As requested, Dark drinks the Seaweed Soup. He then performs the forbidden technique of moving to the right. To (L14), to be precise, still shaken from the previous attack. He drunken-like flips off the Butterfly as he does this.

DarkSide seems to get his head screwed on tight once again by the time he reaches his destination. "L-let's try something a little less psychotic this time... cut-t it a little close last time..." There seems to be fear in his eyes... not from the Butterfly, but from himself.

Nevertheless, DarkSide uses Descendant! Uh, wait a sec, what's- why is DarkSide smiling like that? Didn't he say he was going to something LESS psychotic? How can you NOT look psychotic with that smile?
Oh, wait, nevermind, that's just him turning into his normal dragon form. Thank goodness.
But is it just me, or is his wingspan and general body getting larger with every passing second? Whatever happened, he seems to match the Butterfly in size rather quickly.

"Let's dance." DarkSide launches upwards into the sky above. The Butterfly follows, shooting a barrage of scales and lasers at the ascending dragon. Dark was annoyingly agile, evading every blast and shot with ease, even if they decide to loop back.

Eventually, the Butterfly was directly following Dark a short distance behind him, as if in a dogfight. It had the advantage... for now. Continuously shooting forward, Dark eagerly moved out of the way of every single projectile. "Nice aim." He proceeds to push into a dive, and the Butterfly follows. Dark's dive speed and maneuverability, however, casually and horrifically outclassed the Butterfly's. As he pulled up and flipped over the Butterfly, still evading everything thrown at him with ease, the tables have turned. "Here, let me show you good aim."

Dark opens his mouth ever so slightly. It was enough, though, as a laser the width of a needle emerged and proceeded to pierce the Butterfly's backside. Movement of the mouth allowed the laser to cut shapes into the butterfly. Unfortunately for it, all that was cut into the back was Dovahzul for "focus", or "Morah". That's when the Butterfly tried to do something dirty; it tried to teleport behind Dark. Problem was, upon doing so, Dark teleported with it. The Butterfly went absolutely nowhere. As this happens a few times (and even if there were still projectiles flying back at Dark), Dark's wings were opening on their top and bottom. To reveal...

...machine guns, autocannons, rockets, bombs, lasers, the whole nine yards. His wings were jam-packed with all of these and more and you wonder how he could even maneuver so well still. Not only that, but the body was also covered in draconic-looking mouths, all ready to shoot the Butterfly at will. "Don't ask."

It didn't matter how fast or how maneuverable the Butterfly was at this point; when Dark opened fire, looking backwards for the Butterfly would only yield a face full of projectiles. Every bullet fired, every laser shot, every missile launched... they all swerved, steered, and teleported directly towards the Butterfly, still trying to fight back, but to no avail as the scales were shot out of the sky and lasers were otherwise evaded. Every few moments, Dark would use his superior air speed to fly over the Butterfly and drop a bomb on it from directly above, again, landing squarely on the Butterfly no matter what it tried to do. As this happens, the draconic mouths proceed to drench the Butterfly in a torrent of white-hot fire, before proceeding to pelt it with even more fireballs from afar. Again, never missing their mark without question.

Dark opens his mouth again, this time charging up a significantly more devastating blast. The entire fight lasted about ten minutes, before:
"Bye."
A massive stream of oblivion energies shot out of Dark's mouth, directly towards the Butterfly, curving as necessary. A direct hit on the Butterfly. Dead center. Dark inches closer to the Butterfly (or what remains of it), and as he closes in, all that could be heard was a loud biting, as Dark slammed his jaws shut directly onto the Butterfly's backside. The weapons did not stop firing for any reason. Dark proceeded to swoop down onto the side of Nightmare Mountain, slamming the Butterfly directly against the side with enough force to visibly crack it straight through the center, not quite breaking it in two, but coming pretty damn close. The mountain repairs itself for reasons.

Though not before the Butterfly flies out the other side of the mountain, burnt from the magma within the mountain and otherwise crushed, bitten, and full of bullet and laser holes and craters from missiles and bombs, plus having parts of it deleted from oblivion exposure.

They both fly back to the battlefield to their original places, Dark going back to his normal self at (M14). He braces for scale impact.

Originally posted on 2017-10-02 16:18:00

Hezetor dies on his throne, as it was meant to be, not kneeling to anyone, no amount of wind or anything else can make him kneel. A simple fact of Hezetor himself.
Rather than limbs scattered around, only blue light is lost to the earth.
Still "dead" he talks. N.47

"Yes, yes you are, you are still a waste of my time. No matter what you do to this temporary body, you won't even scratch the might of Hezetor. And no matter what you say, you are already dead, you of us all should see this clear fate."

After that, he is resurrected by Roxxanne. Still sitting on his throne, now his body takes his proper form rather than being scattered to the winds.

"Hrmph, his kills here are of no value, if we win here, then we win, if we don't, Hezetor is still out of there waiting for it, in less than a second this worm will find a crimson death. And as you said, its threats are just that, hollow words of a soon dead insect."

---

Hezetor uses descendant to cast turn(). If that doesn't work, he will spend mana normally.
This is accomplished in mysterious methods.



Hezetor appears to D14 (walking), then uses great blink to actually teleport to I16.

Originally posted on 2017-10-02 19:56:00

I stay at E10, and use Taunt!

We are indeed fools to face you, beast. And we are proud to face you nonetheless. Now, will you start providing a challenge?

MP: 10/17



Originally posted on 2017-10-03 00:57:00

There's a pause. Oppy closes his eyes. His soul manifests in the air in front of him again, shaking violently as a cracking sound can be heard from it. It shudders once, and the cracks grow more violent. It shudders twice, and almost looks split in half by the stress being put on it. It shudders a third time, splinters emerging from it... only for a sudden surge of Descendant-level energy to flow at the soul from all sides, briefly changing the colour to a brilliant shining gold. So shining, in fact, that it actually is kind of blinding and those with eyes should probably look away if they want to keep having eyes. When the light fades, it appears as if the pieces of Oppy's soul have been forced back together, a sort of golden energy sealing the cracks completely and apparently filling in for the missing third of it. There's a pause, and all is silent... before Oppy opens his eyes, both of them shining a brilliant gold.

"...Mmm, that's better. I feel more... complete again, for lack of a better term. I also feel like I've got a full charge of my special move, and I kind of want to use it. Doubtlessly, the time will come for that."

He turns to face Chloe. There's a pause.

"What do you think about the situation? I could use my special now, or give it a bit of time."

If she chooses (to quote the emperor) "dewitt", then Oppy decides to fuse with her, then defer the rest of the turn to her for the sake of taking the actions she wants to take. Cause, ye know. Stuff.

If not, he shrugs and nods in an understanding manner, then closes his eyes and focuses. In the distance, a magnificent roaring sound. Something is building. The metal creaking can be heard from all the way over here. Oppy then opens his eyes and throws a projection of energy out to the side, having aligned it so that it takes on the form of some sort of scope or magnifying glass. There's a massive pulse of energy through the ground...

AND CUE THE GIANT FREAKING RAILGUN BEAM BLASTING FROM ACROSS THE ENTIRE MAP, WAY OUT INTO THE DISTANCE OF THE MINDSCAPE IN REGIONS THAT HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN SO MUCH AS BREATHED UPON, LET ALONE TOUCHED, LET ALONE EVEN EXPLORED, IMPLYING THAT OPPY BASICALLY BUILT A GIANT FREAKING RAILGUN RIGHT THERE AND THEN WITHOUT ANY PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE LANDSCAPE HE BUILT IT ONTO AND WITHOUT ACTUALLY SEEING THE SHAPE OR DESIGN OF THE RAILGUN HE JUST BUILD, THEN HE MANAGED TO AIM THE RAILGUN ALL THE WAY OVER TO SPECIFICALLY TARGET THE BUTTERFLY AND ONLY THE BUTTERFLY (that's not so hard if you think about it) AND A SLEW OF OTHER THINGS THAT WOULD PROBABLY MAKE MOST MEN GO "wot".

...It proceeds to miss the butterfly by about three meters. But that doesn't even matter, because there's a sudden thunderclap of sorts in the air, then the railgun beam pretty much leaps over to the butterfly despite the aim being off and blasts it full of Descendant-empowered, Entropic-antithesis Hyper-railgun lightning.

And blue fire. Odd.

Originally posted on 2017-10-03 14:30:00

move to g12, use descendency to drop a massive ham on g10

Originally posted on 2017-10-04 01:02:00

Auth moves to C17 and tags Mari and Roxxy with Violant/Peligin.

Descendancy is kind of completely useless for my right now.

Originally posted on 2017-10-04 01:07:00

<UPDATING>
Roxxanne purchases 3 Blue Sap Jars and 6 Red Sap Jars, and then attempts to sell the entire inventory to Glitch Temmie.

"Roxxanne. We can complete this transaction after the battle, can we not? But,
I will get a few tems to round up and assess your entire inventory..."

A bunch of tems flood the inventory screen, preventing any more crafting. Welp.

@LordOfTheSword: Sure, go ahead.

<BATTLE: IN THE EYES OF GOD, TURN EIGHT>
Could this be the final turn of DTG: Chaos? That seems like a real possibility at this point. I'd advise dropping everything and firing as much as you possibly can at the Chaos Butterfly! End this battle- and by extension, this game!

Mari decides to taunt the Butterfly one last time...

ut: Honestly. For a supposed "world destroying, psi-made" butterfly, you haven't been all that much of a threat.
ut: I mean sure, you've killed a puppet, but that's one person out of an entire army.
ut: Any last words?

BUT...
Y<0>U CAN'T WIN.
IT IS IMP<0>SSIBLE.
THE CALCULATI<0>NS CAN'T LIE.

ut: What calculations? I mean, simple math to the power of how pissed off Marron is, multiplied by every other person here slicing your wings off, there's practically no way you survive this turn.
ut: So.
ut: It's game over, isn't it?

She turns to nobody in particular. Just assume it's you or something.

ut: Now. Who's gonna clip this gorilla's wings?
ut: I've killed this guy enough times to last me a lifetime. Somebody else should do it.
ut: Give it your best shot!

The Chaos Butterfly then locks onto Descendant targets!
-The Embrace, in which the Butterfly will cling onto them with two legs and forcefully rip the two apart, before stomping them both individually into the ground.
-Marron, who will promptly be torn to shreds by a reanimated version of her own sister.
-Hezetor, who'll suddenly fall to their knees and beg for mercy. This'll kill him out of sheer humiliation or something.

Originally posted on 2017-10-04 02:10:00

Alt, still at the Temmie Shop, interjects, "Hey, uh, this might not be the best time, but I'm not leaving the mindscape with you people; I'm... going back to my old timeline. Now I don't mean to intrude... but would you guys mind if I take some of this stuff back with me rather than selling it all? We're not the most organised bunch over there, but I'm sure we can put it to use!"

She waits hopefully for a response.

~~

Toast, slides under the wing of the butterfly to M8, then activates not only Descendant, but a charge of the Telltale Mask!

>TOAST: COMBAT OPERANDI - BOOK OF LIMITED NAMES

1. Take the now-empty Thymium Gift Box.
2. Place right arm inside Thymium Gift Box.
3. Place Thymium Gift Box inside inventory.

There is the sound of crystals shattering as her arm is ripped away from her, and into the inventory it goes. On the battlefield, the remaining crystals around her shoulder begin to knit together a new arm for Toast. By the time the book is in her possession, it’s as good as new. Wait… book?

Meanwhile, in the inventory, a spell she placed on her arm long ago jumps into action. Her arm leaps out of the box, and onto the Inventory page. Seem familiar? The disembodied limb forms a fist, and punches straight downwards. All the way downwards, until it is positioned just below the Unstable Portalling Device. From here, it hammers at the lower surface. One! The items above quiver. Two! The scroll bars begin to loosen. Three! The stretch of semi-white containing “Add [1000] more rows at bottom.” is shattered, leaving access to the lower tabs open. Her arm takes the “Characters” and “Character Creation” tabs out, placing them in the inventory, before becoming dormant. Since both of these can still be accessed through the list of tabs to the left, this has no lasting effects. On the document. I should specify that. I intend the effects on the butterfly to be quite lasting.

Toast takes the tabs out of the inventory, where they coalesce in the form of a book. The first few pages contain information on creating a character, while the latter segment of the book contains stat summaries, like those on the Character. Now, this would usually make Toast flip the heck out, but this is a special case. She flicks over to the page containing her stats, pulls out a pen and makes a few, temporary edits to Limit Break. First of all, she renames it to Liminomicon, changing all other instances of Limit Break to Liminomicon where appropriate. The text now reads: “Replace your special with any special of your choice. Free action.” She also adds a note to her modifiers: “At 12 SPC, 70 MHP, 19 MMP, 9 STR, 8 AGI and 1 INT, retroactively remove your SP Cap. Any damage dealt the turn beforehand is added to to your SP.” Finally, she edits the earlier 12 SPC modifier to read “Additionally, any special can be cast as a free action by spending 20 extra SP.” as opposed to “Additionally, Limit Break can be cast as a free action by spending 20 extra SP.”

Toast puts down her pen, and cracks her knuckles. Well, she makes the movement of cracking her knuckles- she doesn’t really have any knuckles to crack. With that important step completed, she gains 37’000 SP from her previous turn’s attack, then casts Limit Break!

She raises her fist, before bringing it straight through the Chaos Butterfly’s eye! There’s the sound of something else shattering, and this time it most certainly isn’t her arm. Invisible glass shards litter the ground, and a new scent begins to fill The End… it smells like guns- no, it smells like mechs- no!

* It smells like Everything.

((Some of the specials I have skipped due to being difficult to work in. Most of the damaging ones are here, though.))

>TOAST: LIMINOMICON - MASSACRE

Toast claps her hands together above her head, accompanied by a thunderclap. The energy from the enemies (or enemy) in her general vicinity flows into her own, giving her an otherworldy appearance. War paint, crimson-red hair and wings like looming red war banners. On top of that, she’d have a wealth of buffs to effectively clip the weird, entropic, likely-membrane-y wings of this insect. Let’s do this!

>TOAST: LIMINOMICON - DRAGON FORME

Toast now uses the fact that her special may choose any special to replace it. So, why not make this a community thing, then? First off, Darkside’s special: Dragon Forme! The tattered banners that had become of her wings post-Massacre begin to spread out, stretching and repairing themselves, gaining a scaly appearance. Toast blinks once, and her eyes undergo a similar treatment, being replaced with that of a dragon- bright green, staring into whatever facsimile-of-a-soul <0> has. She cracks her neck, and takes another step towards it. With her spooky scary transformations presumably being completed, it’s time to get cracking.

>TOAST: LIMINOMICON - MASTERS OF THE BAZAAR

Toast casts The Author’s special: Masters of the Bazaar! She takes a page from Mr. Pages book, and gains a buff to her remaining specials. I have no idea how to flavour text this, so imagine the most amazing library you have ever seen. Now imagine Toast goes through the effort of reading all the books in it, and becomes enlightened as a result. Something like that. Idk.

>TOAST: LIMINOMICON - MURDER ASSISTANCE

Toast yells out, “This piece of work is gonna die, and I’m going to enjoy it!” very loudly, as she activates Emerald’s Murder Assistance! This inspires not only her allies, but herself, because she speaks this in her spell language. I may not have said this already, but the language can only be used to tell the truth. By saying something that isn’t true, you are either promising to do that, or forcing reality to make that happen. So let’s continue, with a damage buff and minicrit in-pocket.

>TOAST: LIMINOMICON - JAPANESE LETTERS

Toast now decides to put Massacre, Murder Assistance and Dragon Forme to good use! She leaps onto the back of <0> and thrusts her crystal arm downwards, activating Roxxanne’s special: タイラントオーバーロード州. A mixture of blood and entropic energies spurts out, creating a fountain of the stuff! Now, she flies to its underside, forms her arm into a blade and slashes through it lengthways! The butterfly suddenly develops a rather serious case of GTSD, also known as Gash Through the Stomach Disorder. This new wound explodes in a fit of blood, entropic energies, almost dousing Toast in it! One last maneuver, a slice through the neck, finishes the atta-
But wait! There’s more! Having used JAPANESE LETTERS three times, Toast has three stacks of Metamorphosis. Yet another transformation occurs! This one I don’t even know how to describe! So I won’t! Toast returns to her position in front of the butterfly for the next stage of her attack! Exclamation mark!

>TOAST: LIMINOMICON - ABSURDLY POWERFUL MAGICS

This one certainly won’t be a transformation. Just some magics of the absurdly powerful variety. Battlefury’s special: Absurdly Powerful Magics, is chosen and used! A storm brews above her, crackling wildly. The ground shakes, and a lightning bolt strikes the lattice of crystals Toast calls an arm! Surging with power, the energy is fired back into the storm where it ferments further, gaining more and more strength until suddenly- CRACK! The lightning bolt returns to earth, using Toast as a lightning rod! She absorbs it once more, sending it from whence it came. This continues for some time, and the lightning bolt gains more and more strength until at last! Toast absorbs the bolt and redirects it directly at the butterfly! It’s not like it has a massive weakpoint in the middle of its face or anything. The bolt explodes, causing the entire area to crackle with absurdly powerful energy. The hair on everyone’s necks raises and falls in unison, akin to a group of people who decided to stand up then lie down again in unison. With Absurdly Powerful Magics down, on with the show!

>TOAST: LIMINOMICON - DEVOUR

Toast points to the Butterfly, as DCCCV’s special, Devour, is activated! A spark forms within it, growing and growing, consuming everything around it. Entropic matter is pulled into the spark and the void within only grows larger. A point comes where the spark can grow no more, and the Butterfly’s eye is forced open, letting a bolt of energy pass through, and towards Toast. It renews her, making any retaliation the Butterfly had already inflicted on her obsolete.

>TOAST: LIMINOMICON - MORTEM FALCE

Her next special is that of Mabuz: Mortem Falce. SHe stands straight as she prepares a spell in her ‘Toast’ way.

“TORIS NARIS O’OH NOLN-’Butterfly’,” she incants, as ethereal chains surround the butterfly, suspending it right over the abyss.

“TORIS MIKAEL-” As she speaks, a scythe appears, hovering over the wounds caused by JAPANESE LETTERS.

“-ELYSIUS.”

The scythe comes down, through the Butterfly’s neck or neck-analogue. ded

Toast then waits, for a very long time, until just before the Butterfly is about to be killed, because this is a very important ability.

>TOAST: LIMINOMICON - THE FINGERTIP TO NOSETIP THAT HAS A REALLY LONG NAME THAT INVOLVES DEATH OR SOMETHING

Toast casts Hot Pocket’s special, which I don’t really want to type again. She boops the butterfly’s snoot. That’s it. End turn.

In the interests of preserving the fourth wall to some degree, Toast isn’t going to remember the specifics of this. That way she won’t flip the heck out once Descendancy finishes for her. Which it does: right about… now.

If you’d are okay with me using your special as part of this attack, let me know before doptime (preferably through discord) and I’ll type something up for it!


Originally posted on 2017-10-04 02:41:00

Roxxanne kind of chuckles. "...Wow. I kinda think of Hez as... Forgetful that he's kinda dealing with equals here, but darn if he isn't right. And you are definitely right, Mari, dead as can be. Shows how shit your calculations are when there's no timelines to go off of... None with me. Good old me. Ahaha! Wow! This is a shameful display, really... ...Hrm, hrm. Maybe not? I guess having NG+ makes guessing what happens easier... Nah. You're RNG incarnate, so RNG failure is just you being a dummy, colon three! Now... Hrm. Maybe...."

Roxxanne pulls out the Telltale Mask. It has 0 uses. Roxxanne becomes the first, getting an automatic critical hit on her action this turn.

Roxxanne moves to R13... Roxxanne. That is a wall. "I know what walls are!" You can't move into walls. "I have the power of candy! Walls are too uncool to matter! I'm gonna go next door!" But you have no-ap. There she goes. Screw her movement rules, it seems.

And Roxxanne walks through the walls, walks right out of the map, walks right into the next folder, and looks. "Wooooow! These are all pretty cool moves he's got there! I can see why the Chaos Butterfly thinks so highly of himself. It would be a shame if something were to happen to them, yep."

Roxxanne-now at A2 on this new page-reaches down. Her cubical positioning makes this difficult, but maybe if she could just reach out and...

Roxxanne edits out one thing. Two things, actually. Roxxanne replaces A3 through A5, Roxxanne replaces the name 'Chaos Butterfly' with 'Roxxanne,' 'no elemental modifiers' with her 50% Ice and 25% Fire resist, and the description of the Chaos Butterfly with Roxxanne's own: "pure adoriboo in a package of awesomesauce! :3"

Reality has a heart attack, and the very arts of Godmodding itself pervert in this manner. The old sigils of Psi distort, warp, twist, and without their master to preserve them, before warping back, displaced but as strong as ever.

She is now back at L9. She stares directly into the pathetic eye of the Chaos Butterfly in front of her. Only, perspective seems to have warped a bit... And Roxxanne's eyes do not look right to the Chaos Butterfly. "...And there we go! You know, ending your turn right in front of the, uh, the lesser than zero greater than, that was a bad idea."

Doubtless the butterfly is confused by this statement. And then the Chaos Butterfly peers a bit closer... Those things in her eye. They're symbols, of a sort.

Oh.

The Chaos Butterfly attempts to ring up its insurance, only to find that he doesn't have superpower insurance, only dental and health. Really good dental and health, but how the hell are dentists going to fix his lack of superpowers? They don't. That's what's gonna happen, they are gonna do jack-shit.

"Time to show you how to actually use your power, you dummy!"

Roxxanne 'begins' her turn by skipping move <0>, because wiping the party is not interesting. Wait, no-Tipping only affects enemies, and her tipping-loaded allies are allies, not enemies, but, still useless because no foes have tipping. She uses move 1-second Directive! Roxxanne's head rears back a bit, and her eyes close, a slip of light pinched between them. She then brought it forwards, eyes opening-and the ensuring rift in time annihilates the Butterfly with 150 damage! And then 100 damage more! And then some Crimson Scales spawning on the Butterfly and, in the moment they pass, each dealing... Well, they oneshot Zetta, who had two phases left. 1st phase had 250 HP, but the second probably had a lot more. I'd say 1000 HP for roundness. So, suddenly, the Chaos Butterfly has recieved an additional 5100 damage, counting the extra 100! Roxxanne then sets the Chaos Butterfly's tipping to 6 and uses End of All on him-except the Chaos Butterfly is a butt and is immune to Tipping. Boo. OR SO IT THINKS. The Chaos Butterfly's entropic power-apparently still within it-abruptly explodes in a massive burst, tearing his abdomen right out and letting it drop clean into the abyss, with an additional 5000 damage to boot. The Chaos Butterfly roars-this isn't supposed to happen! It's supposed to regen that stuff instantly! But it appears its power is running out, and its wings are still there, as is the core, the oh-so-important memory core. Roxxanne then stops screwing around and INSTEUNT DEAFS the Butterfly, which is impossible because he's a boss and immune, so that only deals about 40 damage.

Roxxanne then reads the next bit of it. "...I have to do that? ... OK then. I guess he deserves it."

Roxxanne then tears a portal to Oblivion and goes to meet Psi, because she has to murder the Chaos Butterfly's 'real life' self. Roxxanne would normally be stymied because the realm of Oblivion takes all things, except, Roxxanne is completely immune to Oblivion, allowing her to pass freely. The Chaos Butterfly outright panics. Doubtless this could be seen as failure on its part, and also, how many things are so immune to Oblivion that the whole friggin plane just can't do anything to you! Then, the thought occurs-if Roxxanne saves Psi, what happens then? He's the best warrior in... Well, he's no longer the Psi-Godmodder, actually. But he's still crazy-strong! You don't just hijack Yggdrasil and the Temple of the Gods before attaining omnipotence without being crazy-strong!

Roxxanne them comes back. "So, uh, he's kinda unconscious? Also stabbing him didn't work because time is wonky there. Boo! But I did write the essay!"

Roxxanne proceeds to present a 5-page essay on why the Psi-Godmodder sucks. It's historically correct, annotated, detailed and convincing! The Chaos Butterfly takes 5000 damage from the mass heresy!

Roxxanne then uninstalls DTG chaos from her Steam account. "I already beat that a thousand times!" She then reuploads it because lulz.

Roxxanne then performs Descendant! Because the Butterfly seems to just get away without a word, Roxxanne, too, casually gets away without a word! The Chaos Butterfly will have to dodge:
-Cyanogynist screaming at hyper-speed when it is revealed that Roxxanne's daughter from the future is from a character that absolutely no-one knows about. And that is actually the case. THE SHIPS, THEY ARE A SINKING! It is also revealed, by coincidence, that this is the case because due to an unusually tangled but not unrealistic web of family relations, each and every last ship made about her except for her apparent future hubby is all incestous to an incredible degree!
-Roxxanne stealing the Waluigi Thyme from the OP King all the way from 0 to get back into Roxxthynne mode, which I have now renamed to be maximum pun (nn looks like an m, right?), then taking him on a trip through Flumpty Waalumpty's deserted funhouse to throw him to all the nooks and crannies that she made during the battle, and also becoming really OP again, because we can't have our OP characters get OP enough even if it's sickening, and the OPness causes the Chaos Butterfly to die of dysentery.
-Finally, the entirety of DTG2's godmodder killer attacks! Ending with the winner, the overkill combo! and replacing Roxxanne with... Literally everyone, except the Godmodder who is now the Chaos Butterfly. A WHOLE BUNCH OF STUFF WE ALREADY WENT THROUGH OCCURS. EVEN THE CANONICALLY DUBIOUS STUFF. ESPECIALLY THAT STUFF. ROXXANNE YOU HAVE SO TOTALLY RUINED EVERYTHING NOW. BAD ROXXANNE. THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORST IDEA EVER. STOP GIVING CONSUMER INADEQUACY PROBLEMS THIS INSTANT.

Roxxanne somehow managed to use Descendant four times this turn despite only getting to use it once! And she's only used two moves!

Roxxanne now gets a choice! Scale Rip, or Sky of Nightmares? Roxxanne can't focus fire with Sky of Nightmares. How sad. Scale Rip it is, then! Because the Chaos Butterfly is within range 2 of its wingtips (and also Roxxanne), the Chaos Butterfly takes... 22 damage? Wait, no! It appears that Roxxanne's basic attack damage is being added to it, to make it 22 + 18 + 18 (from attack doubling) for a still-meager total of 58! "Every bit counts! Also that'd kill pretty much all of you. FEAR MY TANKBUSTING POWAH! FEAR IT!"

Roxxanne then whimsically sets the Chaos Butterfly's tipping to 6 even though it's immune because she apparently knows all. "... Wrong curse, dummy!" She conks the Chaos Butterfly in the face for 18 damage. Her slaps really hurt.

Roxxanne then uses Fluctuate, because Agony is still only 18 damage to the Butterfly! And also it only hurts bad foes. Crimson Scales are all on the cardinals and diagonals of Crimson Scales, causing all enemy Crimson Scales to damage themselves-and the Butterfly! Those four Crimson Scales from before then reappear, somehow flying up to then be in a cardinal from the Butterfly, dealing more damage! Overall, that's 132 damage-enough to kill DarkSide in one hit! True, spread out over six hits, but that's still an accomplishment. "TANKBUSTAHHHHHHHHHHHH, COLON THREEEEEEE!" Roxxanne shouts, near to stitches.

Roxxanne then is forced to roll a D10000 due to Entropic Heart. The rolls are blatantly rigged, so it's OK! Roxxanne rolls a casual 7238. Her smug face looks extra smug in that moment. "RNG master havin' inadequacy problems?" Roxxanne quirps as the Chaos Butterfly's own moveset, now Roxxanne's, inexplicably upgrades! This may have been a bad thing if the Chaos Butterfly had a moveset. The big contenders; Roxxanne's Agony now does 4-5 damage per stack of Tipping and then causes everyone with more than 4 stacks to act under her orders if they survived, quite like how a certain other move worked before; Roxxanne can now Teleport Anywhere, period; and Roxxanne now deals 12-12 in range 5 on Final Gambit rather than 9-9 in range 3. Oh, and Crimson Scales spawn, this time right on K7 and M7. The Butterfly howls as 2500 damage is slapped right into its shoulders.

"We're not even done!" Roxxanne says, teleporting to N13. (this is where she will actually stay). Roxxanne pulls out a Chaotic Orb and slams it right into the Chaos Butterfly's own eyeball! The sheer Irony doesn't detract from the fact that the Chaos Butterfly just casually lost half of its current HP, no questions asked. Roxxanne follows this with the flapping of her arms, like they were wings-scales fly out and ravage into The Chaos Butterfly, as well as the 4th Crimson Scale. Twice, because Roxxanne lacks a third target. The 1st time, the Scale flies into L11 and cuts into the Butterfly's back for 1250 damage. The second time, it just flies into the abyss. "Bye, evil scale! Go be evil and scaly down there! With the clowns, doin' their clownbang! Colon three!" Roxxanne then, finally, pulls out Final Gambit! Her HP, indeed, is under 250,000-in fact, it's a paltry 36! (of 42 but Roxxanne didn't take everything!) Roxxanne casually smacks the Chaos Butterfly for 12, ending the onslaught.

All-in-all, that is 31860 damage! Wowza. That's pretty crazy. This is before the crit, by the way. (Ire may edit this value for ease of GM but this was what I got after calculating all of that.)

Roxxanne casually hovers at N13. "If only I could have done that to Zetta when I had the chance...! Maybe... Ugh. Well, I have his Soul Shard..."

No, Roxxanne does not give the Chaos Butterfly his stuff back. It is highly doubtful the Chaos Butterfly even knows how to get it back. He must now reroll for his new moveset. He'll probably roll higher, or roll the exact same moveset, in the style of these things having some weird catch or 'snapping back,' but hey.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee.

Temmie Hero stuff later.

Originally posted on 2017-10-05 06:58:00

There's a blinding flash in the air as the Embrace forms. The latest Descendant energies in the air seem to be doing something, swirling around and shimmering faintly. Whatever they're doing, it's almost definitely not normal. The Embrace, too, appears to be markedly different from when it spent time back in the Zetta battle being already quite badass and stuff. Something is quite very different this time. Slowly, it rises up in the air, and if one were to check, they'd find it has both eyes closed quite firmly shut. Then, another flash. Those eyes are open, fire and electricity swirling around the form of the Embrace.

OE: "Butterfly."
OE: "You seek to destroy us. We can see it in your eye."
OE: "You forgot about something."

>ORIGIN'S EMBRACE: Go extremely badass
>TELLTALE MASK: Activate for the sake of crits

OE: "Butterfly."
OE: "We will end you first."

Song contained in spoiler.



The air around the Embrace proceeds to ignite in a sudden burst of far too much flames, apparently powered by the Descendency in the air around it. The air is so hot from all the fire. It burns too bright and too much, the Butterfly beginning to crack and overheat from the amount of fire in the air. On top of that, it appears the Embrace is quite ready to engage in battle properly, a sudden firey aura conflagrating around it as it rockets straight into the butterfly. Going by the very large explosion of fire and the sudden lack of presence of both the Embrace and the Butterfly, the two of them have been sent careening off of the battlefield. Perhaps for the better, as that burning Descendency would almost certainly have hurt the wrong people. Namely, people who are fueled by Descendency, such as the obvious Descendants.

Elsewhere in the sky, the battle rages on. Despite the fact that the butterfly should really hold a size advantage, things are not going well for him, especially with the fires still raging. Scales that still cling onto his body begin flaking and burning, then cracking into pieces and falling away in incinerated clouds of dust, while a constant rain of sword blows strike against it again and again, leaving marks of burning flame all over the butterfly's body. The fires rage hotter and hotter still, aiming to overtax the creature's natural regeneration with sheer heat and disintegration alone. It seems like things are definitely working in favor of the Embrace right now as it slips between the gaps in the return fire, fireballs and lightning bolts blasting out constantly to blast through the entropic bullet hell. This close to the roof of the mindscape, it's almost a certainty that they'd risk breaking through in their battle, which almost does happen a few times, up until they end up crashing down into Zone 3, the floating islands. Well, crashing is what the Butterfly does. The Embrace more sort of lands on it with a horrific cracking sound emanating from the body of the entropic being.

OE: "Did we break something? Sorry not sorry. You are a terrible being. You deserve this."

Now, here in a different zone, the battle rages on. The Embrace makes good use of speed and agility here, zipping around the terrain while watching the Butterfly futilely try to keep up, sometimes dashing in and landing a heavy hit with a sword combination that seems somewhere between a gladius and a katana. They're wearing it down, piece by piece over a long battle, constantly fighting to keep making sure their wounds stick when dealt. Soon, the Butterfly rages, firing a powerful Second Directive blast straight at the Embrace, but missing as the fusion form rockets to the side, instead blasting the crossroads spire into dust. Moments later, the Embrace rockets in from behind, grabbing the Butterfly from just behind the eye and dragging him forward, slamming him face-first into the sharp and spiky walls of the Spire Chasm, then dragging the creature along so that more and more spires end up piercing into him. They don't stop until the Butterfly has been skewered in the eye by every single spire at least once, then move on to slam it into the Furniture Graveyard. Once they're there, they relent only for a moment, letting the Butterfly take a look around at the wrecked landscape.

OE: "Graves of those slain by you, no doubt. It would only make sense, either directly or indirectly, if you were responsible."
OE: "Perhaps we shall bury your ashes here once we are done. It would only be fitting if your remains laid among the dead you created."

Aaand back to business! A massive lightning bolt blasts forth from the Embrace, locking the Butterfly still by paralyzing every single fiber of the monstrosity's being, then a firey explosion launches it free from the graveyard, slamming the Butterfly straight into one of the spires of the Wooden Crag. He flops onto the ground, heavy enough to break clean through the thin wooden floor and fall into the area where the Core should be... but that room is empty. Oh, right, the Core kind of left to do something else. That doesn't exactly stop the Butterfly from channeling his power to sneak in some regeneration, albeit being cut off all too soon by the Embrace suddenly rocketing down from the skies into the cavern. Like a brilliant and majestic meteor of pure fire, they slam into him with enough force to crack the floor beneath, as well as basically ignite everything made of wood nearby, which is probably the majority of the stuff. In this room, the Butterfly tries desperately to get some hits in, conjuring forth a storm of bullets, but is immediately countered when an innumerable number of blazing blades and surging blades rocket forth, pinning him to the wall and shutting down any attempts at sneaking in a hit with a projectile. While pelting the Butterfly with blades, finally hurting him enough to draw out some shrieks, they frown a little.

OE: "Where is the Core? It should be here."
OE: "It is no matter to us. The island is still here, so it cannot have roamed far."

Blades keep raining in on the Butterfly, practically blasting it to a pulp with the amount of fire and lightning blasted into it, as though the Origin's Embrace wants it to well and truly die. Which, of course, they do want it to die. It struggles to escape, then suddenly manages to escape by teleporting to the side, only to immediately be fire tackled again and shot out of the fissure, landing next to the Core in a heap. Naturally, although the Butterfly is powerful, and the Core itself is no slouch, it knows better than to interfere in the battle between the bringer of the end and the one utterly kicking the shit out of said endbringer. The Embrace appears once more, standing in front of the Butterfly and glancing around for a few seconds. Their gaze locks onto the Core once they've found it, and going by the death glare they give it, they want the Core to go right back to where it was supposed to be in the first place. It complies, not wanting to be caught up in this massive clash of extremely powerful beings. Once the Core has departed, the Embrace returns to staring at the Butterfly- wait, where did he go?

OE: "Nani?"

They're immediately on high alert, glancing around in anticipation of an ambush attack. One doesn't come. The duo are confused, frowning as they keep searching... then, they see it. The path that the Butterfly is taking, apparently back to Nightmare Mountain in the hope of getting away from the crazy thing that's doing way more harmful things to it than anything else so far has managed to pull off. They react by cracking their knuckles, then rocketing over to it in a rush of lightning, giving the Butterfly just a second to have an "oh shit" reaction before immediately blasting him out of the sky with a rain of fire and lightning blades. They do, after all, have an unlimited supply of those. Of all the places he could land, he of course lands in the middle of the Engine Testing Room, flying in not-that-cleanly through the gaping hole in the ceiling and being smashed against the side on the way in by sheer momentum. The Embrace calmly drift in through the same hole, their comparatively smaller size letting them slip past without issue, landing neatly on the ground and taking a look at their opponent.

OE: "It will be a shame once our battle takes us to the forest. We like that place. The trees. The calm. It's a lovely place."
OE: "That will not prevent us from taking you there if it means we will destroy you once and for all."
OE: "For the ultimate good of everyone in the Mindscape."

They grab the Butterfly by the side, spin around him a little, then hurl him into the eastern wall, following it up with a flying kick that shatters the wall between the two rooms and sending the Butterfly sprawling out into the Waterfall area. The wooden supports end up disintegrating without the Embrace even entering the room, an avalanche raining down oh so much tonnage of rock onto the body of the beast, smashing him again and again under sheer weight. Once the rockfall is done with, a fire proceeds to ignite the dust in the air, triggering a powerful explosion that blasts the cavern clean of debris, leaving the pathway free for the Embrace to menacingly walk towards the badly-beaten Butterfly. His regeneration is slowing down to such a degree by now... He isn't even trying to attack anymore, all power being invested in maintaining his regeneration just enough to barely keep even with the empowered Embrace, who picks him up again and hurls him to the northeast corner of the room, sending blade after blade after blade at him to impale his body once more, the fire now exploding as the lightning blades fire bolts of electricity between them, tazing the Butterfly with enough strength to make him writhe. He ends up breaking down the walls to the notice room by accident, which the Embrace takes advantage of by smashing him in the chest with a hammer hard enough to throw him inside, his face landing in a way that drives the notice into his eye. They then walk past, grab his neck, lift him up, and slam him onto the respawned notice, doing so again and again to drive as many noticed into his eye as possible.

OE: "Best to spare the Parent Temmie of witnessing a scarring moment. We shall not go there."

The Butterfly is almost relieved... but then is forcibly dragged back along the ground, lifted in the air, and slammed into the Memory Bed zone. The Embrace take the time to stomp on his collapsed form, firey footprints burning deep into his body in a way that will never heal even with his unparalleled regeneration, then wind up and kick him in a painful place, launching the Butterfly out of the cavern entrance and into Zone 1. Now, the flames are really starting to burn bright, especially as the Embrace now slam the Butterfly hard with a large hammer, so forcefully that the recoil launches him into the air, then they slam him from underneath to launch him skyward and rocket up after him. Omorika would be treated to the sight of a Descendant-empowered Origin's Embrace slam dunking the Butterfly with a giant flaming hammer of justice, launching him into the Edge zone. You know, the place that has been nuked twice already. Of course, that deserves a repeat in only the most magnificent way possible, the Embrace lining up a shot with what appears to be a flaming sparking railgun-star of sorts, then firing a single shot. The sheer power of the beam ends up finally obliterating the poor Edge in a way that means there will not even be a "number of times nuked" counter left behind. In the wreckage of the destroyed subsection of a zone, the Embrace descends, meeting with a broken Butterfly. Well, almost broken.

OE: "Butterfly."
OE: "We are not satisfied."

The camera cuts away to the Vanish. A missing zone, devoid of anything. It proceeds to get a very big thing as the Embrace slams the Butterfly into that section, scarring his damaged wreck of a body as he's dragged across the absent ground. They follow him down, power radiating off of them while they advance on it again. They do a lot of that, it seems. As they advance, the Makeshift Shack is disintegrated into ashes by the heat, the Embrace's flames even reaching the forest and setting it ablaze. As the fire rages in the background, they stare down at the Butterfly, now taking the time to have bad manners as they fire him away like a golf ball. He crashes into the iron ore pile, the railguns immediately going dumb mode and blasting the Butterfly's body even more, firing away again and again until they run out of shots to fire. The Embrace walks by, wires reaching out and grabbing the railguns to assimilate them into their body armor, then they stop in front of the Butterfly once more. Bristling with weapons, igniting the world around them, empowered by the twin forces of Descendency and something else that the Butterfly can't quite place, they are an unstoppable force now. They watch him struggle a little for a time, then reach out and seize him again.

OE: "Good news for you. The ordeal is almost at an end."
OE: "Bad news for you. The end of the ordeal is the end of you."

A powerful explosion of fire obscures the view of what happens next. When the smoke is clear, the flametrail can be seen all the way from the Recollection Woods to the Nightmare Mountain, and at the base of the mountain, there's a huge impact crater. The Butterfly weakly flaps broken wings in the center of the crater, with the Origin's Embrace standing on him, crushing him slowly but surely underfoot once again. Then, they step off of him, only to smash him into the ground further with the hammer, swapping it out now for a spear-nodachi to impale him on the end of it, lifting him into the air. They stare in contempt at him, glancing around for inspiration... There's lava everywhere. The perfect idea has come to mind, and so they stride forth, slamming the Butterfly into a lava flow and floating up it while dragging him through the heat all the way. With their power, the lava burns so much more against the Butterfly's body, hurting so much and scorching away what little regen is left in the being. They drag him all the way up the mountain this way, eventually ending up in the Giant Crater of the "Near the Summit" zone. In there, the heat is so strong. The Embrace couldn't possibly be more powerful at this point, surrounded in heat (and electricity by extension via geothermal electric generation), while the Butterfly has been through a mindscape-wide beatdown. In here, this is surely where it will end. Well, almost. When they eventually emerge from the lava, dragging the Butterfly with them, he looks kind of done for.

OE: "Butterfly."

The Origin's Embrace drags the broken body of the Chaos Butterfly through the Final Hallway. Memory!Sans makes a brief appearance napping in the background, but ends up contributing a single bone in his sleep, bopping the Chaos Butterfly for like 1 damage... but also making it so that this entire attack may or may not have just pierced clean through the damage cap. Regardless, the Butterfly is soon deposited at the site of The End once more, now a wreck of what once was great. The Embrace apparently chose to drop him off in the very center for all to witness.

OE: "You were a fool if you thought you would come out on top."
OE: "Nothing that stands in our way has ever managed to endure."
OE: "Look back upon the past that we have taken you through, and realize this."
OE: "The moment you became an enemy of us was the moment you sealed your fate."

The Embrace raises their weapon high. A powerful combination of Katana and Gladius once more. They crackle with sparks of electricity and fire...

OE: "Butterfly."
OE: "This is your end."
OE: "You lost here, ultimately, for one simple reason."

They bring the sword down. All of their power has been invested in this one finishing blast.

OE: "You had power, but you had no love. You lacked even the merest concept of it."
OE: "We draw our strength from our love, and so we stand tall against all adversity."

The mighty explosion seals the deal. Over the roar of the cataclysmic explosion, the Embrace can still be heard. For one final sentence, they speak once more...

OE: "EMBRACE THINE END!"

Originally posted on 2017-10-05 08:48:00

Evan goes before the Embrace, and uses Descendant.
-COMB RAVE: SCOURGE OF THE UNIVERSE-
Evan's Soul Titan Plating turns into a jetpack, and then he flies towards a nearby Sky Island. He slowly pulls out a small stone decorated with infernal designs from his sleeve, and raises it into the sky. It glows.

Evan has summoned the Storm Weaver. He wields his book, and aims it at its tail, firing waves of sand at it. After a while, the Storm Weaver's armor breaks, revealing a still-robotic-looking worm of purple and blue. He uses the book again, and it fires a light blue sword that freezes the worm. Evan grabs it, and slashes at the Storm Weaver, until it dies.

Armored Shells acquired.

Evan flies down, and goes into the nearest Dungeon. No Dungeon Guardians are to be found, as we could already fight the Mechanical Bosses. He uses the stone, summoning the Ceaseless Void.

Evan gets Shade of Pane flashbacks, despite not being there to fight him. No matter. He blasts through the Dark Energy easily, and supplies the 400 hits that the Ceaseless Void needs to die. Yes, he plays on Expert. What do you think he is, a casual?

Dark Plasma acquired.

While he was fighting the Ceaseless Void, he killed a bunch of Phantom Spirits as well. He fires once more, and a Phantom Spirit dies. Luckily for him, with that one, the Polterghast has awoken. In the middle of the fight, it changes its name twice, first to Necroplasm, then to Necroghast. No matter. It died anyway.

Ruinous Souls acquired.

Evan takes a trip to Hell, and uses the stone there. Signus, the Envoy of the Devourer is summoned. The Cosmic Lanterns give him a bit of a hard time, but he survives.

Twisting Nether acquired.

Finally, Evan magics up some Souls of Might. He places his book on the ground, and then all 5 kinds of the above crafting materials on the book. The materials disappear to make a small mechanical worm of metallic white, blue, and purple.

This can't be good.

He raises the Cosmic Worm up high, and it disappears!

Ominous, Cave Story-sounding music fades into the soundtrack.

A purple hazy rift in space appears above the Chaos Butterfly. He is hit with what seems to be a purely-mechanical train moving at light speed, coming from the rift. And yet there's still more train coming out of it. A barrage of purple lasers hit the Butterfly from the "train." The "caboose" of the "train" finally exits the rift, and the rift closes.

The Devourer of Gods has awoken!

DoG circles in the air, above the arena, continuing the laser barrage on the Butterfly. It slowly rises with each circle, until fifteen seconds have passed, when it summons two portals pointed into each other. DoG rushes into one of them, going out the other, and going back into the first portal. The portals rotate around the midpoint between them, slowly rising again into the sky. The portals rotate faster and faster, and rise higher and higher, until fifteen more seconds later, when they stop, and aim DoG right at the Butterfly. The lower portal moves away.

DoG moves at the Butterfly like a pillar of light, and it dashes through just as easily. <0> is now inflicted with Extreme Gravity, gorillaing up his flight. Because DoG gives less of a gorilla about debuff immunity than Dimension 953 shippers do about standards.

Now surrounding <0> is a lot of orbs. They glow, and fire huge lasers at him. Now the orbs are gone.

DoG accelerates, and it starts spawning Stasis Probes as it goes. <0> looks to his left, and sees bullet hell waves of lightning bolts. They all hit. DoG collides with <0> again. This time, <0> is inflicted with Warped, sending him all over the place as he flies.

DoG accelerates again, and its segments start firing star bolts at <0>. More Stasis Probes are spawned, and they hit hard. But don't forget, Evan was in Expert Mode. So what is <0>'s special prize? FROST BEAMS. <0> gets frozen the gorilla up. DoG goes for the blue sky-purple sky ram combo, screwing with <0>'s flight doubly.

DoG accelerates yet again, and it spits something at <0>. He starts getting Gravcrushed. DoG and the Stasis Probes continue their assault, until DoG accelerates for the last time, and portals appear all around the Butterfly, in a sphere formation. Just before the last portal appears, DoG rushes in, and portal-combos <0>, until the portals expire, and DoG flies into the sky, opening up one last portal to its home dimension.

The portal closes. And another one opens, below the Butterfly. It takes him to a hell known only as the Calamity Breakroom. And it spits him out one second later. And luckily, one second there was enough to give him war flashbacks.
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Glitch Temmie goes right after Evan, and uses Descendant.
-COMBAT OPERANDI: GLOBAL TESTFIRE-
Glitch Temmie is a little sad that some of the items in the Shop weren't used. Tem then pulls out Ellen's Knife, and slashes in the air.

Meanwhile, in the DTG: Chaos sheet, The Shop tab is cut open. Items start spilling out of it, and falling into Battle: The End.

Tem catches the first item that falls: the Warhammer. Since tem didn't move this turn, tem takes a Big Swing at the Butterfly. The latter gets knocked back, hard.

The next item that tem catches is the Arm Cannon. Tem charges it up, and blasts the Butterfly's eye.

Next one is Shuriken Stack. Tem throws a three-shot "burst" of shurikens at <0>'s eye, and then a three-shot cone at <0>'s wings.

Tempest Blades, come on down. Tem catches them, and then jumps in front of the Butterfly, and slashes him like a million times.

Grimdark Tome, you're up next. Tem fires a cone of darkness into the Butterfly.

Vacuum. Tem performs the ultimate S U C C, compressing the entire Butterfly into that small a space.

Last weapon. Battery Pack. Tem puts it on, and starts charging up in a blue orb of energy. Tem starts floating higher and higher, and then tem unleashes the power of Tembo Temurr unto the Butterfly.

Some tems then patch up the hole in The Shop tab.

Originally posted on 2017-10-05 10:42:00

I got something. Maybe it'll be good this time dunno.

But first! Before I even start on that, Auth consumes a Red Sap Jar. Then, he moves to F11, and revives Crystal on F12.

Auth begins by removing his coat. It flies through the air, before being contained in an black bubble and being flown off. He quietly closes his eyes, before humming a quiet little tune. Eight large blobs of ink leap up around him, and as he continues the tune they take on a more solid shape. A scythe, an axe, a rifle with a bayonet, a guitar, a meteor hammer, a shield, a katana and a glove. Auth kicks off the ground, with black shards spilling out of his feet and imbedding themselves in the Butterfly.

The sword already in Auth's hand gains a boost in size, as Auth spins around with it and hurls it at the Chaos Butterfly, embedding the blade into his thorax, before a black rope wraps around his waist. The blade is being used as an anchor, to ensure that all attacks hit their mark instead of flying loose. The blade glows red, with inky bindings of each colour of the Neathbow are added around Inkscalibur, keeping the butterfly in place.

Auth leads with the Scythe, reaching to the right and plucking it out of the air. When it is taken into his hand, it gains pink accents, and the blade erupts into further pink flames. Auth swings around the butterfly, cutting the rope after a while. He uses the momentum gained to accelerate towards the Butterfly's neck-eye-holder-thing, latching onto it with the scythe. It clamps down on it, acting like a pair of scissors, as Auth performs an acrobatics routine, cutting swathes into the butterfly. He ends by releasing the scythe on an up-swing, before stabbing the scythe into the butterfly under a scale on its body.

The next thing to be stolen out of the air is the axe, taken at the peak of a large backflip off of the Butterfly's body. It's an improbable thing, with the blades running down the length of a majority of the shaft of the axe, and flames erupting out from the top, deep and crimson. Auth takes it, hooks around the back of the butterfly once on the ground, and runs underneath the butterfly, cutting open its underside, searing it with bright red flame. Upon returning to the butterfly's front, Auth uses the axe to propel himself in the air. While he plummets toward the ground, he aims for a target. On impact, he catches the butterfly's eye between the blades. A small spike goes through it, and the flames envelop it, for a few seconds, until Auth leaps upon the Butterfly's body and, with a mighty swing, leaves the axe in it.

The next segment happens almost in slow motion, as Auth jumps out of the sky, taking a rifle, and flipping around to aim. A bright, orange beam leaps out of the barrel, into the Butterfly's eye, and stays there for a few seconds. As Auth slowly floats toward the ground, he pulls the trigger. Several other guns leaps out from behind him, and fire enormous orange beams at the insect's eye. Auth then falls towards the ground much faster, rifle in tow. When he's on the ground, he dashes back toward the butterfly, and stabs the bayonet into his eye. The other guns he summoned cease firing, and Auth pulls the trigger on the rifle in his hands seven times. The eye disappears, for it is enveloped in an enormous orange beam. Auth then pulls the rifle out of the Butterfly's eye, and, as he did with the scythe and the axe, embeds the rifle into the Butterfly, but not without one final shot of the trigger.

Next, a strange choice for a weapon, Auth pulls a guitar out into his hand. He plays a series of chords, causing the air around the butterfly to turn different colours. Then, he focuses on a note, A. The air around the butterfly turns cyan, and lightning ripples through the field, electrocuting the butterfly for several seconds, until Auth changes the note to B. The air shifts to a green, and the ground itself makes way for what appears to be several dozen vines, which hold the Butterfly down for a very aggressive Venus Flytrap, which chomps down on the butterfly several times, cutting up the wings of the enormous, disgusting insect, until Auth changes to F. The air turns dark red, and the Butterfly is caught in a firestorm, centred on the butterfly, again lasting until Auth's final note change, to G. After playing the notes, the air around the butterfly seems to fade. The butterfly itself does as well, seeming to corrode and fall away as Auth holds the note. Then he releases the note, and flies at the Butterfly, smashing the guitar against his eye, using it to get high in the air, and jabbing the guitar into the Butterfly in order to cause pain, in the gash left by the axe.

He does not get off the butterfly, as the fifth weapon in the order appears. A chain forms in Auth's hand, with a large ball forming on the other end. A mighty swing and a sickening crack follow, as a green arc is left in the air, and the Butterfly's eye is left smashed into the ground. Auth hurls himself off the Butterfly, and lands once more in front of him. He lifts the eye up, throwing it up into the air, before swinging the hammer again, with another crack echoing through the air. The Butterfly is thrown through into the air, and Auth begins to spin, while slowly moving backwards. The hammer in his hands suddenly has bright green spikes erupt all over its surface, before bursting into bright green fire. Auth hurls the hammer into the air, smashing against the eye of the Butterfly, and going beyond it. Auth performs a motion with his arm, and the hammer stops and smashes into the back of the butterfly, returning it to the ground.

On the way down, Auth takes the sixth of the progression, a shield. The aperture snaps open and shut a few times, before Auth dives to where the butterfly will land, and blades point up out of the shield. When the Butterfly returns to the ground, Auth bashes the shield into his underside. The blades hold him in place, as a light blue laser shoots out from the gap in the centre of the shield, piercing the butterfly and lighting up the sky. Auth then removes the shield, and moves, in order to bash the butterfly in order to make him fall over. After he does, the butterfly is propped up in order to make something akin to a ramp. The shield takes a sharp, dynamic blade on its front, as Auth jumps to its highest point and rides down the butterfly like he's snowboarding down a mountain. At the end, the butterfly is returned to being upright, and a huge dagger extends from the gap in the front of the shield. Auth stabs it into the Butterfly, leaving it there, before retreating off him.

In the second to last of the progression, a sleek blue blade forms in Auth's hand. There is barely even a glint as Auth disappears from infront of the butterfly and reappears behind him, followed by an enormous blue arc cutting through the butterfly, leaving a glowing blue line, as though he'd been cut by light. Auth disappears and reappears several times, each time followed by an arc of blue, leaving glowing marks on the Butterfly. Finally, Auth appears above the Butterfly's main body and floats there for some time. Then, he flies into the sky, to a height beyond the capacity of sight for most. He then returns to the ground, first by changing the colour of the sky to a deep blue for just a moment, then diving towards the ground, wreathed in deep blue flame. At that speed, he dives through the butterfly cleanly. However, he leaves no obvious wounds. The blade is left deep in the Butterfly's body, and surrounded by a small, intense circle of blue fire, but nothing obvious appears. Though, it is obvious that the butterfly was wounded by that barrage of strikes.

The final weapon Auth summoned was a meager glove. He puts it on, before charging at the Butterfly and punching it, leaving purple ripples through the sky. He hits the Butterfly again, and a greater ripple shakes the ground. Once more he swings his hand, and the ground around the Butterfly breaks apart, and the sky itself shakes, as Auth's punch breaks through it. After standing there for a few seconds, Auth slams the butterfly with a palm, which causes a bright, purple blade to stab the Butterfly's eye. Auth lifts the beast, and with his non-gloved hand, fires quite a few purple shots at the entire being of the butterfly. After what has to have been hundreds of shots, Auth slams the Butterfly back into the ground, and pulls the blade out of his eye. The glove then forms more of a gauntlet shape, as Auth plunges his hand into the core of its body. The gauntlet is left, as Auth sweeps back and takes a deep breath.

But he isn't done just yet. Bringing his hands together, Inkscalibur leaps out of the body of the Butterfly. The weapons Auth previously formed turn back into blobs of ink of varying colour. After that, a mighty light envelops the battlefield as the former weapons swirl around the blade, forming something larger. Bigger, better, stronger, sharper. When the light fades, a longer blade, glowing on all sides, looking like this:

(heck ye, so glad I got to use this)

Auth takes this larger sword, and points it at the Butterfly. He doesn't even swing it. A fountain of red light emerges from the tip, and consumes the butterfly. Incinerating, burning, destroying. Naught should be left but ash. After the effort, Auth falls to his knees, struggling to stand.

Originally posted on 2017-10-05 11:22:00

JOE stays in place, but uses the 20-SP effect, gaining double action this turn. my meditation was not interrupted, so i should have 2 "opin" glyphs.
I am aware that the butterfly's probably already dead, but whatever.
the glyphs spill from the bag. not just the opin ones, mind you, but every glyph in the bag, bar 3: 2 fire glyphs and one earth glyph, juuuuust in case the butterfly survives and i need to help finish it off next turn.
the two "opin" glyphs float in front of me, and spin, trails of pink light behind them, before floating back, tendrils of pink connecting them to me, and forming dual wings of light. the remaining glyphs spin around my waste, pouring energy into me, and in general just being consumed in whatever """opin""" effect the opin glyphs do. because coolness trumps practicality.
oh and that was also a use of descendant with each action.

Originally posted on 2017-10-05 11:55:00

Dark smiles, as if to say "I told ya so, idiot" to the Butterfly.

"Told ya you were nothing to be afraid of. Told you that you were just a worthless hunk of code. But nooo. Your only strength was lost shortly after the fight started. Oh, sooo shortly after. Yet you kept boasting about being Psi's creation, which don't mean shit. You see, while the calculations may theoretically be correct..."

His smile widens. "Nothing is ever certain."

DarkSide uses Dece-

"Hold up!"
Wait, the fuck? Who-
"'Sup."
The fuck's Zack doing here?
"Because I want to."
But I thought-
"Timey-wimey crap, spatial shenanigans, stupidity, Descendancy overload, etc."
That doesn't explain anything.
"Nothing explains anything. Deal with it."
...This is confusing. Whatever, I'm out.

...Well the other guy just stormed outta the room, so I guess that leaves me.

"...Yeah that happened. So..."

I turn to the Chaos Butterfly. Scares me about as much as it does to this particular version of DarkSide. That being, not at all. Just another worthless scrap of code within the multiverse. Also acting as little more than a parasite for Chaos; the owner of this mindscape. Parasites are to be removed through any means necessary.

"I'm... not going to question why you're here."
"Ok. Just let me show you how to actually use the Unending Nightmare."
"Wait wha-"

I push this DarkSide out of the way, and move forward straight towards the Butterfly's singular eye, unflinching, unblinking. I casually flick the Butterfly's eye with my index finger, not giving a gorilla about it.

"Let's not waste time, insect. Enjoy removal."

A single scale was fired at my face as a response. It was met by an infinitely thin white diamond cleaving it straight down the middle, the entropic energies instantly fizzling out of existence. And with that...

I (Zack) use Descendant!

More of these infinitely thin white diamonds casually appear around my body, flung in various orientations towards the Butterfly, cutting away at it. With every cut, a little less entropy was detected within the Butterfly. With every slash, depowering. As the barrage continues, some of these diamonds form a wing-like bone structure along my back, flat side sticking to the spine. The wings flap once, and the area between the bone was quickly filled in with infinitely thin black diamonds, creating a sharp contrast as the Butterfly looks on in agony. Black diamonds are now being flung along with the white, each also denying power to the Butterfly.

I swing one of the wings straight at the Butterfly. While with the visual appearance it should have missed by at least a meter, it still hit, cleaving through the Butterfly's body with relative ease, the power within it beginning to wane. The other wing comes around, hitting the Butterfly in a more diagonal fashion. Whatever these diamonds were, they were annihilating the Butterfly, making sure it wouldn't return. Of course, I know what these diamonds are. But why would I tell you?

It comes to some of your attentions that the diamonds have all been gathering on a single spot behind the Butterfly. They were forming a shape. The shape of a werewolf-like figure. With a flick of the wrist, I impale the Butterfly with a grey-ish purple spire, going straight through it and the creation of diamonds. While the construct shatters, the Butterfly could feel all of its power draining... the grey in the spire begins to glow with that same crimson that the Butterfly once wielded. Its entropy was going... into me. I'm absorbing it.

The diamonds converge onto my current form, spire still outstretched into the Butterfly and sucking the entropy out of it. Forming an egg-like shape, the flat sides of the diamonds formed an impressively strong outer layer, reflecting the likes of the crimson scales with ease. Eventually, there were two shades of crimson; a lighter shade and a darker one; emerging on the shell. Its attacks was working, the Butterfly might be thinking. But they weren't. In fact, they only made me stronger.

Once the shell reached full crimson, everything stops. The shell shrinks slightly, before exploding, much like it was imploding in on itself. What emerged, though, was nothing like the Big Bang or common depictions of stars collapsing in on themselves, all that was seen in the center was something nobody wanted to see. Not the Butterfly. Not Chloe. Not Mari. Nobody.

But I wanted it.

All doubt was reassured when the emerged beast looked back at the party, and winked. Some know what this is. And they know how strong it is. Half of the beast that rages eternally within.

But it was still me. I can still think. Therefore, I still am.

The grotesque form that this DarkSide previously shown part of is an integral part of who I am now. Controlling its hosts in different ways, we have found a way to control it. Harness its power for our own purposes.

As the one with the biggest fragment, and as the one who knows most about it, the beast is fully under my control.

But the Butterfly was never going to be so lucky. The calculations, in this case, do not lie. See, the Butterfly was using very outdated formulae for its calculations. They just needed another variable, though. A variable I possess, and it doesn't, and never will.

The grotesque crimson, grey, and purple form that is myself, taking on the shape of an eight foot tall monstrosity of a werewolf-like creature, thrusts the spire embedded in the Butterfly further. Further. Yet further. Drawing all the entropy from the insect. Thought it'd be more resilient than that, honestly.

The spire opens up on the very front; the spike part. I pull on the spire hard, the open part of the spire catching onto the Butterfly, punching it further into the spire, enlarging the already massive hole that was ripped into its entropy-deprived body. The eye happens to land right into my gaping mouth, thousands of jagged, sharp teeth ready to grind it to a pulp, jaws ready to crush it. The Butterfly tries to fire a laser from its eye into my throat, to no avail. For I have its power.

Viscera sprays everywhere as the eye explodes in my firmly clenched jaws. I immediately spit the remaining pulp out of my mouth, the eye completely detached from the retina. It wasn't an eye anymore. Just a gelatinous liquid. I like the new redesign of the Butterfly already.

My left claw forms into the massive claw that was seen with that DarkSide's attack, except with more crimson. I swing it at the Butterfly's back, only to stop partway. A UI appears in front of the claw as it taps on the various buttons. The Butterfly could, one by one, feel its bodily functions failing. Every body part becomes limp. Wings, mouth, legs... all paralyzed. The signals that were once communicating its functions were gone.

I swing the claw once more when finished, grabbing onto the Butterfly and squeezing hard, like a rubber duck. Except I don't let go. Bit by bit, drop by drop, streams of code begin pouring out of the extremely pale-looking Butterfly. Each line of code was sliced in half by one of those infinitely thin diamonds, resulting in a small explosion, and the code disappearing from view. The code is being destroyed. The code of the Butterfly. I wasn't joking when I said deletion.

I continue this process until the Butterfly is nothing more than a skin. A model. With its code gone, it does not move. I drop it, and the model of the Butterfly slides down the spire once more. I lay it down, and remove the spire. And proceed to chew and spit out the Butterfly's body parts, one by one, rendering them a piece of viscera. No scales were present within any of them when I was finished with the parts.

As a final measure, I gather all the viscera up into a pile, and light it on fire. The fire turns black and red, as if it was burning into oblivion. I want it gone. You want it gone. We all want it gone.

Everything was burnt up. The parasite was gone... for now. I lightly slit the fabric of reality, and reach my claw in there. The claw appears at the bottom of the game's Google Sheets tab area.

"Isn't thi-"

I forcibly rip off the "The Butterfly" tab. Oh lookie here, it has the orchid snake AND the butterfly's data here. Without hesitation, I pull it back through the slit and stuff it into my mouth. I don't spit it out. This DarkSide goes mildly pale. What, is he going to start softening up now, to the ones he hates, of all things? Or does he question my control over this thing? But all I hear is an audible gulp from him. It's a safe bet to say he's afraid of me.

Can't say I blame him, really. I did just devour the data of arguably the two most powerful beings in the mindscape next to Chaos. But I don't intend to harm anyone else.

Oh, look at this, these marks have to go too. It'll probably revive if we leave those there.

I reach into the depths of the reality yet again. On the Title (AKA Main) card, (N7) to (Q7) was forcibly pulled inward, the crimson of the claw poking out the sides.

The claw then appears on the Game Rules Tab, at the very bottom. It pries off tiles (J250) to (V256) with enough force to leave nothing but a black abyss in its wake.

I tear into the Shop tab, and proceed to pluck out (X293), this time leaving nothing.

I tear a larger hole in reality to accommodate the Bestiary's portion; (A717) to (L790).

Ripping through reality once again, Zone 4: Nightmare Mountain was next. (B4) to (L10) was ripped out of existence.

Tearing into the Map of Zone 3, I tear out (AR999) to (AZ1001) with great efficiency.

Into the Map of Zone 4, I simply modify (BL1047) to (BN1047) to say 0 instead of 1.

In the Map of Zone 5, I slice (AX1033) to (BN1033) right down the middle, after which, it explodes spectacularly.

Finally, in Somewhere Else, I carefully trim out the small poem at (FR939) to (GZ939).

With everything gathered, I pull the entire haul back through the tear in reality. Almost effortlessly, reality's threads fix themselves. I toss a bandage onto the wound, and signal a thumbs up. The bandage heals the scar instantaneously, as if nothing ever happened.

Oh, but did things happen, or did things happen? One by one, I stuff all the acquired items into my maw. Except for the last one. It reads:

'Show them gods and deities
Bind and keep the people on their knees
Pierce the sky escape your fate
The more you try the more you'll just breed hate'

I think for a bit, wondering if there's some deeper meaning behind this one little poem... but, in the end, I found it meaningless. I do, however, write it on a piece of paper before devouring the original.

With nothing left for the beast to do, I begin reverting back to my original form, crimson diamonds falling to the floor like paper as they flake off the form of the werewolf. Eventually, I'm back to normal.

I look back on the party, while walking to where the Butterfly once was.

"It's over. Whether or not it returns is somewhere up in the air, but I trust you'll lay the beatdown on that parasite tenfold as soon as it shows itself. I'm done here."

And with that, I simply poof out of existence in a puff of crimson smoke. I discarded the entropy of the Butterfly, and left it in a state of inertia. It condenses into an orb before being locked behind ten layers of those thin white diamonds. They harden and meld into a sphere, sealing it away. The orb itself begins to combust into oblivion, and was subsequently thrown into an oblivion portal by DarkSide.

...Are you done?
"Ye. I'm out."
I'll be asking some questions later.
"k"

DarkSide was still pale from what he just witnessed. "...Reality really is that fragile, isn't it..." His skin tone gets better after a while, though. "...I've got something to prepare for, whether I like it or not, I guess. But I'll prepare here, if anything. I want to help everyone else."

He kinda just pulls out G.O.D in Chair form and sits on it, hand to head, pondering his next course of action... (i.e. I swap to it just in case of kill fail)

Originally posted on 2017-10-05 16:45:00

I upgrade (slightly). I gets more smarter! And I definitely feel special.

INT increased to 2!
SPC increased to 2!

Bergilmir uses Descendant!

Bergilmir notches an arrow onto his bowstring, a grim look on his face.
"I have been here only a short time, and I have already seen enough cruelty by you to last a hundred lifetimes. I am glad I was brought here, for I rejoice in being able to aid in bringing such a beast to death, such as I could. I stand by beings that are worthy to go to the greatest of paradises when they die in old age, greatly renowned."
He raises his bow. And aligns the shot.
"And yet, some have fallen to your terrible power. Died deaths unworthy of their honor and skill. I, and all the great warriors here, shall avenge them on you this day. You will die here, in ignominy and shame, and our shouts of joy and victory will drown out even the singing in the heavenly realms."
He draws back his arrow, whispering a prayer to his forebears, and the very air freezes around him. Quiet chants echo through the air.
"Let Nidhogg gnaw on your bones for eternity. For as long as you suffer until the end of days, let you remember your actions, your hatred and malice, and your endless cruelty, that brought you there."
And he fires.

Originally posted on 2017-10-05 18:16:00

Hez teleports to M16 using great blink.

"Little Fracturedeye, now we see if my predictions are right, as I said that you would be dead in 3 turns if nothing strange happens, as for now it has been true just as I predicted, while your prediction were all wrong."

"Others have told you that you lost for some stupid reasons like that you lacked love, or that they had more power of friendship from their side... you should know that those are just idiotic reasons and if you don't, I'm telling you now, so that you may die knowing it, and not knowing what actually killed you."

"Other people even fought you using their powers and strength as if you were a true enemy of them, you should be grateful for their kindness, they considered you worthy of them. Because you remain unworthy of me, and the end I have for you is not noble nor grandiose and full of stupid speeches, it's just the end you deserve for being what you are."

Still sitting on his throne Hezetor telekinetically takes a stone and throws it at <0>. And that's it, nothing special, no infinite amount of stones, no super magical attack, no special trick throw with double effect to confound <0>, nothing, he simply throw that stone really hard on <0>.

Worst use of descendant of the day.

Originally posted on 2017-10-05 23:00:00

Emerald grins "Running a little low on HP there, Sir Isaac Einstein ArchiButterfly. Why'd I call you that? I don't know really, I'm feeling a little insane. And also destructive!" Emerald grins, taking his knife and gently cutting his finger, letting the blood drip. Now it's the Butterflies turn! To experience pain, I mean. Not it's actual turn.
"N<0>. I REFUSE."
And then, while the butterfly is both protesting against feeling pain, and also about talking when he shouldn't be, Emerald takes advantage of the distraction to leap up on top of the Butterfly and stab into the area right where the Wingtip connects to the main body. Then again. And again. And then he slashes at it, cutting it right off. Emerald flies to the next one, and repeats the process. And then the third one on that side. After that, he merely returns to where he was and watches the Butterfly try and stay aloft on three wings


Originally posted on 2017-10-06 00:48:00

Lyra steals a charge off the Telltale Mask, and...

"Well, looks like farewell for everybody. It's been a wild ride, but I have no idea how to end it.

If only somebody could choose this for me... that would be so helpful."

...It appears Lyra is actually giving YOU, whoever is behind the screen reading this, the choice of the ending.
...Uh. What do you do? If you're not sure what to do, flip a coin or something.
And, well... don't read both of them. That's kind of the point of this choice.

> Kill them with Love


> Kill them with LOVE


[color=#3333CC]...But that leaves which ending is canon, of course.
Click HERE to help decide that for me, I guess.

Originally posted on 2017-10-06 04:44:00

DCCCV comes to a realization: at the moment, he does not have the skill to pull off an attack that could seriously damage the godmodder. However, maybe a future version of him could. Using Descendancy, he tries to pull in a more experienced version DCCCV to do the attacking instead.
...
It doesn't work.

Instead, DCCCV finds himself on the bridge of a starship. The surface of planet takes up most of the view port.

"I was wondering when this would happen. Stunning, isn't it?" said a voice behind him.
DCCCV froze. He knew that voice. It was his, but calmer, without any of the nervousness that he actually had. This was someone who had actual confidence, not the pretentious air he put on.
"You're in quite a situation, past me. If I recall correctly, you've just tried to pull me into the past, so that I can deal with one of your problems, is that right?" Future DCCCV said.
Past DCCCV "...Yes."
"Do you know why that didn't work, and why you're here instead?"
"...No."
"Let me explain. Deep down, you know that you can't just have a future version of yourself solve your problems. If you didn't have problems with that, then I would be on the peak of Nightmare Mountain, about to call upon the power of the Bird of Order. But instead, you were brought here, so that we could have a time-looped conversation."
Past DC looked down, ashamed of himself. "So, I've just wasted my use of Descendancy to do this?"
"Nonsense. Using an infinite amount of power from an infinite source means you still have infinite power to infinitely use. Wow, that's a mouthful. Anyhow, paraphrasing something someone we both know well once said, 'There are a million ways to make mistakes."
"But also a million ways to fix them," past DC responded.
"Exactly. You need to put more faith into who you are, right now, rather than a cooler, older, more experienced version of yourself. If you don't do that, you'll never become the person you want to be. Does that make sense to you?"
"Yes," past DC said, smiling. "I have a question: are you actually my future self?"
"What, no. I'm just your conscience, given form by a program designed to mimic reality-warping powers. There's a reason you haven't turned around to actually look at me, since you have no idea what your future self looks like. You do, however, know what a spaceship that you imagined 4 years ago looks like. Now go, you have a butterfly to beat.

Remember: You are your own masterpiece...."

DCCCV is back on Nightmare Mountain, as if nothing happened. Future DC was nowhere to be found, but that was okay. He could do this himself.

"I got this."

"CHAOS BUTTERFLY!" DCCCV's shout rang across the theatre of combat. Getting it's attention, DC starts to speak to it.

"Y'know, your story is actually quite sad. Made by a madman who calls himself the First Evil of God as a one-off thing to specifically one dude he really didn't like, now that you've done that, you've have no other goals other than to just mess stuff up. Normally, I'd try to save you, who you the error of your ways. But you know what? You're a monster who deserves to be put down, who just wants to hurt other people. You don't care about anything, you used us to accomplish your goals. Well this ends here."

During his little The Reason You Suck Speech, DCCCV had made his way over to L9. Now, slipping on the Telltale Mask, he causes six iron spikes to fall from the sky, puncturing the Chaos Butterfly's wings, pinning them to the ground.
"That was for Ette. Both times."
He then fires into fires directly into the pinned Chaos Butterfly's Eye at point-blank range.
"Now, lights out."
He continues to stand in front of the Chaos Butterfly as everyone else attacks it.
Right before the deathblow, he says one last thing:
"Think about what you've done. Goodnight, sleep tight, Chaos Butterfly."

Originally posted on 2017-10-07 00:01:00

<TURN TWO-HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE>
Alt asks Glitch Temmie if she can loot some of the inventory.

"I suppose. Don't take anything too valuable. Consider it payment for all of your services, miss Alt."

Anyway, that's all for this part...

Let's end this game, shall we?

<BATTLE: AN ENDING, TURN NINE>
With the power of Descendancy, the Butterfly never stood a chance. Toast, Roxxanne, the Operative, Chloe, Evan, Auth, Darkside, Hezetor, Lyra, DCCCV, Mabuz, Mari, and Marron all called upon the powers of Descendancy, wielding it in magnificent ways. Through barrages of specials, the power of love and even barring from existence, the Butterfly was pushed to its limits. It's HP dwindled and fell, and its wings blew off into the wind, torn from the body by the unrelenting assault.

With only an eye and some legs left, the Butterfly is left clinging on for dear life. Marron walks up to it, rifle in hand. She gives it a sadistic smile.

tc: Sup, Butterfly! Long time no see!
tc: Now, please.

She cocks the rifle, and takes aim. Not at the eye, but at the memory core which was revealed by the unrelenting assault.

tc: I'll give you what you offered me.
tc: If you drop to your knees and beg for forgiveness...
tc: ...
tc: ...It'd be cute.

The twitching, bleeding eyeball stares at Marron. It refuses to kneel.

tc: ...I'm not offering anything. That's the joke.
tc: Gee, maybe if you offered me mercy, I'd turn the other way this time...
tc: But, you've done far too much to me. You've killed my sister, injured Toast, and now you're being a defiant little gorilla.
tc: Now, butterflies are squishy, weak, fragile; they're like nature's little snowflakes.
tc: And you just so happen to be one of them.
tc: ...

Tears well up in her eyes. Her grip on the rifle tightens.

tc: I-I suppose... that I'm starting to miss the point.
tc: All I really want to say, is...
tc: THIS IS FOR MY SISTER, YOU gorilla!

A deafening roar fills the air as a firestorm leaves the rifle. The rifle nearly comes apart in Marron's hands, the immense recoil knocking Marron off her legs and onto her butt. This beast of fire, free from the rifle, surges right through the Butterfly and into the thing's Memory Orb. An explosion evaporates what's left of the Butterfly's body, and leaves a gigantic gash in the memory orb. A trail of entropic energy marks its path down into the inky abyss below, never to be seen again...

And with that, the Chaos Butterfly has been slain.

---

PLAY - Ballad Moving Towards Hope (Bravely Default)

Up in the ruins of Nightmare Mountain, the shielding around the Dreamer fades. Chloe breaks free from the Operative's special and flops face-first onto the ground. Marron remains sitting on the ground, trying to take in what just happened. Mari stands silently, taking in the open skies. For over a minute, nobody speaks. Clouds soar overhead. Light rains down from the cracks in the sky. Things are almost peaceful for once in the Mindscape.

cc: wow
cc: holy he©k.
cc: (t)op (t)en anime ba(t)(t)le lis(t)s have no(t)hing on wha(t) jus(t) happened here

Chaos moves towards the Dreamer, and presses an array of buttons. Wooden planks begin to form over the abyss where the Butterfly once flew. A few fences, torches, logs, and other assorted wooden items later, what appears to be a gigantic chair attached to the sky via a couple chains has been created. A chairlift.

ut: Uh.
ut: Is that our reward or something?
cc: pre(t)(t)y mu©h yeah
cc: (t)e©hni©ally i(t)'s ©omple(t)ely ©osme(t)i© and symboli©, bu(t) i(t)'s like a cool way (t)o "lif(t) you ou(t) of (t)he minds©ape"

Chaos clears his throat. He sounds... drained.

cc: so, i guess (t)his is i(t), (t)hen.
cc: you've won.
cc: when you're ready (t)o go, s(t)ep on(t)o (t)ha(t) lif(t).
cc: on©e you're on (t)here, i'll manually (t)elepor(t) you ou(t), sin©e (t)he lif(t) is se©re(t)ly useless.

...This is it, then. The end. Perhaps you'd like to say things to some people before you go. A few words to Chloe, maybe Marron... there's a couple things you could do. Maybe say a few last words before you step onto that lift by going North. But it looks like no matter what happens, the game will officially end next turn.

If you have anything to say to any NPC, to Chaos... Now's the time to talk.

It's time to say goodbye to a world.

Originally posted on 2017-10-07 01:00:00