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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,487 (+6)
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (173/100)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (143/90)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]///////////////////////////////////////////(63/100)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Bottomless Sea – Carcass Isle
Feat: Rika
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Whatever the source or cause of the team’s spectral assistance, it was both dearly needed and highly effective as it turned what had been dogged resistance and evasiveness into a sudden burst of renewed fervor as the replenished and/or restocked fighters took to the rooftops and deliver a furious torrent of fire onto the titan.

The bloody armaments they had received proved particularly powerful on the monster’s main mass, which explained why they’d gotten them. Kamek’s little storm rained down its crimson droplets, leaving a lovely speckled pattern of gold all across the thing’s head of hands and shoulders. Rika meanwhile pockmarked the limbs with her own specs of gold, but it became clear after a bit that their effort to goldify the whole thing was better spent hammering the big obvious weak spot that was the blood drunk eye.

Thus, Rika joined Mimi in hammering the eyeball, her reserve of ichor ammo stripping some of its innate defense away, while Kamek and Jr focused on the balloons, Kamek’s rain popping several even as they spawned from the neck hole while Jr blasted those getting close with fireballs.

“Raaaaaaaaaaaaaa-hey wait come back that’s cheating!” Rika interrupted her wordless roaring alongside her gunfire when the eye suddenly pulled into the BT’s body, fleeing the fire it was taking.

[color=SpringGreen]”What happened?”[/color] Jr asked her, having been too focused on keeping them clear of balloons to keep track of the eye/

“It just shut the eye! It can’t just do that right? It’s not fair” Rika complained, before glancing and seeing it re-emerge far far away from them “oh no wait its back. Just all the way over there!”

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Time to move then. All aboard Kamek airways troop! We’ll leave the hopping to the heroes”[/color] the old mage told them, grouping up her clones to help lift the two youngsters. They did this by having two clones link arms and flying right next to each other, creating a pair of broomsticks that acted a bit like a chair for Rika and Jr to ride. Or as the prongs of a forklift. Either way, in quick succession the troop was airborne and heading for a better firing position.

This didn’t go entirely smoothly.

“Whip things coming after us!” Rika cried out in alarm as the thing lashed out after them, trying to take advantage of the fact that they had all had to get out into the open to move out. Then it succeeded, at least in part, when it clipped and launched the hat kid. There were several cries of alarm from on high, but fortunately Nadia was on the yarnball and launched herself, and then a clone of herself, forwards to save the falling child from a hard landing.

That she wasn't dead was a relief, that she was left just laying there was enraging. Moments later Troop hit the deck of a crashed [url=https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/7946146/5a2627b094de4dd3910536a9ad5c392de38c2171.png]airship [/url] that had risen up out of the muck and set to work extracting vengeance. Jr swiftly monkeys up one of the masts to get to the crows-nest from which to keep launching his fireballs and Rika climbed up and used its dilapidated turret as a firing platform while Kamek stuck to the nice and sturdy deck proper for her spell-casting.

From there they unleashed their fury, hailing the blood drunk eye with a cavalcade of magic and metal along with the rest until, at last, one of the team's shots chipped off that last sliver of health and it was, at last, truly over. The titan stumbled. Fell. and the golden crystallization took hold, bleeding its way across its entire body which first petrified, and then shattered upon hitting the sand.

After one final shadowy surprise, the Orphan’s spirit was left behind amidst a field of statuesque hands and glimmering golden crystals reflecting the sunlight of the ever so welcome dawn.

Still, after two nasty surprises from the boss, no one assumed it was over till it really was, certainly not the troop who kept a tight formation as they dropped back down to the beach as the ruins sank away along with the tar polluting the world, all of it returning back to wherever it had come from. Yet moments passed, more than had passed after the monster’s physician form faltered, and eventually it looked safe to say that it was all over.

All that was left to deal with was the spirit and, fortunately enough, Geralt volunteered for that task, sparing them all the trouble of arguing over that cursed boon or, worse, finding out what happened if it was simply allowed to lay and fester.

He got some well deserved praise and thanks for his sacrifice, along with a [color=SpringGreen]”Better you than me”[/color] from Jr.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”What the young master means is, thank you for your bravery, Geralt”[/color] Kamek insisted to the Witcher while elbowing Jr, which got her a grunt of agreement from the prince, and then after a hard stare, a quiet [color=SpringGreen]”Yeah. Thanks”[/color] delivered to Geralt, along with a genuine “and good luck!” from Rika

As it turned out, the man didn't actually suffer too hard from the transformation, at least noticeably. Kamek had to give a little snort of a laugh at his joke about it being anticlimactic, before becoming the focus of a question about the state of the Atomos. This prompted a glance back to where Bowser had dumped it, which confirmed that it hadn't been devoured by the oil. Neither had Jr’s clown car incidentally, which sat on the ridge line as basted as ever and with the sentient meat hook Hook reeled out of it;s mouth and waving down at them in an attempt to make sure it wasn't left behind.  

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Well, it’s still there, but it was being muddled by something on the island and it might take a fair bit of work to get it running again, if it even will”[/color] kamek replied. She assumed killing the boss would have lifted the interference preventing it from taking off, but there was no guarantee that was the case from where she was standing

Fortunately they had two other options for getting out. The first was Blazermate, who mentioned she had her teleporter exit still set up back in Limsa. She also mentioned the possibility of checking out the area for spirits, but at least as far as the troop was concerned, this was of no interest at the moment.

Jr for one was 100% done [color=SpringGreen]”Screw waiting or doing annnnnnything else here. I wanna find my papa and then I want to go for a three day long nap thanks. You guys can muck around or wait for overalls to do his thing. I’m gonna go paint us a way home”[/color] he announced, ignoring Kamek’s whisper of [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Language!”[/color] in response to the use of ‘screw that’ and setting off for the cliff wall back near the entrance.

He vaguely gestured to one side as he got close, summoning a massive tower of goombas to retrieve his clown car, and then gave a tired twirl of his paintbrush and set to work doing a quick and dirty sketch of Alcamoth. Kamek and Rika joined his side as the clown car was slowly lowered down beside them and watched him work. While doing so Kamek glanced back the way they had come and wondered aloud [color=DeepSkyBlue]”I wonder if the wave of shadow hit all those minions who were bowing down back there?”[/color]

“Huh?” Rika asked, not knowing why that was relevant.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Oh, I haven't mentioned this have I? When a boss dies it sends out a wave that frees everything in the immediate area form Galeem’s grip, so I was wondering it it reached though there?”[/color] she explained, before thinking a bit more and glancing at the in progress painting before adding [color=DeepSkyBlue]”maybe we should wall this back up? Just in case something tries to get through?”[/color]

“What? No! Shouldn't we go help them. And, you know. Explain stuff?” Rika demanded loudly, leaving the tired mage swaying slightly before she shook her head and found her empathy fighting its way up to the surface of the sea of sleep that was filling her mind now that the adrenaline was gone.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I- Yes you are right. They must be very confused, and I’d hate to be like them in that state, lost in this dreadful place”[/color] she agreed, before cutting of Jr’s disagreement with this plan by saying [color=DeepSkyBlue]”You take someone with you and go find your father junior, we cant have him worrying after all. We’ll take a [i]careful[/i] look and see what’s going on back there”[/color] which placated the boy, at which point he went back to finishing up his return method.

After that, all that was left was to see who was going to go check in on the cat saved folk, who was going to go and do one last mission of mercy, and who was just done with all this and wanted to hit the hay as soon as possible.