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[color=77bb99]"I think I’ll hide out just a little longer, this looks serious!"[/color]

[color=888888]— Book Kidd[/color]

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[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5656223]Book Kidd[/url]
Max MP: 50 Current MP: 29 - ?? = ?? 
Casting: ???

Gear: Clip Light (6) Disguise (6) Gift (6 Probiotic Supplements) Grenade (6) 
Molotov (6) Smoke Bomb (6) Handcuffs (6) 
Leveraging: N/A
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Rika did not understand the layout of the ship, but even a broken clock was right twice a day. The seemingly ordinary chunk of wall broke and fell away, revealing the alien in question. Tim was seated in front of controls with the same inorganic design as the inside of the ship. His head moved, slowly, to look at the destructive little esper.

[color=bd71e8]"I have studied your culture."[/color] He said with all the calm of a disappointed father trying to suppress his rage. [color=bd71e8]"Do you know what I discovered?"[/color] He rose to his feet. [color=bd71e8]"That your kind would rather lie than tell the truth, that you are happiest when you have more than you deserve, and more than everyone can share equally."[/color] He brandished his spear. [color=bd71e8]"For centuries your kind have preyed upon each other, enslaved one another, either through contract, law, or subjugation through violence. Even with the mercy I’ve shown you thus far, violence is your answer to this dilemma."[/color] He chuckled darkly, even as the ship continued to turn sideways. [color=bd71e8]"Fine by me!"[/color] 

The wall of slime pushed out of the holes, sprawling a network of tentacles that stitched themselves together like a net. It began to get dark around Rika as the sunlight was filtering through thicker and thicker layers of slime, and Tim lunged out of his newly created opening and soared towards his opponent. 

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[color=ff6347]"Can we kill it now?"[/color]

[color=888888]— Mika Fang, Cerberus[/color]

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[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5656223]Mika Fang[/url]
Max MP: 30 Current MP: 24 - 2 = 22
Casting: [self] 0 + [transform] 2 = 2

Gear: Taser (3 shots) Mastermind (40 credits - 10 for 3 smoke bombs) Smoke Bombs (2)

Leveraging: N/A
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So it was a waiting game.

The ground was only becoming more slanted, to the point where Mika had to dig her claws into the floor to prevent herself from sliding. Her eyes shifted to Marrie, who was trying to break up the cooled slime chunks into even smaller slime chunks. She raised an eyebrow, but would never really fault anyone for being cautious. Though given the look on her face, this was more something done out of frantic desperation than a cool head.

Nina’s goggles verified what she already knew. The ship glowed with arcane energy, and she needed to squint just to make looking into her goggles bearable. Her current setting couldn’t tell her if Luna was real or not, but she was giving off an arcane signature like she’d expect of an esper. It was hard to tell if the slime had an arcane signature or not with the ship glowing like the sun, but it was mild enough that Luna’s magic was able to register. She couldn’t see much more through her goggles.

Ashley’s vision was also flooded, but it was all information on her tactical goggles. Much of the information she already knew. It was a monster, it was weak to arcane damage sources, its soft body gave it a resistance to crushing-like attacks, it used tentacles to defend itself, but then the interesting bits came in. This creature was more than just lab equipment, it behaved as the ship’s central nervous system. While it was used to analyze and study subjects, damaging it too much would adversely affect the ship. Otherwise, it seemed like it had the ability to sap the mana out of whatever it touched, and was able to subdue targets by keeping them in a coma so long as it was allowed to enter their lungs, at which point it took over breathing for them. Care would need to be taken if it was killed outright, as its victims would risk suffocation if they weren’t extracted fast enough. 

The creature spasmed, and began to grow. Or rather, draw itself in from other corners of the ship. Its color changed, the chamber trembled, and the tendrils in the hallway darted in behind the espers. 

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[color=a4f4f9]"We’ve kept it going for 12 weeks! Hooray!"[/color]

[color=888888]— Dan Daggernose[/color][/center]

Dan ignored the jellywoman’s words, or at least he didn’t appear to react to them. As the incline of the ship got worse, he less ran and more slid towards his destination. Where that would be would soon reveal itself. After sliding a certain distance, he swung into a side chute that was just a bit narrower than the duct they had been in previously. It was very dark in here, but there was enough light to see the encroaching slimes. Though Dan wasn’t too worried about them. 

Until he got to a particularly big mass. He stopped running and picked up the jelly woman and pointed her at the cyan growth that was growing out of control. [color=a4f4f9]"Hit it with your most powerful spell."[/color] He commanded her. 

Meanwhile, the other two espers were left to contend with the slime queen. Jack wasn’t fairing well against the increasing incline, and the block attack nearly crushed her. However, Pekka was in a better position to attack. While the slime monster was only distracted for a moment, it was enough for the doll to land a blow on the slime queen’s other arm, and the added magical energy was enough to sever it. However, it wasn’t enough to kill it outright. 

There was a lot less floating inside the slime queen now. She didn’t even really look like Penny anymore. Her arms were missing, and her head had elongated into an appendage to hold the massive cube. But now it was in close proximity to its attacker. 

The slime monster opened up like a clam and swallowed Pekka. A green cylinder of slime now surrounded the doll. It’s body thickened, making controlling Pekka more difficult, but worse, its body twisted into itself. The strings that bound Nukkelina to Pekka were drawing her in, all while the slime monster prepared for a mighty blow. The massive cube was wrenched out from the hallway, and was being swung like a flail on top of the girl’s head.