Tatanga vs. Crash Man: Suggestions encouraged! [UPDATE 10/15]

Unseen idiot interloper, foreign or domestic: interfere idiotically with a method that produces the most idiotic results.

The Third Party is certainly no interloper! To abruptly interfere with ongoing combat would be tantamount to idiocy, and the Third Party is no idiot, either. No, they will simply keep an eye on the events at hand, with their eventual influence on the battle being that of a delicate artist's touch, rather than that of an idiot's game of Jenga.

Speaking of which, the Third Party notes that they should probably check on that wayward fish sooner rather than later. Don't want him landing somewhere out of bounds.

Tatanga, get on with the Library while he's down!

Tatanga wastes no time in capitalizing on Crash Man's horizontal state of affairs. He drops down from the upper platform, careful to avoid any debris from the S.S. Crashman...





...and enters the door to Fort Tatanga's Sublevel.





Upon his descent, Tatanga surveys the Sublevel. It's fairly spartan in design, compared to the Toplevel of the Fort. No bells or whistles, just doors to whatever Tertiary Rooms have been successfully built. As a Level 1 Fort, Fort Tatanga has room for exactly one Tertiary Room, and now that time has passed from when Tatanga ordered construction of the Library, it should be ready for business!

Wait, what's that all over the door?





Tatanga examines the door to his alleged Library.

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Tertiary Room: Library construction underway!

Please check back at the end of your next turn.

What's the deal? Didn't Tatanga order the Library like two or three turns ago? He's pretty sure he remembers "build_library" being one of the successful inputs from his stint with the FEDA Terminal, along with "raise_glorious_flag", "withdraw_magikarp", and...

Oh.

Oh, no.





It looks like the timeframe of Tertiary Room construction isn't measured in actual time or maneuvers, but rather alternating turns in combat. When Tatanga accidentally switched the Battle Mode from Automatic to Manual during his last turn, the turn order stopped progressing. Right before that, the letter he received from FEDA stated that the Library would be ready by the end of his next turn.

But with the Battle Mode set to Manual, a 'turn' is now a completely arbitrary concept, and 'the end of his next turn' will never arrive. As such, no construction of Tertiary Rooms is currently possible. Tatanga's going to have to get that Terminal back online or find some other way to switch back to Automatic before the Library can be completed.

Tatanga is seriously starting to regret throwing a Stone Hammer directly into the sole method of maintaining his Fort.





While Tatanga stews over this unfortunate development, Crash Man springs back into action. The battle continues!