<ROUND TWENTY-ONE>
The Author asks Taeda to greet Willow for him the next time they meet. He notes that teaming up is possible-ish.

TAEDA: Oh, certainly!
TAEDA: A-And, well, I-I seriously doubt that everyone will work together... but I guess as long as there's some hope... there's a chance.
TAEDA: S-Safe travels!

Auth then tends to Nia, attempting to cast Valiance on her. It doesn't appear to have too much effect, but the flow of sparks and coolant from her missing arm slow. He also attempts other general repairs to her body- which too, don't have much effect.

NIA: I-I appreciate what you're doing, but I think you're wasting your energy.
NIA: I'm a really complex machine! I don't really think that the magic would work well with me...?
NIA: ...I don't really know how your magic works.
CHLOE: Actually, he said it's not magi-
NIA: shhhhhhhh >:U

Teag decides to combine a Central Processing Unit, 20 Credits worth of Hardened Glass, 8 Wire Scraps, 3 Titanium, 2 Incendiary Scraps, 8 Wire Scraps, and 3 Circuit Boards into some rather nice equipment! Mr. Krabs then does stuff and things. First, he grabs the CTech using an array of arms, adding the Bottled Bottled Crimson Tech to the inventory. He then inquires as to Nia and Chloe's past...

CHLOE: W-Well, it's kinda personal and stuff...
CHLOE: B-But... maybe it'll help.
NIA: Oh, yay! Storytime!



Mr. Krabs then asks about what happened with Nia back there.

NIA: Oh, the thingy in my head got salty, I think.
NIA: It wasn't very happy with me actively messing with its ability to fight, and I guess it thought the battle was going nowhere fast...
NIA: So, it took the "logicial" way out and just tried to hurt me as much as possible.
NIA: Oh man, I think it managed to get angrier than Xavier after losing a game of Starcraft to cheese. And he yells things like "gorillaing gorilla gorilla-gorilla gorillaing uninstall your gorillaing game before i gorillaing hack your gorillaing pc you gorillaing gorilla gorilla-head," so the thing's rage is really something!
NIA: And then he'd actually hack them and explo-
CHLOE: N-Nia! L-Language!
NIA: I know you're cute and innocent and all, Clo...
NIA: Buuuuuuut I'm pretty sure your innocence died the moment to stabbed that sword through my chest. I think I can swear now.
NIA: Which is still there and wait you never pulled it out?
CHLOE: Eyaaah! S-Sorry!

Chloe promptly retrieves her blade from Nia's chest, a burst of sparks following it. She awkwardly laughs and sits herself back down, next to Nia. DCCCV then asks what to do if he's fighting Nia again.

NIA: Uh, that's grim.
NIA: I guess... just beat the snot out of me again?
NIA: My consciousness isn't really bound to this body- it's just sorta connected.
NIA: You could destroy this body fully, and I'd live! I think!
NIA: So, uh, don't worry about it!

Simeon then upgrades his Griever, applying a grand total of technically nothing to it. The universe suddenly loses 50 credits to apply the upgrade, as well as 3 Iron Ingots. Comet then applies the Aero Core to her skates, along with 4 Titanium, 4 Circuit Boards, and 18 Wire Scraps, upgrading them! Terry opts to then combine an Illuminant Scope, a Traveller's Flask, and really you're effectively only spending 1 Incendiary Scrap. The craft still goes through though, as it's basically just a retooling.

He then boops the Memory Weapon and Memory Equipment, adding the Crystalline Claw and Adaptive Shielding Unit to the inventory. Toast then rotates a load of spells, and questions Nia a bit.

NIA: Oh, it's the former.
[small][small]NIA: I am the queen! Spit on the false queen, my minions~[/small][/small]
NIA: And... a pink haired girl? Can't say I have.
NIA: There's a chance that maybe a scouting drone might've found one, but I can't exactly access those feeds...
NIA: Why do you ask? You got a girlfriend or something?

JOE heads to the Fortified Cavern, and hands each Abyss Walker a Drone Control Unit. Or at least, he tries. Apparently, "infinite" isn't really infinite, as he only manages to hand out 5 before reality decides he can't summon any more. Defenses increased! Verdana then suggests for Taeda to blame all the losses on the Iti.

TAEDA: I-I mean, I could!
TAEDA: B-But, what if anyone learns the truth? Acacia would have my head for lying to her face!
TAEDA: A-Also... reports of truly intelligent Iti are rare and far in between.
TAEDA: Some of them talked about needing help, and some of them yelled about the end of the world or something... but they were put down rather quickly.

EN then notes that the Sphere is actually a doomsday device.

TAEDA: ...
TAEDA: ...Isn't it kinda obvious? I mean, it spawns purple people, the purple people kill things... it is pretty much a doomsday device.
TAEDA: Unless you meant it in a different way...?
TAEDA: I d-don't think the Council would be as dumb to have us defend some sort of world-destruction device...

Boshi then asks about the Crimson Tech Nia dropped.

NIA: Oh! That's like, an auxiliary projection device.
NIA: It takes a lot of finesse to use... and, uh, I'm not very "finessed".
NIA: It'd let me create hardlight buddies to fight alongside me... if I was good enough to use it!
NIA: It's a real shame to lose it... is what I'd say, if I used it literally ever.

Boshi then purchases a Trash Can and a Teslathrower, spending 150 Credits and 1 Coupon. He then creates a neato hat using 2 Incendiary Scraps and a Titanium Ingot; one that has the sole purpose of FAST. He then dons all the new gear. The Man then considers jumping in the well... but the Safety Rating decides to fix itself. The Man decides to not kill himself. The Voice then decides to save the game, because that tends to be a good idea.

>Game Saved!

From there, the Voice loots some of those barricades from the first zone. He hauls them into the inventory, obtaining 10 Uniform Logs. He then gets a drone to harvest fruit from the River Crossing's tree, obtaining 4 Cinderfruit. The rest of the fruit are kinda small. Cinderfruit. That's familiar, isn't it? He then takes 7 bottles of Green Sap from the Sap Tree, and attempts to barter with the spiders for gold mining rights.

...They're spiders. They don't share your concepts of economy or capitalism. They "shrug" in a confused fashion. Maybe you need to convince them in a different way? Alternatively, you need to find a way to not hurt the tree as you mine the mineral. There's a lot of options here! Zedros then becomes the lord of doors, fortifying the Fortified Cavern further before doing some crafting. He expends a CPU, 3 Titanium Ingots, his Circuit Circlet, 5 Circuit Boards, 10 Wire Scraps, a Pocket Scanner (50 credits), the Drone Control Unit, and a bunch of items that have several copies. He obtains the Hacking Mask, which promptly shoots itself to T3.

Bergilmir then gets to crafting, using Nia's Right Arm, 3 Titanium Ingots, and-

CHLOE: OH gorilla WHAT THE HELL
NIA: Oh geez. That's... not how I intended it to be used.

...Berg's Right Arm has been added to the inventory! Ice-Armed Arm obtained, and equipped! Chloe manages to succeed on her not-vomiting roll, but still looks somewhat sick after what he just did. The Artist then shows Nia her Codex entry.

NIA: Ooh! It's me!
NIA: Anyway, that voice in my head is what Xavier calls the Chaos.
NIA: ...Also, what do you mean by "voice color"? Does my voice have a hue? Is that a weird expression for tone? What color is my voice? Is it an eye-piercing yellow?
NIA: I hope it's an eye-piercing yellow.
NIA: Also, can't slap Xavier. He'd get angry, and then maybe he'd shut me down or something. At the very least, he'd punish me somehow, and I've had a decently clean record with him when it comes to punishments!
NIA: Also, I know where he is, but I'd also get punished for telling you.
NIA: Plus, he'd totally pick you up in one of his floating robot hand things, and juice you. It's disgusting, but he's mostly only done it to the Iti.

And since I forgot to answer earlier, Nia responds to the proposal of Mr. Krabs to stuff her into a different body. Which wasn't done in-post, but still.

NIA: That sounds... difficult. It seems rewarding, though! Anything to get away from those voices.
NIA: Okay, so I know that my consciousness isn't actually part of the robot. I'm hooked up via connection.
NIA: You'd need to either get back to the transmission point and manually redirect it to your new body... which seems hard and is likely impossible...
NIA: ...or, create some sort of device that'd reroute the signals into the body you've created, without rerouting the signals of the voices.
NIA: Our minds aren't really truly connected. I'd describe it like we've both been thrown into the same box, and we're expected to not kill one another.

---

Teag goes North, followed by Taeda and her cart.

TAEDA: T-These woods...
TAEDA: They're known as the Forest of Departure.
TAEDA: I-I hate this place...
TAEDA: At least the wagon's small. Iti always seem to come out and attack larger groups here... a-and, well... that never ends well.
TAEDA: There's been several recorded instances of smaller groups slipping through undetected, though! I'm banking on that.

Taeda looks up at the few bits of light fluttering through the trees. The sun is beginning to go down. She's properly horrified.

TAEDA: O-Oh no!
TAEDA: S-Sorry, I need to leave now! It's impossible to navigate these parts of the wood at night, a-and if I don't hurry...
TAEDA: W-Well... I-I'd end up joining everyone w-who's... fallen here. The Woods of Departure got their name for a reason...
TAEDA: ...I-I should go.
TAEDA: G-Goodbye. Safe travels!

The spiders pull the cart into the darkness of the woods. Only a few seconds later, Taeda is consumed by the seemingly solid mixture of dark and fog. Naturally, you'll need to charge through it, too! Make sure you're geared up before you charge in; the upcoming map is rather large, and might take some time to crawl through.

---

Here's an important question; how are people pointing their skills? Let's see here...

Originally posted on 2018-01-13 01:10:00

I take out 1 point from SPC, and put 2 points into STR. I then put a point in SKI. I also replace Whirling Blades with Cleave.

Destiny then takes 2 Titanium Ingots, 1 Uniform Wood and 1 Leather.
She then takes the Titanium Ingots out. She takes out a cast for a dagger blade + guard out of nowhere and takes everything to a forge. She puts both Titanium Ingots in the forge and waits for a while to let them melt. She then pours some in the cast, letting it cool into a a blade that is about 2 inches longer than the current one. She repeats the process to create another blade + guard. She then cuts off the old blades and uses magic glue to keep the hookshot blade functionality.
Destiny then cuts the Leather into two strips and puts leather glue on the back of the strips. She then wraps the leather around both of the handles, making it easier and more comfortable to grip.
Finally, Destiny chops up the Uniform Wood into 2 balls. She then magically welds it together with the power of space magicks to the end of the handles to create pommels, which previously did not exist.

HOOKSHOT DAGGERS UPGRADED! +1 Damage, +1 Upper Damage (If needs nerfing, take this out), +1 HIT

Titanium Hookshot Daggers "Titanium is lighter than steel, which is why this has more HIT."
WEAPON SKILL: Grapple. Choose a tile within Range 1-4 and move there. If you grapple on to a solid tile, land on the tile before it. If you grapple on to an enemy, deal (7-9) Piercing Damage and move to a tile within Range 1 of them.
(8-10) SlashingRange: 1,Retreat: 2, Counter: 3 Hit: 7, Stat Changes: +1 SKI

Originally posted on 2018-01-13 05:49:00

Move to H6! Attack Nia! I'll take her down! Eventually!

Originally posted on 2018-01-13 17:50:00

@TT2000 Nia is defeated already.

Originally posted on 2018-01-13 17:55:00

Mr. Krabs abruptly uses the power of memes to get in the way of Moniker's attack on Nia. Inexplicably, Moniker falls through Mr. Krabs back to the forest checkpoint, unharmed.

Mr. Krabs then glitches out for a bit before turning to Nia and Chloe. "You know, Chloe... I should ought to remind you of that ability you possess, uh, called Encourage? It should work on Nia, if you at least want her in walking condition... Oh! That reminds me. Hrm, unusual of me to ask this... Nia, if I told you that the 'thing' in your head would go away forever if I put yourself in a different mechanical body, even if it was by comparison to your current one weaker than a seasick sailor with salmonella, would you be enticed by that prospect? It wouldn't be so weak that you couldn't deal with the irritable creatures walking around, but it also should mean you're not tormented by... Hrm. Hang on. Boss had a name for it."

Mr. Krabs pulls out some kind of sheet. From what little could be seen from the perspective of Chloe and Nia, it is entitled 'Cheat Sheet: so you don't forget the big important things' He studies it for a second. "Ah, right. The Chaos Butterfly. So you're not tormented by that thing again possessing your body and making you turn into a murderous machine against your will. Seem like a fair deal? I'd just need, uh, well, I'd just need time and some working knowledge of how you kinda got to be like that to begin with. I may have a colleague who dabbled with this sort of thing before, actually... Eh, I'll ask him if I need to. Sounds swell to you, lass?"

Mr. Krabs then sends this whole scene into a time machine and sends it back exactly one update ago.

Mr. Krabs then leaves for the Barracks zone-temporarily. First, he re-combobulates himself via glitching out heavily, glowing with the force of the glorious kalidescopic madness known as memes. From the glorious kalidescopic madness, a form emerges-that of a Helix Fossil, the vessel of the glorious lord helix. This action gives Mr. Krabs a new special that, conveniently, costs exactly the same as the old special, just with different fill conditions.

Consult Helix
Fill conditions: Dealing Damage, Alteranting Weapon Attacks (x5), Downing enemies (x10)
SP required (at base): 250
Consult the Lord Helix through his glorious fossil and be given a powerful, chaotic boon. Roll 1d10000 for the relative strength/goodness of the effect; the higher, the better. The actual effect is GM-determined. Mostly rigged in your favor, but bad effects may happen below 1000.
Modifiers:
-3 SP per point of SPC (caps at 20 SPC)
-When used, automatically heal the user by 3 HP per 3 SPC. (caps at 18 SPC, IE 18 HP healed)
-When used, automatically grant the user Empower(2) for 3 turns at 5 SPC, 4 STR.
-When used, automatically grant the user Guardian(2) for 3 turns at 5 SPC, 4 DEF.
-Automatically reroll if your first roll is sub 1000 at 10 SPC. (you're stuck with your second roll even if it's worse.)
-Roll for two effects at once at 20 SPC. (both have separate rerolls.)

In addition to this, Mr. Krabs has exchanged Tumbling Walls with a new Radiant Singularity spell, as a result of his recombobulation. this same recombobulation has made him reject the Deal with the Dome; he instead attains a Lucky Charm and Elemental Runes attuned to the power of Darkness. Understandably, this is a weakness he did not even have at all to begin with; trust me. Mr. Krabs will fix this obvious oversight, soon.

A few other stat changes have occurred as a result of his recombobulation:
+1 STR
+1 SPC

Finally, Mr. Krabs beholds his gear from the helm of his General Greivous cosplay. I haven't forgotten that. Neither should you. It will be your undoing, you just know it. And indeed, Mr. Krabs starts undoing the glorious Warchair, unbuilding it, then rebuilding it into three smaller, miniature Warchairs that realistically wouldn't be weapons at all at that size. Like, they're actually really tiny now, two inches tall. Very hard for their now-tiny size, though.

Mr. Krabs then attains a Crystalline Claw, and... Attaches the three miniature Warchairs directly onto the Crystalline Claw's, well, claws. Inexplicably, they fit perfectly. But this isn't the end of it. Mr. Krabs must now complete this craftpost by defeating the essence of not completeing this craftpost in mortal combat. Mr. krabs is abruptly teleported to an astral realm, complete with inexplicable distant stardust, facing off against an anthropomorphic dog made entirely of a greenish-orange crystal, the embodiment of failing at craftposting. He beckons Mr. Krabs forwards with a twitch of his digits.

Mr. Krabs does not approach and instead shoots this stupid rock furry in the face, with his face. The dog is stunned by the attack of his face with his own face, never expecting such a lamppost maneuver. Mr. Krabs then does another lamppost maneuver, this time with an actual lamppost. his name is charlie mc.gee and he wants to kick you while you wee, but he'll suffice for crystalline canines who are not using the bathroom at this moment as he's just been summoned into an an astral realm, and astral realms suck. While the dog is stunned by the lamppost kicking him, Mr. Krabs goes in for the finisher. As in, he goes directly into the dog through the face of the dog he threw at the dog earlier. He then comes back out and starts walking away.

"omae wa mou shindeiru!!" says Mr. Krabs.

"nani?!" says the dog.

We then realize that this would normally deal 5-5 damage to the voice, and he is our friend so we don't want that. So instead of exploding, as per the anime tradition, the dog instead gets a crippling stomachache and pukes. Because it's made entirely of rock, and also because its face is still in its face, it pukes into itself. This disgrace of existence causes it to violently implode, leaving behind a pure white orb of pure whiteness.

Mr. Krabs siezes the orb, he has a warrant and that orb is under arrest. He throws it immediately into the slammer, as in Tin Pin Slammer, where it is mercilessly slammed into oblivion by fashion-conscious weirdos. His mission complete, Mr. Krabs returns to the normal realm. The Crystalline Claw is exactly as it was before, but on the vergest of verges of a total transformation! Mr. Krabs solves this problem by taking out a single Glacier Cap from the infinite sack of starter items as well as two Titanium Ingots, and crushing both into powder in his claws, then just having the dust grace the Crystalline Claw.

An incredible transmutation takes place, complete with glowy lights and some kind of triumphant angelic chorus as the Crystalline Claws turn into their much-superior form, the Chilling Chairclaws!

Ingredients Used: Warchair x1, Crystalline Claw x1, Glacier Cap x1, Titanium Ingots x2

Chilling Chairclaws Sadly, you can't sit on these unless your hindquarters are tiny. Really tiny.
(6-9) Ice Damage, 1 Range, 2 Retreat, 1 Counter, 6 HIT. Stat Changes: -1 AGI.
Weapon Skill: Chair Expansion. basically the same-Growth Points and all, with one new Upgrade: Stylish. Stylish enables the weapon's basic attacks to gain double SP. It can only be upgraded once and costs 3 GP.

With that out of the way, Mr. Krabs takes and eqiups it. He also equips a Glitched Harp over the Goddess Servant; -2 RES is not cool on a character that wants decent RES. But that's not quite all we're going to see in this post. He has one other thing to take care of, and that is taking care of a pair of scissors. Its uncle is worried that it won't live up to the family expectation of slapping canteens in the face, so Mr. Krabs has taken up the job (paid in money, of course), and dressed up a canteen in a glass dress to train the pair of scissors in the art of slapping canteens that have a level of protection. To ensure that the pair of scissors can really do it, Mr. Krabs has padded out the Glass Dress with approximately 8 Wire Scraps, naturally known for their ability to take a considerable slapping and survive completely functional.

Naturally, Scissors have Bug Spray elemental damage, befitting its glorious ability to slap canteens, so the first thing the pair of Scissors does is open with an elemental burst of energy to stun the canteen. This barely even budges it, though-the protective qualities of the Glass Dress and Wire Scraps prevented a direct blow. Realizing that it needs to distract the canteen to lower its guard, the scissors summons the Number 3 Dire Mole, who pops out of the ground, ready to show off why it's the third-strongest mole in his five-fold family, and the power of being average-ish. Except it doesn't, as this was a ruse to allow the pair of scissors to rush in and slap the canteen directly in the face!

The act of slapping a canteen in the face causes the scissors to undergo Metachronistic Superfission with an Isotopic Imbalance, causing the canteen to fade into seventeen different dimensions, all of which involve blacksmithing. When the canteen returns from its trip, it has not changed, but the glass dress it was wearing has been merged with the wire scraps, which inexplicably resulted in the dress
becoming part-robot. Robotic Glass Dresses are even better than normal Glass Dresses, so Mr. Krabs takes it, happy with the result of the training. The scissor's uncle, the deal done, arranges for 10 million credits to be funneled into Mr. Krabs account. By next week, of course, because 10 million credits isn't gonna appear in any inventory while we actually need them.

Ingredients Used: Glass Dress x1, Wire Scraps x8
Robot Glass Dress Hail your robotic crossdressing overlords!
Stats: +2 SPC, +2 RES, -1 DEF
Resists: Fire 20%, Magical 30%, Crushing 10%

With that done, Mr. Krabs takes off his cap. It is cold and hard, and Mr. Krabs wants a hat that is even colder and harder than this because he can survive at subzero temperatures and thus has no issue whatsoever with this. Naturally, this means ice sculptures. But of what?

Mr. Krab goes for a trip down inspiration lane. Inspiration lane is filled with multiversal classics, like Beethovioahoiuoa's 1907893th symphony or Leonardo DaCoreyinthehouse's famous painting, the Mona Mona Mona Monika Just Monika Just Just Just. They are also home to more esoteric works like Fanglefarthio's legendary play "The nights of sour gloves," Chichanerionononsohoupo's "Castlevania and the Castlevania of Notlevania," and of course, the ever-infamous "Your Ukelele is firing Lightning at the Reindeer" by Vlaidiididididid Hutin. Inspired by all of these glorious original compositions, Mr. Krabs gets to work on his Ice Sculpture, taking about 10 Glacier Caps from the inventory, as well as the singular Iron Pipe, for support. Mr. Krabs shoves all the Glacier Caps into the Iron Pipe, closes both ends of the pipe, and shakes it up like its a can of soda, before uncapping one of the lids and letting a perfectly cyndrilical piece of ice about the size of Mr. Krabs pop out.

Satisfied by this, Mr. Krabs proceeds to use his nose and the Iron Pipe to carve out a work of art fitting for a King-in fact, so fitting shall this be that whoever has this ice sculpture may be fit for royalty! Mr. Krabs has to stress the 'may' part to a wandering Jabberwokey, who was thinking of trying to steal it once it was done, and in fact, does not really make anyone fit for royalty, and just makes them look like it a lot. This causes it to weep, which was actually part of the plan as Jabberywokey tears were the last key ingredient to finishing the sculpture-a beautiful depiction of a Keldeo. Mr. Krabs then places it back on his head.

Yes.

Also the Iron Pipe explodes as per crafting regulations that all ingredients must be used up in crafting. It is totally lost now and cannot be used for anything ever again. Bemoan the loss, for it was good.

Ingredients Used: 10 Glacier Caps, 1 Iron Pipe

Keldeo Ice Sculpture Wearing it anywhere other than on the head else is illegal in all known universes.
Stats: +3 SPC, +2 DEF
Resists: Ice 30%, Fire -20%, Crushing -10%

And with that, I think Mr. Krabs is done with crafting for this update, and hopefully for a good long while.

as a just in case measure for the GM, as I realize this was a full gear switchout/upgrade:

Head: Keldeo Ice Sculpture
Armor: Robot Glass Dress
Trinket 1: Lucky Charm
Trinket 2: Dark Elemental Runes
Primary Weapon: Chilling Chairclaws
Secondary Weapon: Glitched Harp
Spells: Switched Tumbling Walls for Radiant Singularity

In any case, Mr Krabs does exactly two more things. First, he goes to the Stage and throws the Signal Stone at the Stage to see if any reaction has occured. If nothing happens and the Signal Stone does not dissapear after a short period, Mr. Krabs will take the stone back into the safety of the inventory. Then, unless something has occured to prohibit Mr. Krabs leaving the area as a result of the Signal Stone, he moves goes to the Forest of Departure, into the thick darkness of darkness... wait, no. Mr. Krabs is a cheater, I guess, in that forests are still maneuverable tiles that are not in darkness; as such, Mr. Krabs (with Toast's permission) picks up Toast from wherever her current location is with his big meaty claws, and instead goes through the not-deep forest with the power of having 4 Move and noncombat to skip the whole encounter and contact the Informant early, setting Toast down in front of the Informant. He will inspect the Saplings before joining the battle anyways.

Originally posted on 2018-01-14 02:44:00

Terry +1s his INT, +1s his AGI, swaps Blood Molding for Ignite Blood, and equips the Crystalline Claw. He then grabs a fruit from the fruit tree at the River Crossing, then throws it all the way to AD20. He then buys the Infinite Santa Hats.

"NIA: Oh man, I think it managed to get angrier than Xavier after losing a game of Starcraft to cheese. And he yells things like "gorillaing gorilla gorilla-gorilla gorillaing uninstall your gorillaing game before i gorillaing hack your gorillaing pc you gorillaing gorilla gorilla-head," so the thing's rage is really something!"
"never lucky BabyRage never lucky"

Then Terry scans Auth. For the keks.

A Deathstalker Rexxar card falls into Terry's hand.

NEW SPECIAL: Hipster Merchant of Death
Next round, randomly generate two 3-weapon lists. Choose one weapon from each list, combine the weapons chosen, and equip the resulting Salvaged Weapon for ? turns.
SP required: ???
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Terry runs into the darkness, and takes about 20 damage. A mint green power symbol is burnt into the ground where he was before he did this.

Originally posted on 2018-01-14 04:17:00

Toast's flinches, and turns to Nia, cheeks flushed (red, for once).
"What?! No! I haven't got a- She's not my..." she trails off a little, before catching herself, "...What's important is that she's my friend, and I'm worried about her! I haven't seen her in almost a month- (from toast's perspective) -And this is the only lead I have left for where she could be...
She folds her arms over her shoulders, possibly in an attempt to comfort herself. Although, as I've alluded to before, her arms are far from comfortable. After a moment, she speaks up again, a small spark of hope in her eyes.
"...Do you think there's any way that you could access those feeds? If she's here, I need to find her before someone"- or something -"else does. Even if it wouldn't work... it would mean a lot to me if you could try. Please?"

Toast awaits a response, makes an appropriate reply, then excuses herself to go north. When the time comes for it, she allows Mr. Krabs to carry her, provided his claws keep to themselves. If this trek succeeds, then she goes up to the Informant, and initiates dialogue with him:
"Uh, hi. My name is Toast- Are you with the five I met not-too-long ago?"
She's careful not to say 'Resistance', in case this isn't the rebel informant.
If he gives reliable indication that he is the rebel informant, Toast makes a suggestion, "If we are to continue, we should probably move off this path, as there'll be a Legion caravan passing through here soon."
Otherwise, her response will be dependant on his response.

~~

If Mr Krabs is stuck at The Set or the trek fails, she'll basically do the same thing, except instead head into The Dark without him. She can talk to the informant when she has the chance. For now, however, her breathing seems to have quickened slightly. She seems... on-edge. Is it from the location...? ...Or is it something else?

(also a small round of crafting occurs)
​

[/spoiler]
Also: here's a shopping list of things Toast buys this turn (including that of crafting):

- Drone -
1x Temmie Flake. (5 Credits)
9x Wire Scraps. (45 Credits)
1x Infinite Santa Hats. (50 Credits)
1x Luminous Crystal. (10 Credits) (used in crafting)

- Y.V. -
4x Waterdrank™. (40 Credits)
3x Pick-Me-Up. (150 Credits)
For a grand total of 300 credits.

Originally posted on 2018-01-14 05:33:00

Simeon continues to use the heat source that is the High Sun to do some culinary stuff.

He collects as much green sap as possible, puts it in a pot, and boils it over the miniature ball of plasma. The water content in the sap evaporates away, leaving behind a sticky, sweet green syrup. Pouring it out onto a plate, he leaves it at the ashen grove.

"Come on Simeon, you can do this. Get over your arachnophobia, they're only spiders,"" he says. "Only spiders.""

He dips his hand into the syrup, extends it outwards, and slowly inches toward the Splinter Spiders, trying to look as nonthreatening as possible, and pretending that this is a perfectly normal thing to do, feeding a bunch of giant spiders with one's bare hands.


Originally posted on 2018-01-14 06:22:00

Since infinite isn't Infinite, I grab 4 Medikits for 4 Abyss walkers so they can stall, and give a different Abyss walker a crystalline claw, ordering it to always hide in the back, out of sight, going the path "Intellect, wait 1 round, corrupt, alternate sharpen and manipulate, then precision, then RNG spam."
with orders to use corrupt to confuse the Iti and only physically attack them after 6 rounds if the battle isn't over yet.


Originally posted on 2018-01-14 12:50:00

He turns back to Nia, and salutes her with his Stick ”Hopefully our paths will cross again, it’s been... odd, I guess. Also interesting.”
Since apparently he still has a skillpoint, he tosses that into DEF.

...Because why not, Emerald scans himself.

Originally posted on 2018-01-14 21:48:00

Irongutta puts 2 points into SPC.

Crafting stuff happens!

Resists: Piercing (20%), Ice (-20%)

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He then follows the party north into the Forest of Departure and enters the darkness.

Originally posted on 2018-01-14 23:59:00

Boshi thinks about his current skillpoint distribution. Hat Kid starts thinking about their current spell selection. The two were in constant communication throughout, to find something a bit... better for them, I guess you could say.

Regretfully, Boshi decides to take his points out of MOV for now, so he could build them back up after a few battles. He also simultaneously takes out his skillpoints from STR, SKI, and SPC. He puts all of these into INT.

With this in mind, Hat Kid, being the spellslinger of the duo, replaces Corpse Explosion for Incantation, and Whirling Blades for Hidden Shard.

Boshi's open-toed shoes lose their capabilities suddenly, but Hat Kid's Hat Ribbon gains power. Open-Toed Shoes replaced with the Zen Ribbon!

If there's a Dead Drone around, they chuck it in the trash can.

They then walk East.

Originally posted on 2018-01-15 00:24:00

The Voice removes all his points from RES, then puts all his points into SPC! Off to 15 SPC, and the second level of custom summon traits!

The Voice then picks the Light element for his unlocked second option on Hidden _, and swaps out Transfusion for Cure.

He then runs into the darkness. Fight time!

Originally posted on 2018-01-15 04:18:00

Zedros, satisfied with his new hat, decides to invest in crafting some weaponry. Seeing nothing up to his standards in the Bunker or inventory, he decides to create a weapon from scratch instead of just upgrading something.



As Zedros wields the Lightning Rod, thunder rings out from a long-dead realm.


Zed heads east of the River Crossing and slings 2 points into INT.

Originally posted on 2018-01-15 04:39:00

It turns out the projector has changed significantly.


miyuki_s: ねえ、シズキちゃん、作業しましょう！
shizuki2223: はい！

美雪とシズキが以下の材料を集める：
1x CPU (ドローンから買った)
1x 鉄インゴット
2x 火薬
1x 固まったガラス (ドローンから買った)
そして、作業が始まる。

ケイ素の原子をCPUから抜いて、そのケイ素と鉄インゴットと核融合反応を起こして、ストロンチウムのインゴットを作り出す。
ストロンチウムの原子番号の３を抜いて、「Overclocked DAR-401」の射程距離の４に換えて、インゴットがカドミウムになる。
火薬と固まったガラスと「Overclocked DAR-401」の弾丸が混ぜて、パワーアップして。

(The result is shown in the Character Sheet.)



Originally posted on 2018-01-15 09:21:00

"To answer your question and responses to my question in order 1: No sadly, your voice is a light blue, due to the whole 'ice' thing about you. Or at least this current mechanical body your using. 2:Still, you should bring this up with Xavier when you see him again. This is a job hazard. That's all I can really say towards the whole 'forced to try and kill your family.' Other than maybe see if there is small and innocuous things you can tease Xavier about as revenge. 3:HA I would like to see him try to juice me, I'm already mostly liquid. I mean seriously, my skin and organs are made out of ink, paint, watercolor, and various other liquid art supplies. The only solid thing is my bones, and their made of ceramic, paper mache, and plastic. Not that hard to fix. Anyway, to help keep yourself entertained while people try to fix your current condition, here's a document that contains all the information on things we fought so far, seems like it should be entertaining."
The Artist decides to put their two unused skill points into INT, giving them access to 'RNG Madness" on Roulette Crasher. They also decide to switch 'Bag of Tricks' with 'Mirror Image' since that seems more useful at this point to them. They than go to the 'Forest of Departure,' and pick up the Feather and some fruits from the Tree.
Also, just to see what happen's, I scan one of my fellow player's just to see if there is an entry on us.

Originally posted on 2018-01-15 16:13:00

The Man pulls out a missing poster, and throws that into the well.

Originally posted on 2018-01-15 17:04:00

Teag does nothing in particular, but if people want to do the battle this turn, he joins.

He also picks up the feather if he can.

Originally posted on 2018-01-15 20:54:00

Brutishace wakes up from his hazy state.

"Huh, I wasn't expecting that to happen."

By the time he comes to, the battle has been won. Brutishace picks himself up and wonders about his next objective.

Brutishace sinks his 2 skill points into DEF and HP, 1 in each.

He looks around for any more Soulblossoms and Goneblossoms if possible to upgrade his gear.

Originally posted on 2018-01-15 21:39:00

"...Alright, time to get going. We've got places to be."

Calibri decides to head east to go check out what might be in that direction. Sadly not got much to say right now because it's very late at night.

"Wait up!"

Verdana proceeds to run off after Calibri. That leaves EN all alone. She stands there for a moment, then shrugs and decides to go north, to the Forest of Departure. She seems to be considering something...

"Ya know... me and Cal probably need better gear sometime soonish. Erryone else's runnin' round with cool new gear an' thin's..."


Oh also +1 to Cal RES, +1 to Cal INT, +1 to EN RES, +1 to EN AGI.

Originally posted on 2018-01-17 16:50:00