*Crash!*

Sekani unhooks the child as best as he can. There is no life left in the body.



He heads outside and buries the child, offering a silent prayer. Those monsters, using children for their sick experiments! This has to mean the majibeasts were all once normal beings... like he was.

Was this all the work of Iiji, or was she just another victim of their bid for power? Either way, he may have to use that very power to destroy this place.



Dilia is still inside the research center. He asked her to wait while he tended to the child. Of course, Sekani can go wherever he wants. Will he seek the cure, or more power? This is something he will have to think long and hard about as his journey continues. For now, he just wants answers.

What shall he do first?

> FIND SOME ANSWERS

> Seriously though go back to that conference room and check that briefcase full of notes

> GUINDO: Drop.

I REGRET NOTHING

I was pretty much going to do it regardless of what you said.

(For those playing at home, Guindo has set up a self-imposed rule of doing 10 pushups for every typo. In addition, Guindo's buddies are capable of asking him to drop once a day to do 10 additional pushups. Yoiko picked a very good moment to do so. :| )

> Remember the power Dilia talked about? Focus that now. BLOW THOSE PEOPLE HOLDING TUBES UP WITH FIRE OR SOMETHING. RAAAA!

> Bring Dilia with you on your answer hunt.

>Go back to the storage room on the first floor, and open up that cabinet that has the large bloodstain beneath it.

>Remember the power Dilia talked about? Focus that now. BLOW THOSE PEOPLE HOLDING TUBES UP WITH FIRE OR SOMETHING. RAAAA!

Sekani is not in that room, but he's totally going to do that once he's--



*Fwoosh!*



Interesting~


>Go back to that conference room and check that briefcase full of notes

Sekani looks through the BRIEFCASE and finds many papers containing boring facts about how much money the FACILITY currently has to spend and how much its paying for supplies and labor.

But he does find one thing of interest.


Queen Ishiji... Would he even be able to tell if he found her corpse? It'd probably be an especially regal corpse.


>Go back to the storage room on the first floor, and open up that cabinet that has the large bloodstain beneath it.

It's locked~

> It ain't THAT locked. FORCE THE BITCH OPEN.

> Yeah! Go all whoopass on its ass!

Ishiji - sh = I wonder what a Ki-jaara Klis'khar looks like?

Not that. Probably.

YOU ARE AN AWFUL PERSON

DROP

EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE NOT GUIN

WORTH IT

Ogod that is adorable why doesn't it look like that. D=

Wh-

That thing was so scary I was barely able to draw antennae on it!

How about the jumping spider? :3

S... SO CUTE

HOW IS THAT CUTE.

YOU MEAN

HOW ISN'T IT CUTE

IT'S

I MEAN--

DROP GUINDO XO

RWSI$(YH@(W$#YUTJ@(PW$Y#$YEO#$R%JHYERTHYRT

I am terribly arachnophobic and would appreciate if these kinds of posts stopped. >:

That's my last one, no worries!

Thank you~

Going through and just barely scrolling them onscreen and Adblocking them is a pain in the butt!

>It ain't THAT locked. FORCE THE BITCH OPEN.
>Yeah! Go all whoopass on its ass!

Oh look. It isn't locked anymore~



There's not much in here, though. A picture of a Klis-Khar, and a strange cloth soaked in blood. And an empty bottle which hopefully wasn't the source of said blood.

> Shake the cloth out and make sure there's nothing in it. Similarly, examine the bottle for ITAMZ. Also, check the back of the picture for NOTES.

Hey, there's more cloth over on the floor. See if the two pieces of cloth are related.

> Burn something.
> Check that bloody lump behind you and see if it's the same sort of cloth.

>Shake the cloth out and make sure there's nothing in it.

Ouch! For some reason, the STRANGE CLOTH hurts Sekani's hand as he touches it.


>Burn something.

Sekani decides to get revenge!



...

These new powers are kind of unreliable.


>Examine the bottle for ITAMZ. Also, check the back of the picture for NOTES.

The bottle is empty, as is the back of the picture.



>Check that bloody lump behind you and see if it's the same sort of cloth.

F-- Yes. Yes it is.

Hmm. Acid-soaked cloth? Anti-Ki-jaara-soaked cloth? Who knows!

Leave it there for now. Go back upstairs and check out the Ki-jaara Control room.

> BAD CLOTH. TRY TO BURN IT AGAIN. D=<
> Double check map so I can be lazy and not check the past chapter.

I probably should have thrown this in the update but I forgot so here 83

> Find Dilia. Ask her what she thinks about that cloth.

>Check other lockers. All of them.

>Remember the cloth that was over the hole the first majibeast was in... ponder if this cloth is used to contain majibeasts...

Both cloths are soaked in blood, aren't they? Gotta use some basic rigor here, people.

>Touch POOLS OF BLOOD

For extra rigor/SCIENCE!:

>Lick POOLS OF BLOOD

>BAD CLOTH. TRY TO BURN IT AGAIN. D=<

Sekani must be doing something wrong. The lack of burning makes him kind of sad.


>Check other lockers. All of them.

A small part of Sekani is worried that he's enjoying this power too much. ...Nah.

The other lockers contain clothes and boxes full of spoiled food. There doesn't appear to be anything else here worth his time here.


>Touch POOLS OF BLOOD

Nothing happens.


>Lick POOLS OF BLOOD

....

No.


>Go back upstairs and check out the Ki-jaara Control room.

Sekani runs into Dilia in the hallway of the second floor.

"Are you feeling better now? You sounded so upset earlier~"

The lights have gone back out. They were on for a bit, so it's likely the BACKUP POWER is not completely decrepit. If he can locate it, he might be able to get it powered up with Dilia's help. That is, if he wanted to.

Ask Dilia about the strange cloth - does it hurt when she touches it, too?

Get her to knock out all the locks on this floor.

(She's a useful tool, mwaha.)

>Ki-Jara control room

We didn't go there yet, right? That sounds like they were devising things that would stop magibeastss from going out of control... and it would be good to know what those are for defensive AND offensive purposes (like maybe we could get Amiel to wave that cloth around if we encounter hostile beasties). Perhaps there's even an antidote... what better way to control something than to remove it's powers... other than... you know, killing it. But yeah, as I don't know WHERE the generator would be, I say we check out this room as long as we're here.

Or, uh, we were already on our way there, that's good. Well, let's... make sure we go in. I got nothing else.

Majicka ENHANCEMENT, eh? Hmmm... there's nothing like burning stuff down, except burning stuff down even faster. And harder. And stronger.

>Ask Dilia about the strange cloth - does it hurt when she touches it, too?
>Get her to knock out all the locks on this floor.

Dilia's becoming visibly tired. Sekani feels kind of bad for working her so hard.

"I think I've seen the cloth you're talking about. It frightens me and my sisters..."
Dilia was never brave enough to try touching it, and unlike certain avian beings, wasn't dumb enough to try touching it twice.

>Ki-Jara control room

Some more of the STRANGE CLOTH in here, as well as another terminal and various items. And a corpse. Sekani no longer has any sympathy for the Klis-Khar.

>Do we still have the BIC, or is it AMiel's? If so, inventory, please, so we don't have to check chapter 5?
>CHeck out that gun looking thing.

> Ask Dilia when we get to burn things. :(
> Check out the other side of the room.

Hey, look! Those bands on the desk there kind of look like our NEAT HEADBAND. Replace your headband, Sekani!

...Or maybe make it an ankle bracelet or something, if it won't fit.

I'm betting... that's more ANTI MAGIBEAST cloth.

Probably not good headband material.

Incidently, this would explain why there was just cloth lying randomly on the 2nd screen... because it's anti-magibeasty stuff. It's also probably why the headband was destroyed earlier! So that we wouldn't just go WAUGH HEAD OW KILLING OW DIE DIE DIE DIE OW OW OW after transforming.

Yeah except the headband got absorbed, not broken to bits, and it's not made out of the same shiny material as the anti-majibeast cloth we found in the barracks.

> Touch the strange cloth on the table. You know, just to make sure.

>Yeah, and tie it around your face. THis would be optimal. no wait, don't do that.

>Inventory please.

The BIC is currently full, and near its WEIGHT LIMIT.


>Ask Dilia when we get to burn things. :(

"Aww, are you having trouble, sweety? Commanding your powers is always difficult at first, but once you learn how to call out to them, you'll find them very easy to use~"


>Check out that gun looking thing.

It's exactly the same as the one in the MAJIBEAST CREATION LAB. It looks to be some kind of scanning device.


>Touch the strange cloth on the table. You know, just to make sure.

Sekani can clearly tell it's the same type of cloth. He isn't going to just go and touch things he knows will hurt him!

Again!


>Hey, look! Those bands on the desk there kind of look like our NEAT HEADBAND. Replace your headband, Sekani!

Hell yeah! Bad-ass town: population Sekani!
He's going... to...




uh...



CONTROL OF SEKANI HAS BEEN LOST.



"You need to be more careful~
Iiji warned us never to wear these~"

FALSE ALARM.

Huh. They're the mind control devices, eh? And only work on Ki-jaara... I wonder where the master control for them are.

Say, what's that remote-thing next to the bands?

And go peek at the rest of the room, too.

I knew it was a bad idea, I knew it I knew it I knew it.

Good thing we have DIlia...

Oh right, the egg! Huh... Interesting...

>Ask Dilia about the egg

> Thank Dilia for saving us from the mean headband.

> Realize strechty pants are the only piece of cloth that will not betray you. BURN EVERYTHING ELSE.

Do'h I should of thought of thanking her >_< Nice save.

[Nein! Do not burn! D:

They might come in handy later.]

Yeah, AMiel can use it to fend of potential hostiles... We don't know if the other magibeasts are as nice as Dilia....

Another computer, another excuse to

>Dick around on computer
>Also, hide some bandanas in your pants for later. Foresight!

>Thank Dilia for saving us from the mean headband.

"Hee, I didn't want you to become a mindless slave before I got a chance to know you better~"


>Ask Dilia about the egg

"I have never seen an egg like this before~ Is it yours?"

"Do the males have the baby~?"


>Say, what's that remote-thing next to the bands?

This must have been used to command the Ki-jaara. It doesn't respond to anything Sekani does. The batteries must be dead.

Sekani wonders if they had their priorities straight when they designed the button placement.


>Peek the rest of the room.

Even with these devices, the klis-khar couldn't control the Ki-jaara. Serves them right.
There's a PILE OF CORPSES, a BROKEN TUBE, a BUSTED REMOTE, and a TORN BANDANA. There are burns on the floor, and what remains of a table or desk.



>Realize strechty pants are the only piece of cloth that will not betray you. BURN EVERYTHING ELSE.

Sekani wonders if this includes burning his DECENT BUT NOT NECESSARILY AWESOME TEZAKIAN SHIRT.

Nothing happens. He ponders the difference between now and when his powers did work.

> get the sombrero and put it on your head
> put egg in pants to incubate it

[I totally forsaw someone making a sombrero joke X( ]

>Check this controller too
>Realize the shirt can stay too. Don't want to give Dilia any more ideas than- aw damnit, she can hear me.

> Ask Dilia if it was the other majibeast that killed the Klis-Khar.
> Inspect sombrero remains.

TIEM TO SHUFFLE ITEMS

>Get the tool box out of the BIC. Remove the meter stick, bit-less drill, soldering iron, and level, and leave them here. Place the bundle of wires and the empty syringe from the BIC inside the tool box. Stick 'er back in the BIC.

>Place the unbroken remote and one of the containing bands in the BIC. Hope it all fits.

>put egg in pants to incubate it

Sekani sees no reason not to keep the STRANGE EGG in his "Inventory".
He tells Dilia where he found the egg and that he's kind of curious what kind of egg it is.


>Realize the shirt can stay too. Don't want to give Dilia any more ideas than- aw damnit, she can hear me.

"Having trouble burning your clothes? Do you want me to burn them off for you~? Don't worry, I'm good at aiming my powers. It won't hurt a bit~"

Sekani decides this would be a good time to take his hand out of his pants.


>Check this controller too

It fails to respond. Even with good batteries this probably wouldn't work.


>Get the tool box out of the BIC. Remove the meter stick, bit-less drill, soldering iron, and level, and leave them here. Place the bundle of wires and the empty syringe from the BIC inside the tool box. Stick 'er back in the BIC.
>Place the unbroken remote and one of the containing bands in the BIC. Hope it all fits.

Sekani has no trouble pulling this off.


>Inspect sombrero remains.

It looks like the top of a TUBE CONTAINMENT OBJECT, similar to the tops of the ones he found earlier. It would be far too heavy to wear as a hat.

"I'm going to take your silence as a yeeees~"

>"I like this shirt, thanks =|"

>Nothing left here, looks like... let's go check out the healing macika lab... probably out best bet for an antidote.

Either that, or it's just a lab to develop majicka that heals folk. But go check it out anyways. Might as well~

Yeah, that's the possibility I'm hoping against.

Note to self: Bahu is trying to post his commands for this update.

"Let's try this again.

>Shove some bandanas in your pants. Next to the egg.
>Push buttons on the computer until neat things happen. Try to find freecell."

There's no power, how would we find Freecell? Unless you ACTUALLY want us to push buttons until after daybreak... we could do that, but we'd waste a lot of time.

Let's try this again.

>Shove some bandanas in your pants. Next to the egg.
>Push buttons on the computer until neat things happen. Hopefully things about that damned cloth

>"I like this shirt, thanks =|"

"I see..."

Sekani is feeling pretty bad about getting her hopes up all the time, but he isn't sure what he wants yet. He's got too much work ahead of him to spend time figuring out his emotions right now.


>Push buttons on the computer until neat things happen. Hopefully things about that damned cloth

Since the power is out, the computer fails to do anything neat.


>Shove some bandanas in your pants. Next to the egg.
Sekani's INVENTORY is full, and he's already added one to the BIC.


>Nothing left here, looks like... let's go check out the healing magicka lab... probably our best bet for an antidote.

Yes. But Sekani wants to try something first.

The only difference between last time and this time was wording. Maybe he has to...


>Fire!

Aha! That's how it works!

Sekani's power can now be directly controlled.



Sekani watches the corpses burn for a while before leaving to ensure the fire doesn't spread. He doesn't want the entire building to be burned down.

Yet.



They head to the HEALING MAJICKA LAB.

All of these laboratories must have been built from the same basic plans. He sees a large INCUBATOR, and a small REFRIGERATOR UNIT to the south, and more SYRINGES and bottles of various fluids to the NORTH. This room also continues to the WEST.

> Set FIRE to bandanas. Crush the remote control. It isn't a good idea to leave them around for someone to possibly use on you. Controlling someone's will is just plain wrong~

> Inspect the INCUBATOR. Is it safe for SEKANI JR.?

[Unless of course we're the ones doing the controlling. :3]

>Read note
>Apologize for accidently teasing Dilia.

Peek into the incubator, and go check out the rest of the room.

[The entire time between ch5 and 6 (except the new years eve which was taken off entirely) was used on the VERY ANIMATED INTRO, so I have to make backgrounds in real time. I'll get to this once I make food cause I spent 2 hours on the update as is and making it would take another hour at least >: ]

>Wonder where Amiel is and if she's mad at him for randomly forgetting about her and leaving her all alone in THE DARK. Also wonder if he can actually see better in THE DARK than he could before he started mutating.
>See if those substances are labeled.

>Set FIRE to bandanas. Crush the remote control. It isn't a good idea to leave them around for someone to possibly use on you. Controlling someone's will is just plain wrong~
>Apologize for accidently teasing Dilia.
Sekani includes the BANDANAS and REMOTE in his destruction, then quickly runs back and apologizes to Dilia.


She nudges him, which is probably as close as she can come to hugging somebody.
"I'll forgive you since you're so cute~ I'll keep waiting, but I hope you'll stop teasing me soon~"

Sekani considers hugging her again, but decides to remain focused.


>Referencing Ruby Quest is fun!

Doesn't look like a very interesting NOTE.


>Inspect the INCUBATOR. Is it safe for SEKANI JR.?

Looks like it'd be the perfect place for Sekani JR. if there was a more consistent power source. There is a BROKEN EGGSHELL inside.


>Wonder where Amiel is and if she's mad at him for randomly forgetting about her and leaving her all alone in THE DARK. Also wonder if he can actually see better in THE DARK than he could before he started mutating.

He sent her away to protect her... from himself. But thinking about it, he may just enjoy the thought of hunting her down~

His night-vision is GREATLY INCREASED thanks to his metamorphosis. Even with all the lights out, he can see amazingly well. There is a very tiny amount of light coming from ceiling, meaning the BACKUP POWER must just barely be functioning.

>See if those substances are labeled.

The labeling is damaged, but as best as Sekani can tell they're various solutions meant to be injected, most likely to grant the "healing majicka" that this lab is named for. One of them could be the cure, but he has no way of knowing.

>ask Dilia what she's looking at, and while we're at it, what she makes of the everything we've seen so far.
>swap wire cutters for hammer (much rather have a hammer as a weapon if need be).

Someone else figure out what to drop to pick up these containers... I have no clue Maybe the water bottle...

>Ask Dilia what she's looking at, and while we're at it, what she makes of the everything we've seen so far.

"I've never been in these rooms before. I was wondering what these things did~ This place is kind of terrifying. My queen told me they treated us Ki-jaara like animals-- nothing more than experiments. I'm scared, but I'll try to be brave for you~"

Sekani feels a little scared of this place too. He tries to calm himself by remembering that he isn't a Ki-jaara. At least, not entirely.



The other side of the room smells pretty bad. It looks like they've been using animals to test their majicka on. Sekani is growing even less fond of the Klis-Khar.

> What's in the refrigerator unit?

The cutters and hammer also switched places in the inventory.

This is obviously a place where important SCIENCE! took place. Therefore, you can expect Scientific laws to hold firm.

>Search for any liquid the opposite color of the STRANGE LIQUID back in chapter 1.
>Inject that one
>No, really, do it.

> Berate self for even thinking about hunting Amiel. Amiel is our (maybe girl)friend!

> Transdimensional majicka sounds like fun! Go look over in that room when we're done here.

>What's in the refrigerator unit?

Some sludge, a MR. LUNCH box, an UNMARKED CAN, and some vials.


>Berate self for even thinking about hunting Amiel. Amiel is our (maybe girl)friend!

That's right. He wants to protect Amiel, not hunt her. Oh, if only she were here to tell him it'd be okay. He's fighting an ongoing battle against the Ki-jaara corruption.

A battle he's losing.


>Search for any liquid the opposite color of the STRANGE LIQUID back in chapter 1.

The STRANGE LIQUID was a golden color. Sekani isn't sure if any of these would be the "opposite" color of that. Which one should he try, if any?

> Tell Dilia (and yourself!) that it's okay-- the Klis-Khar are gone and people won't be treating them like that now, and that leaves them free to hunt for some answers. And burn things.

> Take the itty bitty skeleton (sad!) and inspect it under the microscope.

> Violet is opposite gold.

>Purple it is!

> TRY THEM ALL, LET GOD SORT IT OUT

> Hmm. This!

>Don't try any, this is suicide.
>Drop Saw, Nails, wires, add all three jars in their place

Let's go... I don't know... TALK TO GRASSHOPPER before trying any of these. We have a robot at our beck and call for these kind of things... and it'll be day break ANY HOUR NOW and he'll be back on line...

Speaking of which... are we tired yet?

You, sir, are a coward. You cannot advance in the field of SCIENCE! without heedlessly risking life and limb for something that only makes adventure game logic.

Pah! It's not cowardace, it's self preservation! Even Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate™ would refuse to do things from time to time, you know. And he didn't have to worry about dying (aside from staying under water for 10 minutes at a time), while Sekani DOES. So let's try not to do things that could just kill us.

>Violet is opposite gold.
>Purple it is!

Sekani gives himself some purple.

"What are you doing? That's dangerous!"
Dilia's "voice" sounds a little less easy-going than usual.

"The Klis-Khar have left this place. There will be no more experiments on the Ki-jaara, but I still want to find some answers. If this stuff will lead me to them, then so be it."

>Take the itty bitty skeleton (sad!) and inspect it under the microscope.

Sekani inspects the tiny corpse while waiting for the shot to kick in. Could it be a baby Ki-jaara? He wonders why the Klis-Khar experimented on something that had just been born. It just isn't right.

"Well done, child."



The world fades out around Sekani. The voice he's been hearing for the past few hours is suddenly loud enough to understand.



"It would seem that solution has given you a new power. It has also opened your mind to me~ Why don't you take the green one next? It'll free you of the torment of being a little bird, and turn you into something far greater~"

The voice... it has to be her!

Iiji.

> ... Ask her what the blue one does

>Don't take the green one. Do not.

>Also tell her to GTFO of your head until you specifically invite her in. It's only polite.

> NEW POWER, AWESOME. Request elaboration!

> ... Ask to make sure the green one will not remove wings. Wings are pretty awesome.

>Ask about new power before we do anything else this awesome
>Ask about the other plasmids solutions that might be lying around, especially any nabbed by stray indirect protagonists

>NEW POWER, AWESOME. Request elaboration!
>Ask about new power before we do anything else this awesome

"You can now absorb heat from an object, leaving it frozen temporarily~"

>Ask to make sure the green one will not remove wings. Wings are pretty awesome.

"You won't need your wings with the power it'll give you~ It will free you from your cowardice~ Fear will no longer get in your way~"

>Ask her what the blue one does
"Don't worry about the blue one. It doesn't do anything at all~"

>Ask about the other plasmids solutions that might be lying around, especially any nabbed by stray indirect protagonists
"There may be others around. She had lied to me about the presence of the third vial, I admit..."

"I may have to punish her for that~"


>Also tell her to GTFO of your head until you specifically invite her in. It's only polite.

"Oh, I think you'll come to enjoy my company~ You are special, little one. You were given a special version of the serum. You will become the strongest of the Ki-jaara, fitting to be my king~"

Sekani imagines most males would be happy to be hit on by so many females, but he's starting to find it kind of obnoxious. Dilia was first, damn it!

No. Amiel. Amiel was first.

Sekani feels kind of funny...

[Oh Sekani, it's not about going after the first person who gives you attention. People don't get to call dibs over you. You get to pick!]

> Who is "she"? The one who lied?

> Ask her to let you go so you can go on about your Ki-Jaara business please

Think of bugspray and flyswatters.

Ask again what the blue one does.

Screw this noise.

>BLUE IT UP, SEKANI. By which I mean add it to your inventory, replacing the water bottle

It would be silly to just sacrifice this new power, and I'm willing to wait until we can ask GH about it. She doesn't want us to use it, but she could very well be using reverse psychology on us... she's clearly the tricksiest and smartest of the people around here.

>Do not take green injection.

Just... just don't. Using the first gave us SOMETHING, but also gave us a DOWNSIDE. Thankfully this isn't text in a command or she'd hear me... unless she's powerful enough to hear OOC comments, which would suck. But yeah, We'll keep the new power for NOW, ignore the new voice in our head (she's just rude), and wait before taking any more injections.

[Nobody in the game can hear OOC dialog, fear not!]

>Think of bugspray and flyswatters.

"What are you doing? Is that supposed to frighten me? It doesn't."

Sekani feels less drained.


>Ask again what the blue one does.

"It's an incomplete formula. It would probably cause all kinds of nasty and weird transformations that even I would not approve of. Just don't do it."

>Who is "she"? The one who lied?
"You have not met her yet. S'kili is one of the five. She is the oldest, next to me of course."


>Ask her to let you go so you can go on about your Ki-Jaara business please

"I'll let you continue playing around for now, but we will be spending a lot of time together, my soon-to-be king~"

Sekani feels himself being drawn back to the real world. He wonders if Dilia would think ill of him if he gave in to his desire to scream really loud.


>BLUE IT UP, SEKANI. By which I mean add it to your inventory, replacing the water bottle

Sekani has quite a lot of items in this tiny ball.

> INJECT THE BLUE ONE DAMMIT SHE IS OBVIOUSLY LYING

...

> Actually inject Dilia with the blue one. See what happens.

Yeah! Give it to Dilia!

I just want it on the record that...

I hate you.

>Don't use it without a medical opinion, just look at where the other one got us. We can afford to wait and get a medical opinion.

BUGLE LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE

IIJI, WHO WANTS US TO TURN INTO A MAJIBEAST, IS TELLING US NOT TO INJECT IT, AND THEN BEING VAGUE ABOUT WHY

OBVIOUSLY, WE SHOULD INJECT IT

Also we can't afford to wait because we only have like 12 hours left before TOTAL LOSS or w/e according to Grasshopper's earlier assessment

> INJECT SELF. MAYBE WE'LL GET BIGGER WINGS.
Don't inject Dilia because (aside from being mean) electricity travels faster than we could stab with a syringe. Starting a fight would compound our problems more than we can afford right now.

Well obviously we would tell her before we did it! "Here Dilia I want to see what this does, Iiji says it'll be cool, come on."

in all honesty wouldn't Iiji (IIJI wtf?) just tell dilia not to let herself get injected by the blue odd liquid? that's elementary my dear Watson (oops guindo).

PS: IIJI weird name.

Iiji is very sensitive about her name. Please don't critique the quest.

Plus dilia will more then likely read our command to inject her and see what happens...hence dilia will know somethings up.

> Tell Dilia about what happened.

> Say you're sorry for making her awesome smile go away. :(

>Go find Amiel. Ask Dilia if you can't find her quickly. She must have had a reason for grabbing all of those vials; at least one is bound to be important.

I believe her reason is "because we told Sekani to grab them before he started going crazy"

>Tell Dilia about what happened.
>Inject Dilia with the blue one. See what happens.

"Iiji spoke to me. She seemed worried about this serum. We have to find out its true intention. Would you be willing to try it for me?"

"What? I-I don't know. It frightens me a little."

"Don't be frightened, Dilia. If I'm going to be Iiji's king..."



"...Then I'm going to need your trust. This should make everything better~"






"It- it huuurrrts!"

Dilia begins convulsing. Sekani is completely shocked!



"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!? I NO LONGER FEEL DILIA'S PRESENCE! I didn't want you to take it because I had no idea what it did, you fool!"

"Dilia! Dilia!!"

There has to be something Sekani can do! Anything!

soooooo does that mean shes dead?
or OMG REVERSE MAJIBEAST POTION SWEET.

>try injecting blue and green liquid things into dilia (or not).

>make iiji happy and inject dilia back to majibeast...(cuz we don't need a MIND CRUSH right this second.)

[We will never be in a no-win situation.]

>Try the purple on her, it made you stronger, maybe it will make her stronger.

Don't go injecting her with other things, holy cow, give the first one some time to get going.

Just because she collapsed and Iiji can't hear her doesn't mean she's dead. She might have fainted and Iiji can't hear her because it cut off the Ki-Jaara communication.

> Check her pulse and breathing before you go about doing anything stupid.

>Actually, yeah, do this first, if it's evident she's dying, then try the blue.

Dammit, you all went and made me agree with Guin on something. Gee, I hope we have more of this stuff left afterward.

>Check her pulse and breathing before you go about doing anything stupid.

Sekani doesn't feel a pulse she's not breathing oh god what has he done


>Try the purple on her, it made you stronger, maybe it will make her stronger.
>try injecting blue and green liquid things into dilia

Sekani doesn't know which one to try! What if he makes it worse!?

"There may be a way to save her. If you know the proper words to use, your powers may be capable of restoring the warmth of life."

Sekani doesn't think this is a very good time for cryptic puzzles!

Oh, for. We just GOT something to restore the warmth of life. We just need to figure out if we can heal others off of that fire you set earlier or not.

>Find that out

... uhhhh

> Set the desk/table/counter on fire. Transfer warmth to Dilia. Heal Dilia.

> Think about healing Dilia?

Ding dong, the beast is dead~

I mean, uh. Yeah, try that transferring warmth thing. Don't bother with the injections now; we know the green one will transform (or at least that's what Iiji says it will do), and the purple one restores connection with Iiji. Definitely don't want that.

>Set the desk/table/counter on fire. Transfer warmth to Dilia. Heal Dilia.
>Think about healing Dilia?
>Find something out.

Sekani manages to set the fire, knowing how to utilize his FIRE power. But this is something completely new. He isn't even sure where to start. He concentrates on healing Dilia, but nothing happens.

"Your powers won't listen to you unless you treat them like your slaves. Command them. Tell them exactly what you want them to do. I wouldn't recommend telling them to move the fire itself to Dilia. That would make quite the mess~"

Sekani thinks this will require him to utilize two statements. What will they be...?

> Absorb fire's warmth.

> Use warmth to heal Dilia.

[Since I'm being perhaps unfair, here's another hint:

Commanding Sekani will do no good.]

Slink you are ridiculous.

> FIRE: HEAL DILIA. USE YOUR MAGICAL POWERS OF RATIONAL THINKING TO FIGURE IT OUT BECAUSE FIRE IS COGNIZANT AND ABLE TO BE DIRECTLY COMMANDED

>Pheonix down.

COme on. FIRE? LIFE? PHEONIX.

>Fire: Lend warmth to Dilia

>FIRE: HEAL DILIA. USE YOUR MAGICAL POWERS OF RATIONAL THINKING TO FIGURE IT OUT BECAUSE FIRE IS COGNIZANT AND ABLE TO BE DIRECTLY COMMANDED
The fire isn't a sentient being!



Sekani is getting incredibly frustrated with this stupid wording puzzle!

"You're almost out of time if you want to do something~"

"Shut up! I know!"

"You can only control the elements once you've figured out how to talk to them. If I wanted to do what you're trying to do, I would not go "FIRE: DO THINGS". Instead, I would command the fire as if I was its leader. "Fire, grant me your warmth!" After that, I would say something to get the warmth to restore Dilia to life. But I wouldn't say something as nonspecific as "HEAL DILIA" or "RESTORE DILIA TO LIFE". There must be a specific object the warmth can enter to get Dilia's blood pumping once more.

"Why won't you just tell me what to say, damn it!"


"Because you dared to disobey me~"

> "Technically you never told me not to inject Dilia with the stuff."

> "Fire, grant me your warmth"

> "Warmth, administer brief but powerful electric shock to Dilia's heart to jump-start its muscle contraction"

And after that zinger, >"And who the fuck do you think you are? Queen? King's higher on the chain of command, bitch."

>FIRE: Surrender warmth to that adorable horse-thing over there.
>DILLIA: Get healed by warmth, already. We don't have time for you to by dying to things we may or may not have done to you.

>"Fire, grant me your warmth"

Something finally seems to be happening.


>"Warmth, administer brief but powerful electric shock to Dilia's heart to jump-start its muscle contraction"

Amazingly, the fire manages to do just this. That's quite some warmth!



Dilia begins to stir. It worked!



Sekani hugs Dilia.
"I'm so glad you're okay! I'm so sorry I didn't mean to almost kill you I don't know what I was thinking trying liquids like that without knowing what they did I'm so sorry please don't hate me!"



"You... you didn't do anything wrong. The one who betrayed me was Iiji. She told me to let you give me that shot. I can't believe she... my queen betrayed me."

Dilia begins to sob. Sekani feels really bad for her.


>Tell Iiji ""Technically you never told me not to inject Dilia with the stuff."
>And after that zinger, >"And who the fuck do you think you are? Queen? King's higher on the chain of command, bitch."

"I asked you to leave it be. But what's done is done, I suppose... She was starting to get ideas about keeping you to herself. It's better that she's gone~"

"Clearly you don't understand how our race's hierarchy works. The queen always rules over the king~
You'll eventually learn to be loyal. You just need more time~"



"I can't hear Iiji's voice anymore. I feel lonely... and a little scared."
What can Sekani say to make her feel better?

He also feels they should find a place to rest for a while so she can recover.

... >=)

> "Iiji betrayed you. You're better off without a queen you can't even trust. Don't be afraid, Dilia. You have me. I'm here for you."

ON A SIDE NOTE:

I figured out near the end that that was a frustrating and unfair puzzle. I SHALL HENCEFORTH NEVER DO A WORD/TEXT PARSING PUZZLE LIKE THIS AGAIN.

I hope I didn't turn people off to the quest.

From now on, Sekani will go ahead and use abilities he has under normal command rules. But if you're imaginative enough, you may be able to give him abilities I could never even fathom giving him myself.

Ooooon second thought, this is an important trump card to save.

>Swap hammer with a syringe full of blue joos. I'm not sure I want to trust the BIC for the sort of emergency that would need it. Uh, be careful with that, though.

>"Iiji betrayed you. You're better off without a queen you can't even trust. Don't be afraid, Dilia. You have me. I'm here for you."

Sekani waits for Dilia to respond to his guiding voices like she always did, but she remains motionless. He does his best to sound confident as he repeats the message himself.

"Thank you. Maybe you could be my new queen, Hmm? Or maybe we could both be queens~"

She kneels.

"Queen Sekani and Queen Dilia. It's so regal~"

Sekani thinks she's faking it a bit, but she seems to feel at least a little better. He kind of likes the sound of what she's saying.

Queen Sekani.



...Er, wait.


>Some kind of plan to inject self with BLUE SOLUTION and then heal self out of a heart attack that was deleted as this post was being made.

Sekani doesn't think that'd be very safe. He kind of understands how to do it, but if he dies as quickly as Dilia did, there'd be no way he can save himself. He'd need her to somehow figure out how to use her own power to do what he did... if that's even possible.

>Swap hammer with a syringe full of blue joos. I'm not sure I want to trust the BIC for the sort of emergency that would need it. Uh, be careful with that, though.
Sekani switches the items. He doesn't really need a melee weapon anymore.



In the mean time, Sekani tries to think of a good place for them to rest for a few hours.

> Try the conference room. Those chairs looked ~*comfy*~

Bipedalist! Dilia cannot use chairs! :(

But my cat sits in chairs just fine!

Your cat isn't a large pony-type!

She can figure it out!

[I leave for a minute and you guys go and try to kill Dilia. What is this. I'm surprised she trusts us at all. :| QUEEN SEKANI. Dilia you are a adorable.]

> Go to the Shock Majicka lab real quick to see if there's anything that might be helpful to Dilia there.

> Ask Dilia if she wants to wait outside the room. There might be ~bad memories~ in there or something.

I still say going to the Trans-dimension majicka lab sounds like a good idea. Remember how the rest of the world was gone? Betcha this is an alternate dimension.

Ask Dilia if teaming up with Amiel and him against almighty bugbitchface sounds like a plan.

As much as time has been an issue, we need to make sure Dilia's going to be okay.

>Check Dilia for any lost AWESOME POWERS (reading the command line excluded)
>While Dilia recovers, go to the FIRE MAJIKA TRAINING ROOM and blow off some steam. Literally.

>Ask Dilia if teaming up with Amiel and him against almighty bugbitchface sounds like a plan.

Sekani asks Dilia if she's up for punking what they assume is a bug with their spiky friend.

"Aww, does the spiky one have to come? Oh well... I have nowhere else to go. I will follow you anywhere, Queen Sekani~

"But how did you know Iiji was a Klis-Khar~?"



"You are very perceptive indeed~"
"I see Dilia is still alive. She completed her task as a guinea pig, and I can't get through to her anymore. She's of no use to me now. Why don't you finish her off for me~?"

Sekani ignores Iiji.


>Check Dilia for any lost AWESOME POWERS (reading the command line excluded)
Sekani asks Dilia if her powers were lessened by the BLUE SOLUTION.

"I feel tired, but otherwise fine. My 'wings' feel kind of heavy though."

Come to think of it, they do look a little bigger.

>Go to the Shock Majicka lab real quick to see if there's anything that might be helpful to Dilia there.

They head to the SHOCK MAJICKA TRAINING FACILITY since there is no specific lab for it. Sekani asks if Dilia will be okay in here, and she says she's fine. She has no memory of this place.

"I fondly recall the destruction of that room. So many screaming people~"

Dilia lets out a sigh.
"The stars look nice tonight. We could rest here and look at them~ It'd be so romantic, my queen~"

>Compliment Dilia on her wing development. Tezakians treat them as a secondary sexual characteristic, right?
>Insist that we find Amiel, so that nobody makes a meal out of her before morning.

Yeah, this. We're probably not going to eat her now.

>Insist that we find Amiel, so that nobody makes a meal out of her before morning.
>We're probably not going to eat her now.

Sekani isn't fully confident that she'd be safe around him yet.

"I'll eat her if you won't~"


>Compliment Dilia on her wing development. Tezakians treat them as a secondary sexual characteristic, right?

Sekani tells Dilia that her wings look really pretty.

"Nobody's ever complimented my tiny wings before~ Your wings look really pretty too~"



Sekani respectfully disagrees with Dilia. His wings aren't very attractive. The last time he attempted to frill them out to attract a female, he got the cold shoulder. He hasn't really wanted to attempt to display them since.

"Aww, I'd love to see your wings spread out. I bet they look beautiful~"

> Aw, go on and show her. You're friends now, right? Nothing wrong with showing off for friends.

> Frill 'em!

>Aw, go on and show her. You're friends now, right? Nothing wrong with showing off for friends.
>Frill 'em!
Well, Amiel isn't around anyway... Sekani guesses he has nothing to lose but his pride.


Sekani feels self conscious. Many Tezakians have all kinds of bright greens and reds and purples, but his own wings are blue and more blue. He's so dull. So boring.



"As queen, my first new law is that you don't get to talk down about your colors anymore~ They're really pretty, sweety~"

Sekani can't help but smile. Somehow, losing her link to Iiji has brought out a side of her he hasn't seen before. It's a nice, gentle side.



They get comfortable and rest. A couple of hours pass...




Sekani knows he should wake up and get moving, but for some reason he doesn't really want to yet.

> Wake up and get moving, broseph! We got some problems to solve!

>Inspect the sleeping Dilia's wings for any further changes, also the rest of her that he can see.

Psst. Sekani. Trans-dimensional majicka lab. Goooo therrrrre.

>Get up and move! We've got WEIRD PUZZLE SHIT to wade through!
>There may be candy in one of the remaining majika labs. Let's try the trans-dimensional one.

dilia> Mid-night Sexins go!

>Wake up and get moving, broseph! We got some problems to solve!

Sekani is so very exhausted. He just wants to sleep a little while longer... but no. He can't waste any more time. There's so much more that has to be done while he still has control of himself.


>Inspect the sleeping Dilia's wings for any further changes, also the rest of her that he can see.

Her wings do seem a little, erm... larger than before. But they are still way too tiny to allow Dilia to fly or even glide.



Her muscles seem about the same as they were before. There's nothing different about her chest, head, horns, or ears...


Her stomach seems to be the same, and--


Yep she's a female all right. Sekani decides against checking any further. It wouldn't be polite.

>Psst. Sekani. Trans-dimensional majicka lab. Goooo therrrrre.
>There may be candy in one of the remaining majika labs. Let's try the trans-dimensional one.

Sekani wakes Dilia up, and they head to the TRANS-DIMENSIONAL MAJICKA LAB. He sees a collection of dust that indicates a table once stood there. There's a couple of STRANGE DEVICES, and half of a STUFFED ANIMAL. There's something odd about the rest of the room, which continues to the RIGHT.

"I'd be careful in there~"

>Take OBVIOUS BAIT to examine REMAINDER of room

> What. Inspect STUFFED ANIMAL.

>Slink: STOP FORGETTING SEKANI'S HEAD ANTENNAE.

>Hope nobody was looking at the quest during the time you spent deleting and re-uploading those images.

>What. Inspect STUFFED ANIMAL.

It's been ripped in half. Pieces of fluff are lying around it. It's highly likely this little guy was a victim of majickal experiments.



...Those monsters. Sekani will set them all on fire.


>Take OBVIOUS BAIT to examine REMAINDER of room

Um... That's a giant portal, isn't it.

"You see that too, right? This isn't just me hallucinating from the BLUE SOLUTION, is it."

Heeeey that looks like a NOTE

Better READ IT!

> Get rid of EMERGENCY LIGHT. Apparently the BIC on its own is good enough, plus, y'know, night vision.
> Take STUFFED ANIMAL.

>Get rid of EMERGENCY LIGHT. Apparently the BIC on its own is good enough, plus, y'know, night vision.
>Take STUFFED ANIMAL.

Sekani isn't sure what use the stuffed animal could possibly have, but he'll be damned if he's going to let it die out here alone. Hold on little buddy! You'll be whole again in no time!


>Heeeey that looks like a NOTE
>Better READ IT!

"A note? What does it say? You should go take the GREEN SOLUTION so I can see through your eyes, my darling pet~"



"I can't believe Iiji turned out to be a bad person. She was always so nice to me. You're not going to end up being mean too, are you?"

Sekani sure hopes not.

> Find Amiel.

> Take Amiel and Dilia through that PORTAL with you and retire in PARADISE.

>Error 404, Green potion not found. Sorry, Queenie.
>Ask DIlia if there's a way to block out Queen Ishiji... I mean Iiji. I said Iiji, not Ishiji, how could I possibly get so confused?

> Blue stuff. Ask Dilia if she thinks she could help us survive taking it.

Well, I meant without that.

>Find Amiel.
Sekani can't look for Amiel yet. He might hurt her. That'd be... bad.

"Would it be bad? I bet she's tasty~"


>Take Amiel and Dilia through that PORTAL with you and retire in PARADISE.

Sekani peers into the portal and sees a planet. The planet looks... wait. That's their planet! What the hell is going on here? This S'kili person must have messed up their attempts to make a paradise, and instead made a portal to the entire world.

"You're not thinking of running away, are you~? I'd be soooo lonely if you did~"

>Error 404, Green potion not found. Sorry, Queenie.
>Ask DIlia if there's a way to block out Queen Ishiji... I mean Iiji. I said Iiji, not Ishiji, how could I possibly get so confused?

"Well, go back and find it. It'd strengthen our bond~ Ishiji? That name sounds so familiar. Wasn't she the queen of the insects? You shouldn't worry about her. She's not important."

Dilia can't think of a way to block Iiji. Until a couple of hours ago, she never had a reason to want to.


>Blue stuff. Ask Dilia if she thinks she could help us survive taking it.

"I don't know if I could. I don't have the MEDICAL EXPERTISE to know how much to shock you. I don't want to mess up and lose you, my queen."

Sekani considers asking her to call him something other than "queen". She's got a valid point, though. He'd only get one shot at this.

Well, IN THEORY, we could start a fire somewhere, inject ourselves, and then heal ourselves using that fire we already set while we were busy convulsing. I mean, it's all controlled by thought, right? We just have to keep our wits about us for a couple seconds in order to fix it.

Remember that Dilia was IMMEDIATELY knocked unconscious by it. Sekani simply wouldn't have the time to heal himself.

I'm giving this OBVIOUS INFORMATION because I thought I had the quest say this earlier but apparently not :(

But Slink you told me that if we injected ourselves with it we would have had to do the exact same stupid puzzle!

Are you changing your mind now?

GAH DON'T USE YOUR BRAND NEW REACTION SHOT ON ME.

I change my mind all the time! I try to keep what the quest itself says as canon, but things I tell you in IMS can change at any time. And often do because I try not to use things I straight-up tell you.

haha i had to go double check the quest, but it does indeed have him go "I wouldn't have the time to save myself" when bahu had this idea.

Well obviously he was only thinking that because it took him forgoddamnever to figure out how to save Dilia!

She still passed out immediately!

No way she totally convulsed for a second or two before she keeled over.

WH--

...

Yes. Well. Are you sure you want to risk me rolling a dice that could end up killing Sekani? APPARENTLY I GUESS YOU CAN CONVINCE HIM WITH THIS LOGIC IF YOU WANT 8|

I WAS ONLY HALFWAY SERIOUS ABOUT THE SUGGESTION REALLY

I WAS KIND OF HOPING SOMEBODY ELSE WOULD COME ALONG WITH ANOTHER COMMAND

WELL THEY AREN'T. LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO KILL THE HERO!

I'm telling you.

>FIRE: BE A PACEMAKER FOR THE NEXT FEW MOMENTS

>Well, we could see if Grasshopper's up and running... he'd have the medical expertise.

... GOOD PLAN

GRASSHOPPER CAN - but we don't have time do w--

WAIT CAN DILIA RESTORE THE POWER TO GET US THERE?!

but then we have to get back over this wall too, hmm

> Levitate Dilia

> Use awesome indefinite powers that we may or may not have which certainly require some weird phrasing to command to levitate Dilia

JETPACK

JETPAAAAAAACK

Wait.
Waitwaitwait.
Electricity is the same thing as magnetism.

...MAG-LEV MAJIBEAST

... YES

THIS >=D

In all seriousness, we don't have enough reason to risk the sort of pain this will cause. Sekani's not wholly Majibeast yet, but we don't know if that helps or hurts. That's one reason why he's got the blue slurpee sitting in his pants; we have it if we really need it.

>FIRE: BE A PACEMAKER FOR THE NEXT FEW MOMENTS

This feels very strange. Sekani's heart feels warm. It is temporarily protected from heart attacks. He hopes.


>We should be able to heal ourselves while convulsing, but before we die. It's all controlled by thought, right? We just have to keep our wits about us long enough to pull it off.

Yes... it should work. Sekani predicts something like maybe a 10% chance of failure.

"What are you planning? This is too big a risk! You can't possibly be considering this!"


>Well, we could see if Grasshopper's up and running... he'd have the medical expertise.
>WAIT CAN DILIA RESTORE THE POWER TO GET US THERE?!

"It wouldn't be any trouble to destroy any locks in our way~ I might even be able to short out the console so the doorway you flew over will open."

"No, no, no! Don't go to that outdated MEDICAL ROBOT! It doesn't even work right! They're known for flipping out and killing people!"


>Levitate Dilia
Sekani can't--
>Use awesome indefinite powers that we may or may not have which certainly require some weird phrasing to command to levitate Dilia

Okay. Dilia lifts a few inches off the ground.

"Okay, this I approve of~"

"Um, c-could you put me down? I don't like floating!"

This tires Sekani out a bit. He probably couldn't lift her very high or for very long.

> PUNCH OUT IIJI

HOW THE HECK IS HE GOING TO DO THAT??

AS IF THE PARTICULARS FUCKING MATTER

With a bunkbed.

> THIS
BE LIKE
"FIRE: PUNCH OUT IIJI"

> By the way what the fuck is that raygun lookin' thing on that table back there. Check that shit out.

>Put Dilia down and apologize
>Ask Iiji where all the Ki-jara are. You'd like to talk to them...

> Set Dilia down.
> Get on Dilia's back and ride epically with much swiftness back to Grasshopper, totally burning and zapping everything resembling a lock in your path. And anything that doesn't look important.
> Pose awesome together.

For the sake of specifics, in a sort of retroactive command,

>HEAT: Start whipping around air currents around Dilia.
>HEAT: No, more than that. Up, mostly.

As for *current* commands:

>Do that stuff Yoiko just said. Especially the pose. Bonus points for Speed Racer hands.

>Put Dilia down and apologize
>Ask Iiji where all the Ki-jara are. You'd like to talk to them...

"I-it's okay m-my queen I wasn't actually that scared hahaha~"

"I'm having trouble contacting S'kili. I see Tayza is hanging out in the RECREATIONAL BUILDING still. I feel Jiniki's presence in the DORM BUILDING. I'm sure any of them will be glad to help you on your journey to me~"

>By the way what the fuck is that raygun lookin' thing on that table back there. Check that shit out.

Sekani has absolutely no idea what this is. He decides to replace the HAMMER with it. He doesn't need a weapon anymore.

"I can feel your mind slipping. Maybe I'll just take control of you now and speed things up~"


>PUNCH OUT IIJI
>THIS
BE LIKE
"FIRE: PUNCH OUT IIJI"

It'll be a cold day in the desert before Sekani lets Iiji take over his mind completely. If he could just delay her a tiny bit, he may have time to rid himself of her influence forever.

Concentrate...



"Interesting..."
"You have come to me of your own will. That is good~ Wait. What are you doing?"

A calm falls over Sekani. For the first time in his life...



...Sekani feels no fear at all.



*Whiff!*
"Fool. You can't harm me from there! I could have told you that wasn't going to work."



"What the--"



"ARGH! YOU BITCH! HOW DARE YOU!!!"



Sekani's never felt so confident before. It feels...



...It feels wonderful.


>Get on Dilia's back and ride epically with much swiftness back to Grasshopper, totally burning and zapping everything resembling a lock in your path. And anything that doesn't look important.

They do quite a bit of damage as they ride out. Dilia hums happily to herself.

This must be how Amiel felt. The feeling of power at defeating a foe, even temporarily, had really given him quite a rush.



...Huh. The door is open.


[11 IMAGES I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY GUINDO AND YOIKO]

>Grasshopper ho!

ACTUALLY I'M DISPLEASED I WANTED TO THROW THE RAYGUN THING INTO THE PORTAL TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED

> Have Dilia recharge the generator or something with her awesome electricity powaz

THEN DON'T COMMAND SEKANI TO PUNCH OUT THE END BOSS GOD.

[I'D DO IT AGAIN IF I COULD.]

[PUNCHING OUT COSMIC HORRORS IS GOOD FOR YOU. SUCK IT UP.]

> WHAT. Pretend to kick down an invisible door!

> FUCK YEAH, SHOW THAT INVISIBLE DOOR WHO'S BOSS

Feeling kind of out of it. since I just did an xboxhueg update and we're about to get into some fun stuff, I think I will rest for today if that's okay.

Actually, forget about going to grashopper... Instead

>Go find the other magibeasts, convince them to take blue potion.

> No, go to Grasshopper and charge the Uhiki'sha first. We want a reliable, non-lethal way to subdue them so we can inject them and heal them without thrashing about. After PUNCHING OUT IIJI she probably is not spreading a most positive reputation.

Oh, good point.

Well, a good thing to think of for after.

>WHAT. Pretend to kick down an invisible door!
>FUCK YEAH, SHOW THAT INVISIBLE DOOR WHO'S BOSS

Pretend nothing! "HYAAAAAAARK!"



"Oof!"
Sekani hears Dilia giggling behind him.
"Heehee. You're just too cute, my queen~"

That was kind of silly of him.


>Go find the other magibeasts, convince them to take blue potion.
>No, go to Grasshopper and charge the Uhiki'sha first.

Sekani thinks he should work on surviving the BLUE SOLUTION before doing anything else.

"Somebody really made a mess of things here~"

"Yes. Well. Some people aren't good at landing when they have a giant needle sticking out of their arm."

Sekani dusts himself off.

>Have Dilia recharge the generator or something with her awesome electricity powaz
Sekani isn't actually sure where the GENERATOR is. If Grasshopper is offline, this will become top priority.

>Grasshopper ho!

They head into the COMMAND CENTER BUILDING. Dilia smashes down the lock. Take THAT, security system!




"Don't think I'm going to let you get away with hurting me. I have something special for you, my pet..."

The reprieve didn't last as long as Sekani hoped it would. No choice but to press on.



The lights have come back on. Yep. That's a Ki-jaara. That's a Ki-jaara indeed.

It speaks, or the Ki-jaara equivalent of it. "Sekani! I was just about to go find you~"

Dilia gives out a sigh. "Oh. It's her."

She sounds more annoyed than scared. Dilia clearly doesn't like this particular Ki-jaara, and she probably hasn't realized yet that the other Ki-jaara are no longer their allies.

"She will gut you in an instant if you don't give up your attempts to deny me~ Stop trying to fight me and she'll back down~"

>Curse self for leaving MAGIC MIRROR at home. Stupid dark worlds.

We lifted Dilia with a little effort earlier, right? Thrust is apparently easy. Time for a little... lateral thinking.
>COMBAT OPERANDI: ROCKET-PROPELLED SYRINGE

> And then be ready to immediately heal with fire after rocketing the syringe.

>use Dilia as a distraction to keep the Ki-jara busy if need be, but don't let her do anything reckless.

Wow, that's some kinda dimensional flux we got going on there.

Note To Self...wasn't the Recovery Room on the other wall that goes double for showers and bunks and..THIS HALLWAYS BEEN FLIPPED?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

flipped hallway didn't anyone else here notice that besides me? (i probably just noticed it because I'm a detail freak)but really flipped hallway almost always = Someone or SOMETHINGS got POWER TO BURN (as in WAYYYYYYYYYYY to much power)

Hence comments about magic mirrors, etc.

Considering the text on the walls is reversed, it's pretty clear that, yes, there's something wrong.

Ah well time for some ...CREATIVE THINKING!!!!!

>FIRE:make one of those cult like magic pentagrams things (big circle with star in center for those who don't know) while Sekani mutters under his breath magic words there for breaking the illusion / spell that's making the hallway mirrored.

>Sekani: mutter under breath "suno bonu seki chanu olvi maters si inni reveri conti somp senur brako ani seka chuppe" repeatedly.

have i spent wayyyyyy to long researching magic?

i almost forgot 1 thing.

>Sekani: stand in center of pentagram cult thing while waving teddy bear u got outta of bic before u did this and saying words from command 2 in my 1st post. (hay magic needs a item to work as we all know and a teddy from a trans-dimensional lab more then likely has a lot of majika...oops magic power)

I think my eyes glazed over about the time you said 'researching magic'.

> Don't do any of that. What, are you stupid?

um no? this is really how some forms of magic work.

Other forms include but are not limited to humen sacrifices/sacrificeing your own hand....etc....and yah killing loved ones.

No, seriously. Stop. You're done. You've jumped the shark already, and it's gone from funny to just sad.

What is a humen and why would you go about sacrificeing one?

Broseph, that isn't how Sekani's magic works. Sekani's magic works by way of using specific vocabulary to trigger effects. Quit tryin' to impress folks by showin' off your copious knowledge of irrelevant nonsense.

if u want me to stop ill stop....
OH MY LORD I JUST SAW SOME GUY IN A HOCKEY MASK HOLDING A CHAINSAW OUTSIDE MY WINDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (its not Halloween and this is the truth)

>Continue typing out assurances that this is real instead of reacting to it.

> Bahu: Put down the chainsaw

ill be okay i called 911. (i am hiding under my bed)
I LOVE my ability to stay calm in the worst situations like looking down a shotgun barrel and whatnot...(this has been typed from my laptop) if I am on tomorrow i lived if I am not on tomorrow I am dead.)

final message before i go to sleep WHY THE HECK DID I MOVER TO THIS NEIGHBORHOOD WITH THE GANGS AND THE CRAZY PEOPLE AND THE MURDER!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????

Okay.

Okay, enough of this. If such things were true, you wouldn't be typing on the computer.

Your commands have been kind of out there, and you seem to rile up the others.

Magic doesn't work this way in my story. We've established that you CAN create majickal circles that as far as we know act like huge light switches, but Sekani has absolutely NO idea how those work and is completely unable to recreate their effects.

The rest of your commands have no effect in this world. The funny thing is, when I write a story, I kind of get to say how things like magic work (within reason) in it.

And now you're just being annoying.

Cease posting nonsense or I will make this entire quest have Screened Comments (which means all replies are hidden from view unless I specifically unhide them), and I'll make sure anything you say is never unscreened. Use simple commands. Don't overthink things. And don't make up shit about fake murderers.

> Doublecast: Firaga and Lit3!

Note to self: once this klis-khar ki-jaara thing is dealt with, inspect that poster. I'm pretty sure it wasn't bleeding heavily before.

It also didn't have something hidden behind it. Something boxy.

It did have blood behind it, though.

And we did take it off the wall...

>Use ability to levitate offensively to throw SYRINGE OF BLUE SOLUTION at the Ki-jaara.
>COMBAT OPERANDI: ROCKET-PROPELLED SYRINGE

Direct hit!



...But nothing happens.

"Oh dear~ I guess it's... immune!"

The Ki-jaara seems surprised and asks Sekani why he did that.


>Doublecast: Firaga and Lit3!
Sekani and Dilia attack at the same time!

The Ki-jaara dodges with a surprising level of nimbleness.

It continues to sound shocked. "No! Sekani, [/i]you're not like this~[/i]"

"Hahaha~ Give up or fight. Either way will prove most entertaining~"

...

> Ask the Ki-jaara what its name is.

>Pose dramatically while doing so.

(I don't think this is the teammwork he meant)

Also ask the Ki-jaara if it's really following the orders of Iiji.

Oh, for the love of crap.

>Yeah, stand down. Curse Iiji a coupla times. We're supposed to be smarter than that.

>Ask the Ki-jaara what its name is.
>Pose dramatically while doing so.

Sekani asks the creature's name in as dramatic a fashion as he can manage.

"It's me! Your girlfriend~"


Of course! Iiji must be messing with his mind. The Ki-jaara's even holding its hand out as if it was wielding some kind of DEADLY WEAPON.

"You're clever, little bird. Too clever. But guess what?"



Sekani's arm begins to move on its own!

"Your body and mind belong to me now~"

No! Iiji's pointing Sekani's MAJICKA FOCUS POINT at what has to be Amiel!

> Well just don't think about fire and you should be oka--wait, shit

Tell Dilia to pin Sekani to the ground and prevent him from firing at living critters until they can figure out something to do.

>Fire punch Iiji. It made her lose her ability to talk to him for a bit, it may stop the control again!
>If Fire punch Iiji fails, Fire punch self. Mentally, of course. It should knock you out long before Iiji can fire.

Gee, I hope talking is a free action.

>"Dilia! Tackle me!"
>Fire:

[THIS ISN'T ADDING UP :|]
> FIRE: Don't burn stuff.

[What's not adding up? SHOULD I HELP EXPLAIN?]

>Tell Dilia to pin Sekani to the ground and prevent him from firing at living critters until they can figure out something to do.
>"Dilia! Tackle me!"

Dilia's tackle interrupts Iiji's attempt to launch fiery doom at Amiel!



She manages to pin him down by his feathers, preventing movement while limiting the damage he takes.

Sekani lets out several snarls and menacing chirps. The world begins to fade out around him.


>Fire punch Iiji. It made her lose her ability to talk to him for a bit, it may stop the control again!

Sekani's not going down without a fight, damn it! It worked last time, it'll work this time!

"That's adorable. You intend to burn me again?"



"Little birds like you aren't capable of such things~

Sekani feels a sudden drain. He feels like his old, powerless self again.



"Hee hee hee! I tried to do this the nice way. I was even willing to let you keep your free will, but you dared to anger me! I think you and I will be spending a lot of time together~"



Control of Sekani has been lost.

>Sekani?
>....Sekani?

>....SEKAAAAANIIIIIII!