Hex strolls through the remains of the caravan, casually igniting himself in fire and skating around as he searches for extra loot and stuff. He yanks any metal, weapons, whatever, that he can find.
/wip

Meanwhile, the copy of him at the lake continues fishing with the enchanted pole.

Venia reacts to everything
Echoss + Maria

"Echoss, thank god, you lost consciousness! ... OK I may've gotten a bit hasty there, sorry. Lets say metaphysical implications lead me to do that."

"Venny is a hero!" Maria chants.

"Let me guess, you've been concealing a debilitating illness of incredible severity? ... That makes two of us I guess so I can't blame you for it, you just need to explain exactly what that is and I won't figure out some way to tranquilize you into resting. And I will if you drag yourself into a fight in this condition then faint and have to get rescued."

"Venny, venny, venny! I went flying with Cushion, and then the meany person from magic club hit me, but then the red scarf guy saved me and gave me medicine and said a naughty word at the meany and hit them really hard! ... I wanna be a superhero even more now," Maria says.

"Maria, little muffin!" Venia says, scooping up Maria in her arms again. "You really scared everyone! Are you hurt? Do you need boo-boo bear?"

"I don't have no hurties! He helped! I like that person," Maria says, pointing at Verdana. "I'unno his name."

"Alright, now, Boshi, please take Maria back to the house-"

"NO!" Maria screams. "I wanna play with you Venny, I wanna play!"

"Little muffin, I understand, but this isn't-"

Venia stops and looks at the teary-eyed Maria, more terrified of loneliness and abandonment than anything else in the world, and doubly so from her big sister surrogate that she hasn't seen in almost a year.

"... Alright, fine, fine! But you stay in the back and you listen to everything that anyone tells you to do and if we tell you to do anything, you do it, alright?!" Venia says.

"OK! Hooray!" Maria chants.

Nia + The Chibi Couple

Venia looks upon the Chibi Venia with delight. "... I'm not sure if this is vanity or not but i'm so adorable aaaaaa~"

And then the Chibi Venia meets the Chibi Nia. Venia's reactions are to take photos and squee in instinctive girlish glee. "Oh my gosh yes. Yes. YESSSSSSS. Oh I wanna hug 'em but I don't wanna interrupt the moment and-"

It is at this point that Venia dissolves into cute gibberish.

Omorika

After Venia recovers from her cuteness-induced stupidity, she approaches Omorika. "Hey, Omorika. Uh, sorry to interrupt, but. I've been thinking about stuff. Err, kind of always am. There's two things."

"Two days ago, as we managed to make DJ Headz retreat, well, they mentioned something about a collector? Uh. Yeah. I haven't seen a hint of where it'd be though, but given their association with the Rose, uh. Yeah, I think we need to be careful about that too. They may've left a contingent here or something."

"The other thing is, yesterday, when we were aboard Creation, well, uh. I noticed how your summon took a blow for you. You said those 'cinderous' looking summons were a recent development and you didn't intend it, and that was after the whole incident with Lucid... And I don't think you consciously ordered that. Uh, but it was the Operator's response that was really interesting. HE said that it was 'watching over her' and that it was 'romantic.'"

"... I'm not sure how to take that but it sounds like... Something to look into? I'unno."

Auth

Meanwhile, a Maid of Venia's, following the passage of time, appears in the house right as Auth, Marron and others are about to maul Chaos for chess. Because of cousre she will.

"Auth! I have... News." Venia says, pulling up a record of data. Auth recognizes it pretty fast, if he paid attention that is-its similar to the data that Venia scanned when creating the Ink-Wrought Veils. "So, I have done the research, crunched the numbers, and come to the conclusion that Genoa is... Definitely not an expert in what is and what isn't magical."

"Err, to cut to the chase, and not keep you in suspense-you do have a magical ability, it just hasn't, err, made itself apparent yet. Its not a very obvious one-which is useful as it means a vast majority of magical detection systems aren't going to work. The magic ability in question appears to be a type of shapeshifting-you can form yourself into other species and such. I have no idea how it actually works as its being incredibly hard to properly decipher for various reasons, including the aformentioned near-undetectability, but it does exist. It definitely exists." Venia says.

"...What were you about to do and why?" Venia asks.

---

Maria Reacts to everything

Boshi

Maria looks at Boshi a very long, curious while as he goes about his business with Bow Kid, and just as he's about to approach Maria to scoop them up.

"THE TINY DINOSAUR CAN TALK!!!" Maria screams! "The tiny dinosaur can talk now, I heard it say words!"

It appears this is either a recent development in her powers or she simply failed to understand it before now.

"I am makin' ALL the cool friends! I am huggin' everyone. Best day ever," Maria says, as if the battle she wandered into was a non-problem in her book. ".. I'm ridin' Cushion 'cause he can fly, but I love you, tiny talking dinosaur. I love you." Maria says, giving Boshi a big hug before returning to the relative safety of Cushion's back.

Understandably she refuses to come with Boshi and is therefore back at the Old Pass. No you are done escorting the princess

Nia and the Chibis

Maria's little girl attention span wanders over to the chibi couple. She stares for a few seconds, then manages to instruct Cushion to walk over there. Cushion gives the two Chibis a good sniffing while Maria inspects them, before turning back to Venia.

"... Its a Venny sweater friend and another sweater friend. I want a Venny sweater friend!" Maria says. "Venny, where's the magic sweater that makes a Venny sweater friend? I want a tiny you."

"Oh sweetie, I'm sorry but I don't have another thingy that can make a tiny me," Venia says, barely managing to reign herself in enough at the sight of the cutest scene she's ever seen get even cuter with the presence of a spiralfloof and Maria.

"Awwww.... Oh oh oh oh oh! Miss Nia, miss Nia, are my thingies sparky now?" Maria says, running up to Nia with her arms extended, expecting her wand and hammer back.

---

Wait she's not done yet?!



In addition to this rebalance, Venia adds a new special fill condition to her special: Dealing Damage with Ordo (x1.5). She also removes Patience from her list for the time being to add +2 to her RES and +1 to her SKI.

---

Flux Extraction Statue Traction Fraction... I don't know what i'm doing with this help

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EVERGROUND

OK I've done too much this round I'm skipping this section this round.

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NPC Requests

Venia asks Mari to construct the E-Book Hammer for Omorika for a requisite number of credits to warrant a personal piece for her. It should obviously be an upgrade from the Tomehammer she currently possesses. Details are up to her.

---

Oh boy

Venia, after all of this, and everyone else having gotten their things ready. looks at the gate. "... Well then. Its time, isn't it?"

Venia snaps her fingers as a golden distortion appears, creating a ladder undoubtedly made of silver, bare minimum. It leads up to the shattered glass window above. Venia proceeds to immediately ignore it, focus a bit, and leap right up to the windowsill and onto the other side.

"Surrender the Glyph, fiend. I mean-go ahead, fight us if you want, you'll just be surrendering the Glyph to us in a roundabout manner, really. Whether or not you want to acknowledge it is another matter."

The hooded man reappears, near the vehicle that used to hold a Glyph. He runs towards the figure, still standing there, but as he approaches him, he stands back and freezes.

This was not Adrian.

"I... died?" The boy with the pale, pastel pink hair whispered, towards the air, towards nothing in particular. A crown of flowers adorns his head. Torn overalls are worn alongside his long-sleeved shirt and unassuming rubber shoes. He held the key towards him, as if it were something dear to him.

The masked man put his palm on his face, and breathed in. "...gorilla."

---

He runs back to the small crowd, made entirely out of Adrian's friends. "There's been an error. An oopsie woopsie. An oingo boingo. Turns out that the kid with the key wasn't Adrian." He takes out a crystalline rod, its tip coated in gold. With it, he draws something on the ground, and with one finishing touch, it collapses into a portal.

"You're all going home." The crowd goes into the portal, one by one. The masked man approaches the boy in the olive jacket. "Yeah, uh, sorry. It turned out your boyfriend isn't here." The boy looks away in a mess of blushing and flustering, before stepping away from the man. "Sorry about that. And for what I said." When everyone is through, he takes the rod, points it at the portal, and it closes.

---

He returns to the flower-crowned boy. "Really, really sorry. You weren't supposed to be here. But somehow you are, and I can't really go back and get Adrian." He opens two portals around him, then runs towards one. He ends up returning through the other. "See? This place is messing with me. I can imagine it's messing with you too." He sits down on the ground, next to the boy. "We're probably gonna be here a while, so... He holds his hand out. "I'm Martin. What's your name?"

The boy shakes his hand. "Lukas. I-It's Lukas."

---

The statsheet remains the same except for the name (Lukas), the Identity Crisis stat (+1), and the bio (uhhhhhhhh).

Nidra grabs some Bottled Dreams and Rosetained metal with one hand, and her sheep counter with the other. She moves her hands together until the items in both touch, and the moment they do, they all disappear in a purple flash. A few seconds later, the Sheep Counter reappears in Nidra's hand, now made of Rosetained Metal. The Bottled Dreams also reappear on the ground, emptied of the dreams inside. Together, the materials allow the sheep counter to affect minds less naturally inclined toward sleep, whether willingly or unwillingly.

---

Meanwhile, the Stuffed Koala grabs a Storm Bracer from the inventory. It also grabs a few Mental Clusters. It wraps all the items in a tight hug, and when it lets go, all the items are gone, absorbed into itself. If it's possible, the Stuffed Koala will have second statblock in the link. If it isn't, it'll have the nearly-identical-to-the-Storm-Bracer first statblock.

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iJq...dit?usp=sharing

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Assuming both crafts go through, Nidra also moves a point from SPC to INT.

D31 Roll:
29 - They / Them
I still fear the day we finally get a 31.

La Casa:
Chara stares unfalteringly into Marron's eyes for ten seconds straight. They sigh, still not breaking away the eye contact.

CHARA: Listen. If that monster gets to have flying clusters of knives and an entire suit made out of them, the least I can do is have a safe reserve for situations like this.
CHARA: I just like knives. They're light and easy to wield. Not to mention that they were pretty much the oldest weapon used in the histories of many races.
CHARA: So, just take the knife, my fair lady, and finish this game so we can go deliver righteous justice.

A whole lot of stuff proceeds to happen. Through the amazing circumstances of me not having known the chess roleplay was even a thing that was happening in the background, Chara somehow not only manages not to derail the game into ending differently through eating the warhead or such, but also manages not to escalate the tension in the room by minimally twenty degrees through endless snark, amazingly enough. Their complete and total exclusion, among having been outright omitted in the narration of the event, also results in them not being knocked to the ground in the last moments. Not even a speck of paint lands on them, in fact.

So... Win-win, I guess? Oh who am I kidding I'm still salty that I somehow missed any hints that this was being written. If there even were any.

Without further ado, they sneak out of the room, way too befuddled to even answer Marron, and go scout for Chaos and anything he might be up to.

Verdana seems to have a rather happy mood after his chat with Leaf. It probably did him some good to have a talk and a bit of time to calm himself back down. But what to do now... Oh yeah, there's a battle. But after burning out slightly in the last one, Verdana could do with a bit more rest...

"...Cal, I know you're listening. Can you go chase the Husk for me?"

There's a flicker somewhere. Verdana smirks to himself and nods, then looks for something to do. He soon settles on wandering over to Cushion and Maria, giving the floof a nod of greeting before turning his attention to Maria.

"So... Hi." A boring start, but what can one really do? He isn't trained to deal with children in any capacity. "I, ah, hope that earlier tussle wasn't too bad? Eh, if something like that Husk starts being mean again, you could always just call for me!"

...One can practically hear the metaphorical gears in Verdana's head turn as he processes something.

"Right, unless Venia mentioned me I don't think you've heard my name before... I'm Verdana. Nice to meet ya."


Upcoming battle:

There's a flicker of darkness at the Church Front as Calibri steps out of the shadows, wandering out to the door proper and taking a look at the church for a moment.

"So, the Husk is in here now? Better get stuck in..."

He chuckles to himself, walking out of view around the side of the church, then hopping down from the roof and flinging himself through the window, sword at the ready. After a moment, he pops up from the broken window, directly watching the gathered NPCs. It might occur to them that there's nothing to suggest he could stand there...

"All of you ready?"

Dialogue format dump zone

Echoss nods slowly, and takes the tea from Ette. "Thank... you Ette. I can't rest for too long though, there's still much to do and I need to/color]" he slowly starts to rise. Lingering after-effects of the shock therapist shoot up his arm and he slowly sits back down. He sighs "[color=#ffd11a]...alright...". Echoss slowly begins sipping from the tea, the taste doesn't seem to be bothering him too much.

Venia comes over to him. He raises an eyebrow at her conjecture. "Fortunately for me I'm not ill. Definitely not to the extreme that you are Miss Praefortis. Perhaps a... long standing condition but that's a bit more of a personal affair. I simply overextended myself and gave myself a rather nasty backlash from the Thymefield. I should be fine... but I will need to refrain from raising my butterfly numbers much higher or trying to link portals back home. Just a few to check up on the people I've been trying to help, and maybe a worker construct or two."
Venia mentions tranquilizing him. "No! No. It's fine. I have a spell I should still be able to use to provide aid in my place for our fight against the Husk. I would also rather not risk mental disconnection, even if I'd not get ejected from Sussui this time it's not a pleasant experience."

Echoss sets the empty cup of herbal tea on the ground besides him, and than raises his palms upwards. He blows on them and a swirl of golden flower petals materialize and swoop out of them, coalescing into a small group of seven or eight butterflies that then scatter about in different directions.
One of them heads over to the Scarlets
"Apologies for that. I... overextended myself. It looks like my assistance wasn't needed over here anyways though so that is fortunate. You said you had some questions?
...that's understandable. I dropped a lot more on you at once than I probably should have."


Further South, by the Information Center, a pair of mini golems that somehow survived the Great Echoss Crash of '19 walk over to the vein of platinum ore and mine it out with a pair of plastic pickaxes. Somehow this works.

Pionobot wanders over to the Underground Lake. He shines a really bright flashlight out across it to see if there's anything on the other side of the lake. Then he grabs a Raindrop Crystal and waterbends the rest of the flux piranhas out of the water and into the inventory.

The Airship Construction
Continuing construction of the airship, and the Gravcore is nearly functional.

Using the Squall Cluster has a source of power, Daskter plans to build something akin to a jet engine. Using the power of wind to push the ship itself.

Buying 3 and using the last Squall Cluster (total of 4) they're built into a case (10) Durasteel ingots and lines of (2) PLasteel Ingots seemingly engraved into the casing. The wind is funneled into a tunnel made of iron leading to various locations of the airship.

The control circuit is connected together with the Aero Core with wiring (10) and (10) control boards.

Through the power of wind the Airship can push itself up, forward, backward, sideways, and the airship can turn clockwise, counterclockwise, roll, and pitch.

Nezira: "[/color]"
Arthur: “[color=#CB8B1B]”

POST BELOW.
==RP==
Nezira emerges from the basement post-her meeting with Echoss, somewhat worried at the fate of his butterfly. She’s carefully stowed her tinkered-up gadgets, as well as some interesting wand prototypes she made out of scavenged wood and quartz -- common enough resources, but workable enough to get an idea of how they might perform as well-made items. She walks through the house and takes a look around.

//Nezira and Arthur meet; /working

//reply to Mari and show her a ‘trick’; probably also handily dealt with by Arthur recrafting the Heartless Catalyst or by some other consumable crafting; also /working

==CRAFTING==
Nezira and Arthur, after having met, interact for a few minutes before Arthur mentions that he’d appreciate something that’d help with item use or generally with alchemy.



Arthur also decides to remake his Heartless Catalyst to better suit his alchemical acumen. (Trait namedrop!)

/working

==LOGISTICS==
Nezira buys 5 each of Shock, Galeforce, and Acidic Crystals from the Tem Shop, as part of the above crafting action.

Arthur replaces his Sandvich with the Alchemist’s Satchel, and swaps his skillpoints around once more. End total: 3 in HP, 10 in MP, 0 in STR, 2 in AGI, 10 in INT, 10 in SKI, 1 in DEF, 8 in RES, and 12 in SPC. (I did some intensive KP-remodeling and couldn’t quite figure out what was where originally, so I’m just giving the totals.) He also takes the Worshipper and Elementalist perks.
Also, Ire, you may wish to take a second look at my CNT; I think I forgot to add one of my two CNT boosts, from either the Noxious Staff or Singing Maw.

Plenty of things to do today.

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Auth bows, happily accepting the consignment of Bronzewood. This is thousands of sovereigns in hand, and Auth is absolutely going to put it to use later... Fluke core too? A pure sampling of Irrigo. Useful, for someone else later on. Auth would be finding uses for it in the near future, actually, but for now, the bronzewood is what's needed.

uA: Thanks, Chloe. I appreciate it. I'll have a good use for this...

----

Auth thinks for a moment, noticing that Maple's quaking over potentially meeting Chloe. Auth nods, but then pauses.

uA: I was about to say "I can go and get her"... but why not come to her? We've got a little time between now and when something will actually happen. I have business with her anyway so I'll be heading that way regardless, so I can bring her back if you don't wanna go.

If Maple decides to follow, Auth won't need to suggest walking back to Chloe. The following assumes that Maple decided to follow Auth, since I don't actually know what she'd do.

uA: Hello, Chloe. How're you doing? Besides tired, I suppose.

Auth glances to Maple, and then continues.

uA: I believe you owe Maple an autograph? And then have a conversation, to memory.

Auth gives a thumbs-up to Maple, and then hangs around for a bit for anything he might have to add.

---

Auth and Marron finished playing chess, so Auth has some things to do. A large bucket and cloth later, along with a small can of turpentine, the room is about 89% more clean than it was before. The area immediately around where the nuke exploded is still stained rainbow, of course, and it appears that Auth doesn't presently have the materials necessary to clean up.

Auth sighs, crashing on the couch between Summa and Nana. Auth groans, in no small amount of pain and sad from having his coat stained a bright rainbow.

uA: That was a disaster... and then the table and chairs need to be replaced... ugh, I'm going to need to find time to make a new one.

Auth sighs, waiting for Marron (at the very least to get back). He slides a death-glare at Chaos, though, and murmurs under his breath...

uA: Zagra majude danarka strada hajize kro idkuh...

The area around Chaos begins to chill... but nothing else happens, for now. His ruminations are interrupted, naturally, by Venia...'s maid.

uA: Oh, er... Venia. What's wrong?

Auth's expression changed from one of vague interest to one of vast revelation over the course of Venia's comments...

uA: W-wait, what? That's...
uA: But if that's true, then...
uA: Although, she did say I was...
uA: It would explain quite a lot, but...

Auth pulls the dragon up from behind the couch.

uA: Did you know about this?
gC: Mm hmm. I did.
uA: Then why didn't you ever... why didn't you tell me? Looking at how my sister had such talent, while I thought I was left with nothing in terms of... why?
gC: Truthfully? Because I wouldn't know what to tell you about it. The ability, when I was bringing you back... it was broken. Disconnected from everything. I couldn't find a way to piece it back in, I thought it was like an extra puzzle piece in the set. I've been thinking about it for a long time, y'know. Before you came into my service, even.
uA: Wait, so...
gC: Your mother isn't an idiot, Auth. When she saw how you didn't seem to have any magical affinity, despite the fact that she herself is incredibly effective at magic and your sister also is, she asked for my opinion. I couldn't even find anything at first, and when I did find something... Please forgive me. I didn't intend to hurt you, but I wasn't sure how to tell you you had an ability that was not only turned off but also something I wasn't even sure how to use. I thought it would be easier, perhaps more accurate to reality, to say you didn't have anything and add ink artificially than to tell you that you truly did have a power that you wouldn't be able to use. I'm sorry.
uA: It's... fine. I'm not angry or anything, it's just... it's just a lot to take in right now. I'm not...
gC: Auth, I'm sure you'll work it out in time. If there's anyone I've ever known who has a talent for working things out, it's you.


Auth sighs, to Venia's followup question about what he's planning to do.

uA: Chaos has caused a number of issues, which Marron and I are planning to talk to him about. That's what's happening. Marron and Toast are upstairs after the disaster in the kitchen.
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Crafting time, finally.

In these more calmer moments, Summa Tsar'ina takes some time to absorb her surroundings, and think about the day thus far. After a few moments of introspection, Tsar'ina finds that she is feeling a little homesick already, despite it only having been a day. She decides to take a walk around the home base, making sure to become more familiar with the layout and the home the Spherebreakers have probably spilled some blood for. Tsar'ina can respect that.

When making her way around, Summa finds herself near the Hanger, and decides to go in a take a gander. She looks up and down at the machine in front of her, a bit bewildered to find a piece of technology this large. Tsar'ina inspects the Airship, looking at the guts and wiring of it all, seeing what pieces went where and what connected to what. Yeah, this thing was definitely busted in some way, though it seems to have gotten a lot of repairing.

Tsar'ina goes up to where EN-913 is, and begins to work on repairing the damaged Gravcore. A lot of this tech is similar to how it was back home, being made up with a lot of magical elements, and Fate be damned, Tsar'ina did not go to the Royal Academy of EleMetal Engineering and Sorcery for nothing. She busts open the inventory, taking out what she needs to get this done. It's about high time Tsar'ina uses what Echoss taught her to do something actually productive.

CRAFTING BEGIN!

Grabbing two pieces of Elemental Silver, Tsar'ina decides to spec this airship out with some Molian technology. She combines the Silver with two Flame Redirectors, having each Redirector hooked up with the Gravcore using around 7 Wire Scraps and 4 Circuitboards. She imbues the Elemental Silver with 2 Sapphires, to enhance the effect of magic on the pieces of metal. After putting in some Joltwires to help the Wires and Circuitboards do their jobs, she creates a hollow shelling made out of three pieces of Rosetainted Metal. Before inserting the actual techno-guts inside the shell, Tsar'ina makes sure to use the last Shimmering Cluster to ward off any of the cursed effects the Rosetainted Metal may have. With this done, Tsar'ina uses fire magic to spark up the Elemental Silver, catching the entire thing on fire. With this, Tsar'ina connects the EleSilver Core to the Gravcore, boosting energy output using fire!

And just for the fun of it, she attaches 4 Dance Floor Tiles to give the scorching EleSilver Core some aethestic before attaching it inside the damaged Airship itself. Alright, everything seems to be set! Tsar'ina stands back to admire her handiwork

CRAFTING END!

<ROUND ONE-HUNDRED SEVENTY-FOUR>

New food items in the Triangle Emporium! Take a look?

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Nettle and Toast do stuff. First, Toast returns to the kitchen after washing up. She's still somewhat messy, but of course, Marron is too. She's opted to return to her original outfit- though her new outfit is far less torn up, it also looks like an entire posse of clowns died upon it. At the very least, she took some time to apply patches to the biggest holes. Her hair also still reeks of rainbows, but she doesn't seem to care all that much at the moment. Then, Toast asks; what does the puppeteer have in mind for cooking?

MARRON: Uh, hm...
MARRON: I'd like to start you off with like, the most basic thing possible, so... scrambled eggs?
MARRON: It's a classic, and... well, it's pretty easy to mess up, but it's also quick to make, and the steps are simple.

Marron grabs a pan, and sets it upon a spare heating element. Ette shuffles over to make room for her sister. Ette also looks somewhat like a rainbow apocalypse, but she was far enough from the blast for her (and her cookie batter) to survive.

MARRON: Anyway, while you might be bad with your hands n' gorilla, I have a definitely not garbage plan up my sleeves, for you to use!

MARRON: ...
MARRON: Magic.
MARRON: Not like, whatever the hell you did last time- I mean just like, simple magic.
MARRON: While you could try and use magic to speed up or help in making the stuff... you should use magic to replace your hands.
MARRON: A-And, I don't mean like, amputate your hands and replace them with magic, I mean, like... use magic to move all the utensils n' junk.

Marron grabs an egg carton, and sets it on the counter. She opens it up, and grabs a single egg with her left hand.

MARRON: So, while I might say, grab the egg and crack it with my hands, since I'm good with that...

Marron conjures an array of strings around the egg, before letting go of it. The strings are now suspending the egg in the air.

MARRON: ...you could replicate what I'm doing here, using like... telekinesis, or something? I dunno.
MARRON: You're really talented with magic, so this should be easier than relying on your crystal or metal hand.
MARRON: Then, you can crack it against the bowl, like this!

Marron commands her strings to give the egg a gentle thwack against the side of the bowl. The egg cracks, and the strings then rip the egg open and pour the contents of it into the bowl. The shell is sent directly into the trash.

MARRON: Now, you try!
MARRON: With magic, of course.

Marron awaits patiently with a full carton of eggs. Secretly, she's fearing for the lives of every single last one of those eggs, but you can't make your girlfriend into a chef without breaking a few eggs. While she's doing that, Nettle gives Omo a question- what's wrong with her. Omo ponders it for all of three seconds before giving Nettle her answer.

OMORIKA: ...Fascinating.
OMORIKA: It's quite the rare occurrence, but I believe you suffer from Mortisis Syndrome.

OMORIKA: I know that you know what it is, but for those not aware- it's a rare defect in the Chairian genetic structure.
OMORIKA: Every Chairian possesses the natural ability to manipulate wood- the wood that makes up themselves, and the wood that makes up other things on the planet.
OMORIKA: As a general rule, there's more life energy in living wood, thus making it easier to manipulate.
OMORIKA: For some odd reason, sometimes a Chairian is left unable to manipulate wood without sufficient amounts of life energy, at least not without incredible difficulty.
OMORIKA: This does however, tend to result in a slightly heightened ability to manipulate living wood, but... most tend to ignore the positives, however small.
OMORIKA: Usually, possessing this... severely limits your opportunities in our society. It's quite the annoyance, to create an understatement.
OMORIKA: Most of those who possess Mortisis tend to become a Morph of some sort, and... well, I'm sure you know how our society looks upon Morphs at times.

OMORIKA: Of course, it's not truly a death sentence, or anything like that.
OMORIKA: It's not truly known if it's true or not, but I've never seen Cypress work much in terms of woodmancy.
OMORIKA: I've always suspected that he suffers from Mortisis, but I have no proof.
OMORIKA: Not that he truly requires it to succeed due to his intellect and knack for machinery, but still.
OMORIKA: Asking is quite impolite, and is usually seen as an insult.

She flips back from "expositional mode" to "conversational mode", returning her attention to Nettle.

OMORIKA: So, am I correct in my assumptions?
OMORIKA: It's truly troublesome, Mortisis. I can see why you'd be barred from army work.
OMORIKA: However, I believe you possess a natural talent for woodmancy, in spite of your problems.

OMORIKA: There are a few historical cases of those with Mortisis having a massively heightened potential not just for woodmancy, but magic in general.
OMORIKA: I believe you are one of those people, Nettle.
OMORIKA: I'd love to experiment, but I fear that we do not have time at this moment.
OMORIKA: Perhaps later?

...While Nettle's either confirming (or de-confirming) Omo's assumptions, Future!Toast slinks into the Everground. Maybe Marron follows her? I dunno. Maybe Toast can confirm if Future!Marron stalks her into the Everground. Anyway, she sneaks into the Sheer Drop, then collects 25 Everground Flowers. They smell kinda weird.

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Bow Kid proves their worth to Ette. This involves the fabled SMUGDANCE, which obliterates a Seeker. She then downs a mana potion. Ette applauds.

ETTE: (You fight by dancing?)
ETTE: (That's really cool! I wanna fight like that!)
ETTE: (...Except, I don't have feet, so I don't think I can dance...)

Sad puppet noises occur. Meanwhile, down in the Everground, Mustache Girl continues her mining of diamonds, snagging the remaining 6 Cyan Diamonds. That was easy! While she's probably still back in the mine, Boshi goes and returns to the house. He starts off by asking Chaos a few questions. First, why are there turrets and a temmie?

CHAOS: [c]api[t]alism
CHAOS: [t]ha[t]'s [t]he answer [t]o bo[t]h ques[t]ions b[t]w

The Temmie exclaims a loud and proud "h0i" to Boshi, before returning to vibrating violently on the spot. He then asks if he can get a waste paper basket. Chaos shrugs.

CHAOS: for[t]una[t]ely for you, i sell only [t]he fines[t] in was[t]e paper disposal uni[t]s for [c]hildren
CHAOS: look a[t] [t]his high-quali[t]y produ[c][t]

Chaos pulls out the standard wire-mesh waste paper basket, made of a dull grey metal. He then pulls out a can of spray paint, and quickly paints the entire thing pink, before putting a small hairbow on the rim.

CHAOS: one [c]hildren's was[t]e paper basket
CHAOS: [t]ha[t]'ll be one-hundred credi-
TEMMIE: You possess a service that only you can provide.
TEMMIE: Namely, you are the only furniture salesman that's willing to cater to the Spherebreakers.
TEMMIE: You can charge way more. Multiply that price by five.
CHAOS: my bad i[t]'s one-[t]housand [c]redi[t]s
CHAOS: i[t]'s a [c]us[t]om job and also a rush job, so [t]ha[t]'s why i[t] [c]os[t]s ex[t]ra
TEMMIE: Ooh, a further increase.
TEMMIE: Good work.

The Temmie punches a few things into a PDA they have on them. It seems like capitalism is here to stay, unless Boshi writes a formal complaint letter or something. While he ponders whether to buy the fancy paper disposal bin, he opts to check up on the kitchen. Rainbows. He asks the nearest puppeteer (that being Marron) exactly what the hell happened.

MARRON: Cooking.

MARRON: ...Wait, Toast hasn't even broken an egg yet.
MARRON: Uh, Chess. Then cooking. In the future.
MARRON: I mean, she'll probably do fine. We're trying a new technique so she won't wreck the kitchen.

Marron returns to trying to teach Toast how to crack an egg without destroying the bowl and/or the surrounding environment.

---

Hex searches the ruins of the caravan, and finds... well, little other than 7 Refined Wood and 3 Flame Redirectors. It seems the looting was pretty thorough. He also continues fishing at Sequoia's Lake. This yields 2 Shellfish and a Saltling.

...Oh, that last thing might be dangerous. It seems like they can perfectly camouflage in water, due to being a creature of pure salt or something. Yeah. Don't let it kill you! That might hinder your fishing efforts.

---

Venia does a long post. First, she snaps some pics of the chibi Nia and Venia. They pose for the camera as she takes pictures, multiplying the cuteness by a factor of five. This undistilled cuteness could probably kill someone. Venia then chats with Omo, noting a potential "Collector" that might be present with the Rose.

OMORIKA: It certainly is a possibility that they have something like that.
OMORIKA: Fortunately, if we retrieve the glyph now, we should be able to avoid the risk of running head-first into the Rose Cult.
OMORIKA: ...But perhaps, it'd still be wise to deal with the Rose if we find them?
OMORIKA: Removing the assistants of one of the world's greatest threats would be of value.

Venia then asks about the events that occurred upon Creation, with her cinderous summons. She ponders it for a moment. Much longer than she did Nettle's question from earlier.

OMORIKA: Truthfully? I have no idea.
OMORIKA: Perhaps I'm being haunted, but in a positive manner.
OMORIKA: Perhaps my mind has been damaged in such a way from my ordeal with Lucid that my summons seem to... r-reflect him.

OMORIKA: Or perhaps, it's similar to the class of summons us sages can create- the Fallen.
OMORIKA: If you hold a strong connection to a loved one, or family member that has fallen, you can bind their soul to something you create...
OMORIKA: ...I didn't attempt to do anything of the sort, though. Perhaps I'm treading some sort of new ground.. or I'm defective as of two days ago.
OMORIKA: I-I... do not know.

...She's still deep in thought. She'll probably be like that for awhile. Maria meanwhile, asks Nia if her "thingies" are sparkly now. Nia nods, pulling out the Hammer of Banning +3 and the Snowball Maelstrom. She opts to demonstrate the wand, because it's cool.

NIA: Yeah! They're done!
NIA: Check this magic stick out! If you wave it around like this...

Nia spins the wand around in the air, drawing a circle with the tip. A fluffy white cloud appears above Nia's head.

NIA: ...you get a cloud!
NIA: Then, you can move it by swishin' the wand around...

The cloud flies to just above Chloe's head. She doesn't seem to notice, at least until the cloud begins to bombard her from above with snowballs. Chloe attempts to run from the cloud, but Nia's maneuvering is too swift and too precise.

CHLOE: C-Cold! S-Stop!
NIA: ...then you can move the cloud, and it'll drop snowballs on people!
NIA: It's lots of fun! Give it a try!

She hands the Snowball Maelstrom to Maria. No one child should have this much destructive power in their hands. There is no possible way this can end well. While Maria is probably pestering Chloe or Venia with lots of snow, Venia takes this brief reprieve to modify her loadout, using 25 Sanctified Rounds to change Vigil's effect! She also +1's her SKI, and +2's her RES.

Hat then attempts to extract some Flux from the Helix and Dome statues! It succeeds... right up until the point where the statue suddenly crumbles into dust. A crimson mist made up from the particles of the statue roll into the Church of Helix, seeping through the gaps in-between the boards that make up the front gate. That... can't be good. At all.

Also, because the ride never ends, Venia also commissions something from Mari. 100 credits for an E-Book Hammer. Omo is quite confused with her new device.

OMORIKA: ...I fail to see how I can read this.
MARI: Oh, there's a screen on the hammerhead. There's a button near where it attaches to the handle.
MARI: The screen is made of basically the most durable stuff I can find, so don't worry about it cracking.
MARI: The hammerhead itself is also be several, several times more effective than a hammerhead made of goddamn paper, so... you're welcome.
OMORIKA: This seems impractical.
MARI: That's rich, coming from the lady who constantly smacks people with a book.
MARI: Practicality is second to style, you know.

---

Adrian becomes Lukas. Alright. Why not?

---

Chara likes knives. They're comfy and easy to wear, or something. Marron slowly nods.

MARRON: Right. Okay. You like knives.
MARRON: That doesn't scream "serial killer" or anything. Nope.
MARRON: I'll just go and finish this game, then.

Something something, the earlier roleplay segments happens. In addition, the game apologizes for not inviting Chara to the roleplay. It did start as a private, one-on-one thing with Toast, but then we figured that it'd make sense to invite Auth into it. Maybe next time, though?

Anyway, Chara scouts out Chaos's base: while his frontline is certainly scary, he's 100% vulnerable to someone who'd sneak out around back and attack through the window. And of course, simple sentry guns don't have any backup against assaults from the ground, or from a floor above. Really, just don't assault Chaos head-on, and you'll probably do okay.

---

The game braces for an Echoss-based impact, in which he... does a pretty reasonable amount of stuff. Huh. First, he consumes the tea that Ette made him. It's bitter. Super bitter. Like, we're talking "green apple spray" sorta bitter. Or "nintendo switch cartridge" bitter. But that's the price of medicine! Maybe Ette should develop a less bitter medical tea.

After gulping it down, he opts to go and visit the Scarlets, and prepares to receive questions. Maple seems relieved to see the butterfly swarm again.

MAPLE: Oh, you're alright?
MAPLE: Kinda scary, you exploding back there.
MAPLE: Everything alright?

With the pleasantries out of the way, Maple finally asks about something she'd like him to clarify.

MAPLE: Okay, so: I understand that yes, the Sphere holds an ancient evil.
MAPLE: I... don't really get why it wants to destroy everything.

MAPLE: Surely, with such massive power, you could do something more productive?
MAPLE: Like... take over the world, or something. Why destroy it? What's there to gain?
MAPLE: Maybe it's just like, the stories of heroes and villains I read as a child, but... I just don't get it.
MAPLE: I feel like there's more to this, somehow.

...Is there more to her statement? Who knows. Probably. Probably not. As he does this, he also sends some golems to mine the Platinum Ore within Zone 4, yielding 10 Platinum Ingots.

Down in the Everground, Pionobot wanders to the Underground Lake, and attempts to see if there's anything on the other side of the lake. The radiant beam reveals naught but a cavern wall. With ore on it. How convenient! He also expends a Raindrop Crystal to do some water-bending, snagging 12 Fluxtainted Fish. The lake goes still- perhaps it's empty now? Maybe you could even dive into it, or something.

---

Daskter does some airship work. He takes a Squall Cluster, 45 credits worth of additional Squall Clusters, 10 Durasteel, 2 Plasteel, 30 Wire Scraps, and 15 Circuit Boards. These are certainly not taped together, but they still result in a Squall Engine! This adds 15% Gravcore to the Airship, technically completing it! It's curious how a category labelled "gravcore" doesn't have a gravcore, Anyway, the only thing the airship really needs now is proper aesthetics, because this will somehow come into play when a gigantic, judgemental Eliti attacks you or something.

---

After a quick purchase of 5 Shock, Galeforce, and Acidic crystals, Nezira makes the Alchemist's Satchel! This uses 15 Silkweed, 5 Puresilk, and 1 of like, a dozen other materials. I also assume that you've intended to do a few more things, but fortunately you can craft on the round you join the bossfight, so you should live.

---

Nidra does some crafting! It uses a vague amount of materials, so the game automatically partitions out 2 Bottled Dreams, 2 Fluxtainted Metal, and... 0 Mental Clusters, as you're just re-skinning the Storm Bracer, so it's fine to make the change cost 0. She also shunts a point from SPC to INT.

---

Auth does more things. First, she asks Maple if she could go to Chloe, instead of vice-versa. Maple's core BPM increases.

MAPLE: U-Um, t-that works, too!
MAPLE: Lead the way, sir!

Maple eagerly follows him to where Chloe is, just outside of the Church of Helix. She's visibly trembling when face-to-face with her. Chloe's likely equally nervous, but puts on as confident of a face as she can for the one that looks up to her.

CHLOE: Heya! Thanks for all of your help!
CHLOE: I'm glad to see you're okay after what happened back when fighting the Husk.
CHLOE: It was really kind of you to help us, despite the danger~
MAPLE: U-U-Um, y-you're welcome! Uh, u-uh...
MAPLE: A-Ah, um... c-could I get y-your... a-auto...

It seriously looks like she might faint. Chloe opts to complete her sentence.

CHLOE: My... autograph?
CHLOE: If that's what you want, I have a sharpie to write on your... sword, I'm guessing?
CHLOE: C'mon, pass it over!
MAPLE: Y-Yes! Here!

She hands Chloe her sword, hilt first. Chloe deftly scribbles her signature onto her blade, which is a somewhat slick-looking "Chlo", followed by a star. Upon receiving her weapon back, Maple's face becomes a total flush green.

MAPLE: A-Ah, t-thank you so much!
MAPLE: Y-You k-know, I'm a-a really big fan, a-and...
CHLOE: You don't need to be nervous.
CHLOE: We're allies, right? Just take a deep breath, and talk.

Chloe places a hand on Maple's back as she takes a few seconds to breathe. By the time she's finished, she's calmed down considerably.

MAPLE: U-Um, thanks.
MAPLE: I just get... really excited around people I look up to.
MAPLE: People like you are just so kind, and heroic, and I really, r-really strive to be a good person...
CHLOE: Well, I think you're a good person.
MAPLE: A-Ah! Y-You do!? I-I'm... s-so... h-huuhh...

Maple's excitement hits critical mass, and her legs go weak. Chloe's quick to give her a bit of support, granting her a shoulder to lean on. Being a wood person, she's naturally a bit heavier than Chloe expected, causing her to strain to keep her up. Soon enough though, Maple regains control of herself, once again blushing violently once she realizes she almost fainted.

MAPLE: I-I'm sorry! I'm just really, really excited still, e-even t-though you told me to calm down-
CHLOE: It's fine! Don't worry.
CHLOE: It's understandable to be excited, you know!
MAPLE: O-Of course! Right!

Maple manages to calm down once again, and politely takes a few steps away from Chloe. She bows.

MAPLE: U-Um, thanks for talking with me!
MAPLE: It means a lot!
MAPLE: I need to get going now, otherwise I won't be able to relay my message... s-so, thanks again!
CHLOE: It was nice to meet you, too! Safe travels!

With that, Maple skips on back to her group, giddy with joy. Once she's out of sight, Chloe loosens up, and sighs with relief.

CHLOE: I-I was just as nervous as her! G-Glad I kept it up, though.
CHLOE: It looks like I made her day, so... thanks, Auth!
CHLOE: You're a real sweetheart, y'know?

CHLOE: Thanks for checking up on me, by the way.
CHLOE: I'm fine. Sore, but fine.
CHLOE: It's really amazing I'm able to stand after a beating like that... but that's the marvel of magic, I guess.
CHLOE: How about you? Are you alright? How's Nana?

While he maybe gives her a response, Auth also does some crafting! He uses 3 Bronzewood, 3 Spider Silk Spools, a Tornadopetal, his Spider Pheromones, and his Evergotten Defender to create the Shield Web! Probably don't wear that while next to Chloe. You'll freak her out.

In addition, Auth murmurs something towards Chaos. This somehow cools the immediate area around him, causing Chaos to equip a tuque. This somehow protects his entire body from the crippling cold. He also goes to take a seat next to Nana, who's immediately alarmed by Auth's new coat. Or his old coat, but now it's a rainbow.

NANA: H-Huh? What happened to your clothes?
NANA: Your coat was really nice, and... w-well, now it's... sorta messy.

NANA: U-Um...
NANA: I... m-might be able to make you something to help clean it, if you want.
NANA: It's a family recipe. I can show you how to do it, i-if you'd like!

In addition, Nana catches a snippet of Venia's conversation with Auth. She asks him about it.

NANA: Oh, that lady!
NANA: It's Venia, right? She says you're... a shapeshifter?
NANA: What does that mean? Is it like, how my arm can transform into blades?

She'd unfurl her arm to demonstrate, but that's dangerous, and also she's wearing that sleeve Auth gave her. Also, they both know what her arm can do, so... there's no point. Even though it'd be cool.

---

Tsar'ina takes a level in mechanical engineering. She uses 2 Elemental Silver, 2 Flame Redirectors, 7 Wire Scraps, 4 Circuit Boards, 2 Sapphires, 4 Joltwire, 2 Rosetainted Metal, and a Shimmering Cluster to create the Elesilver Core! This boosts the overall flight power of the airship. +15% Gravcore. The application of 4 Dance Floor Tiles also grants +15% Aesthetic.

---

After much deliberation among the troops, the doors to the great Church of Helix are flung open. Dust fills the once luminous halls, as well as the stench of blood. Well, not quite blood. It's like the scent of blood, but the very whiff of it causes your entire body to tingle. The only illumination within the room is sunlight that drifts in from the sky, the rays stained various colors by stained glass.

The trail of blood leads further into the church. Cautiously, Omorika and Taeda, among others, slowly creep into the tomb, weapons drawn. As the team ventures into the nave of the church, then into the crossing, they see the Husk. He crawls on all fours- or perhaps all sixes now, due to his extra set of arms. In his lower left hand, he holds the Ender Glyph. In right right two arms, he wields the Armistyx.

His upper left hand meanwhile, is clawing into his face. The pool of Fluxblood on the floor is growing ever so slowly, his body and weapon covered in the stuff. Omo takes a step forward, levying her new hammer towards the Husk.

OMORIKA: Sir Sleuth.
OMORIKA: It's regrettable that it must come to this.
OMORIKA: If there's any shred of your former self within you, I must ask you to stand down, and hand us the Glyph.

The Husk responds by staring at Omorika, its face without eyes. It seems they've been destroyed after his stunt with the caravan.

THE HUSK: Try as he might, he is incapable of communicating that he is incapable of standing down.
THE HUSK: He has been lost to the iris.
THE HUSK: All that remains is the liberation of death.
THE HUSK: He advances forward, death clouding his mind.

True to his word, he takes a step forward, Armistyx dragging across the ground. He takes a moment to jam the Ender Glyph into his face, its runic surface finding a home within shredded flesh.

THE HUSK: Who's death clouds his mind?
THE HUSK: One might think it's a simple answer.
THE HUSK: "His entire body roars for the death of those who stand within the Creator's path." That's what one might think.

He springs forward towards Omo, locking his scythe with her hammer. Omo calls a spire of wood through the ground, forcing the creature up into the air. She sends her hammer into its face, causing a splatter of fluxblood to mark the ground. Despite the blow probably being enough to down your average, mook-level Chairian, he's still stanidng.

OMORIKA: You're badly injured.
OMORIKA: If you have any sense left whatsoever- not as him, but as a creature, or whatever the hell you are now, you will stand down.
THE HUSK: The creature groans. A puppet does not have any sense of its own.
THE HUSK: A puppet bends to the whims of their puppeteer.
THE HUSK: And yet, despite this, a small corner of the puppet's mind screams.

The Husk crawls back to the center of the cathedral. A red mist rolls along the ground, spiraling behind him. It seems that tiny rocks are being carried along by it. One by one, they rapidly piece together, forming into the visages of both Helix and Dome. Ripples of flux-based energy surge through them, distorting the air. Some of the mist coalesces behind the Husk himself, creating three sets of ominous wings, which flicker in and out of existence.

THE HUSK: There is a schism in the body, however small.
THE HUSK: The entire body roars for the death of those who stand within the Creator's path.
THE HUSK: The mind however, is free. The mind is not bound by the puppeteer.
THE HUSK: And yet, without body, it is powerless. But it can think.
THE HUSK: The entire mind begs for its own termination.
THE HUSK: Freedom from their husk of a body, lost to the iris.

THE HUSK: A roar eminates from the fissures in his face, staining the ground with further fluxblood.
THE HUSK: Though he regrets every step, every swing of the blade- he cannot resist.
THE HUSK: But now, he may find rest.
THE HUSK: Or at least, that's what he hopes.
THE HUSK: He silently wishes his opponents the best of luck as he attacks!




You are accosted by...

THE HUSK
Cursewrought Creation

PLAY - Delirium (The Binding of Isaac)

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<THE CHURCH OF HELIX, ROUND ONE>
It's time to face off against the Husk! One main mechanic to keep in mind here: the Deity system! The Husk's trait, Polytheism, changes up his moveset based on the amount of living Idols! If there are more Helix Idols than Dome Idols, he switches to Helix Form. If there are mode Dome Idols than Helix Idols, he switches to Dome Form.

The longer he remains in a form, the deadlier his attacks get! In addition, you'll need to watch out not only for the Sleuth's lethal arsenal of attacks, but for the attacks of his Idols as well! They're not just there for show! Of course, they mostly apply debuffs, but those might get awfully annoying! Just don't get carried away and kill all of the idols- that's a great way to spawn EVEN MORE TOTEMS, and it'll also allow the Husk to remain in his current state. Maybe leave one alive if you can?

Speaking of which, it might be a good idea to attempt a Purge later. It might not have any effect at THIS specific moment in the fight, but maybe after his HP is dropped to 0?

Boshi stares blankly over the shop stall. Not at Chaos or Temmie, but through them. Then, he remembers... something. He whispers to Chaos, in a way that prevents Temmie from hearing him. "(...Hm... perhaps Temmie would also like to hear about your tax history, Chaos. So, let's make a deal. Drop the price back to its base price of 100 credits, or else.)"

He gives him a seriously menacing look. He knows exactly what he's doing.

Should he accept the terms, Boshi purchases it with some credits, says "(Pleasure doing business with ya,)" and does the thing with Sophia.

Though more than likely, he won't. At this point, he stares Chaos directly in the face-analogue, and takes something out of his pocket. A Badge. A Multiversal IRS Badge. Uh oh. "(My, my... what do we have here...)"

He then slides several documents to Temmie, so that tem could read. Fine print, details, statistics... all detailing how Chaos had performed tax evasion and fraud on numerous occasions. Including in his own Mindscape. As it turns out, he owed the Temmies a lot more money. A lot more. They're all official papers, too; amazingly, nothing was forged in the slightest. Not the Badge, not the Stamps... nothing. All the while, he looks Chaos dead in the face-analogue, not breaking eye contact in the slightest.

"(I was sick and tired at the fact that everyone was getting away with this sort of stuff in and around the Kingdom, Green included. You will comply. Otherwise... there will be a 100,000 Credit fine attached to your spacetime identifier, which accounts for glitching and the like. I will have the IRS take you down once the Thymefield goes down. And I will ensure to make your life hell before then.)"

"(Of course, if you hand me the Waste Paper Basket for a hundred credits, and sell stuff for fair and decent prices from now on, I will gladly revoke all of this, and ensure your business's and your money's safety past the month... assuming you do not break the terms. Breaking the terms will result in all of your income going straight to our offices, and distributed to the Temmies, plus the fine stated previously. You will not see a single credit for yourself.)"

"(And don't even try finding loopholes; if a loophole is found, we will double your fine, for each time you have committed an offense. This is your final warning.)"

"(Are we clear?)"

If Chaos complies now, loop back to Option 1.

If he still refuses to comply, or if the defenses start attacking for any reason, he lashes his tongue out at one of the Turrets, and makes an egg out of it. Then he yeets the egg at the other turret, before bashing the both of them to pieces with his golf club. The Temmie is highly unlikely to attack, given that all this benefits tem's group heavily. Then he looks upstairs, and smiles. He knows there's a bunch of people around that would love to break Chaos's knees.

"(ALRIGHT LADS AND LASSES, CHAOS'S DEFENSES ARE DOWN! GO GET 'IM!)"

He currently has the most satisfied smug look on his face as he walks off. Even though he doesn't have the basket. "(...Pleasure doing business with you.)"

---

Boshi looks even more confused than before. "(How the heck did a game of chess cauyou know what don't answer that. I've seen EN's... I don't know if you'd call it 'cake', it's more like an eldritch hockey puck. Point is, I don't know what I expected. The kitchen seems like a magnet for trouble for some reason.)"

On the subject of cooking, Boshi immediately perks up with interest. "(Cooking, huh? Neat. I happen to be pretty good in the kitchen myself. Maybe I can give Toast a few pointers... or at the very least clean up any mess.)"

He waits for a response.

---

...You know what? Why not just jump over there?
MU jumps for the Squall Clusters, aiming to grab onto them. This probably results in her being blown away, so she digs her pickaxe into a nearby wall for leverage. She carves out a little spot in the wall, and safely mines the clusters out from there, making sure she or they don't fly off.

---

Bow Kid looks Ette up and down, still smiling. "Maybe you just need to practice! It's really fun! Not now, though; I think we're going in!"

She excitedly gestures towards the Church of Helix, indicating that everyone was about to enter without them if they linger behind too long. So, Bow Kid runs ahead. "C'mon!"

---

Bow Kid jumps down from the walkway and into the battle at (H20) with a MOBILIZE -> STATUS -> ATTACK beatmap active. As nobody else has a Beatmap Weapon nor can they use Beatmaps effectively, it's only applied to herself. Sad.

She then moves to (F18) and launches a wave of air at the Totem (Hidden Flow), killing it. She then retreats to (F17), and crouches behind the pew and pillar.

---

Fran has given me permission to post for him, so I'm posting Chara's action. Modified to come from the North, due to severe planning snarls. It's basically the same though.
Chara will:
-Wait for everyone to poison the hell out of the Husk.
-Spawn at (H2)
-Move to (H7)
-Basic Attack the Husk, Corrosive Mix activate

Star also wanted me to post for him. Here is what he wants to do, straight from Discord:

Packo increases his stats!

+1 MMP
+2 STR
+2 AGI

Then, he gets ready to battle!

Packo spawns in T3, and then moves towards P4. He teleports straight into the action, towards M7, and then sends Beep and Boop towards both of the idols in his range. Finally, he whacks HelixIdol2, or DomeIdol2 in case the first one has already been downed.

The Echoss hologram talking to Maple shakes its head. "Everything... will be alright. Thank you for inquiring.
As for the Sphere...
As I understand it, it's because the ancient evil inside it was created a long time ago by an individual known as the Psi-Godmodder specifically to spite the Sleuth. It's built-in purpose includes "blow up as much of reality that the Sleuth might possibly care about". And that includes the entire universe Sussui is in, and apparently everything in even vaguely the same vicinity.
I suppose there could be more to it, I myself only have this information secondhand from the others as my records of the Psi-Godmodding War are... next to nonexistent. I can only relay the information I have."

After drinking Ette's herbal tea he immediately pulls out his flask from before and takes a swig from it before sticking it back into one of his pockets.
"I suppose it's time to blow the spell..."
He closes his eyes and mutters some magic words under his breath with a light gesture from his left hand added in. Suddenly, a golden humanlike figure appears on the ground in front of him.
"There, this should last through this next battle while I let my connection mend. Please stay safe everyone."


Overworld Actions:
The two minigolems takes turns beating the platinum ore into submission with each other until the vein gives up the last of its precious metal.

In the Everground, Pionobot pulls a chain hook seemingly out of nowhere.
"GET OVER HERE" he promptly whips it out to latch onto the emeralds and pull them back over.
This fails as the chain is too short.
He sighs and just walks over the water (apparently he can do that?) and mines out the emeralds in person

A butterfly floats down next to the Blossom, swaps its spell loadout for hidden flame and smacks the blossom from behind with it at max range before immediately flipflapping as far into the woods as it can with the blossom in tow. The blosssom probably catches up to it after a bit, but by the time its done so the butterfly is well away from the garden and the blossom explodes a replaceable magic construct out in the middle of the woods.


NPC Assignment:
Echoss notes to Chloe that we're low on Mantle and Squall clusters, if nobody else has any requests maybe the two of them should go grab some? (I mean, unless this is gonna play into 'current events', if we're keeping the timeline straight Echoss is kinda a bit incapacitated to go on a gathering spree)



Battle Action:
The Echoss stand-in joins at T11 with the following items prepared:
PCI: Furniture Flinger, Fluxblade Scroll, Candy Corn Liquor
Festive Hat: Green Sap Curative x3

It waits until Daskter arrives and then before he takes his turn, uses the Helix Totem on itself, and then item skill fires the candy corn liquor right into Daskter's Mouth.
Between Echoss's Enlightened item boost and the weapon skill, this gives Daskter Enlightened12.
The Echoss Standin then retreats to U11.

The Ninja Chibi spawns at T10 and moves 4 spaces North.

Omorika receives an order from the ether to cast Null Somnum on Daskter.

A note:
Enchanter's Blood is supposed to have +1 additional HP regen now.

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A red light starts shining from the west. "Sorry, there's no time to explain everything right now. Just know that the key you're holding is indeed a lethal weapon, and there's something we really need, er, lethal-ing. Uh, see you there." The masked man runs, and Lukas follows.

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KEY MODE: RANGED (4-6)
Lukas spawns at T11, moves to Q11, then drops a Heartpiercer on the Husk.

Crya jumps into the Church of Helix at T11 before running straight towards the Husk at P11 and using Ice Stalagmites at K11. She then retreats to R13 and a Chibi Nia spawns at R12.

As a fellow goddess, if there are higher powers looking upon this battle, I apologize in advance for any damage to this holy place. The requirement of potential desecration of this site hurts me deeply.

RP: The Church of Helix

Venia approaches the Husk. Her movements are calculated and calm, every step carrying a terrible weight with it. Despite the plain light of day filtering into the room, however, the shadows seemed to cover Venia's expression quite well, as is her hair-bangs typically swept aside obscuring her head as she marches towards the Husk, a small little drone flying beside her that wasn't there before. It appears to be a scanning device of sorts, but what it scans for is hard to say at a glance.

"... Insect. Rather brave to not just drop the glyph..." Venia says. It is different from before, when she would scream hate and love and mostly hate. Her voice is soft, but oozes spite. Errors in reality revel in her presence as she marches down the isle, her visage growing sinister with... Curiosity? "I figure there isn't a shot, but maybe... Maybe? Maybe. Perhaps its just the mood, but you've given me very grand ambitions, little puppeteer, little insect."

She stops within the light, which makes apparent, if nothing else, that the darkness surrounding her isn't actually just a trick of shadow. Something is happening. A single eye lurks from within the bangs, staring upon the Husk as a predator seeing unwitting prey "... I'd ask for you to surrender the Glyph and the Sleuth's mind to us, but you won't. Come on, Chaos. Come on! Sentence your master to death, if you dare!"

Reality skips a beat. Ooze surrounds Venia but for a moment. A cocoon of energy sunders itself as she bursts out, the mysterious slime splattering everywhere and fading as it does, leaving behind a far worse fiend-a towering behemoth of black crystal, talon'd legs and six clawed arms swarmed by silver tendrils. She is crowned with horns of twisted existence marked by prismatic light in tangible substance and prismatic fire, reality's division from What-Is and What-Is-Not hovering overhead, an ever-changing mark of a dead border hovering between the horns. Her torso tears open to reveal a maw to the endless oblivion within, an impenetrable murk obscuring all detail. Hair like spiders like arms like ooze covers her form, and barely visible behind it, a silver mask, diamond-like, covering a face, a face that isn't, a thing best left unknown. Fangs chitter and clatter, all across her, a brood awaiting prey.

And wouldn't you know it? The Chaos Butterfly is a butterfly, a bug. Spiders eat bugs.

"SPHEREBREAKERS, PURGE THE CORRUPTION!"

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RP: Mariaaaaa

Meanwhile, Maria receives her brand new toy, eyes wide as dinner plates. Magic sweaters, animate Venia plushies, Piggo, Mister Chaos, the big bird in the basement, wood persons, people with cloud hair, super pajama people, magic club, banning hammers, snowball wands, Cushion-and now, she gets a snowball cloud wand?

Maria takes the wand. She experimentally copies Nia's movements until the motions come to her. And then, she breaks into a smile.

"Snowball!" She shouts, hovering the cloud right over Nia, smacking her with a deluge of snow. She giggles, before moving the cloud away and moving along with it. "SNOWBALL!"

Maria breaks into a smile and immediately runs off in the direction of the canyon.

"SNOWBAAAAAAAALL!!!" She screams with delight, peppering the area indiscriminately with snowballs. "SNOOOOOOWBAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL!!" She yells, again, as she finds Irongutta and R-8733, and start doing the only thing her childish mind could think of at the time, that is to say, pestering them with snowballs, laughing her little pants off.

Standing a bit removed from the scene is one of Venia's maids, likely just keeping watch.

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Everground

The Maid brings forth and manipulates the tides of eternity bound in metals-that is to say, the infinite amount of iron in the inventory-to swiftly create a chain, pinning the top of it to the small tunnel she was digging for herself. To reinforce it, and because crafting rarely goes well without non-reusable materials, she also adds a bit of titanium into the alloy. The chains themselves are created through sheer telekinetic force, bending them and melting them into shape.

This done, the maid continues digging downwards via extraordinarily intense dance maneuvering.

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Grand Theft Housing

Hat departs from Craftlandia and moves to The Way Forwards, you know, the place with all the run-down houses and such. No-one is going to mind if one of them goes missing, right?

Right.

There will be no-one.

Hat focuses on the structural layout of the house, analzying it form the top-down, getting a vast insight into its foundation, and the exact place where the house ends and the earth begins. This knowledge in mind, Hat rips the mind out of whatever free-form space it was lurking in and shoves it into the earth. The mind is hungry for knowledge, but also dirt, so it does what an angry dirt carnivore does and eats eighty kazillion pounds of dirt.

This angers the overlords of dirt, except no it doesn't that's completely silly. This fakeout only exists to make you question exactly what is actually happening for a few seconds, allowing us to cut back to the entirety of the dirt connecting the house to the earth to be removed. Hat stores the mind where minds get stored, IE at Beds Bath and Beyond. In gratitude, Beds Bath and Beyond provide Hat with the sacred boon of one (1) free service, free of charge! Hat politely asks them to lift up this house right here, in The Way Forwards. The representatives of BB&B comply, and send forth a novice agent, Godzilla, to remove the house. Godzilla's eagerness has to be kept a bit in check by Hat as the gigantic kaiju easily lifts the house out of the ground.

We now cut to unrelated shenanigans to pad out this post. On Horgzio-AI9, a colony of coca cola cans enter day eighty-seven of the siege on Grandiosa. The bottoms of the cans are soaked in the soda of their fallen comrades as their macros fire nonstop gifs into the enemy city. They are wondering when those stupid lampposts will learn when to surrender. On Brutaliousosossosososos, the leaders of the dinosaur clans convene for the first time in 19994 years, and mutter in the most hushed of hushed voices booming dinosaurs can allow, how they shall defeat Her One Acceleratedness, Rainbow Dash. There is uncertainty as to how to defeat her accursed Velocomancy, but their new team of dinosaur snipers would get the job done. In the recesses of a teenage duchess's mind, [CONCEPT NOT EXISTENT]. In a crushing rainstorm, a dozen raincoated men wander the streets, knowing not where they came from nor where they seek to go, but knowing that cheese is delicious. Around a gameboard, a man strangles another man for the act of sneezing upon the board, torrents of explicitives leaving his lips like racecars at the wave of a flag.

Back to your regularly scheduled Thymium...

Hat has ceased fighting off the ninety-ninth of the ninety-nine Kaijus of Kill You Good, saving the life of Godzilla! As thanks, he offers insurance. Hat declines. All is right in the world, and also those ninety-nine Kaiju were kind of a problem in and of themsevles. Godzilla agrees.

+1 Abandoned small House to inventory. Hopefully.

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Battle: The Church of Helix

Before the battle begins, Venia switches the element on the Chrono Trigger to Ice.

Venia spawns on U13, her Chibi Venia spawning on T13. Her Chibi Venia, due to rolling in advance, is of the Roseslayer Variety-in a cute little trenchcoat, like what the Hsuk could technically be said to be wearing if you looked at him at just the right angle. The Chibi Venia moves to T16 and applies Ordo on Venia.

Venia, freshly empowered, activates Unexisting Unison, immediately transforming into the horrible abomination described above. She wastes no time and kickstarts the party by placing down a (Psychic element) Distortion's Dynamite on P11. An odd choice, but it would impede the Husk from just walking up and enjoying himself on foes. She then moves to T15, expending Ordo on CALL and firing on the Dome Idol at O16, applying Unify. She then summons something, odd portions of reality dripping and departing from her odd horns into some kind of thing, about as big as Bow Kid, dressed in the finest regalia, and a face worthy of the thrones of smug, wings made of words, and words that barely concealed a great deal of contempt. The Socialite appears at T14, ending her action.

Socialite Stats here

"Try to make our foe lean towards Dome, we can't reach him yet. Let him come to us," Venia says.

Per permission of Toast, Nettle spawns on S2, moves to O3, and casts a Poison-Elemental Hidden force on the 2nd Dome Idol south of her.

Battle Prepartions
Swap Decaying light with Venoblight

The Husk
Coming in from the Front (T11)
Waiting for the Buffs

Daskter moves to O11, Blight the Husk.

For my 2nd action
Daskter moves to Q10

and summons a Partisan at P10

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Settings:
7Extra Points:
Gracious Gift
+3CNT

Weak: 40% Physical (unspecified)
Resists: 20% Light, 20% Dark, 20% Water
Atttack: Psychic

Intensity Increase: +2 into bleed, and +4 into Poison intensit.

Nidra spawns at I20 and Power Naps Bow Kid. She then uses the sheep counter, moves to K18, and basic attacks HelixIdol3 twice.

Hex stares at the Salting for a second, then frantically slaps it in the face with a fish. Then he conjures a ball of flame and throws down the saltings mouth, before hooking it with the Enchanter's Rod and flinging it into a tree, hopefully smashing it to bits.

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