your worries and problems up and not tell anyone! It's only hurt you! It's only hurt me! You heard me say as much to your face regarding myself! And all that got me was just an attitude that everyone hated me! Nobody did! And I didn't even learn my lesson until way afterwards when I blew it again! But I realized that! And I wanted to prove that! I wanted to tell the parts of you that you hated the MOST how much that you were a nice, kind, strong person who doesn't deserve any of this!"

Nezira and Omorika quickly convene, and Nezira launches a few scan-pings at Her with assistance from Omorika, causing a hardlight display popping up around Her-an application of Refined Understanding to ensure that no attack levied against a foe has even a slight possibility of missing, as long as it was the first attack levied against it post-application anyways. Venia's Blossoming Key is alight with power-an incredible force that Venia had quite simply never put upon it before. Rippling power echoed through her whole body, charging the Key to the point you couldn't see the actual blade-it shined like a white, fiery sword, as did she. She almost felt like she'd explode!

"I don't hate you! I don't want you gone! I can't think of a world without you! I, you're all I've been thinking about! I, I, I, You've done so much for me! But, you're making the same mistake right in front of my face that I did! And now I have to stop you where my friend had to stop me! What goes around comes around, but it wasn't like I was taking care of myself-like I actually had months to live, right?! Did you see through that? I don't even know now! But it doesn't matter! I won't let that twisted thing in your head destroy you! I won't see you warped into an omnicidal monster-or the husk of one! I WON'T LET YOU DIE!!!"

Venia rushes towards Her, key alight! ...

...

... And stops inches from Her's head, shaking heavily.

"I-wait! I'm not hesitating, what is this?!"

"... I ART THOU SHADOW, THY UMBRA, THE TRUEST SELF."

"OK WOW THIS REALLY ISN'T THE TIME FOR MY PHANTOM THIEF FANTASIES OR ANYTHING, CAN WE SAVE THE PERSONA REENACTMENT FOR ANOTHER TIME-"

"NO. SO BE SWIFT, THEN. DARE YOU TO DEFY THE FATES?"

"... Are we really doing this right now, why even-"

"YES. BE SWIFT."

"Please just go along with it, don't you deserve a reward?"

"W-what? A reward...? ... Arguing with myself. Actually arguing with myself. Great. Of course... Well, its a reward, apparently... YES, OF COURSE I DO!"

"DARE YOU TO REBEL AGAINST THE SHACKLES OF INIQUITY AND POWERLESSNESS?"

"YES! I DARE!"

"DARE YOU TO VOID THINE OWN DOUBT IN THE FACE OF PURPOSE?"

"YES! YES, I DARE, CAN I ASK-!"

"DARE YOU TO LIVE IN THE FACE OF DESPAIR? DARE YOU TO BLIGHT THE ETERNAL BLACK? DARE YOU TO DESTROY ALL DISTORTION IN THE NAME OF YOUR OWN HEART?"

"I'D DO ANYTHING FOR MY FRIENDS! FOR CHLOE! FOR MARIA! FOR NIA! LET ME FIGHT! ARE YOU REALLY MY SHADOW?!"

"I AM THINE UMBRA-THY SOUL, THY MIND, THY HEART. SUCH IS THINE NATURE TO BE AS ONE WITH I. BUT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN-ONLY MARIA HAS BROUGHT ME FORTH, IMPOTENT. NO FURTHER!"

"CAN I POLITELY ASK WHAT THAT MEANS?!"

"...HELLO?! ...My body's still frozen! She's going to totally kill me like this! This is completely insane! This is, this is BULLSHIT! COME ON!"

Venia's body twitches even more now-it was already shaking but now it looks like she's having a small fit. Her and the Husk (and the two butterflies possessing them) are probably looking at her and going 'oh no not another narrative event with Venia she gets too many'

"I HAVE TO DO THIS! I HAVE TO FIGHT!I HAVE TO! I CAN'T HOLD MYSELF BACK ANYMORE,"WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?! I MUST FIGHT!"

Venia's form is destabilizing. The manifold spiders that make up her form are starting to fritz out of existence right on her, and the key's somehow withdrawing itself into the body. It almost looks like she's about to succumb-her body, even in supermode, simply can't handle this much power, it appears.

"LET ME! I HAVE TO SAVE HER! I HAVE TO STOP THE BUTTERFLY! I CAN'T LET THIS HAPPEN! I WON'T LET THIS HAPPEN! I WON'T BE STOPPED! NOT BY MYSELF! NOT BY ANYONE OR ANYTHING EVER AGAIN!"

Venia's whole body is igniting with Pulchritude. Too much. That can't possibly be good. Her whole form is consumed with white. Accursed turn-based shenanigans prohibiting help until inclement moments!

"NIA!"

"I WILL SAVE YOU!"

Venia's whole body explodes in a white blast! The evaporated sludge makes for a smokescreen as concerned allies try to break through the smokescreen to see-to see-



Ebon crystal twisted into a powerful frame, four elbows for two arms, claws wicked as sin paired with fingers smooth as water, both clamped on a blade made of blades, shimmering white, a chest like a spiked maw, back bearing eight tentacles of gray, drapes of silver pouring down in bangs and waves and crawling with spiders of a nature beyond nature, an evershifting fissure upon reality's fickle fabric spasming, perched between two horns of prismatic sheen, reflecting every color, her face barely seen, only the fringes of a mouth, masked, eyeless, hidden behind hair like membrane, but not without breath nor sight, shaky, disbelieving breath. A fusion of a girl and her very essence. It was her soul and it was her. A new power for a new mindset.

Perhaps it was fitting. Or perhaps it was just yet more BS that Tazz pulled out of his pants because he thought it was cool, or something. Take your pick. Death of the Author.

"...! This... This power...! What's even..." Venia says, still shuddering. "... What this is, it doesn't matter to me now! I have to save her! AND I WILL!"

the Key burns with her power, and as it does so no less than four others burn alongside her, brought forth from nowhere and ready to obey. She could still feel her face-and behind the mask she grins, it was all freakishly instinctive and she would have it no other way. She takes off-blindingly fast-too fast to track-and cuts at Her from every-which way, a blinding flurry of cuts striking Her over and over, each and every one leaving a thorn and a vine in her side. Venia eventually stops moving, but only enough to visibly summon up a bevy of distorted orbs around her, each one expanding into a spear wrapped in thorns which swiftly impale Her through most of her body.

Venia points the key at Her, and it blazes alight! She flings it into the air, letting telekinesis do the hard work of firing it, as Venia sprints forwards-the hair on her back, still also like tendrils, forms up into somewhat more solid fists and spring up behind her as her two clawed hands (and two regualar hands) launch a bevy of fisticuffs to make any Joestar proud, though that might just be the immense amount of hands to do it with-which becomes doubly relevant when all of them grasp Her in some sort of immense bearhug, just in time for the Key to hover directly overhead. A second later, it drops down like the sword of Damocles, slamming directly into Her's eye and promptly being triggered to unleash its Purge, a torrent of light blazing into the Entropic sigil. Venia swiftly pulls the key out of Her's face and backs away.

... It's apparent that even with all of that cool attack animation, Venia's stats haven't changed. Unfamiliarity? She doesn't seem to be quite handling the fact each arm now had two forearms, or the legs, or the amount of appendages she has. Maybe when she gets a bit of practice. re; when i respec her later because that's definitely happening

"I DON'T CARE IF I HAVE TO KILL A CHAOS KALIDEOSCOPE TO SAVE HER, ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING IS WORTH IT! YOU WON'T HURT HER ANYMORE! NOTHING WILL!"

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RP: Maria

"WAITNODON'T-"

Too late! Chaos was already gone. Even with Taeda immediately nearby, Maria breaks out into an even worse fit of sobbing-Want of Safety doesn't really do much to help other than make Maria glowy and shiny. It'd probably make her really happy if she wasn't in a screaming fit.

"P-PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME ALOOOOONE!" Maria screams, clinging onto Taeda's legs. "I DON'T WANT VENNY TO DIE AND EVERYONE TO LEAVE ME ALONE! I DON'T WANNA BE ALOOONE! VENIAAAAAA!"

She keeps relentlessly sobbing, clutching Taeda as tight as she can. The Venia plushie and Maria's entourage of cats attempt to hug and cuddle her all the while. Lonely girl.

She apparently doesn't count the ever-stoic faceless jet-black kitsune watching over everything.

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Battle: Upholstered Chamber

Yay, more complicated turns.

1.1: Nezira performs the rare and highly dangerous SIEZE INITIATIVE X3 COMBO. I'm not sure about the full details, but she'll Weakpoint Analyze Her with her last bonus action before it becomes Reloader1, with the associated benefits. She also technically scoops up some stuff because Her hasn't been scanned, only Nia.

2: Omorika acts, using Null Somnum+ on Nezira again. Where she moves and what else she does is up to her.

1.2: Nezira will then take that action and standard-action scan Her. This applies the Refine Understanding buff for Weakpoint Analysis, which translates to making the immediate next attack on Her unavoidable.

3: Mari's 2nd Drone then acts, moving into range of Venia to apply Augment: Shatter to Venia, just for the icing on the cake.

4: Venia moves forwards to O13, switches to the Entropic Key, and levies Purge. Remember all those buffs from her Silverglitch Swing the previous round? Oh. Oh yes. Almost all of them are applied here too, plus an extra-a 100% damage modifier on purge. From a base of (28-32), we have Combo boost (40%), Empowered (60%), Heroic (20%), Ordo (20%), Crimson Fall (10%), possibly the Unexisting Theroem Basic attack damage boost (40% if it applies to Purge, a weapon skill), and finally, Purge itself (100%), for a grand total of 350%-390% of Venia's basic attack damage depending on the math. That's a range of (98-121) damage (counting the UT 40% multiplier as being part of the range) that is Unavoidable and pierces all of Her's AC, with a grand total of 73 CRT after all boosts. Venia then uses a Fluxblade Scroll on the Husk, applying 4 MP to trigger Always Watching for an application of Erroblight2 for 2 rounds (which translates to 20% glitch weakness as the Husk isn't a boss), also with 73 CRT. Hat then wraps up the round with a ping to the Husk as well, also for 73 CRT. Venia retreats back to P13. If Venia doesn't get a crit this round it'd be quite amazing.

5: Bass takes initiative on the right side and goes before anyone else does there. Unmolested by Suffocating Wave, he sliiiides to the left (G11), gives Nia the stinkeye (Iris Image), and then takes it back now y'all (Flux Blacklash). Unless Flux Blacklash *would* be capable of stunning Nia, in which case, he just chills.

6: Chloe moves to G12, taking 12-12 from Lockdown. She then pumps all her Echo into her, restoring a net gain of 8 HP and chugs a Celesap Pastry for an extra 10 plus mending. She then selfcasts Sword Beam and slashes at Nia, triggering the totem's Vampiric. She'd rather not retreat right now, so she doesn't.

Finally, because this is really important: Irongutta is at E19. This means Rows 18-20 are now killzones thanks to Her switching there and using Glitchform: Iris from those tiles, so DO NOT STAY THERE, no matter how tempting. While I'm at it-don't stick around Her unless you intend to ZoC lock her, try to stick as far out as you can, otherwise we just repeat last round. That was unpleasant, and now you are dealing with it.

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Notes

-Venia's MP should be at 32/34 due to a previous expenditure of Always Watching. (After this round, 28/34). Her Temproary SHP from the Emergency Shield Badge should also vanish (putting her at 18/18).
-Nia should no longer have Erroblight.
-Pierce the shroud hasn't been stated to take effect, despite Nia being stunned.
-Venia should have 1 HP of damage from the slip on Encroaching Storm.
-The Husk should be Glitched.
-There should probably be a protection against players targeted for switching from moving through walls, as that could break things. For us or them I know not.
-Hex took electric damage, which he's weak to-therefore Did You What should proc and give him some Empowered.

Short Post, might add more flavour to it later.

Lusiarre to J17, activate Intangible Distortions & Tentacle Gift and cast Corpse Explosion (which would then be a Glitch Attack) at the remains of Spellbearer 2. It served well in Life, now it shall serve her even better in Death. The Corpse Explosion's big First Hit shall target Her, and with the +1 Splash both the other Spellbearer and the Husk should be in splash range.

The Winged Forgotten One flies to L12 because it can fly through walls, and then also attacks Her.

Lusiarre's also glad she forgot to Fear the Voodoo last round because otherwise she couldn't have activated Intangible Distortions because it has Manafuelled5. Fun times.

-Battle: Upholstered Chamber-

Irongutta decides to ignore his Lockdown debuff and moves to E19. It hurts, but he doesn't care. When he reaches E19, he consumes the Green Egg next to him, as well as an Eggnog Carton from the inventory to completely offset any Lockdown damage.

The Man stays where he is (gaining +4 AC and +70% DGE from that) and fires at Nia.

Flux Man moves to J13 and also fires at Nia.

Auth takes a breath, and glides into the air gracefully. Verdana and Ziah are helped up into the air and supported by another pair of spirits.

Auth has used For All The Saints on Ziah and Verdana.

RP later. Probably. I'll think of something to say for certain.

Boshi glares at the Husk.

"(Oh. It's you.)"
"(Didn't think I'd see the likes of you after the library. Shame you've picked a horrible time to attack.)"
"(Whatever.)"

Boshi looks towards Her, then back at the Husk.

"(You. Butterfly. I know you're in there. I have something to tell you...)"

"(GET. LOST.)"

"(YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE, INSECT. IF YER APPARENTLY SO 'OMNISCIENT' AS PEOPLE CLAIM, YA SHOULD BE QUIVERING IN UTTER FEAR. OMNISCIENCE WOULD MEAN YE'D SEE YER OWN DEMISE, 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE"RE ABOUT TO DO TO YER SORRY gorila! WE'LL BEAT YA CLEAN OUTTA THIS TIMELINE IF WE HAVE TO!)"

"(SO PECK OFF, YA LOUSY EXCUSE FOR A 'GOD'!)"

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Boshi is Stunned!

Boshi has the Ice Sculpture lob a piece of Licherian Bread into his mouth, clearing his Stun! He then gets right up in the Husk's face, at (N17). Boshi then uses Shockwave Chamber on the Husk! He flies to (P17). He also uses a Fluxblade Scroll on the Husk.

The Psy-Dweller uses Backwind on the Ice Sculpture, moves to (P16), uses a Fluxblade Scroll on the Husk, and blasts the Husk! It retreats to (Q17). The sounds of "GET LOST" echo from the Dweller's body.

The Ice Sculpture aims at the Husk, and fires a psychic bullet shot at it. The side of the shot has the words "GET LOST" carved into the shot.

---MEANWHILE, AT THE BOTTOM OF SCALE YGG---

Sophia starts to get bored, and walks to the inside of the tree. It seems like she sees the elevator going up and down. Figuring that it was just activated, she goes up.

...

As she rises, she starts getting a headache. Which is odd, since she's not underground... there shouldn't be any ill effects.

Of course, she immediately realizes that that was not normal in the slightest, and jumps down while the elevator was still rising. She lands safely on her feet, her umbrella acting as a parachute. The headache fades, and Sophia decides to head back to the house...

---CLIFFSIDE DIGGING---

MU peeks above the lip above her, and immediately panics and retreats under the lip when she sees that the eyeball had followed her.

Once she's done panicking, MU grabs an Ablaze Accordian. A low beat just so happens to emerge at this time: MOBILIZE STATUS ATTACK. The Eye can't hear it, though, as it's just an eye.

She walks up to there the eye is. She sets up the fire. And she lets the flamethrower rip!

She throws in a basic attack after to burn more of it to a crisp. To ensure it stays down, she also lobs a Mortar Shell (Fire-Spraying) onto the eye. She uses the resulting smokescreen to rush towards the Vault, burning the eyestalk as she runs. When she makes it to the Vault, she lobs another Mortar Shell (Fire-Spraying) into the vault, and seals it off with a hefty durasteel door, bolting a plate made of 4 Durasteel onto the front.

She then ignites any remaining bits of eye. She then gets the heck outta there for the night - she ain't sticking around to find out if the eye would break free or not. She heads back to the house as well...

Destiny runs to H13, hookshots onto Nia, landing on H9. She then eats up some Quick Foodstuffs at an incredible pace.
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Well yeah, there's other universes. The Place of Old was a different universe than the one I currently hail from. And, well, about creation myths...
Honestly, I'm pretty sure it depends on the universe. I've heard about the Big Bang, God, all sorts of things. But for our universe, it started with a Tadpole. Through our Trials, we found great deposits of food for the tadpole, and we fed it the food. Eventually, once our final trial was complete, the frog flew into the ruined battlefield of our final trial and went through a metamorphosis, transforming and enlarging by inconceivable amounts, until it became the universe, or should I say, my universe. As for how I got here from a completely different universe, well, Destiny, on home turf, is powerful enough to command the laws of space, and so she built a wormhole directly to Sussui. Unfortunately, she didn't have the foresight to go from afar, and well...
Now our powers are severely neutered. I would normally be able to easily cause an eternal winter, but here...

Crya creates an Icicle about the length of your average adult arm, which is then quickly crumbled into vapor. Crya looks somewhat strained.

Well I barely have my powers anymore. Doing that was like running a kilometer. Destiny fares better strangely, but she can only activate a very basic version of one of her powers, Ultra Instinct. Under normal circumstances she could activate it on the go and it would allow her to instantly dodge and instantly attack, but here it simply enhances her powers. She doesn't have access to other abilities such as the ability to manipulate meteors. Basically we failed to think before acting and now we're kinda stuck. It's a challenge to get out of here, since I lack flight, an ability I usually have. Besides, the other gods' powers fail to reach me here on Sussui while the Thymefield is active, anyways.