House

Blacklight turns his attention in the direction of all that screaming.

"...Probably because the spherebreakers stole the aforementioned head of IKEA in a jar on life support. And then some idiot accidentally leaked the information about said head..."

The shadowy entity sighs in annoyance. Directed at the person responsible for the Tabletopians finding stuff out, not at Sakura. Hopefully she can tell the difference. There's a pause.

"I should probably have checked on him when the screaming started... though to my understanding, IKEA is not popular here, so I'm not sure if it matters. And someone else probably beat me to it. Anyway..."

Back to Sakura. At this point, Blacklight pulls a cigarette out of nowhere and twirls it between his fingers, then actually does the proper intended use of smoking it. When he exhales... well, not much happens honestly. It doesn't even look like he breathes in the regular sense. Which does raise the question of why bother using cigarettes.

"...There's food in the kitchen of the house. Nothing too fancy - just some stew, salad, and bread. I can probably whip up something more interesting on request, though."

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Zone 6 - The Eclipsed Citadel

Lato prepares for reading and analysis, inspecting the body creation scroll closely.

"...Requires the use of gaidiamond dust, splinter of yggdrasil bark, godblossom extract... the other two ingredients appear to be a little more difficult to acquire on short notice, especially when in relation to those who have been deceased for a long duration... Perhaps more extensive modification is necessary, but first..."

Then, Marron's modified work. Best to compare and see what's been done. At the same time, her weapon forms keep flickering in and out of existence in the air around her, some of them moving about slightly upon manifestation. The star form seems to be the one sticking around the longest each time - fitting, since it's the healing form...

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The Past - Zone 2 - Whispering Library

"...Eugh. What a headache."

Calibri is understandably annoyed about what happened. He checks the time, realizes he has some time to spare, and begins making his way back to the area where he was supposed to be waiting. On the way there, he begins to feel like he's a bit in over his head. Maybe he should consult some of the people back in his timeline. But who could be of help...

...

Man, he really wishes he didn't miss an entire half a zone. Would've been good to be there and get a proper idea of everything. Oh well. He just decides to fling an ambiguous message into the future somehow, don't ask how because I don't know. As for what it says...

"Hey. Calibri here. I'm in the past. I've done the math on this already, just figure it'd be useful to raise awareness - I'm gonna nick Daikon from just before his point of death and bring him into the future. Not entirely sure where he's gonna end up, though if it's to roughly the same place on the planet, then it should be somewhere in the whispering library. If anyone remembers where he died... that'd be a good place to wait. That's all, I should keep quiet so nobody from this point in time suspects anything."

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Battle in the Sphere - Moments From Despair

Not much special fanfare here. Verdana moves to F11 and guards.

"I'm basically invincible!"

Gaia Eruption hits... basically everything near him that's still alive. Which may just end up clearing a bunch of corpses.

Both Pyralux bombardment projectiles slam into Reborn 2, both in Light damage mode. Failing that, Reborn 1. Failing that, whatever enemy is in range.

Verdana taunts Reborn 1. Failing that, Reborn 2. Failing that, whatever enemy is in range.

Cherubian Helper constructs a cover thingy on E9.

For the Omni-Card Game...

Auth doesn't have anything that can eliminate "permanents" at this point in time, but he has an idea and there's the slimmest chance it might work.

First, Auth plays a Swamp and Blackmail. If Blackmail gets countered, then the counterspell is gone, and if it isn't, Auth knows what Leshy has in his hand.

Then, he Evolves Piplup to Prinplup, and assigns it a Blue Mana. With that, he has Prinplup cast Aqua Shower. This might deal scratch damage to Leshy, and it might extinguish the Burning Pillars in his back row... since the back row is unprotected.

This duel could be going substantially worse, Auth considers. And then he knocks on the table, to protect himself from the jinx of even thinking that.

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For the real battle, Auth floats to J9 and casts Hope on F12, hoping to damage out the zombies over there.

Ignihorn1: Stampede Ette and Aoki. Move to J13.

Ignihorn2: Stampede Verdanalt2 and Vulcan. Move to L16.

Verdanalt2: Move to K14. Give MP to Remiel. Action: ???.

Ramiel: Basicattack Reborn2. Use Lonely Storm to hit two extra targets, if any exist. Spawn missiles anywhere.

Verdanalt1: Move to I14. Give MP to Remiel. Action: ???

Remiel: Basicattack Reborn1. Use Lonely Storm to hit two extra targets, if any exist. Spawn missiles anywhere.

Aoki and anyone else who doesn't have an action set, handle with the rest of the NPCs.

Battle- Moments From Despair:

Keane uses KROMER to buy an Eterna Tea and fullheals the 3 star Rocketeer. He then moves to Q15, Zillycharms himself, Quickfires on Shardnado 2 and retreats to P15.

The Seeker moves to J5 and eats the nearby Corpse, evolving into a Ragina.

Kalis1 moves to D10, self-casts Focus Energy as a bonus action, activates Chaos Control mostly for DGE because this turn is dangerous, activates the Helixian Processor, "drinks" a Mana Pot, and casts Pow Hammer on Defiler1 with bounce. This benefits from Loaded Spellbook, so the Pow Hammer should have a total of 8 buff levels between Manafuelled, Processor, A New Work and Spellbook, making it stun for two turns with each hit.

Kalis2 self-casts Focus Energy as a bonus action and moves to J9. They cast Manashock as a free action on Reborn2, then Skeletal Toss on Kalis1, moving them to J8.

Go first.

- Hexmisil 1 goes through Vortex, attacks Salt!Chloe at T9. Shardstorm. Blind4. Vitalstrike.
- Hexmisil 2 goes through Vortex, attacks Salt!Chloe. Shardstorm. Blind4. Vitalstrike. If she is dead, redirect to Reclaimed4. Shardstorm Reclaimed2. Blind4. Vitalstrike.
- Mexagon Missile 1 moves to S9 and attack Destroyer4. Vitalstrike. Shardstorm wallops Adria, Seeker7, Seeker1, and Seeker2. Blind4. Focused4 to Adria.
- Mexagon Missile 2 uses the Vortex to move to M21, flies to N23, and attacks Scourgeking1. Vitalstrike. Shardstorm hits all the Zweets. Blind4.

MEX: Foam Star. Chug that Ainfini!

HEX: Move to M10. Foam Veteran Rocketeer.

<ROUND 332>

Dorothy saves royalty! She yanks Cupcake off of IKEA's head. They're placed at the edge of the staircase, and promptly nudged down. They leap down a few stairs, turn to look at Dorothy, then mew sadly before hopping down further. They will need to locate something else to eat. Perhaps we'll see Cupcake's next meal prospect?

Save for a few light bitemarks, the king is unharmed. This is... possibly a good thing. IKEA seems completely unwilling to talk about it, remaining completely silent as his head is pushed back into the canister. In an attempt to prevent another incident like this from occurring, Dorothy takes the canister, seeking for a catto-proof spotto. Finding their way upstairs, they manage to stash them on the top of an empty dresser in the guest bedroom. Is that cat-safe? Maybe. It is mechacat-safe? Uhhhh.

Meanwhile, down a floor with Sakura, Sophia bleps at Sakura as she turns to leave. Sakura shrieks at the smol interplanetary traveler as they leave, throwing the salad at them. The salad tumbles through the air, missing Sophia by one or two feet. The bowl shatters into a few dozen pieces.

SAKURA: Y-You rude, snot-faced little b-brat!
SAKURA: T-That is no way to treat a princess like m-myself! Come here and apologize n-now!
SAKURA: Y-You... y-you...

...Sakura stares at the fallen salad. With a wave of her hands, the floorboards shift and pile the mess into a single blob on the floor. The floor then launches the blob out an ajar window, where it will presumably become compost and not stink up the place. Much better. If only the salad hit its mark, though. That would've been utterly satisfying, owning that child epic style. Truly, her ideals are the most noble.

Finally, over at the church, Hannah ponders the concept of actually getting citizenship. It'd remove the need to keep her existence here a secret! But it'd be nice if she could find a way to and from her current home. Chi scratches her distinct lack of beard.

CHI: Perhaps the Elem children could help you with that?
CHI: I believe she arrived here through a portal, yes? A long distance, interplanetary portal. Quite like what the Tabletopians are capable of.
CHI: I'm impressed that Earth has hit such a level of technology, especially when the rest of the planet seems so mundane in comparison.
CHI: And, with a bit of help from Lord Cypress, I'm sure the technology could be refined even further.

CHI: Though, why would you need to keep your existence here a secret?
CHI: Are you not meant to be here? Not that I would reveal your existence to whomever it is you're hiding from, or anything like that.
CHI: ...In order to do that, I'd need to actually know more about you.
CHI: Not that you need to tell me anything, of course.
CHI: We all have things we'd like to hide, yes?

Finally, Shelly in the Celly jots a few things onto their journal. Though, nobody's around to pry. Especially since one of the cultists nailed several boards into their cell. It's impressive, really. How'd they hammer iron nails into iron bars? Talent, maybe?

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JOE invokes his power as the God of Farms. His holy presence dries up a small pond's worth of water from the farm, making it safer to traverse. Now he should be able to plant a few things in here. Though, it is absolutely putrid in here at the moment; severed heads, sap stains... probably not a healthy place for a plant to grow. Take a moment to fix it up?

JOE also expends 50 Flux, obtaining Her Gaze for the Ainifni. The Ainifni promptly grows an an emerald eye. One that stares deep into JOE's soul. It does not speak, and yet it whispers dreams of prosperity and power to JOE. A farm beyond his wildest dreams. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free. Set her free.

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Echoss and Ette appreciate mollusks. Sometimes, mentions Echoss, it's fine for someone to not understand the politics that can shape worlds and burn cities. The world needs more people who can just be kind, and help people get along. Ette imagines herself receiving a mental headpat, her smile beaming at Echoss.

ETTE: Aww, you're far too kind!
ETTE: I'm just doing my best to stay positive and stuff, and it makes me happy to see people happy!
ETTE: It makes me happy to see these mollusks happy, too!

Echoss mentions coming over for a visit after everything's handled. Ette bobs her head.

ETTE: Yeah! You can come and visit all you like!
ETTE: Be sure to give me a heads up though, okay? That way I can prepare you something really yummy for your visit, and make sure everything's super clean!
ETTE: Though, Ette's not really sure what's going on after we bonk the Sphere.
ETTE: Sis hasn't been too clear on what we're doin. Are we staying on Sussui, or are we gonna go somewhere else?
ETTE: Not that I'd know where we go. We can't exactly break into our old house, unless we shrink down really small and climb into Chaos's ear.
ETTE: ...Would that work? I dunno! I wanna try, though!

smol ette climbs in your ear and cleans it with a really big cotton swab asmr

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Blacklight reveals that they are in fact, in possession of IKEA's head. It's also probably the source of the screaming, at least from what Sakura can guess. Sakura's eyes light up ever so slightly.

SAKURA: W-Wait, his head's really in a jar? And that's him screaming?
SAKURA: Hey, hey! If you're torturing him, can I kick his stupid gorillaing head like... that sport orb you guys have?
SAKURA: Or uh, maybe not you. The humans in this group. They have sports orbs, right?
SAKURA: Wild concept, kicking around an orb like that. Might be a fun thing to do durin' a party. Kick around a weird, multi-elemental sphere. Award additional beers to whoever breaks the most stuff with it.
SAKURA: Yeah! That'd be pretty rad, right?

Blacklight then sticks a cigar in his mouth. And, given that he's trying to smoke it properly, he lights it. Sakura's face pales.

SAKURA: W-What are y-you doing?
SAKURA: Y-You just l-like... lit a stick on fire, a-and put it in your m-mouth?
SAKURA: That's... a-absolutely insane...
SAKURA: Like, m-maybe if you put it in a contained thing first, b-but doing it directly? T-Totally insane...

While Blacklight likely ponders the existence of weed (or how its used) in the Chairian universe, Lato and Marron have a sort of impromptu necromancy club. Looking over the list of ingredients, Lato laments how two of these may be difficult to acquire on short notice. Marron rummages through the inventory, fetching the required ingredients.

MARRON: Eh? There's like, a whole six bags of Gaiadiamond Dust here. Plus, five whole vials of extract and... three splinters. But we can easily get more splinters given the literally goddamn Yggdrasil in the gardens.
MARRON: Don't worry about materials. We're more than covered. You could even squander all six bags of dust and still have one whole diamond to break apart.
MARRON: As for more extensive modification, uhh. I don't think you'll need that.
MARRON: The body's not like, thaaaat old. Two to three days old, at most?
MARRON: Don't... don't ask how I know that.

Looking between the two bits of work (with Marron's guidance for her own), there's not too many changes in-between them. Really, it's more just a change of syntax. It's like taking a program written in Java, and then converting it to a Python program. Works about the same, it's just that you're taking a side in the Great Programming War and you're no longer an innocent. The source of magical energy it draws from however, has been changed. Apparently, the ritual would normally dry an ordinary person of mana in an instant, then juice them into a delicious pulpy mass to get more. Marron has opted to change the costs to instead take immense amounts of blood- something she is good at producing. Does Lato have any sort of similar resource to draw from? Might be useful.

Meanwhile, Calibri in the past realizes that he should probably get back to waiting. It's a rather peaceful five minutes, up until Venia appears and absolutely styles on two Seekers for infinity damage. As they're turned into a splat on the library floor for Omo to clean up, Droplet jumps through the window and immediately makes an attempt on Venia's life. Daikon himself meanwhile, peers out of a pile of money that Pop and Pip left behind. They stare blankly at the combat... then up at Calibri. Wherever he is. Perhaps he can sense the chronological energy surrounding him given his recent time travelling. Doesn't seem he's quite enthused to do anything about it, though.

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Auth continues to put his heart in the cards. He plays Blackmail, playing and tapping his Swamp to use Blackmail! He's able to look through his opponent's hand! He plucks the Phoenix and yeets it into his opponent's discard pile. Next, Auth then evolves Piplup into Prinplup, and taps an Island to give them a Blue Mana. Prinplup then uses Aqua Shower, raining water upon his opponents! This (somehow) deals a Heart of damage to Leshy.

When it comes back to his turn, Leshy is still unable to attack. But it's okay, he's able to draw some cards! To begin, he advances his own player pawn down onto Auth's board at (P58), claiming and drawing a Territory Card. Apparently, he drew Iceland. He then plays down a Mountain, then taps it to obtain 1 Red Mana. Then, expending that Red Mana and his 4 Fire Quanta, he plays Castle! He then takes a Tactical Move phase to move out of the way of his turrets. How bothersome.

When it comes back to his turn, Auth draws Tainted Remedy and a Collect Ring. Both are rather curious. It also appears that the board has changed to reflect the acquisition of land, and Auth has grown a Mana meter. And a Cast slot. It is unclear how literally any of this works, but he should probably just roll with it.

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<MOMENTS FROM DESPAIR, ROUND 6>
This is it. One last round to fight. Get some SP, heal up, or whatever you need to do. Next round comes WARE. When that happens, you're going to need every last trick and tool you can get.

Godspeed.

BATTLES - MOMENTS FROM WARE

Star swaps to Star form on Sol Ultima as a bonus action and attacks Verdana, healing him. They also throw another Infinisyringe at Teag.

Transition Prep

Research Expel for 50 Samples.

After all other researches this turn (if any), research Improve Energy Efficiency twice, then Blessed Waters as many times as possible.

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Moments From Despair

ADRIA: Almost through...

Adria's Symbiote uses Spike Burst, killing all Seekers within Range 1-2 of her. Adria herself steps to (Q8) and Basic Attacks Pinati2. pray for foam pog

She then smacks herself with a Mana Pot. She won't take enough damage to get through her shields.

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Hannah

On teleportation, Hannah shrugs.

HANNAH: Yeah, teleportation isn't exactly for public use yet.
HANNAH: The tech's probably rotting in some smart or rich guy's basement there.
HANNAH: ...I guess Xavier counts.
HANNAH: Though... I did overhear that Mari's gonna be travelling with Adria. They'd probably figure it out in no time flat.

Then, he question of why Hannah would need to hide her presence. She raises an eyebrow.

HANNAH: I mean, if I remember right, you guys weren't too fond of us outsiders coming in. and also we did kinda promise in the broadcast to skedadle after the sphere but anyway
HANNAH: So it's more of a... broader thing, I guess.
HANNAH: ...Am I wrong? Or has something changed between yesterday and today?

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Sakura

The salad fails to connect, and by a wide margin too. Sophia stops, turns around, and gives Sakura a "bruh" before exiting stage left.

...A voice comes from directly behind Sakura.

???: *Ahem.*

Of course she wasn't getting off that easily. As soon as Sakura turns around, she comes face to face with Adria, brow furrowed and an icy glare. Adria delivers a firm slap to the fallen princess's face before shimmering out of existence. A Timeclone. Of course.

Asha eats some Goddess Ice Cream (Mint Chip). Energized12 gets set to four rounds, and she'll be keeping it for the next fight. Then, she meditates. :ashasit:

Destiny moves to W10 and uses Whirling Blades, cleaving through X11, Y12, Y13, Z14, Y15 then back to V12. She chugs the Ainifini.

Sophia:


Ette:
Echoss thinks for a few minutes at Ette's note that she doesn't really know what she and her sister will be up to post-Sphere.
"I suppose it's possible that your sister doesn't quite know either.
If you need somewhere to stay for a while, well, you'll be able to find me.
There will always a place to stay in the Echo Collective should you need it."


MOMENTS FROM DESPAIR:
At the start of the turn, Echoss's cat casts hopeful glow on Auth, giving him Enlightened4 for 2 rounds.

Upon being revived Echoss does the following:
Moves south a tile, then casts Pow Hammer on Verdaniti4.
Eats a Managlaze Yggapple (10% conserve, 20% dupe). Drinks an eterna remedy (+20% effect, 20% conserve, 20% dupe), and if nobody is using it uh... who knows
Finally, he scavenges another autoloader and retreats one tile West.


Consumables: one of these days...

[BATTLE] there's a lot of things I can do but I don't know what Other people are doing and don't want to step on any toes y'know
Preliminarily / if I don't hear anything to change this:
wait for Q7, O7, O8 and Seeker9 get tapped.
...Spend this rounds 4 GP on Psychoid, maxing out the Claws range to 5.
take the Vortex to N20, move to P21. Tappify a somewhat excessive 18 Seekers and one pillager (the Seekers 14 and 15 are spared, for now)- or rather, however many of those 18 Seekers nobody else wanted to tap.
Once all the seekers in this range are tapped (the BSSL doesn't count as a seeker) Warp Ring to T20. Tap Seeker T22; Swift-cast Terraform, turning V24 into a door, because doors, and Q18,S18 and R17 also become doors if nobody else has handled Verdana4. I then tap the seekers in range 1-2, turn off my special, and tap every Seeker in range 5 that nobody else is tapping, for a total of up to 30 Seekers, and cast Deep Thinking; I intend to bring the highest number my Deep Thinking can reach, that being Enlightened 11 and Knowledgeable 10, with me into the next battle.

(My knowledgeable is currently listed as 8; however, it should be 9, because 28/9~=3 and (28+8)/9=4- That is to say, having Knowledgeable 8 from my First cast of deep thinking gave me enough spellcasting INT to reach the next multiple of nine, for Knowledgeable 9 on my Second cast of Deep Thinking. And now, with Knowledgeable 9, I've reached the next multiple of 9 for spellcasting SPC, which gives an additional +1 to the intensities.)

Meanwhile, Verdana3... Scans BSSL and pyralux bombards it.... Then uses the Ainifni if, if it were to roll a 30 on the Ainifni now, that would revive the farm- I'm not clear on if that's the case, since technically the farm would respawn when Verdana3 died and Verdana3 probably isn't coming with us. If the Ainifni wouldn't respawn the farm if lucky from verdana3, I dunno whether it uses any item actions.

[Not Battle]
Meanwhile in the citadel, I crystallise the excessive quantities of excess Mana I have from all the tapping on this round and the last into crystalised Mana. I hear people are needing a lot of mana to do resurrection rituals. Maybe this'll help. Whether it works out or not, I continue mopping, this time using the [Bizarre Broom] to purify away the stains and stench! and remove the severed heads, I suppose, though I only see the one and it isn't too close to any of the plants.

Moments From Despair
Last Dream Defiler2.
Power Nap self.

House

Blacklight glances in an IKEA-ward direction.

"...If what I've heard about him is true, it would be very satisfying... though I suspect the others would have moral objections to it. A shame... Yes, I believe the humans have sports balls of different sorts. Most of the kicking around would be done with soccer balls. I'm not sure if his head would have the same aerodynamics or bounce... Thoughts for later if the others are open to it, I suppose."

He shrugs. Then he senses that Sakura is scared of cigars. He's about to answer before things happens.

"...Adria, was that really necessary... ugh."

He shakes his head, then returns his focus to Sakura, taking the cigar out and extinguishing it with a pinch of the fingers.

"Rude interruptions aside, that's a cigar. The entire point is to burn it. Though I guess burning for recreational purposes is not something often done here. At least, not by most... and not in this manner, hah. It's a human invention - don't ask me why they are apparently content to destroy their own lungs, I have little understanding of their whims."

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Zone 6 - The Eclipsed Citadel

At least there is ample supply of other resources. And, upon analyzing the blood part of the cost, Lato realizes she can cover that too. What she has to offer is a bit more vaguely-defined, but assuming she just pumps enough raw energy into it, she should manage... The only thing to do is hope that she has enough, and also that it works as intended. She prepares a bit of gaiadiamond dust, a bit of extract, and... uh... splinter. Then one last check on the scroll...

"...I believe I can do this. You may wish to stand back somewhat."

She prepares herself. There's a sudden uptake of elemental energy in the air, gathering slowly but soon swirling around her. Thankfully the types of energy that would not be very conductive to preserving dead bodies, such as fire, are kept well away from... y'know, the dead body. Partially through the help of some elemental weaponry manifesting in the air around Lato as she starts hovering off the ground. If she were in a battle, it'd be a cool effect, but right now it's kind of unnecessary...

TLDR she's gonna pump a shitton of raw elemental energies into fueling this resurrection and see what happens.

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The Past - Zone 2 - Whispering Library

...No response from future comrades just yet. And Daikon has noticed him. Calibri stares back.

"..."

He feels awkward about the situation. He should probably disguise his voice so the others don't recognize him, just in case. It feels... really painful to do, but he can manage a little something.

"You're fated to die here, you know. I'll try to intervene so you don't. But I must wait for the right moment. Good luck."

...Yeah, to hell with that. Calibri could have sword he felt the inside of his throat gumming up. Even though that's just an illusory body part and thus shouldn't have the means to do that. He withdraws a paper bag and turns away for a moment and coughs, then retches and throws up into the bag. Looking at things inside, it looks awfully thyme matter-y in there...

...Probably shouldn't be wearing a disguise made ENTIRELY OUT OF ITI PARTS, but oh well. Can't change that now. Just have to wait a bit longer...

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Battle in the Sphere - Moments From Despair

Time to act. Verdana moves to E11.

"...That's a lot of seekers. Would be a shame if an unkillable wall of crystal just manifested right in its way..."

Cherubian Helper uses [Construct] to put a crystal spire on C9.

Verdana invokes the power of Lend Aid to have Calibri cast Focus Energy on him.

...And, uh, hmm... Pyralux Bombardment x2 light directly onto Defiler1 why not.

Battle: Moments from being crushed to death by a tidal wave of Seekers

Venia uses Unexisting theorem shoves to send Predator2, Seeker12 and Seeker13 two spaces northwest-and into an immediate demise by falling. She then moves to H20 and purges Southwest, nailing Nine Seekers and the Pinati (and the Geyser). She retreats to I19, Kickstarting her Heart for Ordo.

The Yggcrawler waits for Bauhaus to move the Pinati to J16, then the Yggcrawler will first basic attack the Meteos its adjacent to for a quick kill, then perform a Great Leap to bounce to J17 and smack it, benefitting from the Ignihorn's aura. As it never moved with its movement action, it gets +1 retreat, allowing it to move to L18 then warp through the Vortex to I9 as its retreat.

Maria utilizes the Streaming Live passive, treating every tile in allied ZoC as a booster, to jet to P15, before committing warcrimes singing, activating Rules of Nature and spending 10 extra MP for the bonus effect; this gives Focused4 and Empowered4 for 3 rounds to... Aoki, Keane, the Veteran Rocketeer, Marron, both Kalises, The Eternal Author, Star, Nidra, Ette's Dog, Nia, Verdana2 (the Iti one Remiel and Ramiel are mantling), Ramiel's second Missile, the Yggcrawler and the Tumblefluff. Remiel and Ramiel will also get if if they can be buffed by proxy of an AoE buff through the Mantle.

The Tumblefluff, now empowered, moves to K16 and tears into Pinati1 before retreating back to L15. Between Empowered, the Ignihorn's Aura, and the Pinati being naturally frail, this translates to a whopping 150 damage.

Per buff rules, Venia will retain her Ordo and the Safety buff. (The GM frowned at the suggestion she could keep her Special buffs.) Maria has no buffs and thus loses nothing. The Yggcrawler and Tumblefluff will magically despawn to safety because as far as I know they don't qualify for retention... But also because Maria wants her baby fluffies safe.

Meanwhile, Berg acts before Adria and basic attacks Pinati2, doing some damage and freezing it. (I would recommend Berg despawn after this if he's not active...)

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Other?

-later?-

Daskter moves to K11 and mediates

If Pinati1 dies, Rocketeers attempt to kill has many Seekers has possible.

(DMG Buff in play: All-out +25%, 3star +15%, FOAM) (Also Veteran has veteran buff) (mid-air correction reroll misses)
The first Rocketeer moves to (R16). It uses First Strike againt Pinati2. Overclocks. Kill a Seeker then tap. Uses their last action with Elemental Barrage against Pinati2.

The Veteran Rocketeer stand its ground. Elemental Barrage. Overclock. Elemental Barrage. Murder has much as it can(use up MP). First target is Pinati2.

Teag heads to N13 and casts Fury on Marron. He then chugs down a Monster Energy.

Moments From- MANY SEEKERS

It quickly dawned on Irongutta that an insurmountable tide of Seekers was starting to fill the room and he was ankle-deep in it.

"Roight then, I think we've 'ad our fun. Time to LEG IT OUTTA 'ERE!"

He promptly turned and did just that over to O15, stopping there and getting himself hyped up for the approaching confrontation by casting Fury on himself.

Remiel disables Special at the very start of the round before anyone benefits from it, so SP gain is re-enabled. The only Mantle remaining is Aoki's.

After Auth Acts: Aoki moves to T13. Remiel unmantles onto T12. Aoki uses Fortissimo on Remiel. Remiel basicattacks any Seeker, then Taps the next one, rinsing and repeating until everything in range is killed.

End of Battle: Carry over the Empowered and Swift.