crimson grimoire work

[19:00] Atagi arrives back with arms FULL of items.
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] Ema Okabe exclaims, "Woah!! Okay!"
[19:00] Atagi Taiyang says, ".. Oh."
[19:00] Ema Okabe asks, "Alright!! What's the plan for these things...?"
[19:00] Atagi Taiyang says, "Uh. Let me lay them out for ya."
[19:00] He places the items out on clear display.

"First, Jiuweihu's Epitome. The 'brain' of the Grimoire. Every bit of information that my family has obtained, seen, and so on over the past ninety-five years is written in this thing. In Shengese. Along with ancient pyromancy techniques that could probably do some terrible things if not used by the right person."

Next, he places the ornate jar containing the soul of one of the Sun's Wardens within. Even when purified, it holds a glow that radiates a cosmic warmth. "The Soul. Willing to continue the Sun's fight against the horrors of the Moon."

He gives a thumbs up, then sets down the vial of ectoplasm betweem the book and the soul. "Essentially spirit-goo. To bind and tether the spirit to the book - the Grimoire."

Lastly, he holds up the Chiron shard and the Moon Arcanium Stone.

"I gave you one of these too - but they are pretty special. Moxtliused one to create an incredible weapon for Cedar. And this Chiron is blessed by Jiuweihu herself. Sun-kissed, if you will."

A long sigh.

"That's what I've got."
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] Atagi Taiyang says, "OH@"
[19:00] Atagi Taiyang says, "OH!*"
[19:00] Atagi Taiyang says, "And this."
[19:00] He hands over a very special clover.

"The Radiant Four-leaf, which grew on the frame of an ancient Radiant. According to the Church in Osrona, it can be used to cleanse and purify. Which is what I want the book to be able to do.

… Healing a permanent injury even. In addition to casting spells strong enough to burn down a mountain."
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] Atagi places a hand on Ema's shoulder, cutting her thoughts short.

"Sorry. There's one more thing."

He pulls out the spirit fragment that Alre had given him and rotates it a few times. "This will connect the Grimoire - and me, to the Lifestream. One of my goals is to repair it from Andromeda's assault."
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] Atagi Taiyang says, "THAT's everything."
[19:00] Atagi Taiyang says, "I promise."
[19:00] The very gleaming glow of the set of materials presented to her makes to Proprietor squint. Night-attuned eyes struggle to reacclimate to the sheer vivid glow that majority of the items emanated.

If anything, they were practically like a sun within the dimly lit Xuantongian abode Ema called home. Perhaps this was a good thing, considering the person it will be used for.

"That's... a lot!" She chimes, hand grazing the peaks of her brow as the shadow casted by her fingertips provide some for of solace.

"Hmmmmmmmm… I think to keep the book's contents the best... we could try to treat it like a body!" She suggests, a bit macabre to a certain degree, but the metaphor blare a better sense of direction. "Essentially, the writing is like... its veins! It's code! While the chiron we can reform that to be some sort of... brain maybe?"

Gears are turning, ideas are passing quickly. Only the best remain. "Theeeeeen we can reinforce the spirit's brain connection to the book..." A finger phases through the various items, passing to each unmentioned item. "The rest could maybe fo-"

As the additional request is blared, she nods. "Well, the rest of the items can go into that!!"
(Ema Okabe)
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[19:00] "Perfect." He follows along carefully as she details the process of turning the items into a 'body' of sorts, an idea similar to his own.

Even with his experience as a doctor, conceptualizing a means to turn the information into the VEINS of the Grimoire. He falls silent for a while after but eventually puts a smile on and calls the tome over to him with the gesture of his hand.

"Sounds like a plan. And an amazing project to boot."

With a twist of his wrist, it opens to reveal the Sunstone within.

"This book is passed on through generations - that's where its strength comes from. And I think this is the greatest contribution I can make to it, my family, and the world."

There is a brief pause as he turns to Ema, tucking his grin away to get somewhat serious.

"And after surveying the other artificers across the Land, you're the only one I'd actually want helping me with this. So.. thanks. I'll leave the items with you- but if you're ready to work on it now, we can."
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] There was a firm nod, it wasn't often that such a grandiose of a request would be imposed unto her like this.

But then again, what a better person to ask than one of the best Esshar houses?

"We can begin this now if you'd like!" She announced. "The one I think that I'll need help the most is binding the spirit into the chiron and into the book."

Though her gifted capabilities might have allowed her to create and fabricate through the means of transmutation magic, even that bore little to no correlation to that of spiritmancy, the likely tool needed for such an affair.

"I'm guessing you can help me with that, riiiiight?" She questions. "I can reforge the moon arcanium into the holding piece that'll just be the best thing to connect the book and the chiron! Kinda like a brooch maybe?"

Ideas continue to swelter in and out of her thoughts. Still, she vied to obtain the best one out of them all. "The Ectoplasm will help on that department too!!"
(Ema Okabe)
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[19:00] "Definitely."

It was something that he had been planning for a while.

Though as he brings the jar over to the table and uncaps the ectoplasm, he turns back to the artificer and nods.

"Well, maybe we should save that for last, and make the chiron the 'heart'? The thing about spiritmancy is that you need the vessel before you bind it. Just like K'ruthix. For now, I can do this--"

Shallow breaths are taken as an ethereal blue aura glows around his hands. In one hand, the spirit fragment is taken. In the other is the ectoplasm, which is ceremoniously poured over the glass-like fragment.

Soon after, the top to the spirit's lantern is removed, allowing the brilliantly red source of power to rise up and take the form of a man from a torso up.

"Alright! We still haven't learned your name yet, but we're creating a home for you. This is Ema - she's the best. Uh.. I'm going to bind you to this spiritual fragment to keep you from glitching and burning the place down like last time! So hang tight."

Atagi spends the next several minutes in silence, running the goop along the frame with two fingers and then signaling for the spirit to float down and connect with it.

"If you linger there long enough, you should 'stick'. And back to you, Miss Okabe."
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] Faintly iridescent hues of golden coloration peer down before the oddity of the obtained spirit warrior. There was a visage of intrigue upon exactly what she was looking at, now what she was expecting to... hear?

Regardless, she merely beams her practiced smile, as if speaking to the power source itself. "Hi!!! We'll get you something good... sir...? Yes, hee-hee!"

And thus, whilst the spirit finds its bindings within the spirit fragment as an initial holding, the actual piece is begun.

Taking the book aside, the moon arcanium and sun-blessed chiron is presented onto her table. The glimmer in her eyes almost enacts an itchy sensation in her fingers.

As her paintbrush is drawn, she giggles as the acrid scent of paint now blares outward from the general point of her worktable.

Mastered motions of the brush allow for honed runes to glimmer before her features. The materials, from the latent magic alone, seems to grow reactive. The arcanium, most of all, seems to bend and contort. The very wills of transmutation seemingly making the normally rigid material malleable like clay. As if invisible hands slowly molded it around the chiron, providing it the shape needed in-order to house the soul.

"Okay, okay, almost good on my end!" She chimes as the moon arcanium soon glimmers with an oddity of runes before it. The piece has completely wrapped around the chiron, as if it were the brooch whilst the chiron was the gem.

The sigils acting as the main circuits wrap around the entirety of the piece. The few symbols of Jiuweihu's teachings and the Illuminated's general mantras are enacted to full potential as the chiron itself seems to glimmer an uncanny shine.

This was it. "Okay!" She announced. "Try now!!"
(Ema Okabe)
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[19:00] Amber eyes flicker between the fluctuating form of the long lost spirit and the act of alchemic masterwork behind him. There was a sense of awe mixed with a few thistles of jealousy at just how immaculate the paintbrush-brandishing artificer was with her line of work.

Waiting for his cue, the shaman sports his charismatic grin once more and looks back to the titan beside him.

"Her, I think. They?" He wasn't even certain anymore.

Fingers gently grasp at the ectoplasm-bound spiritual fragment and it is relocated to sit on the center of the arcanium-lined, leyline-laced fragment of the stars.

"A bit off-topic, but the Sun is really the brightest and most important star that we have. I think its high time that someone utilized its essence for what it is capable of."

As the spirit morphs into a more lithe frame once again, the last of the ectoplasm is used as a glue of sorts to cement the connection between Ema's part of the project and his own.

Albeit with a short exchange of words in the language of the spirits.

"My Goddess, it was your request that the Sun's light reach every corner of this realm. I'm asking for your guidance once more as we create the tool that will do just that."

His view shifts from the roof down to the spirit, whose eyes finally come ablaze into twin swirls of golden heat.

"Now is your time to shine. Your name, Warden of the Sun?"

A long pause as the purified face of the titan forms a mouth.

"K i n g Asura, of Jiuweihu's Third Flame."

The sound of chains shackling through the room can be heard. A Bond had been formed.

"Got it. Ema-- I don't know how to push them into the book."
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] "You're right!!!" She chimes. "Imagine all that untapped power just sitting up there, hee-hee!"

The very thought of the heavenly body unleashing the pulsating presence of heat was easily a lucrative notion. One she herself don't seem to be inclined toward, but could clearly understand Atagi's own push toward it.

"Besides, isn't Jiuweihu's whole thing... about the sun?" She questions, "It's pretty much perfect!!"

Finally, the union of the two formations finally become one as Ema turns her attention to the unleashing spirit. "Woah...!!"

The searing bright light of the face glancing forward was almost surreal. "This is... wow!" She leans over to the kitsune, words hunkering down into a whisper. "So it is a 'he'," She chimes, giggling right after.

"Okay, leave the physical inclusion to me!!" She suggested. "I just need you to... bind him to the book. It's like a brain transplant!" She chimes, despite not knowing how to do the metaphorical act itself.

In tandem with such, she begins to weld the brooch of the chiron onto the hardbound cover of the book. Inlaid with a notable orichalcum paint, the chiron gleams outward like the sun as the Okabe would begin to paint peculiar runes in the shape of a sun's rays warping around the chiron brooch.

As if the book's cover now held a literal piece of the sun. At least, aesthetically it looks the piece.

All that remained was the spirit's full inclination into the book itself.
(Ema Okabe)
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[19:00] The closer the Grimoire comes to completion, the more defined the 'King's' shape becomes. Golden bangles and jewelry fit for royalty manifests along its arms and legs, adding more sheen to an already blinding frame.

A 'he' indeed.

"Like a brain transplant. Yeah! We've done plenty of those." He had not.

Fingers unbutton the line of orichalcum pins rolling down his dress teal dressed shirt. Moments after, he removes his upper attire entirely to reveal a pale but toned frame with a large tattoo of the Sun itself painted over his heart.

"The Symbol of the Taiyang Family. When I signed myself to the book - my father put one on me, and one..." He leans over and points out the exact same symbol on the inside cover of the book.

"Right there. I should be able to use that as a link between King Asura and I. Uh..." He hesitates for a moment, looking between the symbols, the spirit, and Ema.

"Right. Here."

A dominant left hand extends out towards the towering figure and a mixture of spiritual, foxfire, and holyflames burst around his digits.

"I am thou, and thou art I.
Thou hast acquired a new vow...
It shall become the wings of rebellion
That breaketh thy chains of captivity.
Accept my offer, King Asura, and together we'll make history."

After another period of silence, a wild grin appears on the titan's features and his own hand extends to connect with Atagi.

The same symbol of the Sun is then burned into the center of its chest, creating a bond between it, the book, and its wielder.

"And so the Grimoire Asura Oh came to be." He turns to look at Ema, wincing some. His shirt is not put back on.
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] Through the exchange between the spirit of the sun and the book's current wielder, Ema stands to the side, somewhat silent.

Though prone to stealing the spotlight, there were some acts that she was not tied to that she was more than happy to yield.

Only whence the sun-sealed tattoo makes itself known would the Okabe chime, "Woah...!!!"

"That really just happened???" She barely understood spiritual contracts and spiritual binding, however judging by the results, the act was at least accomplished.

All that remains? A new chapter.

"Okay. Here's the final piece, but feel free to do this whenever you feel inclined to." She steps over, moving to grasp the clover as a smirk leers from her lips.

"Now, I have this super secret special technique I can use to make this..." Her fingers twirl the clover, motioning to it as her idea is offered. "...into ink! You can write a new chapter into the book!! Maybe include about your story of making the pact with Asura! Anything to fully imprint your story in it! If all things work well, the ink should finalize your connection to the book!"
(Ema Okabe)
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[19:00] Atagi finishes the bonding ritual and takes a step back to reclaim his shirt, only to recall that the marking would take some time to cool off.

He looks on in admiration as the spirit of King Asura Oh settles in with his ears twitching at the following words from the Waystone's Keeper.

A new chapter was certainly opening.

"Super secret special technique?! You're going to show me, right?" A twinge of fatigue sets in as he turns to her, though it hardly shows on his features.

"Let's do it. Or.. maybe we could make it into an ink that can be used to purify the spirits the book passes judgement on? Severing their ties with dark stars or.. whatever the Hel Dimitri was tied to, for example? Either way, I appreciate the help."

He leans against the nearby dresser, deferring judgement to her in this matter.

"I'm all ears."
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] Finally, as Atagi brings forth his own rendition of an idea, sparks fly. She snaps a finger, brainstorming whilst creating was easily as spur of the moment thing. However, it was clear that Ema was more that capable of not just thinking quick on her feet, but providing a plethora of doable ideas as well.

She wasn't Esshar's most coveted and well-paid moonlighter for nothing.

"How about we mold our two ideas together!" She suggests. "Jiuweihu has tenants, right? Ideals, an oath, all that business and all that?"

"Now, what if we rewrite these things with the ink? You know, make the full cleansing thing or whatever that is empowered by the piece?" Gears in her head turn as the idea formulates into something much more.
(Ema Okabe)
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[19:00] "Yep! Kindness, Respect, and Understanding." All things that were easily accessible in a conversation with the kitsune. Even if she did not care for the things directly, her willingness to include them in the project is noted.

"We could definitely do that. The symbol for the three is this--"

He fetches an item to write with and draws a tri-patterned magatama with three holes near the curved top.

"Each one represents a different aspect. In theory, if we use the cleansing ink to make the marking in the book and then burn the same pattern into the person being.. cleansed, the Grimoire should be able to make it work!"

A genius idea that he is happy to follow up on.

"I'll leave the actual drawing to you and your amazing paintbrush."
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] "Perfect!"

In all honesty, much of her words have been derived out of pure guesses and the small smidgen of knowledge she inherently known about the Illuminated simply from her Shengese roots.

And yet, she managed to at least hit the mark. She giggles, quite proud and out of enthusiasm to roar forward.

"Well, you're going to have to give guide its looks then while I paint! You know, just so it looks right!!" Of course, her fingers shift, moving back to her desk as ink making begins.

Before a simmering fire crystal-powered pot would flax seed oil is simmered swiftly in preparation. The scent alone is pungent and hazy. How one could stomach the aroma alone was a mystery, and yet Ema seemed far too enamored by it that she barely looks like its affecting her.

Was it even affecting her?

"Alright, a lot of people see me paint. But not many can say they've seen me make paint, hee-hee!" Into the chopping board would the clover be swiftly minced with a well-practiced motion. Along with an odd black powder would the two be tossed into the pot. The acrid scent of inky refuse now wafting the air as the viscous paint is slowly formed.

And in no time, it would be ready.

With a brush in hand, she looks on as the book is flipped open. The calligraphy now lining its pages as Ema starts the beginning aspects of writing. "Tell me quick if any of this is wrong!!"
(Ema Okabe)
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[19:00] "Bleeeeeeeeeeehh!"

Atagi's face scrunches up in response to the smells and aromas of the process.

"How do you not pass out working with things like that?" The obvious answer may have been her connection to poison magic, but to what extent did it go? A question best kept for another time, perhaps.

He leans over her shoulder now, carefully watching as she drew onto the pages of the book.

"It looks good so far! Just be a bit more loose with the lines. Like-" A hand reaches out to outline the symbol of the magtama - the quotes themselves were fine.

"Not that I know a thing about art. Everything else looks great!"

The hand lingers there for a moment regardless, only to pull away and store itself within his pocket.
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] "Eeeeeh?" She replies. "What do you mean? It smells good!!!" And as if to accentuate both her odd nature along with her huge eccentricities, her head lurches forward as her face takes a swift inhale of the fumes of the paint.

She leans back, face euphoric, and eye seemingly drooping to a lax reaction as if it were soothing reed. "Mmmmmmmm, the good stuff!!!"

Truly, she was more than foreign.

But regardless, her fingers swiftly line the various depictions and symbols known to those of the Illuminated.

Each line seemingly shimmers with an odd golden hue. As if magic is slowly imbued with each strong of the brush and each line of ink inlaid upon the final pages of the book.

"That's okay!!! It's the essence that's all I need double checking on!!" She announced. But at the least that would not be a problem as in time, the inscriptions would be accomplished.

"Okay!!!" She announced, hands gesturing for the book.

"All that's left is to see how the spirit reacts to the final touches!" She glances to Atagi as a nod is offered, anticipating him to perhaps test it out. "Take it away, hee-hee!"
(Ema Okabe)
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[19:00] "Ahah! The field test. Right."

A skillful jump backwards lands him near the door. "Well, I was already able to call it to me with the flick of the wrist before. But now--"

A burst of spiritual flames erupts in his outstretched palms as the kitsune ignites the connection between the Grimoire and himself.

A chain-link that causes his Sun symbol to burn a brilliant red through his still unbuttoned shirt. Waves of heat surge across the room to bring beads of sweat to his brow - but eventually, the same marking shows on the cover of the book itself.

"The Epitome of Jiuweihu. The Spirit of King Asura Oh. These are dead names, now. From this day forth, you'll be known as the Crimson Grimoire. Burning Red!"

His fingers snap, and a torrent of several different kinds of flame erupt around the book to set it ablaze. When the flickering flames die down (with some damage to the desk), it lifts on its own and a face forms on the front cover.

One resembling the Ancient Sun Warden that had been sealed inside.

"Looks like it works to me. How do you feel?"

There is a period where the book zips around the room this way and that, only to settle before the duo and rapidly flip through its pages. Once it hovers, a telepathic voice calls out.

"I feel... as though the Sun has refused to set. It is time to shine."
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] Once more, the place she calls her abode is utterly engulf in the raging heat and the blinding lights of the newly fashioned Epitome.

Of course—by instinct—if Atagi were to turn around, he would find the smaller Ema to clutch on to a pail of water; ready to toss it if the flames ever got too heated.

"What?" She chimes. "Can't a girl be a liiiiittle on edge for seeing fire in her apartment?" Eventually, her words deform into a small giggle as the fire has at least died down.

The telltale signs of success was enough to put her at ease at the very least.

"Well... I think that should be it!!!" She announced, hand moving to put the bucket down as her hands move to sit upon both hips. "Now, it might need time to acclimate—you know, with the ink drying and magic settling and all—but once it does, you should be good!!!"
(Ema Okabe)
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[19:00] Atagi turns back with an almost comical face to see the bucket of water.

"As if I'd ever let you get burned." He rolls his eyes, but a laugh slips out after.

The same hand that had conjured the CRIMSON GRIMOIRE beckons it forth once more. Rather than hovering on his back however, it lingers over his shoulder with the odd face of Asura on its front cover.

"I... really owe you for this, Ema. Like. I owed you BEFORE, but now? Hm." He avoids using any phrase that might actual force him into servitude, but he does show his gratitude by posing the question regardless.

"How can I repay you? I'd imagine that you are sitting on so much coin at this point that it doesn't mean much to you anymore."
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] {Item} You picked up Moon Arcanium. Dropped by Atagi Taiyang..
[19:00] {Item} You picked up Chiron. Dropped by Atagi Taiyang..
[19:00] {Item} You picked up Spirit Fragment. Dropped by Atagi Taiyang..
[19:00] {Item} You picked up Soul Of A Saint. Dropped by Atagi Taiyang..
[19:00] {Item} You picked up Ectoplasm. Dropped by Atagi Taiyang..
[19:00] {Item} You picked up Radiant Four Leaf Clover. Dropped by Atagi Taiyang..
[19:00] Ema Okabe has placed Nyeshk Legs into the chest.
[19:00] Ema Okabe has placed Nyeshk Legs into the chest.
[19:00] Ema Okabe has placed Orichalcum Amulet into the chest.
[19:00] Ema Okabe has placed Orichalcum Amulet into the chest.
[19:00] Ema Okabe has placed Orichalcum Amulet into the chest.
[19:00] Ema Okabe has placed Moon Arcanium into the chest.
[19:00] Ema Okabe has placed Radiant Four Leaf Clover into the chest.
[19:00] Ema Okabe has taken Moon Arcanium from the chest.
[19:00] Ema Okabe has placed Chiron into the chest.
[19:00] Ema Okabe has placed Moon Arcanium into the chest.
[19:00] Ema Okabe has placed Spirit Fragment into the chest.
[19:00] Ema Okabe has placed Ectoplasm into the chest.
[19:00] Ema Okabe has placed Soul Of A Saint into the chest.
[19:00] Ema Okabe has placed Estoc into the chest.
[19:00] She giggles, by all means, she has not grown tired of coin hitting her palms. If anything, the euphoric sensation still seemed to be highly reactive to her senses as if it were still her very first pay.

"Ooooooh, well if you don't have anything that's worth the same..." Her fingers shift, moving to tap upon her chin as her gaze lingers to the ceiling. Her mind ponders, hoping to set a price on something like this. "Ah, well, this is a preeeetty big thing..."

To think even she struggled to put a price on this was a likely sign of its worth. It's not everyday something can just be imbued expertly with a chiron.

"How about something nice and simple?" She chimes, "10,000c? Again, I'll honestly take anything that you can call 'of worth', hee-hee! Of course, I'll be the judge of that too!!"
(Ema Okabe)
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[19:00] "... Huh. So you really do love coin more than anything." He says such with a straight face, albeit not with one portraying a distaste for such.

Everyone had their own passions and quirks.

"Ten thousand? I can do that, no sweat. Just need a bit of time to collect it." He had means of obtaining decent sums, but as a person who cared little for coin! It was just a matter of getting it when he needed it.

A partial bow is given from both the man and the Burning Grimoire as he heads for the doorway.

"I won't lie to you! I was hoping for a decent sum and something like a vacation away from the Waystone to find something worth your while. Something like a.. you know. Date to forgotten ruins in the far east. But you're a busy woman!

So this works too. Unless you'd like to go and find some valuable relics on the side regardless."

He offers a two-fingered wave and prepares to depart.
(Atagi Taiyang)
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[19:00] Ema Okabe exclaims, "Wow!!!"
[19:00] Ema Okabe exclaims, "EIther or works!!!"
[19:00] Ema Okabe says, "I've honestly been looking for... a big power source."
[19:00] Ema Okabe exclaims, "So I'll pin that down as a 'maybe'!"
[19:00] Atagi Taiyang says, "I'll take a maybe."
[19:00] Atagi Taiyang says, "See ya! Thanks again."