Bow Kid dances.
MOBILIZE: Move to (B12)
UNIQUE: Pull Scalenoid1 to (B11)
STATUS: Next attack applies Lockdown

She retreats to (B14).

---

"(Yeah, to be honest that's more Green's thing.)"

Boshi gets flung back as he recieves the portable corvette, but ends up not pissed like one would expect. Actually... he's laughing in sheer amazement.
"(hell yeah, thanks man)"

He immediately takes it to the river and sets it up before speeding down it, back to where he ultimately left off.

---

MU approaches the bow, looking at it. Is this another one of those rose cultists turned into inanimate objects, she wonders? It's got all the trappings of one, at least from what she's seen of them thus far.

She carefully picks away at the stuff surrounding it, taking care not to disturb the area too much prior to taking the bow out. Picking out the bits of nest, cutting what she couldn't pick out with Maxim's Razor. Slowly, and carefully, before taking the bow.

In the house, the Echoss golems expend 2 (0) uniform logs to make little signs for the bathrooms, male and female.

He then notices Chloe passed out on the floor by the save point.
One of his butterflies floats over.
"Oh dear..."

BATTLE
"Hmph, this explains why the Rebels are so... unpleasant."
He casts shopping spree for 4 electric El-Ite knives, then throws one of them at Eviscerator2.


Additionally, a distress beacon is purchased from YV, and Not!Echoss cackles madly as they commission upgrades for the Snowball Hurricane and Hammer of Banning +4

Crya runs to K11 and casts Ice Stalagmites on J12 before retreating to L9.

Laranei spawns in at D3/C4, then moves to E3 to shoot Eviscer1 twice!

Malik respawns... right above the massive pit that is the Absence. They immediately angle themselves towards the ladder.

"Nope. Not dealing with that mess again."

They take a walk across the outskirts.

/WIP

RP - just outside the house

EN nods at Rosie in confirmation, then she pauses to consider some actions she could take. After some thought, she nods, pulling out a Pocket Scanner and fusing a Sanctified Alloy ingot into it for security reasons, then she goes through and scans some entropic items with the device to figure out how to program it. In the middle of doing that, Taeda has come to say hi. EN glances over at her and gives her a greeting nod, then returns to programming the... what should we call it... Sanctified Scanner?

"...Hey, Tae. You got that right. I realized I've made a few mistakes. Just gonna fix up a couple things, then I'll explain further."

Once EN's done with programming the Sanctified Scanner(?), she gets to work, hopping onto Rosie and taking a look through the tank's systems. Anything that confirmed as entropic and doesn't seem vital (eg: power sources) is gonna get cleaned up a bit, then carefully removed so as to not damage anything. If there's a viable replacement for each removed system or component, then EN will automatically slot those devices and pieces in as best she can. After all, given what happened recently, this is important work.

Once she's done with that, EN hops out and off, landing neatly beside Taeda and dusting off her shirt. then sitting down if need be. From there... well, she sighs.

"Guess it's explanation time, huh... A'ight, so, I know I've made a couple things, some of which were good, some of which were... awful. That poorly disguised bioweapon known as the Atrocity is probably the best example. Well, this time, I kind of... screwed up someone else's request by turning a boat into a heavily-armed Exhibition by accident. Thankfully it flew off and only shot me, and I'm bulletproof, but something tells me we'll be seeing that thing again later. Between being a little afraid that the group won't like me much for making that thing, and also that the group might not trust me to make things for them in future, I ain't looking forward to the possible consequences."

While a lot to dump on the smol priestess girl, EN's fairly hopeful she'll understand and might be forgiving in regards to circumstance.


RP - inside the house

Calibri's "something bad happened" sense pings him out of nowhere. He frowns a little, then teleports into the main room to see what happened, immediately catching sight of the respawned Chloe. He walks over and crouches down to check on her... Then, after a cough from a certain weaponess, he has an inquiry to make.

"What happened?"
"A terrible sequence of events. One of her supposed comrades cast a spell that did... a lot of things at once, she got impaled by some sort of tendril, stabbed someone else, and died."
"..."

Several flames visibly flare up around Calibri's body before he's able to force them back under control. He sighs quietly.

"Vengeance on that person will have to wait until later. Stats tells me that's her first death. Gonna be a rough conversation to have, but necessary..."

After that comment to himself, Calibri decides here isn't the best place for Chloe to rest up. There's a brief flicker of blue light from somewhere inside the fellow, followed by a red light flickering in response and Verdana appearing beside him.

"Hi! What'd I... miss. Oh."

There's a moment of silence before the pair carefully pick Chloe up together, then all four individuals (Lato counts) promptly disappear from view in a flash of darkness. Then, they all reappear in Chloe's room, at which point Cal and Ver carefully work together to set Chloe down on the bed. There's a pause before the albino pipes up once more...

"Still need me to stick around?"
"...Yeah."

Verdana nods, backing off to one corner of the room and humming quietly, a faint red glow filling the room as he sets up a temporary-but-probably-sorely-needed-if-not-for-Chloe-than-for-Cal aura of calmness. Calibri, meanwhile, just crouches down beside the bed and anxiously awaits Chloe's reawakening, and Lato's just sort of there being a sword.


I don't know what this counts as - The Everground

Engie T-poses while teleporting next to the luminous white fountain, then yeehaws down to the dead tree that's growing from the rock. After a moment of thought, he steals the entire tree, along with the section of rock it's attached to.

"Yoink."

After that, he remembers something and has an idea. One of the two not-ominously-probably-entropic telescopes from the Southern Tower in zone 4 suddenly goes missing, appearing in Engie's drone hand, then he nyooms down to, like, X147 and peers through the telescope, trying to see what's off to the right.

"Come on, arbitrary spreadsheet game borders, show me your secrets without making me actually go through you..."

AVIATOR'S BARRACKS

The Reflector will jump up to N7, use a bonus action to give Marron Shields Holding, and basic attack the Niessence once more before falling, not changing any resistances but gaining Erroveil if possible, or Mentveil if not (because, why not). They then wave to Ette.
THE REFLECTOR: you there, you with the armor!
THE REFLECTOR: do try to eliminate remove destroy the niessence, i did the math in my head and well it should be quite enough if neither of us neither misses!

The Mirror Reflector waits until after both the Reflector and Ette have gone, but before Marron has, to maximize timing. First, they use their bonus action to grant Marron Shields Holding SHP in order to help her survive potential confusion damage when she attacks the Onlooker. Secondly, they attack the Niessence (or its corpse), hoping to either mitigate bad RNG by dealing that extra bit of damage or to just remove the corpse. The Mirror Reflector also gains Erroveil or Mentveil as available.
MIRROR REFLECTOR: miss needleworker! no not you the one with the large rifle. is there anything you can do to eliminate that onlooker in a single one shot?

"Thank you very much for the hand, Chaos. I should be good now."

I proceed to make my way over to the catacombs, still rubbing my head vigorously. By the time I get over there, though, my head has pretty much cleared.

Swap hat to Bubbling Maw
Swap weapon to Emerald Lattice

Auth's wings spread, as he floats high in the air, watching Chloe's body carefully. He sees Nia freaking out over Chloe getting stabbed up... and sighs.

AUTH: Nia, keep your head screwed on. This problem will be solved promptly.

Auth flies over to K8, and after a brief light show, Chloe is revived on J9, from Auth casting Valiance. Nia will, hopefully, calm the heck down.

Battle: The Chapel

Irongutta moves to I12, flanking one of the new mooks who showed up this round. They needed to be taken care of.

With the benefits of Unstoppable Force, not to mention the power of Blast Transfer, Irongutta brutally swings at the Diamond Wildcard!

Nidra:
Power Nap Auth
Basic attack the Wildcard and Harlequin2.
If Irongutta missed: Sheep Counter the Wildcard.

Summa uses the Warp Ring to teleport to D6. She opens up the chest haphazardly, tossing the items inside to Maple and the Charian Ninja. Tsar'ina then Quickfire Phials the Anti-Personnel before smacking it with her overly-sized sword (if possible).





RESPEC FOR SUMMA:

"Switch out" Silver Maria for Sterling Maria
Switch out Starcrystal Scarf for Cryometal Scarf.
Switch out Rage Aura Amulet for Every Elemental Earth.
Add 6 Skillpoints to MOV to upgrade to 5 MOV.
Add 4 Skillpoints to STR to upgrade to 20 STR.
Subtract 5 Skllpoints from INT, setting you to 6.
Add 6 Skillpoints to AGI to upgrade to 12 AGI.
Add 5 Skillpoints to SKI to upgrade to 10 SKI.
Add 1 Skillpoint to DEF to upgrade to 8 DEF.
Add 1 Skillpoint to SPC to upgrade to 5 SPC.
Switch out Flicker of Insanity for Phial Burst set to Ice.

==BATTLE==
Crystal plants Nightmarron into the ground and Dust Blasts the Onlooker on his head straight upwards. The dust leftover from the blast settles onto his weapon, bursting into a radiant corona of purging light as he activates Light Eternal and converts the enchantment to Ordo. As the Onlooker hangs in the air, Crystal pulls Nightmarron out of the ground and brings it around in a singular strike, slicing them in half.

He then pulls out a glitchy poetry notebook and reads a ASSET_DATA_CORRUPTED.

Crystal.HP += 12
Crystal.apply(Mending3,3)

That ASSET_DATA_CORRUPTED felt like it had a lot of heart put into it.

<ROUND TWO-HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN>

Venia attempts to talk to what she thinks is the First Sin. The wooden mass seems to barely acknowledge her. Or does it even “barely” acknowledge her? For all she knows, it didn’t even notice her. Even when she shouts at it, it doesn’t pay her any mind at all. With no progess there (and no intention to antagonize it, at least not yet), she decides to fly off towards the Theater.

I’m just going to assume she uses the Calm Mind Shard like a fire extinguisher in space, streams of Ordo carrying her across the voidic emptiness.

pchoooooo

She spirals through the void, and lands just in front of the grand, wooden theater. It’s an artistic construction, similar in size and scale to the Church of Helix. Wooden columns line the way into the building, large stained glass windows flanking the entryway. Though the skies around her are a desolate blankness, the mahogany walls of the building are still inviting. It’d be more inviting if it didn’t seem like a presence was watching her from behind the front doors. Soon enough though, that presence sinks deeper into the building, and the doors swing open.

Though perhaps she doesn’t step in, she’s still able to take a look. It seems that there’s a receptionist’s desk, likely imported from Tabletopia. There’s a powered lamp on the desk, casting a moody glow over the area. Various posters line the wall behind the desk, featuring plays that Venia has never even heard of, including a rom-com between the two Godmodders, Alpha and Omega.

Now, does she dare venture in? There’s nobody in sight. More information would be handy.

Elsewhere, Mr. Krabs decides to loot the transmitter attached to the Portal at the Farm. +1 Rebellion Transmitter obtained! He also barges into the room at (T57) in the Rosen Catacombs, finding the single most normal set of barracks he’s discovered thus far. He also discovers a statue representing a cup of coffee! He feels reinvigorated just seeing it. What a nice treat!

---

JOE makes a shovel. He decides that the appropriate materials for making a shovel are 3 Acidic Crystals, 2 Gold Ingots, 3 Psychoid Leaves, a Reverie Fragment, 5 Dirt, and… 3 (0) Thyme Matter? Why? This creates some weird acidic dirt shovel, which I’ll just call… the Acidic Dirt Shovel. Fantastic.

He promptly clears away some rubble with the acidic edge, which actually taints the soil because poison crystals. He then pours some dirt on top of that soil. Still though, cleaning out a pile of rubble does more good than the acid does harm, so one of the rubble tiles levels up! It becomes some poisoned soil. You know, given that the farm is decently doomed, maybe it’s not really helping that you’re actively using poisons / acid on the farm? Just a thought.

He also plants a Tornadopetal in the one clear patch of soil. Neat!

---

Daskter decides to finally fight the Exhibitions! He casts Decaying Light on them both, before getting his Behemoth to smash one to bits! The remaining Exhibition pounces onto the Behemoth, and fires a beam right into its face, melting it and killing it. While the Behemoth has been lost, only one more Exhibition remains! Now, how to deal with it…?

---

Boshi sails his corvette down the river! The banks of the river are clear enough, and he's able to make it to the lake where he saw Electrophorus not long ago. Fortunately enough, it doesn't seem like they're around. He's (relatively) free to explore the area, or so he thinks.

Mustache Girl also decides to try and loot the bow found within the Harpy Nest. Slowly and carefully, she uses one of Maxim's blades to slice apart the sticks where the bow is wedged. Carefully, she extracts the bow. Once she touches it, an eye near the end of the arc of the bow (Is there a name for that?) flutters open.

???: Mmm...
???: Hello, Master.
???: How long has it been since-

The eye turns to glance at Mustache Girl. It stares at her menacingly.

???: Hm? A child?
???: How curious. What brings you down here?

...Whispering Bow added to the inventory. Up above, Mustache Girl hears the fluttering of wings. Something's awake. Was it perhaps, the voice of the bow that disturbed something? That may be of some concern.

---

Echoss puts some signs on the washroom doors. This consumes 2 (0) Uniform Logs. He also sends a butterfly over to the unconscious Chloe. As he floats by, she begins to stir ever so slightly. She manages to raise her head for a few brief moments, before she seems to lose consciousness once again.

Also, Echoss purchases a Distress Beacon from Yung Venuz. Not!Echoss also decides to commission upgrades, getting ones for the Snowball Hurricane and the Hammer of Banning +4. This takes up 160 credits, and any of Nia's remaining thoughts about Not!Echoss being sane.

---

Malik walks out of the Absense Caverns. They're now in the proper Chairian Outskirts. It's a rather nice day out today, if a bit dark. It's better than the absolute cold of that area outside of the spreadsheet...

---

EN chats with Taeda as she does maintenance on Rosie. First, she fuses some Sanctified Alloy to a Pocket Scanner, creating the Sanctified Scanner. This is then used to scan through Rosie, locating some entropic components. 5 bars of Rosetainted Metal enter the inventory, and are replaced with 5 bars of Sanctified Alloy.

ROSIE: GOOD WORK WITH THE MODIFICATIONS.
ROSIE: ODDS OF SYSTEM CORRUPTION: ROUGHLY ~2% CHANCE OF FAILURE PER DAY.
ROSIE: THIS SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT FOR THE REMAINDER OF YOUR STAY ON THE PLANET.

Oh, good. Anyway, she then takes the time to talk with Taeda, who jumps up onto Rosie, and takes a seat. Or at least, until Rosie's gun barrel turns, and gently pushes her off. Taeda flops onto the ground, quickly picks herself up, then attentively listens. The android explains how she accidentally made an Exhibition. Oops.

TAEDA: You made an Exhibition? U-Um...
TAEDA: W-Well, I'm sure you didn't mean it, right?
TAEDA: I guess it goes to show just how dangerous the Rose Cult is if you can create something like an Exhibition by accident...

TAEDA: And while what you did might've been irresponsible, it's clear that you feel bad about it, and that you've learned something.
TAEDA: I'm sure that everyone will forgive you. You're a valued friend, you know!


The smol priestess gives the likely-taller android a tight hug.

TAEDA: I-If that big, scary Exhibition rolls around, c-come grab me, a-alright?
TAEDA: I-I'm... scared to face it, b-but I want to help you!
TAEDA: A-Alright?

While Taeda sits back down next to EN, Calibri comes upon an unconscious Chloe. Verdana comes around, and the two of them hoist Chloe up. They then carry her to her room, and gently set her upon her bed. Calibri crouches near the bed, waiting for the blonde to come to. It takes a few minutes, but soon enough, her eyes flicker open. She ever-so-slowly sits up, stares at Calibri with a sleepy, half-conscious look, then... keels over off the right side of the bed, and promptly vomits. Once she's successfully emptied her stomach, she collapses back onto the bed.

CHLOE: U-Ugh...
CHLOE: W-What? H-How am I... s-still here?
CHLOE: I thought I-I... d-died...?

Try as she might, she's still not able to properly move. Chloe continues to lie on her back, groaning as her now-empty stomach begins to rumble. Though technically uninjured, some sort of medical attention would be appreciated. Then, at the Everground, the Engie Drone yeets a tree into their inventory, obtaining 10 Elden Everwood. They then summon a telescope, trying to view what's to the right. This unfortunately, fails. Mostly because the render distance doesn't actually go that far, but also because there's an eerie plane of deep darkness expanding infinitely to the right.

Creepy.

---

William makes his way to the Catacombs. He appears at (CG32). The darkness is about as deep as the corridors are putrid, smelling of decay and flux- a peculiar scent that makes one's nose tingle. Unfortunately, he'll need to venture further in if he's to actually find much of interest!

Scratch and scuff-marks across the cavernous walls indicate plenty of the party's activity. Must've been some intense fighting around here.

---

Toast comes up with her new name. She leans towards the puppeteer's ear, and gently whispers it to her. Asha. Asha Nolastname. Marron ponders this, leaning heavily into Toast as she does so.

MARRON: "Asha", huh?
MARRON: It sounds kinda exotic, but also cool and cute at the same time?
MARRON: I'm a fan.

She also mentions that though she doesn't have a last name, she hopes that one day, she could share the puppeteer's. The puppeteer smiles and giggles, before giving Toast- or she supposed, Asha- a gentle kiss on the neck.

MARRON: Well, I didn't have a last name for awhile, either.
MARRON: Y'know, you can have mine, if you want.
MARRON: My last name, I mean.

MARRON: Sure, I did just beat the snot out of a chick for trying to become a Needleworker, but that's different.
MARRON: I-I mean, typically, I-I think, a couple would get m-married before t-they do something l-like that, but...
MARRON: I-It's... probably fine?
MARRON: Besides, "Asha Needleworker" sounds nice. Don't you think so?

...A few moments of cuddling and snuggling later, Marron suddenly seems distressed.

MARRON: W-Wait, I'm totally fine calling you Toaster and all...
MARRON: But what if I want to give you a cute nickname for your new name?
MARRON: Like... hell, I dunno...
MARRON: "Asha-er"?
MARRON: ...Nah.
MARRON: I'll work on it, though!

Marron giggles once again, before sinking back into Asha's arms.

---

<THE CHAPEL, ROUND FIVE>
Well, Daskter got dropped. Don't let that dissuade you, though- some of your mages are now unsilenced, and can wreak havoc upon the battlefield! Also maybe put someone on torch-shunting duty- Nia might be good at that, with Phase Shift and all.

<AVIATOR'S BARRACKS, ROUND FOUR>
RIP the pirates- they had a good run. Anyway, now you have a ship to steal. One wonders how you'll get it out of gravity hallway hell, but odds are you'll find a way. A way that also kills at least five different people, because it wouldn't be fun otherwise.

<DUNEYRR HOLD, ROUND TWO>
...Things could've gone better back there. Still, the prison is clear, and you can (try to) advance! Obligatory "be careful"- if things go south, maybe have an insurance plan so that you can at least get Maple and the other prisoner out of there?

Toast hops up from her cuddling to look at Marron seriously.

"So... since we last talked about it, I've been thinking about the name I wanted... and I think I've decided. Want to hear it?"

Marron surely does. Well, I guess maybe she doesn't, but I think its a safe assumption.

"My name is..." she leans in and whispers: "Asha."
She pulls back and waits for Marron's opinion on the name. "I still don't have a last name but..." Her eyes meet Marron's with a coy smile- and a slight blush. "...Maybe someday I could share yours."

"...You and everyone else can still call me Toast, though. Besides, I think its really cute when you call me Toaster. But I'm happy for myself, to have more than just a nickname."

Skillpoint assignments: +1 skillpoint in MHP for Verdana. +1 skillpoint in SPC for Calibri. Teehee.

RP - house

Calibri shifts to the side to avoid being vomited on, just letting Chloe get that out of her system for now, then once she's done with that, he takes a look at the mess on the floor. There's a brief flicker as the vomit pile stain thing disappears, followed by Calibri moving back to where he was and pulling out a piece of Simple Fabric to gently wipe Chloe's mouth clean of anything that might be left.

"That looked... uncomfortable..."

He sighs quietly, then nods. In the background, Verdana casts a simple Cure on Chloe, while Calibri continues conversation with her.

"Yeah. You did die. It's a relief you've come back to life, as everyone here seems to, but... well. Even with respawns, dying is really unpleasant, as you're probably now aware."

After a moment of consideration, he offers her the last Waterdrank and a Celefruit.

"Here. Hopefully this helps. Let me know if there's anything else you need, too."

Meanwhile, after Echoss's knock on the door and request for a tag team transfer thing, Verdana turns to him and nods, then gets up to head elsewhere, as detailed in the battle section...


...But first let's interrupt that with EN saying things! She smiles a little when Tae gives her a hug and maybe takes a moment to reciprocate with her own, then nods.

"Aye. I can do that. Somethin' tells me mos' e'eryone's gonna be present if it shows up in a fight sometime in th' future anywho, so... yeah. Ah'll admit, ah'm a little more excited than ah shoul' be t' see 'ow tha' goes down, but, eh. Ya git 'ow it is."

EN shrugs, turning her attention over to Rosie for a bit.

"A'ight, good t' 'ear tha' from ya too. Ah can do more work later if ya want. Jus' lemme know when."

Then, after she's said that, she turns back to Taeda again. Thankfully, it seems the android gal has regained her prior general-not-in-a-funk-ness. That's probably a good thing.

"Anywho... Ready t' resume wit' stuff if ya wanna go back t' tha'. Or, y'know, if ya wanna do anythin', really."


Battle - dunder mifflin AKA Duneyrr

As the 4th action in the round, after Venia but before the unrelated Operative, Verdana spawns in a flash of red light at any viable tile.

"Alright, let me read the battle plan..."

Verdana takes a moment to read notes, then moves to G9, slaps the Car down at G10, and activates special. Sol Aeterna is equipped in Spear form. Now since that says everything about the move functionally speaking, let's sort some flavortext, hmm~? I'm still feeling weird about the positioning of it, but oh well. I'll put it after the second battle action so it's not in the way.

Later on in the round, after Omo has dropped a nice Null Somnum on them, the fusion moves to J10, uses a Shocktip Coating on itself, then impales the Nanotechnician. Then, Sol Aeterna swaps to Gladius form and the fusion dominantly stands its ground. Ain't nobody getting past that thing without having Skirmisher.

And now for the flavortext. :3

Verdana waits for a moment, then Calibri flashes into existence beside him. By this point, they've well rehearsed the transformation enough to know what to do. Both raise a hand at the same time, both move to grip the other one, but this time, they suddenly freeze up and seem to get a blank look for a moment. There's a flicker... Then, Sol Aeterna manifests in between the gripped hands, in her default shape. A single eye stares from her form, apparently excited.

"Oh! They've met the Threshold. This is exciting. If I remember correctly, our... predecessor planned for my summoning to this realm to coincide with this event. So... Take fascination, those of interest."

There's a flash of light, then another flicker. Calibri and Verdana are pushed aside slightly, their hands seperating, only for a new pair of hands to grip them, wreathed in an ethereal aura of golden-yellow flames and electrical flashes. Another person has manifested, standing between the two and hovering some distance off the ground. From a glance, one can tell that unlike the other siblings, this one is a girl. She has her hair done up in a rudimentary ponytail, though some of it flows down the sides of her head and possibly reaches her shoulders, all of it a rather notable shade of black. When she opens her eyes, they shine a brilliant golden colour, much like her aura and a decent part of her outfit. There's also white woven in between the yellow, because of course there is.

After a few seconds to take in the sight, all three of the siblings smile, now united properly and all in humanoid forms. It's perhaps a bit creepy to see, since they've all got identical expressions for it, and when they speak there's something a little bit stilted about the delivery, as though they were reciting from an unseen script.

"At long last."
"All three united."
"As was intended."

The surrounding Duneyrr shakes as light overcomes the sibling trio, obscuring them from view in a brilliant spiral of brilliant blue, scarlet red, and golden yellow lights, shot through with a combined white. The energy in the air is palpable, a strange and kaleidoscopic sensation of every single magical element flaring up to varying degrees, even water and poison somehow making an appearance despite neither of them having existed in the mindscape where this creation was initially conceived. Then, mercifully, the magical maelstrom recedes, fading back to where the trio once stood, revealing the fusion's result.

A towering warrior, twice the height of any mere mortal man and clad in cobaltine plate metal and wielding a goldenrod spear, albino-white hair and skin definitely most resembling Verdana right now but carrying the design elements of the other siblings, seemingly mixed in the same way paints combine, if that makes sense. Every second that passes heralds a shift of colour patterns all over the warrior's outfit and form, though it predominantly remains reddish, given who's most in control right now. They open their eyes, a scarlet gaze surrounded by a corona of blue and yellow for a time, before the colours merge, surrounding the fusion's eyes with something in between. Then, he speaks.

"This is... weird. We're all merged together right now, but... I feel like we haven't quite pulled it off correctly."

Indeed, despite all that transpired, there's something... incomplete about the remodeled fusion. Perhaps they will figure it out with time. Or perhaps they need someone to help them understand what's not lined up properly. It might be a psychological thing, or maybe a practice thing. Or maybe it's just plot contrivance. Who knows? All that's for certain is that there's definitely some further evolution to be had...

Around the house, Echoss's golems go up to the second floor part 1 and replaces the two windows that are inexplicably still missing their panes.

Note for next round: Make mounted turret to defend the basement.


Elsewhere, another of his golems wanders up to the farm, takes down the Alpha Portal Rune, and returns to the house with it. No infiltrating the basement for the Rebels.


In the Duneyrr, Echoss is contacted by the Spherebreaker hivemind that we apparently have, and told to retreat.
Echoss despawns so that Verdana can have a shot at breaking things in his stead!

This happens according to Tazz's special turn order listed in his post further down!


In the house, in Chloe's room, the Echoss butterfly shifts slightly as Echoss knocks on the door.
"Hello, Master Verdana? Your help is needed with another battle, I was swapped out as you are more likely to be of use there and we are already close to inciting the Cappa's ire."
Echoss steps to the side, and points him up to the portal still in the main living room for the others.
Echoss then steps inside the room.
"Thank you for taking care of Miss Elem, Master Calibri.
Chloe, is it alright if I stay for now?"

The door at H7 F8, despite being an inanimate object, feels like something is off. Maybe it's the ghostly projection of Hoshi at G6 OH WAIT NO-

Material Transfer is remotely cast on the door, sapping HP to the Ninja as F5 and H6 suffer from loss of existence. Hoshi casually tosses a Shuriken Electric El-Iti Knife at AP Turret 1 as she walks to G5.

Battle Prep.

Venia filters two skillpoints into RES. She switches out Incantation for Manashock. She switches her Entropic Key to close-ranged mode.

"Alright, that's the pirate cultists taken care of. Now, what else is going on," Venia says, holding up a tablet. "... Chapel battle looking OK, Duneyrr Hold...? Oh. Oh dear."

Venia's fist tightens.

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Battle: Duneyrr Hold

This is a throwback. not quite the throwback I want by any stretch, but it's one of those rounds. There's a specific turn order to uphold this turn, regrettably.

The orders within are not (necessarily) final as of right now, this is just a placeholder, but barring major revisions this is likely to be close to final. Please don't take these as the person's actual posts, though, with the exception of my (hopeful) action, which I bolded here for convenience. Really, this is just for my convenience, so I can quickly grab potential actions, and is subject to change.

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Shopping+NPC services

Venia purchases two Catalysts of Stars and two Catalysts of Heart, for 1,600 credits. She hands off a Catalyst of Stars to Taeda, a Catalyst of Heart to Bass, and the other two to R-8733.

She also asks Mari to begin research into the Broadcasting Device for the Helix Totem.

Then, she asks Chloe to work on adding more Tesla Turrets to the house as perimeter defense, as the expanded size of the house means that more turrets are required to properly defend it from all comers. She should have all her forms free for this at this point.

Finally, she hands off 100 Credits to the Sleuth to go scout for a Chairian Centuria and bring back the data.

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