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DX-215, Draedon’s Central Head Quarters

Operations were running at 99.823% efficiency today compared with the baseline they had set exactly 1534 days ago. The primary factor for this was the recent destruction of their best weapons and thus the need to improve.

Subject PL-038, or as the residents of that planet they once worked on exactly 3982 days ago called them, The Terrarian.

Draedon observed their communications, noticing at the top there was an invitation to a digital meeting room, one from that same Terrarian.

4:10 AM

Draedon has entered the Chat.

Calamitas: …

Venus: Sup

Draedon: a curious congregation you have sought to bring me into.

ForestMom: Oh it’s you.

Draedon: I doubt you’re the mother of the forest

Calamitas: That’s the local Dryad.

Calamitas: Donnie doesn’t grasp nicknames.

Draedon: I grasp that Aldir was a pest with the one’s he tried to give himself, we have a character limit for a reason.

Calamitas: I was the actual 16 year old and this giant worm calls himself “EpicGodEater9000DistortionKingMaster”

SparkleSurprise is Online

SparkleSurprise: Damn

Draedon: While I do prize Thanatos and the advancements in metallurgy Aldir helped me with, his ego makes him rather unpleasant to be around.

Venus: tell me about it, thank fuck he’s dead

SparkleSurprise: Ok but the gravity shenanigans did make for good trampolining.

Calamitas: Please do not tell me you saw the sky change to black and purple and made it your first instinct to go on a trampoline.

Draedon: I do have photographic evidence.

ForestMom: Why do you observe us?

Draedon: Most of my attention laid on observing your local Godseeker, especially given the valuable data I can gleam.

Calamitas: How much do you gleam?

Draedon: Only what I need, any further data on hygiene, biological functions and anatomy would be a redundant inefficient use of data storage.

Calamitas: Figures

Venus: And here I was thinking they’d fight.

ForestMom has changed Venus’ name to CrimeGobln

ForestMom has changed CrimeGobln to CrimeCryptid

Mutant is online

Mutant: It is 4 AM

Bailey: Holy cow

Draedon: And another one of the reason I observe you all, you have some rather fascinating residents.

CrimeCryptid: I would argue but me, Mutant, Solynn and Callie are living proof.

Mutant: Sol do be chill tho

Bailey: You do know you can put your phone on Do Not Disturb, right?

Mutant: I’m expecting news about a new credit card provider because SOMEBODY found it on a giant fucking pig.

CrimeCryptid: uwu

CrimeCryptid has changed Mutants name to GorlockDaDestroyer

GorlockDaDestroyer: I know where you live

CrimeCryptid: I know where your brother lives.

ForestMom has muted CrimeCryptid

Draedon: How did this being surpass my zenith fabrications

Calamitas: I’m 50% sure she’s always on an insane cocktail of drugs

GorlockDaDestroyer: Don’t forget speed balling on eternity.

Pumpking is Online

Pumpking: Hey, they’re beating the shit out of Eridanus again.

Mutant: Fuck yeah

SparkleSurprise: Isn’t that the guy who tried punching Devi that one time.

Draedon: Yes

Mutant: She genuinely got Traumatized by him.

Calamitas: Bailey

SparkleSurprise: I’m already contacting her

Mutant: Ok but she’ll be stingy.

Pumpking: I’ll pay her to go to therapy

Pumpking: And by me I mean the woman currently beating the shit out of the trauma

Pumpking sent a photo

Mutant: *WHEEZE*

Draedon: I did hear Eridanus did encounter Stormweaver once, that probably explains the report of them being slammed into a planetoid.

SparkleSurprise: Not very fun from the sound of it.

Calamitas: Counter argument, it was hilarious to hear at a meeting.

Pumpking: My question is why Eridanus?

Pumpking: Wait she’s going to the codebreaker.

Draedon: Noted, I’ll make preparations.

Draedon complied a bit more into his notes, adding a bit more to the 3 siblings.

He then warped to Venus’ location. She still wore Demonshade armor but her tool belt contained many utilities. In her hand she set out a material Draedon wasn’t quite familiar with.

A material Eridanus used in his attire and knives. It was a gesture of friendliness although Draedon wouldn’t be surprised if it was unloading considering he could see the absolute mess of a storage system Venus has, the temptation to fix it did come up in his directives.

Meanwhile the Mutant itself just sat back in his slime bed, because it was 4 AM. He could see the starts from this high up in space, that and the vortex of impending doom.

It could hear Abom stretching, presumably going to get some warm milk and Devi was either streaming or sleeping.

The loud zip Mutant heard was probably Draedon leaving. The eternal champion let his singular eye wonder, knowing full well that arena was being decked out for a reason. A reason that was gonna get him a good bed…

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The Mutant put another hole through a planetoid. She was dead.

The project they were working on was something it had been concerned about (that and the enormous rift of doom) but then something far worse had come. Only Venus had managed to escape alive and it took every fibre of his being to not cleave them right there.

And worst of all, he saw Solyn.

A planetoid was erased as he let out a beam of eternal energy rather than that image. His one eye would have every pixel burned into every cone, every bit of her decaying into nothingness.

She was gone. One of the few people it held undying respect for and she died. And it was her own experiment, she…

The heavens roared again.

7:32 PM

Nekomi3: Is big bro ok?

Pumpking: He needs space.

Pumpking:  That and probably a trip to a barren planet before he destroys this one.

ForestMom: Can somebody please tell me what the fuck happened, Venus limped away shaking.

Pumpking: She hasn’t really said anything and she’s currently clinging to my chest. It must’ve been some fucked up shit.

DadBeard Is Online

DadBeard: I’m glad I didn’t give olde Fishy Boy a phone, but yeah the entire sky was red and some real monsters must’ve been lurkin’ in the skies.

Draedon: I’m still analysing the data but I’m missing a lot, Solyn herself was an undeniably strong figure, despite my lack of data. However from what I can gather the rift in space seemed to have been drawn to the Genesis, seemingly hostile and after Venus and Solyn engaged what was a rift, something tore its way out.

Mutant is online

Mutant: Does anybody know where Bailey is.

Pumpking: Try the hallow town, just don’t blow the place up, if you need space try well… going to space.

Mutant is offline

Nekomi3: So this thing came out of that rift?

Draedon: Judging by my surveillance, indeed, from there it seemed to have a great degree of control over gravity, reality and matter itself, surpassing what I’ve seen from the likes of the Serpent and Calamitas by factors which I’m still calculating but are already orders of magnitude beyond either of them. The ability to produce vortices, rifts in the world we know and even manufacture an iron star from just the air itself is frighteningly impressive. Though it did drag itself, Venus and Solyn to somewhere I could not detect, with this rift being much stronger than what I’ve gleamed about both Aldir and the Ceaseless Void’s capabilities.

Pumpking: It hopped universes.

Draedon: I have no concrete evidence but that is a potential hypothesis and given it tearing the bounds of reality with great ease even by existing in our world, it’s likely.

Draedon: For now I only have from the activation of the Genesis to the moment it ‘jumped universes’ and then the aftermath to analyse. I still do not yet know of how Venus survived at all.

Pumpking:  Incredibly broken

Bailey was currently assembling the requirements for a party, the abundance of pink gel Devi provided meant she could make the biggest trampoline ever!

It would hopefully cheer people up, sure at this point the world literally trembling at it’s knees whenever a fight happened was something they unfortunately got used to, the stars roaring, the heavens burning, the sun being consumed with darkness, lightning crashing down and all reality they knew spinning in one entropic toy.

Bailey drew these images out to ease her mind, she was super happy because she knew how to handle emotions well alongside her mental health. Besides usually Venus knew what they were getting into, they knew how to prepare and how to study.

But judging by the last few hours, that didn’t apply.

Solyn had mostly kept to herself, comfortably solitary and mostly interested in study. Callie did tell her that mages did like having a bit of separation, it was why there were wizard towers in the tundra and forest villages.

But it seemed a fight occurred that wasn’t expected, one which no fall back plan or home advantage was available. It did terrify Bailey on some level to just see Venus of all people shaking and so pale.

It was when she turned to gather a few party hats from storage she jumped, a eye burning with cyan light looking into her soul.

The Mutant knocked. Its stone hand taking extra care with the pearlwood door.

He was let in. His single eye heavy and his entire being tired. It had burned out.

“…” She was not prepared for this.

“Do you have any water” And with that Mutant just sat on the couch and collapsed on the couch. Its eye was tired of seeing, its body tired of moving and god… he just wanted to not wake up in the morning.

He was snapped out by a bottle of water being placed on his chest.

“Where should we begin?”

9:01 PM

Pumpking posted a picture, it shows Abom being bear hugged by a tall woman covered in scars and burns while the bed is wet.

Draedon: That is a concerning amount of Lacrimal fluid on the bed.

ForestMon: LACRI- WHAT? ON THIS CHAT?

Draedon: You seem to have such an aversion to tears despite being organic.

Nekomi3: My life is complete.

BunnyGurl is Online

Nekomi3: I am committing murder.

BunnyGurl: But why :(

Pumpking: Please, we have enough dead people

BunnyGurl: OMG, you two are so cute

Pumpking: She is traumatized

Pumpking: HELP THERE ARE BUNNIES OUTSIDE

Nekomi3: Blood shall grease the gears of the machine

Calamitas: Please no

BunnyGurl: I thought you’d be sleeping

Pumpking: I cannot sleep while I am being held in muscular arms

Calamitas: Sleep is for the mentally well and when Bailey isn’t busy

ForestMom: I am a tree

 Draedon has posted a pictue, it shows Devi chasing after the Zoologist with the Sparkling Adoration.

Pumpking: I am going to sleep before my phone gets crushed.

BunnyGurl: HELP

Nekomi3: THE STOCKS HAVE FALLEN, FURRIES MUST DIE!

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Eridanus Created ‘Space Sillies’

Eridanus added Aldir, Nebuleus and Several People

Aldir changed their name to GodDevourer

Eridanus changed their name to WormFucker

GodDevourer: AYO WHAT

WormFucker: I am never wrong

Nebuleus: I am surrounded by maniacs

GodDevourer: Hmmm

Nebuleus added Cthulu

Nebuleus left

Cthulu changed their name to MoonDaddy

MoonDaddy: Oh god…

WormFucker: Sup fucker, pay your space taxes

MoonDaddy left

GodDevourer: … Dead Chat

TerraChampion: Sup ideot

GodDevourer: ANOTHER WORM?

WormFucker: :)

GodDevourer:…

GodDevourer: Dear god…

Stormweaver changed their name to GodDevourerJr

GodDevourerJr: FUCK YOU ERIDANUS

WormFucker: SUCK MY SPACE COCK

GodDevourer: MY SON SHALL NOT SUCK SPACE COCK

GodDevourerJr: YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME

[Name Not Found] has joined

GodDevourer: …

WormFucker: …

GodDevourer and WormFucker got banned

[Name Not Found] left

GodDevourerJr: … now what?

TerraChampion: … wanna play gartic phone

GodDevourerJr: YEAH!

Venus was a bit burnt out if she was being honest. It probably didn’t help that there was a dissonance between the warmth of the bed and the chill of Abom’s chest.

Honestly she needed something to do… when was the last time she let herself halt? What day was it?

After connecting to the internet via the soul of dimentions (Draedon was still figuring out how she could even do that), she just ended up checking up on the GC, hoping for something.

Then the sky went a funky purple and reality cracked.

“-OTHER FUCKER!” Venus could accept wormy-homocide as venting. Aldir however just had his day become even worse via dissection with the Muramasa on steroids.

An easy victory did not soothe her. Although Aldir was currently dead.

From her house in the forest, Calamitas just watched on, Cataclysm’s body rising on reflex from Aldir’s presence as she made herself a morning latte, the coffee beans just reminding her of home to a degree even if she much preferred the calm and serene section of forest not set aside for their local battle-hungry maniacs (See: Abominationn and Venus).

She did not question how Aldir was revived, but there was enough methods of reviving people with her knowledge of necromancy, and Yharon sometimes spoke of his distrust.

She stirred her drink, a spoon in a Canada flag mug she ‘borrowed ‘ from Bailey as she sat down. Venus screaming on the utter mess of wooden platforms stretching hundreds of feet into the sky as she made a note to be thankful her girlfriend was a therapist.

The sky turned blue, the first time it turned blue in a while because despite everything, that rift was gone thankfully…

That fight had taken a lot out of everybody.

Eternal Nonsense

TheCatHouse: Where’s M?

Pumpking: Apparently the guy’s crashing at Bailey’s still. And given the fact that the exosphere isn’t TOO messy currently, I think we’re relatively ok.

Pumpking: I also need to see a chiropractor because good god does bearhugs from somebody of godly might mess up your back.

TheCatHouse: Eh, I know a place.

Pumpking: What a good time to have a relatively human-adjacent torso

TheCatHouse: I just got bones from the chest-down.

Pumpking: And M is weird

TheCatHouse: He’s butt-ass naked

Pumpking: His butt is chitin and chlorophyll covered.

DannyDevito: What are you two talking about???

TheCatHouse is Offline

Pumpking is Offline

DannyDevito: :(

“Uno” The Princess set down her last card on the table as Mutant just sat slightly deflated. Although he did like the company and the Lo-Fi music reminded him of the gentle tranquility of space. The blanket on his metallic torso shifted. He was thankful the Princess was a pretty darn brave 12 year old.

Bailey herself sipped some vanilla milkshake she made herself, not a single one of them noticed the blood moon the prior night, probably because the Moon was genuinely terrified to rise while Mutant was unstable. Not that Mutant would want to cross into his Brother’s specialty by accident, Abom and him respected each other as brothers to the end, birth was insignifigant compared to what they had faced together.

And speak of the devil.

Thankfully Mutant was such a broad entity that the doorway had been spontaneously modified. So when Abom’s bulky frame walked in, carefully stepped around the other two and picked up his brother like a wet cat, the walls remained in-tact.

“Morning A”

“Morning M”

With that, the duo left. Bailey sipping her milkshake through a straw so silly that Draedon would have his interest piqued.

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Draedon & [Redacted] – 8 Years Ago

[Redacted]: I have a request, old friend

[Redacted]: I am sending co-ordinates but I am seeking nanomachinery in my armor.

Draedon: To my knowledge, your crusade ended 2 years ago. Your location has seemingly been lost for a year as you abdicated from your throne.

[Redacted]: You can think of it as a chance to experiment.

Draedon: I already recognised that as an opportunity. Auric Bars are by all means a fascinating material and I believe I have methods to enhance them further. This would also provide a good test run of project XG-13.

[Redacted]: Your machinery never ceases to unnerve me, I must admit.

Draedon: Innovation does disrupt when needed.

Draedon reviewed his older logs. His Exo-Mechs and the shell of Mars. He was currently studying his concepts as he dug up the files on Nano-technology.

While he was interested in studying the footage of the fight against that extradimentional interloper and had calculated the momentum with which it dragged in Venus and Solyn as far beyond the reasonable maximum where V was equal to the speed of light, he simply lacked the resources to study further for now. Though the Genesis still stood.

He displayed an older plan, his factories tested for their capacity as he recognised both the benefit to this and the potential for warfare.

He did however amend the XG code for both series to XGZ and XGE to prevent confusion in his systems. The XGE series of Exo-Genesis being shelved until further notice while his new series took hold. He wanted to use it as a chance to test out nano-technology on a massive scale. And while it would require precise work and improving upon the scalability of exo-prisms, it was a amrvelous challenge of design and engineering:

XGZ-13 Dionysus.