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Though Chord doesn't budge at first, he slowly lowers his guns voluntarily.
Alright, if you say so. he says in a clearly distrustful tone, before slowly entering the hovercar. He keeps a stinkeye on Doc and Dark for as long as he can.

L00T can't help but chuckle at the Duke before quickly wrapping up her match(with a win, obviously) and opening something else on the laptop, turning to face the inbound object.

Crunching down the 4 Level Ups,
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♫ The air grows just a bit colder.
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L00T flicks her wrists, commanding the winds to keep her laptop afloat at about the height of a table, then sits on the air and pops open TF2.

Right after picking out 4 Level Ups, but not getting the time to use them, L00T is startled by the sudden appearance of Italians.

Wha- Are those Mario Mario and Luigi Mario from the games?!

Oh, hello! Not much is going on, really, I'm just enjoying some time shopping and this frankly insane amount of money I have been rewarded with- ooh, what's that?
L00T picks up a strange sword with intricate, spiral holes carved inside the blade, swings it around clumsily then pockets it into hammerspace just the moment before it would've flown out her hands and presumably into someone's face.

Despite entering the conversation, she's still studying the shops' stock because I am paralyzed by the amount of choices I can make here.

...Right, the moon. It- it appears it's gone for good, replaced by that rift... but there isn't much to it at all, let alone in the sinister department. It only brought forth that triangle person, and they seem alright!

Alright, let me see... this book seems interesting! "Making the most of nature"...

L00T skims through the pages of the book until an... installation CD? falls out.

How strange-- mind if I see what this is? Let me just-

She removes it from the little envelope, after which it flies out of her hand, spins up at eye level, and... explodes into sparkles.

♫ xX_L00T_Xx's skill has been unlocked!

Very interesting... I suppose I should pay you for that, and I'll take this too, for now... I'll look around a bit more, see if I find anything else useful!

After also taking a Growth Module and equipping it, L00T places the required 2500 Zenny on the table.

(i will continue shopping in the morning im tired lmao)

L00T does a visible victory dance, before collecting herself and clearing her throat.
Yes, well, it's been quite an exhilarating ex-
She is suddenly circled by sparkles, as--
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Ahem. Er, where was I? Yes, gg ez no re, I've genuinely had fun even if I was late to the party! Now, I believe I should take a peek at those wares, both from you guys and the... weird... gem deity?

Dord... allows his hand to be raised, he doesn't object, but he's really out of it. He outputs a long, tired, crackling groan.

...
L00T briefly opens her laptop up, seeing the numbers. She then glances across the battlefield, staring straight at Valkyrie Woman for a few seconds, before turning to STar.
(Alright, ought to make this one count...)
She breathes in, breathes out, raises her arms and casts one final Fimbulvetr.

While everyone else was distracted by the divine display of deific destruction, something in the background moves.

Jerks violently to its feet, specifically.

It's kind of just standing there, dumbfounded.

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As the storm dies down, L00T looks at the hand she had stretched out to cast the spell.
...(I- cannot believe I am capable of something on the level of the actual divine warrior...)

She flashes a grin, something in between joyous and sinister, as she turns to DusT. He is then surrounded by the same ring of light that heralds the pocket thunderstorm.

What a strange sight... Er- you'll translate this, right? Hello, triangle creature? Wh- where do you come from?, she says as she casts another Lighthunder on DusT.

Oh! Oh. So it must've been a fawawawawaitasecond, what are you doing here?

As he says that, Chord's arms shift into disproportionally large buster cannons, one pointed at Doc and Dark's heads each.

What will become of this...?

Noticing the winds dwindle, she knows what to do. Orienting her laptop horizontally and placing a bottle of Mountain Dew upon it, L00T casts a spell... and a large sphere of blue light engulfs the battlefield before fading out!

Oh, I like the sound of that! Let's dance!
The atmosphere electrifies even more, both figuratively and literally, as a ring of golden, holy light surrounds STar. As it grows blindingly bright, the man himself is hit by multiple thunderbolts out of the blue!

I. Uh. Um. The show must go on, I suppose? Mending magic is not exactly my forte, especially if we're dealing with automata...

Hesitantly, xX_L00T_Xx casts another spell. Two serpentine wisps of flame rise from the ground around her, forming a large vertical ring of fire above. It coalesces into six large fireballs which jet towards Gyro at large speeds, but significant delays between each other.

Oh, pssh, don't worry! I've done this run plenty of times, people are always eager to get to the party an--

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Everyone is alone. White everywhere. No floors. No walls. No ceilings. No people. WHere is everything. Why is everything. You are falling. Why are you falling. How long are you falling.

Suddenly. Floor. Wall. Ceiling. People. Ship. Everything back, ; everything fallingwhy are you still fallingengine hum not there?

entity.amm2.construct equips orb. arcane sigils drawn perfectly, by hand. Ship comes alive with energy;Momentum,updraft.Noisey  Floor that became wall became floor. THUDno longer falling. Flying.

Flying toward door.



Urgh. I hate it when this happens.

A good fight is exactly what I shall provide!
The three shining indents on her laptop switch to an icy blue. The winds go mad and the air temperature lowers so hard that it hurts as xX_L00T_Xx casts Fimbulvetr!

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Underneath the layers of trash, DusT finds the internals of Dord's chest severely damaged, most prominently a badly cracked minty-green power core which is probably also a fire hazard. However, even beyond that, extensive signs of wear can be seen on every component, but all the cracks have already dulled. He's been operating like this for a long while, somehow.