Calibri chuckles.

"I guess there were differences. We had a... minor problem during the Lucid battle. It kind of... kidnapped one of our party members, to phrase things simply. Only real way to deal with it is for some of us to deliberately get sleep'd... counterintuitive, maybe, but necessary. Heh."

He sighs. Evidently, he knows full well that there's not much more to say right now. Exhaustion seems to take hold of him now, and for a moment, he considers just switching the radio off. But, well, that would be rude.

"I guess that's all there is to say for now. You're tired, I've run out of topics, probably a good time to call it, mm... Maybe we can chat later or something, heh. G'night, mum."

...There's a several second pause as Calibri's mind catches up with what he said, then he proceeds to make an amusing range of embarrassed noises, dropping the mindscape radio onto his own feet and covering his face with both hands. If the bright blue glow is anything to go by, he probably regrets that. Once he's not quite as flustered anymore, which will probably take a while, he hesitantly flicks the radio off...


No idea what to do with albino boi.

"..."


EN makes a flustered noise as Mari baps her head with a makeshift banhammer, although she doesn't manage to get out anything particularly coherent. She does shoot Mari quite a tsundere-ish look, though.

In the middle of that, Catherine approaches with an Auth plushie. EN turns her attention to that instead...

"...Heh, cute. Were ah still a combatant ah'd prolly be tempted t' pick one up an' carry it 'round meself..."

EN grins, then turns her attention to the rest of the room. A brief glance at each of the gathered people, then her attention goes back to Cathy and the Auth plushie.

"...An' tha' gits me wonderin', who'd be gettin' th' best use o' carryin' one o' 'em 'round?"


And then over at the forest checkpoint, the Engie drone discovers things. He contemplates things for a moment, then just wanders out into open view to stare directly at the chairians for a few seconds.

"...Looking for that overgrown electric eel? I saw it earlier in the river over that way."

He indicates towards the River Crossing, then ambles off into the Ancient Ruins to go investigate a certain crystal golem. After some consideration, he decides that the best way to make it animated would be to shock it with the Shock Therapist.


Battle stuff - The Town Armory:

"Sup, kiddos."

Calibri pops up at R12, ducks into the bushes at O12, and pokes out for a moment to Confusion Ray Assassin2. If Assassin2 is already being dealt with handily, Rifler3 instead. If both of them are being dealt with, Force Nail to whichever of Eviscerator1 or Eviscerator2 has the higher HP value right now. If they have the same HP value, just random that shit.

Catherine seems quite excited to get the Auth Plushy. She teases the thing like an adorable little pet, completely gushing over it.

tC: D'aww! Isn't this the most adorable little guy!
tC: I'm keeping him.

Catherine cackles excitedly, running on the wall and then on the downside of the stairs. She's looking for someone... coincidentally, the one person being harassed by a small child with a hammer.

tC: Darling! Darling! Look at this!

Cathy presents the plushy to EN, making sure that she sees the adorable little guy.


tC: Isn't this the most adorable little Authy you've ever seen? I love him so much, it's the cutest little guy! What do you think?

The tiny little Auth plushy is quite cute. There's no denying that.

----

Auth nods to Marron's request.

uA: Sure thing. I can do that. It'll be easy enough, I've got wings now so I can get the stuff on the roof pretty easy.

Auth nods, grabbing a bucket of water, a cleaning rag and a dustpan. He drifts over to the kitchen, calmly starting by floating up to the roof and scraping whatever remnants of crepe goop is left off the ceiling. Auth ensures that it ends up in a disposable bag that he had prepared for this situation. Auth then floats back down towards the ground, cleaning whatever batter remains around the kitchen.

There's just one problem. The fairly nasty burns all over the bench. Auth... is initially unsure what to do with them. He starts be clearing away as much of the soot and burn marks as he can, but that won't save the entire thing. Replacing the benchtop would be quite a difficult task, too. Too much to do this morning, anyway.

When Auth is finished, using steel wool and oils to clean up the bench, you'd believe the burns in the wood were there from the very beginning. You'd never realise that they're from after-the-fact. Auth then looks at the pan... Auth decides he might as well clean that too.

uA: Hm... Oh, idea. This will probably make Marron feel a bit better.

Auth decides to quickly mix together some more batter. Add some water, milk and heated eggs, then gently sift flour in. Following that, add butter and salt. It's a very simple recipe. Basic, but Auth doesn't need something complex for what he wants to do. He pours his basic batter into the pan he just cleaned, ensuring that the batter is thin enough for his purposes.

He carefully flips the crapes with a couple of short wrist flicks, ending up with a simple but properly done crepe base. Auth makes a few more, putting them on a plate. He then digs through the kitchen, looking for some ingredients to put in. He makes an assortment of crepes - he's not entirely sure of Marron's taste. Something sweet, something savory, something... interesting looking?

None of them really fit for breakfast, now that he thinks about it. He's already made them, though, so he might as well go and hand them off.

uA: I cleaned up, Marron. I figured you might want some crepes - the mess of the kitchen tells me you didn't have any.

Auth offers the crepes to Marron.

----

Auth then sees Bow Kid trying to smash a force glyph. A sleepy kid might not have all that much of an effect though. So Auth walks over to see what's going on.

uA: Hey, what's going on? Let me help with that.

If Bow Kid doesn't mind that much, Auth kneels down in front of the glyph. He shoots ink through it, causing quite a lot of structural disruption in the Force Glyph. With the disruption causing instability, the Force Glyph would collapse in on itself soon, freeing... whoever is in the bathroom. Auth knocks to let whoever's in there know he's there.

uA: Excuse me, is there someone in here? We dismantled the force glyph keeping you trapped in there, if there is.

Auth waits for some kind of response. When Ette comes out, Auth seems shocked. Shocked that someone could bully the cinnamon roll like this.

uA: Ette? You alright? What happened?

It makes Auth just a little sad. Sad that someone could treat Ette this way.

----

Auth thinks quietly as Irongutta tries to compare his relationship with Catherine to something in Ork culture. Unfortunately for Auth, he doesn't really know much about Ork culture so he's not exactly sure how to respond to it.

uA: I... suppose? I suppose my Mother kind of fits that role, yeah. I don't know much about your culture or anything, so I don't know how to compare my relationship with her.

Auth shrugs, watching Irongutta work on the mortar shell.

uA: That... yeah, that sounds like it. If I had to try and put it into words... she's like the chief of the clan. If that makes sense to you. So I suppose your previous description would be accurate, huh.

Auth takes more time to think about his Mother. What is she like to him? It's hard to describe. Catherine herself is hard to get a read on. She can go between scary and kindly and weird and completely normal in the blink of an eye.

uA: My mother... I'm pretty sure her main priority is my wellbeing, ultimately. She can be spartan sometimes, sure, but... I think, even though she can be weird and scary, she means well. Um... stream of consciousness. I dunno what I'm talking about.

----

Auth steps backwards to K15, and casts Purify on Chloe, erasing only her negative status effects. She's been attacked by Yume, and subsequently debuffed, so she could use the help. Auth also tosses a Fragapple at Toast, to get her to Wake Up.

Leaf is slightly disappointed for a second with Gibbet having no reaction, but a smile quickly returns to her face as it hops on her head.

Leaf: Hiya, cutie~

She lets out a small giggle, before very carefully placing it back down, giving it a gentle petting. She pauses for a moment, seeming happy to just watch Gibbet, before eventually deciding to head to the Old Pass, like Chloe and Toast suggested.

Leaf: I'll be back in a little bit, okay?

-=+=-

Not too long after she arrives, Leaf senses strife with both her natural sensing abilities, as well as the fact that people are pointing guns at other people in an unfriendly manner. Regardless, Leaf cautiously enters the armory at R13, seemingly rather worried. Despite this, she spots a Splinter Spitter, and immediately dashes to N14. Leaf sings a soft melody to the Splinter Spitter, taming it. The Splinter Spitter crawls along the wall, moving to N13, where Leaf mounts it. Noticing the creatures own Corrosive Mix, a basic plan forms in Leaf's mind. Using Corrosive Mix, the Splinter Spitter shoots at Chainknight, then retreating to N12 and using Toxic Plume on N8.

A strangely nondescript figure, covered in a worn out cloak, spawns out of nowhere within the Winding Tunnel. Taking out a small dagger from a pocket sewn on the inside, it runs past a (justifiably confused) Omorika into the chamber where the Widow lies dormant, quickly and skillfully cutting off about seven deathcap mushrooms and stuffing them into a bag, all whilst wearing protective gloves, just in case. It then runs out and disappears within the tunnel as quickly as it arrived, ending up outside of one of the House's walls through the powers of plot contrivient teleportation.

Wasting no time at all, the figure pulls out a few pieces of differently coloured chalk from another pocket. After drawing an elaborate circle on the ground, it discards the cloak and begins some sort of ritual. At the same time, a couple materials mysteriously disappear from the Inventory.



Finally done with this extravagant display, the figure scurries towards the House's door, abandoning their cloak out there. Their seemingly adolescent stature is now visible to all, including the reader, thankfully. Auburn brown hair reaching to their shoulders. A cozy sweater. Emerald eyes. Nothing to write home about, except for one odd detail.

Four knocks resound on the door.
After a while, someone will hopefully open it.
And then, they shall be accosted by an almost mystically androgynous "child."

Many names, or rather variations of their name, it has. The closest plausible Earth equivalent would be Χαρα, whereas those in a land of the East picked up on calling them 畿夜等. But as this obviously isn't Earth, and they are free to introduce themselves as they wish, they do so. And they do it thusly.

"Greetings."

A carefully measured 1.5 second pause.

"I am Chara."

Smol post because I'm on phone.

Laranei joins the Armory battle, spawning in at R12. Then she moves to O12, basic attacks the Comlinked after they teleport to L11.

"Fricken jerk!"

Having been rudely awakened by Hex, Summa got up from the ground, brushing herself off. Her Silver Maria was able to catch the fire magic that was tossed her way, and has temporarily turned into the Blazing Maria. Though Summa had an intense urge to hit someone with the little time she has with the Blazing Maria, she instead takes out some of her anger (and extra magic) on a nearby Rainga.

Hauling over to S11, Summa prepares her magic before snapping her fingers. covering her hand in a type of red, wicked magic. With a small flick, she sent her magic the Rainga's way, using Flicker of Insanity!

==BATTLE==
Nezira moves to N3, blasts Zweet1 with Nullpoint, and retreats to O2.

In addition, having given me permission to control him for a bit, Hex moves to N10, casts AMERICAN BOOT on Yume's face, then retreats to Q8.

<ROUND ONE-HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN>

Not much to do in terms of stats today, so I'll just note that Chara has been added to the game! Not like, the Undertale Chara- just Chara. Welcome to the team! Try not to murder everyone by accident! Or on purpose. Who knows? A few adjustments have been made to your character, as they're somewhat over-tuned. This involves your Trait and Special.

In addition, his- no, her- THEIR first action is to create the Springing Shanks! This takes 2 Yaga Razorteeth, 4 Splinter Spider Venom, 2 Deathcap Mushrooms, 2 Splinter Spitter Glands, 1 Serpentile Cluster, and an Eldritch Orb! You've earned a rather substantial discount, as you've used way too much, and put in some good effort! As a note though, high Range weapons tend to not come with much in the way of Retreat, so I've ticked down the weapon's Retreat by 1.

---

Echoss continues to talk with Alatus. He responds to his points in kind, and Alatus responds to his points to his points. First, about the whole "treason clubbing" thing...

ALATUS: We're not committing mass suicide!
ALATUS: ...Although, I see what you're getting at...

They then talk about the Eliti for a bit.

ALATUS: Well, show me then!

Echoss opts to show him the bits of the Eliti the group has fought to save time and a bit of conversation.

ALATUS: ...Wow.
ALATUS: You're all part of some random group, right? Seems unlikely.
ALATUS: What if you're more along the lines of some... interplanetary spec ops. Like what the Tabletopians have.
ALATUS: I know for a fact that the Tabletopians are watching our every move, too! I bet their spec ops team is plotting against us as we speak!
ALATUS: In fact, I KNOW IT!

Legion-ing!

ALATUS: ...You know, Spark's been going crazy as of late.
ALATUS: Like, he was pretty reasonable back then, but the whole "use the Sphere to kill the Tabletopians" thing isn't quite what you'd expect from someone like him.
ALATUS: Must be hard, suddenly gaining control of the country.

As Echoss leaves the area, he leaves a note on how to deactivate a Shield Generator. He takes the advice, and de-childproofs the paintings. His butterflies then flop off, and proceed to collect 3 Lumipods from the trees of Zone 1. He then loots 6 Durasteel from the pile of rubble in Zone 2's sewers, and investigates the group of Mollusks.

It seems the Mollusks are praying to their makeshift altar to Helix. Various parts of their bodies are twitching violently, and some of their eyes are veiled in a glitchy haze. A whispering can be heard from them as well. If they weren't kinda cute, it'd be absolutely terrifying. It's not quite sure what the objective of the ceremony is, but maybe it'd be worth waiting to find out? In addition, the gigantic mollusk seems to be partaking in the ceremony from a distance: it appears to be in a state of meditation, and is beginning to glow with some sort of divine radiance.

He also summons a Vacuupack 9001 into the Hall of Sages, and forcibly vacuums up all of the Thyme Matter in the area, also accidentally(?) devouring the Bilespawn, which ends up exploding as it gets trapped in the Vacuupack's nozzle. When all is done, it's looted 98 Thyme Matter, 4 Thyme Matter Crystals, and a Bilespawn Sac.

---

Letsid hecks off to the Chairian Outskirts. The odds of Ette winning this game of tag dwindle to about 0%.

---

Bow Kid commits assault against a Force Glyph. The Glyph in the way of the washroom door pops, freeing Ette from her prison! She skips out to pursue Letsid, but cannot seem to find her in the slightest.

ETTE: (...She's gone.)
ETTE: (Thank you, though!)

She gives Bow Kid a nice warm hug, which is probably overwhelming as Ette's probably a few times bigger than her. After a few moments, she lets go, placing her safely back on the ground.

ETTE: (...Who are you?)
ETTE: (You look a lot like Hat Kid. Are you related?)

Ette resists the urge to pet the tiny human. Speaking of tiny humans, Mustache Girl goes and mines some rocks, freeing herself from a cave-in. She then heads to the East, exploring a new part of the Everground! Mustache Girl's greed is currently being put to the test...

---

Maria pets a kitty. This is incredibly important. Also, she thanks Mari for the stuff.

MARI: You're welcome.
MARI: Just be sure to ban EN a few more times, alright? She deserves it.
MARI: who the hell calls people "cutes" anyway, like with an "s"

Elsewhere, Venia pings Nia via maid-based telegram, asking to speak to Boxican.

NIA: Hiya, gorgeous! Or uh, her maid? Yeah. Sure.
NIA: You wanna talk to my magic-y stick? Alright!

She holds Boxican uncomfortably close to the Maid, and the staff begins to speak once questioned about some underground tunnel system.

BOXICAN: EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE EYE SCALE
BOXICAN: TRY ITTTTTT

...Nia seems confused.

NIA: ...I thought my staff broke for a second.
NIA: Whazzat mean? Also, what's this cave you're talking about? Sounds cool.

Venia then invites Nia on a date mission to beat up some rebels. She happily accepts.

NIA: Of course! I'll happily help you!
NIA: I can... probably still magic things to death, just as well as Robo-Nia!
NIA: Hopefully. I mean, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if I'm hella useless now.

NIA: ...Hey, wait.
NIA: Is this a date?
NIA: Are we like, one of those really cool couples you see in anime n' gorilla that kick gorilla and take names?
NIA: The type that makes out after every battle?
NIA: I guess we're gonna find out, aren't we? See you then~

Nia happily heads out on her mission date. Strange first date though, isn't it? As she waits for Nia in the Old Pass, Venia continues her talk with R-8733. She notes that there's a lot of people that'd be interested in his stuff- and a birthday, too!

R-8733: Ooh? A job offer?
R-8733: I currently have a pretty okay gig, though.

Venia asks for his take on the rebels.

R-8733: They're... alright?
R-8733: They appreciate a good explosion, but they don't really appreciate a good explosion, if you know what I mean.
R-8733: Blowing people up generally isn't as fun as having people actually go "ooh" and "aah" at your explosions. But an explosion's an explosion.
R-8733: The only person that really understand me is that Ashstormer on the other side of the wall, but he's creepily into blowing people up. Apparently, "they're just not as good if there's nobody in them", which is blatantly false as have you seen my fireworks

R-8733: I'd give the Rebellion like, a 6 / 10. Could do better.

She then heads off to go and beat up the Rebels, except not really due to temporal stuff. Weird how life works, right?

---

Pionobot introduces himself to Ette and Packo after barely not-dying. The two of them listen to his plight: coding errors and bodily issues. Ette takes notice to the robot's missing arm.

ETTE: (I don't understand what coding is, or who this Piono person is.)
ETTE: (...What I do understand though, is that you're missing an arm, which isn't fun!)
ETTE: (If you'd like, I could get you a new one! Or like, a puppet arm! They're soft and cuddly, but not really good for hurtin' people.)
ETTE: (I think it'd help a lot!)

ETTE: (Or, since you're a robot person... you should talk to Mari. She's a robot wizard!)
ETTE: (She's not a robot herself, but she can do robot things really good! Like a wizard!)

She awaits a response. If called upon, she will fetch Mari what whatever circle of hell (this house) she's residing in.

---

Calibri finishes up his conversation with Mindscape!Chloe. He then accidentally calls her "mum". Chloe's face goes totally aglow.

MINDSCAPE!CHLOE: M-Mum?
MINDSCAPE!CHLOE: I-I, u-um...
MINDSCAPE!CHLOE: W-Wha...

She's about as confused and embarrassed as he is. After a few seconds of awkward blushing, Chloe blurts out a "G-Goodnight!" as she hangs up, just as Calibri reaches for the button. At the Forest Checkpoint meanwhile, the Engie Drone opts to give some pointers to a group of Chairians. They seem confused to see the drone, but accept the advice nonetheless. They march off, probably to do some scouting or whatever it is that scouts do. They're even so nice as to not pincushion him full of tranq arrows. How courteous.

---

The Author cleans a kitchen. The process involves a dustpan, disposable bags, and steel wool. After he's done making the room look 98.6% less burnt, he opts to quickly throw together some crepes. They're not actually inventory items as nothing was used in making them, but he presents some crepes to Marron. She looks them over.

MARRON: Ooh, crepes! They look... acceptable.
MARRON: Although, what if it's... actually nah, you're British or something, right? It's probably edible.
MARRON: And they smell good, so... yeah, sure. I'll bite.

She takes a bite of a sweet crepe. She's not really blown away, but she seems quite happy. She pops another slice into her mouth.

MARRON: Not bad!
MARRON: I never thought of you as a cook for some reason, so this is actually a surprise.
MARRON: I wonder if Toast would like some? She'd probably like this.

After she has her fill, she presents a few crepes to Toast as a gift. While the two share a few bites together, Auth also tends to the Force Glyph. Except, it's already been destroyed by Bow Kid, so he just talks with Ette. What happened?

ETTE: (I was playing tag with Letsid, but then she cheated like right away, and I chased her, and I cornered her, but then she cheated again!)
ETTE: (I've been questioning the universe as we know it for the past...)
ETTE: (...)
ETTE: (I dunno how long I've been in here. She's a bully, though. I wanna pap her with my arm.)
ETTE: (Which means that I'll win tag! Although, I don't know where she is, because she's speedy, and also a cheater.)

She was probably in there for ten minutes at most. The agony.

---

Leaf places Gibbit back in its nest, and pets it. It chirps happily. It hops in place as Leaf leaves- maybe some sort of way of saying goodbye?

---

Chara arrives at the house. It takes awhile for someone to answer her, but eventually, some cyan-haired chick opens the door. Nia. Chara introduces herself in a somewhat dramatic fashion, complete with perfectly-timed 1.5 second pause. Nia tilts her head at the girl in a confused fashion.

NIA: Hiya?

A somewhat less perfectly timed 1.5 second pause occurs. Really, it's probably more of a two second pause, making it really awkward.

NIA: I am Nia...?

Another awkward pause. Nia appears to be sizing up Chara somewhat... or maybe she's just confused. Why have so many children arrived on the alien death planet? She opts to go for the friendly approach, smiling lightly.

NIA: It's nice to meet you, Chara!
NIA: So... where you from? Are you here to help us? Because it seems like everyone who magically appears at the front door is here to help the world not get destroyed.
NIA: It's a pretty good cause to rally around, I'd say.

She awaits some sort of response from the "child".

---

<THE NEXUS, ROUND THREE>
All of Yume's allies have been slain! However, Yume is now noticeably getting closer to the ground. Before anyone can make sense of it, she speeds up to incredible speeds, slamming into the ground. A sickening crunch and crackle follows the impact, a burst of Thyme Matter staining the floor. Her head has a gigantic crack in it, and a dark fluid spills forth.

CHLOE: H-Huh!?
CHLOE: I... guess she's dead?

As if on cue, Yume's body begins to twitch, the dark fluid from her head bubbling and frothing. There's a tearing of skin as a tendril of dark rips from Yume's arm socket, disconnecting her arm from her body. The tendril then proceeds to use her arm as a sort of "glove". This happens with the rest of her limbs. Soon, Yume's body has now grown four new "legs", each capped with a limb.

Out of the crack in her head, the dark fluid bursts upward, forming into a rather large head of sorts. A patch of white appears in the fluid, which bends and contorts to make a smiling face. Yume's new head swivels to size up those around her, smiling in a seemingly genuine fashion all the while.

It then begins to shriek. Not really in pain, or happiness, or anything.

YUME: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
CHLOE: W-What the hell!? W-What is that!?
CHLOE: P-Prepare for round two, everyone!

Anyway, it seems that Yume has entered Phase Two! She's a bit less focused on debuffing and has no SHP, but her AC and HP have skyrocketed! In addition, she now has a variety of semi-deadly attacks! Beware her trait, which massively boosts damage against targets with debuffs! Fortunately, it's a bit harder for her to apply debuffs now, so if you cleanse them, it should be hard for her to capitalize on it... unless she uses a few select skills. Keep your wits about you, and this should be winnable!

<THE TOWN ARMORY, ROUND TWO>
New threats: the Fell Beasts! They've arrived from the North. They deal high damage, have decent defenses, and are actually aggressive, so they'll actively attempt to kill you unlike other Wildlife. Of course, it seems like they're mostly here to hunt Chairians. Maybe they don't really know what to do you with you fleshy people? Anyway, there's also a small group of reinforcements. Deal with them when you can.

RP:
Echoss comes out of his daze and looks up. "Where is that infernal static noise coming from?" Then he sighs and rubs his temples. "Ah, yes, the inventory. Good grief I'm going to have to restructure the whole circle aren't I... Has it been... It's been over a week now... Hm. Let's see what this is about first."
Echoss pulls the crackling rebellion radio out of the inventory and tunes it to the proper frequency, allowing whoever is on the other end to converse with him.


Pionobot looks at his arm, and then back at Ette. "I... Well, I guess we could ask Mari. If that doesn't work though, a puppet arm would definitely be better than no arm."


Actions:
The vacuupak, angry that not all the thyme matter was cleared, returns from the grave just to slurp up the thyme in the South Wing and Northern Flank before poofing in a gust of 'ghost vacuums are stupid and don't exist'.

The butterfly in the mollusk nest will remain there, watching the mollusks, until such time as something interesting happens with their ritual.

One of the butterflies scans the spiralfloof that's resting on the roof of the house, since we never scanned those and should get the bio. Damage ping is turned off of course.

Also since Chloe has a free spot and we desperately need credits Chloe's resource service is sent to go obtain moneys.

"Ah, at last! A kind stranger in this unforgiving land!"

The melodrama in their voice is tangible. It smells like the ocean.

"Thank you, Lady Nia. I was almost certain I would get eaten by some fearsome beast outside. Even though I'm supposed to aid you in fighting those, heh..."
"Yes, as all those before me, I have come to prevent the imminent death of this world. Or at least postpone it. I am glad to know that there are still others with that same intention."

Even as Chara speaks the words of gratitude, and no matter how friendly Nia tries to look, they seem somewhat small and scared under her gaze.

"I come from a land much different to this one. Though, I feel like that is the case for you as well. You seem somewhat less... tree-y, than what I've heard this world's inhabitants look like."
"We can talk about it at length over some tea, if you'd like. I am sure we could learn a lot from each other."
"All I ask for is that you let me in. It is cold, and my legs might give away soon. I can repay you later! There must be something around the house I could work on for you. I can make myself useful!"

The child gathers up all of their energy for a final gesture; a tad exaggerated, but charming nonetheless. They clasp their hands, and show the sparkliest and saddest puppy eyes this planet's ever seen Nia-wards.

"Just, please. Will you let this weary traveller in?"

Letsid enters the Gaiadiamond mine after entering the Forest Outskirts.
Wait why does she do that?
Probably nobody would search her here and thus she continues winning the ... quite lengthy game of Tag.

Exploration

I start exploring Zone 4, going past my fellow allies fighting the rebels.

I head west. Entering from R23

The Man moves to T9 and casts Watchful Eye on S5.

Boshi stays where he is, and baps the Eviscerator next to him. He waits for Venia to perform her action. If the Eviscerator is downed after this, he retreats onto its spot.

If the Eviscerator isn't dead after Venia's action, he uses the Elemental Blaster (Electric) to finish it off before retreating.

If it's still not dead, then he just stays there.

---

MU... decides against testing her luck with the very obvious dam holding the lake in just yet. Though it might be a potent weapon if they find something too tough for them...

She sets down a Mortar Shell next to the dam, and locks it in time to prevent it from going off prematurely.

She heads back to the Everground Proper, and mines away the bit of earth at (Y104). She then drops another Mortar Shell (she really seems to be enjoying blast mining) down the shaft, aiming for the Seekers down there. She does not jump down.

---

Ette hugs Bow Kid after she frees her from the bathroom. She relaxes almost instantaneously, being too overwhelmed with floof to really be mad or annoyed. In fact, thanks to being so tired- "...floofy..." -she yawns, and falls asleep almost instantly. Ette's like a big ol' pillow, after all...

---

The Radio doesn't need to be tampered with much at all. Just a slight increase in transmitter frequency was sufficient enough to get something going. An overlay of sparkling seems to drown out the chatter a bit. It's a successful connection, evidently, because as soon as it came, the chatter ceases (but not the sparkling, though it has also quieted down slightly). A voice emerges...

"...Hello?"

Nidra:
Move to S11.
Use Sheep Counter.
Power Nap Omo.
Play Valor.
Store Last Dream in Stuffed Koala.
Use Yggdrasil Vessel.

Projector Maze

"I think I figured it out... Don't think of this place as a maze. It's a dumb code input system. If you move in specific patterns, 'where' you are is different. I entered from a different location than you did-you entered from the Citadel, I entered from a location I'd rather not directly say. I don't know why we're in the same room, and I don't know where I'm about to 'go,' but my guess is that if I input the correct code by moving through these tunnels the right way, I can exit this cave from a different location. Err, of course, I don't know where this code will 'take me too,' so its rather fortunate that for whatever reason we're in the same place in the nexus... So. If I say its safe, you can follow, OK?"

Venia proceeds to move nineteen times north and then once east, and then exits the area assuming nothing weird happens.

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Mariaaaaa

"Kitty kitty kitty pet pet pet. Pet the kitty."

...Maria is engrossed with petting Cupcake.

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R8733

Venia stares at R-8733. "... Hrm, uh, that explains it, that attitude. Uh. Err. I think the Ashstormer you're talking about is-err, was, aiming over the wall. I'unno how he looks over there but I'unno if he had any way to tell where you were to not hit you. Uhh... Yeah. I think that's a bit of a dip in the record, right?"

"... Let's get to the point. Look. We're the Spherebreakers, we're seeking Glyphs, we're in desperate need of every hand we can get. I think you're a cool dude and I think you'd gel right into the whole group. And there's going to be plenty of opportunitites to show off your pyrotechnics in stylish fashion. We've got a birthday coming up-artwork is always a neat birthday present, isn't it? And there's blowing up Iti, which is basically its own reward. We also have a usually-constant supply of gunpowder and other weird materials that you could use for your stuff. I'd love to see what you cook up, uh, without being caught in it. What say you?"

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Battle: Town Armory

"The hell are those?! If they're beavers then I'm a squirrel, yeesh," Venia says, distracted by the Fell Beasts for a second. "Push on! If we get rid of enough these rebels we can probably maul those things as we please. And get those Rebels out of here, we don't want to see anyone turn into chow!"

Venia moves up to O13 then uses the Portable Tellyporta to warp to L11, smacking the Spotter with the Tellyporta damage as there's no other foe in range. She then launches her Nanoswarm on J7, a mass of gray matter abruptly flooding out of every nook of her cloak, ripping up the Rebels and using the accumulated biomatter to convert into the appropriate material to patch up Boshi. She then retreats to M11.

"Rebels, surrender now, or tax yourselves with further injuries against a foe you cannot defeat!" Venia says, knowing they won't listen. "If you feel so confident, direct your full fire at me! Or... Like, water? Really?" Venia says, looking at the Water-elemental Magirifler. "... What're you gonna do, squirt me with, like, a water gun? Pffffff! Come on, idiot! Show me what you've got!"

Venia knows better, but then again Venia has 110% Water resist-goading the Magirifler into wasting his additional ammunition would be a valid tactic.

"... Nia, uh, hrm. Uh, yeah. I didn't, uh, think of dating when I thought of this, but, uh... Uhh... Err, ask me something, anything! Its kinda odd how we all know our deepest darkest fears and we've saved each others lives but we still don't know too much about each other, so, uh, ask me stuff!"

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Other

-Rate my Co-GM performance! Please! It helps.

"This is homophobia!"

Adrian strafes to H13, then charges up Purge.

The Breaker attacks Yume, then retreats to I12.

RP with Auth

Irongutta took his hands off the mortar shell, deciding to leave it out on the crafting table for now. Hopefully with all the apparent children running around it remained safe, not that that was a thought Irongutta was concerning himself with.

"Well, not much ya can do wivv those types 'cept roll wivv it, I gues, unless ya get big an' strong enuff to stomp 'em yerself an' become the new boss." Irongutta said with complete sincerity and seriousness.

"Er, though that's not how ya pink 'umie-types work most of the time, roight? I mean, ya never seem to like it when some git gets stomped, 'cept then ya feel like some gits should get stomped and some shouldn't." He furrowed his brow.

"Bah! Sounds like a whole lotta muckin' about to me! Ya spend all that time thinkin' 'bout who to kill an' one day you'll find yerself decoratin' the front of someone's shiny new trukk."

Realizing he got caught in a tangent about his views, he tried to change the direction of the conversation back towards where it started. "Well, if she's anythin' like you, she can't be that bad, roight?"

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Battle: The Town Armory

Irongutta moves a total of 4 spaces to Q9, attacking the Chain Knight! He then targets Rifler1 with Zzap.

Piggo moves to S11 and guards. Piggo also makes some snorts of encouragement at the wild Sapsqueal.

Woodthorne casts purify on Adrian, then moves to J12.

Toast moves to H14, boops Yume with a pack of cards, then shuffles to F15. She then uses Chaotic Contingency, and deletes Ignite Blood from her lineup with her trait.

Then, she rolls four new spells.

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Toast accepts one of the crepes, and fills it with some fruit and other goodies. She takes a bite, makes a few contented noises, before quickly finishing it.
"You know, I think I might be a bit better at eating food than cooking it."