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Between Episodes 19 and 22, [[Zeta]], Beta, and Eta all met up and made lodings in the [[Mansion of Clandestins']]. Unfortunately, Zeta turned on them and attacked Beta, urging the other clone to join her in extracting Ekoro's revenge program. Before he could respond though, Strange Klug swooped in and kidnapped Eta to use as more bargaining material for Ringo. Zeta fled to the [[Edge of Despair]] to begin plotting how she would eliminate the remaining clones and rescue Eta. | Between Episodes 19 and 22, [[Zeta]], Beta, and Eta all met up and made lodings in the [[Mansion of Clandestins']]. Unfortunately, Zeta turned on them and attacked Beta, urging the other clone to join her in extracting Ekoro's revenge program. Before he could respond though, Strange Klug swooped in and kidnapped Eta to use as more bargaining material for Ringo. Zeta fled to the [[Edge of Despair]] to begin plotting how she would eliminate the remaining clones and rescue Eta. | ||
- | <span class='plainlinks'>[http://kumizone.org/wiki/:ChatLog/Subete_PuyoPuyo/22 Episode 22]</span> featured Ringo returning to Primp. This time, she decided to switch mindsets and travel to the [[Eastern Mountains]] again in order to find the secret project of Ekoro that was leaked by Strange Klug prior. They reach [[ | + | <span class='plainlinks'>[http://kumizone.org/wiki/:ChatLog/Subete_PuyoPuyo/22 Episode 22]</span> featured Ringo returning to Primp. This time, she decided to switch mindsets and travel to the [[Eastern Mountains]] again in order to find the secret project of Ekoro that was leaked by Strange Klug prior. They reach [[Fos Canyon]] and meet up with Witch, who was being hunted down by her blueberry muffin (which was somehow keeping her from making appearances in the Meteor Arc). Eventually she coughed up Beta's hand, informing them Marcus had struck her down the same way he did Theta. Before she could elaborate or mourn though, the possessed pastry returned to chase Witch away. However, the party makes an amazing discovery within a nearby abandoned tent: A back up of Ekoro's Secret Project. Playing a crudely recorded [[AVI]] left in the tent, the project reveals itself as a clone named Phi. After watching the AVI, they freed [[Sho]]. Eternally grateful, Sho volunteered to rebuild Phi and any of the other dead clones. Ringo kept up Strange Klug's bargin to regain possession of Ekoro's orb. Eta, happy to be freed again, explained what had happened with Zeta. While Sho and Eta returned to the city to make progress on Phi, Ringo and the remaining party chased Zeta to her hiding grounds. |
Zeta came clean with the party, and attacked them. Arle was still unable to neutralize her externally, much to the party's chagrin, so they were forced to fight. Ringo and Witch were able to keep up at first, but Zeta decided to stop screwing around and use [[Perfect Bayoeen]], which would have probably mortally wounded them were it not for Eltia's barrier, which only barely blocked the attack. Zeta was stricken with disbelief as she fell into a bizarre [[inferiority complex]] at her failed attack attempt. Making amends with the party again, she reunites with Eta and stays to help Sho. | Zeta came clean with the party, and attacked them. Arle was still unable to neutralize her externally, much to the party's chagrin, so they were forced to fight. Ringo and Witch were able to keep up at first, but Zeta decided to stop screwing around and use [[Perfect Bayoeen]], which would have probably mortally wounded them were it not for Eltia's barrier, which only barely blocked the attack. Zeta was stricken with disbelief as she fell into a bizarre [[inferiority complex]] at her failed attack attempt. Making amends with the party again, she reunites with Eta and stays to help Sho. |
Revision as of 11:52, 17 July 2011
Subete PuyoPuyo is an ongoing improv roleplay originally based on Puyo Puyo characters and played by various Kumizonians. It takes place between Puyo Puyo Fever 2 and Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary.
Characters
During the Meteor arc, the ADMA disbanded, and Ekoro's clones have split up due to Ekoro's defeat. This has switched the roster around quite a lot, so the main groups of characters at the present time are shown below. See this revision for the roster of the Ekoro arc.
Main party
- Andou Ringo (played by Chao)
- Eltia (played by Keiji)
- Theta (aka Dark Ringo) (played by Keiji)
- Lagnus the Brave (played by Chao)
- Arle Nadja (and Carbuncle) (played by ArleKaakun)
- Tejina Mikuri (played by ArleKaakun)
- Seriri (played by Chao)
Magic School
- Ms. Accord (played by Chao)
- Rider (played by Chao)
- Sig (played by Chao)
- Amitie
Antagonists
- Ekoro (played by Chao)
- Popoi
- Satan
- Lord Marcus XXXIX (played by Keiji)
- Strange Klug (Played by Chao)
Played for Laughs
- Witch (played by Keiji)
- Schezo Wegey
- Rulue
- Luvis (played by Waterchan)
- Felidae (played by Waterchan)
- Nohoho
MIA
- Draco Centauros (played by Keiji)
- Rika Delgado (played by Mari-chan)
- Feli
- Lemres
- Nanako (played by Keiji)
- Juichi (played by Keiji)
Episodes
Satan arc
The Satan arc covered the first episode and the first half of the second, and a number of unlogged sessions that originally began with just User:Chao and User:KasaneTeto. Originally, Arle was originally out to find Carbuncle, whom had gone missing. She found him at Satan's Tower, where Satan had "saved" him. Satan then told Arle he hadn't even begun any evil plans yet, and tried to flee. Arle was then on a mission: to stop Satan's plans before they ever begin!! She was downright determined to complete this mission. She gathered several faces along the way, including Harpy and those whom would later make up the ADMA, along with Ms. Accord herself. Together they followed Satan on a ridiculous goose chase all the way back to his tower. Eventually, Satan's plans (though barely begun) were thwarted.
Accord arc
The Accord arc started with the second half of the second episode, and ended with the first half of episode 9. In the Random Field where Arle and company had defeated Satan, Accord showed her "true" colors. She muted Seriri after admitting she kidnapped and nearly killed her, and tried to attack Arle. However, Arle defended herself, and she and her friends (along with the annoying Mikki) formed the Anti-Accord Association, or AAA. Arle then went on a mission to rescue Sig from the forest, which proved the group's strength, as well as Mikki's abilities of annoyance. During this period, the AAA were focused on taking out Ms. Accord, who pretty much wanted to torture and kill everyone.
Arle met back up with Draco, and together, they made a base at Draco's hut. Around this time, it was discovered that Arle makes absolutely delicious curry, which is so good that the rest of the group were, in fact, willing to live off of it for the rest of their lives - except for Sig, who just insists on some nice toast and milk. After making this new base, the group got to only go on one mission: rescuing Amitie from Primp Magic School. The mission would have been extremely dangerous and painful were it not for Nanako. The ADMA returned home to Draco's hut and started planning a new mission. However, one day, Accord and Popoi followed Tarutaru to the hut in order to prevent this. The resulting uproar had Sig so confused he went berserk and blew the hut up in rage. Arle was temporarily knocked out following this, and Draco and Rider left to talk on the mountains alone.
Rider and Draco then reasoned out what just happened, and Rider had burst into tears from Sig's explosion harming her. She was confused about her relationship with Sig, and Draco provided a comforting hand by listening and sympathizing, though also informing her Sig truly indeed was concerned for her safety and regretted the fact his explosion hurt her.
Eventually, Draco came back. Accord also walked in and literally sacrificed herself as Draco set her ablaze in rage. Accord revealed that she had been manipulated by Popoi, and that she wanted no part in any of it. In this scene, all except Seriri and Witch felt deep regret and remorse for her death, although Draco was still firm in her justification. Later, she and the rest of the group were sucked up by Ekoro's evil portal thingy and were transported to the Madou World to go on a mission to save Klug, despite his previous disrespect for the gang.
Ekoro arc
The Ekoro arc started with the second half of the ninth episode, and ended at the end of episode 14.
Ekoro's first appearance in Subete was pretty much to deliver a riddle. This confused everyone, especially Seriri, but Arle and Mikki seemed hell bent on not putting any thought into it. After all, nobody can be quite sure what a guy who mixes Arabic and Hebrew in the same sentence thinks. In due time though, Ekoro returned to the ADMA. He then noted that the new organization would have a LOT more dark mages other than Popoi to deal with. Ekoro then opened a portal and sucked all the ADMA members into the Madou world. He then directed the group to a mysterious castle, telling them if they got their asses over there in time, that Klug would be there, alive and well. The ADMA took up his challenge and, with the help of an angelic Harpy, succeeded.
After completing his challenge, and having a short break on the Floating Island, Ekoro appeared again, this time, attacking the ADMA. Ekoro used powerful magic capable of reflecting even Mikki's attacks. However, his weaknesses were Light magic and not being able to handle multiple attacks at the same time (sound familiar already?). So everyone started attacking him all at once, and after "A comeback not expected by you!", he was defeated. However, he revealed he had intentions to continue forth despite being injured and losing the battle, through another vague and cryptic rhyme.
Ekoro vanished again after that, presumably to tend to his "experiment", heal his wounds, and continue his plans. Later, he was found to have created eight powerful clones of various ADMA members and neutral characters. He had created a few in his UT base to test his methods and processes. He destroyed and absorbed his first clone, and the others were deployed away, aside from Dark Sig. However, Feli and Accord stumbled upon his base. Dark Sig spotted Accord, and Accord fled, while Feli got into a fight with Ekoro. After easily over-powering her, Feli fled as well. However, since people had discovered his base, it would only be a matter of time before the ADMA would arrive, so Ekoro brainwashed Dark Sig into thinking that Accord hated him to make him blow up the base, and he fled for his Mountain Base, abandoning Dark Sig in the process.
However, Ekoro was in for many surprises himself at the Mountain Base. It was discovered his clones could be neutralized and used against him. Taking advantage of this, the ADMA was led to the Mountain Base by the clones. Ekoro, waiting in his room, also the room of a rather extravagant machine, was finally ready to reveal both his secret experiment and his ultimate goal. Ekoro sought to destroy the world, and replace it with a new, "perfect" one modeled by him, where his "perfect clones" would populate the planet, and Ekoro would play God for the new world, and should the clones chose to rebel against him or not live harmoniously, they would be destroyed and absorbed. At this point everyone realized how delusional Ekoro really was. However, Ekoro was not going to come this far and have a leopard fail, so he sent Dark Arle, his most powerful clone and surprise experiment, to attack the ADMA. Dark Arle was tough, as was both strong and resistant to neutralization tactics. However, Ekoro eventually joined in, and the battle raged on. However, since he was still recovering from the last fight and wanted to show off Dark Arle, he participated less. Shortly after joining in, Ekoro kills Dark Sig in front of them and absorbs him into his body.
However, just then, Draco returns from a short absence with Dark Draco, Ekoro's original perfect model, whom was later scrapped for Dark Arle. Here, Dark Sig was forcefully removed by Dark Draco. Ekoro however, used the distraction to strike Rider and brainwash Sig. However, even this failed, as Ekoro was put to sleep and Sig promptly brought back with reality. In a twist of fate, Dark Arle realized the true nature of Ekoro, calling him "the most scandalous, dirty, rotten, cheating, lying, stealing, no good son-of-a-bitch" she's ever met. She also explained that she has been just as tainted as everyone else on the planet due to her being led by Ekoro in the first place, thus making her perfection imperfect. Eventually, Ekoro became desperate, exhausting any more tricks he could come up with. Even these were foiled though, and Ekoro was essentially cornered. Dark Draco, Dark Arle, and Dark Ringo finished him off, proving indeed Ekoro had created the most perfect and powerful clones on the planet...perhaps, too powerful for him. Ekoro died via implosion, leaving his last, and very ironically blunt words: "Let fate fuck you all,".
A period of relief...? (Plot lull)
After Ekoro's defeat, Episode 15 and 16 were spent by the ADMA celebrating their victory over their strongest enemy yet. Once they arrived, Accord, Lagnus, and the clones were officially accepted as members of the group, and Ekoro's remains, along with the black hole and his Mountain Base, were locked tightly inside a vault. Afterwords, a celebratory dinner was prepared, but it soon became awkward when Lagnus felt the need to ask for Arle's hand in love. Suddenly, another Arle swooped in, and Satan arrived in a giant cake, attempting another fail proposal. However, he was content with the fake(?) Arle, who gladly accepted his hand in marriage after being rejected by Lagnus. After blasting off in a rocket cake, everyone finished dinner and thought they could rest easy...or could they?
The Meteor Arc
Episode 17 began the Meteor Arc with a bang... literally! A stray meteorite, after knocking Cirno off course, plowed straight into the ADMA HQ and completely obliterated the building, scattering it's members all across the Neptune Primp!
Ringo and Arle were the first revealed survivors of the incident, having been stranded in a desert. Along with them was a helicopter blade from the ADMA chopper, which was dug up by a Detective sent to investigate the bizarre phenomenon. After hitching a ride with the said detective, Ringo and Arle hiked back to ADMA... or where it used to be. A giant crater in it's place, Nohoho suddenly emerges from the ground zero. However, Nohoho is not his usual self. Arle and Ringo interrogate him, which prompts him to lead the two girls into a back alley. Once there he reveals a dimensional portal, from which emerges a mysterious figure. The man reveals "Nohoho" to be none other than Epsilon, the fourth of Ekoro's Clones. He also implies he and Epsilon are involved with each other, and the man persecutes Ringo on the count of racism towards dark magic users (which she tries to explain she herself doesn't have). The man becomes intrigued by Arle's silence during the ordeal...
Episode 18 saw the ordeal with ??? come to a close, as he cursed Ringo into being incapable of controlling an attraction to Draco. While this curse led the two girls straight to the dragon lady herself, who happened to be safe in the HQ's surviving underground chambers, it brought Draco much annoyance when Ringo started dragging her without any explanation. The curse led the trio back to the portal where they travelled through the chance dimension to ???'s dark world and encountered a Nondescript Minion of ???. He amused himself by taking pictures of whoever Ringo was clinging to, greatly antagonizing all three of them. Soon after, ??? showed up to dismiss his minion's bumbling nature, and to speak with Draco. ??? expressed he was dissatisfied with the ADMA's habits of destroying dark mages in their world. A heated debate between Draco, Arle and ??? ensued, while Ringo's torture was prolonged. Eventually, ??? declared war against the ADMA and vanished to his own business. Draco, Arle, and Ringo returned home, frustrated and confused by the warped man's proclamations and curse, only to encounter Strange Klug. Strange Klug wanted to pay a visit to Ekoro, only so he could laugh at his defeat. However, he found it not worth his trouble as soon as the ADMA members threatened to fight him over it, and fled.
The trio finally began the search for their missing members. They started with Draco's Hut, fittingly enough, and found Sig, who was helping himself to Draco's toaster and bed. The gang was relieved Sig was alright and decided to make Draco's Hut their temporary HQ again while the search continued.
Episode 19 was split up into two parts. The episode started with everyone nostalgically eating Arle's delicious curry for dinner and then sleeping. Ringo then has a strange dream about her new doll, who speaks very mysteriously and leaves her with the word "Eltia". Upon waking up, Ringo has another unlucky encounter this time as Draco, who is still asleep, unwittingly violates her. Once everyone is done being retarded, they head off to the Floating Island, by means of Draco flying with her wings and carrying Ringo (who seems rather amused and cheered up by the whole thing) while Ringo magically levitates Arle and Sig. This mode of transport is used several more times throughout the episode.
Upon reaching the Floating Island, they come across Witch, who is being laughable as always and apparently stole Schezo's clothes. The crew decide to leave them alone for the sake of their own sanity, and head elsewhere to continue their search for others. Their next destination is the previously unchartered territory to the northeast, where they find an area, even more barren than the Floating Island, containing a water temple in which reside a hallucinating Seriri and a crazy-as-always Strange Klug. Seriri then gets all jealous about Ringo, while Draco plays it cool and explains (badly) that she never really liked Seriri that way and it's much more fun to whirl someone around in the air if she has two legs (And UTAU hair, let's not forget that) rather than a single massive fish tail. Draco gives Seriri one last short ride in the air before dropping her off in the lake she came from waaaaaaaaaaay back in episode 2, and proceeds to fly back to the hut while Ringo ponders what this "Eltia" is.
It is then slowly revealed that Eltia is actually the name of Ringo's doll, who is a dark mage responsible for creating the larger version of herself to hand herself to Ringo in the previous episode (sure is out-of-body experiences in here). There is a long, mysterious conversation between Ringo and Eltia about Eltia's backstory (which would be far too complicated to explain here, so just click that link at the start of the paragraph if you care enough to read it). In the middle of this conversation, Draco gets fed up with the whole idea of a non-evil dark mage (which Ringo claims Eltia is), and storms out of the hut.
The second (much shorter) part of the episode follows Lagnus and Theta's journey to find the others. They have a similar encounter with Strange Klug as Draco and co. did in episode 18, though apparently this occurs 24 hours later, and Theta notes that something is not quite right about that. While discussing Lagnus' backstory, they head to Draco's hut (via Rulue's condo, who tells them where Draco's hut is in exchange for Lagnus' word that he'll keep Arle at bay from Satan... wait, Arle doesn't want Satan anyway!). They then meet Draco at the point where she stormed out of the hut in the previous part. The three talk about that oddity Theta noticed, and conclude that someone must have accidentally chronoported them - the same someone who, they realize, must have (for whatever unknown reason) decided to teleport everyone in the ADMA HQ away from it at the moment of explosion, explaining the whole thing about the HQ being destroyed but nobody being harmed.
Much like the previous episode, Episode 20 was divided into two separate parts. This episode picks up where the last one left off, and the gang discusses what to do next, with Lagnus and Theta rejoining the group. Sig, concerned about the safety of his friends and Accord, vouches to continue their search, and Theta escorts him away to do this. Meanwhile, the remaining group has an unexpected visit from Luvis, a wannabe ladies man. Deciding to use Luvis as live bait for ???, the foursome (now five, thanks to their punchbag) head back through the portal into the Abyss. At first, they did not find anyone, but after moving towards the random waterfall in the center, they run into the (unfortunately male) Nondescript Minion again, who is bathing publically in the waters for all to see (no wonder everyone was hiding!). After obtaining some directions, Draco and the gang are lead straight to a library (don't ask us why there's a library in a cave). Soon, they meet a Librarian who reveals ???'s name is Lord Marcus, also revealing his authority in the world. While Lagnus and Ringo try to contemplate peaceful ways to arrange a meeting with Marcus, Draco insists on beating the crap out of the Librarian, claiming that "there's no loss, they're all dark mages here". Offended, the Librarian pulls out his Shadow Cannon™ and proceeds to blast the smithereens out of Draco. Even Lagnus' light magic barrier is effortlessly torn down by the black wind emitting from the weapon, and Draco's attempts to hold it back only set the Library on fire. Ringo, in a similarly stupid move, chucks a burning book at the Librarian, but it actually just ignites the beam from the Shadow Cannon, causing Draco even more pain. The onslaught only ends when Lagnus casts Light Arrows, which stab the Librarian and presumably kill him, also shutting the Shadow Cannon down.
Lagnus, Arle, Ringo, and Luvis carry an unconscious Draco back to her hut for safety. When they return, however, Strange Klug makes his third appearance in a row, whom has now stolen more of the ADMA's precious things. Strange Klug at first is only willing to give the disgruntled ADMA one of their belongings back, but Ringo asks for both, and surprisingly, Strange Klug is willing to oblige. but of course he won't do it for free. He asks in return for the gang to locate and bring him the remains of a secret project Ekoro had told him about, but revealed scarce details of. And thus, Strange Klug vanished again. When the coast was clear, Lagnus tried to use healing magic to awaken Draco, but unfortunately for Lagnus, cliche and unimaginatively named spells are Draco's natural immunity. Ringo finds Seriri's Tears conveniently in the fridge instead, and they prove to be more effective in reviving the dragon lady thanks to their bitter flavor. Draco was updated on the events that transpired in her unconsciousness.
The second part of the episode skips ahead in time, where Draco is suddenly questioning Nanako's mysterious disappearance. She takes herself, Arle, Seriri (whom has cooled down), and the incredibly sleepy Felidae in a fancy car to find Nanako, after retrieving a GPS tracking device from one of the surviving secretaries. They tracked Nanako to a strange Laboratory in the middle of nowhere, where she was quietly doing some office work. Draco ironically considers being polite for the first time in the entire arc, but she decides instead to break the window of her office (and quite rightly so; after all: In the world of Iji, glass is forbidden. Ceiling fixtures must be headbutted and windows must be kicked.). Nanako solemnly confronts Draco, explaining she helped out because she thought Draco was a morally correct person, but then realized she was nothing but a bitch on a blind rage. She then performed one last mysterious task - clearing her tracker from the GPS that led Draco to her - before shooing them away. While Seriri and Arle were thankful and understood Nanako, Draco was less than amused. Utterly pwned and even moar rageful, she took to the skies alone, leaving Seriri, Arle and Felidae stranded... until Satan and Rulue suddenly arrived on the Bus of Love to rescue them. Satan then drove the bus in a questionably reckless manner back to the city, ending episode 20 by leaving poor Rulue in the middle of nowhere.
In episode 21 Ringo lead her party back into the dark world, Eltia in tow, to confront Marcus. Retracing their steps from the previous encounter a day ago, they make it back to the still burning Library. The dead Librarian and his Shadow Cannon™ even were still there, although the former barely. The gang took the over powered weapon with them and continued to look deeper into the cave-like residence of the dark mages, finding nothing or noone among the destruction. Later, they accidentally wander into the workshop of Steve, the person who created the Shadow Cannon™. Ringo asked the gun-craftsman to take her to Lord Marcus, but he couldn't help her with this task, being only an innocent pawn in his plan. Coincidentally, but with much ill timing, Marcus suddenly materializes right in front of them to show off as the party exited the workshop. Marcus notices Eltia is with Ringo and makes a mental note to dispose of her before revealing he indeed arranged for the meteor to fly into the ADMA HQ. (And possibly Cirno too. He must really hate idiots.) Ringo and Theta informed him that the plan fell through thanks to the mysterious teleportation antics of a still unknown entity. Unfortunately, peacefully questioning Marcus was to no avail, as he was too busy prosecuting Ringo for arson and murder and demanding his cannon back. Ringo attempted to continue negations, only to fall flat on her face as Marcus once again missed the point Ringo and Eltia have been trying to make. Marcus, half showing off, half frustrated, nearly murders Lagnus, causing Ringo to finally reach a boiling point and an Epic battle began.
Ringo and Theta made the first move, while Mikki did what she does best: lolz. Marcus wasn't fazed by anything Ringo could pull out of her arsenal. But then Marcus pulled out his trump card, an attack he only dubbed "Newton's Nemisis". It engulfed Ringo and Theta into a strange, inescapable, eatheral space. While Mikki tried to fend off Marcus outside in vain, inside the space, Theta suddenly died and exploded into a number of strange spider-like creatures. Ringo tried to fend them off by herself, but they were too numerous. Eltia made a timely awakening and destroyed them all in a single swoop though. Eltia strikes back, forcing Marcus to retreat. Ringo and her party also made a hasty retreat, with Lagnus and Mikki clinging for dear life. With little time to mourn Theta's death, Satan's Bus of Love arrives and almost runs over Draco's Hut just trying to park. Seriri and Arle flop out of the bus, and the two parties play catch up while Satan drives away. After some more chit-chat and a meal of Arle's delcious curry, the party decides to split into separate residences, with Ringo staying in Eltia's home.
Between Episodes 19 and 22, Zeta, Beta, and Eta all met up and made lodings in the Mansion of Clandestins'. Unfortunately, Zeta turned on them and attacked Beta, urging the other clone to join her in extracting Ekoro's revenge program. Before he could respond though, Strange Klug swooped in and kidnapped Eta to use as more bargaining material for Ringo. Zeta fled to the Edge of Despair to begin plotting how she would eliminate the remaining clones and rescue Eta.
Episode 22 featured Ringo returning to Primp. This time, she decided to switch mindsets and travel to the Eastern Mountains again in order to find the secret project of Ekoro that was leaked by Strange Klug prior. They reach Fos Canyon and meet up with Witch, who was being hunted down by her blueberry muffin (which was somehow keeping her from making appearances in the Meteor Arc). Eventually she coughed up Beta's hand, informing them Marcus had struck her down the same way he did Theta. Before she could elaborate or mourn though, the possessed pastry returned to chase Witch away. However, the party makes an amazing discovery within a nearby abandoned tent: A back up of Ekoro's Secret Project. Playing a crudely recorded AVI left in the tent, the project reveals itself as a clone named Phi. After watching the AVI, they freed Sho. Eternally grateful, Sho volunteered to rebuild Phi and any of the other dead clones. Ringo kept up Strange Klug's bargin to regain possession of Ekoro's orb. Eta, happy to be freed again, explained what had happened with Zeta. While Sho and Eta returned to the city to make progress on Phi, Ringo and the remaining party chased Zeta to her hiding grounds.
Zeta came clean with the party, and attacked them. Arle was still unable to neutralize her externally, much to the party's chagrin, so they were forced to fight. Ringo and Witch were able to keep up at first, but Zeta decided to stop screwing around and use Perfect Bayoeen, which would have probably mortally wounded them were it not for Eltia's barrier, which only barely blocked the attack. Zeta was stricken with disbelief as she fell into a bizarre inferiority complex at her failed attack attempt. Making amends with the party again, she reunites with Eta and stays to help Sho.