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"Where is it?"

Sig checked again in his bag, no encyclopedia. "Well, thankfully I got some people wanting to help. Hope they'll show up soon."

With Sig's encyclopedia went missing, it feels like he lost a part of himself. Bugs were always his passion and motivation, and he really likes to do research and take care of them. Recording and catching bugs for a long time must be worth it, especially since he doesn't want to start over his encyclopedia again.


"I'll just wait here."

[TartoonHand94]

Down from the skies above the Mushroom Ruins, a mighty lavender Loftwing swooped down.
Upon it’s back a young lady did the unthinkable: She leapt off the back of the bird she was riding.

Plummeting straight toward the ground with a dissonant calm on her face, she skilfully repositioned her body midair, and opened up her Sailcloth.
The Sailcloth trapped air underneath it, instantly reducing Zelda’s diving velocity to a gentle breezy descent. Landing neatly as if she had fallen from the sky a million times before. She neatly folded her life saving Sailcloth up and put it away in her pouch.

“Good afternoon!” The girl waved at Sig as she made her way over to him, having already pinpointed his location from the sky.
“You must be Sig. My name’s Zelda.” She introduced herself with a polite curtsy. “I’ve been told you needed help recovering a very important book?”

[heirtothemonado]

Shulk walked up to the person sitting in front of him. He was about to call out a greeting when her heard a sound of rustling fabric. He looked up, and saw a beautiful girl dropping out of the sky. She landed in front of him, and greeted the other person, who she called Sig.

Still trying to wrap his head around that, Shulk walked forward and greeted Sig as well "Hello Sig. My name is Shulk. I'm here to help you find your book."

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Shulk
Damage: 0%
Status: Normal

[Deleted]

"Cool, everyone's here." Sig made a small smile.

While looking around, a ladybug with a color pattern similar to a Toad fell onto Sig's antenna, crawling all the way to Sig's forehead. Sig picked it up, then pulls out a big bug capsule with holes on the top, and put the ladybug in. "I never saw that pattern before, maybe it's like an exclusive species."

He checked his bag again, but then closes it, "Oh yeah. I forgot that my book is missing."




"Let's go." Sig said while he starts to walk to abandoned ruins of the destroyed Mushroom Kingdom, "This place is quite messy, but it has a lot of bugs around. I feel like we might be here for a while."

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Sig
Damage: 0%

[TartoonHand94]

In her focus on locating and landing in front of Sig, Zelda somehow managed to miss Shulk standing nearby too. Maybe a cloud was blocking him or something.
“Fancy meeting you here too!” Zelda turned to Shulk with a smile.
“My name’s Zelda. Pleased to meet another fan of books.” His blond hair mildly reminded her of her childhood friend Link’s, so she already had something to be fond of.

Turning back to Sig she had to cover and block a scream from coming out of her mouth with her hands at the sight of a bug on Sig’s antenna. The scream went back down and disappeared when she realized it was only a ladybug.

“So… you’re into bugs…” Zelda deduced from the way Sig picked up and capsuled the bug. Zelda knew a guy who was into bugs too. Groose’s friend Stritch. He was all about bugs. It probably would’ve been best if he were on this mission instead… “Th-that’s nice.” She smiled weakly.

Following Sig through the Mushroom Ruins Zelda could not help but ask:
“So about this book of yours… What is its title, anyway?”

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Zelda
Damage: 0%
Status: Normal

[heirtothemonado]

"Hello, Zelda." Shulk said, greeting this mysterious sky girl. He still wasn't sure where she came from, but before he could dwell on it further, Sig greeted them all.

Shulk watched as Sig coddled the ladybug. "So you collect bugs? That's neat. I don't mind bugs." Shulk commented. "Except caterpillars" he added with a shudder.

As he walked with Sig, he took notice of all the bugs around him. "You're right Sig. There are bugs everywhere here." Shulk knelt down to examine bugs that wandered nearby "I hope we can find your encyclopedia soon, so we can both learn about them."

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Shulk
Damage: 0%
Status: Normal

[Deleted]

"A title?" Sig looked at Zelda, feeling a bit puzzled.

Sig is clueless. Every book has a title, but apparently, the encyclopedia doesn't have a title. He answers, "No title. But, the author's name is Sig. There's no bug encyclopedia in my place, so I make my own. I never think of a title before, but my encyclopedia so far has reached a lot of pages."

Noticing the bugs around him, Sig kneel down beside Shulk and then pulls out two bug capsules, "I haven't seen those before..." He hand one bug capsule to Shulk, to see if Shulk is interested in catching bugs or not.

"Oh yeah. Zelda, you want to catch some bugs with us? It's okay if you don't want to. I heard girls are terrified of bugs."

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Sig
Damage: 0%
Status: Normal

[TartoonHand94]

Zelda gasped at the sheer amount of bugs swarming across the room. It wasn’t exactly like she Hated bugs but… Ew why were there so Many of them? Who let the library become an insect habitat?
Seriously if she could tag out with Stritch on this mission she would do so in a heartbeat.

“ ‘Title?’ What do you mean ‘Title?’ The book we are looking for does not even have a name?” Zelda pouted unsatisfied. But she was a patient girl who hadn’t been pushed far enough yet.
“Ok so at least we have an author to look for: Sig. …Wait Sig, this is a book You wrote that we’re looking for?” The look of dissatisfaction faded from Zelda’s face only to come right back again. “Why didn’t you give it a title?-You know what, I have just answered my own question. Let us just get on with looking for it.” She sighed, giving up the argument and just wanting to find the book as soon as they can. She did Not want to stay in this bug infested room any longer than she had to.

“Oh uh.. no thank you, you two go on ahead. I just want to catch that book of yours.” Zelda politely declined Sig’s offer.

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Zelda

Damage: 0%

Status: Normal 

[heirtothemonado]

Shulk graciously accepted the capsule that Sig gave him. "Thank you Sig. Let's see if we can't add to your encyclopaedia" he said, and knelt down to get a closer look at the  bugs that were crawling around everywhere.

In his excitement, Shulk almost completely ignored Zelda, who seemed to want to leave the area quickly.  "I understand how you feel" Shulk said " I may be a fan of bugs, but there is one kind that creeps me out. Caterpillars." he shuddered again, and turned to Sig. "She's right though. If we want to find your encyclopaedia, we can't stop to collect bugs. We can do that later."

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Shulk
Damage: 0%
Status: Normal

[Deleted]

As Sig brings in a few bugs to his bug capsule at hand, he replied, "Yeah. I think this should be enough for this area. ... Nothing new here."



"Ah." Sig pointed at a destroyed house in the shape of a mushroom, "I remember going in that house over there. Let's check that out." He quickly put his bug capsule back in his bag and walks into it. "I think I saw monsters in there too."

... And he is right about that. A group of Goombas starts approaching the trio. They put on an insulting face on Sig.

"HAH, IT'S YOU AGAIN." a Goomba spoke up.
"LOOKING FOR THAT PETTY-LOOKING BOOK YOU HAVE? WELL, OUR BOSS HAS IT, AND IT'S HIS NOW!" another Goomba continued.
"Don't mind me, I'm just following these guys..." a gloomy Goomba sighed.
"UGH, YOU'RE SUCH AN EDGELORD." The Goombas charges at the trio, using some of their strength. "ATTAAAACK!!" The three goombas starts sprinting at the trio.

((Waa! These three Goombas are after our three musketeers! Roll a 10+ DEX once for each goomba (which means you gotta roll 3 times) or else you will get 5% damage for each goomba. They need to roll to dodge your attacks, though.))

"Ah, I remember these guys." Sig said, "Oh, watch out."

zx09sw00p_1d20-1(First dodge)
p_1d20-1(Second dodge-- Ah, that's a fail.)
p_1d20-1((Third dodge))

"Waa." He did get carried away and got hit by the second Goomba, but he managed to dodge the other two. "That was close."

"Cyan!" he charges a small blue magic on a Goomba.


p_1d20+1(Sig's Cyan - Will do 8% damage on... Goomba #1!)
p_1d20(Goomba #1's Dodge - Hah! He can't dodge for stuff.)

"GAH!" the Goomba cried, "MY FRIENDS, YOU SHALL NOT FAIL ME!!"
"Geez, you're like that one--"
"SHUT UP, EDGELORD."

                                   
                            The Three Muske-- Goombas.
Goomba #1:                    Goomba#2:                  Goomba#3:
HP: 7/15                          HP: 15/15                      HP: 15/15
Status:                             Status:                           Status:
UR SO MEAN OMG      Normal                          Being a true edgelord

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Sig
HP: 5%
Status: Normal

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[TartoonHand94]

"Well even the homeliest caterpillar can become the most beautiful butterfly in time." Zelda thoughtfully reminded Shulk.
While Zelda didn’t quite consider herself to have a phobia of bugs, she did have a finite threshold of how many she could stand to be around. She was fond of Blessed Butterflies, creepy crawlies like Lanyru Ants and Eldin Rollers rank very low on her poll. Still, Zelda was very relieved to finally leave where they were and look somewhere else.

“Statistically speaking, the chances that the monsters inside that house are giant bugs are…” Zelda calculated with deflating enthusiasm. “…Less than favourable.” She sighed wistfully. She wasn’t afraid like another character we all know who dresses in green and whose name begins with L. Link liked bugs just fine. Just because Zelda wasn’t looking forward to seeing them didn’t mean she was going to let that slow down her search for the book.

Much to her surprise, the first monsters they encountered were not bugs at all. They were Goombas.
“Statistically speaking, this was even more likely than I had given thought.” Zelda whispered.

“So you Do have the encyclopaedia! Listen here you three, that book was written by and belongs to Sig!” Zelda accused the Goombas.
Before she can say anything else, perhaps even strike a bargain, the Goombas struck an attack.

(VCfJREYEp_1d20-1 Zelda’s dodge of the first Goomba.)
(p_1d20-1 Zelda’s dodge of the second Goomba.)
(p_1d20-1 Zelda’s dodge of the third Goomba.)

“Oof! ” Zelda groaned as she was knocked onto her rear by the first Goomba’s tackle. She managed to roll out of the way of the other two, however.
Deciding to go on the defensive instead of the offensive, Zelda cast an amber shield around herself.

(p_1d20+5 Zelda’s Lanayru’s Love shield. It deals 17% damage as it shatters if attacked physically and reflects projectiles with 2x Damage)

“Hey!” She tried to call the Goombas’ attention. “Listen!”

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Zelda
Damage: 5%
Status: Normal

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[heirtothemonado]

"Hmm, I guess." Shulk said. He didn't quite agree with Zelda, a caterpillar is still a caterpillar, after all, but there was a grain of truth buried there.

Moving on from that, Shulk looked toward the house that Sig had indicated. Before he could take a good look at it, three Goombas came running out of it, laughing and taunting Sig. It appeared that these were the culprits of the missing book.

"Hey! How about you get that book back, right now!" Shulk yelled. Instead of listening to him, The Goomba's response was just to charge him for his brashness.


PqysAeBlp_1d20+1 (CRITICAL dodge)
p_1d20+1 (Dodge success)
p_1d20+1 (Dodge fail)

Shulk deftly dodged the first two Goombas without trouble, but the third one caught him off guard, and grazed him.

"Ouch!" Shulk grunted in pain as the Goomba ran into him. "You'll pay for that" he told it. With that, Shulk took the Monado out and charged him.

p_1d20-1 (Shulk's Shaker Edge! DMG: 19%)

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Shulk
Damage: 5%
Status: Normal

1d20+1·1d20+1·1d20+1·1d20-1

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ZjPoJDlHp_1d20(Goomba#1's dodge to Lanaryu's Love Shield. He's down!)
p_1d20(Goomba #2's dodge to the Shaker Edge. .)

"IT'S NO USEEEE!!" the first goomba fall down to the floor, and poof into nothingness.
"SILVER! NOOOOOOOOO!!" the second goomba scream in horror. He managed to dodge Shulk's Shaker Edge though.
"Ugh, shut up and help me with this." the third goomba groaned in boredom.


"You sound awfully like that blue hedgehog I saw in commercials." Sig commented, "I wonder if that is really you."

No one really cared anyway, "Asmalte!" Sig casts a stroke of blue magic at the third goomba.


p_1d20+1(Sig's Asmalte - Will do 9% Damage)

p_1d20(Goomba#3's damage)

"Oooowww... Give me a break..." The third goomba 'screamed', getting hit.

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Enemy Stats:

Goomba#1: DEEEAAD
Goomba#2: 15/15
Goomba#3: 6/15

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Sig
DMG: 5%
Status: Normal

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[TartoonHand94]

Zelda couldn’t resist the twinge of guilt of defeating the hapless Goomba.
“I implore you Goombas.” Zelda warned the Goombas. “ You should heed Shulk’s word and stand down while you can still can!” She agreed with Shulk’s point. Speaking of point, what was this device he began to wield against them? She had never seen a blade like it before.
"That is a most…fascinating sword Shulk." Zelda gasped at the Monado.

Instead of drawing a sword of her own, Zelda revealed…a harp? What was she going to do with that? If the Goombas weren’t careful they would find out the hard way.

“Can we not discuss this like rational beings?” Zelda proposed diplomatically all the while clutching her harp for security.

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Zelda
Damage: 0%
Status: Normal

[heirtothemonado]

Shulk pumped his fist as he watched the first Goomba go down, even though that wasn't his doing.He turned to Zelda, and saw that she was looking at the Monado with a bit of a puzzled look in her eye. He knew precisely what that meant. 
"It's a long story that I don't think we have time to talk about right now. Maybe we could get together and talk about it some other time?" Shulk replied. He looked back at the second Goomba who had dodged his own attack, and charged toward him and his allies again while he was distracted.

9YzHYZzop_1d20-1 (Shulk's CRITICAL Stream Edge. DMG: 19% to all enemies)

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Shulk
Damage: 5%
Status: Normal

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