It’s a wonderful, peaceful day at Recollection Lake. The air is crisp and cool, Electrophorus is a pile of guts and thyme matter, and there’s not a single living creature in sight. Well, except for the fish. Perfectly undisturbed.

And a perfect place for one of the most illegal chemistry labs known to chairkind, according to Hannah. While she waits for her partner in crime “the Scion” to arrive, she gets together a wide variety of glassware and apparatuses suitable for their needs, and places them on a countertop or table in the fishing hut. It’s not like anyone’s gonna be coming back here, anyway.

Among the glassware resides several practical things, including beakers, tubes, funnels, glass heat exchangers, and the like. There’s also a ton of useful tech strewn about supplied by her mother; whatever they’d need, they’ll have. There’s even some magically-inclined equipment available, just in case they’re needed.

“The Scion” pushes open the door to the fishing hut, entering a rather familiar scene. It feels like only a few hours ago that she helped craft another poison destined for use against Regalus… wait, it actually was a few hours ago. And apparently, Christmas season came and went in that time.

She smiles awkwardly at Hannah.

“THE SCION”: Um, hi!
“THE SCION”: ...How are you doing?

Hannah turns her head back as she gets some potential materials organized. She’s in her full Locust suit from their raid on Unity, mask and all. It’s impossible to make out her expression from said mask, but it’s safe to say she’s also smiling.

HANNAH: Oh hey! Thanks for stopping by.
HANNAH: I’m just getting some stuff together. Besides that I’m fine.

“The Scion” chuckles nervously.

“THE SCION”: Right! Of course, hehe.
“THE SCION”: I, well. I mean, I just was worried, since…
“THE SCION”: Look, I’m really sorry for... giving you that poison. We, we didn’t want to make you feel like you were only good for assassinations.
“THE SCION”: We just figured, since you were already trying to kill him, it’d be helpful, you know...?
“THE SCION”: But, I guess since you invited me to make another poison, you’re not mad at me for that and now you’re probably annoyed that I’m rambling about this and I should just stop talking

Hannah lowers her head ever so slightly.

HANNAH: ...It’s okay. I’m over it, and I forgive you.
HANNAH: If anything it’s Venia’s fault things ended up feeling so awful...
HANNAH: Like seriously what the hell is her deal? I’m seriously starting to think she’s using her status as leader figure to get what she wants...
HANNAH: ...Sorta like a bully, I guess? Heck, mom apologized, why is it so hard for her to?
HANNAH: ...Aaaaanyway, she won’t know about this one, so there won’t be any accidental reveals like last time.

“The Scion” clenches her teeth.

“THE SCION”: Venia is just a snobby rich girl.
“THE SCION”: She’s not as bad as the rest of those nobles that came here, but she’ll always be thinking of herself, Maria, and her girlfriend first, and the rest of us much… much further down.
“THE SCION”: She’s so afraid of getting her own reputation dirty that she won’t do anything risky, and she’ll get mad at anyone else who tries. Even if we have our own reasons for doing it.
“THE SCION”: Like toppling her and Regalus’s whole stupid empire, not just him.
“THE SCION”: They’re PARASITES, and they SUCK PEOPLE DRY to keep themselves safe. Like Acacia, and those scarlets, and everyone they can find a way to exploit. And I want to make them BLEED.
“THE SCION”: ...
“THE SCION”: ...Sorry. I… got worked up.
HANNAH: ...Woah. Ooookay.
HANNAH: Though I guess I can’t blame you for hating that stuff.
HANNAH: Because, honestly?
HANNAH: Every single noble I met had something awful about them. Hell, even stuffed the corpse of one inside a jar after Sophia beat the peck outta him!
HANNAH: And I intended to sell it on the black market for profit to boot, and burn his grunts by flooding the place with lava!
HANNAH: ...That being said I proooobably should have not done the latter, seeing as it got everyone else caught up in it. Damn Mafia...
HANNAH: ...I guess that’s what sets me apart from her, though.
HANNAH: I was never rich. I put innocent lives only slightly lower than my friends, because they’re my friends and I gotta look out for ‘em, y’know?
HANNAH: If I was back on my homeworld… I’d make sure the Mafia are driven to extinction. They’re all terrible excuses for people!
HANNAH: ...i wonder if i should also take up yew’s advice to assassinate venia too... hm...

HANNAH: ...Uh. I… guess I rambled too, hehe... whoops.

“The Scion” giggles.

“THE SCION”: Hehe, yeah.
“THE SCION”: ...So, what were you thinking in terms of the poison?
HANNAH: O-oh, right! Come over here and I’ll show you the stuff I found up there.

Hannah lays out the Tamau Toxin, Lesser Evil, Teleportatium, and Void Liquid. Eash is contained in their own stoppered vials.

HANNAH: As a reminder, we’re aiming for non-lethal, but so agonizing, debilitating, and persistent that they might as well wish for death.
HANNAH: I’m thinking we should do something with these as a basis. Then, add a little extra to really give it a nasty kick.
HANNAH: But I guess I gotta tell you what we have first.

She gestures to the first one, the Tamau Toxin, dark as the abyssal faults it hails from.

HANNAH: Tamaugachi toxin. If you read the codex, you’ll know the venom’s really slow-acting, agonizing, and sends people into pain shock within an hour. It kills several hours later. A good candidate already, right?
HANNAH: Problem is, it’s kinda basic. It can still be removed pretty easy by even our own healers, nevermind whatever kinda dumb healing factor Regalus has.

“The Scion” nods.

“THE SCION”: So, if we don’t want to kill him...
“THE SCION”: Maybe... something like this?

She yanks a vial of Tainted Ambrosia from the inventory.

“THE SCION”: Oh, um. I’ll get to this later. You can keep going!
HANNAH: Oh heck I forgot I picked that up too, thanks for reminding me!
HANNAH: Anyway, next up...

She gestures to the Lesser Evil, the indecisive antidote.

HANNAH: This is an antidote. Scanner calls it the “Lesser Evil”.
HANNAH: When ingested, it either wipes all the poison from your body... or in the case where there isn’t any, poisons you really badly.
HANNAH: Problem is, it’s an antidote and not a poison. Not a great base... but it might be useful in getting around the healing factor if we alter it a bit.

Next, the Teleportatium. It’s a wonder how it hasn’t teleported itself off the table.

HANNAH: Then there’s Teleportatium. Not exactly poisonous, but it’s able to teleport stuff some distance.
HANNAH: Might be useful to either keep the poison in him or to get it into him in the first place.

Finally, the Void Liquid. It’s definitely up there in the dark liquids leaderboards, beaten only by certain paints. It’s still in the flask Hannah took it out with.

HANNAH: And here we have what’s called Void Liquid. This stuff is... wild.
HANNAH: I accidentally let a small drop of the stuff drip out of the tank’s tap, and it fell straight through the Skylabs.
HANNAH: No I am not joking.
HANNAH: A quick scan revealed that it only does that to inorganic material, save for glass for some reason. Though it probably still sucks for organic material.
HANNAH: Why this stuff of all things was being produced in the Skylabs I have no idea in the slightest.
HANNAH: I don’t think it should be used in the poison directly. But, maybe if we can extract its properties in some way, we can still make use of it.

HANNAH: And that’s all the big new ones. Well, except for the Ambrosia.
HANNAH: I remember finding half a seeker in its tank. It was kinda funny.

“The Scion” runs her fingers down the Void Liquid’s vial’s surface and frowns.

“THE SCION”: Eroding inorganic stuff doesn’t sound too useful for our purposes…
“THE SCION”: Unless we could alter it? But if we just make it eat flesh instead, that’s probably too lethal. Even with Regalus’s healing factor.
“THE SCION”: ...What if we had it destroy and recreate his organs over and over again?
“THE SCION”: Maybe by applying its properties to structured matter and biosamples?
“THE SCION”: Or, we turn them into a virus that does that.
“THE SCION”: No, too small… maybe a bacterium?

Hannah thinks on it for a moment; seems she hadn’t really considered doing something like that.

HANNAH: ...Huh. Yeah, that could totally work.
HANNAH: Though we might want to make it a little more… resilient.
HANNAH: Those far-future guys have tech that Nedilia would freak out at, and they’re extremely advanced by many standards…
HANNAH: And, despite miss richy-rich’s absurd paranoia and risk-aversion, from her description, as well as that shot from my bow, we know he recovers from poison absurdly fast.
HANNAH: I don’t think bacterium or a virus alone would be much different. We’ll need something else on top of that, I think...
“THE SCION”: Maybe Rotted Phoenix Downs to give it and Regalus self-resurrective properties?
“THE SCION”: And Fluxblood to make it mutate so his antibodies can’t fight it off.
HANNAH: Oh yeah, that’s right! Flux is stupid hard to remove, huh?
HANNAH: And being undead doesn’t really matter to a thing that small. It might even make it better!
HANNAH: But how about we go one step further? I’ve recently been picking up some magic, both from some tomes and stalking Magic Club.
HANNAH: Perhaps we could link it to Regalus’s very being somehow. Like tying it to something he has no matter what happens to him.
HANNAH: Like a shadow, maybe?

“The Scion” scratches her chin.

“THE SCION”: That sounds Conflict-y, heh.
“THE SCION”: Maybe something with those magical crystals we have...
“THE SCION”: There’s darkness ones lying around somewhere.
“THE SCION”: So we make these creatures bound to Regalus like his shadow, so he can never remove them…
“THE SCION”: Unless he becomes a vampire. Or, wait, is that mirrors?
HANNAH: It’s mirrors; they don’t have a reflection, if those books I read ages ago were of any use. And some disintegrate in light, or at the very least hate light, but even then they still have a shadow.
HANNAH: ...Actually, don’t we have one of those in our party? Author, right?
HANNAH: I remember him having a shadow.
“THE SCION”: Alright, so… we just use some shadow crystals and a spell?
“THE SCION”: Is that how this works?
HANNAH: Yeah, pretty much. A Blackhole Regalia should suffice, along with one of the tomes mom picked up for me.

HANNAH: Hm… what else…
HANNAH: Small things eternally eating at and regenerating your body already sounds painful once it gets going. I think this might need something else to get it going much quicker.
HANNAH: Any ideas?
“THE SCION”: Like, a catalyst?
“THE SCION”: Maybe an ember core?
HANNAH: Hm… yeah, with a few changes that would do it.

Hannah looks over at the other three vials.

HANNAH: We can use the Teleportatium on its own to get the things into him if need be. Maybe even infuse the bacterium with it so that they can displace themselves back to Regalus should they be displaced physically somehow.
HANNAH: On further consideration, I actually don’t know if the Lesser Evil is gonna be all that helpful for us.
HANNAH: Unless we want to do that as a loading dose as a sort of distraction…
HANNAH: And to keep everything distracted, maybe have them also generate tiny amounts of Tama’s?
HANNAH: Or would all that be a bit too far in the lethal or overprepared direction?
“THE SCION”: Tamaugachi’s venom isn’t immediately lethal, right?
“THE SCION”: That should be fine...
“THE SCION”: We should probably avoid using the Lesser Evil so we don’t cure the Alethelyse if Destiny uses it, though.
HANNAH: Yeah, good point.

Hannah takes the vial of Lesser Evil and returns it to the inventory. It wasn’t the best pick, all things considered.

HANNAH: So let’s see… we have something that can cause immense agony, regenerates Regalus’s body as it consumes, and is impossible to remove aside from some next-level bullpeck.
HANNAH: Fast-acting, non-lethal, entropic, and probably not at all what he’s expecting-
HANNAH: Wait a sec. That’s right... he might be able to just straight-up kill them as they appear thanks to his stupid powers.
HANNAH: Maybe an Ambrosia infusion might be in order to stop that from happening… stop them from being damaged, and all.
“THE SCION”: Yeah…
“THE SCION”: I wonder if that will turn them into tiny Iti microbes.
“THE SCION”: It probably doesn’t matter.
“THE SCION”: Do you want to start the synthesis?

Hannah nods.

HANNAH: I think it’s about time. Lemme just get everything ready...

And so she does.

MATERIALS:
-1x Tama’s Toxin
-1x Teleportatium
-1x Void Liquid
-1x Tainted Ambrosia
-1x Blackhole Regalia
-?x Structured Matter
-?x Biosamples
-?x Rotted Phoenix Downs
-?x Fluxblood
-1x Ember Core

“The Scion” starts by taking out the biosamples and structured matter. She places a sample of the structured matter in a petri dish and spits into another beside it. She then sets up a microscope overlooking the second dish. With careful precision, she drips a tiny droplet of some sort of dissolving enzyme into the dish full of her spit.

A few moments pass. After they elapse, “the Scion” pours the contents of the second dish through a very fine filter, washing out the water and leaving only a tiny layer of gunk with even tinier white strands atop it. “The Scion” takes ahold of the strands with tweezers and, wrapping them in a biosample layer, places them in an injection needle, which she stabs directly into the structured matter in the first dish.

“THE SCION”: There! DNA from only the most contagious parasites living in my mouth, implanted in that structured matter.
“THE SCION”: With the biosamples, it shouldn’t take too long to mutate.
“THE SCION”: We can keep the specimens that have the qualities we’re looking for and kill the rest.
HANNAH: Great, that’s a start.
HANNAH: Let’s see...

Hannah sets up a few simple distilleries from the glassware. She carefully measures out a sample of Void Liquid, Tamau Toxin, and Ambrosia in separate flasks, placing them each under one of the apparatuses. The apparatuses themselves consist of both traditional heating and cooling methods via the use of crystals, as well as magically conductive Platinum and a bit of crystal for magic waste storage. All apparatuses are directed into a singular stoppered flask.

Hannah starts up the heaters and the coolers, and holds the crystal in hand. She also pulls out a tome from out of nowhere - likely Shelly’s doing. After flipping through a few pages, she shuts the book, now knowing what she needs to get this done.

A few moments later, vapor rises up from each of the samples, each being deadly enough to cause severe damage. Hannah holds the crystal in one hand, and reaches out to the platinum-coated heat exchangers with her other. She makes minute movements with her fingers as the vapor reaches the area.

As the vapor begins to condense down once more, a dark blue aura envelops the platinum and flies into Hannah’s outstretched fingers, and from her outstretched thumb into the crystal, also glowing that same dark blue. As time passes, it becomes increasingly obvious as to what’s been happening.

The Void Liquid goes from an inky black to a more sinister-looking, deep, dark purple. The vapor swirls as it condenses down and trickles into the flask. Once the Tamau Toxin reaches the flask, instead of being instantly disintegrated with the Void Liquid, it mixes itself into it, forming a black vortex within the solution. The Ambrosia trickles down last, and it too mixes itself with the solution, forming a purple-tinged, dark yellow vortex in the flask.

After enough time has elapsed, Hannah shuts all three of them off, leaving any undesired impurities behind.

The crystal has taken on a pitch black hue as a result of Hannah’s interference. Hannah goes to place it down on the table, where it nearly burns a hole in it. So instead she places it on a glass plate, where it fails to fall through. She takes out the flask after a few more moments, covers up any openings in the three apparatuses, stoppers the flask, and gives it a good swirl to properly mix it. This results in a muddy, dark purple mixture with all the desired properties from all three chemicals. Hannah sets this flask aside to cool off.

HANNAH: That’s the big three mixed. It should be enough, but we can always get more later if we gotta.

“The Scion” nods. While her partner has been mixing ingredients, she has been busy culling specimens who were too lethal or not infectious enough.

“THE SCION”: We should probably make sure the creation can actually survive contact with this before we inject it!

She takes the Rotted Phoenix Downs and cuts off the extraneous outer layers of soft keratin. ...Kera-thyme? Finding the rotted inner tissue, she mashes it in a bowl, then squeezes its juices into the petri dish. She also pours the Fluxblood in for good measure.

“THE SCION”: There we go. Undead entropic resurrecting microbes ahoy!

Hannah gives “the Scion'' a thumbs-up as she sets the Blackhole Regalia and Teleportatium down next to the mixture. She takes extra special care with the Teleportatium so it doesn’t accidentally teleport itself through the floor.

She takes the Blackhole Regalia in hand, and peers deep into the black hole contained within. Looking at her shadow from the light coming in from an open hole torn in the roof of the hut, she uses her other hand to “tug” on it. She keeps tugging until a wisp of shadow floats upward and into the Regalia, turning the lattice a dark grey.

Hannah takes the Teleportatium shortly after. She gently pours half of the sample into another beaker for later, and holds the remaining half firmly in her other hand.

Hannah focuses on the crystal and the flask’s contents, and starts channeling the crystal’s energy through herself, into the Teleportatium. The energy that emits from the Regalia was a very dark grey instead of the expected blackness, and the Teleportatium slowly becomes more and more desaturated, soon becoming devoid of color and grey.

She continues this process until the black hole in the middle of the Regalia was no more, leaving only the grey glass matrix. The energy from the matrix flows back into Hannah’s shadow, returning it to a clear, glassy material which Hannah cuts open and places the waste crystal inside of. For disposal purposes.

Hannah mixes in the other half of the Teleportatium sample very carefully. The two substances mix together as if they were never different in the first place and forming a pale blue solution.

HANNAH: This mix should act as a bond to the recipient’s shadow.
HANNAH: Now all that’s left is to… fit everything together.

“The Scion” slides the petri dish over to the venom mixture and pours a few careful drops of the latter into the former. The prokaryotic mold on the dish’s surface begins to hiss as wisps of smoke emit from it, but rather than eroding, it turns a similar gray to the Teleportatium Hannah was handling earlier. She takes the petri dish and pours its contents into another vial coated with nutrients, then stoppers it with a cork. Finally, she hands the vial to Hannah, along with a sliced-up ember core.

“THE SCION”: We drop pieces of the ember core into the vial when we want to activate it.
“THE SCION”: And then throw it at Regalus. Fast.
“THE SCION”: Does… does that sound like something you want to do personally?

Hannah places a hand on the table and thinks for a moment.

HANNAH: ...Hm… I’m not sure, if I’m being honest with you…
HANNAH: He already knows what I look like. And what I probably feel like within his detective vision.
HANNAH: Tossing it while at that close of a range wouldn’t exactly be ideal…
HANNAH: Though I guess splashing some more Teleportatium on me could help with that.
HANNAH: Could also use temporal shenanigans to beat him over the head with it before he can react.
HANNAH: Might even get Sophie to make me a potion launcher. Tell her a little lie that it’s for adventuring stuff…
HANNAH: ...Huh. Maybe there’s more options than I thought…
HANNAH: Y’know what, sure. Beats the peck outta sitting on my butt during all this.

HANNAH: Plus… I want a little revenge. I want to see him suffer up close and personal. I want to see his stupid mug show fear for once in his life!
HANNAH: He knows he can’t kill us off for good! He should be terrified of what we’re capable of!
HANNAH: And what better way to do that than by making him, his powers, and his technology absolutely worthless against something crippling him?

Hannah totally has a malicious grin under her mask during this rambling. A quiet giggle.

“The Scion” smiles with a cold mirth.

“THE SCION”: I don’t usually feel very good about, um, making people suffer and die…
“THE SCION”: Well, I don’t feel too bad about it either. I don’t usually feel much at all, or else I would probably be a mess all the time, haha.
“THE SCION”: But I think I’m going to enjoy this.
“THE SCION”: Make him suffer!
“THE SCION”: I’ll be there to kick him a few times while he’s down.

Hannah eagerly nods twice.

HANNAH: Awesome!
HANNAH: And… seriously, thanks for the help with this.
HANNAH: Knew I picked the right person for the job.

Hannah takes the flask and stuffs it into her personal inventory, hidden away from every angle.

HANNAH: Think I might stick around here for a bit. Clean up, wait for our target to pass by, order that launcher from Sophie, stuff like that.

“The Scion” nods and steps towards the door.

“THE SCION”: Well, see you at the assassination!
“THE SCION”: ...Which will probably be in a couple of minutes.
HANNAH: Yeah, see you there!

As “The Scion” steps out of the door, Hannah starts cleaning up the workspace; disposing of unused chemicals via the waste crystal she made. Once done, she simply waits on the island until she hears that it’s go time.

She can hardly wait.

RESULT:
(T?) Bio Eternity (x1): A flask of bacterium created by The Scion and Hannah. Nigh-impossible to remove from a host, and cripplingly painful, these bacteria keep the target alive as long as they can, eating away at and subsequently regenerating their bodies until they perish from other means. Comes with an Ember Core catalyst. Intended for Regalus.

To the Calscape - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FvB...dit?usp=sharing

CURRENT OCCUPANTS: CHLOE, SOPHIA

Chloe

Calibri chuckles nervously at Chloe's questioning of the Void Room, but he quietly decides not to speak up further about it. Then, he gets up and stretches, before the world promptly turns into JRPG graphics for a while.

"Alright, if I remember correctly, it's..."

After a quick wander out of the room, along the wall, and up to the north a bit, Calibri (followed by Chloe) wanders through the teleporter. It proceeds to put them over near the kitchen, after which Calibri wanders southwards, leading to the two standing near a large glass window. While the one in the couch room was angled to the north, this one is angled to the east.

"Welp. There we go. It's, uhh... Not much of a room, sure, but at least there's things out the window? Heh."

Calibri promptly teleports over to a chair in the corner, then teleports back to a more middle-section part of the room. Notably, teleporting in his own mindscape does not have any flickering lights associated with it. Is that unusual? Perhaps. Either way, there's a few things out there.

Blue-tinted grass flutters in the breeze. Birdies flutter between small patches of bushes, while Sentrees watch over them. Snails crawl across the more sparse areas, one of them apparently nibbling on a blue grass leaf, while Goleyeaths stride among them, carefully avoiding the animals under their care. Despite the heavier armaments on display, it's... rather peaceful, all things considered.

Meanwhile, in the room proper, a strange machine taking up the entirety of a small corner of the room watches with one holographic eye. It seeks inspiration, yet finds none... Has it registered the new arrival's presence? Hard to be sure.

Sophia

A pause from the big creature. A slow blink. It slowly nods at Sophia.

GOLEYEATH: ...They... evil.
GOLEYEATH: Many types...
GOLEYEATH: ...
GOLEYEATH: Have... spoke... of them... enough.

Then, Sophia mentions the idea of getting a friend for the Goleyeath. It blinks, then its eyelid shifts a little. It seems happy with that idea.

GOLEYEATH: Would like.
GOLEYEATH: ...
GOLEYEATH: Thank. For... be here.
GOLEYEATH: ...

It silently reaches back somewhere, rummaging around behind its back. Then, it stops, pulling out a round metal object that doesn't quite render properly right away. At least, that's the most fitting descriptor for the visual effect. Once it does render, the object is revealed.

It appears to be a downsized, metallic, somewhat crude replica of the Goleyeath's own cyclopean eye. Going by the hollowed-out underpart, maybe one could wear it as a helmet. The large creature then reaches forward to hand the item off to Sophia, or just put it beside her if that's good enough.

GOLEYEATH: Have... gift.

Item found. Two remain.

Ephram, a slightly tall, white haired, mage boy, fell from the sky into the forest nearby the house. He was rescued by Ette, and taken to the house to be healed, being in a bad state physically. Unlike what the original dialogue implies, Eph doesn't actually know why he ended up on Sussui, but feels like he's meant to be there. Additionally, in-universe Eph doesn't craft the Soul Charm. He was in possession of it before coming to Sussui.

Ephram meets Chloe, who attempts to heal his eye. (His eye doesn't freak out unlike what was described in the original post.) Afterwards, Chloe explains the threat of the Sphere to Eph, something resonates within him, and he decides he wants to help.

While exploring the house a little, Ephram stumbles into the basement, where he finds the inventory (that's where it is, right?). After looking around for a while, he finds himself strongly drawn to the Operator's Suit. Eph puts it on and immediately feels his mind clear up a little. The Soul Charm in his pocket hums quietly, and two small orbs, one a wispy black mass, and the other a perfect sphere of pastel pink, gravitate towards him before beginning to orbit his head.

At some point Eph was using the Key and not whatever the Invoker's Orbs are physically (not that it matters), and also asked Marron to make an item for him that would help him in battle, but apparently didn't stick around for conversation since he was probably shy or tired or both.