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[h2][color=FD0000]The Koopa Troop[/color][/h2]
[b][color=FD0000]wordcount:[/color][/b] 921 (+2) (+3) 
[b][color=FD0000]Bowser: Level 14 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=FD0000]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (146/140)
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 13 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (161/130)
[b][color=DeepSkyBlue]Kamek: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=DeepSkyBlue]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (146/120)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 8 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aqua]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color] (127/80)
[b][color=FD0000]Location:[/color][/b] The Under - Mercy Dreams
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Central hub: Smash City Alcamoth
Accessible locations:
Peach’s castle
Limsa Lominscuttle Town
Lumbridge
Twilight Town
Kosm’s Beach
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[color=FD0000]”I mean we’ll walk, obviously”[/color] was Bowser’s obvious answer to the question of how they were going to get down the chasm, causing Jr to groan loudly and to then turn and ask [color=SpringGreen]””Kamek, make me one of those ridable dragons or something, I don’t wanna walk all day again!”[/color]

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I suppose”[/color] Kamek agreed with a sight, before beginning to conjure, before reeling what that sounded like and clarifying [color=DeepSkyBlue]”that I can make you a steed I mean. I do not suppose that we can walk down there, as the lift is out, remember?”[/color]

[color=FD0000]”Ohhh. By chasm I thought she meant just the way down to the hole”[/color] Bowser replied [color=FD0000]”but I mean, can’t we just jump down it again? Land on those flowers”[/color] 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”I’m not sure if that is wise, we got lucky last time that no one hit the sides of the chasm”[/color] Kamek replied as he finished conjuring a [url=https://i.imgur.com/LPVqX0a.jpeg]king gryphon[/url] for the young prince, who excitedly hopped on its back, before taking off, doing a loop de loop and then landing back on the ground again.

[color=Aqua]”Couldn’t we all just, well, use that to get down?”[/color] Rika asked 

[color=SpringGreen]”No it's mine, and you can’t have it!”[/color] Jr disagreed with a mix of brattyness and cheer, before remembering something and saying [color=SpringGreen]”Oh but here, you can have this”[/color] before tossing Rika the tape for the Beast. 

[color=SpringGreen]”The ‘Undyne’ tape fixed itself over night somehow, so I’ve got that now”[/color] he explained, before briefly switching to the fishy knight, which made for quite the majestic image atop the king gryphon’s back, before turning it off again. [color=SpringGreen]”Cool huh?”[/color]

[color=Aqua]”Oh? Thanks”[/color] Rika replied, catching it, before clarifying [color=Aqua]”But  I didn’t mean I’d take your bird thing. I can just float down using that floaty rock I have after all”[/color] 

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Also I can make more. Some more anyway”[/color] Kamek clarified [color=DeepSkyBlue]”Not enough for everyone, but if needs must we can just ferry people down a few at a time”[/color]

[color=FD0000]”Sounds like a plan!”[/color] Bowser decided, getting up off his butt and declaring [color=FD0000]”Alright troop, let’s move out!”[/color] 

Move out they did, or rather down, following the mining trails and avoiding any kind of trouble this time, till they arrived at the place where the crane had once stood. Reduced to splinters, it would not, as Kamek said, provide a way down. This had not, apparently, stopped the miners however, as while they approached, a figure was seen emerging from the chasm.

She was a blocky figure, in a way very reminiscent of a certain Steve, wearing equally blocky metal armor over a Yellow sweater that looked like it would be quite cozy where it is not at the moment very wet. When flagged down, she introduced herself as [url=https://imgur.com/a/RbcEooA]Makena[/url] and returned to the edge of the pit to explain how she had just gotten out, and in doing so why she was drenched.

Pouring endlessly out of a recently dug nook in the chasm wall was a 1 meter wide cubic waterfall that rolled down and down and down into the dark. She had, apparently, swum all the way up it, and claimed it to be a much superior alternative to her competition’s method. Said method was on the other side of the chasm, and seemed to consist of a single rope that, again, went down and down and down forever into the dark.

Makena espoused the creator said rope to be a fool, specifically for the sin of digging straight down, which was not a debate the troop and any reference for. Bowser promptly asked how in the world else you would dig down, prompting Makena to disavow him. Shortly after, she took her leave, leaving the seekers with a choice of 3 ways down. Leap of faith, vertical swimming, or massive amounts of abseiling.

Well, those or their own power, which 3 out of 4 of them took. After providing a steed or two if they were desired, Kamek simply began drifting down the hole atop his broomstick, while Rika activated her feather fall rune and began to float slowly after while Jr, well, Jr proceeded to divebomb his gryphon mount straight down into the dark while whooping with glee.

That left Bowser with the options of rope or water, and given that the rope was not going to be able to hold him, he opted for water. He could breathe it after all. Unfortunately the big lug forgot he couldn’t swim anymore.

The Koopa king promptly sank like a stone, endangering anyone who’d gone before him with his much too swift pace. Still, while fast for anyone sane, it wasn’t so fast he was gonna go splat, particularly when he added his super bell into the mix, and started to control his descent by scratching his cat claws against the wall. Now descending at a sane speed, he continued on down and down and down till at last he and the rest of the Troop arrived at the bottom and discovered something terrible: someone had cut down all the flowers!

There were also two holes dug into the once fertile ground. Into one the waterfall fell, and for some reason it did not overflow out of it and flood the cave. The second one had the rope descending into it, and from it the sound of metal striking stone could be heard. Suspecting a culprit of the flower devastation, the Troop looked down this hole, and found a rather short individual wearing [url=https://i.imgur.com/D1srgRr.jpeg]silvery armor[/url] digging a hole straight down into the ground.

He was promptly shouted at, but insisted that the flowers had been like that when he got here. When asked why he was digging down there for, he informed them he was digging something called a ‘hellevator’ and to leave him to it.

So they did.

[color=DeepSkyBlue]”Well, if it wasn’t him, I think we all know who did this, though I wonder if this means our survival was an accident, or if we’re scaring him now? Either way, he should be”[/color] Kamek declared, having already relayed the lack of a soft landing awaiting them.

At least there wasn’t also a pack of monsters awaiting them either, and so the troop happily set up shop and waited for the rest of the team to join them back down in the depths.