Shit happens, Mako

As I recall, Mermaid madness experiment was part of a much bigger plan to control Kanaloa. We found out there's a magic world book Jackie Chan Adventures style that Aether had access to at one point and fucked a lot up before getting kicked out by birdgirl. Mel had the tact of telling Kalili while asking to receive the goddamn badges they were owed for beating her up while she was crazy mode. Something about Ascension and the  Visiwho crossover but the plotline is pretty much non-existent once we return. Looks like after that was when Les and Mel finally got their damn psychic badges. Med gets sent home from Conch with the Victory and proceeds to be the worst character. Break cameos for something. Cerise disappears when Dox tapped out. We go to Sepia, fight some pumpkin fuckers, go to a mansion, find some shit, almost awaken a Giratina x Darkrai lovefest, decide to flee.

Mel starts dabling in edgy sacrificial stuff, oh Knox and Mayuri appeared during Sepia shit too. They return to Conch and Po is the first shadowmon to be cleaned. Dumb Med shit. Med becomes the first to see an alternate self and self-sex or something. Mel and Knox make drugs, Melanie gets pretty fucked up, gets lewd with Knox, drama with Mirai. Med fucks off forever. We go to Jackknife, find Team Rectal Stick Extraction...Team. Melanie tranquilizes herself and gets her ass beat by Missingno, temporarily losing access to her body. We helped some local pokemon fight off waves of shadowfuckers. MissingMel does weird things in Mel's body. Everyone finally lays down to rest after the battle, cue series of dream skirmishes where MissingMel invades dreams to fuck them up, PC does a thing and then engages her, Mel catches up at some point to collect her teammate and continue the hunt. Eventual fight, Mel catches MissingMel in a...headspace ball. Agrees to let MissingMel be a thing for a while and has an extra person in her mind.

During the fight I believe, Lesieli's god shit also manifest because MissingMel wanted to take her body since it was all tasty-flavored as a corrupted godhusk trying to purify itself. Melanie kills a shadow Kadabra and an Oddish she plucks from the ground. We explore and stumble face first into an Aether base with ReSET. After some shenanigans, end up fighting an elitish Aether group, one of which ends up being an old crewmate of Knox's that done got mindfuckcontrolled. She's the one we just dumped on Conch, because Knox's crewmates are too pussy to handle having their mental state shattered. Melanie continues being awful and making poor choices.

Return to Ark, that mermaid we saved is finally a thing, she was fucking bored and joined us. There's a firefly festival, during which Melanie crushes a Volbeat and lets her headfriend merge with her, starting to become a thing. There's also a bikini contest. During this time Melanie started having feelings for Auriga, since firecrotch had hinted at possible feelings for her. Ultimately this does not end well, as Auriga also had feelings for Knox and Melanie is Melanie. Melanie does however convince a bunch of assholes that Auriga is the tits and she wins. Lesieli, however, goes full Hitler during the bikini contest. Then, Mayuri, Mack, and Knox enter a cute contest. Knox does considerably better than is reasonable. Mel fucks things up with Mirai, but actually behaves pretty friendly with Kalili, it was weird.

I'm bad at logs, but we finally start seeing Luna during this time fo' rizzle and she and the PCs go to an oceanic drill thing for exorcise. They end up fighting a fuckton of Sableye only for Aether to crash the party. These are Shyla and Pierce, now on our boat as indentured servants effectively. Except they tried to kill us. Mel later tries making Shyla her apprentice, but it doesn't go well. At the end of the fight, they call in help and we see a bunch of boats coming in. So obviously we rig up an empty boat with explosives to send towards them while we escape into the night. Returning to our ship, we find Kanaloa has been raised and is a psycho fuck. The boat battle actually ends up being a lot of fun and we fuck his face. Lani shows signs of impending doom.

Eileen turned out to be a Melotta and helped us during the Kanaloa shit, slamming the jam with Mack. So obviously he engages in a weird bondage relationship with her. Melanie prepares a big plate of relationship spaghetti, resulting in taking a bath in divine water with Luna to go see Kanaloa and start becoming a real thing. Of course they fuck after that. Then we interrogate the chumps we picked up previously, scar them a bit, and recruit them. Knox's buddy is still a mess. Then we go to a volcano town and beat up a fire guy. But not without Mel getting her face kicked in and needing her cousin to charge to the rescue. Also a bunch of breeding service stuff happens. We have a battle on the volcano to choose who has the right to channel Kaane (Knox) and get a blessing from him that a cultural revolution would be p. swell, and Ululane is named. Luna is revealed to be a little more into Mel than anyone else was, it's a little odd.

Off to Hermit, where Kecleons are fucking the library up, and Knox has more crewmembers hiding out and one is Mel-tier crazy except more normal. Also Mayuri's parents are a thing. Melanie channels the goddess of titmilk and finds out what being a dairy cow is like. Actually happened, it was pretty awkward. She does become a marginally less awful person. Mack fights his old rival zombie pokemon buddy, and Mirai is barely saved from a kidnapping. Titty goddess shows Mel and Les the ropes of godly domains, which is like a Facebook game.

Find secret Aether warehouse, godslaying Kecleon, and exploding head friend of Knox's, shit gets real, Melanie goes nuts during this time and pretends to be a different person. Little girl gym leader is brutal too. Melanie ultimately decides Mayuri is in too much danger with them, her parents agree. Actual PIRATES members head back for Conch and go on a scavenger hunt to help Melanie make some clothes. We have our second bar/club investigation. Knox is mad popular with the ladies, but they end up being dumb as hell and for some reason we save them from their mistakes. Mayuri is Santa's less than quarter sister or something, it's complicated. Then some dudes attack her shit.

Big name Aether fucks come into Conch, being brought in by the Victory, all kinds of questioning happens. Then they talk with the Victory for a bit, decide to team up and tackle some leads in tandem, and we make the sketchy choice of stopping by what seemed like an awful lead because it was on the way. And that shitty lead was your underwater tomb.