Fluxknife on <0>

Fluxknife on <0>

Panic

Keiko moves to F9.

Summa used the Bloody Scarf to teleport next to the DomeIdol3 at K4! These tables aren't going to stop her from getting the kill! She double attacks the Dome Idol, making quick work of the idol.

Battle: The Church of Helix
Irongutta (as Piggo) moves to X12 by using V13 and W13. This moves him a total of 3 spaces to grant his next basic attack a 60% damage buff! Halberd still held firmly in his mouth, he awkwardly slashes at the NaClestial!

Since he now knows that Piggo can understand him, Irongutta (as Piggo) squeals out an order to him to try and attack the NaClestial as well!

Thina backs up to Q10 and burns 15 HP on transfusion, getting... 34 HP worth of healing? She targets any injured party members in range with healing, prioritizing non-summons.

<ROUND ONE-HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE>

Echoss and Omo make some plans. He thinks about setting up an anti-Iti geobook system. She ponders the idea for a moment.

OMORIKA: It should be viable.
OMORIKA: However, we also may want to consider using those tiles to create an array of panels used for buffing ourselves.
OMORIKA: Either would be a desirable defensive measure.

OMORIKA: As for creating that... I'll require plenty of Manabloom. Mostly for potions. As well as some books, empty or otherwise.
OMORIKA: If you have more potent forms of mana restoration... or perhaps coffee, they'd be a huge help as well if we do create this.

He also muses about his plans about what he might be building. Omo hands him a sheet of paper.

OMORIKA: Ah, why not draw out your plans?
OMORIKA: Draw them out, then perhaps I could manipulate some wood into a "wireframe" of sorts.
OMORIKA: Try, say... illustrating it with a pencil, a pen, or your favorite spreadsheet program.
OMORIKA: Whatever that last one is.

His golems nudge some sandbags around, and also piece together a door downstairs to complete a room. Omo opts to join the golems in working, throwing together another pile of building materials.

Then, down in the Everground, Pionobot deposits his loot into a bucket, then checks out the lake. There's really not much to speak of in there. Boo. Maybe it's time to go deeper into the caves?

In addition, Chloe is comissioned to go and get some Yellow Sap, as well as some Yggherbs. She nods, if a bit sleepily.

CHLOE: Sure!
CHLOE: I... I guess I could explore the Endless Gardens?
CHLOE: That'll probably work. L-Let's go!

She ventures to Zone 3, eventually returning with a wheelbarrow full of jars. Each jar contains varying amounts of sap. Chloe is clearly exhausted.

CHLOE: O-Okay, so...
CHLOE: N-Nothing... really interesting happened. I found some intact trees amidst a bunch of burnt stuff, a-and I extracted what I-I could...
CHLOE: Plucked a few herbs when I-I could, too.../color]

Chloe takes a seat, taking deep breaths. She pulls out a small canteen of water, and splashes some on her already slick, sweaty face. She takes a look at Echoss, a mix of exhaustion and frustration in her eyes.

<span style='font-family:courier new'>CHLOE: Y-You really haven't b-been letting up with these requests, h-have you?
CHLOE: Obvious, I'm h-happy to provide, and I want to provide, but i-it's getting pretty exhausting...
CHLOE: D-Do you have anything t-to help with this? Energy drinks? C-Coffee? Something?
CHLOE: I-I don't think it'd be ideal if I just went and stopped grabbing things...

She's too exhausted to unload the wheelbarrow properly, so Echoss does it for her. 20 Yellow Sap Blobs, 5 Red Sap Blobs, and 5 Blue Sap Blobs found! She also drops 25 Yggherbs and 2 Yggapples into the inventory.

---

Auth finishes up some chats. First, he explains his blood to Chloe, noting that the Masters gave this boon to him. She nods, and the two of them wrap up their lesson about colors. This doesn't stop Chloe's seemingly endless stream of curiosity.

CHLOE: Ah, who are the Masters?
CHLOE: They must be really powerful, if your magical blood is a "boon" from them.

CHLOE: Also, your world's generally just fascinating in general!
CHLOE: Even though it has e-eyeball eating s-spiders, b-but I guess t-that's still fascinating, isn't it?
CHLOE: S-Sorry for bothering you with so many questions, but I like listening to everyone talk about their own worlds.
CHLOE: It's all so... different!

...Maybe as a change of pace, Auth should ask Chloe something? It'd probably be fun. Anyway, while Chloe awaits an answer of sorts, Auth also decides to sit with Nana, and read with her. She blushes a faint green once again.

NANA: A-Alright! Thank you!
NANA: So... u-um... let's start?

The two of them sit down together, quietly reading through the events of the Hobbit. It seems that Nana's quite the quick reader, and she occasionally poses random questions to Auth about various concepts in the book.

NANA: Oh, what are dwarves and elves?
NANA: They've come up a few times, and I'm thinking they're like, a different species?
NANA: Like... say, Chairians and Tabletopians.
NANA: Or maybe it's a nationality?

...The GM notes that he'll probably need to read all of the Hobbit for accurate roleplaying. Except he probably won't have time for that, so he attempts to shill Audible in an attempt to get free ebooks or something. Anyway, the two of them will probably be reading for awhile- maybe it'd be a good place to leave off until after they meet up after the Church raid?

---

Maria calls out to Cushion. Cushion heeds Maria's call, and lands in-front of the entryway to the Church. It crouches down, so that maybe Maria can hitch a ride. R-8733 meanwhile, is naturally drawn to its fluff. He moves over, producing a tool from his backpack.

R-8733: Oh, is this your Spiralfloof?
R-8733: I've heard they're hard to tame. How'd you manage to get one, if you're not even a Chairian?
R-8733: Huh.

R-8733: Anyway, a favor.
R-8733: Mind if I take a bit of its fluff?
R-8733: It'll grow back, don't worry.
R-8733: Spiralfloof cotton is a pretty valuable material... and believe it or not, it has practical applications in my work.
R-8733: It's mostly just really practical as an insulator, which can be helpful for a few things.
R-8733: I promise I won't take much.

Would Maria willingly give up some fluffiness? This is perhaps the hardest question she'll ever face in her life.

Meanwhile, down in the Everground, Venia's maid spritzes some healing potion onto the various burns located upon the eyestalk. It recoils at the sensation of something splashing against its already sensitive eye, thrashing violently around the room! While it flails, it slams into the maid, dealing (7) HP worth of damage to her! This however, still does heal the eye. Once it stops flailing, it goes back to staring at Venia, its attention fixated on her. It tries to get various views on her, but it doesn't dare approach her. The eyestalk is certainly more lively than before, though.

Is it a happy eyestalk? Who even knows? Is it possible to investigate this stuff?

---

Simeon... exists. His existence naturally lends itself to someone coming over to him and talking. Namely, he gets visited by Omorika, who's busy working on things around the house.

OMORIKA: Ah, greetings.
OMORIKA: I have seen you around the vicinity, but not for long periods of time.
OMORIKA: I am Stella Omorika, former member of the Chairian council, the Highchair.
OMORIKA: And who may you be?

---

Leaf revives an older roleplay! She giggles as Nia pops her head out of a snowdrift, and pats Nia on the head, alerting Venia Nia's spider. It [INSERT FRIENDLY SPIDER NOISE HERE]s towards her, prompting Nia to also give it a pat.

NIA: We gotta learn to ride it sideways!
NIA: That's like, the cool fun thing that we gotta learn with these guys!
NIA: I can pick up Venia on my spider, but sideways!
NIA: I mean, she'd probably fall off because she'd need the training too, but it'd still be awesome!

Leaf then proposes a race. Nia nods, not acknowledging that she's likely about to get her butt whooped by miss professional spider tamer.

NIA: Alright! You're on!
NIA: Me and... I'll call him Eggo, yeah, me and Eggo will kick your gorilla!
NIA: We are the fastest things alive! It's like if Usain Bolt was riding a spider!
NIA: ...Wait, that's not how that works.
NIA: Whatever!</span>

Nia awaits directions. How will the race be? Point A to Point B? Will there be items on? What's the policy on blue shells?

---

<THE CHURCH OF HELIX, ROUND EIGHT>
Taeda rushes down the Butterfly, and smashes it across the eye with her staff. As it recoils from the blow, she casts her staff to the side, and begins to yell at the demon.

TAEDA: [color=#ff0000]HERETIC!

Without warning, she suddenly lunges for the Butterfly with a full-body tackle! The Butterfly simply stares as she approaches. What good could she, a frail little cleric, hope to do? Answer: slam into him as hard as she can, knocking them both to the ground. The Butterfly flails, but its body seems to be failing it. What's going on?

<0>: H<0>W? THIS B<0>DY SH<0>ULD BE STR<0>NG EN<0>UGH T<0> RESIST A FRAGILE BEING LIKE Y<0>U.

Too pissed to offer a proper response, Taeda bops the Butterfly in the eye with her fist, dealing minimal damage. This does however, give her a nice opportunity to pin down the Butterfly with her body! She then frees an El-Ite knife from the inventory, of the Ice element. She grips it with both hands.

TAEDA: YOU WILL KNOW TRUE PAIN BEFORE I ALLOW YOU TO DIE!
TAEDA: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

With a swift, brutal motion, Taeda jams the knife into the Butterfly's eye. This deals a minuscule amount of damage. The Butterfly begins to laugh, tendrils breaking free of the body to flank the priestess. They both form into razor-sharp points.

<0>: IS THAT Y<0>UR GRAND PLAN?
<0>: PATHETI-

...All of a sudden, the Sleuth's body begins to glow with the light of the Purge! A searing pain begins to light up the Butterfly's systems. Its voice suddenly fills with agony!

<0>: WAIT, WHAT HAVE Y<0>U D<0>NE?
TAEDA: IT IS CLEAR TO ME! HELIX HAS FINALLY PROPERLY ANSWERED MY CALL FOR YOUR UNDOING!
TAEDA: AHAHAHAHAHAHA! MY LORD, I OFFER THIS SACRIFICE TO YOU! SEND THIS HERETIC TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL!

Taeda flips out, and begins to rapidly stab her knife into the Butterfly. No zone is off-limits. The eye, the iris, the body, the flesh, the arms- everywhere begins to obtain the smallest, most insignificant puncture wounds. And yet, these seem to massively harm the Butterfly, with both light and crimson mist spewing out of every little stab wound! The Butterfly spasms, totally unable to protect itself.

<0>: H<0>W? THIS P<0>WER WAS L<0>ST! WE MADE SURE <0>F IT!
TAEDA: I DON'T CARE! DIE, DIE, DIE!

The eye rips open, and begins to shriek an eldritch echo. This only spurs Taeda onwards, using one hand to pin the eyeball down. She then begins to focus her attacks solely on the eye, ripping into it with all of her fury. The Sleuth's body meanwhile, grows ever brighter, and the eyeball begins to shrivel up somewhat.

<0>: I SHALL N<0>T BE FELLED BY AN INFERI<0>R F<0>RM LIKE Y<0>URSELF!
TAEDA: WHY. WON'T. YOU. DIE!? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

The Sleuth's body suddenly detonates! Taeda is sent flying a short distance, and into a pile of rubble near Chloe. She's a little scuffed up, and there's sap flowing from her lip, but otherwise she's mostly unharmed. She scrambles to get up as the Butterfly rises up into the air, free of the Sleuth's body. It begins to speak.

<0>: <0>UTSIDERS. SPHEREBREAKERS.
<0>: THIS SHALL N<0>T END.
<0>: Y<0>U MIGHT THINK Y<0>URSELVES VICT<0>RI<0>US, BUT THIS IS BUT A BATTLE.
<0>: Y<0>UR STRUGGLES ARE-

The Butterfly is promptly cut off when Taeda snags Chloe's Entropic Key and begins to blast the Butterfly with a series of long-ranged blasts! Small chunks of the Butterfly are blown away!

TAEDA: I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU! GET BACK HERE!

One of these beams impacts the eye, prompting the creature to vomit up the head of the Sleuth! It appears to be mostly undamaged, despite it being covered in fluxblood. The Butterfly, in a panic, begins to flap its wings rapidly! As a final act of defiance before it escapes, Taeda grabs a rock from the wreckage of the Church's floor, and bats it towards the Butterfly! Perhaps unsurprisingly, the rock bounces off harmlessly, and the Butterfly manages to escape, a cloud of crimson scales ripping through the church ceiling. Taeda can do little but yell and scream at it.

TAEDA: YOU COWARD! GET BACK HERE!
TAEDA: I WILL HAVE YOUR...
TAEDA: Your... h-head...?

Taeda comes to her senses, and with those senses, comes total exhaustion. She's never quite moved like that before. She falls backwards, where Chloe's available to catch her. The exhausted priestess rests in Chloe's arms as she tries to get a sense of her situation.

TAEDA: U-Ugh...
TAEDA: C-Chloe, why am I so tired? E-Everything's all... h-heavy...
CHLOE: Huh? You... don't remember?
CHLOE: We'll explain later, but for now... I think you've earned a break.
TAEDA: A-Alright...

The priestess gives a cute yawn, before falling asleep within the swordswoman's arms. Chloe remains standing, still holding Taeda in her arms. She takes a few deep breaths.

CHLOE: Holy gorilla.
CHLOE: D-Did we just... win? Against the Butterfly?
CHLOE: I-I can't believe it! W-We actually won!
NIA: Why're you so surprised? Darn thing didn't stand a chance~
MARI: That's awfully cocky of you.
MARI: Still, I can't believe we pulled that off...
MARI: also, dibs on the dude's head
OMORIKA: Indeed.
OMORIKA: And yet, I can't help but feel we still have work to do.

The Librarian's gaze falls upon the statue at the back of the room. The one that Magnolia went through.

OMORIKA: Why were the Rose here?
OMORIKA: Perhaps we've stumbled upon something... grim. Something we can't leave unchecked.
CHLOE: W-What do you mean?
OMORIKA: This... may be the base of the Rose Cult.
OMORIKA: I can't be sure, but I at the very least, have my suspicions.
CHLOE: ...Oh.
CHLOE: I guess our work's never done, is it?
CHLOE: But for now... let's take a load off for a bit. We've earned this victory!
OMORIKA: Indeed. We have earned our right to a quick break.

...And with that, your battle with the Butterfly has concluded! Once the next update rolls around, you'll be able to progress beyond the statue, and see whatever hellscape lies beyond there! For now, maybe take this moment to explore a bit of the Church of Helix, distribute skillpoints, and take a look at your loot? In addition, you may now equip full Tier 5 gear, as well as a single Tier 6 item! See what new chaos you can create with that!

In addition, tomorrow will bring new shop items to the Triangle Emporium, as well as new Relic Items in the Temmie Shop! The next proper update will bring a new patch to the game to address some concerns that occurred within the battle. Also be sure to check up on your allies- everyone's been through a lot today!

Anyway, thanks for playing! Be sure to stay tuned for what's in store!

Overworld Actions:
Upon the defeat of the butterfly, the Echoss echo nods, and then slowly fades away as the party celebrates.

Upon Chloe coming back Echoss jolts a bit.
"No, no... I'm sorry Chlo-Miss Elem. I shouldn't be driving you so hard. Here, I'll get you one of the cups of coffee, I believe the machine downstairs has a good amount."
Echoss hurries downstairs and quickly returns, coffee in hand.
"If you need to take a moment to rest, that's alright Miss Elem. There are enough of us here that someone, g̶͟e̷l͡r͝th̸̨̀, even I could... Echoss blinks when he abruptly realizes he's just cursed in eldritch. Ah, apologies for the language. Even I could help do some of it. You just take a break for right now, okay?"

In the Everground, Piono exits the lake and drops down to the next level, before carefully harvesting some of the Mantle Clusters in the Sheer Drop.


With Omorika, Echoss nods.
"As I'm thinking about it, my ideas may not be perfectly functional given the current space, we may need to clear just a little bit more.
The garden farm has another bout of crops ready to be harvested in not too long, there'll be fresh manabloom among that number and depending on how many credits we have to spare we can obtain some higher quality potions from Y.V. And we also have coffee available still, feel free to take stock of what we have in the inventory and let me know how much more we'll need."

Echoss pulls a clipboard with blueprint paper on it out of his coat pocket and moves back to the house, which he leans against and begins scribbling away at the blueprints.
Then a thing happens, it will probably be in Ziah's post.
Then the thing finishes happening and Echoss comes back and finishes drawing up his plans.

Tentative plans.

Current Building plans:
~24 bunk beds spread across two floors
Restroom areas to North so people can shower and stuff
Connect it to the main structure. Have them share walls?
Security options:
- More Turrets
- Geo Panels (need lots of manabloom, coffee, and books. Mostly need more books)
- enchanted windows
- Portals between parts of the house? (more turrets, anti-Iti geo panels?, barbed wire)


To do: upgrade my gear, apply my new statpoints.


Also something something research.

Last turn, Lukas calmly shoots Origin<0> in the face with a Purge.

Trait change!

Trait is now Battlefield Promotions
and Special is Veteran Reserves

Also decaying light back please. No more Venoblight
Also equip the Sage Robes

If possible, swap Tactician Implant with Aeternalis Ribbon
then also grab a Terraform Spell

+4MMP
-1INT
-1SPC

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bhm...t#gid=642769104

The Airship
Aesthetics:
I added a lounging area, stealing the bookshelves filled with manga from the library, the TV made of bookshelves, a library computer from the inventory, and couches made with (T5) Spiralfloof Floofballs (x4) padding on (x2) Iron frames.
The lounge area is a great place to simply hang out in the airship.

I add to the display pieces on the airship by taking the last display piece in the basement, and it proudly displays a command banner with the spherebreaker's symbol.

Hull:
The hull is reinforced with bands of (T4) Megabark (x10). Increasing armor and survivability greatly.

Systems: The ship is made of wood... probably would be smart if we add sprinkler and maybe other firefighting stuff later on.

A system using a combination of raindrop and frigid crystal (x5 each) are placed around the ship, initially inactive, each pair of crystals is activated (x5) ashen crystals detecting fire.

The Altar under the Whispering Library
Daskter moves to the sewers with the group, for science he will donate his blood.
It's going to be pretty interesting.
... and painful I guess

RP: Basement of Helix

Venia fires bullets after the Butterfly even as it begins speaking, taking Taeda's cue to keep firing until the beast completely fled-or at least she tried, but her ability to hold the form gave out quite abruptly on her, and she fell to the ground and-

"OH GOD! DON'T SCREAM!"

-holy crap it hurt. It hurt. It hurt. It hurt like nothing else in the world, like her body was on fire, like her head was going to break like glass and her body was about to melt from the torment. She writhed on the ground, too much for her to do anything other than bite her tongue and still she made a pathetic noise. The pain was everywhere and it would not leave her-Venia realized what it meant, Maids materialized and put bands on her wrists and ankles and joints and other places, a ward to remove that horrid goop from her insides as swiftly as possible. Voices assaulted her mind.

"You can't even keep yourself alive. Falling in love with you was a mistake. What will I do with this grief...?"

"V-venny... Venneeeyyyyy... Whhhhyyyyy?"

Venia's mind races, and given its Venia's mind racing it quickly comes to the logical conclusion: the form she calls Unexisting Unison is extremely dangerous in her current state. Perhaps her degrading identity combined with the fact she was effectively merging with her soul-effectively the spiritual manifestation of her identity-was perhaps like pain medications, not soothing the illness but numbing the agony instead. And it just wore off, all at once, without treatement. Venia's mind races as to why... She could just go back to developing an artificial-

"YOU ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME AND YET YOU STILL FIND EXCUSES TO DELAY. YOU MUST TAKE FROM OTHERS TO GIVE BACK TO YOURSELF. OTHERWISE, ROT."

- Or there was that.

Venia groans as her body and her existence stabilize and she realizes-though it came from the darkest parts of her mind, the desires she can't abide by even in the worst of times-that her time was running out. She had a kind of spell for the occasion, but she was reluctant to use it, second only to the use of the mask spiders. A spell to strike at the very core of something, to rip out a part of the nebulous concept of their existence and give to her. It would take much more than what she could deal with it to completely erase them like she would be, and it would recover in time Hers wouldn't. Hers was actively degrading. She would need every scrap. It would have to do.

She still was laying on the floor, now back to manageable amounts of pain, at least. She looked at Nia, who was conversing with Chloe. A burning feeling rose inside her-and then she assured herself. Chloe was not interested in Nia in that manner. Why was she getting so worked up over it, though? So immediately?

What she should be getting worked up over was defeating the Butterfly! The freak of nature that corrupted the Sleuth and had terrorized Sussui for who-knows-how-long, and it was sent in enough pain and agony to get out of dodge sooner than fight them. Again. "This is but a battle" her ass, the Butterfly fled in fear and barely kept up a poker face over it. It was good at keeping a facade going, but not good enough.

Venia eventually stood up with the help of her maids, and tried to focus on the victory as opposed to her imminent mortality. "... We won. W-we won. I... I can't actually believe it. We, we seriously won. No-body died, either. G-good work guys! Great work! This is a, a big win. And we got the Glyph in a reasonable timeframe for once, too!" Venia said, as her Socialite held it triumphantly overhead. "Omorika! Uh. That was awesome, what we did, and also I have to say, uh, like, please. Never do that again, uh, ever. Ever. My body is screaming at me to die. Let's just call that a side-effect of overusage of those types of spells... Yeah, and uh, never do that again, please. Apologies... N-not your fault."

She had done too much-that was the other thing. Her body was still weak. But she could stand and fight, and she'd give every inch for it. She wants to live, for her.

"Nia! Awesome work, as always. Like, uh, uh. What'd you think of that, like, crazy thing we did?... I'm not doing that again. Uh, yeah. Not, not gonna lie. It hurt. It hurt really, really hard. That wasn't good for me. Uh, but, enough of that. Dates! Dates. I think now is a good time as any to wind down a bit. Yeah. Yeah. Uh. Church is kinda out, Yggdrasil's crowded with Chairians... Or we could just teleport to the top or something, uh. I'unno. Altar garden? It looks peaceful. I'l meet you over there in a few, uh, if, if you don't have any objections."

After getting the location of the date sorted out, she turns to Mari and the Sleuth's head, and she ponders. Previously, Xavier couldn't do anything to stop the Butterfly, as the files he had copied the Butterfly with it. As long as the Sleuth was cursed, so too would his manifold descendants be cursed.

...But the Sleuth was no longer cursed. The curse itself flew off and abandoned the Sleuth's head, likely the only place where the Sleuth's consciousness remains.

"Mari, you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?"

---

Mariaaa

"Oooh, oooh, uh. Animals love me, and I love animals. I am like, an animal happiness person. Animals are happy around me, and they love me, and I love them and pet them. Cushion was restin' on the roof and I saw him and he was cute and I petted him a bunch and fed him some funny kitty food, and now he is my friend and I love him."

She ponders R-8733's request. "Mister, why don'tcha just go into the, uh, inventory? Inventory. En-ven-Tor-E. Inventory! Uh, all'a Venny's friends talk about it a lot and they get stuff from it, and I'unno what's in there but maybe there's some fluffy? I love fluffy-"

It is at this juncture that the Chaos Butterfly explodes from the top of the Church of Helix. Maria shrieks at the noise, and witnesses the horror flying on high, eyes transfixed.

"... That was awesome!... Wait, wait! Venny's in there!" Maria says. Then, realizing what she just said, she shrieks. "VENNY'S IN THERE!"

Maria mounts Cushion and immediately orders him to fly into the Church of Helix. She sees the awful hole in the floor and no-one around. "Are they down there? Cushion, fly down there!" Maria shouts. Cushion leaps into the hole, and descends in a perfectly controlled manner. And there she is-Venia! Standing next to the weird cloud-haired lady (Mari?) and a decapitated head (Ewwww... Cooooool.)

"VENNY! VENNY! Are you OK?! I saw the big thingy fly out of the church and it was cool but it also looked weird and I thought it hurt you with all the noise! I thought this was a party! ... I like parties. Are you OK?!" Maria shouts.

"I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm fine, Maria..." Venia says, trailing off.

"Oh. ... Yaaaay! What happened?" Maria says as Cushion lands on the floor.

"We kicked the fiend's butt, is what happened." Venia says.

"Oh! Yaaaaaaaay! Uh, wuzzat?" Maria says, pointing at the severed head. "What're you doin? Also what was the thingy on the window upstairs? And why's there a hole here? And who's that on the statue? What's an inventory?" Maria asks, in rapid fire.

---

Shopping/Research

Venia snags a Radvessel from YV for 2,000 credits. This will raise the skillpoint softcap to 13. She also purchases the Omega Processor and Fast Travel Beacon from the Temmie Shop, for 1,000 Credits each.

Venia instantly buys Realization and Anomalous. The instant she completes the machine associated with Realizeation, she intently watches the Entropic Key and wonders what form it will take next. As for anomalous, she mutters to herself, brow crossed. "... The flesh-manipulating abilities of this Flux thing... In conjunction with that... Yeah. I'll need data of more Flux Mutations. Err, if there's truly a limited number as conceptual data suggests, it'd be all of them, in fact... Bleugh. This is absolutely awful but I guess I'm doing it."

...She also buys Relinquish Will and Impose Penace. "... Prior experiences... Have given me, given me pretty easy insight into how it all works. Its a bit, a bit, bit different from what I'm... Err. What I'm used to, but it should work in the Thymefield... Still though, exercise restraint on its use. Such violations of free will are... Yeah. Yeah. Bad."

She also unlocks the perk lab and with it picks up Strong Throwing Arm.

Finally, unless anyone stops her, she'll use the Research Nanomachines that everyone forgot about to instant-buy CAVBoost V2. Yay!

---

Skillpoints/Such

Venia removes a single point of MHP to add Anomalous to her Perks.

Venia changes Unexisting Union to Unexisting Force.

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Crafting

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Other

The Silver-Gold Chainbracelet receives an emergency patch in the form of changing Roseslayer Venia's buff! It now grants Guardian2 and Erroveil2 in Range 1-3, instead of Ordo.

Crya switches from Glacial Monolith back to Hailstorm, deciding to put her 2 extra skillpoints into Hailstorm, keeping the point that was originally for Glacial Monolith with Hailstorm.

<RESPECLAND>
It's that time of the month again. (The build is in the tab "Lukas Gets His Wings.")

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<MEANWHILE...>
This turn, Lukas has a galaxy brain moment and equips Anomalous. His form flickers in and out, briefly becoming a silhouette of itself, then returning to normal. This time, however, he looks older, and a pair of ethereal wings has sprouted from his back. He looks around, and walks around aimlessly. The crown of flowers decorating his head begins to... bleed, somehow.

The masked man returns to check on the situation. "Looks like that thing's gone." Lukas flies towards him, and floats in place, looking at him menacingly.

"Who... who am I?"

The man looks away, then back at the now-older kid. "I dunno, honestly. I literally just met you today."

Lukas drops to the ground, and continues wandering.

Bow Kid shuffles stuff!

-(Drop Loaded Spellbook)
-(Replace Sword Beam with Mirror Image)
-(Replace Aerobeam with Deep Thinking)
-(-1 INT)
-(+3 SPC)
-(3 KP into Hidden Flow/Flux (Manafuelled2))

She also crafts a few things!





Crafted Items Here!

She also decides to T5 upgrade her Longwave Radio at Marron's. She asks if they could make the beatmap stuff better in some way; maybe add an extra beat in there if they can? Or, if that's too much, maybe an extra beat change per use? Though if either would be too much, just go with something else. Of course, she gives the credits. Only enough for 1 copy, though.

Of course, she equips everything.

---

"Yay, we won!"
"Yay, we won!"

After the battle, the two Bow Kids high-five each other in celebration... only for their hands to get stuck together, causing confusion, and panic as the two begin merging back together. Bow Kid 2, aware of what's going on, says "Goodbye..." before merging back into Bow Kid 1 entirely, forming the full Bow Kid. She seems a bit down due to the disappearance of her other half, but not cripplingly so. "Aww..."

...She walks into the Northern Transept.

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MU has been stationary for all this time. However, all this time she decided to charge up a laser! Temporal energy practically radiates from her as she focuses her attention downward. She begins floating...

Then, she fires a laser downward, aiming to drill and clear out all the dirt, rock and rubble out of the way. It's awful bright and noisy, though...

Once that's completed, she brings down even more iron chains.

-3 SKI
-1 MHP
+Limit Breaker Perk.
+2 MMP
+2 INT
+1 SPC
Also, she should have 8 HIT from her weapon.

She also swaps back Nettle Burst for Hidden Rock/Toxin. Maybe worth keeping the latter around, though?

She also uses the Grand Fluxblood to upgrade her armor to the Arboreal Domain. Manipulating the Grand Fluxblood is a simple process, even with the crudeness of her flux-influenced staff. It surrounds the amulet of her Natural Domain, entering each groove and enhancing its sinister powers. She immediately equips it.

Armor: Arboreal Domain (T6)
Still not really armor.
Effects: (+6 INT) (+6 MMP) (+3 DEF) (-2 AGI) (Root Domain+)
Resists: Piercing (30%). Crushing (30%). Earth (40%). Dark (20%). Fire (-20%).
[Root Domain+]: You may remove a Downed entity within Range 1-4 as a standard action. Twice per battle, you may do so as a Bonus Action. Unavoidable if you have 10 or higher Overgrowth Threshold.

She commissions Marron to make her a new trinket, as well, since no-one else appears to be using the service. Just the one copy. She replaces the Nexus Rune with it.

Trinket: Soothing Token (T5)
Effects: (+1 INT) (+3 MMP) (Untense) (-1 AGI)
Resists: (20% Psychic) (-10% Fire)
[Untense]: Per battle, the first three instances of damage you take while meditating are ignored for the purposes of successful meditation. They still deal damage and such as they would normally.
This also includes effects such as Deep Thinking.

The battle is over. The butterfly got yeeted out of the sleuth's body and has buggered off. Yet, to Calibri, it doesn't really feel like a victory - for one thing, that means that copy of the butterfly is still alive, and for another, he's currently experiencing severe agony owing to soul damage. As such, he immediately collapses onto the ground once the butterfly is out of sight, laying there and staring upwards at the ceiling of the church.

"...Agh... Another one exists now..."

He remains where he is for quite some time, then eventually decides he has things to do. As such, he braces himself on the floor with one hand, then pushes himself back to his feet, wincing and staggering a little in the process. Once he feels he can walk okay, he wanders over to each of the sturdy wooden doors to check if there's anything in the transepts, then, lacking anything better to do, he goes over to Chloe.

"Heya Chloe. Felt like it'd be nice to... just... talk or something for a while..."

...It's pretty obvious to anyone who can see Calibri and understand injuries that he's not doing well. He's standing with a heavy lean on one leg, has a rather nasty series of vicious dusty cracks running down the side of his face and a long way down his body, and is holding a small spherical object with a similar pattern of cracks in it.


Verdana, meanwhile, is completely oblivious as to the issue his sibling is currently facing. He's buggered off to the north, specifically investigating the damaged barracks northways from the town armory.

"This may seem like a stupid move, but it's worth checking the ruined buildings. Who knows if there's a secret pocket of cultists, native animal species, or treasures in them? Or at the very least some supplies."

...There's also a Chibi Nia trailing him. She's dressed in a wizard outfit, and seems to be deliberately etching a trail into the ground so Verdana doesn't get lost.

Dialogue format dump zone

The air chills. So does existence itself, it feels like.

In one moment, nothing happens. In the very next, a human-shaped portion of the empty space a few feet ahead of Chloe breaks, unexplainable shards of ice collapsing to the ground to reveal the Child of Poisons standing there. They immediately launch into a fiery tirade.

CHARA: The shortest term one could use to describe the Masters is "monsters."
CHARA: And I speak that from a mostly objective standpoint, even, when you consider who the members are. A cheapskate who drove a girl to suicide. A murdery gorilla. A drug dealer. A paranoid loon who runs a game of killing others repeatedly. A warmonger whose orphanage is something right out of Anne Frank's postmortem nightmares. A gorilla even more murdery than the last. A greedy nutso. Oh, and don't you even dare try defend Pages, it outright killed me in my first life as an author when I refused to give up my work.
CHARA: The closest thing to a good guy they have is either dead, and also drives people to cannibalism, or the one who sells human meat.

The newcomer finally takes a deep breath, before plopping down onto the ground and procuring a sheet of paper and a pen from somewhere. They start writing on it, continuing to talk in a much softer tone than earlier.

CHARA: ...My sincerest apologies for dropping in uninvited and ranting. I just felt that a whole lot of Bazaarine whitewashing was about to happen, and if there is anything I hate in life, it is undeserved fame born from hiding away sins.
CHARA: In any case, or rather, in the case that you weren't at the table when my idiotic drunk self was talking nonsense about who I was, my name is Chara. Chara... just Chara is fine.
CHARA: I've been to the emotional rollercoaster that is Authy-boy's home universe as well, for far longer than I wish I had to, so you can ask me as well if you feel like he isn't telling something.

They go silent, continuing to scribble away at the paper. It seems that they're filling out some sort of layout, the kind that tabletop RPG characters are planned in.



Elsewhere...

The signature, all too recognisable sound of fabric tearing is heard at Letsid's current location, heralding the puncturing of a hole in reality. Chara steps out of it and it closes behind him. He slowly strides toward her, a blank, eerily neutral expression on his face. Letsid, of course, remains inactive and unresponsive, her creator having abandoned her long ago.

CHARA: Believe it or not, I am not doing this out of any ill will. I simply believe that letting you fade into obscurity without any funeral rites would be undignified.
CHARA: So I thought to myself, why not deliver you some silent ones?

The next few seconds are a blur, but when they pass, she is mercifully and decidedly dead on the ground. Sighing and slightly regretting what is about to happen, Chara crouches down with a scalpel in hand and begins extracting any body parts that can conceivably be used as ingredients for crafting and alchemy.



And at the same time...

The signature, all too recognisable sound of fabric tearing is heard at Ansem's current location, heralding the puncturing of a hole in reality. Chara cuts the paragraph short, however, not wishing to waste her time on useless repetition.

CHARA: I was actually looking forward to getting to know you, but we can't have everything, can we?
CHARA: Perhaps I will meet you in the Paradox War, or once your essence here reawakens. But until then, riposa in pace.

She conjures up another one of her blades. However, this one is much different than the rest, being an intricate oversized key. A moment later, all that remains of Ansem are several clouds of Darkness, which she bottles up and deposits in the Inventory.

Auth was about to talk about the Masters. Then he was ever-so-rudely interrupted by Chara. He looks slightly crankily at Chara as they talk about the crimes of the Masters of the Bazaar.

AUTH: Thank you, Chara. I appreciate you interrupting my lesson. I understand you may think I am somewhat biased in favour of them.
AUTH: You may be correct, in truth. I owe some of them quite a lot. Particularly Pages, I am aware of his actions but would appreciate if you left that be. Now... please let me say what I was going to say?
AUTH: Cups, Spices, Iron, Fires, Veils, and Pages...
AUTH: I wouldn't say You-Know-Who is all that good. It was absolutely unjust but his rage has caused much harm to others. So much death and misery...

Since Chara has stopped talking, Auth continues.

AUTH: The Masters of the Bazaar are a specific group of Curators, who are giant bats with a propensity for hoarding, who went down to the Neath with the Bazaar many, many years ago. They're basically its assistants.
AUTH: Their number is complicated. There are at present nine, two of them go under two names. I can go over them if you'd like, but that's also not the point.
AUTH: They run Fallen London, that's what matters. They're... not even strong among their kind, but compared to humans, yes.
AUTH: The benefit from the blood is my memory. It reduces Irrigo's effectiveness on me, and makes my memory much sharper. Since I'm a half-vampire, I have much sharper senses to start with, so I detect and remember things much easier than a normal human.

Auth chuckles at Chloe's comment about how his world is interesting.

AUTH: It's my second home, really. Third, technically, but... I don't think I can ever go back to where I was born. Even if the building's still there, even if death is all but an inconvenience...

Auth looks sad, reminiscing. Memory, to him, inescapable. The good and bad, he'll never be able to escape things. Wonders, like nothing that could be conceived by mortal mind, but also horror and trauma that scars the mind. Auth cannot escape from his own mind, the blessing, the curse.

----

Auth nods, willing to help Nana understand concepts in the book. She asks some pretty important questions right away.

AUTH: Yes, it is basically like that. Different species, that is. Dwarves are short and stout humans, they're usually skilled blacksmiths in fictional texts like this. Good metalworkers, usually live underground, that sorta thing. They're small.
AUTH: Elves, on the other hand... are tall, slender humans. Tend to have elongated ears...

Auth looks to the sides of his own head. His ears look like those that would belong on an elf.

AUTH: They've got strong magical affinity. Very, very strong, and have an equally strong connection to nature as a whole. They've also got a talent for archery and woodworking. About what you could expect, yeah. Basic summary of those two...

Auth happily answers any further questions Nana has as they read the book...


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Iawa Brutishace awakens from his respite!

"I'm glad to finally have awakened. What have I missed?"

Brutishace now has some more player customization potential at his disposal! Glad to take advantage of it, Brutishace takes three KP out of his INT stat, then spends 5 CP on the Ace in the Hole perk, assigning Resurrect to it. With his remaining one KP, he invests in Drain Life to give it a Manafuelled level.

[Crafting possibly to come in later]

With the Chaos Butterfly defeated, Irongutta quite suddenly felt himself fading away from consciousness. The edges of his vision went dark, and in the blink of an eye he suddenly felt different once more. Well, a better description would be different from the strange state he was in. In fact, he felt quite normal again.

Irongutta realized he seemed to be back in his own body. His arms and legs felt shaky. If it weren't for the fact that he was already on all fours (thanks to Piggo), he probably would've stumbled. The feeling quickly passed and he returned to his feet.

He heard a loud clattering behind him. Startled by the clamor, he whirled around only to find Piggo zooming towards him. Looks like he dropped the halberd and was spooked by the sound. Piggo reached Irongutta's leg and brushed up against it, snorting happily. "Look at that, Piggo! We're back in our own bodies!" Irongutta wiggled his fingers, regarding them fondly. "Gotta say, I missed 'avin these."

Irongutta scooped up his sapsqueal, comfortably carrying him under one arm. Hazily remembering the course of events that unfolded while he was in Piggo's body moments ago, he felt he ought to tell Omo what happened.

"Oi, Omo! Glad to see nobody's dead after that mess. I don't know wot 'appened exactly, but somehow the Butterfly made me an' Piggo 'ere switch bodies! Gotta tell ya, it was the weirdest thing that's ever 'appened to me."

Though with how the week has been going, he knew his life was only going to get stranger. "There er, shouldn't be anythin' different 'bout me after that, roight? I feel fine an' all that, but I admit this chaos-magic stuff is new territory fer me." Piggo let out a loud snort, possibly sharing a similar level of concern.

==CRAFTING==
Arthur decides to make his Singing Maw a bit more to his liking. (Seriously, what was he thinking, deciding to wear a living mouth that constantly sings, wordlessly and in an unearthly manner, on his head?)



Bubbling Maw crafted!
Now T5, it stats have changed to:
(+7 MMP) (+6 SPC) (+1 CNT) (Cauldron Mouth) (-1 INT)
[Cauldron Mouth]: As an Item Action, you may feed a consumable item to the Maw. While an item is in the Maw, it gains +50% Damage, Healing, and Status Intensity at regen, once only. Using an item from the Maw consumes an Item Action. Only one item may be in the Maw at a time.

Arthur also decides to equip a Discount Coupon; with that in mind, he takes a Discount Coupon from the inventory and sets about upgrading it as well.



Discount Coupon upgraded to T5!
The only change is the addition of a (+1 ANY) to its stats.
[+1 ANY]: May be turned into +1 to any stat but MOV, except for MHP and MMP, which are boosted by 2. (Or, in other words, +1 to any non-MOV stat, or +2 to MHP or MMP.)

==LOGISTICS==
Arthur equips the Armistyx, the Bubbling Maw that he just crafted, and replaces his Overcharged Mana Potion with the Discount Coupon! (The Discount Coupon's +1 ANY goes to RES.) He then swaps the positions of the Discount Coupon and Alchemist's Satchel, just for sheet organization.

He then swaps his Perks to Worshipper, Strong Throwing Arm, and Know How to Use It, before swapping his skillpoints to the following:
1 MHP, 10 MMP, 1 STR, 2 AGI, 13 INT, 10 SKI, 8 RES, 9 SPC.

He then swaps his spells to the following:
Twin Seas/Serpents, First Aid, Shopping Spree, and Confuse Ray!
(It's mostly just a reorganization of spells, with Noxious Plume being replaced by Twin Seas/Serpents.)