Letsids bloody body drags itself up... she survived somehow...
urgh... but she feels the other side of river styx already...
but she is smiling

now probably everyone will think of her as dead, which makes her the uncontested winner.

Hm... maybe counter murder Echoss? Nah... that would only string several conflicts and in the end no one wins. In this case Letsid wins.

The only problem is the healing now. Death would be really bad.
Letsid checks the cache finder to see if there is a cache somewhere near.

Till then she rolls around, keeping distance to potential enemies after meditating to regain all MP.

QUOTE (hungry visitor @ Jul 12 2019, 02:43 PM)

Letsids bloody body drags itself up... she survived somehow... urgh... but she feels the other side of river styx already... but she is smiling now probably everyone will think of her as dead, which makes her the uncontested winner. Hm... maybe counter murder Echoss? Nah... that would only string several conflicts and in the end no one wins. In this case Letsid wins. The only problem is the healing now. Death would be really bad. Letsid checks the cache finder to see if there is a cache somewhere near. Till then she rolls around, keeping distance to potential enemies after meditating to regain all MP.

Echoss ain't the one who messed with you ya dingus. You gotta find another guy.

But, in OOC terms... Don't do that again. Intentionally making messes to force the rest of us to clean it up for you is in no way funny or acceptable. You were warned in the discord beforehand, and now I'm telling you not to do it in thread to make DEAD certain you know that I (and the others who said to go ahead with burying you in the Iti mine because I asked for community opinions before doing it) and the others will not tolerate you trying to make trouble.
If it happens again I won't bother screwing with you in universe, I'll just get the others together and ask Ire to boot you from the game.

EDIT: To wit though, I will admit that trying to get vengeance on the char who locked Letsid in the mine is fair game. Just don't screw up other things trying to do it.

Auth groans. Since he isn't complaining about Marron laughing, he must see how it could be funny... but he's not happy about it anyway.

uA: Ghhh... I know it's probably funny to an outsider...
uA: ...Hey! You never know how it'll go! It could go swimmingly!
uA: ...god, it's gonna be awkward as hell...

The nerves are starting to get to Auth. Maybe he should have some tea. He's already stressed as hell about it. Though, he does get a good laugh at an idea he has because of Marron.

uA: Would you punch me if I made cardboard tea that tasted... decent?

Auth laughs, immediately flinching and preparing to be punched by Marron for even suggesting such a thing - even as a joke.

uA: Anyway. Thanks for poking fun, Marron. I'll tell you what Omo says about that sleeve thing if you're curious later.
uA: As in when I get an opportunity after I find out.

Auth has a sudden remembrance.

uA: Oh! I just remembered! Do you mind if I cook the major meal when we get back tonight?
uA: It's Sunday... British thing.

----

Auth smiles, thinking.

uA: I'm glad that those... friends are there for me. I don't think there are words that could convey the things they've done for me.

At that very moment, a large red dragon leaps up onto Auth's shoulders.

gC: D'aww, Auth-y! If you were going to flatter me you should have waited for me to show up!

Auth's balance is thrown off by Genoa's sudden presence.

uA: ...Indirectly, I suppose. Can you let me finish my conversation-
gC: I know already what you want to ask, so I can arrange that later if you'd like. I'll need some samples, specifically of a Chairian's core, their bark and their sap. Don't necessarily have to be from the same person if you can't get them, I need them for a detailed understanding of how they work and so I can reconstruct them. Oh, and an anatomy textbook for more general work.
uA: Our duty, right? I've been collecting, I sent some over to your body earlier. I'm sure we can copy what's left of the Grand Library later.


Auth sighs, as the dragon hopes down and glides away to go and do... something. Nobody knows just yet.

uA: I'm sorry about that. She's... not quite aware of how to be polite sometimes. As we were saying...
uA: ...that sounds like something I would do with something like that. As I'm sure my mother would brag, and it's not exactly wrong, I don't just make things for people. So.

Auth thinks quietly as Omo explains the other two things that Auth brought up...

uA: Alright, my instincts were right on that. I was worried it might have been a side effect of possession, because... well, I didn't know. Thanks for clearing that up.
uA: I know what I should tell Nana now.

Auth smiles, resolutely. He knows how to deal with all of his upcoming situations now.

uA: Thanks so much for your help, Omo. I owe you one now. Two, if you can help the dragon get what she wants. If you need something done, feel free to ask.

Auth nods, deciding to go about the rest of his day after Omo responds.

----

Auth smiles as Nana says she's alright.

uA: I'm happy that you're OK, then. I'd be surprised if anyone wasn't confused and surprised by any of the wild changes you've had to go through.
uA: And if it counts, I think you've taken everything better than anyone else might in your situation.

Auth speaks to try and relieve Nana's fears and stresses as it comes to all of these things.

uA: You're not intentionally all that dangerous, honestly. I made you that sleeve to limit that further, right? I think that... really, nobody would see you any more dangerous than any other Chairian.
uA: I'm not exactly good at wording something like this, but you know what I'm trying to say, right? You're alright.

Auth looks around to see if there's a clock nearby.

uA: Now that I'm thinking about it... you have any idea when we're going to do our thing?
uA: If it helps you, I doubt I'm going to be particularly busy today at any point. So, more or less, any point is good.

----

Auth nods to Ette as she thanks him, and as she comments about how nice he is to Marron and herself.

uA: Of course. I try my best to be nice to everyone...
uA: It makes me happy to see others happy.

----

IN BATTLE!

Auth flies to F15, and downs a Mana Vial. He then proceeds to wake up Woodthorne.

Nidra asks Omo to download the scan data. She also puts a point in SKI.

Ziah pauses slightly. It seems that Ette bringing this up has resurfaced some bad memories. He continues regardless.

Ziah: Yeah, I wasn't sentient...
Ziah: I don't really remember anything before arriving here, but I know what I was, if that makes sense.
Ziah: And there's this weird lasting feeling that I did some things that I regret, back in the dungeon.
Ziah: A lot of things...

He pauses again, softly chuckling to hopefully distract Ette from the deafening silence that follows. He manages not to show too many signs that he's upset, though. Soon, Ziah shakes his head.

Ziah: What about you?
Ziah: I feel like you've got a lot more of an interesting story to tell than I do, and I'd like to get to know you.
Ziah: You seem nice.

Ziah sits patiently in his chair, finishing off his porridge.

-=+=-

Leaf still seems a little shaken by the Splinter Spider being killed while she was mounting it, but she wipes something from her eye, and sighs deeply. Her interest is piqued by a certain girl with cyan hair. As such, she heads down to speak to Nia, in order to introduce herself.

Leaf: Hiya!
Leaf: Your hair is really pretty, I like it~

Leaf pauses, becoming slightly flustered as she realizes she's missed her actual introduction.

Leaf: O-Oh! I'm... Leaf, by the way. I got here a few days ago, but only joined yesterday.
Leaf: I'm a beastmaster, and a bit like a dryad, I think...

Her voice begins to trail off as she gets lost in thought about her specialties. Upon returning to reality, Leaf extends a hand out to Nia, as Chloe had to her when she introduced herself.

Leaf: It's nice to meet you.

Tsar'ina, finding herself surrounded, decides to use that weird "public inventory" thing she found earlier. She's been trying to avoid it, not wanting to be dependent on something that might not be there, and generally just not understanding it. The last time she pulled something out of there, there was no power to the thing, and it made her look stupid in front of Marron! She's the Summa! She should be representing her species as... Not stupid!

Seeing the two Breakers and Raider though, she decided to pull out something random and go for it. After some looking around, she pulls out a Shock Therapist, Legend of Zelda style! After a bit of fanfare, she looks at the weird machine, not exactly knowing what it was... Maybe it could help kill these things somehow? She fiddled with the machine, before accidentally flipping a switch.

A large crackle of electricity come from the Shock Therapist, scaring the absolute heavens out of her! The Shock Therapist is applied to the allied Breaker next to her before she accidentally drops the darn thing.

"HOLY MOLY WHAT THE GORILLA"

Once the Shock Therapist finishes doing its thing, Tsar'ina stares at it for a bit before snatching it up, and chucking it back into the "public inventory". She won't be reaching in there for a good while...

Summa sighs, and equips the Silver Maria. She observes the Breakers and the Raider, a bit perplexed at their lack of reaction to what just happened. Of course, it won't matter in the end, because she's smashing them up for just being around to witness it! Of course, the Yume was her main target, but that can wait. The Summa peers over the Iti in front of her, seeing the Yume seemingly running away from her!

"Ha! What a coward! A... A rather fast coward.

"..."

That'll be a problem to deal with later. First, these purple, dreamy idiots! Summa dashes over to E10, the Silver Maria dragging itself on the ground. Using her momentum, she crashes into the Breaker, bringing her sword down on top of it!

"Heh, do you call this a fight? Wait, you can't speak..."

Irongutta puts a point into HP.

---

After the victory at the Town Armory and the remaining rebels had been rounded up, Irongutta walks into the building itself. It certainly had seen better days, that's for sure.

"Zog, Nia, ya really did a number on that table. I'd rate that clobberin' a solid... nine." Irongutta took the moment to tally Nia's score on his fingers, of course.

Afterwards, he was immediately interested in the laptop, which was currently commandeered by Omorika. Irongutta wound up peering at the screen over her shoulder, unintentionally looming given his size.

"So besides them attack plans, anythin' else interestin' on that computery thing? If not I might, er, take it fer later."

Meanwhile, the chatter between some of the tied up rebels in the corner caught his attention. Not moving from where he stood, he shot them an intense glare while awaiting Omo's answer.

Candy:

Chara contemplates... many things.

She contemplates trying to explain to Marron a little less poetically what her deal with the other Chara actually is, perhaps with a bit more primate-censored vocabulary. Just to mimic the other party.
But of course, that would be a colossal waste of time. She can let it pass.

She contemplates snarkastically launching out of her chair, spreading her arms and goading the lady into shooting her, if she distrusts her that much. Shooting a child is one hell of a way to establish character.
Except she might just as well do that. It's not like the Piece had much time to research into her. And she does not want to feel a hail of bullets, or anything remotely harmful at the moment. Would spoil the bliss those cookies brought her.

Most of all, she contemplates exploding, she contemplates how in the rightful gorilla somebody could fawn over that abomination. She contemplates if she should send this Chaos fellow a nice little letter, a haiku about what a sick person he is, written in explosive runes.
But no. She's just... not feeling really vengeful. Only exasperated.

"So, now that my, erm, 'inauguration ceremony' is complete, is there anything I can... do around the house?
"I am hyped on chocolate and cannot fathom idly waiting for an invasion to happen, or such.
"I could, I don't know.
"Dig out a whole new room, bake a pie for tonight, kill the taxman when he comes, mass-produce weapons for everyone...
"By the way, I am only kidding about the pie. I, too, have a strange little cooking quirk, and it is definitely not a good thing."

"Also... does anyone here even have a room? Is everybody too busy panicking over the end of the world, or constantly fighting in epic battles?
"Ahaha, damn it Chara, get to the point.
"Can I have a room somewhere?
"I am not a fan of sleeping on floors, or couches for that matter.
"Again, I'll reward you in return via service. I could set up a magical workshop for all your needs."

Meat:

Chara propels backwards onto G15, sending Echoss a nod. Whether that was supposed to be a sign of gratitude, or just acknowledgement, nobody knows. And nobody cares.

He then casts Fury on Wyvern, and prepares to fend off whatever results from the cocoon that's likely to explode.

Toast moves to K8, attacks Yume, activates Chaotic Contingency, then retreats to M10.

Toast gets new spells (not that she can cast them), and the skelebois act.

Keiko backpedals to G8 and basic attacks the 1st Spider (barring it is alive, of course).

<ROUND ONE-HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE>

Echoss continues doing a lot of stuff. First, he commissions Chloe to go and harvest some building materials. She returns with 32 Refined Wood and 64 Stone Bricks.

CHLOE: ...I should be happy that nothing interesting happens during these trips.
CHLOE: Except, it's kinda boring.
CHLOE: Still, enjoy your stuff!

He also organizes a few things with the Lab: he assigns Omo to work on World of Wonder, and then researches the Patche's Foci with 75 Samples. From there, he sends a swarm of minigolems to finish off the Iron vein in the basement, harvesting 18 Iron and destroying the tile. It then promptly moves to hollow out the room, doing so with... some difficulty. Turns out mining out a lot of cubic stone takes some work! This does yield 48 Cobblestone, though.

Elsewhere, he also sends a Butterfly to chat with the Chairian within Zone 2, who's busy attempting to de-disco a floor.

MECHANIC: Hm? Uh, alright.
MECHANIC: I'm all for getting out of this place before something bad happens.
MECHANIC: Take the tiles if you want; they mostly just want this place free of this thing, and they don't really care about the yields...

He continues fiddling with the tiles, but it seems that he's not really properly equipped for this sort of looting. This may take some time. Echoss also loots the harm, taking 4 Celefruit, 12 Uniform Logs, 27 Frostleaves, and 27 Coffee Beans. He promptly expends 1 Celefruit, 9 Frostleaves, and 9 Coffee Beans on replanting them.

Pionobot also slots in Mari's mechanical arm, it locking with a crackle and a zap. Mari quietly celebrates to herself, fistpumping. She also takes note in the "boosting" he mentions.

MARI: ...How would my arm give you a boost?
MARI: Actually, I guess there's material for it to work with now or some gorilla, so... makes sense.

MARI: Anyway, good luck with those... "things".
MARI: Stuff n' things. The classic.
MARI: If the arm's too gorilla, or starts acting like gorilla, come to me and I'll probably make it less gorilla.

---

The Man paces around for two minutes. This increases his intimidation score by 5, which is quite the boon when he talks with the rebels. He fires off three questions; first, who do they work for?

REBEL: ...
REBEL: The... rebellion? Y-You know about us, right!?
REBEL: We have the banners n' stuff.
REBEL: You'd think that...

REBEL: I mean, I guess you could say that we're operating under our own sort of "council", the Zabuton, but... yeah.
REBEL: It's not really so much "leadership" as they are prominent members, but they're there.

Two: what relationship does Cypress have to their organization?

REBEL: It'd be dumb to have one of the people in the Highchair in our own ranks.
REBEL: He's an enemy, basically.
REBEL: I mean, our equipment would make you THINK he's supplying us, but he's not.

Three: briefcase? The Rebels seem confused.

REBEL: There's like, a ton of briefcases on this planet.
REBEL: B-Besides, if there was a briefcase you're talking about, they wouldn't tell us grunts about if it's important!

Interrogation over. Unless he has more questions to throw at them? Maybe it'd be worth asking about their suppliers or something. It's a pretty good chance to question them.

---

Once the battle is over, Venia lays out her plans to Nia. She also notes that being a wizard is a pretty good job in today's economy, causing her to celebrate quietly. Anyway, they find a quiet spot within the somewhat battered Town Armory, take a seat on some rather stable looking debris, and continue their talk. She learns of Venia's plans to return to the emperor.

NIA: So... you're gonna stick around for a bit, then... go back that Emperor guy?
NIA: Are you sure about that...?
NIA: I mean, this seems like the perfect time to get away from that creep.
NIA: People like him make mom seem nice.
NIA: Bleh.

Then, she notes that she can't just leave everyone behind- the whole multiverse is kinda butts, and she'd be wicked to leave the rest of it to rot.

NIA: I mean, I kinda just wanna chill with you... but I see where you're coming from.
NIA: Can't let the whole multiverse get as bad as Earth, right?
NIA: I'll fight by your side~

NIA: ...Also, if we're gonna live on a planet, it should be... okay, maybe not this one as the political situation seems to be pretty hellish.
NIA: Maybe we could find some sorta utopia that's not being gorilla on by humanity or some other species? That'd be cool.
NIA: It'd make shopping and getting cool stuff a pain, though...
NIA: We'd need to like, find some nice middle ground. God knows if we'll ever find that.
NIA: ...Maybe Sussui isn't such a bad choice after all?

...Nia appears to get lost once Venia begins talking about alternate forms and time travel. She tries her hardest to comprehend it.

NIA: So... there's another version of you, or something?
NIA: A version that... doesn't exist?
NIA: Also, time travel isn't as simple as I thought it was?
NIA: I-I mean, I guess there's time paradoxes and stuff, and like, wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff?

NIA: ...I dunno.
NIA: venia help me i suffer from terminal stupid

Venia then apologizes for being long winded to a degree. Nia leans against her.

NIA: Hey, it's nice just to listen to you talk.
NIA: Your voice is amazing, y'know~

Eventually, the question of what her favorite animal is comes up. She doesn't ponder it for long.

NIA: Cats.
NIA: They're freakin' cute, and I think it's amazing your sister has an army of kitties following her at all times.
NIA: Can I have her powers? I'll give her my wizarding powers. Totally unfair exchange.

NIA: Oh, my turn then!
NIA: What music do you like?
NIA: H-Have I asked this before?
NIA: For some reason, I feel like I have.
NIA: I've always kinda liked rock music, but I also have an interest in some of the stuff Xavier listens to.
NIA: I'm 99% sure that most of the stuff he listens to are like, anime openings. I'm not sure if he actually watches anime, though?
NIA: Maybe he just follows the groups, or something.

Hat then spends some time working on the Airship, summoning a mechanic from the future to upgrade the Super Aero Core into the Super Aero Core +1! It appears to still be kinda weak, since making stuff fly is hard... but they're getting there. It seems to add +20% Gravcore progress, though. This consumes 5 Fell Beast Hides.

Then, down in the storage room, Venia's maid deflects a laser from the stone Exhibition, then promptly butches it with a plate. She then cherry taps it with a Sanctified Round! For some reason, the single bullet seems to absolutely devastate the Exhibition. The body seems to totally lose cohesion as it slams into a wall, having transformed into a normal block of red rock. A smattering of red mist spews out of it, before fading away.

With the Exhibition out of the way, she's now free to loot the room. She breaks into the supply of exotic looking woods, obtaining 30 Skyroot Logs, 30 Greatwood Logs, 15 Silverwood Logs, and 5 Roseblight Logs. She also finds 2 perfectly good piles of Roseblight Splinters.

Oh, also: Venia +1's her SKI. Neat!

---

Boshi +1's his SKI. Neat x2! Mustache Girl then does some science! She slaps together 2 Titanium Ingots to create a durable basket, then ties it to the Vine Rope. The rope appears to be heavily strained, but it hasn't snapped. Maybe reinforcing the vine would be worth it? Or maybe adding more vines? She then mines the remaining 9 Megabark from the vein.

---

Wilson greets Ette, whilst avoiding her pets. Ette retracts her hand hastily once the fox expresses his displeasure with being pet.

ETTE: (I-I'm sorry!)
ETTE: (You seemed really fluffy, and... oh, you're talking!)
ETTE: (Are talking animals common? I've seen Boshi, and now there's you.)
ETTE: (Oooh...)

Ette sits down, and listens to the fennec talk. He mentions that there's something really important in this place.

ETTE: (Something important?)
ETTE: (Do you mean the Sphere?)
ETTE: (It's that big floaty wooden orb that you can see from basically anywhere.)
ETTE: (It makes these monsters called Iti, and it's also a big bomb that'll destroy everything, plus a little bit.)
ETTE: (Or is it something else? I dunno.)

ETTE: (Oh also, I'm Ette! Hi!)
ETTE: (I'm Marron's little sister. Have you met her yet?)

It seems that Ette still wants to pet Wilson. Even though she's not allowed to. A tragic existence.

---

Letsid attempts to check her Cache Finder. A message pops up on its screen: "Good work Tenno, you have found all caches in the area. Return to extraction." She's not quite sure what that message means, or if it actually means anything, but oh well. As it turns out, that item only functions when actually in battle! She's also already full on MP due to not being in a battle, so her meditation doesn't do anything.

...Speaking of battle, shouldn't you be joining a battle? It's all well and good to run around in the world map and do some roleplay, but maybe it'd be worth actually playing the game as intended? Just a suggestion.

---

Auth chats with everyone. Sorta. It's hyperbole, but hey. I can be dramatic if I feel like it. Anyway, he offers some tea to Marron- cardboard tea! She throws a slice of Yggapple at Auth, smacking him in the noggin.

MARRON: REAL tea, please.
MARRON: If I taste a hint of cardboard, I'll throw... more apple slices at you.
MARRON: Threatening, I know.

He then offers to cook dinner tonight. Marron shrugs.

MARRON: Go ahead.
MARRON: Maybe I'll spend my newfound free time hanging with Toast, or maybe Ette. Both?
MARRON: It might be fun.
MARRON: Also, you better make something good!
MARRON: ...And preferably, something that I can eat. I can't stomach meat.

Auth also wraps up his chat with Omo. She politely bows towards him.

OMORIKA: You're welcome, sir Author.
OMORIKA: I do quite enjoy our talks, so I wouldn't mind if you came to me again later.
OMORIKA: I shall see you later, then.

OMORIKA: ...Also, getting the samples the dragon wishes for may be difficult, unless they are willing to pick through a cadaver.
OMORIKA: There is a high probability of us coming across cadavers in the near future, so if she wished, she may try and find one then.
OMORIKA: I will not collect the samples myself, however.
OMORIKA: ...It'd be disrespectful.

He also spends a bit of time comforting Nana. When he mentions the sleeve, her face begins to glow, but she says nothing about it. He then asks if she knows what he's speaking of.

NANA: I-I see what you're saying.
NANA: You're too nice, y-you know that?
NANA: But... I-I like that!

Auth then asks when they might have their chat.

NANA: Um... h-how about during lunch?
NANA: We could meet up then, a-and also get a bite to eat.
NANA: Any thoughts?

She fiddles with one of her buff darts as she awaits a response.

---

Nidra asks Omorika to take the scan data from the laptop.

OMORIKA: Right away.

She plugs the scanner into the laptop, downloading two different files from the computer. Rebel Witches entry updated! Iti Embers added! Omo seems to be amused with the existence of some of the new Witches, known as Cinders.

OMORIKA: ...
OMORIKA: I believe their entry is what one would refer to as "adorable".
OMORIKA: Also terrifying, given the lethality of their... "inspiration", shall we say.
OMORIKA: Show it to Chloe. The results will be interesting.

OMORIKA: Anyway, this is all valuable information for our upcoming raid. I'd advise preparing for a surprise incursion from both troops.
OMORIKA: It wouldn't do us harm to prepare appropriately, no?

---

Ziah reminisces about his history. He tells Ette about what he can remember, even if it isn't much.

ETTE: (Things you regret?)
ETTE: (I mean, if you didn't know what you were doing, or couldn't control yourself, it's fine.)

Ziah then asks about Ette's own story. She shakes her head side to side.

ETTE: (Oh, it's nothing too interesting.)
ETTE: (Marron and I were created in Chaos's mindscape, and then I kinda got murdered by the Chaos Butterfly...)
ETTE: (So Marron went out and butchered this memory orb girl to reincarnate me into a body that could feel things and taste things and talk...)
ETTE: (But the memory orb girl went zombie psycho on everyone, and Marron was forced to kill me again.)
ETTE: (And now I'm a puppet again! Oh, we also left Chaos's Mindscape a month ago, or something.)
ETTE: (It's not very interesting.)

At the same time, Leaf goes to meet Nia, who seems to quickly take an interest in the dryad.

NIA: Oh, your hair is nice, too!
NIA: In fact, you're kind of a cutie~

...Leaf then remembers to introduce herself. Nia opts to introduce herself in turn as well, shaking the dryad's hand.

NIA: I'm Nia! It's nice to meet you!
NIA: So... you're like, one of those really cool nature girls?
NIA: It was cool watching you ride that big ol' spider. Chloe would freak if she tried to do it.
NIA: Can I try riding one? I think it'd be fun.

Nia awaits a response, or a spider. Both are an appropriate answer.

---

Irongutta +1's his HP! He then walks about the Town Armory, and rates Nia's destruction levels a 9 / 10.

NIA: Oh man, if you thought THAT was good, just wait until I actually get a proper grip on magic-ing nerds!
NIA: ...Or just like, give me a magical wizard rocket launcher.
NIA: Do orks have wizards? Like, explosion wizards?
NIA: Please tell me they do. If so, orks are officially like, nine times better than humans.
NIA: If not, they're only like, eight times better.

He also goes and investigates the laptop Omorika is working with, asking if there's anything else interesting. She shakes her head.

OMORIKA: I'm afraid not.
OMORIKA: There is a communications app, but you'd need a password to access it.
OMORIKA: If you wish, you may take the laptop for your own purposes.

If he desires, she'll hand it over to Irongutta whenever he wants.

---

Chara contemplates what to do with Marron. She opts to not do anything too out there, and instead just asks about what she might be able to do around the house. Marron shrugs.

MARRON: I'm not sure if there's too much to do in the house right now.
MARRON: We're currently out and about, exploring that mountain pass...
MARRON: If you insist on sticking around here though, you could make yourself useful and like... help with the dishes?
MARRON: ...Seriously, it's a miracle this tiny-gorilla house has enough plates for everyone...

She then asks about bedrooms. Marron counts a few things on her fingers.

MARRON: Uh, that might be hard.
MARRON: We have like... seven bedrooms in the house right now?
MARRON: There's five dugout bedrooms downstairs, and two normal ones upstairs.
MARRON: Toast, sis, and myself are sharing one of the upstairs rooms, and I'm not sure about the state of everything else.
MARRON: You can probably just go and... claim a room?

MARRON: I think Echoss is planning an expansion of the house.
MARRON: Maybe ask him for help?
MARRON: Oooor, you could sleep on the couch. Assuming nobody is using it.
MARRON: Your choice, I guess.

Choices, choices. Bedroom, couch, or house expansion? Or maybe she could camp out in a hallway like Hat Kid does. The roof's the limit!

---

<THE NEXUS, ROUND... SIX>
This battle actually hasn't updated this turn! It's rather urgent that everyone in this battle posts (or delegates their action to someone else) due to how tight the encounter is. Post your actions again for the ease of the Co-GM and myself: you'll be able to resume next round!

<SPIDER'S ROOST, ROUND FIVE>
It seems like things are about to get worse: a wave of Rose Cultists has been detected around the exit! It'll probably be a small group, though. Anyway, just keep fighting off those spiders- you've been going really slowly, so it might be worth putting some backbone into it. Also consider fighting the Iti around the cocoon before they start infecting people. Otherwise, things will get messy.

Wyvern glides over to H15 incredibly menacingly. If this were a certain anime, he would be surrounded in the Japanese katakana ゴゴゴゴ, but real life doesn't work like that, and katakana don't just form from thin air, so don't be dumb. Regardless, he tilts his head as he tries to make eye contact with the Spider Guard, just picking two of them to stare into. He sighs.

Wyvern: I don't... know if you can understand me. But if you can...

Wyvern's claws extend with a flick of his wrist. He gently holds them against the Guard.

Wyvern: These will put you to sleep with one slash...
Wyvern: I wanna be friends though, so... stand down, please?
Wyvern: I don't want to hurt you if I don't have to.

Wyvern's voice is the perfect blend of innocent and terrifying. His eyes don't know whether to reflect his guilt, or bloodlust. If the Spider Guard knows what's good for it, it'll submit to Wyvern. And if he senses any sign of aggression...

Wyvern delivers a clean slice up the Spider Guard's middle, killing it instantly unless it dodges. He giggles softly.

Regardless of whether or not the Spider Guard is dead, Wyvern's demeanor violently changes as he tosses three sap filled cookies to Echoss with a wholesome smile on his face.

Wyvern: Here you go~!

Pionobot looks over at Mari: "Just sort of a guess regarding the Thymefield, in regards to that boosting. It seems to get mad more at the size and 'power' of results of technology and magic more than the actual technical difficulty. I'm guessing I'll be less hampered realigning an arm I already have in place to mesh with my main internal structure than just, generating a new one from nothing like I normally do."

An Echoss butterfly flutters in to Omorika's portion of the lab in game mechanic land. "A tracker you say? I could see about maybe whipping you one up, what do you require it for so that I can design against special conditions?"



Battle action:
Before anyone else does anything, Echoss makes a guttural noise in his throat before breathin deeply and pulling a holy dew out of his player crafted inventory and promptly chugging the entire thing.
Then he waits for Chara and Venia to take their turns,
He then walks down H16 and turns about-face. One of two things happen:
If the Migi is still alive, he cocks his launcher (wait hold on this isn't a shotgun) and then punches a miscellaneous piece of garbage right into where the Migi is standing to splatter it across the floor. Having done that he supplies the Gotou with one high quality Fire El-ite knife. Isn't that nice of him.
If the Migi is unalive, he loads the Fire El-ite knife into his launcher and delivers it to the Gotou express.

Unflavored:
Before anyone else acts, Echoss downs a Holy Dew from his player crafted inventory.
Once Chara and Venia have acted, Echoss moves to H16.
Conditional action: is the Migi still alive?
If Migi is alive: Echoss basic attacks the Migi and uses a Fire El-ite Knife on the Gotou.
If Migi is dead: Echoss uses his weapon skill to splatter the Gotou with the Fire El-ite Knife.

Overworld action:
The Echoss hologram nods, and a number of butterflies form into mini-golems in an adjacent room out of sight of the mechanic before filing in with assorted tools. Echoss also takes a moment to make a pair of iron ingots into a crowbar, which one of the mini-golems hands to the mechanic.
"It seems they sent you ill equipped for this job, this should probably make pulling these up a bit easier, though I suppose if you've got other assignments here it may be better to start on those first while I sort out whatever this booth is supposed to be. bah, once we get past the spiders I need to..."
The mini golems begin work on disassembling the dance floor, starting by carefully pulling down the walls and putting them into the inventory so that they'll have more space to pull up the tiles without damaging the flooring beneath it more than was already done.

The second mini-golem looks at the not-yet-fully-excavated chunk of room and dives headfirst into it, causing a pulse of golden light that cleanly carves out even more of it in much the same way the previous golem's self destruct did.

My final overworld action is just piecing together a throwing rock. We should keep these on hand they're good for ping damage.

At the farm I harvest cinderfruit, silkweed, tornadopetal, lumipod, and deathcap.
The squares are replanted with (respectively): Cinderfruit, Silkweed, tornadopetals, wheat, and soulblossoms

(note for next round, nobody seems to be doing resource collection in zone 4, start on that
Also scan the big mollusk in the mollusk nest, and the new snowy mollusks)

"D-Did god just tell me to commit sudoku?" stutters Letsid.
"How combat ready do I look for you?!" she points scowling at her health bar with 1 point remaining.

Of course Letsid will follow the voice of self preservation and rush back into a mine full of Iti and do whatever god wants her to do with 1 HP since Iti can be defeated, god can not.
Letsid unleashes her Special as soon as in combat (if it isn't running already)
Also roll if she doesn't have it, no need to have additional risk.

The Man mutters something under his breath and walks off, going south of the armory.

He also +1s his MOV, because why not.

Candy:

* Not Yet.

Meat:

Chara materialises an Elemental Blaster set to Fire and immediately directs a shot at the Rotting Widow trying to murderize him.

He then decides to finally test out his supposed "god-weapon," sending the Shanks flying through the air and into the Migi that appeared just now. The runes burnt into their blades glow a crimson red, before the daggers pull themselves out of the thing and, unless something unusual happens, essentially backflip into the Goutou next to it. The minature eldritch orbs embedded in their hilts glow as well, whilst implanting a powerful curse into its body.

The blades move a second time, and fly back into the Chara Splinter's hands. He decides that they are, in fact, cool as gorilla. Maybe not in those exact words, considering his professionality with everything, but the point stands.

Mariaaaa

"Wilson is a cute name. I like you," Maria says. "I'mma go on an adventure, and you're invited! Maybe we'll find the thingy you're lookin' for? Or maybe Venny can find it for us. Venny's awesome. She's the best person ever," she says.

After a bit, she wanders upstairs to the Hat Tent, where she attempts to evactuate a few items of her personal belonging, grabbing random knick-knacks and stashing them in her backback. As she turns back and walks down the hallway, she happens to look out the windows and sees it.

A car-sized blob of cyan fluff, four paws stretching out as it rolls over on its back, a large tail like a thin cloud, a face equivalent to an emoticon, a beautiful sunbathing thing that Maria had never before laid eyes upon. And it had to be the absolute pinnacle of adorable that Maria had ever witnessed-not before nor after would Maria ever lay eyes upon anything more adorable than that.

"... Its so fluffy and cute! I want it! I wanna hug it!" Maria exclaims. "Window, open!"

The window predictably continues its steadfast pattern of nonsentience and immobility as dictated by all modern theories of friction, and remains unmoving.

"Window, open, please! I wanna hug the fluffle! I wanna hug the fluffle!" Maria shouts. No repsonse, still. She tries reaching out to the glass and swiping her finger up, only to become confused when nothing happens there either. "This window's broken!... Window, open!" She shouts at another window, which is similarly heedless of her pleas. "Wait, all the windows are broken?! ... Oh, oh oh oh! This looks like an emergency. I'mma magic it away."

Maria almost reaches for her wand, only to remember she gave it to Nia for upgrading.

"... I really wanna pet the fluffy!... Hrm... Oh! I could pol-E-morph the broken window. But I need a responsible adult person, or Venia's gonna yell at me, or... Or... Something bad'll happen... I'mma get a responsible adult person."

Maria runs back downstairs and begins shouting. "I NEED A RESPONSIBLE ADULT PERSON! I need a responsible adult person, the windows are all broken and they wont' let me outside and I wanna pet the fluffiest thing I ever saw ever, so I'mma pol-E-morph a broken window and go outside and pet the fluffle and be happy, but I NEED A RESPONSIBLE ADULT PERSON!"

The only two immediately obvious candidates for 'responsible adult person' would be Chaos and Mari, the way she's looking at them.

"...Who's that guy?" Maria then says, pointing at Pionobot.

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<3 <3 <3 Girlfriend <3 <3 <3

"... I guess its all kinds of complicated. I mean. I'm probably capable of doing a lot of 'getting things' on our own, so I guess we could just, like. Go out into the farthest reaches, stake a claim or something, and just live quietly in a small town. Or just keep going on adventures, 'n' such. Sounds nice either way... But I kind of have to undo all the situation with the Emperor first. But I know I can do it as long as I've got you at my side~"

She blushes as she responds to Nia's answer. "I love cats too. Cats are great. Maria's adorable, isn't she, with her little bundle of kitties following her around everywhere? ... I kind of wish she was still my adopted little sister instead of some princess of the Emperor... It just makes dealing with him that much harder. But, like. What kind of dad sends their child here? I'd bet money on him doing it as a motivator. He knows how much she means to me... But, he's literally killed people over her, too. Ugh. He's completely unreadable."

"...What music do I like? Uh... Hrm, well. It's kinda odd but I picked up some 'Synthwave' genre while I've been here? I'unno-there's good music when I'm from. But I've never heard anything like Synthwave before, gets me rolling. I love rock too, though. Ah, Iron Maiden..."

Venia pauses, and gulps, and her voice quivers a bit. "... You... What do you, like, think of my powers? I, uh, I don't think, I don't think I can show off what I'm 'really' capable of around here, but, you've seen glimpses... Uh, short list: Basically infinite 'whatever I could reasonably want' on tap, mental manipulation enough to control and multitask an entire town's worth of yakuza through mind control and not feel strained, passive mind reading, a type of super intelligence I guess... I've felt self-conscious about them for the longest time, never mind what I've picked up here on top of that! They can be, like, cool, but like... Like, just-the implications of that have... Driven everyone away, or made them really super wary of me, even, like, my dad and sister. And they can do some really screwed up stuff. Like. Butterfly-tier stuff. I'm just..."

Her voice fades into silence.

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Things in Zone 4, yay!

Somehow before Venia delves into another battle, Venia harvests some of the Frostleaf in Zone4, as well as the 'odd cubical fruit' tree in Zone 4 as well. She then gazes upon one of the faded red trees, inspects it briefly, shrugs, and traces her finger around the trunk, close to the stump, a thin black line appearing where her finger lies. She then steps back and snaps her fingers. Nothing seems to happen. Venia then moves back a bit, and gives the tree a shoulder tackle. Abruptly, the whole thing falls over bar the stump. She takes the fruit of her labor and puts it into the inventory as well.

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Battle: Spider's Roost.

Venia waits on Leaf to tame Splinter Spitter3 before she uses the Portable Tellyporta to warp to J8. She then moves to K11 normally. She probably just woke up Splinter Spider6, so... She uses the Breakfast Sampler! Re-heated, so its not as nutritious. She uses it on herself, Splinter Spider3 and Splinter Spider6, likely pacifying the latter from immediately killing her at least, because you never bite the hand that feeds you. She also applies Unify onto Splinter Spider3, as a buff.

She then kneels before SplinterSpider3."Sorry for, uh, getting in your business and the nest and all that, but we kind of need to get rid of, uh, those guys," She says, pointing at the purple iti. "What say we work together? Then we'll be as out of your nest as we possibly can?"

If Venia's taming attempt is successful (which given she offered food is probably a good assumption), she does whatever thing that somehow magically protects Tamed wildlife from Migi mind control is, then immediately mounts Splinter Spider3 and directs it to murder the Migi with a basic attack, or the Gotou if it is somehow already dead.

Also, if Echoss's BadlyPoisoned is down to 2 duration, she'll use the Revolving Chamber's status resolve to cure him of the remaining BadlyPoisoned, giving her Empowered. Yay!

"Bass, Nana, take out one of those angry spiders! You should be able to do it together!" Venia says, directing them at the first Splinter Spider, the one that's awake and angry.

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Action first for once!

Since I'm just repeating what I had before...

Auth flies to F15, and downs a Mana Vial. He then proceeds to wake up Woodthorne.

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Auth smiles gently to Nana, especially as she blushes to Auth's other comments. He laughs, quietly, as Nana suggests that he's far too nice.

uA: Hah. If I'm too nice, that means I'm close to where I want to be, Nana. That's really just how I am.

Nana is the one who manages to catch Auth with her words this time. He does blush ever-so-slightly as she says that she likes how nice he is.

uA: I'm... glad, yes, that you like it. It... makes me happy that my actions and attitudes are having such an effect on others.
uA: (...especially you...)

Auth says that last bit in barely more than a whisper. He thinks about whether lunch is a good time... naturally. It's a good time for such a thing.

uA: Yeah! That sounds like a good time for it, that's a fair reasoning.
uA: Alright, I'm looking forward to it, Nana. It'll be... really nice. I'll see you later.

Hex runs to L6, then activates his skates (his weapon skill) to flip and blast to K5, twirls to J4 and then K4, and wallops the Reverie with the last hit. He then sets his hand on fire and flips off the Reverie.

Crya uses a Yggdrasil Vessel twice. Chibi Nia then runs to L9 before doing the teleport with Crya. Crya then scans the Gossamother without doing damage. She decides to stand there.