"I-I dunno, I feel kinda bad for her."
"Um. H-how so?"
"Like... she had a worst enemy, her mom died to that person, and by the time she made an antidote it was already too late, as they'd been caught. Then that person was turned into a longbow, which she used a bit before throwing it away, and then I found and eventually killed it."
"A-and talking about it... stressed h-her out that much?"
Hannah nods. "M-mostly. I-I also, uh..."
She looks around, Dorothy being confused as to why she'd do this. "...C-can you keep a secret?"
Dorothy looks at Hannah for a number of seconds, obviously concerned. "Y-yes, of course, b-but... w-what exactly did you s-say to her?"
...A moment passes. Hannah leans in and whispers into Dorothy's ear. She gasps, though not very loudly, and is drowned out by the wind. "D... D-did you really need to-?"
Hannah slowly nods. She's not all that happy about it either. "A-at the time I thought it was... y-y'know, the right thing to do. Guess I messed up pretty bad somewhere... b-but I dunno what I did wrong..."
"T-the stuff you said for one! Sensitive stuff r-really needs to be handled s-super, super carefully! And y-you really need to be more considerate of their feelings! Even just... y-y'know, realizing that maybe you shouldn't keep talking about it and stopping. B-but now it's too late for that..."
...Hannah curls up into a tight ball. Dorothy's words hurt a surprising amount. She was uncharacteristically on the verge of tears. Dorothy lets her sit there for a while, glancing over to her. Before long, though, she pulls Hannah back in for a hug. "There, there... I-I know it hurts, a-and I'm sorry for saying that stuff l-like that, b-but... y-you really do need to at least t-try and do that stuff."
A few more moments pass by, with Hannah trying to wipe her tears away on Dorothy's shoulder. She succeeds, as Dorothy doesn't resist, just letting her do it. Soon enough, Hannah was calm enough to ask, "...W-what now?"
"I-I think... I think y-you should apologize to her. S-sorta like how I did just now. M-maybe later, though. Maybe whenever you s-see her next?"
Hannah hesitates, giving it some thought. Then, she nods. "I-I'll... try to keep that in mind."
A weak smile forms across her face as she pulls away from her friend for a brief moment, uncurling from her ball. "...Thanks." She then pulls her in again for a proper hug.

By now Adria's finished with the blueprints for the defenses. They appear to operate on light-based crystals, using concentrated light from small shards of Heavenly Regalia (this one's scratched out) or respectable chunks of Shimmering Cluster to create lasers strong enough to force an opponent back and rendering them blind for a few moments, along with dealing some respectable damage. It's also hooked up to an exceptionally advanced detection system located on a high part of a building, operating on visuals in conjunction with infrared heat signatures to effectively negate blindness. Said system also comes equipped with a Divinity Gem to project a shield in case it's shot at. To protect against EMPs or similar, a sliver of Mantle Cluster is placed within each unit to allow for the rapid dissipation of excess energy. It's self-powered by efficient use of a Shock Crystal. Past that, the AI does the talking. Or I guess Shooting.

The AI is set up in such a way as to distinguish friend and foe through its sensors. It's also to be set up to drop sapient Chairians to near collapse, or to mercilessly slaughter monsters like Iti.

The construction itself has the entire metal turret fold in on itself, compacted into a small box, while a large sod of grass covers it up. The outer frame is made up of Durasteel plating, as are the guns. The mechanisms that allow rotation, compacting, and such are made up of Titanium. Shiny Silver is used in the guns to give the lasers their strength through reflection of light, though they can be turned off to give the laser less focus if need be. There are two barrels per turret.

After considering the area around the chapel, Adria decides she'll be needing four of these turrets to effectively surround the perimeter. She calculates out the materials she'll need for four turrets plus the sensor, the total comes out to:
-x10 Durasteel Ingots
-x5 Titanium Ingots
-x4 Silver Ingots
-x? Iron Ingots
-x1 Small AI Core
-x2 Central Processing Units
-x5 Joltwire
-x? Wire Scraps
-x1 Divinity Gem
-x4 Shimmering Clusters
-x1 Mantle Cluster
-x5 Shock Crystal

Adria pins the blueprint up on the wall for easy viewing. She turns to Taeda, who might already be monologuing. "S-sorry to interrupt, but could you stand still for a moment, Taeda?" She takes out a device not too dissimilar to a scanner, and scans Taeda for her heat signature. Once done, she records it. "Thanks, dear. Continue on."

Adria starts on the sensor and mainframe first. It has a pretty simple Titanium outer shell; not enough to dip into the resource pool all that much. She fits in a reprogrammed Small AI Core with some Joltwire, Wire Scraps, and the two Central Processing Units, along with a Shock Crystal for power, a sliver of the Mantle Cluster for EMP protection, and the Divinity Gem for physical protection. It should be able to wirelessly communicate with the other turrets; no need for clunky wires. And besides, wires would give it away.

She heads outside, and climbs up the chapel (perhaps with some help from Taeda). She installs the sensor at the highest point she could for maximum coverage. She secures it to said point, flicks it on, and descends. She returns to her spot in the chapel to start with the turrets.

Wanting to get the guns out of the way first, Adria puts on a heavy duty welding mask for safety. The barrels are formed from some of the Durasteel; they're fairly wide, but not ludicrously so. Eight total barrels later, and she gets to work with the Shimmering Clusters. She uses one cluster for each turret; one cluster per two barrels. She breaks them apart into their respective halves, just a little smaller than the barrels. She then encases the inside of each barrel and the backside of the cluster in a thin layer of Silver, with the back part being parabolic to greatly increase the strength of the beam. She hooks each barrel's Cluster up to a small piece of Joltwire, then encases everything else bar said Joltwire in more Durasteel.

A lot more metalwork, and the outer shell components made up of Durasteel are created. More metalwork still, and the gears and shafts that allow the turret to rotate, aim, and fold are created from the Titanium, along with an iron box to hold the turrets. The boxes are quite deep, yet sturdy. Their main purpose is to keep the environmental factors out of it. Adria fiddles with the insides of the parts more, adding in the Shock Cluster, Wire Scraps, Joltwire, and Mantle Custer slivers in each of the turrets.

She'd put them together, but... well, she made them outta hecking Durasteel. She has trouble even lifting the barrels, sweating as she struggles to get them up in the air even a tiny bit.

Oops.

...Adria rests the part onto the floor. "W-well... I certainly did not think this through... it's way too late to just recycle the parts, too. I've already got them built..."

("I really need to work out more.")

She gets up. "Hrmm... Taeda, and whoever else, can you help me with this? Once we get this put together, moving them into place should be a breeze. Just follow my lead."

Assuming she gets the help she needs, Adria and co. start by lifting the body of one turret into the iron box. Adria secures it into place, and they move onto the next. They keep doing this until all four are in their boxes. Then, they lift the rotating portion of the turrets onto the bodies, and Adria installs them. Finally, they attach and install the barrels to the aiming mechanism on the turret, Adria firmly securing them so that they don't fail.

She gives the turrets a test to make sure they fold in and out properly. The turret moves itself back and compacts itself, the barrels fitting nicely into the box. The entire thing can compact enough to fit in a short box; only about a third the size of Adria herself. Which, considering the turret was as tall as her before then, is impressive.

Adria pulls out a number of logs, and rolls each turret box onto them. "Alright... t-time to roll them out. I can... I can p-probably take it from here. T-thanks, all!"

Slowly and carefully, Adria rolls each turret outside. While it might take less time to have Taeda help, she already helped with the lifting earlier. She probably needs a break after that. Once they're all in place, she starts digging.

Going by the map, Adria digs holes at (D93), (N93), (C104), and (O104), each deep enough to hold the entire turret box. She saves each pink grass sod to put on top of the turret, for camouflage purposes. She carefully lowers each box into the ground, using some iron chains to help with that. She fills in the area around the box with dirt, and plonks the sod on top of the turret. She repeats this process for the other three.

Finally done with that, Adria pulls out a PDA of some sort, pushes a few buttons, and connects the turrets with the sensors. The sensor starts scanning for hostiles, and the turrets lie in wait, ready to spring up and attack.

Paladin Turrets created! Stats... coming soon? Maybe? Who knows.

Nidra: +3 SPC.
Pionobot: +2 DEF.
Asha: +3 MMP.
Destiny: +9 DEF, -1 MMP, -4 AGI, -Antibody, -Whirling Blades level. Three crafts performed, using a Predator Tail, 2 Yaga Razorteeth, and 2 Fell Blades to upgrade the Piercer Ring, 2 Hybridized Matter and 2 Gaiameld Ingots to improve Hell and Back, and 2 Airship Weapon Parts and 3 Shimmering Clusters to improve the Watcher's Robes.
Remiel: +2 SPC.
Lily: Cirno Fumo equipped. Fell Star upgraded. Santa Hat edited into the Scrooge Hat by using... 5 Electrum Ingots. Note: stats of the hat were not improved. That'd be going up to a Tier 7 hat!

"Alright, let's get to work!"

First, Venia decides to fix the issue of the missing leg. Inspecting the other legs, she comes to the swift conclusion that the tank's legs are mostly made of a durasteel exterior surrounding only a few internal components-namely the wiring and machinery involved to shift the legs around. With seven pre-existing blueprints, Venia calls upon Mr. Krabs from whatever unholy netherregions he has been terrorizing, and throws a great deal of Durasteel at him, plus some Joltwire. Mr. Krabs makes noises like an exceptionally vigorous blender, producing a smoothie from his interior. He then pours this smoothie onto the Durasteel and Joltwire, which somehow causes everything to snap together into a replication of the Duneyrr's missing leg, which he then places. That's easy part one.

Easy part two is replacing the Stabilizer Beam. Thankfully, she's already gone above and beyond thanks to her darling girlfriend! The only matter left is re-installing the brand new-and-improved Biomanipulator Beam. Just putting it into position only needs a few Crystalline Conduits to properly re-wire the result. However, for good measure Venia also installs multiple repurposed airship weaponry components-enabling the Biomanipulator Beam to reinforce itself via shielding (like the original) and just as importantly expand its range back to a length comparable to its original-with a few additional tricks.

Then comes the legitimately hard part. First, she has to add considerably more wiring, and very powerful wiring at that. Thankfully, between a surplus of Crystalline Conduits and a few Hyperprocessors, the raw materials necessary to wire up the AI Core to everything of need is already in-place, and happily provides superior alternatives to the current equipment. The other tricky part would be dissecting Rosie properly to replace the rest of the damaged internals. And thus, Venia puts on a welding mask.

And then she snaps her fingers and points at Rosie. Mr. Krabs, who is still present, dons two welding masks over each of his eyestalks, each of which don't even cover a full eye. He pulls his own nose out-and out and out and out and out, expanding well in excess of its apparent size or the mass of Mr. Krabs himself-to the point where his nose, coiled around Rosie, now completely obstructs the tank. Mr. Krabs plays various inane sound effects from a cell phone while he presumably dissects Rosie with the precise hand of a surgeon. Literally. He has the severed hand of an actual surgeon in his possession and is using it to somehow take Rosie apart, screw-by-screw, in a hyperspeed tank rocket surgery.

Mr. Krabs, finally finished flaunting his super-doctorate in quantum omnipotence(?!), makes his nose explode into a .jpg explosion, then moves it to the recycling bin to reveal Rosie, now an orderly collection of tank parts and an AI core. Venia refrains from immediately inserting the AI core into the tank, however. Venia isn't just going to make Rosie's new body 'Duneyrr with Rosie parts,' she's going to improve it to the best of her ability. And that means adding her own touches.

First, though, Venia, considering she now has Rosie's old body in pieces, now has the opporunity to run the whole thing through the Reverse Autoclave and scrub every last part of entropic corruption. She runs the Entropic Scanner over the lot of the leftover pieces, and puts anything that tests positive through the scanner, before setting it aside to be fitted into the Duneyrr in the appropriate positions.

Venia then lays out several plates of Ohmetal, some Sanctified Alloy, a unit of Starite and the Psychic Regalia she had Chloe fetch earlier. The Ohmetal is unruly and Starite is by no means weak, but the Ohmetal is also harder and more plentiful-so Venia just needs to 'train' it to act in unison with the tank and alloy it. The Sanctified Alloy was just there because she figures that this will see use against the Chaos Butterfly, so she might as well include it for some extra 'meat.' Venia can make nanomachines, but nanomachines aren't what Venia wants here-Venia wants the tank to become alive, and capable of rapid self-modification to prevent damages, attack melee intruders, and better repair itself-all at the discretion of the onboard AI. Of course, to do that, Venia would have to attune Rosie to the metal and make sure she can command it.

Venia has been well-versed in the art of infusing magical crystals into operational techno-magical systems. That the systems in question were crystalline themselves made everything even easier; Venia sets up the Cyrstalline Conduits in a circle around the Psycho Regalia, and etched in basic leylines into the ground. Then, Venia pushes magical energy through the Psycho Regalia, causing it to flood out and into the Cyrstalline Conduits. While a tiny bit of power was lost in transit, the result was that a good deal of the Crystalline Conduits now had modest psychic power. She installs all but one of these these Cyrstalline Conduits into the tank's interior, having them do most of the heavy lifting-with a few Hyperprocessors to give Rosie more brainpower so she can command the metal, on top of the larger systems of the tank itself. The psycho-electric currents passing through them would easily allow Rosie to manipulate the Ohmetal in the system so long as the metal didn't go too far away from the tank. She just needed to first scrub the leftover 'will' in the Ohmetal that's making it try to kill her, and an in-between now. The former she could do on her own-the latter the Starite would be able to provide.

Then, Venia uses her own psychic power to make the Ohmetal stop trying to 'run off' or otherwise murder her, and presses the Starite into the resulting material cluster. Using that same psychic power, she causes the whole thing to overheat, creating a forge of her own mind on the spot, while simultaneously psionically attacking the metal sphere through the Starite. With the Starite transmitting the signal of her relatively overwhelming psychic power into the relatively underwhelming thought of the Ohmetal, it immediately ceases to try mass murder and becomes dormant-exactly to plan. This done, she backs up and lets the materials merge together to heat. The result would be even more amorphous than before, but would still need direction to be useful. Venia plugs Rosie's AI core into the Tank, plugs the last psionically-enhanced Cyrstalline Conduit into the combination of Ohmetal and Starite, and then puts both together.

When Rosie starts thinking again, Rosie should immediately notice (a) a relative absense of entropic corruption anywhere on the tank, and (b) the blob of metal that had a wide variety of vectors to manipulate. "Can you hear me? If you can hear me, I've installed you into the Duneyrr. I'm still kind of upgrading things right now, so it's not complete, but I figure I should stop here and check on how you're doing."

"The, uh, the blob you're connected to is a combination of Ohmetal and Starite. It's hooked up to your AI core so you can move it around directly, though if you let it get too far from your wiring, you won't exactly, uh, have control anymore. I recommend dispersing it around the rest of the area. That'll let you basically have... Well, not full control. But it'll let you have some ability to manipulate your own internal structure, mostly the exterior. If anything gets too close to the interior, uh. Yeah, I don't think I need to explain that to you."

"You're still missing a whole Gatling Turret, and I'm still interested on working on the Main Gun, as well as replacing a lot of your munitions.. I'm also going to be adding more and doing some extra touchups, but for now... What do you think?"

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Used Components: 50 Durasteel, 50 Sanctified Alloy, 1 Biomodification Beam, 35 Crystalline Conduits, 20 Joltwire, 20 Ohmetal, 3 Hyperprocessors, 1 Psycho Regalia, 1 Starite, 1 Rosie AI core, 1 Rosie.
Special Mention: Reverse Autoclave on leftover Rosie Parts

We're not actually done yet, so this isn't final.