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[Gravely Siblings]
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By the time everyone was called to climb the stairs, Spine and Pelvis followed along quietly, readying their weapons as they clamber along. Reaching the top, the two skeleton hunters glanced around the dreary surroundings, feeling a bit at home.

"I would pay a large sum for walls like these~" Pelvis said aloud, adding on Plague Knight's comment. Spine, however, was enthralled by the starry night sky above them. It reminds her of their own graveyard that they roam. The stars there don't compare to this sky. Shortly afterwards, one of the humans' voice echoed through the skeletons' skulls, which prompted them to feel threathened. Mostly Pelvis taking out his daggers while Spine merely flinched. "Where's--?!"

"Looks like it's the product of that girl's magic." Spine quickly informed. "And a strange magic it is." She says, tapping Pelvis' shoulders and pointing at the large figure where Yamagishi once was.

"Wha--?! When did she turn into that?!" Pelvis asked in awe, staring at Juno with childlike sparkles in his eyeholes.

"Dear lord." Spine sighs, rubbing her forehead. Just then, they recieved instructions to investigate a gathering of signatures southwest from their current area. As people gathered with Blood Stark and Plague Knight, the Skeleton siblings glanced at each other.

"Hey, sister..."

"I know." Spine simply nodded, turning east. "We're going this way. Contact us if you find anything." She said, and without anymore fuss, the two skeletons left on their own.

[A Slime Girl]
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The slime girl slid up the stairs without a problem. Looking artound, she found herself in some sort of maze. While the others were talking about going to specific locations, Schimatizo wants to look for something fun. As such, she headed north without a single word, following the robot who had headed there as well.

"The Witch"

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As the group walks on the south hall, they would find two pairs of forks in the road,two paths going east and two paths going west.

"Hm...What a complicated little fork." Blood Stark chuckled a bit, glancing back. "What do you guys think? You folks want to go west or east?" He asked, pertaining to the obvious split in the road.

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The Witch looked to the fork that was spoken of, and seemed perplexed - who the heck designed this? There seems to be more paths before them than there are people in the group - or something like that! Either way, the Witch wants to assume all the paths would probably connect at some point - or at least the ones on the same side would! "I'm... honestly not too bothered." She said simply. "We may just end up exploring them all - or most of them at least - in the end anyways, I think. I'll just settle on the majority vote." The dice added, shrugging in indifference.
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Temjin's visuals soon picked up on the sudden emergence of unknown entities in front of its path, causing the Virtuaroid to halt in the middle of its sprint. The grinding of its feet audible to those behind it before the mech stared at one of the blue-masked being curiously, its head tilting to a side in slight confusion as it examined.

That is, until the living organism attempted to swing one of its featureless claws at Temjin's chest, causing the Virtuaroid to stumble back with its gaze still fixated onto them. Although unlike earlier its M.P.B.L was now raised with its too pointed towards the odd critter, its visual module now marking it and its accomplices as threats to be exterminated.

Needless to say, shots were fired as Temjin engaged into battle with the 15 unknown entities, having to constantly move firing positions while returning fire due to the occasional appearances of a lightning strike threatening to fry its circuits and icicle structures attempting to cut into its armour.

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Walking down the pathway south, it was... actually peaceful, if you enjoy walking down a green bricked hallway and having the feeling of being vulnerable and lost within.... but the trio really didn’t seem to be looking at every corner.... for now, and actually taking in the small time of peace they had. It wasn’t until they came to a fork in the road.... directing west or East.... where they would end up, no one knows..... but then, Beesmas got a ding from his back pocket as he said “Oh wait.... hold on, my map successfully did a ‘scout‘... let me go check it out...” as he went and took out the paper map once more, before beginning to check the west location, which revealed both a treasure room and the furthest one, a room battle, which Beesmas casually said “Well.... a treasure room is right over here in the west direction, while there is a room battle in the furthest one..... wait...... ‘TREASURE!’” the bee-man as he finally realized what was in the other room, he then slowly hovered into the air, pointing his body towards west, before zooming out into the west direction, the promise of gold and trinkets guiding his every movement.

The Leper and Bigby were both surprised that there was treasure here.... but considering it was like the ruins..... it would be filled with valuables, but The Leper merely said nothing as he went west, while Bigby turned to the group and said “Sorry for what my ally has done..... Beesmas has a.... case of Kleptomania, making it a natural instinct to hoard items.... especially treasure.” Bigby said with a frown on his face, knowing all too well about this disorder, before saying “You are welcomed to join us..... but it’s our friend who has gone and left the group in the pursuit of gold, so you can go on whichever path, after all, we handle things back at home with four or three team members, so this wouldn’t be that different than normal.... I’m just hoping that he doesn’t enter the fight by himself.....” as he finally gave chase to the run away Beesmas, the chains on his body clanking with every step he took in his sprint.

Beesmas would stop in the closest room of the west direction, while looking around quickly for where the treasure may lie, checking every crevice or area where it may lie, while Bigby and the Leper were catching up to the bee, but it would take a while before they would get there.

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Not much of talker as he expected, a minor quirk he took for granted because after all he is visibly ill and perhaps not capable of speech which could have many factors that he could care about. One thing he can confirm is that the armed figure was friendly with their friendly gestures which the prof. accepted as communication.


The Rabbit already grew comfortable of his new companion from another dimension. It's still too much to take in as that he really did travel to another dimension, especially to a mind like his. A lot of deep questions clouded in his mind yet he disposed of such thoughts quickly to focus on the main reality. Things were moving steadfast and his cloaked ally has already made his first move to advance further into the Tower. His eyes were focused to the interiors of the Tower. Analyzing it's structure, material and other compositions. He cannot say that the building itself was new nor it was old due to lack of familiarity and contradicting designs and logic has stained it's true age, while many of the structure's material is familiar to him. He cannot say it was from the same dimension as his. In fact, can he even set logic to what he is experiencing? His mind have cluttered once again before a simple distraction of an event happened before his eyes. One of the inner group members have taken in charge of supervising a swift search for the next floor which Prof. Faerie caught up to the idea of splitting and went along with his current partner.


Followed by a nod back in reply. He hopped in a fast pace to keep up, noticing they are going north. He stayed true to his word and proceeded with the current direction. Now the real test begins...

A labyrinth. A place where madness stirs in each turning corner of this halls of deception. The concept of a Labyrinth was foreign to him but the feeling of losing his location on the map is something he can relate to. His hopping shifted to running as his partner now travels towards north with a steady pace.


The Rabbit was falling a bit behind due to the major difference in travel speed yet it kept haste.


Thanks to his observant eyes. A glint of light reflected on his black beady eyes. It's patterns resemble movement rather than a natural force of nature. In the distance, it's green hue almost blended with the surroundings but Prof. Faerie has seen the figure from a distant already. Closing the distance gap, details of the greenish creature clears so. It was a highly viscous anomaly on what he can only observe as slime like. It's features resembles similar to one of the taller species with less fur, just like his partner. He came with eye contact with the slime creature to converse.


Confused by it's appearance it looked just like the others yet made differently. Letting his basic intuition guide him for once, whether or not the slime thing is hostile. Prof. Faerie was in no intention of harm as the thing was bigger than him and not knowing it's potential danger. His voice was as soft as his fluffy appearance. A few minutes in and he encountered another character in the crowd alone. Albeit expecting a verbal interaction. He was quickly interrupted by the sounds of violence echoing in the halls of the labyrinth. His instincts came into his senses first and automatically assumed that there is trouble nearby and he is needed. Prof.Faerie has to spring into action as he felt the rush of rescue flow through his body.


Within 3 seconds his armored attire began to glow bright green on it's chest and shoulders, indication of a powered exosuit. His already merciful expression, exaggerated upon the sounds of potential attacks.


He stoically recommended his new allies to follow him now as he can pinpoint the origin of the sound. Using his flight suit now. It's near silent motor gave him flight and enhanced speed to pace equally with his comrades. His hearing was correct. There is fighting going on, a lone armored unit stands against a large group of hideous beasts with a slimy body like form almost similar to his new ally's. He was shocked that the danger is near and close. He would try to fight alongside the armored unit but the size difference was massive and will only get him in the way. His thought process begins by slowly descending into the floor for a battle strat. Luckily he hasn't been detected by the monsters.


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[Schimatizo; The Slime Girl]
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"!!!" Schimatizo let out a distressed bob as black sludges bearing colored masks appeared. Panicking, she hardened her fists, forming edged blades as her arms as 5 of the masked slimes surrounded her.

Uncomfortable at the notion of fighting her own kind, she attempts to speak with Mayas, sloshing her body as she transformed her body into a more mound-like shape, trying to tell them that she and her new friends aren't their enemies.

[Spine and Pelvis; Gravely Hunters]
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"Ah! Now this one we can hunt, right sister?!" Pelvis spoke, brandishing his skull rapier and bone dagger.

"Indeed, brother." Spine said, cracking her bonewhip at the ground,forming it into a long sword, resting it on her shoulder. "You take two, and I take three."

"No fair, sister! I want ALL of them!" Pelvis cackled before rushing in and jumping, stabbing one of the floating mouth orbs with his blades and making it crash onto the ground. "HahahaHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAA!!" Pelvis cackled madly as he pulled out his dagger off of one of the Lying Hableries and continued to stab it wildly.

Pelvis meanwhile walked gracefully towards the group of Hableries, 2 of the Slipping Hableries charging at her which made her swing her longsword, which had separated into a whip, slashing at both of the floating mouths, making them bleed with its sharp, saw-like edges.

"The Witch"

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“Oh wait.... hold on, my map successfully did a ‘scout‘... let me go check it out...” as he went and took out the paper map once more, before beginning to check the west location, which revealed both a treasure room and the furthest one, a room battle, which Beesmas casually said “Well.... a treasure room is right over here in the west direction, while there is a room battle in the furthest one..... wait...... ‘TREASURE!’” the bee-man as he finally realized what was in the other room, he then slowly hovered into the air, pointing his body towards west, before zooming out into the west direction, the promise of gold and trinkets guiding his every movement.

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So, according to what the heck was just said - along with the bee man suddenly zooming away - inferred two things. A treasure chest to the west side, a battle furthest away - and it seemed he already found something. The Witch nervously laughed as he had comically flew to the location of interest as it were, but why even 'was it' such? "...Sooo, can anyone just tell me what the heck he just did-"

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“Sorry for what my ally has done..... Beesmas has a.... case of Kleptomania, making it a natural instinct to hoard items.... especially treasure.” Bigby said with a frown on his face, knowing all too well about this disorder, before saying “You are welcomed to join us..... but it’s our friend who has gone and left the group in the pursuit of gold, so you can go on whichever path, after all, we handle things back at home with four or three team members, so this wouldn’t be that different than normal.... I’m just hoping that he doesn’t enter the fight by himself.....”

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"Oh... So he's basically a gold digger...?" The Witch thought aloud as she asked about it, shrugging it off later. "I mean, if you're used to it, you 'sgould' be OK? Just don't go messing yourselves up even further!" She warned before turning to Blood Stark as he began to speak up.

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"Hm. That's a no on going that west then." Blood Stark assessed as Beesmas gave his report. The bee then rushing to the first west side, making a beeline(heh) to a quaint little red treasure chest just sitting there in a deadend.

If a successful Scout is performed here, they would find no traps, just treasure. What could go wrong?

"Looks like it's up to me then." Blood Stark chuckled as Leper's group separated from them to give chase to their bee friend. Walking in front of the hall they went through, he would then call out. "We're going East then! The one next to this one here here!" He called out to the Darkest Dungeon group before beginning their trek once more down the second eastern path. And soon, the group started to head East, a bit further away from the intended goal, but what the hell.

Looking at the minimap Juno provided, it seems that the other groups had encountered enemies. Which would mean that he has an opportunity to test his group.

Encountering a fork in the road, sloshing sounds can be heard as black figures emerged from the ground, appearing to be giant ant like creatures with glowing yellow eyes. These creatures appeared to be languid, twitchy and most likely compulsive. Acting on instinct as most prey would.

"Aw, talk about being a buzzkill." Blood pouted as 19 ant creatures appeared to be blocking both paths, staring at Stark's company. "Oh well. This works, too." He soon raised his free hand and snapped.

C L I C K !​

"I'm going to judge your performance here, so give it your all!" Blood ordered, chuckling just as the black ants start to charge towards all of you 4 by 4 with Stark aiming his rifle at three of the shadow ants and immediately shot at them, causing them to stagger, glancing back to observe everyone else.

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Alright, bad guys! As the blackened bug-like beings emerged from the ground, the Witch nodded and opened her book once more. "Enemy monsters, no problem...! I'm not sure about the numbers problem, but let's just see how this goes!" She said confidently, slotting another object into the open pages of her book. Following that, a fireball appeared in her free hand, which she threw towards one of the monsters before her. Following on, she had one more left - and slotted that into the other open page. Whatever it was promptly dissolved and some kind of burning liquid would suddenly begin to fall on one of the enemies - and then if it connected, one last item would appear in her hand. Then she threw it to the same target of her previous attack - a bit stupid, perhaps, but every little piece of damage helps! But how did her attacks fare...?
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The discovery of the entities' potential weak point had not went unnoticed by the Virtuaroid, its data now registering the part of the enemy to be terminated. Temjin's cursor locked onto one blue-masked creature attempting to immobilize its movement and another yellow-masked being still relentlessly aiming to overheat its circuits into submission, aiming to take both of them at once as the M.P.B.L was angled in a degree to be able to take down the two hostile critters with a single projectile.



(Unfortunately the Temjin 747J MMD Model was the best Temjin I could find, thus I'll be using it for LN-esqe imagery rather than Temjin 707)

Thepotatogod Betsumei No Ishi Bixir Vagabond Spectre

Sara roused herself from a daze as her surroundings swam into view. Immediately alarmed, she floated a few feet off the floor and spun slowly around, hands glowing, as if searching for attackers.

"Priestess? Lady Knight?" she called, and of course got no response. "Serpentix! What is this? Another of your tricks?!"

Nothing, except for some disgusting noises. She decided to head away from those, picking a direction pretty much at random. East, in this case. She hovered down the hall, projecting pink light ahead of her like a flashlight.

"What's the matter, suckers, tongue tied?" Daryl laughed as he uses flare blitz on the tongue monsters in the east area, where the skeleton siblings were. He specially smashed the one nearing the black clad skeleton. "What's better than one pair of siblings? TWO! We're the super awesome darmanitan bros!"

"Take this! Icicle crash!" Garyl raised his hands to summon icicles from nowhere that crashed into the tongue things from above.

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After a good amount of time looking around his surroundings, and looking twice for good measure, he finally laid his eyes upon the small red treasure chest, sitting there, lying in wait, waiting for someone to open the treasure that lies within its ‘maw’. Beesmas eyes would quite literally turn into gold coins, his kleptomania now guiding his every movement, as buzzed midair while slowly hovering towards the treasure, now in a trance like state. After reaching the chest, Beesmas prepared to interact with this ‘curio’, by taking out one of the two skeleton keys inside his pocket and using it upon the chest, interacting with the chest to make sure it opened.
And opening it a bit later after taking out the skeleton key and inspecting it to see if it can be used again, if not, he would simply throw the broken key away, but if it’s still intact, he would put it back into his pocket, before grabbing the lid of the chest, and with all of his superior bee-humanoid strength, pushed the lid all the way as he finally looked at what lies within.

Unfortunately for Beesmas, before he could get a full glance at whatever was inside the chest, a brown leather covered hand grabbed the Bee from the back and turned it around, now instead of looking at treasure, it was looking at the cold metal mask of a very disappointed Leper... as the Leper said “What you have done would have put the entire group at risk if you weren’t careful with the action you just done... especially yourself if you entered that room battle by yourself.........” as Beesmas began sweating heavily, not knowing how they managed to track a 1ft bee in this labyrinth of a pseudo ruins back at the estate. But that didn’t last long, as Bigby also came in as well, the Leper has a head start when running after the loose beesman while Bigby had to explain some things to the rest of the south group, has finally arrived with the sounds of metal clanking marking his arrival, and the Abomination arrived to see the scene of Leper and Beesmas taking to each other while a red treasure chest was behind the beesman.

“Thank the Light that you two are ok... and it seems that Beesmas as found treasure as a result... a risk that I didn’t like the odds of, especially when heading into the unknown, but your greed was quenched for now....” as the trio began to group up, before Beesmas started to peep into the chest, looking at what was inside, while the Leper borrowed the map from Beesmas, looking at the possible routes they could go.

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Prof. Faerie

COMBAT ONGOING

In just one swift observation of the battlefield. The miniature scientist quickly identified the opposing forces and his new allies. Given the weapons, armor and skills of the northern group before him. They have a fighting chance against these dark slime specimens. While unaware of it's nature, these slimes are violent in nature and near impossible to capture or tame. Their masks were like shells, durable yet brittle upon enough damage. They were surrounded but he was ignored, perhaps he was not detected yet. Using his knowledge on enemy position and weak points he has to at least assist too.

"That's two down! Great job there, big guy! There's still more of them. I'll watch your backs."

With his presence uncovered before the enemy. His voice was audible enough to be both heard by enemies and allies, a single concern was not present within the Professor. Flying off the ground by 5 feet. He had better view of the whole field. First thing he noticed was the mech. It's sleek and powerful design was surely made for combat purposes as they are armed with energy based weaponry of sorts. Prof. Faerie was aware of such weapon concepts and seeing the robotic figure knows how to utilize them. Noticing it's armored from head to toe, there is no way it's simply gonna go down in seconds.

"War Trooper! Look out! The air around you is freezin'! Hold on in there."

Secondly was the slime humanoid from earlier. They seem to have followed along with them, proving it's docile. It's shape and substance is very similar to the enemy's. He can understand the hesitation of the viscous creature for combating against it. They seem to have the ability to morph it's body into different shapes to mimic basic and natural weapons like claws. Not inclined with modern weapon technology perhaps their versatile morphing will turn the tides of battle. If they will not fight, they will get harmed. He has to keep a close eye on this one.

"Bio-Weapon! Those enemies are not sentient like you! You have to fight back! Aim for their faces! Don't let them get to you."

This had the Professor worrying. Putting himself to the perspective of the his slimy ally. It's a grotesque scenario but it's something that the professor was used to but the slime won't probably even have the guts to do what he says, so he turned in to his most trusted friend. Who disappeared from his sight.

"Huh? Where did they go?"

Maya's died left and right and all he can catch was a swift blur. Before he knew it, it was the guy he was looking for. They were as swift as the wind and wielded a hard light sword. A weapon foreign to him despite it's function of being a sword was the same, ignoring the logic for now. Their speed and weaponry was a good counter. The pattern of attacks were similar to almost all the Maya's running amok. The same kind of attack combo was

"Blade Unit, there you are. Watch out! If you feel cold start moving, the air around you will freeze. We've got hostiles at our viscous friend over there! Can you assist?"

While not paying little to no attention against the enemy. Combat is different here from what he used to see back in his homeworld. He was still trying to adjust to this new realm.

"Let's to try to take out more of the yellow ones."

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[Spine and Pelvis; Gravely Hunters]
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"Hah?!" Unexpectedly, Pelvis's attack missed, soon being hit with an ice spell that froze his spine solid, making him unable to move. "Eee!! Cold, cold!" Pelvis yelped, rolling to the side and then tossing a bottled bomb towards the thing's mouth. If it successfully landed inside their mouths, it would most definitely explode.

Spine, meanwhile, sought to push forward, cracking her whip on the ground and continued to aim high as it glowed fiery orange, setting some of them on fire.

Just then, two strange looking apes swooped in and helped the duo, casting what seems to be fire magic followed by ice magic falling from the ceiling.

Pelvis managed to avoid most of them, thankfully, but now his scarf is pinned to the ground.

"Thank you for the assist." Spine cracked her whip once more, soon rushing in to aid her brother and his frozen spine.

[Schimatizo The Slime Girl]
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So apparently, these things don't share the same sentiment as Schimatizo. They're more...Feral. The slime girl winced as the Mayas tore through her slimy body, attempting to scratch out the core of her entire being.

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Bio-Weapon! Those enemies are not sentient like you! You have to fight back! Aim for their faces! Don't let them get to you.

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At the words of this small furry creature, Schimatizo appears to have no choice but comply. Attempts at communication had already failed, and so, she has to regretfully kill off some of her own kind. Turning into a puddle, the Slime girl slipped past the Mayas, appearing behind one of them before forming into a humanoid shape. Hardening her body, she leapt forth and attempted to rip the yellow mask off of one of the Mayas, hoping to give them a quick end.