Reminder to ire: buff some/most of the energized consumables, most of them provide low enough energized as to be effectively useless.

Another reminder: since the autocraft features was removed, the autocraft recipes should be removed from the relevant consumables.

Finally, Not!Echoss comissions the Sleuth to scan a Tamura


Not!Echoss fights some pirates:
Suddenly, in the lake nearby Boshi, grand music begins playing. A large stage lifts up from the lakebed, water pouring off (leaving the mollusk in that water stranded on 'dry land') to reveal Not!Echoss and also the filming set of what appears to be a cooking show, all the cameras and similar also manned by Not!Echoss. Not clones, just Not!Echoss moving so fast that he's in every place but one in every given frame. This means that in every frame one of the crew/cast members appears to be missing but don't worry about it.
"Hello everyone, and today we'll be teaching you how to cook buttered mollusk!"
Rest of cooking show TBD, but the end result is one of the Iti'd mollusks attempting to harrass Boshi being converted into buttered mollusk consumables. (purchase and use 2 food packets from Chaos should I not finish this in time, as well as 1 bag of salt


Eastern Hub:
Pionobot moves to J6, and launches the boulder portion of his scythe straight into Ohmnic1 (elemental excellence causes this attack to effectively have empowered2). He then swaps to Snap-freeze-scythe (ice mode)
He also gestures at Chloe to move back towards the main section of the party to lead the NaClestial away from Cypress and co.

Recollection Lake - Boshi

Annoyed at the current situation, but thankful for the aid from god only knows what at this point, Boshi shifts the boat in reverse, pulling himself away from the boat with a jerk backwards, sending the boarders forward and probably faceplanting.

He then whips out the Razorwind Reaver, and sets it to explode in the area where the boarders are. The explosion might do some damage to Boshi and his ship, but likely nothing serious as the boarders are flung off in all directions. And just like that, Boshi's at the back of the boat, where he backs up the boat more to get some distance from the remaining assailants.

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House - Adria

Adria stands in awe at the interior of the chapel, oblivious to whatever Chloe and Taeda are planning. So much cultural significance here, and it's all so lovely for being in such a state of disrepair. She examines everything, from the hymnbooks/bibles, to the stained glass windows, to the altar. She's extremely careful with each, looking over them in excruciating detail. "Fascinating..."

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Skylabs - Hannah

Hannah sets aside a Mirror Image to look after evacuating Yew should things go wrong. Meanwhile, Hannah herself takes her backup weaponry and cracks some corrosive vials of hers onto the maintenance hatch, burning a large hole in it. She hops down it, probably grabbing a ladder or something so she doesn't die horribly to fall damage.

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Battle - Eastern Hub

Hannah just sorta glares in disbelief at what she just witnessed. This salt creature was more crass than anything she's ever seen. And yet, throughout all that, she immediately knows what triggers it, a malicious smile crossing her face as she laughs. She just had to get in on the insulting. "Wouldn't it be funny if you got killed by me of everyone here? A 'harmless' little girl? You would never be able to live it down! You'd be ridiculed! Like the weak, unskilled, fat, foul-mouthed, stupid loser you are!"

"Thankfully for you, you won't be the target of my skills at this very moment. I have far more threatening things to melt. Have fun in the kiddie pool, worthless trash!~"

Hannah skips over to (P13), uses the Helix Totem, and flings a Shackling Blast at it. This destroys the corpses of Nanite 2 and Edges 3, granting +50% damage and basically ensuring a kill. She retreats to (P14).

After Remiel acts, Asha hops to P10 and attacks Lamia1, expending Might to do so. This gives her a total of +50% damage including Maxim's trait. +1 Might, +2 Magic. Any excess attacks go onto Predator1.

She then retreats to Q9 and uses a poem to apply Weaken3 and Poison3 to the Fell Behemoth, for three rounds each.

The Salt War v5
Daskter moves to (O15), and they give the Conscript Leader a Pep Talk.
Daskter calls in Veteran Reserves!
A veteran Rocketeer appears on (N16).

The Conscript Leader moves eastwards to (P14). They take a shot at Ohmnic 4 then they retreat to (P15).
A Conscript is dropped at (S14).

The Conscript also takes a shot at Ohmnic 4. They proceed to move to (S15).

Destiny turns away her attention fro Ohmnic 7 and walks up to F14, stabbing Ohmnic 3 with Phantom Blow. She also begins to observe Nanite 1. The Divine Watcher moves to Q10.

Battle: Eastern Hub

Venia's bursts into laughter when the NaClestial comes down, and has a very hard time stopping even as more threats pour in. She doesn't even manage to send out another proper retort to the NaClestial, just laughing and pointing at it. Once she recovers, she notices a few other threats beyond just the saltiest thing alive and starts moving to intercept. She'll wait for Auth and Nia to move before doing anything, however.

Nia moves to G16 and uses Hidden Shard on Ohmnic 3 before bouncing back to H17. Meanwhile, Venia's Dollhouse uses the Warp Ring to shove Ohmnic7 to B18, then moves to C17, blocking it in, before using Gigantic Presence on it and it alone, all-but-ensuring the thing detonates itself upon Venia.

Once these happen, plus Auth's move, Venia uses the Warp Ring plus her natural move to rush all the way to O18. She then expends 2 stacks of Heart to delete the Pin with the Direct Damage and then uses Affidavit Adjudication, deleting the Ventilation Shaft outright with three uses then slaps the fourth onto Ohmnic 6 in the form of another 14 damage. As this use of special also activates Unrestrained Power, she saves a use for later and wraps off her action by activating Purge, slamming Ohmnic6 for a swift down. She retreats to N18.

"Cypress, uh, maybe you can do something about that Ohmnic there? If I'm not mistaken, uh, you probably have some gadget to take those charged parts of the Ohmnic, uh, and apply them to Chi or the Gaiawalls. That ought to make it, uh, make it less vexing to fight, and, and get some pressure off of your backs. We're gonna clean out these clutter before the clown there."

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Yew's Mindscape

Venia initially panics upon seeing a face that shouldn't be her own, then realizes that any accidents would proceed with paralyzing, agonizing pain on her end and an obvious sign of something wrong that Hannah would have instantly responded to. She crosses off the idea that she'd have accidentally done anything to Yew, given she's done this dozens of times before, and thus calms down.

After that, Venia's first three thoughts, in order: Check the bookcase for the general book titles, check the wardrobe for clothes, and check under the bed for anything. As she does so, she tries to get a feel of her new body-which muscle fibers felt strong or weak.

---

Gibbet

-later-

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Mariaaaaaaaaaaaa

Maria looks at Maple like a superhero the instant she arrives. "I'm Maria. I'm a princess. I have a pretty crown to prove it!" She says, pointing at it. "And this is Cushion," She says, pointing at the big fluffy. "He is a biiiiig fluffy, and I love him. And I am on a super-secret mission to find out what Ette wants for her birthday, but she can't know or else it's not a super-secret mission anymore!"

A pause. Then a poke. "I like you." Poke. "Everywhere here is fun and I like everyone I've met, except the scary thingies. They're scary."

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Other

-The Fell Behemoth's already been scanned prior to now (namely when one first appeared in Zone 4), and needs no further scanning.
-Cypress's main self actually needs a description.
-Venia's Purge damage in the note is lower than it should be, having not accounted for her new 20 STR.

Bauhaus notices a fight going on in the Eastern Hub! He gets off the Hoverseat, and charges in with sword in hand.

--BATTLE: EASTERN HUB (RP)--
Bauhaus rushes into battle with the Edge of Dawn. With one hand firmly on the grip, he slowly moves his other hand along the blade, awakening a great and powerful energy from within it.

--BATTLE: EASTERN HUB (ACTION)--
Bauhaus moves to L13 and charges up Dawn of Existence.

BATTLES

The Reflector moves up to W9, basic attacks the Predator in front of them (using Protean to swap their Water resistance to Poison as they do so), and then retreats to W10.

The Mirror Reflector dashes to Q10 and uses a Bonus Action to grant Shields Holding to Ette, because why not?

Remiel moves to Q6 and strikes Lamia1. The Siren moves to N5 and sings a Song of Silence to the Fell Behemoth. The music box begins to play.

"Said the straight man, to the late man,
'Where have you been?'"

Remiel (puppeted by the Siren (puppeted by Remiel)) steps to P6 and strikes the Lamia once more.

Nidra:
Sheep Counter self.
Power Nap Daskter.
Use special on Predator2.
Move to N13.
Toss pillow at Chloe.
Last Dream the Naclestial.

Pope Bill goes to H13 and approaches the yggcrawler cautiously, staying a few feet apart from it. He makes a few clicking noises, then holds out his hands. (If taming is successful, he asks the yggcrawler to attack Siren2 on K15 and retreat afterwards to a safe distance!)

Those Ohmnics still look very dangerous, and judging by how many of them can stun him for critical damage and resist his main damage spell, Brutishace is probably going to delegate himself to a support role this fight.

Brutishace sees Venia and the Dollhouse in trouble, and casts Curaga on E18, which should restore both of their health, and then retreats to H17. The beefiest foe on the field should prove to be an easier fight.

At the insistence of someone else, Brutishace stops his heal, but then he gets informed that the first Nanite is an easier target, so he moves over to to I15 and blasts it with Twin Jolts.

Auth smiles. He isn't quite sure what would need to be done for the chapel, either.

AUTH: I believe that defensibility is an important thing to consider. I trust you can do whatever you need to do in that regard.
AUTH: I'm not quite sure what else you might need to do. Do anything you need to do to make yourself comfortable around here? Or with the flower? Not sure.

Auth shrugs.

AUTH: We'll be back shortly.

Auth turns back to Nana, staying close.

AUTH: First things first, let's get back to the house. I'm reasonably sure the others will be able to handle things here themselves.

Knowing Nana is likely anxious to return, he's happy to head back quickly. Hopefully, no shenanigans will occur along the way. Hopefully.

---

As for the battle, Auth moves to H18, and casts Liberation on Ohmnic 3. The over"kill" healing is directed at Venia.

Irongutta moves to K14 and basic attacks Siren2!

Crystal moves to R8 and performs a basic attack/War Scythe combo on Predator1!

He then uses his War Scythe movement and retreat to get back to P10, before expending a charge of Metaphysical Awareness to copy-paste himself to O11.

<ROUND 243>

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Not!Echoss pokes the Sleuth, asking him to scan a Tamura! He soon returns with a Tamura that's had several pins stabbed through it, making it look like one of those museum insect displays. He gives it a prompt scanning.

>Codex Updated!

Elsewhere, over on the high seas lakes, Not!Echoss captures and cooks one of the hostile Mollusks! Using 2 Food Packets (10 Credits) and 1 Bag of Salt for seasoning and other fixings, he adds 2 portions of Buttered Mollusk to the inventory. For reasons unknown, Omorika begins to salivate inexplicably. She wipes the drool away from her lip, returning her attention to whatever it was she was doing before.

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Boshi continues his high-lakes adventure! He reverses his ship suddenly, causing the boarders to tumble over! He then grabs a Razorwind Reaver, and causes a detonation on the bow of the ship. The blast blows all 4 boarders off of his vessel, but also deals (10) damage to it. He then continues to back his vessel off.

The enemy vessel turns to pursue, trying to line up their ship alongside his. The Mollusks meanwhile, despite losing a member, are in hot pursuit! They slam into Boshi's ship, dealing (10) damage to it. The enemy vessel continues to burn, dealing (5) damage to it and killing a crew member.

Meanwhile at the Chapel, Chloe taps Adria on the shoulder from behind. Once she's turned around, she poses a question.

CHLOE: Adria, would it be fine if you helped out with our plan?
CHLOE: We're going to try and make the chapel a bit more defensible. Fix up the holes in the walls n' stuff.
CHLOE: Are you in?

Meanwhile, upon the Sky Labs, Hannah busts open the Maintenance Hatch at the Sentinel Bay with a corrosive concoction! The hole in the door is juuuust large enough for Hannah to squeeze through, which she does. Climbing down a ladder, she soon finds herself in the Drone Hangar. The gentle whirring of tools and the fiery buzzing of a wielder fills the air. Seems she's not alone down here. Best be careful.

---

Venia does a variety of things. First, she decides to put in some work within Yew's Mindscape.



Elsewhere, out on the airship, Maria introduces herself and Cushion to Maple. The Scarlet smiles as she gives Cushion a loving headpat, the gigantic floof's tail waggling as she does so.

MAPLE: It's nice to meet you, Maria!
MAPLE: And it's nice to meet your friend, too!
MAPLE: whoosa good floof yes you areeeee!~

She gets lost in petting Cushion for a few moments, before Maria's pokes snap her back to attention. She mentions that she's on a mission to find out what Ette wants for her birthday. Maple nods.

MAPLE: A secret mission, huh?
MAPLE: My, how heroic of you!
MAPLE: I don't know what she likes, but I'm willing to help you investigate!
MAPLE: How about we go find her, and spy on her all secret-like?
MAPLE: Or maybe we poke her sister, and ask her?
MAPLE: What do we do, Maria?

...Cuteness is still overriding Maple's common sense at the moment. Elsewhere, Venia points out a few things that are wrong with existence. The Fell Behemoth is retroactively scanned, causing its Codex Entry to fill!

>Codex Updated!

She then also scribbles a few new numbers in her character sheet, then takes a good, long look at Cypress. This doesn't creep him out in the slightest.

Cypress seems to be relatively tall by Chairian standards, standing at roughly 8 feet tall. His He has a well-defined figure, but his limbs seem to grow thicker around the hands / feet. A few well-kept branches stem from his head, but no leaves or needles grow upon them. His eyes are a light grey, and he wears a mask of sorts over his mouth. Twin respirators stick out from the mask.

As for clothing, he's equipped in fairly standard Chairian armor, focusing on a light mixture of leather and wooden plate for protection. Over this is a lab coat of sorts, with a large generator mounted on the back for producing an energy barrier. He also wears bulky-looking gauntlets, with digital screens built into them.

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Auth entrusts Taeda and Chloe with making the chapel defensible. Chloe nods, giving the vampire a gentle smile.

CHLOE: Will do!
CHLOE: I'll go see if I can get Omo to make one of those perception-altering devices. The thing that we have in our house, within the lab.
CHLOE: It should keep the Iti away, but it also wouldn't hurt to board up the windows so that nothing gets in.
TAEDA: Just be sure to not damage them, okay?
TAEDA: I quite like the stained glass. So beautiful!
CHLOE: Of course! You can count on me!

As for what might need to be done to make things comfortable for them, Taeda raises her hand.

TAEDA: I don't think our comfort is important, but the comfort of the flower is.
TAEDA: We'll see about preparing a planter for the flower, too.

Auth and Nana then leave the area, the apothecary clinging onto Auth as they return to the house. Their journey is safe and uneventful, but the duo give the thyme matter pool that the Mobile Home left a wide berth. Once they're at home, Nana breathes a sigh of relief.

NANA: Home, s-sweet home!
NANA: It feels like we were away for so long!
NANA: E-Even if it was only an hour or so...
NANA: Anyway, l-let's get going to the Gardens!

With the portal in the Gardens gone, the walk might take some time. It's no real inconvenience, though. Shall they get going?

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<WESTERN WING VENTILATION, ROUND 4>
Asha has been abducted deep into enemy lines, and Pope appears to be surrounded! However, you're actually pretty close to completing the objective, so keep it up on that end! Stacking lots and lots of poison onto the Fell Behemoth might be a good strategy to take it down. Remember that despite this being an "itemless run", Ette can still revive an ally with her special if required. she's a good

<EASTERN HUB, ROUND 3>
Things are generally going well. The Naclestial's been jebaited, some of the Ohmnics have been rounded up, and the lights are flickering violently! Wait, what-

The lights nearly go dark, but thankfully, the power eventually manages to re-stabilize. Though, it seems that they're glowing a bit weaker than before. Cypress looks up at the ceiling, through the skylight. Something bolts through the sky, letting off arcs of lightning as it travels. Concern crosses Cypress's face.

CYPRESS: Alert.
CYPRESS: Electrophorus: unusually bold. Actively attacking station.
CYPRESS: Suspected causation: Spherebreakers.
CYPRESS: Be on lookout. Electrophorus: highly mobile. May be anywhere.

CYPRESS: Beware. Electrophorus: might ambush. Locale: anywhere.
CYPRESS: Always be prepared.

...Ominous. Looks like Electrophorus may randomly pay your battles a visit while you're in the zone. Anyway, as for this fight... just deal with the Ohmnics, beat up the Naclestial, and things should be fine. If you're worried about reinforcements though, sending a team to destroy the vent in the upper left corner might be a wise decision.

Destiny runs to F8 and hookshots on to Ohmnic 1, popping around it at K3. She then pulls out the Elemental Blaster and shoots the Ohmnic with an Ice blast.
Take this!
She then begins to Observe Edges 1, meanwhile the Divine Watcher moves to P8.

Battle: Eastern Hub

Venia scan-pings the NaClestial, unlocking his fifth entry and giving her a stack of heart, as this variant of the NaClestial has not been scanned yet. Venia then moves to S13 and fires her basic attack upon Arkwind 1, earning her another stack of Heart, and bringing her up to seven.

This is important as she's about to use all or nearly all of it. Venia expends two Heart to bring down Pin 1 and another two to bring down Pin 2, and then expends up to three Heart to bring down Ohmnic 4 through its SHP. However, Heart stacks are not static damage; they have a slight range, so Ohmnic4 may only need two pings of Heart to down from its current HP value-depending on if either rolls 5 instead of 4. If this happens, Venia conserves her last stack of Heart.

Afterwards, Venia fires the Elemental Blaster, preferably set to whatever element Arkwind1 is weakest or least resistant to, and fires it, predictably, at Arkwind 1.

Venia's Dollhouse moves to D16 to further obstruct Ohmnic5. While basically unperturbed by the ZoC, it's probably at its most inconvenient there. It proceeds to unleash its horde of dolls on the Ohmnic-which, while undoubtedly very ineffective at harming it, is also undoubtedly just as annoying with how stubborn and agitating they are, creating problems that equate to debuffs in nature for the Ohmnic.

"Nia, try taking down that Ohmnic my Dollhouse is pinning! Auth, uh, please calm Chloe down! Everyone, uh, try to meet up on, on the east side of the fountain with Cypress and, and Chi! Don't let them separate us, we're stronger together! Like, uh, literally and figuratively!"

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Yewscape

Venia checks to see if the detective wear fits her, puts it on if so, then starts cautiously heading out of the room, careful not to make a peep.

---

Gibbet

Venia returns to her bird friend. "Alright, time to give you some sunlight," Venia says, bringing Gibbet outside. "Let me just see how you fly, first."

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Mariaaaaaaaaaaa

Maria thinks. "... Let's ask her sister!... Who's Ette's sister again? I've only known everyone here a few days." Maria says.

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Recollection Lake - Boshi

Alright, so the boat was starting to take damage. Worrying, though not unexpected. In fact, the Mollusks are in a prime position to be yeeted at the enemy ship thanks to Boshi's long, chameleon-like tongue. He nyoms the northern Mollusk, pulling it up. Though instead of bringing it into his mouth, he uses the durability of the tongue to throw the Mollusk into the enemy ship by way of spinning himself and his prey to gain momentum before releasing it.

...He also drops a cobblestone onto the other mollusk. Bonk.

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Chapel - Adria

Adria was engrossed in one of the hymnbooks by the time Chloe tapped her shoulder. She looks up. "...Hm? O-oh, yes, certainly!"
"I'll start boarding and sealing up the east. I'll hop on over to the other side once I'm done."

Adria tries her hand at pulling out some wood from the inventory. To her semi-surprise, she could do it at well, pulling out some Refined Wood and some long iron screws. And a screwdriver, somehow. She gets to work once she has everything she needs.

She starts with the broken windows first; she needs to get used to construction work again before she should even attempt to board up the intact ones. Adria drives a screw partially through a suitably-sized piece of wood before putting it up to one of the broken windows and pushing the screw all the way through. She then does the same for the other side of the board, holding it in place. As she works, she tries humming one of the hymns she found in the hymnbook.

Adria does the same for more boards on this window, until about 3 Refined Wood in total is used up. She does the same for the other broken window, expending another 3. While there were a few slip-ups when putting up the first few boards, she's steady enough now that she was ready to move onto the intact windows.

She takes it more slowly and carefully this time, so she doesn't damage the glass. She also managed to get a wooden stepladder from the inventory to help with some of the higher places. She expends another 3 Refined Wood boarding up this window. It's the same story for the last window, taking another 3. In all, she expended 12 Refined Wood.

She sits down on a nearby Pew, having a small break before she starts work on the western side. She also picks up the hymnbook again.

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Skylabs - Hannah

On hearing that people were down here with her, Hannah sneaks to (AU39) and peeks out at the three chairians, to get a more proper lay of the land. It may help her sneak around.

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Battle - Eastern Hub

Hannah couldn't help but snicker at the NaClestial's antics, which quickly turns into a full on laughing fit.

"...Hehehahah! Heheh, wow. This-- *snrk* this is even better than I thought!"
"Anyway, I'm done with the important stuff, so I guess I'll entertain you. Mind, when and if that eel appears again, you're pretty much the most unimportant thing here. As if you weren't already unimportant enough!"
"You're so nonthreatening."

Hannah moves to (N14). She then uses Toxin Coating (Aching + Brainburn, because doublehit), and Necro Coating. She then gives her target a sadistic grin, takes aim, and fires at the NaClestial's lower regions, grinning all the while. She retreats to (O13). Should both shots hit, this should apply:
(BadlyPoison16, 3)
(BadlyBleed4, 3)
(BadlyDecaying6, 3)
(BadlyBrainburn7, 3)
(BadlyAching8, 3)

The Eastern Hub War
Daskter moves to (M14) to cast Decaying Light on Naclestial.
He eats his last Manabloom biscuit, and he gives the Rockeeter a Pep Talk.

The Rocketeer follows Daskter to (N13); they unleash Psychic Splitshots on Naclestial.

The Conscript Leader heads to (N14) to take a shot at Naclestial.

The Conscript forms up on (N15). They open fire on Naclestial then they back up to (O14).