[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] 913 (2+) [b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (223/100) [b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 9 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (196/90) [b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 10 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](123/100) [b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] Limsa Lominscuttle Town - Kanzuki Beach Feat: Rika [/center] [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Why thank you Geralt,”[/color] the now much less human Kamek (a state of being she was quite happy with) replied to the witcher’s praise for finding the device, before adding [color=DeepSkyBlue]”But I can’t take all the credit, Rika was the one who lead me to the general area. One which had living food that turned parts of people into themselves when eaten. One can only wonder what they gain from having such an ability”[/color] She paused there, leaving space for thought about what trickery might lie beneath the bugsnack’s cutesy exterior, before she went on [color=DeepSkyBlue]”And of course Miss Floofty, for inventing it”[/color] as if that had pause had never happened. She listened quietly as Geralt spoke about the power he felt lurking within him, just beneath the surface. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Oh yes, the changes can be quite… insidious in their depths, the personality ones most of all”[/color] she said, probably not helping matters in terms of the level of worry about the changes, before adding more optimistically that [color=DeepSkyBlue]”I can only praise your self reflective abilities that you have noticed what has occurred on your own”[/color] [color=FD0000]”Ah you’re both over-complicating things. Look. see. Weird new limb goes zap”[/color] Bowser, who was most certainly not a master of self reflection, insisted as he showed off his new lopsided limb, by flicking it forwards and delivering a shock to the ground, sending a little burst of sand out from the impact point. Dazzle meanwhile was finding their new limbs quite annoying, being lingering, feather covers flippers even less suited for land walking in the way his old sea-lion limbs had been, and he was not opposed to letting his new trainer know via seal-clown sounds. [color=SpringGreen]”Yeah I know they are kinda inconvenient. But at least it's more like just a jacket instead of going full penguin. Plus you should have a new power of. Um. flapping about?”[/color] Jr retorted, floundering a bit at the last hurdle. Dazzle gave Jr an eye roll, everyone knew piplups flew like iron bars, but gave it a go regardless, inflating one of his water balloons and using it as a trampoline to launch himself. And then splashed down pretty far out into the water, much to his and everyone else's surprise. Just not quite as surprised as various gunship pilots had (very briefly) been when faced with a deadly bird strike by a flock of genetically enhanced penguins. No for the troop that level of surprise came when Dazzle sped through the waves and launched himself back out of the water like a rocket. [color=SpringGreen]”...uh, see?”[/color] Jr managed as the awe wore off, before saying more loudly [color=SpringGreen]”See! Seal missile! Told you it was worth it”[/color] which Dazzle had to somewhat agree, even if it was still annoying to be on land. "It's to see that everyone's enjoying themselves...in their own ways," observed Peach, having given the brawling streetfighters a wide berth as she made her way to where the Koopa Troop looked on. She couldn't keep her eyes off Bowser as she approached, although not in a good way. "Have you been fusing again!?" [color=FD0000]”You know it princess. Look. Weird zappy arm. Pretty cool huh?”[/color] Bowser said, gesturing to his new asymmetrical addition, and deflating a fair bit when a brief look of disgust flashed over her royal features. "Well...at least you're not like that all over, I suppose?" she allowed, trying to see the bright side. Then she took a deep breath and spoke her mind. "I have to say though, doesn't it all seem a bit much? All those spirits have made a mess out of you. I can barely even recognize what you've become." [color=FD0000]”Well I mean. Yeah. Sure. But I’m stronger, so what does it matter what I look like!”[/color] the koopa bit back with a growl [color=FD0000]”I’m doing everything that I can to make sure we win this, what’s so bad about that, huh?”[/color] Kamek tried to mediate between the two by pointing out [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Well at least with this we can spread out the changes now. Keep them separate and avoid any more, ah, dramatic transformations”[/color] “Or just shove it all into the same shoulder?” Rika suggested from where she had been getting a crash course in sandcastle building from Lana. The fast learner had already added her own little neutral fort onto the battlefield and she was very proud of the misshapen mass even as she tinkered away at improving it. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Yes… or that…”[/color] Kamek said, furrowing her brow while glancing between the messily morphed Bowser and the spirit extracting Peach. The princess’ face looked just as contemplative before both she and Kamek snapped their fingers at the same time with a shared [color=DeepSkyBlue]“Ah[/color] ha!” A few moments later, and Bowser was (briefly) his old self again thanks to Peach pulling out all of his spirits, and then Bowser reabsorbed them all while Kamek helped the Snaktivator to his shell, focusing all of the changes in the place where all the useful mutations had occurred anyway. [center][hider=For Bowser]Spirits absorbed: [url=https://i.imgur.com/BfXsFeW.png][b]Blastoise[/b][/url] [url=https://i.imgur.com/3o8rCW9.png][b]Tentacruel[/b][/url] [url=https://i.imgur.com/LxD0vcA.png][b]Trento[/b][/url] [url=https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/elderscrolls/images/e/e0/Land_Dreugh_Oblivion_transparent.png][b]Land Dreugh[/b][/url] [b]Target:[/b] Shell The host's shell has turned Blastoise brown, with a knobby outer texture, and divided into seven plates sections, with a hexagon in the middle and trapezoids all around. The rim, both of the shell and of the spikes, is purple-blue and flared outward in a wave pattern like the edge of Tentacruel's body. At every corner of the shell plates there is a cerise Tentacruel orb. The whole outer layer of the shell is actually metal, with the seams gilded and a golden fleur-de-lis on the middle one, and it's biomechanical beneath. All six of the outward plates can raise up and extend a pair of thick cannon barrels each. in the direction their facing. Only the upper right and upper left ones can swivel forward to fire straight while Bowser is standing. The middle section of the shell can be raised to allow four large Land Dreugh limbs to extend outward to the sides like giant spider legs, while a nest of tentacruel tentacles can be stretched out of the top. Purplish-blue scales extend outward for a short ways across Bowser's body, with his shell as the origin point, and his hair is Trendo lavender. His suit jacket, which the shell sets atop, is now much longer and styled like Trento's coat, although the epaulet tassels are now Tentacruel tentacles. The host's personality is sweeter and more caring, but also more mindlessly aggressive when angered. These spirits confer the Powers [b]Torrent[/b], which allows his cannons to fire water blasts that get stronger in a pinch, [b]Liquid Ooze[/b], which allow his cannons to spray low-pressure jets of toxin, [b]Shell Generation[/b], which allows Bowser to internally manufacture his own explosive ammo for his cannons (as well as regrow his spikes) from his food, and [b]Shocking Touch[/b], allowing Bowser to electrify a Land Dreugh limb that then spends the charge on whatever it hits next, zapping it. These spirits also confer the Weaknesses [b]Psychic Bane[/b], causing mental attacks to deal double damage to the host and increasing mental susceptibility, [b]Electric Bane[/b], causing electric attacks to deal double damage to the host, [b]Soft Machine[/b], increasing the host's stamina consumption and fall damage by way of increased weight, and [b]Can’t Swim[/b], which means that when in water, the host can only sink to the bottom[/hider][/center] Peach's eyebrows rose as a smile dawned on her face. "Oh, well then. There's the Bowser we know and...well, the Bowser we know." [color=FD0000]”Yeah! The king is back”[/color] Bowser announced loudly while flexing his back to normal arms, enjoying having his proportions back rather than being all gangly due to the human touch. Then he paused mid flex and somewhat bashfully scratched his lavender hair before saying [color=FD0000]”And, uh, sorry about arguing with you before. This is waaay better. So, uh, thanks?”[/color] to the princess. [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Well, almost back”[/color] Kamek said ruefully as Jr ran up to give his far more normal looking dad a hug.