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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 883 (+2) (jr still asleep)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]////////////////////////////////[/color]///////////////////////////// (32/60)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]//////////////////[/color]////////////////////////////// (18/50)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 5 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]/////////////////////////[/color]//////////////////////////(25/50)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Gneidxick‘s Casino
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[color=DeepSkyBlue]”You made a scarecrow?”[/color] Kamek asked his green clone as it showed off its creation while nodding vigorously in response to the mage’s question. The arms of the scarecrow were made of two hoes, while it’s torso and foot were made out of the pitchfork stabbed into the ground. All 3 farm implements were tied together by the spotted whip and had then been covered by the shirt. Finally its head was the scarecrow head, of course, which had been topped by the summer straw hat.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Why?”[/color] Kamek asked with bemused exasperation. The clone began to launch into a series of hand gestures in which it attempted to covey the fact that it had been presented with the bits to build one, and thus how could it not do so. As it failed to get this concept through to its creator Bowser joined in with the dice rolling. Together the team were getting close to maxing out the board but as fate would have it the game was over before anyone could be declared the winner.

First they received an onslaught of reinforcements. Linkle’s informing the townsfolk of what was going on had paid off massively in the end, with the onslaught of faces familiar and new culminating with the Houndmaster attempting to arrest the so called Guildmaster. Gneidxick retaliated by summoning legions of chess/card combo themed monsters and Bowser got himself hyped up for seeing what the dice headed head honcho’s final phase was when someone else decided they did not like the game being played and decided to flip the table instead of let it continue. 

As the horde of heroes and token evil teammates were busy picking themselves off of the floor the table flipper showed herself to be one of Gneidxick’s associates Kamek had theorized existed, though she did not seem like the gambling type. Infact she seemed incredibly displeased by Gneidxick’s actions, berating him for acting like a person he was not. With actions and words she rapidly broke their adversaries’ will and herded him off into a portal of darkness before any of them could do much of anything about it. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”He’s nobody? Nobody nobody nobody. Now why does that strike a cord?”[/color] Kamek muttered to himself half remembering something the master of master had said the day before as he finally found his feet. After he did he quickly glanced around and located his masters and his minions.

Fortunately, they were all to be found in the same place, Bowser having moved to his dozing son’s side when the final brawl had threatened to loom, putting him in and among the dry bones and Kamek’s clones. The mage dismissed his undead minions before they could cause a panic or draw the ire of any of the adventurers and pointedly ignored the Green clone’s waving its scarecrow around in such a way that conveyed that it was convinced had scared off the Gneidxick. As the white mages picked their way through the crowd and silently patched up any light injuries people had received during the kerfuffle Kamek joined Bowsers side. The king was cradling the the sleeping jr (and by extension Mimikyu who was standing guard atop jr’s shell still) in one arm and carefully scooped their treasure into one of his pockets using his free hand. 

[color=FD0000]”Who just up and leaves right before the final fight!”[/color] Bowser asked after the two had exchanged simple greetings to confirm that they were both in one piece. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Someone is just going through the motions, or so it seems.”[/color] Kamek replied before looking at the dozing form of jr with a touch of concern [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Is the young master still asleep even after all that?”[/color] 

[color=FD0000]”Yeah. Pretty lame that the first propper bad guy we meet is just a fake.”[/color] Bowser replied before completing his treasure collecting and waving a single wave of acknowledgment to the small number of individuals with naturally colored eyes who’d arrived with the friendly army of influenced heroes. Kamek nodded and then scratched his chin thoughtfully before theorizing that jr was under the spell of [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Some kind of enchanted sleep perhaps?”[/color] as a result of his complete lack of understanding what drugs were or how dangerous they could be.

He did not get much further than that before the arrival of two individuals with drinking vessels for heads arrived through the doors of the now regular sized casino. Their brief conversation with the courier added additional details to the  Gneidxick situation, because apparently they knew who he was. Or, Kamek theorized, who he had been. Or who he was based off. The mage was left deeply in thought as he mulled all this information over while Bowser focused on the much more immediate question Cuphead’s arrival.

[color=FD0000]”IF YOU WANNA HELP THEN YOU CAN TELL US WHERE IN THE WORLD THIS CASINO IS? BECAUSE I DON’T REMEMBER TOWN WHAT’S ITS NAME-”[/color] [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Lumbridge”[/color] Kamek absentmindedly injected, still pondering away [color=FD0000]”-LUMBRIDGE HAVING A GIANT MINI-GAMING HALL IN IT. OR UNDER IT.”[/color] Bowser asked the new arrival in his usual booming volume.