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Windy, Fennel, Tasty, and the little brown cat all leave the blue crystal room, only to directly face the back of the central pillar in the main room. Tasty points out that it says it’s for “unused components”, and Windy reasons that each of the three puzzles must have had a piece that wasn’t used at all, which would fit into this.

Windy tests this theory by sticking the pink crystal panel into the flat square slot, and a light turns green. Tasty immediately says she’ll go get the piece from the room they all just came from, and Fennel shuffles a bit, awkwardly saying it’ll go to the dark red crystal room and get one of each colored rock to see which one works.




Windy stays by the pillar, sitting down to wait while the other two excitedly rush to finish this last puzzle. Windy gently lets the cat regain its trust around them, feeling a bit better with this soft furry creature relaxing with them. They feel a bit fidgety because of the sugar they just ate a minute ago, but they figure they had better rest.




Then they then look up, and remark that your presence is a lot more noticable now. You’re still invisible to them, and they still can’t directly converse with you, but something about you changed… they think they’re glad they’re not really alone.

MACARON: Wowie, our kitties are already so smart and independent!
MACARON: hopefully they don’t get 2 independent tho, hehehe
FROG-CRIMES: No?... They can’t defect, can they?
MACARON: Totally can!
MACARON: If u spawn a TCP with a mellow personality, they may feel compelled to listen to u more…
MACARON: but u don’t choose ur TCP’s personality, and sometimes u get 1 that’s more rebellious.
MACARON: and if u don’t give them good reasons to trust u, they can go rogue, and then we all just have a kitty running around doing whatever they want o’3
MACARON: I actually heard there was a session once where some1’s entire team went rogue??? Like how badly do u have to treat ur cats for THAT to happen, ahahah
FROG-CRIMES: ...We see...

FROG-CRIMES: So, we got this module to our Compass that allows us to makes Alliances. We’re thinking about it, and we kind of want to wait for other people to show up before we make an Alliance with you, but...
FROG-CRIMES: We mean, we don’t know what the purpose of making Alliances is.
MACARON: oh, it’s easy! Allying other players is how to win without violence!
MACARON: U can ally more than 1 person, btw
MACARON: if every1 joins the same ally group, every1 can win together! We’d just have 2 get every1 to their 5 TCP limit, and then, boom!!!
FROG-CRIMES: Oh, is that it? We don’t have to like, share custody of our TCPs with you or anything?
MACARON: Nahhh, there’s nothing like that to alliance.
MACARON: it doesn’t even let u build stuff or teach ur cats new stuff in ur ally’s territory, which is duuuuuuuuumb bc it says u can combine territories or whatever!!!
MACARON: No matter who’s allies with who, u gotta have ur cats in ur base to make new stuff, and EVERY1 has to be in their bases for any1 to spawn new TCPs.
FROG-CRIMES: Hmmm, alright. We’d known a part of that before. Well, let us think a bit more on this alliance thing, we’re not sure how long we want to wait.
MACARON: Alright! I can wait o3
MACARON: generally it’s better to ally people sooner if u want to win stuff peacefully, but there’s no rush until some1 bad joins the game.
FROG-CRIMES: Yeah, about that, are there any other particular trouble cases than Spit?
MACARON: Ummmm… tbh I’ve only played 1 game before, and watched a couple others so idk how most people play
MACARON: There was some1 mean in my last session who went by Juice
MACARON: didn’t wanna ally any1 and kept trying 2 create big gamebreaky stuff
MACARON: like cmon we don’t need 2 get the admin involved, nobody likes it when Wax joins
MACARON: oh shoot yeah that’s right, u know not 2 make stuff 2 big so the game doesn’t become an arms race, right?
FROG-CRIMES: Well, we do now, thanks?!
MACARON: ur welcome!! X3




Tasty and Fennel quickly return to the central pillar, Tasty placing in the orange crystal from the blue room’s puzzle, and Fennel trying a couple of the chalky pebbles from the red room before the orange one works.
The metal door opens up to another treasure chest, this one a little more colorful than the last few, and Tasty excitedly rushes to grab and open the chest.




And when they open the treasure, they find… three little candy bracelets, in blue, pink, and green.
Tasty immediately claims the blue one.

MACARON: OH! MY! GOSH!!!
MACARON: How cute is that, they all got little friendship bracelets!!!
MACARON: omg this was all super worth it, i love this game <3
FROG-CRIMES: ...hehe, it IS cute.