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Level 9 Sectonia (holding 3 level up) - (52/90)
[b]Location:[/b] Basement > Cave
[b]Word Count:[/b] 1334[/center]

Sectonia found moving through this 'basement' was tricky. The doors were too small for her, so she had to teleport through them which wasn't the best. And while she managed to clear the rooms on the left, they lead to a dead end. Being thoroughly disgusted by this floor, Sectonia decided to stay back and let the others explore ahead; although she soon found this wasn't an issue as while she had gone left, many others had gone right. And she was mostly thankful she let the others go ahead considering the amount of... horrid body waste that lie ahead. Well at least she knew the origin of the smell of this floor, but that only made things worse. 

As she hung back Sectonia crushed some of the spirits she had gotten, finding.... well nothing useful. There was additionally a super heavy device she couldn't carry with her that seemed to be useless she left behind (hopper). Therion had managed to pick the lock of the item room, but all Sectonia saw was bits of blood and burnt bits at the entrance of that room, apparently something happened there she wasn't aware of. Wanting to get rid of the smell of this floor, Sectonia summoned her Antillions to clean up the rooms the others had cleared in an attempt to maybe bring some class, or at least reduce the smell of, this floor and collect any spirits they left behind. Being magical constructs, they didn't care one way or another. Sectonia did have to resummon them a few times though as they got filthier and filthier as they cleaned. As she had her antillions clean, she figured what kind of atrocious monster would hire or even make use of any of these things. Anyone that stuck around the Queen would see this was definitely a place she hated just by the expression on her face. 

Eventually making her way through the dungeon, following behind the others, Sectonia found that a room marked on the map as a ? mark seemed to have no way to enter it. A strange thing, but she wasn't a stranger to secret passages. Using her antillions, she had them check out the nearby walls that bordered the hidden room and after a few attempts, figured there was some false wall separating it from the rest of the dungeon. A breath of fresh air perhaps? Her antilllions couldn't break through the wall, and she wasn't going to put her hands on it anytime soon... Seeing as she had gotten her hands on an explosive, Sectonia tried using it to blow open the false wall, almost as if it was some kind of makeshift key. 

This had the proper effect, blowing open a hole into what looked like a long forgotten crypt. Well 'crypt' was being loose, it seemed to be some cave that gave the air of forgotten death holding a calcified statue of some kind of weird looking person. Additionally inside it was... Well Sectonia wasn't sure what she was going to expect, but inside she found some fires and TWO explosives! Wow... TWO bombs for the price of one. If she was a kid, she figured she might, MIGHT be excited. Well, if she didn't have her sensibilities about her anyway. As she commanded her antillions to collect the explosives, she saw that the fires that were a bit more 'red' for lack of a better word attacked when the antillions got close, shooting out their own blood globules. Did everything down here attack with blood? Using ice antillions, Sectonia put out those red fires, and the yellow ones for good measure, and found that for her efforts she was rewarded one of those coins she had gotten from those spirits she crushed. 

Sectonia would soon find that these coins were currency used in a, frankly, dusty and dirty store the others had discovered. Sectonia, being behind the group, only saw the tail end of their encounter with the store. Nadia had tried to steal the bomb that was apparently worth 5 currency, but the chalk numbers indicated some kind of magic. If you didn't have the currency, it wouldn't let you grab the item. Sectonia checked out the items in the store, finding the expensive one was actually something worthwhile as it buffed... minions? Well that was something she was interested in! 

Although she realized she didn't have 15 of these 'coins' that existed in this dungeon. This miffed her a bit, but then she thought that perhaps the magic of the store wouldn't care about what kind of currency it was as long as it was currency. Remembering Geo was currency, Sectonia counted out 15 of it, and thrust her hand into the heart that said "BFF". Unlike Nadia who had her hand just go through the item, Sectonia actually collected the item. 

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[b]BFFS![/b]
[i]A tattoo of an arrow-pierced heart has appeared on the forehead. The size of minions created (but not Strikers) is increased by 25%, their projectiles deal twice as much damage, and enemies take twice as much damage as usual by touching them[/i]
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Not knowing of the visual alternations these items confined, Sectonia saw that whatever antillions she had summoned immediately grew a fair amount larger. She knew they would be more powerful, but she wasn't expecting the size increase. And without a mirror, she wouldn't know about the new small tattoo that adorned her head. Something she'd learn soon.

Still lagging behind the others, as the doors only seemed to accept whoever could fit through them and only a few people went in every door, eventually the others reached a door adorned with a skull. Sectonia, alongside a few others, waited patiently as those that entered cleared out the boss. She took this time to clean any that wanted it using her now larger and stronger antillions. And considering the filth in this place, many of them needed it. When the boss was defeated and the door opened, the others waited around a hatch as the rest of the party entered, collecting themselves. Sectonia took this time to clean off whoever she could with her antillions as no self respecting minion of hers would be going around smelling like a sewer. 

With everyone having caught their breath and Sectonia doing what she could to clean up her allies with her magic, the group went through the trapdoor down to the next floor. Sectonia being the last one to enter as her size meant she had to teleport down, instead of fall like the others. Upon reaching the new level, which seemed to be a cave system, the smell of sewage was gone having been replaced by the smell of general decay. It was better, but not by much.

[color=92278f]"Hmph, whoever hid this 'mask' down here had the antithesis of beauty on their mind when they designed this place."[/color] Sectonia mentioned at how neither floor was all that accommodating to her sensibilities. Nadia had gone ahead much like usual, going in the direction of another shop she had seen. Sectonia meanwhile looked at the adjacent rooms finding many of them to have the smae grotesque monsters, although a bit more durable looking, as the previous floor. Curious as to what was in the store Nadia had found, Sectonia having found an item that made her antillions far more powerful, Sectonia made her way there after Nadia had cleared up that room. She caught the tail end of Nadia complaining about not having enough currency for some sort of prism looking object. 

[color=92278f]"IF your interested, I have some currency you can use to buy that object Nadia."[/color] Sectonia said, offering up the three pennies she was missing. [color=92278f]"However I ask that you crush some of the spirits I have collected so far after this floor is done.  I have a theory I would like to test."[/color] Far be it from Sectonia to deny one of her minions trying to beauty herself with crystal.