Skaia

As Lana was continuing her retreat away from the mage, she saw that he had continued his simple minded charge towards her. While she was sure that she could just keep rolling around and let the others do something about this, having the assumption that they certainly had to be done with their fights now, she was not expecting what had come next. As the grooves of blood rose once more, two waves appearing on either side of the mage, he charged once again with a rushing tide coming towards her. "Oh come on, pick one or the other!" Lana cursed the fact that she was born into this world without any magical talent of her own, though readied herself for the coming charge. If the blood had hit her she didn't really want to think about how much it would hurt and to say nothing of it hardened on top of her, and so she instead decided there was only one thing to do. The waves of blood parted on either side of the caster as he charged her so her only way now was forward, towards her opponent. Raising up her axe, the girl charged with the blade at the ready to slash and tackle into the man. Though he looked poised to smash his fist into her, a sudden dagger in his back had caused his movements to falter. With the blood surging past her now that she had managed to slip in the gap, the girl swung her axe down onto the man's head landing a direct hit. Letting out a deep exhale at her triumph of her presumably fatal blow, her grip suddenly tightened as the man continued to move. Refusing to acknowledge the fatal wound he had been given the mage moved his arms, attempting to cast once again. Lana glanced to the side to see that the blood that harmlessly splattered against the wall had formed into spikes that were all now rushing to impale her. Reflexively the girl dove the ground, only to be splattered with blood as the spikes that would have impaled the mage turned back into a harmless liquid. A look of disgust formed across her face, either from the feeling of having blood fall on her or simply the mage's persistence, as the girl quickly scrambled to her feet and backed away from the mage.

Jacklyn thought about Anneliese's question for a moment before saying, "we were just acquaintances and I don't think they made a good fit for my team. Besides, I can tell they had their own adventure to be getting to." Smiling at her own answer, the girl then looked over to the new pokemon that Anneliese had just caught. As it retreated the girl was tempted to poke its shell, looking at the creature curiously, before saying, "hey there Meredith, welcome to the party. Go on Cherry say hi too." The Buneary walked up, smiling and giving a friendly wave to the Shellder, though looking confused as it wasn't quite sure where the eyes of the pokemon were supposed to be. As such, wondering if it was actually being seen or not, the Buneary hopped to each side of the pokemon, giving a wave from each direction looking curious with each one before it felt at least somewhat satisfied that its message had gotten across. Jacklyn didn't pay much mind to her own pokemon's antics before looking at the Shellder again. Then back to Anima and their Frillish. Realizing once again that she only had two pokemon to her team, she commented, "you're both getting a lot of new members to your team." It was unclear from her tone whether this was a concern, a sense of jealousy or just a statement of fact. Jacklyn herself didn't know exactly how she felt about it and was completely oblivious to the fact that this was the first pokemon that Anima had caught since coming here. Though she wondered if she needed to step it up as well, and find another pokemon for her own team, the girl then shook her head and looked curiously once more at her fellow adventuring companions. What was more pressing to her was something that Anima had said that had made her curious. Thinking that she was kind of expert on pokemon, and made only more curious about the Frillish tale, the girl looked over to Anima expectantly and excitedly asked, "do you know anything about Shellders? Any cool stories? Do they guard like, super rare gems or stones in their shells?"

Sibyl didn't seem to be bothered by the comment about the Fates having killed Caesar. She had known them for awhile and knew that they were more than capable of doing something like this, especially if Caesar had been putting himself in the hot seat like that. "Oooh, that's pretty crazy of them," Sibyl had a smile on her face as she answered, a tone of both disinterest and curiosity, with the only thing surprising about the whole situation to her being that they had personally done the deed themselves. Her grin widened as Arcturus gave Sibyl their information, giving a wave to them as they left. "Be seeing you, keep me in touch when things get wild!" Once they were gone Sibyl's grin lessened as she looked into the distance. She knew that she wasn't particularly smart, and in fact being a "simpleminded idiot" as some might call her was something that she prided herself on. She didn't think too hard about the complicated stuff and lived as far as she could away from the line of societal standards and within the area of her own desires. Yet she had been a Moray for a long time and a criminal even longer. Looking in the direction Arcturus had just left the girl joked, "nothing wrong with being stupid, you know?" The girl chuckled to herself, before brightening up and began walking around town shouting, "alright Scarlet whatcha got for me today!?" Though she had asked the city itself for what it wanted of her it was of course a silent beast that left Sibyl entirely to her own devices. And left to her own devices she could only go to where her interest was most piqued; the corpse of the titan that she had killed. As the G3 seemed to have the area under lockdown, and Sibyl didn't have anything to do other than look at the beast - in its entirety an all - , she didn't bother trying to make her way into the blockade and instead found a nearby hill that she could spy on the whole operation from. The girl couldn't help but whistle at the sight of the giant still, even in death, billowing steam out from it as the melting carcass looked almost like a freakishly fleshy ice sculpture left out in the sun on a hot summer's day. The proverbial sculpture itself was also blemished with a swarms of people moving over it - the G3 employees wearing heat resistant gear whose job it was to dismantle the creature - taking parts of it off and ferrying them to nearby tents. The sight itself was pretty impressive on its own, enough so that the girl was tempted to find another wall to deface at that moment, but she also couldn't help but be made curious about Rubicon and think it a bit of a waste. A trail of shadows covered her arm as she thought back to her fight with the behemoth. Its power was pretty formless yet still solid, taking on the different properties of the things it was mimicking and also reforming them no matter the damage inflicted. She couldn't help but feel a sense of kinship towards it in that light, and a sense of pride as if she had proved herself the superior in their spontaneously made up rivalry. But it also made her wonder how such a thing was even possible; not just the construction of the beast but how it was able to mimic other Capes' abilities. And she couldn't help but wonder, in that respect, if there was more to her own power that she hadn't figured out yet; where did its limits lie and what could it actually mimic? Sibyl briefly considered raiding the G3 tents for parts, but she was neither Thinker nor Tinker and was smart enough to know that she would be too stupid to actually glean anything from the machine. Maybe she could just steal something from the people who made it then? She was starting to get all the more hyped about beating up Tidebinder now if that were the case, and with a jovial look gazed back down at the felled Rubicon. Stretching her shadowed hand out towards it she said, "don't worry buddy as the victor of our little scuffle I'll be sure to carry on your dreams for you." Her hand slowly morphed into a small mouth as she raised it up, shutting one eye and looking towards the sun. "And live as freely as I please." The maw snapped close over the small sun in her vision, before she laughed to herself again and walked away merrily.

As Lana leaped off the platform she had to leap further back once on solid ground, seeing the previously mage form spikes of blood around his hand and leap down at her. The man crashed his fists into the ground where Lana had been previously before standing back up and getting ready to strike at her with another onslaught of attacks. Lana stepped forward only to then step back immediately as the mage started to move towards her with fists at the ready, taking one punch after the other in a furious onslaught that seemed to have no end in sight. As she continued to back up, she cursed under breath as she realized no matter how far back she moved the man was clearly picking up speed and closing the gap between them. Thinking it best to try and hamper him a little girl waited until one of his swings came at her, ducking under it and quickly moving forward, swinging her axe at the back of his legs as she moved in. Though his leg buckled under the injury from the attack, the frenzied man was able to catch Lana with a return strike. With weighty fist striking into her back, the girl grimaced as she grit her teeth, stumbling forward. Between the fire and this she was starting to feel worse for wear, but with a glance noticed that everyone else was managing to deal with their own fights. "Ugh," the girl groaned, clearly frustrated that she had to deal with this brute but said, "if that's all I got to do then...come over here!" The girl ran northward, taunting her foe who was had seemed to get ready to charge at her. Knowing that he would collide with her in no time, and not wanting a repeat of what just happened, the girl rolled to the side, wincing in pain from her back injury. Standing back up she just muttered, "alright, don't get hit, don't get hit," before readying herself for the next charge from the mage.

Jacklyn was a bit conflicted about the way the competition played out. Naturally, she had wanted to score the best prize she could from the fishing contest and be declared its undisputed winner. It would've also been fine if someone of her team also had, but she was bias towards wanting all of the glory for herself. To add to that, she had one six berries of which she wasn't actually familiar with what they did and also couldn't help but wonder what they tasted like but supposed that that was an adventure left better suited for another time. Though the more she thought about it, the more she had realized that she had caught something pretty unique and though it wasn't first place worthy that itself was a good enough prize right? "The rewards is the friends we made along the way or something," Jacklyn muttered a particularly common adventuring maxim to herself, one that she wasn't particularly sure how much she believed but figured that trying to convince herself of it would help alleviate the sting of losing. Contrary to this sentiment as well, the girl looked at the Fineon, who had tried to make his great escape during the judging. Jacklyn didn't feel any strong attachment to the pokemon and it certainly didn't seem to have any towards her, so going with the flow of her current mood the girl said, "alright, thanks for your help in getting the berries. But you can go back now." The girl thought about it again, realizing that she was releasing something into the wild that she had caught, meaning that she had a comrade in arms that she had done a competition with somewhere out in the wild now. That in of itself was something she could find joy in and perhaps something to look forward to more of on the journey. Releasing the Fineon the girl said, "see you on the water!" With a smiling wave she watched it swim away. Looking over to Anneliese who had gotten a prize that she found herself envious of as well, the girl's eyes lit up as she had offered the Great Ball to her. After all, as things were Jacklyn only had 9 pokeballs to her name presently and only the money she had one from her two trainer battles thus far, and if she were to follow her own adventuring advice then she'd need to get something else soon. Excitedly, the girl reached out to grab it saying, "thanks a bunch Anneliese, I'll definitely - !" The girl paused for a moment as she thought about her previous encounter catching a pokemon. Looking at Anneliese and her earnest expression she wanted to make sure that she didn't suffer the same fate as her. As such moving her hand back she cleared her throat. "That is, ahem, to say uh, sometimes pokeballs break when you try to catch something, so it's uh always good to have a spare on hand! If you catch something with the first I'll definitely take it though! And good win too!" As the talk moved to their respective water types, Jacklyn looked over to Anima and her catch. "Oh, I've seen that before. Well, not in person. But I've heard some stories like, sometimes if you go to the beach at night there'll be these glowing patches of blue or pink in the water, and if you go near them then they take you to their underwater kingdom! And uh...I can't remember if they make you a servant or royalty...maybe the color of the water has something to do with it? Well, it sounds like a super cool place to explore anyway." Jacklyn's excitement and belief of this tale were very obvious, though she ended her story by adding, "but I only ever explored sewers so I never got test it."

"Ehh?" The girl was a bit stunned at the cavalier response he had towards seeing an actual dead body. Sure, they had seen the ghost of the toilet girl a few days but she didn't have a face and so it was far easier for Carmen to not think of it as a dead body. Besides the fact that she was terrified of it all the same. She couldn't help but wonder if that meant that he was used to seeing dead bodies, which made Carmen realize that she didn't actually know anything about what Brian did outside of their job. Besides eat taco bell and drive. She figured it was better this way, and now that she wasn't sure if he was some kind of wet worker or grave digger she thought that her previous assumption was correct. All the same, opting to not drag the dead body, she said, "uh, alright. Well I'll just, uhhh," and taking out a seal from the box the girl slowly and cautiously placed it on the dead body, looking away as it touched and immediately jerking her hand back in case anything happened. Looking over, the body didn't seem to burst into flames or have anything too bizarre happen. Instead, all that happened was wispy white smoke trailed up from the body, with nothing else of note happening. The dog looked at it, barking for a moment as the smoke vanished before beginning to look around. It had seemed their job wasn't quite done yet. Unsure what to do, the girl continued to look around for any clues alongside the dog, only to hear some rustling in the direction of the house. Wondering if they could just end this by getting rid of the dog and running the girl looked at the dog, wondering if it just wanted to pass on as well. Bringing out a seal, she presented it to the dog. "Do, um, do you want...one? Uhhh..." It looked at the seal, then back towards the house, then back to Carmen. Clearly anxious about something. With the plan failing, Carmen looked back to Brian with a new theory asking, "I uh...do you think....that the guy is a ghost or something?"

With Lana managing to get through the gap in the wall that she had created, she looked to see the mage on the platform turn his attention to her. With her axe gripped tightly the girl pressed forward, only for the blood mage to raise his hand, causing a portion of the blood in the ground to rise and fire off, forming a blade like arc that was sent towards the girl. "I'm not going to be stopped this time!" She knew that, before, she could cut a wall. So there was no reason for her to think that she couldn't also cut this arc. Bringing her axe up, the girl swung it down and connected with the blade of blood. The attack felt far heavier than liquid should have any right to, as if she was actually clashing with a steel sword, however it gave way under the weight of her attack. With the blade splitting in two and making its way behind her, the girl narrowed her eyes as the blood mage raised his hand and pulled back. Looking back, she saw the two halves of the blood arc she had just struck had stopped in the air before coming back towards her. Letting out a surprised yelp the girl ducked under the attack, the blade going over her head before they arced upward into the air. As they reached the apex of their ascent the mage swung his hand down, causing the arc of blood to suddenly scatter into smaller balls, that then shot down towards her. Not wanting to be skewered by the blood rain, Lana quickly dove forward, tumbling away from the attack before standing herself back upright. "That all you got!?" Lana shouted at the man, clearly annoyed by his keep-away tactics before jumping up onto the platform. Raising her axe up, the girl swung it forward only for it to be intercepted by a shield of blood. The attack was stopped and the blood coagulated and congealed onto the head of her axe as the blood mage stepped away, prepping yet another casting of something. Turning her axe to the other side and using the bloodless head, the charged forward ignoring the red mist on the ground. The mage had finished his incantation just as the girl's axe founds it way into his chest. Lana couldn't help but notice that his chest felt a lot more solid than the other mage she had just killed though. In fact, he didn't seem to be all that harmed by her attack. Looking up, she realized that the red mist had channeled its way into the man, who was now significantly more burly looking than before. "Oh, shit." The girl took a quick step back as he threw out a punch, barely managing to avoid it. She was pretty confident in her ability to beat a mage in a close range fight, but she was much less sure when the magic itself turned them into a close range fighter. "Cheaters," she muttered, before backing away again. She didn't have much space to work with on the platform but without space she felt like she was just going to get run over by this man. So, as he charged at her for yet another swing, the girl took a step back and leaped off the platform back to the ground below, awaiting the man to follow her to continue their fight.

As the group had finally made it to the front of the line Fen had been filled with anticipation. She wasn't quite sure what to expect from this, outside of a train that made it feel like you were dying, and curiously sat next to Melissa in the front of the car. The girl was glad to hear that Trevor seemed to think it would be fun, though Fen couldn't quite help but feel like Melissa wasn't quite nearly into the whole thing as she was. As if to break the tension as best she could she asked, "oh, are there cameras here?" Fen wasn't too familiar with the apparatus herself, though she had her tell of mages that used such devices, and was curious about what their purpose here was. It didn't take long after asking, though, for the incredibly small and open train that they were in to begin moving. "Oh, I guess it's uh starting?" At first the ride was smooth and the train was moving at a leisurely pace on the track laid out before it. This didn't seem too strange to Fen, though moving in something this open was certainly an experience for her. It was then, though, that the tracks began to slope upward. And upward. And upward. Slowly but surely rollercoaster was climbing higher into the sky as it if its goal was to make it beyond even that. While Fen had many experiences under her belt, she could feel her hands tightening around the harness placed on her as the slow climb was playing on her nerves. As they ascended further, the girl looked directly downward, only to notice that everyone underneath them in the park was barely more than a visible speck on the ground. "Oh, uh. We're uh, quite high, aren't we?" Fen had already known how high it was from looking at it from the ground, but now that she was actually in the car itself the reality of the situation seemed all the more daunting to her. And then finally, they stopped ascending. The tracks flattened out, and the car continued to crawl forward at a slow pace. From here they could see everything in the park. Every ride, attraction, building, whatever it was they were high enough to be able to survey all of it. Fen couldn't help but wonder how it must've looked at night from this view before, in her awe, she let out an, "Oooooh, this place is truly remaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa - !" The roller coaster suddenly rocketed forward, every bit they had gone upward now turning downward. Though the surprise of it had left Fen screaming that was barely audible even to Melissa as the winds had picked up tremendously, drowning out any noise aside from itself. The force of what felt almost like a free fall had pushed them securely against their seat. All the colors of the park had turned into nothing more than a blur, all of them blending together as the rollercoaster looked like it was heading straight towards the ground. Then just as suddenly as it had begun moving down, it swerved and moved parallel to the ground once more, before the entire car seemed to turn upside-down, leaving Fen's hair and arms to dangle downward. She could hardly tell what was going on as the scenery changed almost immediately again as she was suddenly forced back right-side up. Every moment that Fen felt like she could get her bearings the coaster twisted, turned, jerked from side to side such that the entire world continued to look distorted to her. Until finally the rollercoaster climbed up once more, this time rocketing up its inclined tracks instead of crawling. The ascent was just long enough for Fen to regain her bearings, seeing that the top there was no more tracks. The rollercoaster shot off the rails, soaring in the sky free of any forced direction, Fen feeling as though she were floating for the moment. Before finally gravity took hold once more and the entire rollercoaster was sent into freefall for one last drop, Fen feeling as though her stomach was trying to find a way out of her body they fell. Just as it looked as though they were to smash against the ground a grinding noise could be heard from under them as the train careened upward once again, seemingly having returned to its rail track at some point. As it did, the ride slowed and slowed until finally they had ended back right where they had started. Stepping out of the ride, Fen felt it hard to keep her feet firmly planted on the ground for a moment as her senses tried to reorient themselves once more and her adrenaline began to subside. "That...that was..um...that was something much more...different than anything I have, uh, ever. Done before. Wow...I can see, well, I can see what you meant Melissa. That was..." The girl clapped her hands together and let out a deep breath, the dazed feeling subsiding before she turned around to face her teammates. A smile shown on the girl's face as she said, "I wonder if everything here is as, well, thrilling!"

With a wall of solid blood in front of her and a skeleton approaching her from behind, Lana didn't care for either and wanted to be done with both as fast as she could so to keep pressing on against the blood mage. With a hefty swing of her axe the girl struck the blood, the wall itself holding steadfast against her attack though cracking a little. "What is in this stuff?" Lana couldn't help but feel grossed out about the idea of blood this hard, but shook her head and decided to keep focused on the task ahead of her. With the skeleton with one extremely long arm approaching from behind her, Lana opted to try and kill two birds with one stone as she ducked underneath the bony creature's swing. While it struck the wall it didn't seem to do as much damage to it as her axe did, which she figure she should be thankfully about, and Lana pressed her advantage. Quickly getting back up the girl rushed behind the skeleton before moving back and shoulder checking it. Shoving the monster into the wall, the girl took a step back and hoisted her axe up. "Keep it to yourself!" The girl shouted as the monster reached out to grab her, slashing down on its arm with her axe and destroying the creature's primary weapon leaving nothing more than a much shorter, now jagged, arm bone. As it tried to use its new "weapon" to stab her, Lana used the flat of her blade to swat the jagged bone away, before bringing her axe back around again for one final swing into the creature's head and the wall behind it. With the skeleton's head obliterated and the wall cracked further, the creature fell to the ground, giving Lana just the space she needed to keep working on the wall, she eventually finished hacking away at the blood wall. As the mage was attacking one of her other companions, the girl stepped through the hole she had just created, a clearly annoyed expression on her face as she got ready to charge the mage.

"Hmmmm....hmmmmm...hm?" The adventurous girl mumbled to herself as she attempted to catch a fish, of course the biggest fish, that she could get to win the competition. However, she was met with a problem. The same problem that she had had when she was fishing a day before. This was that nothing was biting on her line, and no matter how much she moved her fishing rod around or tried to manifest the idea of a fish being caught by her, it did not seem to work. If anything she was finding herself not only repelling the fish but the other fishers as well. It had seemed that no one had wanted to fish near a girl who was so animated about moving her line. This hardly bothered Jacklyn, however, or at the very it bothered her much less than her inability to catch a fish. Giving a resigned sigh the girl sat down and put her fishing rod down next to her, line still cast in the water. The girl looked to her pokemon companion and said, "what do you think I'm doing wrong here Cherry? You're supposed to catch the fish right? But how am I supposed to do that if they get on the line in the first place?" The Buneary had no idea how to fish and thus had no words of advice for her trainer, only confusion. "Maybe I could dive into the water and catch them with my hands? But I don't think I could beat a water type in water, well not yet at least I'm sure if I trained enough in swimming it'd be no problem." The girl felt the need to assure her audience, which was the easily impressed one, of her capability. "But it's also probably against the rules. Oh, what if I just put a pokeball on the fishing rod? Then maybe you think - " As she was coming with some kind of hair brained scheme, Jacklyn realized she had a bite on her line as her fishing rod was starting to slide off the dock. Hastily grabbing it, the girl quickly sprung to her feet and started pulling on the line as she attempted to hoist it out of the sea. With one great yank, she managed to pull a blue blob out from the water and onto the dock, which revealed itself to be a helplessly splashing Finneon. "Alright Cherry, let's get to work!" The Buneary leaped into action, swiftly delivering a kick into the wing fish pokemon and knocking it back while it was still trying to get its bearings. Eventually managing to flip itself upright onto the dock, the shocked water type immediately let out a stream of water from its mouth in an attempt to dissuade its attacker. However, neither Jacklyn nor Cherry relented as Jacklyn called out, "alright hop up and go for another Pound Cherry!" And as the Buneary complied, striking the pokemon yet again the girl said, "and here we go!" Sending out the ball, the Finneon was envoloped in its light before being placed in the ball proper. And with three shakes it was successfully caught. "Woohoo! Way to go Cherry!" Picking the ball up the girl said, "I don't know if it was particularly big but I don't think I've ever seen one of these before, so I think we're sure to win!"

The Storm Wracked Chimera was starting to feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of attacks it was receiving from every which angle. It had two heads which allowed it to both track more things than normal as well as control each independent body part more accurately, however it was still only two heads and it was being beset on by all four sides. Though it had done a relatively good job at keeping everyone at bay, and the party was certainly starting to feel their own injuries accumulate against the might of this beast, it had decided to do away with this overwhelmed feeling. It had decided to reset its attention, both heads focusing on one target and putting very little thought into their next action. First it would do away with what was behind it, having been thoroughly annoyed by losing two of its tails to the nuisance that was the swordsman. And so it bucked its large pawed feet backwards towards Gene. Then, it would move its body straight ahead towards the target that had just come out of hiding and attacked from a range. Letting out a roar from both heads, the creature charged straight forward; the swords on its left side scraping against the ground and the claw on its right dragging across as well. Abby for her part was not the target, however she had landed in front of the beast she had just jump attacked and was in prime trampling range and would have to do something about that or be forced straight through. Marshall, on the other hand, was the object of this creature's ire. And so she would to deal with this stampeding behemoth of a creature bulldozing its way towards her, its bear paw in front and ready crash into and smash whatever was in its way.

Fen was glad that the group was willing to go along with her excitement of the rollercoaster, or well she thought they all did. However, it was soon pointed out that Kasayee had vanished from the group entirely, which didn't seem to surprise or bother Fen particularly at all. Instead she turned to Tia nodding at her advice about the Stomach Dropper, saying, "oh, hm, then we definitely should do that first." She'll nod to herself. Then look back to Tia and say, "well, um, I am unfamiliar with places like these. So, any kind of tour you could provide we be, well, appreciated. You uh, mentioned something about food here, too right?" "Yup, lots of goodies of all the important food groups. Fried, sugary, and salty!" Clearly intrigued Fen said, "I see. Hm, well, I'm not all that familiar with fried things so..." Making a mental note to herself to check them out later she'll then ask, "oh, um, but yes, do lead on." Looking back to everyone else she mentioned, "this kind of thing, with uh Kasayee that is, happens from time to time. She'll...probably turn up somewhere." Fen looked around at nearby lights and trees to see if Kasayee had perched herself up on any of them, to no luck, before continuing on. "Oooh that was Kasayee, I didn't notice I was so focused on you three." After that Tia had lead them around the park exuberantly showing them everything it had to offer. There were the obvious things one could see from anywhere; the various rollers coasters that went both sky high and deep underground, a Ferris wheel that spun at every speed one could imagine firing off confetti cannons into the sky when it had come to a stop, and other various high rising thrill rides. Then there were more traditional carnival style games; a test of strength which seemed to be meant for both children and super humans alike - one such claim that not even the strongest of Guardians* could clear it - , as well as a shooting gallery with flying and curving targets all around. This was to say nothing of the food stands, all of which seemed to have all the varieties and combinations of "food groups" that Tia had mentioned, containing food that Fen had never seen before and couldn't help but be enticed just from the scent of. And then finally a large building that seemed to house a variety of machines that all had their own games to them, though Fen wasn't quite sure how any of those worked. Once the tour was done, Fen gave a bow and said, "thank you, um, Tia for showing us around." Looking back to everyone Fen smiled saying, "I didn't know such a, well, vibrant place existed here. Are they all like this where you're from too?" As she was speaking it was clear that she had already both been guided to and had been guiding everyone into the bustling line for Stomach Dropper.

As the villainous duo made their way into the Moray territory, Sibyl gave a friendly wave to Clotho responding with a, "yo!" in kind. As her guest and boss hit it off, Sibyl crossed her arms and thought about it as the question was directed towards her. "Well, I dunno about running a place or what their group is like but they went along with my test and seem like a pretty cool person." The girl grinned as she gave a thumbs up before letting out a small laugh at how stupid she figured she sounded. "Really though good vibes are all I got to go on, and they're probably strong or important or something, and you like people like that owing you one right?" Arcturus flinched. "Hold on, I said I would owe you one," she said. "And then you said that wasn't your thing." "No no, no reason to let a good favor go to waste," Clotho said. "Besides, favors are a lot like vibes if you think about it. Even though they're transactional, you don't give them out to just anybody." After a pause, she clarified, "Uh, the royal you. We. Anyway, you think you can fight Tidebinder? She's the one with better access to Caesar's resources. She's even got Legion following her around, I hear. And you?" The only thing Arcturus could say was, "Tidebinder all those because Caesar was stupid. It should be me. I can take her." Again, Clotho had to raise an eyebrow and look Sibyl's way again. "These are the good vibes you were talking about huh? It sure is getting me fired up thinking about it." "Pfft hahaha," Sibyl couldn't help but let out a laugh at Arcturus and Clotho's comments, adding, "well I'm a sucker for an underdog with moxie like that." "Truuuuue," Clotho said, also smiling. She turned back to Arcturus. "Alright sure, we'll sponsor you. Gimme your phone number so we can stay in touch." She held out her hand. Arcturus had clearly had her jaw clenched for Sibyl's "underdog" comment, and had to take a moment to relax again. "Who- what am I owing, then?" she asked. "You can owe Sibyl, sure. Just, you know, I am her boss, like, I might ask her to call it in for something if she hasn't used it by then," Clotho said. "Want you to be aware of that." Again, Arcturus hesitated, but she did take out her phone and show her phone number. Clotho took the opportunity to grab the outstretched wrist and shake it to officially seal the deal, sticking out her tongue like it was a joke even if Arcturus didn't treat it so lightly. "Alright," Clotho said. "Well, if you can get to the Zodiac before Tidebinder does, that's, like, easy mode for the rest of it, so hey, keep at it, y'know? And you," She pointed a finger straight at Sibyl, but relaxed almost instantly. "That was too much serious stuff. Don't spend that favor on something silly, but do go treat yourself! It's such a good day for doing something stupid." "Gotcha boss. You know this whole thing is starting to sound way more up my alley now." Letting out a chuckle she looked to Arcturus and joked, "good thing for us they like idiots right? Hahaha!"

Carmen gripped her shovel tightly as Brian had told them to go back to back. Deciding to follow his lead the girl stood back and backed up a little, letting out a small "eep" and jumping a little when she actually moved too far back into the man, and decided to keep the smallest amount of distance between them so as not to think there was something actually on her back at all times. Of course, she didn't want to get too far away either as the sun had all but set and the darkness around them had grown, and the rustling and snapping of twigs and branches kept her on edge. However, they eventually faded away, sounding like they were going towards the house they had come from. Carmen did not dare breathe a sigh of relief just yet, as she figured that the moment she did would be the moment the man jumped out from the bushes and stabbed her in the chest. Looking at the dog skittishly she asked, "d-do you think he's gone?" It cocked its head, then looked towards the direction of the house as its ears lowered. "I-I see..." Looking towards Brian she asked, "do you um, do you think he has something more dangerous than a crossbow?" After a moment more had passed she looked back towards the tarp that she had unearthed previously. It was, of course, still covered and still gave the girl a shiver up her spine just thinking about what was under it. She really wanted nothing more than to get away from it and leave Brian to deal with uncovering it, as well as thinking that if she tried to touch it again another crossbow bolt would just coming flying towards her to kill her once more. However, she couldn't tell if this was still part of the "digging" process that was left to her and truthfully she didn't want to ask Brian such a semantical question thinking it'd just sound stupid and like she was trying to get out of finishing what she started. Both of which were true. And so, bending down, the girl slowly uncovered the trap, whipping it back suddenly as she jumped back from the sight of what appeared to be a human face underneath it. As more of the tarp had come uncovered from it, the girl let out an audible, "eeeeeeeeee!" seeing a dead man, someone who looked like they were some kind of official in life, underneath the covers. It wasn't so much a surprise that it was there, but Carmen hadn't truly been able to brace herself for seeing an actual dead body. Unable to compose herself, or less so than usual, the girl looked to Brian and stammered out sounds as she shakily pointed to the body.

With the two bone piles making their way towards Lana, the girl was ready to smash them to pieces only to realize that from behind her there was something new to worry about. "Oh give me a - ahh!" The girl ducked, swinging her axe towards one of the nearby bone piles as she did, to avoid the flurry of blood daggers that had been summoned behind her. As her axe cleaved into the skeleton, the one had destroyed the head of earlier, it reached out to grab her eliciting yet another attack from Lana towards the bone pile. With her axe smashing into the bones, destroying the skeleton pile, the girl stood back up only for the second skeleton to have bashed her in the gut with its extremely long arm. Recovering from the attack Lana looked at the bone pile, which itself seemed to have no arm on one side and one arm that was twice the length of a regular arm on the other, hobble towards her and get ready to go again. Looking back, the girl saw that there was yet another swarm of blood daggers being formed and, wanting to no longer deal with those, figured that dealing with the mage was more of a priority. As the daggers fully formed the girl made a break for it, running at full speed towards the blood mage. Diving under the blood daggers, the girl hastily picked herself back up before jumping over the first blood groove between her and them. The second one in front of her, however, had the blood rise before hardening and forming a wave towards her. Unsure if she could dodge in time and not wanting to get hit by the full brunt of the wave Lana could only think of one thing to do. Raising her axe, the girl brought it down and crashed it into the blood wave. It worked better than she thought it would have, which is to say there was any amount of blood that was dispersed from the wave. However it was still a liquid, hardened though it was, and still traveling towards her. Getting swept up in the blood wave and pushed back the girl stood back up letting out a, "bleh. Groooss." The wave hadn't settled with just being a wave, however, and rose and hardened to form a wall of solid that barred her path. Letting out an annoyed sigh the girl muttered, "I'm starting to hate mages." Hearing the clattering of bones behind her, the girl looked back and let out another sigh. Maybe she should've just tried to kill the sword guys instead.