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[center][color=00aeef][b]Level 5[/b] [/color] - (80/50) + 2[/center]

[center][color=darkgreen]Level 9 [/color] - (62/90) + 2[/center] 

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[center][h1][color=00aeef]Link[/color][/h1][/center]

[center]Location: The Bottomless Sea ~ The Maw[/center] 

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Link couldn't be happier that none of his ideas were necessary as everyone started coming back up to the relative safety of the catwalks. He was no stranger to running away, there was no reason to stick around for a losing fight if you didn't have anything keeping you there. Seeing as everyone was either making their way down or climbing back up every second they lingered was another opportunity for the monster to find a way to entrap them.

This point was proven when, as they made their way to the elevator, the monster pulled his best possible move. He jumped up and ripped the area connecting the catwalk to the elevator away and, worse than that, took Ms. Fortune with it. The cat girl landed messily on the monsters back, Blazermate thankfully providing a distraction so he didn't just roll over and end her right then and there. 

Rescue efforts began immediately. Mirage traded his dart gun for Sakura's magnet, instructing her to make the bridge while he rescued Ms. Fortune. Sakura, instead, followed Mirage and set about creating an alternate escape route in case Mirage's idea failed. He and Geralt were right behind them, even if there wasn't really anything they could do. Their minds had all be drawn away from the problem of how to cross to the elevator. The idea of leaving someone behind was that unacceptable. 

Among all this high drama no one seemed to have noticed the green haired boy making his way down the belly stair tower, carrying a coil of tangled cables over his shoulder. Glenn arrived behind Kamek, Rika, and their animals just in time to watch Bowser take his leap and slam the heavy hammer head into the nail on the monsters back. 

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[center][h1][color=darkgreen]Linkle[/color][/h1][/center]

[center][h2][color=red]Merge Rate: 31%[/color][/h2][/center]

[center]Location: The Old Mill[/center]

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Luckily for Linkle [i]and[/i] Albedo, this tower was far more of a straight shot than to the top of goat village. All you had to do was go up the grindshaft. Not even Linkle, as prodigious as she was at it, had ever gotten lost while climbing a tree. Provided, of course, that it was an isolated tree. 

Not that it would have mattered if this was some kind of advanced multi-grindstone windmill because this wasn't a race, and to Linkle's mind she already had an A+ mountain guide who was super good at finding the fastest path up something. So when Albedo summoned up his Isotoma to carry him up Linkle grabbed onto the petals of the flower and was pulled up with him. As he hopped of Linkle swung herself and caught the edge of the gear with her hands, pulling herself up just before she could get crushed between the teeth. Hopping to her feet and jogging along in place she could see the boy being conveyed upward by a rope a higher gear to the shaft. Running up she jumped onto that too and followed him. 

This was where things got tricky, because the next thing Albedo did was take a running leap and latch onto a board of planks. "Whoaaaa!" Linkle said as she dropped, watching him shimmy up the boards like a Skulltula and disappear over the top. No wonder he had beaten her if he was able to climb like that. It also meant she had to find another way up. 

There was a big vertical spinning gear behind her, so she jumped up onto that instead. She supposed it wasn't all bad. Different paths, after all, meant more pons and the chance of catching cat people from two direction. Soon enough she didn't have to hold on to he gear to ride it, but that was undercut by the sight of the teeth of this gears partner steadily approaching. She looked around for a way forward, catching sight of a wooden block that was turning. She jumped out toward it, catching it by the edge and letting it turn until she was able to stand upright then walking backwards in order to keep from getting dumped off as she decided her next move. 

Up above she could see Albedo balancing across a rafter, but also a descending wooden platform held by a rope coming near her. As it passed she jumped for it, holding onto the rope above to steady herself as it brought her down, down, down, before reversing course and going up, up, up, up!

As it reached the top Linkle stepped off onto a waiting beam and walked across it she came to another horizontal gear just below it. Connected to that one, though, was a gear that had a few wooden platforms stapled to its side. That should be a pretty good way up, even if it meant gong down slightly, so she lowered herself down and let the gear carry her into a position where she could hop onto one. It carried her under the gear she had just been on, causing her to swiftly duck so that it didn't knock he block off, before continuing on up. She could see, above her, another approaching beam she could use to get her bearing but she could also see Albedo again looking down at her from only a little ways above. She waved up at him.