Parsnip stays where he is and begins Meditating. He throws a Munchable at Emericald for good measure and reminds Aqua to go save Percy from from status ailment hell given that Aqua is at full MP.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WOk...t#gid=686044139

alright let's go

Firefly basic-attacks Admin. :marcheckingshooting:

Emericald backs up to C3. The Toad moves to L5 and hits the Medicus with a Tongue Latch, shifting it to E5. The Wisp moves to D6, and Emericald casts Roaming Blizzard on it, before the Wisp pops its BlizzardAura and ends its turn.

Hall of the worst-designed door security system in existence

Monnobaki inspects the ball pit for a bit longer. It's weird how the place has high res balls like that.

"Such a strange stylistic choice for something seemingly so insignificant..."

She trails off at an odd time.


Battle - The Holodome

"Hrgh..."

Veldanura is not in a good situation. If she still had things like blood, she'd probably be over halfway to bleeding out. She doesn't have any proper way to channel the energy she needs to keep pulling off fancy effects. And she's also kind of hemmed in by zones of control.

But there's still one last trick she can use.

"Looks like it's time... Covenant of sisterhood, I invoke our unity."

Veldanura uses Tag In to pull a fully-stocked Monnobaki into the battle while she herself departs. Yay for it being a bonus action, by the way.

"I'll take it from here."

Monnobaki moves to E11, using her basic attack to restore HP to Zalek.


Hall of the worst-designed door security system in existence again

Veldanura re-exists here, taking some time to lean against the wall and recover from her rough experiences in battle. Kinda weird how that's working for the Klaarenn sisters...

[REC ROOM]

Percy is trying to calm himself down. He's still a little antsy from the near death of a fellow NPC.

To the Sag Sherriff, he says, "Look, you keep asking us about all these licenses, right? Fine. Let's do this your way. Where can I get my hands on a license to get through that door back there?" He points at Door 2 Sequel. "I need to..."

Percy, still looking at the door, realizes it says "NO ENTRY." All caps. That serious.

Realizing he needs an actual excuse, Percy decides, "The Administrator was complaining about his monitor display. He said it doesn't look cool enough. He told me to fetch his sunglasses from the back." Percy shrugs. "He wants to be ready when he trounces us at Jenga... Ticket to Ride, I guess?"

[THE HOLODOME]

Percy. "What?" You're- I don't know how to tell you this. "...What?" Well, it appears that, due to your status ailments- "My what?" You're bleeding. "Riiight." You appear to be on the edge of death and soon to be tumbling... over it.

Percy looks down at himself, just then noticing that he's on fire. "Huh..." Percy frowns. "It seems the Devil has gotten the better of me." He looks at where the Hexadministrator ran off to with a curious look on his face. "I suppose there's only one thing for it..."

Strangely calm, Percy walks over to H8. He frowns at the Administrator. "I feel like there's a good quote for the moment, but for some reason all I'm coming up with is-" Percy suddenly gets loud. "-TASTE THIS, FIEND!"

Percy opens his tome and pulls out the mass index of restaurants contained on the Internet. With a serene smile, he tosses the list over his head, smashing it down on the Administrator, smacking "DR-02" Admin with another basic attack.

-Oh! And we should spawn a Page- maybe. One with Slip appears next to Percy on H7.

== TURN SIXTEEN==


The Sheriff stares. Percy stares back. Also, he talks. The sheriff.. steps aside..?

SAGITTARIUS: OH? YOU'RE HERE ON ORDERS FROM ABOVE?
SAGITTARIUS: GO ON AHEAD. WE WOULD NOT LIKE TO INCUR HIS WRATH.

That was easy. Just make sure you don't reveal the truth of the lie to them.

---

The Holodome

This is it- the Administrator is on their last legs, and even with Firefly down and the Rabbit in play you have absolutely got a strong shot at finishing this out. Go for the kill! Though..
..maybe try to have everyone alive for it.

The Holodome

Louisi looks at the Administrator in bewilderment.

LOUISI: You're... really confident in yourself, huh.
LOUISI: If you weren't so stupid to walk right into us while you're at low health, I'd have to commend the bravery.
LOUISI: But nah. Just a fool.

LOUISI: Let's end this already. I gotta get my hat fixed, and I'd like it done sooner rather than later.

Louisi walks to (E6), Enhances Weapon, then shoots the Administrator. She's probably gonna get countered, but... well... it might not matter in the end if she's downed or not. If she's somehow not countered and downed, she throws a Throwing Knife at the Admin.

---

Ball Pit

Abigail has gone blank-faced. There's nothign behind those eyes at the moment. She's probably doing the equivalent of buffering. Yeah.

Louisi, though, breaks the silence. Realizing that their time in the simulation is about to be cut short, she pulls their sister away from the ball pit with a Guiding Hand, dispels the Flare Star on the Turret, and sighs.

LOUISI: It's almost time to leave anyway.
LOUISI: Battle's almost done.

Abigail snaps back to reality, still mildly upset.

ABIGAIL: B-but... ball pit...
LOUISI: Ah, yeah, that.
LOUISI: I'll, like, conjure up a ball pit back home or something? Yeah.
ABIGAIL: O-oh, okey!

Louisi then snaps the burned-up baseball back to Abigail's hand. Unusually, after a bit of sparkly magic, it reverts to pristine condition once it touches her.

They leave the way they came in, and wait for their time back in the Rec Room.

Rec Room

EMERICALD: ...

Oh, he's still here. Underneath the balls in the Pit. Making no noise, fully submerged. ...Is he alive?

The balls in the pit are displaced upwards slightly where he is- and then that displacement surges forward, weaving around the Wireframes and heading full tilt for the edge of the- oh the walls of the pit aren't modeled underneath. He just clipped out of bounds. Ball pit balls phase upwards through the floor, before disappearing as the trail of balls leads into the Admin Room.

Battle

Emericald casts special, summoning a TV on I10 with the cone facing West. Frog hops to O6 and Bubble Bombs Rabbit. Wisp moves E9 and ticks its blizzard aura, hitting the Knight with its mana damage thingy.

the rest of this is /RP

Emericald studies the Rabbit from afar.

EMERICALD: ...Hmmm.
SGT. EXPLOSION: (HA HA YES DIE YOU IMBECILIC HOMOSEXUAL COMMUNISTS HA HA HAAAAAA)
EMERICALD: ...Perhaps...

Emericald taps a button. The toad emits a loud dial tone, before clicking, like someone picked up the receiver on the other end.

???: ...mmeehhhhehh? Whah...?
EMERICALD: Samandradite, I trust your judgement.
SAMANDRADITE?: ...whomst the fuck is-
SAMETHYST: ...Emericald. It's three AM. What.
EMERICALD: I'd like your judgement.
EMERICALD: You see the rabbity girl over there? Would she be a suitable business partner?

There's a short silence. Samethyst suddenly sounds a lot more lucid.

SAMETHYST: ...For you, or-
EMERICALD: Hm? No, for my son.
EMERICALD: He'll need a partner if he wants to take over McZupp Corporation. Someone strong and dependable.
SGT. EXPLOSION: (MEMES! THE DNA OF THE GUN!)

Samethyst hops over to examine the Rabbit. With a quick tongue-lash, she spins it around, examining it up and down.

SAMETHYST: ...Looks a bit shoddy.
SAMETHYST: There's potential there, though, for sure...
EMERICALD: Excellent! Thank you for your-
SAMETHYST: Wait, wait.
SAMETHYST: Emericald.
SAMETHYST: Am I a TOAD?!?!?
SAMETHYST: How dare you! I'm much prettier than a toad! I've got better fashion sense than one, too! Ohhh, you are goin' DOWN for this, buster-

Samethyst begins ranting in half-legible angry gibberish, and Emericald simply hangs up.

EMERICALD: Mr. Astre- ahem, Mr. Administrator?
EMERICALD: By any chance, might I contract your company personally?
EMERICALD: It's a fairly specific job, but one that's likely to be easy.
EMERICALD: :D

Parsnip moves to C6 and begins the end of this fight by first using the Scroll to Cultural Exchange on himself…does a Scope Patch count as a faction??…Anyway, he than launches with a Nanostorm at F9 with an additional 2 Buff Levels from his Amplifier!! This forms an Ice Cube at C7.

He than stays there and watches how the dice roll

(Scope Creep should be on D10, and therefore have healed 15-15 HP and 10-10 MP from Protowell Seeker. I don't see any mention of Scope Creep being moved, or any abilities that could've done that.)

In response to Astrec's banter, Scope Creep utters this multistring:

(Gold: Death is a social construct.
White: Die? no, I only Fainted.
Red: I cannot be killed, (partly-transparent: unlike you)
Blue: But how'd you know I was friends with Audacity)
Then resumes battling.

the Rainling moves to D9 and heals Percy, because that healthbar's looking awfully low there chap.
the ScopeWisp moves G11(Spectral!) and siphons some MP out of the Admin. It picks up Soldier2's Corpse on the way, and dumps it on I8.

Scope Creep glances at the Medicus's attempts at raising and... distorts. It's like someone took the set of points that defines Scope Creep, and the set of points which defines a different, sharper, spikier version of Scope Creep, and interpolated them without making sure to keep points near their original locations- Like the 'Get Real' meme gif, but worse. semitangible panes of golden light flicker around it. Also, a sphere turns into a cube, somewhere, where that 'somewhere' is inside the Whirling Blades scroll, destroying it.
Scope Creep used Sharpen!
Scope Creep (and its storm of semitangible panes of light) then moves forwards along the path E10-F10-G9-H10-I11-J10, (It's valid; the spell was cast during Movement, so Scope Creep has Spectral from the Wisp. Since Scope Creep entered J10 while it had Skirmisher, it can also keep moving after. This only costs 5 MP.), snags the Martyr?'s Corpse on one of its recently-gained spikes, and deposits it into the inventory. Scope Creep then spins away(Moves) to H9, dislodging its skin-spikes(casting Thorn Patch. ) and sending them tumbling to: [L11(hit Medicus), G9(hit Knight), E9(Hit Admin), H5(hit Sentry1), G13(Hit Sentry2), and either H7 or G12 (hit a Holosaber/Holobomb which dodged Whirling Blades)] for (17-21) Earth damage (Power well + insatiable).
At some point in this process, the Goldenlight Limbs smack the Admin(or, if more than 1 Holobomb/saber in range exists, smack those.).

[Rainling->D9, Nourishing Waters->Percy.
Wisp->D13 (Drag Soldier2's corpse)->E12->F12->G11->Dump Soldier2's corpse to I8-> Energy Channel (Admin).
Scope Creep (from D10): Cast Whirling Blades from Scroll (Manaflow: Cheapness. Insatiable from the Witch?'s Corpse. 8-8 Slashing), skirmisher-spectral move E10-F10-G9-H10-I11-J10. Pick up Martyr?'s Corpse into the inventory. Move to H9, Thorn Patch (Manaflow: Cheapness. Insatiable from Soldier2's corpse.) [L11(hit Medicus), G9(hit Knight), E9(Hit Admin), H5(hit Sentry1), G13(Hit Sentry2), and either H7 or G12 (hit a Holosaber/Holobomb which dodged Whirling Blades)].]

[Rec Room]

Oh... That was easy. Percy pats the Sag Sheriff on the shoulder. "Thanks buddy. Appreciate it."

Percy heads toward Door 2: The Sequel, but... it's still locked. He waves down the Sag Sheriff. "Hey!" he calls, sounding friendly. "Sorry! The Administrator didn't send me with his key. He figured you wouldn't be busy so you could get the door." Percy shrugs. "Guy has high expectations. What can I say?"

If/when the Sag Sheriff opens the door, Percy thanks the Sheriff again, then heads in, first glancing around for sunglasses, before taking the whole room in.

Otherwise, uh... let's just not think about that.

[The Holodome]

...And huh. Percy's not dead. "Good thing too. Totally whiffed those last words." I know, right?

And we have Lifeburst??? Which is... -oh. And a Special. Again... "Seems legit."

Percy Drags and Drops! He grabs onto the friendly cursor and flies up near the top of the arena. He glides slowly through the air, picking his target. Then he jumps, smashing down on F10, piledriving the Administrator.

Meanwhile, the Page MENACES and flies up to H5, where it pokes Sentry 1. Needless to say, it does this MENACINGLY.

== TURN SEVENTEEN==

Emericald clips out of bounds. Below the map is.. the endless void? It stretches on and on..

To avoid his existential crisis, he navigates into the Admin Room. Finally breaking into the secret of secrets, he finds... everything. Well, maybe that's a exaggeration. Emericald emerges to a room full of blueprints, items, weapons, armors, and more. Everything related to the "development" of the game seems to be in here, topped off by a glowing terminal in the back- clearly demarked with a label of ADMINISTRATOR TERMINAL (Don't Touch).

It perhaps occurs to Emericald that there is no Administrator here to stop him, and nothing in the way of snagging any potential trade secrets squirreled away in this room. Or perhaps it doesn't, as Emericald is a moral paragon with no flaw.

--

A moment later, Percy follows Emericald into the Admin Room. He too beholds what seems to be the controlling apparatus for the entire simulation- conspicuously absent of anyone to manage it. Perhaps.. this could their way out of the sim, for him and his buddy?

--

The Holodome

i am so tired