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The Maker is the fifteenth chapter.
15.1[]
- Beyond the door is an empty room.
- "Where's the Maker?"
- "There's nothing here..."
- "What's that sound?"
- A deep, incessant drone assaults your senses. The entire room seems to be an immense mechanism of some kind.
- "This is the place you sought."
- "Pepropé, I don't understand."
- This is the place you sought.
| Stamina Cost: 12 Difficulty: 36 Battles: 3 |
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15.2[]
- A group appears before you, barring your path.
- They appear to be entirely mechanical, and they seem to be gauging you, probing for something.
- "Pepropé! Are you saying these machines are the Maker?"
- "No, I meant no such thing!"
- Palpa approaches the center of the system as though drawn to it.
- The princess stands silent.
- "What's wrong, Princess?"
- "I hear... I hear a voice calling to me."
- Approaches the center of the system as though drawn to it.
| Stamina Cost: 12 Difficulty: 37 Battles: 4 |
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15.3[]
- "Pepropé, something's wrong with the princess!"
- "She is fine. Leave her be!"
- "Fine? It's like she's possessed!"
- "The Maker's will is the princess's fate."
- "Her fate?!"
- The Maker's will is the princess's fate.
| Stamina Cost: 12 Difficulty: 36 Battles: 5 |
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Beware floor traps
15.4[]
- "What are you hiding from us, Pepropé? Are you friend of foe?"
- "I am neither!"
- Are you friend or foe?
| Stamina Cost: 12 Difficulty: 36 Battles: 4 |
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Beware floor traps
15.5[]
- "Pepropé, you told us that the Heart of Gallus was the stonefolk's necropolis."
- "Yes, the stonefolk exist only to serve as sacrifices to the Maker. This is their final resting place."
- Exist only to serve as sacrifices to the Maker.
| Stamina Cost: 12 Difficulty: 36 Battles: 4 |
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15.6[]
- "We have waited for this moment. All was predestined thousands of years ago."
- "What is your relationship with Princess Palpa? What does she--"
- "Silence! You... you know nothing, overworlders!"
- Waited for this moment.
| Stamina Cost: 12 Difficulty: 37 Battles: 5 |
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Beware floor traps
Enemies:
- Ice Urchin
( Orichalcum 20%)
15.7[]
- The princess is standing before the system.
- "I am the one you require, am I not? At last, I understand..."
- Her words trail off.
- Her words trail off.
| Stamina Cost: 12 Difficulty: 37 Battles: 4 |
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15.8[]
- The system's hatch opens.
- It looks like an enormous whale yawning its greater mouth wide as Princess Palpa is swallowed up inside.
- The system's hatch opens.
| Stamina Cost: 12 Difficulty: 37 Battles: 4 |
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Beware floor traps
15.9[]
- "What the devil is that?"
- The system's interior is piled high with heaps of... something.
- "Bodies? No, it's more than that. What could have created something like this?"
- They could best be described as spent and withered masses--the remnants of what once were stonefolk.
- They could best be described.
| Stamina Cost: 12 Difficulty: 37 Battles: 5 |
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15.10[]
- "Do you understand now? We are but sustenance for the Maker!"
- Pepropé words are laden with despair--but his voice is not devoid of hope.
- A fiery resolve flares up in his eyes.
- "Grrraaaaghhh!!"
- Pepropé's words are laden with despair.
| Stamina Cost: 12 Difficulty: 37 Battles: 3 |
XP: 18747–20913 XP/stam: 1652 Coins: 435 |
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- Battle 1
- Shieldcell LV 30 x2
- Cryoplatelet LV 37 x2
- Shieldcell
- Battle 2
- Cryoplatelet LV 37 x4
- Regenercell LV 35 (flees when alone)
- Cryoplatelet
- Battle 3
- Freeze Sparker LV 38 x2
- Regenercell LV 42 (flees when alone)
- Megacell LV 46 (Boss)
- Freeze Sparker
Drops
- Megacell
- Regenercell
- Claw of Fate
- Forlorn Stone (Regenercell)
- Ice Ring (Cryoplatelet)
- White Ring (Regenercell)
- Princess Palpa is no longer conscious of her actions. She topples over into the system as though guided there by something.
- Her limp body lands neatly in a human-shaped cavity.
- It's like it was made for her.
- Innumerable lights ringing the cavity flash on all at once.
- The cavity then rises, lifting the princess into an upright position. Seemingly standing there with her arms spread wide, it's reminiscent of a crucifixion.
- The room's illumination abruptly intensifies.
- "It's like some power source switched on."
- "No. She is the power source!"
- "The princess's life energy has activated the system!"
- "Pepropé! Pepropé?"
- Pepropé is gone. He now stands by the princess's side.
- "Now it is my turn."
- "Pepropé, what are you--?"
- "His Majesty commanded my to protect her!"
- Pepropé tears the princess free of the cavity and climbs in himself.
- Countless tubes sprout around the cavity, like a mass of writhing tentacles, and plunge into his body.
- "Arrrrrragh!!"
- swiftly from his body.
- "F-forgive me, Princess. Had I spoken the truth, I have no doubt you would have--"
- His words end there, for he is already gone.
- Throb.
- Throb.
- ...Throb.
- The planet--or rather, something lodged deep in its core--cries out like a newborn babe.
- Injected with the fire of life, she unleashes her power. She attempts to shed the waste clinging to her body and begins to consume herself.
- "WHOOOOOOA!"
- Everyone erupts in cries of alarm and anger. Violent tremors send several of you flying through the air.
- "Feels like this whole place is moving!"
- "We must save Palpa!"
- Together, the party helps carry the unconscious princess to safety.
- You can't help notice that Pepropé seems to be smiling.
- Stirring to life, she takes flight from her nest at the planet's core.
- You find yourself aboard a colossal ship.
- She is known by some as the god called the Maker.
- Others know her as Animata, mother goddess of all that lives.
- "Pepropé..."
- But he is nowhere in sight.
- "The Maker is consuming Pepropé to live."
- "So our world--or rather, our ship--can operate as long as Pepropé remains inside?"
- Yes, and one could also say that his life's flame still burns so long as the ship operates.
- "And if we rescue him? Would that mean the end of this ship and everyone else aboard?"
- Palpa finally comes to and learns of all that has transpired.
- "Your objective was to meet the Maker and save this world, was it not?"
- "Y-yes. It was. And it seems the threat of destruction has been averted, in an unexpected way."
- "So it seems."
- Those seem to be the only words that the princess can manage.
- "Well, shall we go, Princess Palpa?"
- "Go? Where?"
- "To help Pepropé, of course."
- "Your journey together ain't over yet, am I right?"
- Palpa is stunned.
- She suffered years of anger and grief after losing her father and then Pepropé. It was the bitter fruit of their desires and decisions.
- "He...he was watching over my all this time."
- Palpa understood that the moment Pepropé touched her hand.
- But his hands, large and feverishly hot, are now beyond her reach.
- The significance of that intense heat is likewise left only to her imagination now. But...
- "I want to know. I must. What can I do?"
- "Let's find out."
- With a faint smile, the princess nods.