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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,104 (+2) 
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (137/100) 
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 8 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (150/80) 
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]//////////(81/90) 
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Bottomless Sea – Carcass Isle
Feat: Rika
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Bowser didn’t hear any of Link’s mutterings about Ganondorf, which was the hero’s loss as if he’d been louder he could have learned a bit about one of his past selves and how he had also teamed up with the Garudo king in that very same adventure. To his credit, unlike a certain princess he didn't take to violence as soon as he learned that context-less information about someone teaming up with his universe's eternal arch evil and so the king was subsequently left to snooze, his sword in the gut free.

Well, after taking Blazermate to task for a bit for her “strategy” for dealing with being mind controlled.

[color=FD0000]”Oh yeah sure, let me just recognize I’m mind controlled and decide be mediocre. Why didn't I think about that half dozen times it’s happened?”[/color] Bowser replied sarcastically in response to her laziness strategy [color=FD0000]”You know what you do when you get saddled with a pile of half useless schmucks? You carry them to victory, because if you're not gonna do it no one will.”[/color]

He tiredly jabbed a finger her way, before waving his hand once and letting the topic lie if she would. He needed all the rest he could get, especially for his throat. He really should not have swallowed that conch.

He got woken up again a bit later by his son’s raucous laughter, his brief annoyance at being awake in such a way being rapidly squashed by the thought of how nice it was to hear his dear boy’s mirth for the first time in what, thanks to the maw, felt like a long long time. Of course, this being Jr, the laughter was 100% at someone's expense, in this case, the freshly transformed Kamek.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Really young master, it isn't that funny”[/color] Kamek was saying to the gawfing princling, who’s response was [color=SpringGreen]”yeah it is! you look ridiculous!”[/color] followed by more giggling

Reptile (and Koopa) sexual dimorphism being what it was, namely basically non existent, meant it would take a while for most people to catch on to what had occurred. Even her voice was mostly the same. As a result Jr, and subsequently his dad once he caught onto what was happening, were mostly amused by the humanization of the wizard. That and the poofy tail out back. Actually it was basically all about the tail actually, it was very silly.

“It’s not that bad. You look kinda cute actually. But how come you changed so much when I’m mostly just me with new clothes?” Rika reassured him and then asked

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”This system has something of a humanoid preference, it seems, on either the spirit or Galeem’s slide. Or both. Which, I’ll admit, is rather annoying for my koopa pride buuuut”[/color] the mage gave a stretch and then rolled her shoulders experimentally and was delighted to inform them [color=DeepSkyBlue]” I haven't felt this spry in near on a half dozen decades! Perhaps ever? If dropping a few scales is what it costs to be young again I can hardly complain.”[/color] 

“So did it work? Can you bring people back?” Rika butted in to get them back to the point of all this.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Hmm? Oh yes, that! Well let's find out shall we?”[/color] the mage said and then stepped over to one of the fallen crab spirits, picking it up and putting it on a rock before sweeping her arms out to clear some space. [color=DeepSkyBlue]''Stand back! And be ready!”[/color] she instructed before dramatically jabbing her fingers at the spirit in a wizardly fashion punctuating each subsequent flourish with [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Arise! Stand once more! Live!”[/color] to no avail. Then she strained her now very short beak and tensed her younger muscles with one last effort before giving up and breathlessly admitting [color=DeepSkyBlue]”ahhh, it's no good. I can feel something but… no. or maybe not yet? I did decipher more of Cia’s magic earlier, maybe I can do the same with this? Hmmm, what did I even get from this?”[/color]

“Oh. Well. Hopefully you’ll figure something out, or one of the others will” Rika replied, more than a little disappointed. 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Hmm, no I think that there's certainly something here that might be related. Something to do with herbs and…”[/color] the mage was racking his brains for newfound knowledge and then suddenly exclaimed [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Cooking? Really? How… stereotypical”[/color]

“Cooking?” she asked

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”It seems I have learned an awful lot about living in and making use of the materials found in forests. Not something it would expect from a person dressed in white. Think of the stains, ech.”[/color] He shuddered at the thought before trying to reassure her friend [color=DeepSkyBlue]”I’ll keep at it however. I’m sure there's more to this woman than squatting in the woods”[/color]

“Oh. well. Good luck. I’ll, uh, go tell the other one that her friend isn't coming back any time soon while you do that?” Rika replied with a sigh, and then stepped away from the mage who was now being bothered about making a meal for the two royals, who then reminded them that the king had already eaten their one available cooking ingredient, only to find the crabby princess missing. “Oh. Huh. where did she go?” she asked herself and then, with her gauntlets strapped onto her back rather than primed and at the ready, set off to take a look, eventually coming across her speaking with Link further up the cave. Grimly too, based on the end of the conversation she heard involving her decrying life as not worth living.

“Wow, no hey wait! There’s way more to life than all that” she shouted as she hurried to join them “there’s friends! and fun! And forests! and food! and, um, well I’ve only been at this for a day but here. Here here here.” she dug around in her newly changed jacket, failing for a moment to find where her pockets had gone, and then pulled out one of her dwindling supply of lollipops and offered it to her fellow former abyssal “Try this. You put it in your mouth, like this” she got out one of her own to demonstrate, before pulling it out again to add “and then you lick it as it melts and it tastes so sweet and yummy” before popping the sweet back in for her own enjoyment.

Then she realized she was being rude and got out a third to offer to the hero of the wilds and saying “Right Link?” her words a touch muffled due to not being able to take out her own lolly as her her hands where busy offering the other two one of their own each.