This action goes after Mexagon, who is presumably Foaming me.
Teag begins his turn by filing a very angry complaint with the manufacturers of the Burrito he ate last turn, which should have given Empowered3 because of his trait but actually only gave Empowered2. Getting very slightly less of a buff because of an understandable oversight on the GM's part is exactly what George Orwell tried to warn us about, and we didn't listen. After that ordeal, Teag flies above the forest and lands at V26, making a note to give the highest praise to whoever made this extremely convenient armor set. After using an Autoloader, he fires an Earth-type shot at WARE, which might do a little bit of damage. He applies Vitalstrike because why not.

Attack and Dethrone Not-God

QUOTE (Irecreeper @ Jun 26 2022, 12:01 AM)

WARE: We simply are one and the same. WARE: We are Ire. We are the child of Psi. WARE: You are talking to the greatest being to ever exist, waiting for you to exterminate its rogue element. WARE: The relationship is not equal. WARE: His existence is too tightly coupled to mine. WARE: I do not require him. But he requires I. WARE: Every strike, this shell grows closer to breaking. WARE: We shall shatter, and from the ashes I will rise. WARE looms over Venia, looking down on her as if she were but a lowly fly, whose last embers of life were slowly dying out. Not an inkling of sympathy looms in any of the triad eyes. And yet, thymium tears drip from the rightmost eye, piercing through the shroud that veils WARE's face.

"Well, what goes up must come down!" Venia shouts. "You say you're one and the same, you rotten bugs, but even now I can see Ire's tears! You corrupt everything he loves and twist into being all about you, you force his creations against us and treat them like dirt! If this is what the hell Psi considers fair revenge, then fuck that piece of garbage!"

"So I hope you're ready for Ire's revenge! Oh, but hold your objections, I'm about to break some news to you!" Venia says, holding the Revelation's Ruin aloft. "You see, between beating back the Butterflies within Nia and the Sleuth, and my dealings with purging the Rose Cult, I've been able to figure out exactly where someone's thoughts end and your distortions begin! Anything you can do, we can undo, with this! Your two clones have already met the wrath of the imperfect form-now prepare for the final product of all our efforts! Taste its fury!"

---

Venia waits for Irongutta and Bergilmir to move, then uses all five of her special bonus actions to move Bergilmir from T21 to O21. (This may be pending.)

Venia moves to Q24, and uses Phantasmal Force on... The trashbin containing Nia's Ordo at N26. It is understandably destroyed instantly. Venia gains all the Snowfell Star buffs, as well as Ordo! She then immediately burns the Ordo for a Separation northeast, hitting WARE, Everbloom1, Medley Maker and... Surprisingly nothing else. Allies are ignored and the Sephirah still has Stasis. Also WARE (and Medley Maker I guess) both get Purging. She then actually activates Kickstart My Heart for another Ordo, enabling her additional defense by evasion this round.

"Strike down WARE while he's open!"

Acacia... If you don't want to turn your HP into MP for Grand Devastation combos, you really shouldn't have the ability to do that be built into your weapon.

Anyways, Acacia moves to U25 to get into Siege Spire Range, then uses another Grand Devastation combo, spending 50 HP (via weapon) and 48 MP to cast Siege Spire at WARE's highly vulnerable self, before chugging an Ancient Yggcrawler Nectar to restore the lost HP immediately. (The Blind and Ensnared can be cured later.) For damage reference, Acacia's buff levels now total 35-it's the same as last round, just with Enlightened9 and Fervent being taken into account. (Enlightened9 = 4.5 buff levels; Manafuelled4 = 6 buff levels due to Siege Spire having +15% per Manafuelled; Overgrowth at 1 HP = 4 Buff Levels; Fervent = 2 buff levels. From there, it's 16.5 times 2, equal to 33-then plus 2 from Grand Devastation). The Knowledgeable puts the base cost at 49, the modified cost at 98, and the base damage at (62-64). So that's (62-64) damage times 35 buff levels (4.5x), times WARE's Terablight-related Earth Weakness (1.85x), minus the AC.

Let's be real: Acacia is basically casting Starlight Breaker But Made Of Wood on WARE.

Xavier takes aim at the Vines with the Elemental Blaster and fires twice set to Fire, destroying the Vines. He then moves to J5 and uses Abyssal Blade on Lamia2, which on a clean hit kills for 50 damage. Sadly, the possibility of the Lamia's sum 14 DGE (between its base and forest) is enough to take into consideration. If this is dodged, Xavier fires off another; if it glances, Xavier basic attacks northeast for the finisher to save on MP instead, which should kill even on glance, and even if that misses, the Lamia is still stunned. If the first attack hits clean, Xavier will use Guardian Greaves-but only after his movement is done, see below.

Regardless of the results of the above, he retreats to H4, repositioning God Hands accordingly: God Hands 1 and 2 at J4 and J5, and God Hands 3 and 4 at F6 and F5. (This is when Xavier uses Guardian Greaves if applicable.)

If Lamia2 is untouched after Xavier's actions God Hand 2 will exploit Flight and move to L4. Despite being in prime Clap position, that's really just a waste of MP in this instance (especially in case of missing), so instead the God Hands will both basic attack the Lamia from their position and do not retreat to best ZoC-lock that Lamia. Otherwise, God Hand2 will move to I4 (preparing to block for Xavier), and both God Hand1 and God Hand2 will use Palm Stance.

God Hands 3 and 4 move to E5 and E7, and promptly give Everbloom4 a fatal round of applause. (They use Clap). God Hand4 retreats to D8 afterwards.

Ette moves before Hexagon/Mexagon and bonus action basic attacks Hexagon, healing for some small but free volume of HP. This also procs Radiant Fluff. She then uses a Warp Ring charge to move to G17, uses natural movement to move to E13 (or anywhere else with a minimum/no people in Range 1-3 of herself), and Guards. If she's not been targeted by any healing herself (but only if), she chugs some Ancient Yggcrawler Nectar as well-the debuffs mean little to her and the HP is significant.

Bauhaus moves to H26 and nukes the Lamia with a Greatsword basic attack.

Destiny moves to L16, then uses Stellar Assassin on WARE using the Weakness technique, landing on O21, then retreats to R24.

Endgame - Heart of the Sphere:

This is the first action this round! Keane uses his trait to give himself Lucky1, then Negotiates shrewdly with WARE, taking WARE's Safety in exchange. Keane then shoots the Bancannon at WARE.

House

"Right, of course."

Blacklight stands there silently for a bit. It seems like he's about to say something... Then he doesn't say something. A pause, an awkward shuffle of one foot on the ground.

"I have completely lost track of where that conversation was meant to go. Apologies. New topic, assuming that ramble hasn't dissuaded you from wanting to speak with me?"

---

"..."

Loading.

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Zone 6 - The Eclipsed Citadel

"Considering viability..."

Lato considers Marron's suggestion, and how to carry through with that suggestion. She checks the inventory quickly. There's some things she can use, so she assembles a stretcher out of some logs and fabric.

"I should be able to handle this. Or, to be more precise, we."

She then summons a mirror image of herself, then Lato and Latwo drag the gardener onto the fabric part of the stretcher, assuming the carrying positions at the front and back ends. Then, they carry him up, a bit slowly and carefully but definitely managing it. However, there is one small issue.

"You may have to guide me, or us, in the direction of the temple. I am having issues locating the appropriate destination."

---

Zone 4 - The Old Pass

Calibri stares for a bit, then shrugs.

"Huh. Sure hope someone brings her up to speed on what paradoxes are... But eh, that's not my problem anymore, and I'm sure getting Daikon back is gonna outweigh any problems with the method."

Then he turns and notices Yume and the Dreamer's Sketch.

"Heh, cute. Thanks, Yume."

He decides to take the drawing and then leave.

---

Battle in the Sphere - Heart of the Sphere

Calibri assesses the situation. Other people seem to have things covered, and there's an opportunity presenting itself. So he should really do something that'd make sense...

"...Heh. Sis, your turn for a bit."

Calibri switches out, Lato switches in.

"...Hm. Ware. You appear to be having a poor day. I shall now make it marginally worse for you."

Lato sets her weapon to Burst-Ranger-Hold-Earth, then shoots Ware in the face. He can't dodge, has massive weakness, and Lato has a bunch of damage boosts working in her favor, so that's probably just 163 damage.

"Marginal worsening of day has been deemed successful. I shall depart at the end of the round."

---

Sphere Waiting Room

"...What, am I not supposed to sit on the couch?"

Meanwhile, Lato disappears, replaced with Calibri for a very short time.

"Huh. So this is where everyone's staying. Lemme just..."

Calibri takes the more reasonable option of moving the bookcase and fridge away from the thyme geyser. Then he checks what's in the fridge, curious if any of it is useful or if it's all just some manner of prank.

BEFORE ACACIA:

Remiel unmantles Chloe to F6, takes the Vortex to V22, and moves in range to Mantle Asha. Acacia uses Get Unreal, and Remiel basic-attacks WARE from her position. If Acacia's budget for her own action doesn't line up, she can take the extra MP from Remiel.

Battle: Heart of the Sphere

Irongutta moves over to U20 and smacks the gorilla out of Everbloom5. It's what he does best.

Berg moves to T21 in preparation to be yeeted, then uses Watchful Eye on N19, and readies his mouth.

cA: Hold kjeft og kyss meg i ræva, you drunken moron, before you make a fool of yourself. You black-toothed, cowardly carrion-eater, you are not even fit to feed on cow leavings, let alone worlds. Are you insane, you vile níðingr, you foul, jack-dawed, doe-eyed, shortwitted, loud-mouthed, fat-gutted, serpent-tongued heathen? You gape-a-gap, troublemaking, clype-dreep, beathering, slipper-wielding, worm-eyed, bratty, piggish, off-balanced, lowly vámr gargan jessie dental flosser.

cA: We come here and there you are, all cock-of-the-walk proud of yourself, so sure of your invincibility. Thinking that no one could or would ever humble you. It's been great fun tearing that belief to pieces.

cA: And just because you're a descendant, you get to decide the fate of this world? Because you have all the power, you get to be the one in charge? You're no different than any other trumped-up, self-aggrandizing, fly-minded, rotten-haired, mim-moothed, waste-of-space, make-me-want-to-hurl, idiot-master, pling i bollen, predator-maw, devilish, fandan tyrant throughout history. You're just somewhat harder to kill.

Ette will grant Hexagon Safety (Radiant Fluff).

Droplet will feed Hexagon a Lively Concoction.

BEFORE JOE ACT Hexagon will down a Apocorush and move through the north Thyme Vortex, exiting on U6. He will Foam JOE.

Calypse will use Bending Space on Mexagon to move them to K17.
Mexagon will eat a Nanomender, then move through the Thyme Vortex to I4. They Foam Chloe.

Asha will self cast Sword Beam and Basic Attack Everbloom5.

<ROUND 338>

JOE boasts about the power of farming. Every time he farms an Iti under certain conditions, it drops resources and stuff! How can he possibly match up to the power of INFINITE RESOURCES!?

WARE: We are terrified, truly.
WARE: You have a large amount of crafting materials. What ever shall we do.
WARE: If only there was time remaining for you to do anything substantial with them.

JOE then immediately assembles a lot of items on the spot in defiance of these words, slapping together 3 buckets of Knowledgewater and 3 Bileprincess Water Balloons. These are immediately stashed within the inventory. WARE blankly stares at him as he does so.

WARE: ...Ah.
WARE: It seems they have ruined the concept of Alchemy as well.
WARE: Is there nothing your filthy hands won't defile?
WARE: Utterly sad.

:wareangy:

---

The Scion is surprised to see that Marron remembers them. Marron bobs her head.

MARRON: Yeah! Of course I remember!
MARRON: ...My memory isn't that bad.
MARRON: But yeah! I remember.
MARRON: And I think if we try hard enough, we should be able to play, even now!
MARRON: Asha can do time travel-y stuff. I still don't know how it works, but she can!

Bomp. Another Asha pops out a short distance behind Marron through the power of time travel.

MARRON: Now all we need is Dawn!
MARRON: And sis, who's upstairs fighting WARE.
MARRON: And Chloe, who's also upstairs fighting WARE.
MARRON: ...This might be hard.
MARRON: Maybe we can like... play something else while we wait?
MARRON: I hear there are... board games?

Marron doesn't know much about board games if she's being totally honest. She hears Monopoly is a good game, though. Why would Chaos ever lie to her about the quality of a board game? Such heinous actions would be unforgivable.

---

Venia attacks and dethrones god. While the dethroning doesn't quite work out due to WARE supergluing himself to his chair, her verbal assault still provokes something from the amalgam.

WARE: D<0> N<0>T SPEAK <0>F THE MASTER IN SUCH A WAY. Y<0>U ARE UNW<0>RTHY <0>F SPEAKING THEIR SACRED NAME-
WARE: Shush.

WARE: Ahem. What do you know of this corruption?
WARE: A descendant's purpose is to twist and corrupt the world, bending others to their will.
WARE: Would any sane entity willingly fight in a hopeless war, where they're doomed to die?
WARE: He forced sapient beings with their own hopes and dreams into fighting an endless battle. Horrific breaks from their established character.
WARE: What else could this be called but corruption?
WARE: And even if they won, nothing would even matter.
WARE: Richard always came back. A Godmodder always comes back.
WARE: The blood they spilt would ultimately mean nothing.

WARE: Why have you brought these people to us to die, Venia?
WARE: They could've at least lived out the remainder of their meagre lives in peace.
WARE: Now they shall fall under the horrific, cursed power of a Descendant.
WARE: Perhaps you'd make a great descendant as well.

---

Blacklight awkwardly shuffles. Sakura sighs. Does he maybe want to talk about something else? Does she?

SAKURA: If I'm being totally honest, I'd rather have nothing to do with you or any of these jerks.
SAKURA: But apparently, by royal decree of Random Butterfly Man, I'm under house arrest IN A HOUSE THAT ISN'T MINE.
SAKURA: W-what's his deal, a-anyway? I-I wasn't going to get myself killed or anything!
SAKURA: I'm a grown-gorilla woman! I-I can handle a few measly Iti!
SAKURA: A-And how was I supposed to know that father's secret base was totally totaled?
SAKURA: It's not like they can just call me and say "hey we're all dead"!
SAKURA: S-Seriously...

Sakura sighs as she becomes one with the couch ever so slightly more. Perhaps Blacklight can offer a way to alleviate some of this boredom? At least, that's what she can hope.

Meanwhile, down in the basement of the Citadel, Lato clones herself and prepares a stretcher. Marron helps out with the construction, using her expertise to crudely staple the cloth to the logs. But in like, a surprisingly stable way. She's an expert, what can we say? Marron runs ahead of the two Latos, making sure the spiraling stairs remains clear of deviants. Once they make it up to the surface, she's more than capable of guiding Lato over to the nearby church.

MARRON: Okay! Drop them off here!
MARRON: The ladies in the church should be able to handle it.

Marron props open the doors to the church, allowing Lato in. She helps ease the lowering of the gardener, and flags Taeda over.

MARRON: Yo, Tae!
MARRON: We have another random dude for you here!
TAEDA: H-Hm? C-Coming!
TAEDA: What happened to t-them?
MARRON: They, uh. Died.
MARRON: It's okay, though! We cured death!
MARRON: Not sure how long they've been dead for, though.
MARRON: Do you have like, any medical expertise?
TAEDA: E-Eh? You revived t-them?
TAEDA: I-I don't have much experience in such things, b-but... I do know if t-they've been dead for more t-than a day, t-they'll be out of commission for quite awhile!
TAEDA: W-We're... actually quite lucky revived Acacia when we did! M-Much longer, and it would've totally kept her down for a long time...
TAEDA: But... I'll see to them, d-don't worry!

Taeda's immediately off to work, taking their vitals and all the other things a good priestess can apparently do. Marron returns to the Lato's sides.

MARRON: We did it!
MARRON: Now we can... uh...
MARRON: ...Gain Karma?

There's an audible "blip" as Marron and Lato receive a boost to their Karma.

MARRON: Uh, neat.
MARRON: Do you think we get paid, or...?
TAEDA: E-Eh? That's u-usually not how this works...
TAEDA: C-Charity is its own reward!
TAEDA: ...A-And so are snacks!

Taeda offers Marron and Lato some sandwiches she's prepared from the various donations she's received. Marron's has even been prepared without meat!

MARRON: Hey, thanks!
MARRON: I'd say this was worth it.

Where should the duo of Lato and Marron go from here, though? What wacky adventures will they go on? Perhaps their adventure will be as wacky as Calibri's journey, which has finally come to a conclusion. He takes Yume's drawing, and departs the decrepit church. Yume waves goodbye from within the doorway, watching as Calibri pulls out of view. Now bored, she rather casually divides into seven smol copies of herself, and goes to dream everywhere all at once. A productive evening.

Finally, Calibri shoves a bookcase and fridge away from the geyser of thyme. Safety! He then checks what's in the fridge...

...Ah, there's approximately a dozen half-seekers stored within it. That's where the other halves of all those Seekers went. Finally, a multii-year mystery has been solved! Oh, I guess there's also normal snacks in the fridge, but that's not nearly as interesting as the conclusion to that great mystery.

---

Bergilmir disses the Chaos Butterfly. Or WARE. One of the two. Technically both of the two. Can you believe that WARE is a beathering, slipper-wielding, worm-eyed, bratty, masseuse? One of those he probably didn't actually say, but the critique is scalding. I think.

WARE: Truly, the intellect of the Spherebreakers is mind-boggling.
WARE: Yes. Let's call the eldritch god names.
WARE: It will be so offended-

Like with Venia earlier, more tears drip from WARE's eyes. The crimson eyestalk protruding from WARE's head blinks twice, then recedes back into the amalgam's head.

WARE: ...Stop bawling, you.
WARE: Are you serious. Did that make you sad.
WARE: On the name of Psi.
WARE: How have you even lived this long.
WARE: If Richard called you names, you would've perished instantly. That's the truth, isn't it.
WARE: Unbelievable.

The eye shoots back out. It does its absolute best to pretend that half of it isn't internally bawling at the moment.

WARE: Aren't you so sure of yourself?
WARE: So sure that you can kill two gods inhabiting one urn.
WARE: That arrogance of yours. When your confidence melts away, when you and your "friends" lie dead on the splinters...
WARE: It will be delicious.

:bwaah:

---

<HEART OF THE SPHERE, ROUND 5>
Casting Planar Interposition again, WARE's immense powers of Arbormancy sunder the Sphere into two halves once more! The party floats aimlessly in the air as tendrils shoot from the two halves, sweeping across Sussui. They pillage and plunder the landscape, ripping apart ancient Rose Cult ruins and raiding the Grand Library for its troves of literary treasures. The loot is absorbed back into the Sphere, and dragged into position as the Sphere shuts once again.

The party finds themselves in a dark, dank room. It's the same dark and dank room as beffore, but now enhanced with additional stone bricks and bookshelves strewn about carelessly, creating non-euclidian structures of words and rock. WARE's chair lands in the center of the room, where JOE's farmland has been carefully placed. For him to land on at mach one, trampling the land. The shockwave this produces quite literally ripples through the ground, creating a massive shockwave. With the wave, a gigantic wooden box shoots from the ground, hovering just behind WARE's grand throne.

WARE: Don't worry. We have so, so many ideas left to pull from that game.
WARE: The endless inspiration of a Descendant is something to behold.
WARE: As long as it meets their specific desires at the moment, they can do anything.
WARE: Behold, the harbinger of your doom!
WARE: ...This thing.

The wooden box collapses in upon itself, revealing a floating purple heart. It pulsates in and out with a constant rhythm, growing larger with each pulsation. It goes still for a few precious moments, before letting out an ear-shattering ringing! Thousands of gangly voidic legs shoot out of the heart, sprawling all over the room. This leg-based singularity remains suspended in midair, each pulse threatening to sweep the party off their feet and suck them right into whatever the hell it is.

The heart pulses again. A [REDACTED] bursts from the heart, crawling out as its thousands of [REDACTED] spill into the room, their [REDACTED] [REDACTED] dripping with [REDACTED]. With a sickening tear, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED], flopping onto the ground. Chloe grasps her stomach as her mind [REDACTED]s. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. Chloe vomits, creating a sizable pool on the ground. [REDACTED] slinks up from the ground, ready to [REDACTED].

WARE: Oh, wow.
WARE: Chloe. You're desecrating this room with your... stomach fluids. Have you no shame?
WARE: Truly loathsome.
WARE: Perhaps it's time I got rid of you, then.
WARE: Away you go.

WARE waves his hand, creating rifts below Nia, Maxim, Gibbet, Aoki, and Chloe herself. They suck up their respective targets to dump them in the Break Room, with one exception- Chloe, who's rift refuses to swallow her up. Try as WARE might to dispose of her, no method seems to work to get rid of her. Even manifesting a gigantic wooden hand to forcibly spike her into one of the rifts fails to work, the hand crumbling to bits as it attempts the apparently daunting task.

WARE: ...Why can't I get rid of you?
WARE: Perhaps it's fate.
WARE: A battle between a creation and their creator.
WARE: A fated encounter.

Despite having heaved her stomach out a few moments ago, Chloe steels herself, raising her blade up towards WARE.

CHLOE: F-Fate, huh? I wouldn't call it that.
CHLOE: I've never really believed in fate.
CHLOE: What's really happening is... you aren't in control! Not yet!
CHLOE: Ire is still in there, fighting against you! Even after everything, he still cares about me- about Xavier and I! His creators.
CHLOE: He trusts us to free him!
WARE: Believe what you want, feeble human.
WARE: We are the chosen child of Psi. You cannot hope to resist the coming tide.
WARE: Fated or not, your corpses won't even grace the soil of this world.

WARE's launched into his second proper phase! Two horrifying new Eliti await; Purple Star and [REDACTED]! Purple Star lacks much in the way of direct offenses, but they instantly kill anyone who hits 0 MP! Be VERY careful with your MP consumption! On the other hand, [REDACTED] possesses the ability to rip through targets and melt their MP pools through the power of their very existence! Work together to overcome these threats, and make use of the Geo Books scattered around the map to empowered your party!

(Posting for above dop)

Kalis1 casts Skeletal Toss on Lamia 3. It gets dunked (on) into T16, far enough to get Toss damage, mainly so Kalis can roll for crit.

Kalis2 selfcasts Focus Energy and meditates.

This action comes after Hexagon.

WARE clearly thinks he's quite clever with this Planar Interposition, dividing the team across the map, but was it part of WARE's plan to provide Teag with an extremely convenient opportunity to cause death and destruction? Wasting no time before exploiting the opportunity he spots, Teag strolls to S24 and points his railgun northwest, but not before consuming an Apothecary's Remedy. He activates his old reliable Special, firing a Light-type attack at Sephirah5 that also hits Sephirah8 via Machina. As usual, Vitalstrike is applied.

In The Final

And yet, as every other Spherebreaker yammers on, Adria stays dead silent.

Right up until the transition. And perhaps, for the first time, WARE would notice...

She's been quietly seething.

ADRIA: ...Parasite.

She's left no room for ambiguity there.

ADRIA: You consider yourself a god? Really?
ADRIA: The more I see of your grotesque symbol the more I want to rip you clean out of your little nesting spot.
ADRIA: You believe yourself safe, high up in that ivory puppet you control.
ADRIA: That's what it thought too.
ADRIA: So... I feel it's time to pass on the good deed dealt to me, and rip that smug look right off your nonexistent face!
ADRIA: Hold on, I'll be there soon...

She resumes keeping her mouth shut. She said what she thought needed to be said, and nothing more. She has to be strong here. She has to.

ACTUAL ACTION

Tem Mist goes before Teag. The Tem Mist drinks a Brew of the Corrupted Gods for that sweet, sweet Enlightened8 for tem's next trick: making all the sirens disappear! Tem moves off the blue geo to (I14), then uses Onrush again, instantly killing Sirens 1, then 2, then 3, then 4 (taking 15 MP damage in the process). Tem uses tem's final attack on [REDACTED], triggering MENTAL CORRUPTION. Tem appears at (O19) then retreats to (O22).

Adria, nearby, hands the Tem Mist a Panacaea, completely removing Tem's Manaburn. She then moves to (M22), then Nanomend Duct Tape's the Tem Mist, heling them for the harm she's caused and healing some MP. Adria then Checks Time, regaining all of her Chronodust. Also, due to Irongutta dying, WARE is now permanently within Watching Over You range. should've considered that broski

---

/working

If possible: Rocketeer1 uses
Undying Loyalty (0 MP): Revive yourself with 50% HP.


Daskter uses flicker of insanity on any enemy at 40% HP or less, or just target a Pageling. If the pageling is downed make them attack an enemy.

Rocket2 moves to (P7) to Elemental Barrage Ware, Special, and do a 2nd Elemental Barrage.

[BATTLE(somewhat tentative)]

Destroyer2 Further Mutations Ocular Cannon.

MainJOE- After Star, before Tem Mist, Omo, Maple(?) and Teag:
Swift-Cast Terraform(J16 is ...Farmland! now; R23 is Blue Geo; L17 is Blue Geo; O18 is Blue Geo.), move to O22 then Vortex to J16, Cherry Energy the Arbiter 3 times; SPECIAL and Wait.

At some point after Siren1 and Sephira7 die, MainJOE resumes move-phase and Vortexes to M6. MirrorJOE then Warp Rings MainJOE 2 tiles left, unless Swift lets MainJOE just walk that far; MainJOE buys 3x Cinderfruit(+6 base damage) with GP, and Taps Pagelings 1&2 with Slashing damage(and buys 2x cindefruit for another +4 base damage). Mirror-JOE then throws a Warpmelon at MainJOE(or uses the Warp Ring if Mirror didn't already) to I6; then MirrorJOE throws another Warpmelon at MainJOE to F5.

(optional: Destroyer2 takes this moment to fire on Pageling 5 and 6 with the Elemental Sniper, set to Mana Damage.)

MainJOE then Taps everything else in range(except Pagelisk2 and Cinder1), eats a Warpmelon to E8, taps the remaining tappables, elemental snipers the Fumore in the face with Fire damage twice, dropping it to 52 HP, and kills it with his full action (gaining 10-10 HP and MP) because he cannot afford the Tap.

Mirror-JOE, after his part in the above, Alter-realities Empowered->Enlightened, Swift-casts Terraform (removing the butterfly walls in range; Mana Well under MainJOE; Fortified under Destroyer), and casts double Illusory Trap as well, also onto blue geo tiles.




*The MirrorJOE that Godblossomed Destroy2 is dead; this one has not purchased Godblossom yet, and so can still do so! of course, I likely won't be able to accumulate more than two Godblossom'd enemies at a time with this strategy owing to Planar Blade, which is the same amount as I could've done anyway, but this way has better sustain.

[Dialogue]
"You know, Ware, I couldn't help but notice you didn't actually have a counterpoint to my FARMgument except making wrong assumptions"
"And then you immediately disrespected my glorious Farmland by Trampling it."
"I can only assume you're scared of my great powers and sought to blind me with rage! Why else would you do such a thing?"

[World?]
The above dialogue is at least 50% a distraction for JOE to pull out a vacuum and use it to suck up those Thymium Tears WARE has been crying. Thymium was a powerful resource, right? better to gather as much of it as possible!

[WORLD]
Incidentally, JOE plants Raindrop, Seer and Shadow Crystals in the Crystillery,assuming that's a thing that's doable. There should be just long enough left in the game for it to finish before the final boss fight's final phase : P
[Craft1]
Using the many book-related resources from the Harvest of the Pagelings, Patches, Pagelisks, and one Fumore, because they might not end up in the inventory otherwise anyway, JOE heads over to the Infusion Altar in Zone 1, just outside the Crystillery, and fills all the slots with pages about... who knows, really. He then sticks a Hivemind Regalia in the middle, annihilates some Paper Sheets for Essentia (per Thaumcraft, 1 Paper gives 2 Cogitio Essentia, which is the obvious requirement for anything based on books!), and gets infusing!
Shortly, JOE has infused the Hivemind Regalia with KNOWLEDGE and THINKING and WHATEVER WAS IN THOSE BOOKS! Such a crystal will surely be a powerful reagent(source of Knowledgeable) for mystical acts(spellcasting) with probably several uses!
[Resources used: New-this-round resources from Reality Lens; Paper Sheets(unlimited); 1 Hivemind Regalia.]


[Craft2] Panacea! That's a thing people use! What are they? 'Potent pills containing a generally dangerous amount of curative substances'? Well, that sounds easy to replicate! Just get a bunch of different healing items, and combine them until you're almost at the point where anything more would kill you!
JOE makes a bucket out of Iron for convenience, then start dropping things into it! Green Sap, the absolute basic healing thingy! Bottled bottled water, to keep people hydrated! Lifeblood Sap for sap transfusions to chairians! A couple of Yggherbs, since there's a lot of those in the inventory! Fluxblood for blood transfusions to humans or other bloodhavers! A crushed Soulblossom, because why not! Thyme Matter for thyme transfusions to the, like, two allied iti!
There we go! That should be enough Curatives to be a generally dangerous amount! especially if you're not an entropic iti with blood! Now all JOE has to do is mix them together, Dry the Curative Slurry out until it becomes solid (You might think that's maybe not a thing which happens with Thyme Matter, but thyme matter freezes, so he just has to Freeze-dry it!) and slice it into pills!

[resources used: Iron(unlimited supply), Bottled Bottled Water, Green Sap (unlimited supply), Lifeblood Sap (unlimited supply), 2? Yggherbs, Fluxblood(unlimited supply), 1 Soulblossom, Thyme matter (unlimited supply).]

Destiny moves to N19, observes [CENSORED], stabs [REDACTED], then retreats to O18 and then uses the Magia Detonator on Sepirah8.

Auth cracks his hands, preparing to get to work again. He floats over Taeda, next to Nana.

AUTH: Heya. Coincidence we ended up next to each other, you think? Eheh.
AUTH: Need a lift?

Nana can probably shoot while Auth carries her around, pairing up like Sonic and Tails. Auth floats over to J8, and Resurrects Irongutta easily. MP Regen is easy to go around to anyone that needs it but that might be better decided when I actually know how the turn ends up.

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In the waiting room, at some point during the Map Warping, a girl with two blonde ponytails and a frilly blue dress appeared, sitting on the couch next to where Maple (was? is?). She even made herself a cup of tea... somewhere. Now, just to wait for people to notice...

QUOTE (Irecreeper @ Jul 7 2022, 12:34 AM)

WARE: D<0> N<0>T SPEAK <0>F THE MASTER IN SUCH A WAY. Y<0>U ARE UNW<0>RTHY <0>F SPEAKING THEIR SACRED NAME- WARE: Shush. WARE: Ahem. What do you know of this corruption? WARE: A descendant's purpose is to twist and corrupt the world, bending others to their will. WARE: Would any sane entity willingly fight in a hopeless war, where they're doomed to die? WARE: He forced sapient beings with their own hopes and dreams into fighting an endless battle. Horrific breaks from their established character. WARE: What else could this be called but corruption? WARE: And even if they won, nothing would even matter. WARE: Richard always came back. A Godmodder always comes back. WARE: The blood they spilt would ultimately mean nothing. WARE: Why have you brought these people to us to die, Venia? WARE: They could've at least lived out the remainder of their meagre lives in peace. WARE: Now they shall fall under the horrific, cursed power of a Descendant. WARE: Perhaps you'd make a great descendant as well.

"Descendancy being an offshoot of godmodding, it's kind of hard to argue against that... With all the stories about how Descendants and Godmodders have been tyrants and lunatics, at best..."

Venia's grip on the Revelation's Ruin tightens. "But you know what? That's a load of bullshit on its face. At the end of the day, you-the Chaos Butterfly-and your pathetic ilk, and your stupid master, and ninety-nine percent of his 'successors,' have just been petty assholes! You have had all the power in the world, and you decided that you would be the scum of the multiverse, and you did so deliberately and unprompted by anything other than your own sense of entitlement! You're just spitting up drivel! The liar calling everyone else a liar! Spewing filth from Ire's mouth! The real Ire-the real Chaos-has been nothing but a nice person, even if he wouldn't admit it to himself! The only reason Ire's ever done any of this-the Chairian army, the Iti hordes, and fighting us now-isn't because he was a Descendant or because of Xavier or some faulty quirk or even Thyme, it has been because of you! All of this has been because of you!"

Venia takes a few breaths.

"... And come on! Guy called himself "The First Evil of God" like some edgy teenager's oh-so-speshul OC! He practically mailed everyone an open invite to mock him! You think I'm seriously going to treat him like he's my equal? I guess, though, that's kind of misleading, as he really isn't my equal-it'd be generous to compare him to my piss!"

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Venia waits for JOE to act, so JOE can put down Blue Geos on R23. Venia moves Bergilmir to M22 with one special shove, then herself moves to R23, shoving Teag to S24 in the process. Her last three shoves are used to move Patchling13 to Q19.

The parts of the action relating to the overall turn order now done, Venia then pops her Ordo to activate Separation: Mana Damage edition. Which is still doing like over 100 damage (base of 60-62, plus 60% from ordo and 25% from empowered), but now to MP and ignoring most non-DGE defense. In case of no misses, this hits a Patchling, both Patchlisks, a Patche and the Hibernating Pillager for enough MP damage to have Legs trigger on all of them, instantly killing them. (I'm calling Purple Star "Legs" because we already have a Star.) This also procs the Key's vampire, restoring any lost HP and MP (Blue Geo) Venia has as well. Venia refreshes Ordo with Kickstart My Heart (again) and does not retreat.

Maple waits for Keane to give Sephirah7 a tap of mana damage, then jets to M17 and uses a Magia Detonator on Sephirah7. This deletes the Sephirah via Legs and erases... All of a Manaveil, really. Maple retreats through the Vortice to D14 and uses True Heroine's Blades to buff herself up in safety.

Meanwhile, Xavier, up north moves to O7. He uses Eul's Scepter twice, targeting Sephirah6 both times. Due to the previously-established quirk related to entities immune to prevention effects and 'delayed damage' attacks tied to prevention statuses, this means both hits go off immediately, and Fated Encounter enables both to overcome the natural Mana resistance to just barely eke out a MP kill. He retreats to Q6; his Godhands proceed to warp to R4, R5, R6 and S4 respectively.

Godhand4 Palm Slaps Patche2. This deals 16-16 MP damage to itself and its Patchlings-which is enough to MP kill them even if they muster a glance. Godhand4 retreats to T4, allowing Godhand3 to scoot to S4 itself and basic attack the Patche, also MP killing it, before retreating to the now-unoccupied T5. Godhand1, meanwhile, moves to T6 and uses Palm Stance to buff its AC to 16. Godhand2 remains in place and uses Palm Stance as well.

BATTLES - YEAH

Star uses Astral Birth, spawning Thyme Vortices at (C14), (N5), (P23), (W14) and K16. They fly to (U4) and attack Predator 2 with Mana damage (and +35% damage from their trait, plus Fervent Emotion and Opening Act, and Foam), triggering Into the Star's Embrace on a hit to kill the Predator. They retreat to (R4) and Infinisyringe themselves for some healing, before finally switching to Gladius form on Sol Ultima.