[center][img]https://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/b/b2/Koopa_Troop_artwork.png/658px-Koopa_Troop_artwork.png[/img] [h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2] [b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 903 (+2) (kamek +13) (others + 9) [b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (135/100) [b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 8 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (148/80) [b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]////////////(79/90) [b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Bottomless Sea – Carcass Isle Feat: Rika [/center] [color=DeepSkyBlue]”That. Was much to close”[/color] Kamek said, finally finding his breath after the incredibly close call they’d just had. [color=FD0000]”Leave it up to the team with only heroes on it to leave things to the last possible second, huh?”[/color] Bowser replied with jovially, only to cough rather grimly and slump back down into a sitting position once more, the king having only been able to stand in the time it took for some of the others to rush forwards. Exhaustion and an eldritch conch in the gut really had done a number on the king “So, uh, now that that’s all over, who or what even was that?” Rika asked the question that was probably on a few minds. [color=FD0000]”Urgh, wont leave me a minute of rest will ya”[/color] Bowser complained “Oh, sorry” she replied sheepishly, only for her apology to be waved off by the king. [color=FD0000]”No, no, your fine. Ok look. So. That was the Master Hand… or just a master hand now I guess? Anyway, long story short hand guy was one of those spooky weirdo bosses where you show up at their house and they fight you for no reason. Then later me, Ganandorf and Wario worked with him to try and take over a bunch of worlds but it turned out that wasn't his plan, it was some guy called Tattoo or something who was pulling his strings. And now it looks like he’s just one of hundreds of identical floating hands that are all puppets of Galeem. Real villain decay kinda deal, poor guy”[/color] Bowser explained with general ignorance about and irreverence for the being who was something of a fundamental force of the universe. “... what?” Rika had to ask, not getting Bowser’s rambling explanation one bit. [color=FD0000]”Look. It doesn't matter who he was. Now he’s just a big floating hand who serves Galeem now and throws pre-area boss gauntlets at us now in order to be annoying. First time he threw some friends of some people who were with us at them, and then after that he had a bunch of shooty people, like Link and those two spirits Kamek has, to try and shoot us with guns that turned people into trophies in one hit.”[/color] Bowser explained some actually relevant information. “So, uh, why did he phrase the whole thing as like, a test, to make sure we were ready for the boss or something?” She asked [color=FD0000]”Eh. Some bad guys are just like that. Want a worthy opponent and all that baloney. Buncha idiots. Seriously, what I’d give for a nemesis who wasn't a worthy opponent, that’d make my life so much easier.”[/color] Bowser replied with a shrug before laying back against the cave wall and saying [color=FD0000]”Now that’s enough explanations, because its its snoozing time”[/color] before closing his eyes eyes to do just that, the exhausted king finally getting some rest. “I. Huh. ok?” Rika said, still a bit confused by the whole experience, before turning and asking the other two members of the Troop “Did you two get all of that?” [color=SpringGreen]”Yeah. Hand is a jerk, so we’ll beat all his games and then beat him and finally his boss, no sweat,”[/color] was jr’s reply. The prince, having gotten out of the game the easiest out of all of them, was, in contrast to many, mostly taking the opportunity to stop sitting for a bit, hopping out of his clown car and pacing in-order to stretch his legs. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”You get used to it”[/color] Kamek informed her, aware that the king’s form of exposition could be a bit hard to parse for anyone who hadn’t grown up with it (like Jr). It was at that point Nadia brought up the existence of the spirits by requesting the use of one of them. None of the troop had any objection to her claiming it, unaware of what it did as they were. Both the sleeping Bowser and the pacing Jr had any interest in the spirit’s from their area either but as for the trial of the abyss, now there was a treasure trove as far as Kamek was concerned. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Despite the, ah, danger, of its game the Hand has delivered something of a boon into our hands, these”[/color] the amge said as he picked up the three spirit’s from their challenge to show them to the others [color=DeepSkyBlue]”all came from the Sun Princess, leader of the Abyssal fleet and the source of their endless resurrection.”[/color] [color=SpringGreen]”Oh wow that’s big,”[/color] Jr said, now paying attention, before asking [color=SpringGreen]”Wait, she was three people?”[/color] [color=DeepSkyBlue]”I assume she fused with the other two, which while it represents something of a new type of threat right to be aware of in the future, right now it’s worked in our favor, as with one of these three lies the power to bring back the dead,”[/color] there was a little glint in Kamek’s eye as he held up the trio [color=DeepSkyBlue]”all that remains is to find out which it is.”[/color] “Do you. Do you think we’d be able to bring Pasific back?” Rika asked, “bring everyone we’re fused with back?” [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Only one way to find out”[/color] Kamek said, before plucking the white cloaked catwoman from the pile, banking on magical color theory where white = healing to pull off a win on the first pick, and palming it into his forehead with a [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Bet”[/color] before holding out the other two and asking [color=DeepSkyBlue]”who else wants to roll the dice on being the savior of the fading dead?”[/color] [hr] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/5r7OTIh.png[/img] [b][color=Aquamarine]wordcount:[/color][/b] 656 (+1) [b][color=Aquamarine]Midna: level 7[/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aquamarine]/////////////////////[/color]//////////////////////////////////////////////////// (21/70) [b][color=Aquamarine]Location:[/color][/b] Sandswept Sky - Baur’s Reach [/center] Midna’s spirit crushing had about the same result as crushing all of the Trapinch body parts, namely a pile of useless materials. Or that was her thought at first, till she slapped her forehead and remembered they had access to a town now, one where these might catch a high value on the market or, perhaps, be able to be made into something useful. She had to guess that the vial contained giant wasp poison, which wasn't exactly her style but maybe it’d be worth a pretty penny. Now the hide, that she could see uses for right away. Armor, cold proof clothing, a nice fashionable pair of boots and more sprung to mind. Maybe even a nice set of sheaths for her new weapons or a saddle for her mount. Considering the change it had undergone, it could probably do with one now. Though considering that change had occurred from a related species it was debatable if the hide could be used to improve the situation. [color=Aquamarine]”Well you might be better suited to the environment”[/color] she told the wolf-dran as she tried to settle herself back on its back [color=Aquamarine]”but your ability to act as a butt pillow have definitely gone down a bit.”[/color] It still did have fur, true, but that coming out from under the scales ment there was a hard layer under the softness, which was worse than just a pure fur affair. Still, it had indeed gotten some improvements. First off, the wolf-dran was visibly more at home with the chilly temperature as they set off into the caves. It also handled the icy pathways in there better too. Certainly better than Yoshitsune, who was riding alongside her and supplying some convenient heat from his flaming sword, who still had his wheel situation going on. [color=Aquamarine]”If Sec doesn't help you out I can lend you this one as a guide dog”[/color] Midna told him, petting the wolf-dran on the head to indicate to it, and causing it to wag its new stuck up tail full of ice spikes. Midna raised an eyebrow behind her mask as she sensed a little bit of magic being produced by the wagging and experimentally put her hand in the way and got brushed by the tail spikes, resulting in a semi familiar surge of speed. [color=Aquamarine]”Huh. As if I wasn't fast enough”[/color] she said with a smile. All this dog lending offering and experimenting had distracted a touch from the elephant in the room, or rather the giant, who was frozen in the ice wall of the cave. Midna was of the opinion that if you had seen one giant man trapped in the cold you had seen them all, or at least that was what she told herself to avoid getting intimidated by the absolute titan staring down at them. Fortunately for them they probably didn’t need to deal with him due to him being iced, though that didn’t stop Midna doing as Big Band Suggested and keeping quiet as they went past. Razputin suggested optimistically that the big man might be the boss and was already dealt with, but Midna put an end to that hope by telling him in a whisper that [color=Aquamarine]”A suspicious hooded woman who’s part of a suspicious group who all wear black leather cloaks said it was at the top, so that's where we are going”[/color] In hindsight that wasn't the most convincing, so she added [color=Aquamarine]”Bosses dying also causes everything around them to get freed. That's how I and everyone back at Alcamoth got freed anyway, so if this big guy was dealt with, all those old guys would be free. Also he’s not ash so… ah, shit. Definitely not dead”[/color] that put a bit of a dampener on her dismissal of the titan, and so Midna was extra quiet after realizing that, unaware that bodies of the dead from before the world merger still stayed around.