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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b]  1,101 (+2)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]///////////////[/color]/////////////////////////////////// (15/50)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 3 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///////////////[/color]/////////////// (15/30)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 2 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]//[/color]//////////////////////////// (2/30)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Hammerhead
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Kamek: 
Decoy clones: create three magical doubles of himself, that hover around him, obfuscating which Kamek is the real one. They are not very resilient, but they can copy Kamek's attacks and direct them at the same target. This allows multiple wand shots, for example, but not the stacking of buffs like size changing.
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After the courier dined and dashed and Donny talked his way out of paying Bowser was left as the only person left in the overpriced schmuck trap that was the bar who hadn't dealt with payment. 

Browser had frozen halfway through eating his second burger when he heard the price the monk had been charged for his own meal. Grease had slow dribbled down from the half bitten through burger as the king’s brain considered its options. After several long moments of contemplation he nodded to himself and quickly finished the rest of his meal.

[color=FD0000]”YOUR PRICES ARE OUTRAGEOUS”[/color] he informed Fire Man once he was done, activating the mecha mit as he said so.

A glowing energy claw slid out and slashed through the thread holding the other three gold buttons on Bowser’s coat. His other hand caught the small balls as they were freed of his size changing magic and began to expand back to their original diameter. When he subsequently underhand tossed them to bartender they had grown as large a fists.

[color=FD0000]”FOR OUR TAB”[/color] he told the bartender as he turned to go.

Before the bot could recover from having to catch/juggle three heavy balls of pure gold Bowser had already stomped his way out of the door, preventing the King from finding out if he had just grossly over or underpaid for him and his minion’s meals/drinks.

Outside a lot of things were/had been going on and Bowser took it all in as dark magic coalesced around him, gradually being absorbed into his body as the king grew back to the size that the party was used to seeing him at.

Jr and kamek had caught up, he noted. The former was just finishing the supervising the offloading of a whole heap of car parts that looked to have been ripped from the raider cars that had attacked them earlier. An assortment of summoned Koopas and Goombas brought these down from the captured Brother Grimm and where handing them over to the young engineer woman who worked here. In exchange Bowser’s son seemed to have acquired a [url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/cnc/images/c/c0/CNCTW_Engineer_Cameo.png/revision/latest?cb=20131122083533]yellow briefcase[/url] from her. The team’s intimidation factor had largely been mitigated by Jr’s in-experience with haggling, and so the pair had come to a rather even bargain in the end as a result.

There was also the tell tale marks of a fight, a lack of bird robot and addition of new metallic parts to their dancer that indicated that part of the team had picked a fight with one of the Hammerhead’s customers while he was gone, though said fight did not seem to have escalated beyond that single, now dead, person. Finally a number of their party, including among others the yellow rat, the monk and the new spiky haired ferret owner, had gathered to discuss/plan something with the boy band and demon upsetting duo.

Finally it appeared that peach, along with some of the others, were preparing to leave already.

[color=SpringGreen]”Papa!”[/color] Jr called over to the king when he spotted him, moving away from his completed dealing with the Hammerhead worker to go meet up with his father. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Ah, there you are sire.”[/color] Kamek said as he came to join them both from where he had been standing and keeping an eye on the king’s army of misfits.

[color=SpringGreen]”That the place for lunch?”[/color] Jr asked as he pointed to the bar, having worked up quite the appetite.

[color=FD0000]”No. Place is a total rip off.”[/color] Bowser told him, ignoring the subsequent sound of disappointment to ask [color=FD0000]”So what's going on with that lot?”[/color]

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I believe they intend to head off the Dead zone if I’ve been overhearing their discussion with that gaggle of coiffed individuals correctly.”[/color] Kamek explained as he took out the [url=https://imgur.com/s8pYuCv]map[/url] and indicated to the large city region located to the north of where they probably were. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”the one with the bleached hair said something about a big demon that sounds like it might be one of Galeem’s Guardian.”[/color] 

[color=FD0000]”What are they doing that for? We’re going south to the land of adventure! Right?”[/color] Bowser said, both a bit confused and slightly angry at this news.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”We are, your Leaderness, but it seems that the old plan of splitting up has raised its head once more. Its a touch out of the blue for them to do so I’ll admit, but we did make preparations for this occasion. The modified teleporters, if you remember them? It’s also a smaller separation than the initial separate arcs plan. They'll go through the dead zone and ruined metropolis, I think, while we can go through the land of adventure and the sand swept wastes. Then we’ll all meet up at the forbidden kingdom. Probably. Or we could perhaps double back through the Dark forest once we are done down south? hmmm.”[/color] Kamek said at length while thoughtfully examining the map.

[color=FD0000]”Gah fine sure whatever. Let’s just get a move on already.[/color] Bowser conceded, unwilling to listen to Kamek prattle on any longer about the possibilities, and wanting to get away from the ludicrously expensive bar as soon as possible.

Jr meanwhile had already wandered off after it turned out getting food around here was off the table to go tinkering with his clown car. The yellow box, now opened up beside him as he worked, was revealed to contain a bevy of rather sophisticated mechanical tools which the boy used to fiddling around with the insides of his tiny vehicles. As he worked bits of the head of the sweet tooth, which the boy’s minions brought down from the Brother Grimm before dispersing, were being gradually extracted and inserted into the smaller clown head.

[color=FD0000]”ALRIGHT EVERYONE WHO@S STILL HEADING SOUTH, GET GOING BEFORE THE PRINCESS GETS AWAY!.”[/color] Bowser commanded the team before telling Kamek to [color=FD0000]”Go tell that lot that plan of mine. The one with the teleporters and map route and stuff.[/color]

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Sigh. Yes sire.”[/color] Kamek responded as the king stomped over to his car to prepare to set off.

Kamke meanwhile did as he was instructed and walked over to the dead zone team. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Two things before you leave with the pile of pretty boys. One, make sure to take a teleporter with you so we can keep in touch, reinforce one another and so on. Second, I suggest that if communications break down we make this”[/color] Kamek showed them the map and indicated to the entrance to the forbidden kingdom, [color=DeepSkyBlue]”our emergency rendezvous point. If you intend to go through the nameless city afterwards that is? The rest of us will most likely be heading to the sand swept wastes after the land of adventure, terrain permitting of course.”[/color] 

Kamek kept the map open in-case they had other suggestions/plans for routes that he was unaware of.