FernStone

Sundered Samsara (Honkai Impact 3rd - a Third Era AU)

That makes a lot of sense, I felt like I was missing something reading all the character creation details xD tryna figure out how all those modifiers came about

Sundered Samsara (Honkai Impact 3rd - a Third Era AU)

Ah yeah, that's one thing that would've been missed due to not being around in the Interest Check, eh?

Basically, unless you plan on something very, very specific (e.g, involving your backstory), END is the one stat you should not dump. At all. So yah. Should adjust.

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@ERode

Also missed this one - I did actually do it on purpose (I did at least read through most of the interest check threads), but I suppose the back story doesn't really take it into account... I wanted to be something along the lines of "this person really shouldn't be a Valkyrie but is anyway". I'll adjust that though (again in a lil bit, editting that CS on my phone would kill it I think...)

Sundered Samsara (Honkai Impact 3rd - a Third Era AU)

Other detail regarding your Burst, Fern, is that you can't increase any one stat more than once. So the POW +2 you have can only be a POW +1.

@ERode

Oh yup this is good to know, will adjust that when I'm back on my computer! Tbh expected the burst to need changed because I didn't entirely understand the modifiers (look at all the accepted character sheets, didn't understand what half the modifiers they had were)

Sundered Samsara (Honkai Impact 3rd - a Third Era AU)

Alright, here's a character for checking! Picture is still a WIP, haven't gotten time to colour & shade it yet, but otherwise done

Isabella Kainde

Isabella “Isa” Oliviera Kainde

American | Anti-Entropy | 18 y/o | Valkyrie | Human
C - Rank | Artificial Stigmata | Mecha-Type | Physical | Scythe
POW - E | END - E (-1) | AGI - C | INT - B (+1) | HON - C (+1) | BUR – E

Appearance: At 5’ and slender, Isa is short and unassuming - if it wasn’t for her loud, brash personality. Her plush lips are always hooked up into a wide smile or grin. Her warm brown skin is covered in darker freckles, as if she’s spent a lifetime in the sun when she hasn’t. Her shoulder length, dark brown hair is always done in a variety of styles - a ponytail, braids, two buns. Underneath her straight fringe are light brown, almost amber, eyes sparking with curiosity.

Weapon: Crimson Storm, a self modified Azure Storm to be lighter, faster and sharper.
Ability: Upon successfully hitting a weak point, +1 to the user's honkai stat for purposes of inflicting bleed condition.

Stigmata: Artificial.

Honkai Arts:

• Bleed: C
• Time Fracture: E (1 use)
• Honkai Sensing: C
• Weakness Pinpoint: D (Combines honkai and technology to pinpoint enemy weak points, making it easier to hit them)

Battlesuit: Scarlet Executor

• Features: Communications, GPS, honkai sensors, subspace storage (specialised storage to hold specific tools so they can be easily accessed)
• Time Fracture

Burst: Phantom Dash

• Rank: E
• Duration: 2 rounds
• Modifier Points: 2 (+1 POW, +1 Range)
• Effect: Honkai energy coats the battlesuits arms and legs, lightening and empowering the user. It strengthens Isa’s arms enabling her to attack more easily, and increases the range at which she can attack - allowing her to move in and out from short range for an attack.

Skills: Isabella is a skilled engineer, easily able to maintain her battlesuit and weapon along with modifying them (slightly more specialised in weapons). With the right tools and equipment she could create weapons and basic battlesuits. She can also modify and repair AE mech suits and drones, but can’t actually operate them. She could also hotwire a car easily, but again can’t drive it. She has a fairly in depth understanding of artificial stigma and the process of creating them, along with infusing artificial DNA with Honkai energy. She has a quick understanding of scientific concepts. Isa has basic hacking skills, not enough to get through anything too secure. Fluent in English, Portuguese and Indonesian - sometimes falls into Indonesian accidentally when talking about engineering, since it’s the language she spoke to her dad in while learning from him. Technically knows how to use a gun, but likely to miss 50% of the time. Would sooner take it apart than use it. Isa is quite good at wood carving, something she took up to keep herself busy when her parents wouldn’t.

Gear: Isa has all the basics - smartphone, chargers, powerbanks, USB drives, wallet. She has quite a comprehensive tech tool kit, with everything she needs for maintenance of her gear along with modifications. It contains some more specialised tools and materials - some fluid alloy blocks, phase shifters, AE imaginons ect. This takes up most of what she can carry, but she also always has a bunch of chocolate bars on hand (but no other food). She carries a small, relatively blunt knife.

Personality: The first thing noticeable about Isa is that she’s loud and brash, the second is her insatiable curiosity edging on annoying nosiness. She has no qualms about approaching people and very little sense of boundaries, because she grew up in a place where constant questions were encouraged. She wants to know everything - about a person’s technology that is. She asks about fellow Valkyries weapons, battlesuits, stigmata… but rarely about the person themselves. Not because she understands it would be pushing too far, asking something too personal, but because she just doesn’t care that much.

Because of her sheltered upbringing, and rarely interacting with others her age until she began training to be a Valkyrie, Isa is rather socially inept. She doesn’t pick up basic social cues a lot of the time, and doesn’t know when to stop talking. She could talk for hours, especially about her weapon. She’s incredibly energetic, no matter the circumstances or lack of sleep she’s had. For all she talks, though, Isa isn’t actually an extrovert. She’s more used to time alone, and will spend hours on whatever’s taken her interest (namely gear modification). If there are others around her when she does this she’s likely to just straight up zone them out.

What Isa hates the most is being restricted - she spent too much of her life like that. She’ll follow orders if they make sense but she’s not afraid so speak out against those she doesn’t agree with - though rarely for moral reasons, more likely because they just don’t make sense. She likes creating things with her hands and doodling designs, even though her artistic talents aren’t that great. She also quite enjoys taking things apart to see how they tick. She’s fueled by her curiosity and desire to learn, to keep discovering and creating new things.

Because there’s always something new to discover.

Biography:
Born to two Anti-Entropy scientists, Isabella grew up surrounded by cutting edge technology and radical ideas. Her father was an inventor and technical genius, specialising in weapon creation - both for Valkyries and mechs. Her mother, on the other hand, specialised in stigmata research and artificial DNA manipulation. They weren’t Valkyries, instead behind the scenes scientists and inventors.

Isa inherited their intelligence and from a young age was following one parent or the other to laboratories and workspaces, asking constant questions and helping as soon as she was able to. She helped her dad make weapons, finding working with her hands incredibly rewarding, and watched her mum researching. As she grew older she was more inclined towards her dad’s field of work, finding scientific research increasingly boring - artificial stigmata intrigued her, but her mum never brought her along when they were actually involved. She had a constant, insatiable curiosity that only grew with age.

Isa had a comparatively good and peaceful childhood, but she grew up incredibly restrictive. This was in part due to her poor health, which improved in her early teens, but also thanks to controlling parents. She didn’t go to school, instead learning from them what they deemed important - science, maths, reading for scientific documentation and their home languages. If she wasn’t at home she was with them at the AE headquarters. She was always with one parent. They had high expectations of her, that she’d become an AE scientist just like them and help finding a solution.

These expectations chafed at Isa, but not because they’d be difficult to achieve. No, she was more than capable enough to do what her parents did. But that wasn’t what she wanted. She’d been controlled and restricted her whole life and she was sick of it.

Isa didn’t want to be stuck in labs in America anymore. What was the point of creating weapons she couldn’t even use, or researching honkai energy when she’d never even seen them? She was bored of it. It was all she’d done for all of her life, and she hated being so constrained. She just knew out on the field she’d be able to find out even more - right at the source, against honkai themselves.

Unfortunately Isa didn’t have the natural talent to be a Valkyrie outside of her intelligence, and slightly higher than normal agility. She didn’t have a natural stigmata and she’d spent most of her life in laboratories, rather than training. But that didn’t matter because there was always a way to overcome that - technology. Even her lack of stigmata was easily overcome.

Isa’s parents, especially her mum, were against it. They knew the risks better than any of getting an artificial stigmata, and the drastically shortened lifespan that came with it. Isa knew this too, but she didn’t care. What was the point of a long, boring life? For the first time in her life Isa went against her parents, getting an artificial stigmata and entered AEs Valkyrie training. After all, there was always a desperate need for more Valkyries.

Through the aide of technology Isa made it through, becoming a Valkyrie and deploying to a few battlefield operations. Her scientific background aided her and those on her team, giving her a different edge - she wasn’t the strongest in a fight but she could easily think of tactics on the fly, targeting weak points using knowledge she’d gained. She was driven in ways different to most of her peers too, not caring so much about the greater good and saving lives so much as constantly learning and evolving.

Reaching C rank wasn’t hard.

Then, she was recommended to Fire Moth. For Isa this was a great opportunity - an opportunity to learn more.

Sundered Samsara (Honkai Impact 3rd - a Third Era AU)

@KillamriX88 Amazing, thank you!! I was roughly right, after a lot of confusion, that lays it out very well & clearly

Sundered Samsara (Honkai Impact 3rd - a Third Era AU)

Hi, I'm very interested in this & working on a character (assuming it's still open!) - I just have a questions character creation wise.

For the grades you mention points, and say about starting with an average of enough to have D in each but that this can be adjusted as we like. For adjustment, is it a case of having to reduce one to increase another? (Say I reduce endurance to E and increase honkai to C) or is at adjust as you'd like within reason?

Sundered Samsara (Honkai Impact 3rd - a Third Era AU)

Is this rp still open? Very interested (being heavily playing honkai 3 the past few months haha, the opportunity to also rp it is amazing! And this sounds v fun & well thought out)

Recollections: Magnanimous

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The Vanburen Estate

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Oscar was visibly shaking when the wall dropped, after protecting a few of them all packed like sardines right behind him. His sigh of relief was twofold - both that he’d managed to protect Sabrina, and that he didn’t have to concentrate on keeping the wall up anymore.

"Oscar, make sure she gets to the hospital."

Georgie

“Georgie, wait-” And she was gone. He frowned for only a few moments, before going back to his normal relaxed expression. He understood Georgie running he really did… but at the end of the day, it wasn’t going to help them if the Triple Goddess only wanted her. They needed the bait.

"... I'm going to fight."

Sabrina

“Good,” Oscar grinned, quickly glancing over Sabrina to make sure she actually looked healed… and she did, she was standing much better than before. Not like she could topple over at the slightest touch. Fascinating. To think healing magic could work to that extent… He’d have to talk to the healer later when this was all over, find out exactly how that all worked. “Glad you’re all fixed up.”

They needed all the help they could get honestly, and if Sabrina wasn’t injured anymore there was no need for her to hide away.

"Hey, that was my car!"

Sabrina

"Hey! Get out the"

Justin

The worry about the destruction her shadow caused, turned to panic as fire flew towards her, was pushed away by the joyful music that washed over Tuyen. It felt like a warm hug she hadn’t felt in years, without any expectations or lies. Comforting.

It was so quiet.

She couldn’t remember the last time her mind had been so silent, no longer sharing a space with all her worst nightmares. The surge of power she felt from the melody erased her worries that had held her back. She was in control now, properly. Even with the pain from her lacerated arm throbbing throughout her body, her mind was clearer than it had been for years.

Tuyen didn’t need to command the Shadow to get it to stop from throwing the next car, instead pulling it up to cover both itself and Tuyen behind it. The fire hit the car, which the Shadow threw away before it was engulfed in flames. Tuyen let out the breath she didn’t realise she’d been holding… because she hadn’t really believed it would work. Normally the shadow wouldn’t listen, and it might have blocked her with its body and left her covered in burns without another care.

But it listened to her.

Her attention shifted from the burning car thrown far enough away it wasn’t a danger anymore, towards Tansy and the blinding light that had enveloped them. She had to clamp down on the distrust that filled her stomach, biting down on her lip and holding back any thoughts of stopping the Vanburen. She didn’t trust her, but from what little she’d seen… Tansy cared about the Vanburen image, and wouldn’t throw that away for a mere cult. Without the shadow whispering in her ear Tuyen didn’t instantly jump to betrayal.

Or maybe she just wanted to believe that someone wouldn’t do that to their whole family.

“Justin,” Tuyen quickly approached him, shadow reducing its size and clinging to her silently. It covered the left side of her body, and the injured arm hanging limp to her side. “I think she’s luring the goddess inside. I-” She couldn’t bring herself to say she trusted Tansy. Hopefully it would be obvious to Justin what was going on. Tansy had at the very least granted them a moment of reprieve from the constant attacks. “I’ll stay out here and hold off the cult… Protect everyone’s backs.”

Because even under control her shadow was destructive, and that control could disappear as quickly as it had come.

“Shit, Tansy, what are you-” Oscar covered his eyes to shield them from the light, mind quickly working out what was happening. He hadn’t even had a chance to think about it, protecting Sabrina from getting destroyed from icicles as soon as he got there, but luring the Triple Goddess in was the best way! It wasn’t a surprise that Tansy was the one to do it. She always had her way of luring others with words.

Sabrina was fine now so he didn’t have to stick to her, hurrying back over to the door.

“It is so refreshing to see one willing to do whatever it takes for their sibling. You set an example that others really must follow.”

Tansy

Oscar couldn’t resist rolling his eyes at the almost snide comment, but did resist responding. Tansy’s opinions on how a family should be weren’t important right now… what was important was that she was luring the Triple Goddess inside, to a place that very much did not have a skull. She’d put herself right in the firing line without anywhere to go.

He wasn’t going to let that happen if he could help it.

So Oscar followed behind step by step, far enough behind the Triple Goddess that she hopefully wouldn’t pay attention to it… but close enough to be ready to jump in before it was too late to.

Recollections: Magnanimous

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East Araminta - Construction Site

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As soon as the call was done, Tuyen shoved Trisha's phone back into her hands. It was enough to stop the other girl from attacking her, and Tuyen pretended she couldn't feel the glare burning into her back. She'd done what she could.

It was still hard for her to breathe, as if her lungs couldn't get enough air, but it began to ease as one after another the other group stepped through the mirror. Her shadow finally quietened down as she got her fragmented thoughts more under control, her sight dimming to a normal brightness now that orange lightning was no longer streaking across it. She could deal with the screeching in her ears with the visual hallucinations removed.

In a few steps she reached the mirror, before looking over to Justin and Arabelle. With both Justin and Tansy making it clear how urgent it was she didn't feel the need to add to it. Instead she was ready for Arabelle to do her job, making sure she could be one of the first to follow. She lacked knowledge of the other groups abstractions but if her's were any to go by… most of this fight would fall to them as the experts.

"Now who the fuck are you?"

Justin

"I was going to tell you about him later," Tuyen said quietly, just loud enough for those around the mirror to hear. She didn't pay any attention to the rest, though, noticing that Arabelle was already gone… and quickly followed suit.

Oscar wasn’t surprised to come through the mirror, second to last, to find a catastrophe only his family could cause. Really, allowing Tansy and Trisha to be in the same group was just asking for trouble. He really felt for their poor expert left with them… but that wasn’t important now. What was important was that there was a talking skeleton that disappeared almost as quickly as he appeared! How interesting…

It took a moment for Oscar to pull himself out of his thoughts - now wasn’t the time to think about the seemingly benevolent supernatural, when there was a much more deadly one attacking his sisters. With a nod, Oscar went through the mirror again.

"If you're not coming with us, you could stay with her."

Shane

"I'll stay," Trisha nodded, probably surprising Shane by actually agreeing for once. Of course, it wasn't out of the kindness of her heart. She had no wish to go die with the rest of her family in a fight against some cult raising goddess, but she couldn't just say that. She hated them all but deep down she did care what they thought, much as she hated that too, so she didn't want to be viewed as a coward. Also she wasn't sure if she'd be able to resist joining the goddess' cult just to offer Tansy up as a sacrifice. "Just in case she's not dead."

As if she actually planned to stay outside in the cold, and not go into the office as soon as they were all gone and play on her phone.

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The Vanburen Estate

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“We’re going to need something to seal her in,” Oscar announced as soon as he got through, jerking around to look at Arabelle. “Anything will do… I think you’re most suited to the job, Arabelle, since you can move between areas in the house so easily.” Then he glanced at her cast. “Something small will do.”

Without waiting for her response he hurried to the garage.

“Nice shot.”

Tuyen reached the garage just behind Justin, in time to see him bash her with his steel balls. Good, at least she wasn’t invulnerable. Her eyes narrowed as she stepped forward to help Justin form a ‘wall’ between the Triple Goddess and the garage… along with the two knocked over Vanburen. Come on, now’s not the time to play games. She twisted her head to look at the shadow that was hiding behind her back.

Nothing.

Of course.

“Shit, Sabrina, are you okay?” Oscar immediately ran to Sabrina’s as soon as he reached the garage, reaching out to try and help her steady herself. “Let me help you out before-”

Before the Triple Goddess tried to kill them all…

Shit. Oscar let go of Sabrina and stood in front of her, eyebrow furrowing as he put all of his concentration onto raising the ground in front of himself. The wall he raised just covered him - and most of his sister behind him. It would be enough to block them from being hit. He shook slightly as he focused on keeping it up, ignoring everything around him in favour of giving it all of his attention until it was hit.

Tuyen was much closer to the Triple Goddess - and with much less time to escape. She grimaced, taking quick steps to the side in an attempt to get a bit away. Except, an ice shard was shooting right towards her chest. Fuck, fuck, maybe she could heal it, this would be fine-

The Shadow erupted into view, swiftly growing until it was a massive, grotesque creature which seemed to come from the ground itself with shadowy tendrils rippling behind it. It wrapped Tuyen in a tight hug, blocking the ice shard from hitting her chest with an oversized, bulbous arm. The ice shattered as it hit the protective arm, bursting all across its rippling surface. It was like a horrifying dog protecting its owner, engulfing Tuyen completely in its shadowy body as it turned eerily glowing eyes towards the Triple Goddess.

Tuyen flinched to the right and bit down hard to stop herself from crying out. The pain tearing through her left arm where her shadow had been hit was torturous. She gripped the injured arm towards her stomach, doubling over and unable to stop tears from spilling from squinted eyes. She clenched her right fist and bit down on her lip harder, the metal taste on her tongue helping her to ignore the pain and nausea that came with it. It would heal. She could heal this after everything was done. Just ignore it.

As the shadow uncurled from around her, Tuyen straightened up and let her injured arm go limp at her side. Her thick coat covered the injury, the wounds undoubtedly lacerated up her arm, and hid it from anyone else being able to see. She grit her teeth and raised the other arm to wipe away the tears before those were visible too. Her mind was focused on only one thing - getting this done.

You’re out now, make yourself useful. Tuyen looked up at the shadow standing in front of her. As it stared back at her everything around them grew silent, amplifying the pain that was seizing her entire left side. She could feel blood streaming down her arm, flowing along her fingers until it dripped onto the ground. Drip, drip, drip. Tuyen glared at the shadow. Now.

Unable to get her to back down, the shadow finally listened to her, stretching its upper body away from Tuyen and towards the closest car in the garage. It was an expensive looking car, nice and shiny, not that Tuyen or the shadow knew anything about the shadow. There was no hesitation before the shadow grabbed the car, flipping it in the Triple Goddess’ direction.

Whether it would reach or hit the Triple Goddess was uncertain, but it would certainly cause more than enough chaos. Tuyen opened her mouth to tell her shadow to do something else, then stopped. It wouldn’t listen to her any further anyway.

The shadow reached for another car.

Recollections: Magnanimous

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East Araminta - Construction Site

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Beep, beep, beep.

The person you are trying to reach can’t-

Tuyen swore under her breath, stuffing her phone back into her pocket. She should have gotten Oscar’s number before they split up. Static screeched in her head as she tried to figure out what to do next. Driving was only an option if they wanted to get there when it was too late… hopefully one of the Vanburen’s with a phone had started calling a sibling in the other group.

“I didn’t get through-” Her hopes were dashed as soon as she turned around to tell them, a blinding light stopping her from even figuring out where they were. She squinted her eyes and took a moment to figure out if this was another hallucination, or if it was real. Real. It hardly targeted her psyche, and there were still screams from her shadow ringing in her ears. The grating sound of a thousand voices just filtered through. Once she adjusted she could see what was going on… Shit.

"You will call Oscar and ask Arabelle to mirror us home,"

Tansy

Ready to mouth off at Tansy about how she didn’t understand, Trisha fixed Tansy with a seething glare that soon found its target a blinding light rather than an annoying sibling. She found herself unable to look away, mouth falling open in shock. What the hell was this? The light was smothering her, voices that reflected a tone her mother had taken far too often scraping at her will. Without any thoughts she found herself taking out her phone, unlocking it, and calling Oscar.

"STOP, DAMMIT!"

Shane

“What the fuck?” Trisha snapped out of it to a phone ringing a brother she hated, slamming the hang up button as soon as it was picked up. Her phone slipped out of her fingers as she looked at Tansy’s with tear stained eyes, watering from the bright light that had been blinding her only moments ago. “What did you do to me, you bitch? Did you just use fucking magic on me… I swear to god I’m going to kill you.” She lunged at Tansy with trembling hands, chest heaving with anger. ”Fuck you!”

“Stop!” Tuyen snapped, shoving herself in between Trisha and Tansy. She was much shorter than both but it was enough to stop Trisha from jumping at Tansy, and hopefully Shane could hold back Tansy if she tried anything. At least he had gotten the mirror over, it was one less thing to worry about. “We don’t have time for this. I couldn’t get through to Justin, so one of you needs to call.” Fuck it, that hadn’t gone anywhere yet. She shouldn’t depend on others and didn’t have time to babysit. She looked up at Trisha, eyes narrowing. “Give me your phone.”

”Hell no-”

Before Trisha could finish complaining, Tuyen bent down and took the (thankfully still unlocked) phone lying on the floor. She’d never normally do something like this but… watching this argument wasn’t getting them anywhere. In the moments it took for Trisha to react Tuyen had stepped away, moving behind Shane in the hope he’d be able to stop his younger sister as she changed the target of her rage to Tuyen.

She took a shaky breath as pulled up the latest call. Once again the sound of ringing hit her ears, over the muffled sounds the shadow refused to let up on. Hopefully this time it would get through.

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Outside the Sunrise Resort

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As they’re plan went into action, Oscar manipulated the snow on the roof of the villa into the pipes - so the sprinklers actually had something to dump on the unsuspecting witches. After that, everything went smoothly. Blu started up a beautiful, if eerie, piece that had the healer coming towards them. Oscar found himself following easily, while pulling out his phone out of curiosity to see if he could find the name of the song itself (though he could just ask Blu about it later).

He didn’t get a chance to look it up before his phone lit up.

Incoming Call - Trisha

Well that was a surprise.

“Hm, Trisha, why-” click. The call was hung up instantly.

If it had been any other siblings Oscar probably would have shrugged it off, but Trisha? She hated his guts, why would she ever phone him?

“Hey Ezra, don’t want to derail but I just got a call from Trisha,” Oscar jumped in after Ezra was done saying things Oscar hadn’t understood. He’d be more likely to find a reason for Trisha’s calling… Though it seemed Ezra already planned for them to go to the building site, going by the mirror. “Guess it’s alright since we’ll be there soon - oh she’s calling again.”

Oscar took a step further into the woods to pick up the phone, responding in a hushed tone. “Do you need something, Trisha?”

“This is Tuyen.”

“How come-”

“That’s not important right now. The trap isn’t going to work out, the Triple Goddess is already at your family’s mansion and your siblings are still there. We can’t get there fast enough in a car, we need the mirror teleporter to come here, and then take us back. We already have the mirror with us.” There was a pause on the other end of the call. “If you can, you should all come too. I don’t think we have a choice about where we fight the Triple Goddess anymore.”

“Got it,” Oscar nodded, lowering the phone and turning back to everyone else as if he hadn’t just been told that everything was going to shit. “So that was Tuyen, with some bad news.”

He glanced at Justin first, then looked at Ezra and Arabelle. He didn’t even pay much attention to the healer - in his mind, that plan was already out the window. Diplomacy? They didn’t have time for that.

“To keep it short, the Triple Goddess is at the mansion and so are Sabrina and Georgie. Tuyen says to send Arabelle to take them to the mansion because the trap plan’s not going to work.” He frowned, trying to figure out how they knew the Triple Goddess had gotten to the mansion. That was interesting information… Wait, not important right now. “Oh, and that we should go too if we can.”