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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 857 (+2)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (99/60)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]//////////////////////////////////[/color]///////////////////// (34/70)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Edge of the Blue
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The plans made and teams organized, there was little more left to do other than to bid farewells. The Troop’s was short and sweet, the unearned confidence of father and son meaning neither was particularly worried about the dangers of going their separate ways, while Kamek made the more serious promise to ensure the young prince's safety no matter what. Peach’s name was also added to the list of people to protect before Bowser headed off to join the deadzone crew.

More unexpected was Queen Sectonia seeking out Kamek again, both to tell him how to summon her via portal should he need her aid or find something magical to discuss and to not so subtly return the Wand of Pocus he had given her to gain her aid in hauling Bowser out of the Devil's Casino. The mage retrieved it with a nod of acknowledgement and decided, optimistically, to treat it’s return as a sign of respect for a fellow mage rather than a rejection of the gift.

With the wand safely stored next to his own the mage joined an impatient Jr and together the pair headed for the Edge of the Blue along with the rest of their party, hoping through Jr’s portal network and then riding down through Gneidxick's portable hole on an elevator to the Casino. After brazenly walking past the cleaning crew who were picking up the mess they’d left the place in they made their way outside and found themselves on a lovely chain of islands they’d soon learn was called the Inkwell Isles. After hopping across a railway track that did not seem like it had anywhere to go on the island they found themselves in a lovely seaside town. A quick investigation of the place led them to conclude that it was not home to one of the guardians and, baring a junkyard Jr made a mental note of, lacking in anything really useful store or facilities wise. 

Sticking with the rest of the group the Koopas found themselves down by the docks taking in the view when they, or rather Peach, was ambushed by another hooded figure dressed in leather robes like the Masters who decided it was his palace to start doling out questionable advice on how they should proceed despite their negative run-in with Gneidxick.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Nobody is what you are, not who.”[/color] Kamek noted when the hooded figure speaking with Peach failed to divulge a name, unable to resit flaunting the knowledge he’d gained from the Master of Masters. The Nobody recommended they travel to the town across the water, help them fight some monsters and then to trick a number of its citizens into acting as bait for a sinister cruise ship.

Unsurprisingly, Peach and some of the other heroes voiced the fact that they were not too fond of the idea of using live bait for some kind of malevolent ghost ship. Kamek was mostly nonplussed by the suggestion, as using bait was classic bad guy stuff. He’d even acted as on at least one occasion by dressing up as peach to lure the Mario Bros down the wrong oath, but he could see the way the wind was blowing and decided against trying to convince the party to just use fools as bait. Instead, he decided to try and think o f ways to make the idea more palatable. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”If we were to try to lure the ship, then perhaps I may be off assistance. I may be able to devise a way to disguise individuals, either something more expendable or much more dangerous (the best kind of bite is the one that can bite back after all), as these, ah, repulsively described Guests. It would take some time to recall the correct spell of course, It would be the one used to disguise minions as Lord Bowser which we haven't used in quite some time, and then I would need to modify it to suit the correct appearance.”[/color] Though as the mage thought about it, the king would have fit the hunger bit of the gust’s description to a tee. It was, he thought, perhaps a very good thing the King had not come with them.

Jr meanwhile was equally as instances and the other party members, but not by the suggestion they use innocent bait, but rather about the idea of sneaking onboard [color=SpringGreen]”Stow aboard like rats?! Yeah right, not happening. Either we storm this place and take it over or its not worth the effort of getting it to show up.”[/color] 

“Mimi kyu kyu” the boy’s little ghost mon agreed from its perch on his shoulder, before flexing its noodle arms.

Jr grinned at his minion’s response before suggesting an alternative. [color=SpringGreen]”Besides, if they're being plagued by sea monsters over there then there's plenty of way’s that’d let us make the trip ourselves. Either we absorb some sea-monster Spirits or we capture and tame some and use their powers to take to the sea”[/color] he said before patting Mimikyu’s pokeball where it was stored on his bandolier with one of his wrist horns for emphasis.