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>>Well. It looks like we're on our own fenestrated wall now. How kind of Twinbuilder.

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Oh, please. I'm a Universe Eater. I know when someone is trying to do something to avoid a Devourer type entity. Rather helpful trait, helped me secure a few universes that would otherwise still exist. I'm not quite sure what it is you intend to do, but I know it's something big. Oh, and saying stuff like "I'm not trying to move my galaxy" only makes it even more obvious that you're up to something.

/picnic

Why is no your immediate answer? Are you me?

I recall stating that N'loup'rygupron was one of (if not the/the) most powerful being(s) in U4, and within my part of Paradox Space. Akin to English, he tore through countless universes, devouring them whole for sustenance. Then, he made it to my universe. At the time, my five other friends were all asleep. As you can see, I am quite alive, and there is half of an Eldritch Abomination within a sealed pocket dimension in the Deep Storage unit of my castle, the other half having formed into his lordship Darnalucus. I would appreciate it if you would cease doubting me. I am capable.

Well.
Obviously I'm up to something.
I have two main plans.
The first is to evacuate the galaxy.
Or rather, as many species as possible.
I'd die before we reached another one.
So that makes that not optimal.
The second is to fight it.
Statistically.
Mine is not the most technologically advanced galaxy to be threatened.
So.
Also not optimal.
There's also the third option.
Move to another universe and let everyone else die.
Which I'd prefer not to do.
But it seems more and more like the only solution.

/picnic

Evacuate, fight, and flee. The standard options three. I've seen those used quite often. Evacuate did manage to spare a few fragments of some universes from me a couple of times, but they then usually chose incredibly stupid places to go. Like straight into the path of ANOTHER Devourer type entity. Usually a smaller one that could be bothered with mopping up survivors. Fighting has pretty much never worked, since... y'know... UNIVERSE eater. The longest time it took me to get through a resistant universe was about 10 minutes. Pitiful. Clearly you don't want to just abandon your universe. Hm. People are odd. So, quite the dilemma you have there. Did you inherit that place or something?

/picnic

I'm going to assume any conversation within the picnic not specified as private to be held out loud and in the open.



Well, if evacuation is an option, I can certainly help with that, at least a little, a few planets worth taken somewhere at the speed of Tesser. On the other hand, if a Universe Eater is looking for you specifically, my response will be to get the hell outta dodge and leave you as bait, possibly with a personal Warpship to give you a chance. This really is good food.

/picnic

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Why is no your immediate answer? Are you me?

I recall stating that N'loup'rygupron was one of (if not the/the) most powerful being(s) in U4, and within my part of Paradox Space. Akin to English, he tore through countless universes, devouring them whole for sustenance. Then, he made it to my universe. At the time, my five other friends were all asleep. As you can see, I am quite alive, and there is half of an Eldritch Abomination within a sealed pocket dimension in the Deep Storage unit of my castle, the other half having formed into his lordship Darnalucus. I would appreciate it if you would cease doubting me. I am capable.

>>Eeh, it's still unknown if you could keep everything running. Simulation hasn't finished yet as to whether you wouldn't simply end up drying to dust in the first few seconds of time as you take over. There are simply too many things.
>>Yes, we know that. There have been 5 attacks of similar scale. All of those have been restored. All of them. I hope you have quite a few clones to work with.
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>>Blue: I, or we, could also help. The IDMG has quite a few mass teleportation spells and we know how to stop universe-eaters. Feed them a few large knots in spacetime and they choke like any other thing.

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piono casually saunters into the picnic.
I've decided I'll let Tricky handle things on the battlefield for a bit,
I really don't have much to do there other than build up my battle skill,
and since I've linked all the Homestuckcraft stuff I'm connected to through Tricky and Phobos, I should get the benefits as if I myself were on the battlefield.

Anyway, what's this I hear about universe eaters?
Me and Eric took down a couple of those, although nothing on the scale of engie,
I remember hearing about the group in the IUPC that chained him.
You're still chained, right engie? My informants haven't given me any information in relation to you,
And it'd be pretty darn obvious if you were awake.
Even if you hadn't somehow found where they hid the Mainframe yet.

But Blue, I could quite easily help you.
Even universe eaters have their limits, depending on its class, my allies could kill it, possibly off-handedly.

Oh, that lot? Well, I really would hate to spoil what happened to them, but it involves Mechroa, brutal dismemberment, and the Janitor having to do overtime. I never harm the Janitors. They're cool. So that base now has a grand total of 3 occupants. Maybe 2, if the cancer patient has died, which he should have by now. One chain down, not many remain that can hold me back. You'd better hope you have a group better than the last team. They got lucky. Next time won't be quite that easy... Not if everything goes the way I want it to...

/picnic

(engie, this is working on an earlier assumption that you are working at reduced power for reasons other than the OP scale. The IUPC governed all of the known multiverse at its height and actually managed to clamp down on Paradox Space's expansion by relieving Lord English from his duties for an extended period of time. If they could keep the OP king in check, then they could take you down.
Not saying it would have been easy, but something as big and destructive as your character would have gotten shut down. The only reason the OP king didn't was because of a promise of good behavior. Anyway, to continue the assumption, your character is free, as the containment facility stopped getting support because of the backwards time ripples from the collapse, and your character broke free prior to DTG 2. You still have yet to locate where they hid the Mainframe.
So that's the assumption I was running on, sorry to make that up without telling you, but just thought it wouldn't make sense if nothing had happened, so I'm telling you what I had in my head before I start acting on it)

You finally got them. Eh?
Heh, Or so you thought.
The funny thing is engie, that the base you took down was decommissioned by moi.
Forcibly.
Well, not by myself in person, but you know what I mean.
I'm afraid you killed a bunch of hapless civilians.
I wouldn't know whether the cancer patient has died yet though.

But either way, one of my contacts is a class 9Z universe eater, so whatever it is you're going up against Blue...
I think I can deal with it.

/picnicpost.

Welcome Piono.
I'll tell my chefs that.
Amperzand.

It wasn't a public conversation per se.
But it wasn't a private one either.

Thanks for the offers...
First of all.
Galaxy eater.
So even easier for you.
I guess.
But I can't accept any of them.
Those would all raise questions.
And my galaxy is quite the xenophobic one.

Also....
This...
This isn't working.
I had this picnic to make me feel better.
But that's not happening.
It looks like I will have to go through with those changes.
It's probably for the best.
I'll be back in a bit.

And with that, Blue walked a couple of meters away from the table before teleporting away.

/picnic

Ah. Civilians. I thought their flesh tore apart too easily... Now then, where were we. Big bag universe eater. I've always wanted to kill one and see what they taste like. Hopefully a little better than that one universe that was made of mushrooms... Ick. Horrible. I'd rather not go through one of those again if I could avoid it... Anyway, if something needs to be done about that other one, I want in.

/picnic

PIONO. THERE. YOU ARE.

ANY EXPLANATION. *zzz* AS TO. TRICKY? ATTACKING ME?

/picnic

Now now, let's not start any fights just yet...

If you kill Amperzand I will wor5e than destroy this pl4net.



....I'm going to say I overcoded the "bodyguard" part of you....

Well, it's too bad I cannot help, allowing galaxies full of innocents to die is never nice, at least for us squishy, mostly non-sociopathic humans, can't say anything much about you folks with the deity complexes.

I point out the lack, so far, of entertainment, and summon a small group of the Partybot™s I first created at Leon's party, and set them to dancing robotic jukebox mode.

/picnic

Wall of text alert.

Suddenly, a podium rises out of the ground near the picnic tables, and Blue appears on it.

Sorry to interrupt you guys.
But I have an announcement to make.
Turn off the partybots before I EMP them.
Serpent.
Settle down.
You can fight piono afterwards.

Do you know why I’m hosting this picnic?
It’s because I feel guilty.
I thought this would make me feel better.
And it has.
But not enough.

Let’s get to the point.
I’m not sure why I regained a conscious because of those two.
But that’s what happened.
And I could no longer live with myself.
If everything were to stay the same

Let’s not get carried away here.
Morality will only be one factor in my decisions.
I have a lot of important choices to make.
And necessity will win at least some of them.
Despite of that.
I think this can be a new start for me.

That is why…
Among a number of major shifts in my life:
I am hereby resigning my position as an officer of Richard Persson.
Also known as the Godmodder.

Let’s not get too excited now.
I’m not going to start fighting against him either.
Though he’s probably going to take the fight to me.
That’s a price I’m willing to pay.

I’ll admit.
It’ll take some time for me to change.
I’ve been a villain for a very long time.
I don’t expect you to forgive me right away.
But I’ll try my best to make it up to you all.

I’ve actually written a poem for this moment.
Yeah.
I know.
But I figure I need some new hobbies.
Now that I’ve stopped orchestrating as many wars.
Keep in mind I’m not a poet.

A tragic past is no excuse for all the wrongs I’ve done.
I hope you find it in your hearts to forgive me and move on.
I’ll try to make it up to you, this I truly swear.
But let’s not go overboard, that would not be fair

Now.
I’ve taken up enough of your time.
And with that awful poem too.
Let’s enjoy this picnic.
Before it ends in bloodshed.

/picnic

AHAHAHA. BLUE. YOU ARE ONE. DEAD. PSEUDO-HUMAN. YOU *zzz* DON'T JUST LEAVE. RICHARD'S FORCES. *zzz* LIKE THAT.

/picnic

I snap my fingers and the Partybots disintegrate into nanofog, which rejoins the cloud surrounding me.

"Well, fewer warriors for the Foe, good on ya and all, but I doubt this will end peacefully, regardless of your intentions. Heh, regardless, I don't even consider Richard to be evil, let alone most of his followers, I just don't like em' much."

The Demimech {Rebrand! I finally came up with a better name for the APAWA, and this is it.} steps up behind me, still in bodyguard protocal.

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Oh please Seprent.
You're not fooling anyone.
I don't know your motivations exactly..
But I'm pretty sure.
You couldn't care less about Richard.
Remember when DaVinci left our side?
You said he would pay for it.
And he never did.
Though.
I don't know how loyal Powder is to Richard.
So perhaps I'll just leave this picnic early.

Oh no Amp.
What I meant was to enjoy this as much as possible.
Before the bloodshed.
I'm not that naive.
But it looks like the picnic is over.
Two minutes until the planet possibly blows.
Depending on Serpent and Powder's reactions.
You want a ride back?

Before anyone can react to that, Blue teleports back up to HMAS Victor, which has just arrived in orbit.

/picnic

"Good, those raised to wealth and power often suffer from extreme naivete. Anyway, I have a ship, but it's less than luxurious, so sure, I'll take a ride."

I step backwards into the unfolded chest section of the Demimech, retaking control, and send an order to my Vessel, whose name is uncertain, to follow Blue's ship, then Tesser into the pilot's section of Blue's ride.

"Nice ride."

/picnic

If anything.
I'm probably paranoid.
Assassins are everywhere.

Thank you.
I would suggest you get off the bridge.
The captain won't be happy.
You may be human.
But to him.
Not human human

/picnic