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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 973  (+2) 
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 11 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (228/110)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]//////[/color]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (5/120)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]////[/color]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// (4/120)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 6 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aqua]///////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]///////////// (47/60)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] The Under - The Colorless Wood
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Kamek
Invoke Extraordinary Mount (Tigran Sorceress): Kamek can create magical constructs in the shape of various supernatural creatures to be used as mounts, and only as mounts (the constructs can only follow basic commands and are worthless in combat without a rider, and even when ridden cannot attack in ways not specifically stated). As magical constructs they have no spirits, and have a passive mana upkeep, limiting the number that Kamek can create and maintain at once. Take 10 seconds to summon, meaning they are best prepared in advance. 


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Big Beetle: a large flightless beetle that can tunnel through dirt and soft stone, can damage harder surfaces (such as walls), grants 40% resistance to blight (poisons, toxins, and acids) and is able to bash aside enemy shields and spears with relative ease, making it easier for its rider to attack said foes in melee.

Cockatrice: a monstrous flightless rooster that is nimble enough that its rider can often get in the first strike when attacked, and can commanded to use a ‘doom gaze’ attack that deals moderate light damage  and can petrify (read, stun) a single target for 4 seconds (an entirely mundane human has a 55% chance of being petrified, while magical and light resistances can reduce this significantly. Consecutive stuns last half as long (4-2-1-0)). Both damage and chance to petrify are lower at longer ranges.

Hunter/Dread/Vampire Spider: large rideable spiders. All of them grant 40% resistance to blight damage, can be commanded to attempt to ensnare a close rage target in webs (read, stun) for 4 seconds (an entirely mundane human has a 75% chance of being ensnared, while increased physical defenses reducing the odds of the effect. Consecutive stuns last half as long (4-2-1-0)), and can also produce webs to navigate vertical terrain such as walls. The hunter can leap impressive distances, the dread grants a chance for its rider to poison foes when they hit them with attacks (regular human has 55% chance to be affected, with magical and blight resistances reducing the odds of the effect) and the vampire lightly heals its rider when they attack.

Fire/Frost/Gold Wyvern: Flying beasts. Fire and frost grant 40% resistance to their respective elements, while gold has 40% blight resistance

Obsidian Wyvern: Flying beast, which can camouflage itself and its rider when they are in caves, wetlands, or blighted/corrupted environments, making them much harder to spot at a distance

Bone Wyvern: Flying beast, which empowers its riders attacks’ with brain rot which causes the target to lose some of their current mana reserves (regular human has 45% chance to be affected, with magical and blight resistances reducing the odds of the effect).

King Gryphon: Flying beast, who’s elven affinity slightly increases its rider’s ranged damage and which is nimble enough that its rider can often get in the first strike when attacked.
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The plan worked! Jr’s new magics stunned their towering foe, and Rika got to move in oh so close and hit each and every one of her twelve shots!

And yet

It was not enough.

The stun ended, and the still living spider queen cried out, leaping back into the woods and unleashing a hurled wave of spiders, proving in an instant that, had they had the nerve, the little minions could have overwhelmed them at any time. Just as they did now.

[color=SpringGreen]”Incoming!”[/color] Jr called out in alarm, a moment before he was bodied, not by spiders, but by his Papa who leapt to shield his boy from the incoming torrent. The others were not so lucky, as both Rika and Kamek where washed away by the wave of spiders, both falling to the ground, covered in the wretched creatures

[color=Aqua]”Nononononono not again!”[/color] Rika cried out in dismay, having just experienced this exact same situation only with snakes a short while ago, only now her body being bound by webs instead of living ropes. Her response was flailing wildly. Hullblades and gauntlets crushed and chopped some, while a firing of her maneuvering thrusters caused her to be dragged in-elegantly across the ground and got her even more tangled up.

The frailer Kamek could not even muster that panicked self defense, the old Koopa having to resort to hiding in his shell to avoid having his extremities nipped and bitten by the spider swarm.

Meanwhile Bowser, holding his son to his chest, weathered the storm on his feet, but the spiders still tried their best to web him up anyway, swarming the hulking king and binding first his said to the floor, before weaving their way upwards despite his struggles and the flailing of arms, Dreugh limbs and Tentacruel tendrils trying to bat them off.

[color=FD0000]”Go”[/color] the king commanded as they rose higher, pushing his son’s flying machine up into the air before the arachnids could try to bind them together

[color=SpringGreen]”Papa! Hold on!”[/color] Jr called out as he floated upwards, raising up his staff to cast the same spell he had halted Silitha with. Yet in the two second interval it would take to do so, he saw the forest light up with exactly what he had feared: a dozen more deep hunters and, following after, a rain of poison that came shooting towards the immobilized Troop.

Then, a shining miracle in the dark world shot forth from the mists: as a striped knight darting through the air, parrying the poison with a golden blade, and who then set his sights upon felling the wretched queen, scoring a mighty hit that blinded several of her eyes.

It gave Jr the time he needed to finish the Holy spell, which sent a blast of light out in a bubble around him, burning though the webs and causing the spiders swarming his papa to drop to the ground like files, where they lay stunned. 

As Bowser proceeded to stomp the paralyzed spiders flat, and Jr rushed over to repeat his trick for Rika, Kamek and anyone else who was unable to free themselves, the knight continued to show his prowess. He used his voice to the same effect as Jr’s magic to blast away spiders swarming him, then leapt to and fro with masterful steps, avoiding more deephunter shots, before landing and releasing the bees upon his foes.

[color=SpringGreen]”Oh! Oh! Mimi! Copy that!”[/color] Jr called out when he saw that final trick, a command which his pokemon who was still riding along with him in the clowncar forced to obey. With a “Mi-miiii” vaguely reminiscent of the hive knight’s signature cry, she also opened wide and released a little flurry of pint sized yellow bed sheet ghosts wearing pichu ear headbands the size of thumb puppets.

These adorable yet miniscule constructs clustered around their creator behind the car’s windshield, awaiting instruction.

Those instructions would have to wait till after the boy finished his own casting, and the holy light washed over the last of the trapped seekers, a thing he finished doing right as the knight leapt back to land at their side for a moment. From there their savior commanded a charge and, without waiting for agreement from them, proceeded to do just that, running at full pelt towards their towering foe.

[color=Aqua]”Should we, uh, follow him?”[/color] Rika asked after a moment of inaction, she herself having just gotten to her feet and still recovering from her second swarming of the day.

[color=FD0000]”Of course not! I’m the one who gives the orders around here”[/color] Bowser replied, before, in the exact same breath commanding [color=FD0000]”Koopa troop! Chaaaaaarge!”[/color] and racing after the knight, steel capped boots pounding the ground and shoulder cannons spitting shells at the spider queen while he wound up a fist, priming it to give her a good ol sock in the mouth if/when he reached her.

[color=Aqua]”Huh? Wha? Ok then!”[/color] a confused Rika said as she found herself instinctively following after him without a thought of how she was actually going to fight the giant spider sans any bullets or shells, meaning she’d likely be following Bowser’s lead all the way through to the mouth socking end.

Jr followed suit himself, commanding [color=SpringGreen]”Mimi and, uh, the Mimis! Use shadow sneak on all those glowy spitty ones!”[/color] as he swooped after the others, boxing gloves deployed, prompting the Mimikyu and her mimikyulings to stick their tendrils into their own shadows, and making it so that the deephunters would have to fear claws in the dark coming from behind them while the hivelings came in from the front.

Kamek meanwhile just sighed, shook his head … and instead of charging just summoned a large rock sized magic fist next to Silitha’s new blind spot inorder to punch her in the face with it.