Destiny runs to S17 and uses the Teleporter Node to teleport to G15.
Ah, another monstrosity. Time to rip and tear then.
Destiny prepares her daggers and uses Whirling Blades to G14, H13, H12, I11, I10, then back to I11. Destiny then retreats to H13.

"Yikes! That Electrophorus could fry me alive if I got anywhere near it! I am on high ground, though, so I could damage it without (hopefully) getting within range of its weapons..."

Seeing as how nobody's injured, Brutishace stands his ground and fires at the Electrophorus' Storm Armor at F15 with Twin Serpents. It's a bit of a distance away, but with the high ground, he should be able to make it work...

< BATTLE >
Bauhaus moves to AB8 and basic attacks the Gunship Core.

< RP >
/WIP

Acting before Rosemary, I shoot the Mimic.

Hexagon dashes to T13, then casts Fury on himself. Then he walks back onto the ship with retreat, to Q12. Finally, he expends 8 Ember to summon a boosted power well under him.

The Battle in the Skies
Daskter moves to (S22) using the starboard side teleporter node. He blasts Aello2 and Aello3 to death with Creation Singularity.

The Rocketeer fires a rocket at the first Aello. The rocket crushes it to death.

BATTLE

The Reflector flies to N15 and basic attacks Harpy 3, then uses the opportunity to shift their Water resistance to Air. They then retreat to O15. The Mirror Reflector moves to S18 and uses a bonus action to fire the Twin Railcannons at the Electrophorus, then uses their action to grant the core of the ship 13 bonus SHP with their weapon (or if that's not legal, Venia, I suppose).

---

ROLEPLAY

@Ette and Chaos

"CHAOS": oh he[c]k
"CHAOS": looks like i was running some da[t]ed [c]haos sof[t]ware
"CHAOS": you know how i[t] is
"CHAOS": also ni[c]e heads[t]and
"CHAOS": go[t][t]a keep up wi[t]h your exer[c]ise rou[t]ine, amiri[t]e

As Chaos disappears, "Chaos" blinks and examines himself. He appears to be wearing an apron labeled "Chaosburger." Pinned to the apron is a nametag that reads, "No. 6."

"CHAOS": one [c]haosburger, [c]oming righ[t] up
"CHAOS": oh, and your [t]ea
"CHAOS": a[c][t]ually i [t]hink we only have pepsi
"CHAOS": bu[t] [t]here migh[t] be some s[t]uff in the ba[c]k
"CHAOS": one se[c], le[t] me whip some[t]hing up

"Chaos" heads into a door and disappears from view, even though he's operating out of a stand. There's apparently a kitchen in one of the rooms of the house now, you suppose. After a couple minutes, he returns with two items. One of them is what would have been .a delicious-looking burger, but covered in an inordinate amount of mayonnaise and relish. The other is a cup of tea, although the tea bag appears to be shaped like a chibi representation of Ette. "Chaos" bags the burger and pushes the items over to Ette.

"CHAOS": one [c]haosburger and one e[t][t]ea
"CHAOS": ordinarily [t]ha[t]'d be 9,999,999,999,999,999 [c]redi[t]s
"CHAOS": bu[t] sin[c]e you so generously agreed [t]o le[t] us use your likeness for marke[t]ing...
"CHAOS": le[t]'s [c]all it on the house
"CHAOS": any[t]hing else i [c]an do for you?

---

@Franciacorta



no no no no no no no
what did you do
what did you do

...


i'm alone and i'm nothing and there's no one else and there's nothing
"FRAN": and there's nothing left and I'm all alone and I'm no one
"FRAN": and I'm
"FRAN": not ready to be someone

I take a few moments to stop ugly-sobbing into Fran's embrace and just barely pull myself together. I force out words between hiccups.

"FRAN": Of all things? Fucking Rebellion?
"FRAN": Fuck you, me.

(Note: Should be done sometime before the first weapons console attack, which unless I'm missing something means sometime before the Reflector?)

Woodthorne moves to the high ground at N23. He uses the height advantage to fire his Golden Revolver at Arkwind1, then uses the Utility Console to activate the Rangefinding Sensors.

Pistol sniping FTW!

(Battle: Amidst the Clouds)

Remiel Sprints and moves to AB7 while reloading his sord.

Battle: Admist the Clouds

If not already done, Venia activates Thymebent mode.

Vic Viper shoots Harpy1 with its basic attack, then finishes it off with a shot from the Elemental Blaster set to Light.

Venia then activates the Remote Airship Controller (as the console next to her got used), causing the Twin Railcannons to whir to life and target Electrophorus at whichever segment of its body has lower Storm Armor HP.

"Is everyone doing alright?"

---

Other?

Not this time. :V

Nidra:
Basic Attack Aello9 and Aello10.
Power Nap Omo.

Nemuri to R13, Hidden Eye (Psychic) on Harpy7, Energetic Flame proc on Harpy7 if it's still alive.

Irongutta basic attacks SBlast2 again to finish it off and, using Dance of Destruction, moves to Z12 to attack SBlast1 as well.

==BATTLE==
Crystal moves to AC8 and attacks the Gunship Core with a basic attack followed by a War Scythe slash, moving him to AC7.

Pope Bill attacks the Aello9 on K24, using his basic-attack!

<ROUND 232>

JOE begs NPC's for help! He's instantly refused by the likes of the """reasonable""" ones like Marron, and those like Chloe who decide to hear him out are immediately concerned when he begins to do some rather outlandish things to try and win their support. Chloe refuses the rock, his broom, and a claim to Norway. She then awkwardly backs off once he begins his handstand, only slightly creeped out by him.

This all changes when he approaches Chaos, and offers him part of his claim to Norway. Chaos's eyes morph into dollar signs, which he promptly rips out and pockets. Using this money, he buys himself a new pair of eyes.

CHAOS: i'll do i[t]
CHAOS: i've always wan[t]ed [t]o [t]ake over norway
CHAOS: on[c]e [t]his whole sphere [t]hing is done, i'll leverage my posi[t]ion on norway [t]o [t]ake over the plane[t]
CHAOS: bu[t] more impor[t]an[t] [t]han [t]aking over [t]he plane[t]
CHAOS: i [c]an [t]ake over [t]he marke[t]

CHAOS: anyway sign here

Chaos's usual wide smile grows yet wider, before parting for a moment. From his mouth emerges a series of creaking and squeaking, a white sheet of paper rolling out of his mouth. Once done, he pulls out the paper, revealing that he's just inked a fresh contract. One that already has JOE's signature on it, somehow.

CHAOS: [t]hank you for your business
CHAOS: also [t]his [c]on[t]ra[c][t] may or may no[t] have given me dominion over your soul
CHAOS: should've read [t]he fine prin[t]
CHAOS: ...i should've read [t]he fine prin[t] be[c]ause i [t]hink i migh[t]'ve forgo[t][t]en [t]o pu[t] [t]ha[t] [t]here
CHAOS: look as long as we don'[t] read [t]he [c]on[t]ra[c][t] [t]oo [c]losely, i'll jus[t] assume s[c]hrodinger's soul and [t]ha[t] i bo[t]h own and don'[t] own your soul
CHAOS: whi[c]h pu[t]s [t]his on shaky legal grounds bu[t] oh well no lawyers play [t]his game i'm fun[c][t]ionally immune [t]o [c]ongress

CHAOS: ...
CHAOS: wai[t] wha[t] do you wan[t] me [t]o do again i forge[t]

...This partnership can only go well. Also, JOE lobs together 25 (15) Paper and 2 (0) Green Sap into... a ball of soggy, sticky paper. Which also performs the requested functionality. Alright. Soggy Paper Barrier obtained!

---

Boshi, Sophia, Dorothy, and Hannah... continue to do things. Look, at this point, I'm just going to call them "Boshi's Daycare" so that I don't need to type out all of their names, because I'm both sick and lazy at the same time.

Anyway, Boshi shares some information about Electrophorus with the fisherman. Odds are, the party is the one who attracted the bugger. He also notes that he'll likely kill it, given their track record. The fisherman shrugs.

FISHERMAN: Hm. That'd explain a lot.
FISHERMAN: Although, we do have airships flying around the Skylabs, and they don't attract Electrophorus at such odd times.
FISHERMAN: Perhaps if your airship was crudely designed, like several people randomly connected electrical systems to one another with little to no regard for consistency and aesthetics that gave off such a powerful energy signal due to over-engineering, then maybe you'd attract the thing.

FISHERMAN: ...I'm just spitballing, though. I don't know too much about its habits.
FISHERMAN: Good luck to your friends. But remember, no matter what you've done in the past... remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.
FISHERMAN: Basically, be careful. That thing has some tricks up its sleeve.
FISHERMAN: Otherwise, Cypress would've killed it the first time he ripped it in half...

At the Whispering Library, Sophia jumps off the balcony and plummets to her death walks downstairs to meet with the trio of Scarlets. Though they're all resting at the moment, it can't hurt to ask what's going on. Fortunately for her, seems like one of them's awake. As she approaches to ask what's going on, the Scarlet springs up, standing whilst completely swaddled by her sleeping bag.

SCARLET: W-Whoa! Make yourself known, fien-
SCARLET: ...Oh! You're not a fiend, sorry!
SCARLET: You're actually... really small. Are you a child? Kinda weird to see a kid this far out.

Sophia ends up asking what's happened. The Scarlet unzips their arm from the sleeping bag, and points to their rocket greaves. She's quite loud as she gabs about how she got here.

SCARLET: Oh, uh...
SCARLET: We... we kinda got fired. All of us.

SCARLET: There's this crazy chick named Maple, and she's kinda like us, in the sense that she's a Scarlet.
SCARLET: There was this incident involving her trying to rebel, and because of that, all of the Scarlet's were getting watched pretty carefully, because they thought we weren't very loyal.
SCARLET: I mean, they were right about us three not being loyal, but d-did they have to sneak explosive charges onto our fuel tanks?
SCARLET: Linseed or somebody else must've caught on to our plans to go AWOL, because our greaves kinda exploded mid-flight.
SCARLET: Thank Helix we were flying low altitude, because we totally would've died otherwise!

She sits down, before beginning to unveil herself from her sleeping bag. She's still dressed in full armor, and her body is littered in light bruises. With her legs still covered up by the sleeping bag, it's a bit hard to tell, but Sophia thinks that one of her legs might be badly injured.

SCARLET: Anyway, we're just kinda... hiding.
SCARLET: We can't do much without flight, and we're all a bit too banged up to really leave.
SCARLET: This place is pretty cozy, though. Lots of books.
SCARLET: I'd be cool with staying here for now, at least until we all recover.

SCARLET: So anyway. what brings you here?
SCARLET: Are you lost? Again, it's weird to see a kid out here.
SCARLET: You're welcome to stay with us if you need a place to stay.
SCARLET: We have snacks!

Elsewhere, Hannah decides to descend! She smacks an island's Gravcore vein, looting 8 units of the stuff. The island it was formerly attached to... snaps in two! The chunk without any Gravcore descends into the abyss, shattering loudly once it impacts something below. The other half of the island descends a short distance, before returning to a neutral floating position. Then, looking down at the unobscured view, she notes a powerful airstream... and a crimson eyestalk. Both are potentially worrying.

Finally, Adria wakes up! It's rather apparent that she hasn't had the greatest of mornings, as she sobs quietly into a pillow. Though nobody comes to check on her just yet, there's a rather sweet scent coming from downstairs. Maple syrup from Marron's cooking, probably. Not that she knows what it is, but shhhh. Perhaps she should get her bearings?

---

Not!Echoss grabs some materials! In the Mollusk Nest, they approach a vein of Plasteel. They pocket 12 units of it, which the Mollusks seem fine with. He then expresses to the creatures that he intends to smash through the rubble. They don't seem to mind, even when the Heavenpiercing Drill revs up and rips out a few pieces of rock rubble. 50 units of Stone Brick Blocks enter the inventory, and he uncovers a small pocket of Ruby, which he immediately loots. 2 Rubies obtained!

---

"Chaos" finishes up their transaction with Ette. The ex-puppet is fascinated with the mini-Ette teabag. Her eyes glimmer as she beholds the smolness.

ETTE: Whooaaaa!
ETTE: Thank you, Mr. Reflector-Chaos person!
ETTE: I'm gonna go deliver this to Chaos now. Pleasure doing business with you!
ETTE: Have a good day!

Ette places the bag on her head, walking off towards Chaos with perfect balance. With a quick shake of the head, the bag lands right on Chaos's shop counter. The glitch-thing rips the bag in half, then takes a large bite out of the burger. This removes roughly 80% of it.

CHAOS: mmm yes mayo
CHAOS: my main power sour[c]e
ETTE: Hey Chaos, are you a good cook?
CHAOS: yes
CHAOS: very
CHAOS: probably couldn't make a burger this good though

Chaos inhales the remaining bits of the burger, including the bag. Ette bows towards Chaos, before wandering off to presumably go and quietly sip her tea, whilst appreciating the Ette teabag.

ETTE: I'm gonna place mini-me on my bookshelf!
ETTE: I don't have a bookshelf. I'm gonna make a bookshelf!

---

<AMIDST THE CLOUDS, ROUND FOUR>
Electrophorus has gotten quite close to the ship! This means you should be able to beat on him... but he'll also be able to beat on you. Careful now. Also, watch out for the new enemy ship: it'll spawn new foes if not dealt with, so destroy it ASAP! Or don't: maybe Electrophorus is the bigger problem here?

<FARM RUINS, ROUND THREE>
...Why are we still here? Things aren't really looking good, and since JOE's downed... I don't think things are going to end well. Perhaps it'd be better to surrender?

JOE gets stabbed. He coughs, then pretends he's fine while blood starts bleeding its way out of him.
Then he gets stabbed again, then falls down. there is a muffled "ow"
Despite being stabbed, he does not stop with that thing where he talks a lot. The following text comes in 'JOEs text color' and 'dark text for people who use the light theme' editions. spoiler1 is JOEs text color

spoiler2 is dark text for people who use a light theme.


In case it wasn't Overwhelmingly obvious, JOEs talk about shocking, therapy, and eldritch spires is a coded signal to Chaos trying to indicate the idea of using the Shock Therapist on him via the eldritch spire. It's not an order, of course. It's not even JOE begging, because he's trying to be subtle. All he even hopes to convey is singling out that particular move to Cha- Er, The Ultimate Lord of True, Purest Blackest Darkness, Merely See His Visage And Crumble To Your Knees.

If JOE gets Shock Therapist'd: He uses Corrupt on the Mechon1, then uses the Warp Ring to move four tiles left, then retreats another tile to the left, Then uses Trion Form.

On the Other Hand, if JOE doesn't get Shock Therapist'd (and Poetry Pamphlet can't revive him- I assume it can't but am technically mildly uncertain), he. uh. sits there. Not like he can do much else?
If Poetry Pamphlet Can revive him, he uses it to subtly become not downed, but pretends to remain Downed, and if possible subtly casts illusory trap to make two tiny pieces of dirt on H6 and I12. If Illusory Trap isn't subtly cast-able, he instead uses Corrupt on the Mechonis, subtly, but has it continue its orders to haul him away.

Boshi - Zone 1

Boshi chuckles at the mention of them potentially having cobbled together the airship's electrical systems. "(Yep, sounds like us.)"

"(But yeah, we're generally pretty careful around strong monsters. And butterfly-possessed people, but that's something else. Boastful as I may be about the party's feats, careful execution of on-the-fly plans is essentially the reason behind our successes.)"

And then the fisherman notes that Electrophorus has been torn in half once already. Boshi blinks.
"(...I'd ask if you were joking, but given your track record...)"
"(...Hold on.)"

He turns away, and speaks through the Spherebreaker comms.
"(Vaporize the worm. Don't leave a single segment intact. We can't risk it splitting into even more worms, that might be something it does. I will update you if I learn more.)"

Boshi turns back to the fisherman.
"(So that incident where it was torn in half the first time... did it create two separate worms? This would be important information to have.)"

---

Sophia - Zone 2

Sophia listens to the Scarlet's tale as she sits near the aurora campfire, nodding along. "Other rebels're scary... they burn up and destroy nice things for... some reason? Some sorta purpose? I don' get it, it's gonna hurt 'em later because they have no farms or gardens."

"Oh, and Miss Maple! Some people in my group saved her from a big ol' spider tank, apparently. Caught one of the rebel leaders too, heard a loud ol' bang as he tried to get through his room's door. Think you mentioned his name earlier? Linseed? Oh, we also claimed the tank for ourselves."

"Also, I ain't lost, I've been here before. Some dumb clowns were in this hall havin' some sorta annoyin' party about three days ago. We chased 'em out, killed the big Eliti here, got the glyph, and then kinda just... left. Kinda weird how nothing's come over here since then..."

"Though there ain't too much to do back at the house, so I'mma stay for a bit. Actually, since y'all are hurt... just gimme a sec."

She turns away to contact someone who knows their stuff regarding injuries.
"Mister Author, please come to the library, there's some hurt Scarlets over here. Are you busy? D'you mind coming over?"

With the message sent, Sophia turns back to the aurora crystal campfire. "I let a healer know. He should be here soon, I hope."

---

Zone 3 - Dorothy

Dorothy seems to be busy meditating. This might go on for a while...

---

Everground - Hannah

Hannah looks down to see the crimson eyestalk. Her old foe. Of course...
But wait, didn't they kill the First Sin yesterday? Are there just rogue eyestalks everywhere now? God she hopes not.

This thing is probably really dangerous though, even without the First Sin existing to back it up. She needs a way to destroy it, and hopefully clog up that airstream...

She looks up, noting the cliff. Maybe she could loosen that up a bit. She directs Yew to the (N149) area. She intends to corrode that part of the cliff off to the point where the weight from the cliffside forces it to break off. To aid this, she uses some of the canisters from her stash of dangerously corrosive stuff to augment Yew's bolts. This should destroy the area through excessive corrosion.

---

The House - Adria

After a solid 5-10 minutes of crying into a pillow, Adria stops, all cried out. She sits upright, wiping what remains of her tears off her face, and stays there for another minute, head hanging, as if she were contemplating something. Occasionally she blurts out "What have I done..."

She then smells something sweet. It smells... great, actually. When was the last time she properly ate? Her stomach growling loudly pretty blatantly gives it away; not in a long time. Whether or not that was because the crystal forced her to not eat or to only eat the most disgusting of nutrient paste equivalents, we'll never really know.

Regardless, she's compelled to stand up and go get something to eat. Though given how loopy she still was, she stumbles pretty hard, nearly landing face-first on the floor, barely catching herself. She moves over to the bed again, and weakly pulls herself up one of the posts. After steadying herself enough, she begins moving towards the stairs again, still unstable, but not to the same extent as last time.

She heads down the stairs carefully. Everyone has likely all left for the Skylabs at this point, so the house was pretty empty. She slowly walks towards the kitchen once downstairs. Maybe she passes some people who didn't go up immediately.

Drawn to the smells, she reaches the kitchen, and hesitantly peeks in...

---

Battle - Amidst The Clouds

Hannah blubs. Well, this certainly saves her the trouble of getting close. Oh look, the ship's just over there! Nice. Better swim to safety.

Hannah casually swims to (M16). She pulls out two vials; one full of a highly toxic substance, and one for her specially-made Necro Coating! She tosses both at (J14), forming a Noxious Plume on the tile, making the water extremely toxic to everything, bar nothing. She backpedals to (N16), and uses a Yggdrasil's Vessel.

Mirror!Hannah moves up to (M18), and lobs her own Noxious Plume at (K15). She retreats to (N17).

Both benefit from Poison Mastery.

Asha spends 30 SP to move her special to N18. She steps up to Q10, and teleports to H8. There, she uses Railgun Diplomacy on Electrophorus, activating her weapon skill to gain +4 Buff Levels. This gives her a total of 14 Buff Levels for the Spell. After casting, she gains +1 Magic and +1 Might.

She then uses the Poetry Pamphlet to give herself Elecveil3 and +6 MP.

Battle Action: Rosemary moves to M18, as Joykiller moves to K16, before it performs Deepen Cut on the Electrophorus at J15