Doomsworld Ventures

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Post #31

[7.3][27] While They Were Busy Below, They and Others Were Busy in the Gaiareseeker Homebase

It was becoming evident that time, inside the Rainbow Homebubble, was slowly-steadily getting faster than time outside of it in relative terms. That meant that those living, working, inside it, including the Gaiareseeker Homebase, could carefully get more done. Sleep, and other health supporting actions, had to be continued in a fashion that kept up with the increased time speed.

Sharry carefully opened the small cubecanister as she sat at a big meeting table with the other SQuins along with the RQuins. From it she carefully removed three enhanced, transparent, transdiamond cubes in which were embedded small black smokey aspects of a Shadowis or so they would soon calculate was most likely. Then there was a code disk-key designed to unlock a specific vault door. Last of all was a grey handrod marked to have been made by the Mystadis.

A Rainbowishelpis Avatar was there and it spoke. "The shifted, added to, dangerous deepvaults are inside a heavily secure section of here, your homebase. I will guide you there when you wish me to do so."

Sharry nodded. "We SQuins, and RQuins, will go there soon as a projected taskteam."

The two giftbags ended up holding only general type items being each a pamphlet, a free tubebottle of chocolate flavoured QuestCola,  a 3Dpostcard of an aspect of the CQC itself, a visitors guide booklet, a collectors item of a QuestBoy figurine, a badge, five QuestBar foodbars and a toy propeller biplane with a QuestCorp Logo. Perhaps the 3Dpostcards showed import features of the CQC that needed to be focused on and what about the badges, were they just for collecting plus publicity? There were no items that were not on the inventory lists. The giftbags were well made, sturdy and yet were put to one side for now with the first giftbag gained and a few items from all three of them. The original figurine and toy were in a display case in the big commonroom and the new ones would join them there. Consumables were consumed including QuestConsumables gained by the spending of game tokens or the utililisation of gift vouchers.

Giftbags were seemingly given out only on odd occasions and so were very prized.

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Post #32

[7.4][28] While They Were Busy Below, They and Others Were Busy in the Gaiareseeker Homebase

The sealed off area was its own dimensional realm but was neither bigger inside than out or faster inside than out, the emphasis being on isolation and security. Each vault door now had its own alcove as did the new ones. The alcoves were in a great big chamber and were there because they were sealed off with flickering, mostly transparent, energy barriers of high power. There were other safeguards, as Rainbowishelpis, had informed the taskteam of 10 being the SQuins and RQuins, but they were very well concealed; the celestial avatar did not go into what those safeguards were, most likely because it did not know what they were. Rainbowishelpis operated on a 'need to know' basis.

There was, in that great chamber, each in its own alcove, a white door with red streak patterns, a black door with the same, a black door, three red doors and nine amber doors. Yet there were alcoves full of a kind of energy mist substance that intentionally, it seemed, concealed the nature of any vault doors that might be there. Over all there were 30 alcoves with 15 being inset into two, long, walls that were opposite each other. The colour coded ones were opposite the concealed ones.

The LittleKeeperMan sat on a comfortable looking swivel chair, on a single pole, in the center of a transparent dome topped, circular, kiosk. Or so a sign called it.

Rainbowishelpis, as an avatar, was with them. Getting to that place had been simple enough as a big cableport cubicle had sent them to another that brought them to just outside the dimensional sealed off space as no such transport system could go through it. Instead they went through a special airlock like system to get into what would become called the Secured Quarantined Vault Section or SQVS. There were other chambers in the SQVS but at first the Gaiareseekers focused on that one the major reason being that the others were not yet accessible.

Sharry spoke to the LittleKeeperMan who had swiveled his chair to face her even as she had approached the odd dome kiosk. "LittleKeeperMan, we wish to gain access the black vault door."

With a lukewarm smile, of professional smoothness, the other responded with a nod and with words. "I am now deactivating the energy barriers of the black vault door alcove. You were wise to have chosen to be projected her with the assistance of Rainbowishelpis and the deeper Rainbow Homebubble Network System." He pushed forward a neat stack of five, thin, booklets. "Some helpful points to how you can best survive what is in that vault."

Then he passed over 10, fairly large, giftbags being one for every Gaiareseeker there or were they?

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Post #33

[7.5][29] While They Were Busy Below, They and Others Were Busy in the Gaiareseeker Homebase

The energy field had vanished away, from the alcove, and the black vault door was opened with the odd key as taken from the small, black, cubecanister. Instead of a vault chamber they came into a hallway that led along to another vault door but this one was black with streaky patterns of bright yellow and white.

Having read the helpful hints of how to survive in the vault, they emptied the contents of the 10 giftbags onto the concrete floor so that they were easily accessible by the entity. Its smokey black tentacles, as streaked with moving yellow white streaks of energy, picked up blobs of sticky food, waterjelly, fruitjelly, small furry tentacled creatures, lumpy soap bars and what seemed to be odd shaped toys that were squeezable into different shapes. It was bathing happily in a great big sunken bathtub as around it played varied sizes of the furry tentacled creatures, some being quite large.

That entity was friendly but the other, lurking in one corner, was very hostile as a black, smokey, tentacled horror. Yet it was clearly smaller, weaker and less dominant than the other of the vault space.

Point #1: Be very friendly to the Celestiadis that was once a Shadowdisin, a direct expression of the Shadowadis itself.

Point #2: Give all contents, of all 10 giftbags, to Celestiadis. This will be expected as when others visit they always bring such giftbags. They always contained the same variety of items including the Celestiadis' companions of Furrydisins; they entertain, comfort and help protect Celestiadis from the remnant Shadowdisin that shares the vault chamber with it.

Point #3: Spoil the Celestiadis!

Point #4: Be careful with Celestiadis' protector Rainbowisifisdo and Rainbowisstrongis that serves him.

Rainbowisifisdo was like Rainbowisitis but the rainbow globe was bigger and the figure inside was a rainbow infant rather than a baby. Yet he radiated an aura of less power than did Rainbowisitis but also one of less naivety as 'he' seemed somewhat shrewder somehow. With him with rainbow spheres that were much like those of Rainbowishelpis but these were studded with short, different coloured, rods that seemed to serve different functions.

Rainbowisifisdo spoke. "Iself did not mean to help create sweetie Celestiadis but I did so, out of prideful anger, and so now I help him. Rainbowisitis visits, as an avatar, bringing Rainbowishelpis avatars, with gifts and gifties including giftbags gained from the LittleKeeperMan who is 'keeper of these vaults' but who is but one, powerful, avatar of the LittleMainMan. The same is true of the LittleHelperMan in the Centre of Questing Clues, the CQC. I was the one who created illusions of Gaiavaulters and Gaiaguards to try to slow down the then zocyborgs while preparations were made to unleash that flash of celestial energies that come across as yellow white in mortal realms like this one. I only know some of those others involved in causing that to happen and can only speak to you of Rainbowisitis and Rainbowishelpis. Now, you can assist us to send the Shadowdisin remnant back to Shadowadis."

The Shadowdisin remnant spoke. "No, want to be part of Celestiadis and to have fun! Anyway, if I go back to Shadowadis it will know fully of Celestiadis and of this vault which would be too dangerous for poor, sweet, Celestiadis. Also I want to escape the increasing self destructive madness of Shadowadis as it fights to be free of the GreatEnemy. All of this is linked with the missing CEEETs that were stolen from a tricked, betrayed, celestial hybrid baby goddess and how they were misused by those who did not truly know what they were doing. They should not have been able to do so but the betrayer, or betrayers, found a way of unlocking the CEEETs so that they could be exploited. All of that is linked to the living gods and the Doomsdays that created Doomsworld."

A flash of rainbow, yellow, white energies went through the chamber and so it was that the Shadowdisin remnant became absorbed into Celestiadis.

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Post #34

[7.6[30] While They Were Busy Below, They and Others Were Busy in the Gaiareseeker Homebase

Celestiadis was now dwelling in a special alcove of what had become the Rainbowisgoodis Commonroom; with Celestiadis, a most surprising hybrid created unintentionally or karmically fated to do so, were one avatar of Rainbowisifisdo and more of Rainbowisforceis ones, Rainbowisforceis being like Rainbowishelpis but being studded by short rods. The rods were multifunctional but could instantly be exchanged for other multifunctional, or even monofunctional, ones.

The newcomer celestial hybrid entity was most happy as it had increased types of company other than Rainbowisifisdo, Rainbowisforceis and Furrydisins. The SMix fell in love with Celestiadis and the Furrydisins and it was very much reciprocated; Celestiadis' sunken bathtub, now enlarged with a very shallow end for very small ones to enjoy safely, was the center of much joyful activity. Celestiadis was being educated, trained, in a basic but important manner and in a joyful way as the younger SMix always were.

Rainbowishelpis spoke to the arising Gaiareseeker Leadership now being the SQuins assisted by the RQuins. "Iself knew, and did not know, about my going to be with lovely, wonderful, Celestiadis so could not tell you about that before we got to the Celestiadis vault chamber."

Sharry smiled. "Celestial ways are very interesting and that means also Celestial ways in mortal realms like this one."

Rainbowishelpis: "Inside the evolving, expanding, Rainbowishomeis Homebubble is not just a mortal realm anymore. Now non mortals, even celestials, are more supported, and comfortable, here like you SQuins, and RQuins, who are actually transmortals though you find it easier to be in true mortal realms than do true immortals let alone others such as even do celestial avatars except the most lowliest, basic, types in celestial terms such as Iself is."

Shimmy sighed dramatically. "That is not true, at all, for you are wonderfully wonderful!"

Rainbowishelpis bobbed up and down with joy. "Iself accepts your wonderful definition of Iself."

Rharry spoke. "Our being 'transmortals' is a fact that one needs to be discrete about though, at this time, even we do not know all the ramifications of being so."

Rainbowishelpis responded. "Iself can be very discrete; what does that word mean?"

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Post #35

[7.7][31] While They Were Busy Below, They and Others Were Busy in the Gaiareseeker Homebase

The contents of the Bladesiblings Vault came to end up in a special chamber, much bigger than the previous vault and with a wider range of technologies, including the Bladeclones themselves. Except now there were more of the clones and not just human ones. This new vault chamber was part of a just as new set of vaults that was in the CQC but away from the main part where sat the LittleHelperMan in his special kiosk.

A new vault chamber, with preserved genetic material including five damaged clones as SQuin lookalikes,  also became part of a new aspect of the CQC.

A new vault, with the Shaztec items, was next to it being also much bigger and with new features including bonus Shaztec artefacts.

All of the contents, from two biodroid focused vault rooms below, were now in a vault chamber much bigger than both combined having not just all transported contents but some extra but added features and more relevant biodroid related items. That was also linked to the CQC and was part of the new vaults section.

As for the vaults below filled with information and related items, their contents were added into a newly revealed library study chamber that large size and multiple features of fixtures, furniture and even decorations. Very soon the Gaiareseekers had taken over that new space to focus much of their research in. The SMix were not allowed to go there for practical reasons and for their comfort for some items, on display, were most troubling. The space was officially named as the CQC Central Research Chamber, the CQCCRC but most of the time it was just named the CRC for simplicity sakes.

Research was soon being carried out on  the contents of the new vault section vaults and with the assistance of other items, taken from below, that was now in the CRC.

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Post #36

[8.1][32]  The BQuins Arrive in the Gaiareclaimer Level and Get Busy

The BQuins came to exist, in a real sense as they were, as they materialised in the former Gaiareclaimer level below GaiaArkA0314 but they did so even as a great flash of rainbow, yellow, white energies went flashing through the level, the rainbow patterning and two colours being distinct from one another. Then many, who had been long dead, were once more alive though far from all. Technologies were not only fully renewed but had been added to and the same was with supplies. The very infrastructure had gone through the same treatment and perhaps more than that.

Yet there were still troubled areas at the edges of the effected one and as one went further outwards they tended to be more so.

The manoids were busy in that big cavern chamber of only partial artificiality; sunshine was coming down through a skywindow and, though fairly dull, clothes were being hung up as the day had only just begun. As usual the manoids were hybrid flora, fauna and fungi though mostly of the first. The BQuins brought with them five carryrobots, each on four wheels, and from them they were soon passing out gifts. In their shapersuits, shaped as light Gaiareseeker power armour, they tended to any medical problems, did some grooming, repaired items and even built a fairly large, semienclosed, pagoda to be used in more than one way.

The BQuins, in alphabetical order, were two females, two males and one neuter. Also in alphabetical order, their names were Bayley, Benita, Bisher, Boyden and Burnam.

Burnam, the neuter, spoke with a female manoid matriarch of hybrid doggy nature. "So you came back from death, with the energy flash!"

ShoolieOto responded to the taller human as both were sitting, cross legged, on ground mats. "Our memories are vague, of our deaths and the time before. We grew crops for our selves and for Gaiareclaimers, sold them artisan goods some herbal cigarettes that we would not smoke, but they paid us very well for, in tradegoods and coins. We were first struck by evil that was not physical but that 'felt' of the Celestial Shadow. Then came the shadowfolk swarming at us. Stunned, by the non dark spiritual psychic attack, and otherwise taken by surprise, we fell quickly. Most of did not even manage to pick up our artisan made weapons or basic tradegood ones. I am not sure even one arrow or bullet flew in our defense. Now we are all 'returned' plus some others who appearance we have yet to understand. We have fortified, underground, chambers to retreat to. There are those watchtowers there and there and over there with machineguns and tripod crossbows."

Palefolk were there of returned, transformed, shadowfolk being palelings, less paletasms, three palefangers and four palespiners that could fire off spine projectiles from their bodies. There were no palemimics as far as the BQuins could detect and they would have done so.

He, with a male pronoun despite being a neuter, asked a question. "Over there is an old fashioned type metal gate, and metal rimmed gateway,  in that stone cavern wall. Is it openable?"

ShoolieOto nodded her head with odd jerkiness. "Yes, we have two brass keys for the lock, and beyond are cavern chambers partly straightened by we do not know. There are no signs of Shaztecs having done so and they were there long before the Gaiareclaimers came. They were there when our peoples first arrived and we first used them, as we do now, to store maybe useful resources and for possible escaping to. One chamber we use to train artisans, another to educate our children, another to store artefacts and records of our historical past. There are too many chambers, and hallway tunnels, for us to use though we have mapped them. In a great big cavern type chamber are five, very heavy metal, gratework gates in a wall. Our scouts peeped into that great chamber and saw troublesome things there but though we came to add it to our map, and have sketches of that place, none of us went back there. Foolishly we had gotten lazy and had left that lockable gate, over there, open and the shadowfolk swarmed in through it to get our people where they should have been safe."

Burnam was shown the basic map and simple sketch. Neither was of more than basic help. A statue type figure was there, of some kind, a wheeled mechanism and a vague boxy shape that could have been many things. There might have been other objects, there, but the scouts had been quick to leave for the tall, multilimbed, figure what ever it was. The manoids were smallish, not great warriors, and survived best by retreating and-or hiding away. It was understandable why such a figure would frighten them and that they would not return to it.

Burnam smiled, careful not to show too many teeth as he did so as doing so might frighten the manoid. "We will stay with you, assist you further, get to know you wonderful folk more and will speak with the palefolk here."

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Post #37

[8.2][33]  The BQuins Arrive in the Gaiareclaimer Level and Get Busy

The palefolk knew nothing that could really assist the BQuins because they had, as normal, been given no real information by their masters when they were shadowfolk. This made sense as they used to be of low intelligence and though now enhanced, in that manner, they still had no real remembered knowledge to work with. The BQuins were not really surprised, having interviewed the palefolk on the off chance of gaining some unexpected morsel of data.

They used a key to go in through the first gate and then made their way through various hub chambers, hallways, where a few manoids were busy. They appeared now to be better organised, enhanced in various ways, while busily improving their artisanship and some other skills. There were more useful, and semiuseful, resources in chambers or so a nervous manoid cat related scout informed them. They came to a heavy metallic gate that the scout was surprising at it being there. There would turn out to be more of them between the manoid zone and that area as not used by them. With the celestial flash incident had come greater protection for the manoids or was that the only reason for such changes?

Somehow it was no surprise that each BQuin found that he, or she, had a masterkey that opened any one of five such doors. They did not want the manoid scout to come with them, and she happily went along with their wishes, so the five soon moved into what was a security airlock type arrangement. The door, behind them, had to be locked closed before they could unlock the one before them.

Mystadis technological made guards attacked being skeledroids of off white, skeletal like, humanoids. They fired handblasters from their left hands and laserpistols from their right ones but those were their upper two arms; the lower two had a disk shaped energy shield projector, in the left hands, and a lasersword in their right ones.

The BQuins materialised each a tripulserifle and fired upon the attackers with their changed configurations. The stun pulsegun was replaced in a disruption pulsegun that 'fizzed' out the enemy energy shields. Bayley, a female BQuin, was shot but a previously energy body bubble managed to reflect away the blaster pulse sent by one skeledroid.

Chimes rang and an odd sounding voice spoke. "You may cease fighting. Skeledroids, return to your sentry alcoves." The 10 entities promptly went to their 10 alcoves, turned, stepped back into them and into bodycapsules that fit tightly into the alcoves. Those bodycapsules sealed up. The SQuins made their guns dematerialise sending them back to transdimensional inventories. The voice spoke again. "I am a Mystadis serving sales representative or mystative but, unfortunately, only a GradeC1 Mystative. My sales success rate as simply never been above below average and so I was sent to this miserable world even before it worsened as Doomsworld. Even with my technologies, companions and minions, the shadowfolk overwhelmed us after we suffered from a terrible, malignant, spiritual psychic attack."

Boyden, the other male BQuin apart from Burnam, spoke out. "The same happened to the manoids. Why were you so attacked?"

The exotic voice spoke again. "General name, I use, in mortal realms is Tanjatorussi. I do not know for sure but there is a clue! The Shaztecs had me come here so they could buy technologies that were suspiciously of the kind that are very efficient  at destroying shadowfolk. There was a celestial flash incident that brought myself, companions, minions and even my pets back from 'beyond'. I suspect that the shadowfolk's real target was not those poor manoids but me. Somehow the Shadowadis, most likely through a Shadowdisin or Shadowis,  learned of the Shaztec plans to gain technologies to fight the shadowfolk with and did what it has always been prone to doing; it struck out with ruthless force. Except that not only lowly shadowlings, shadowtasms and shadowbeasts were there for their were, coming after that cannon fodder, shadowmans with bizarre armour and weapons; they were still very dangerous especially swarming in large numbers as they did. With them was an even more dangerous Shadowmanlord welding dark spiritual psychic power. Perhaps the dark spiritual psychic attacks came through it."

It was decided that the SQuins would go and meet the Mystative Tanjatorussi in person.

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Post #38

[8.3][34] The BQuins Arrive in the Gaiareclaimer Level and Get Busy

Mystative Tanjatorussi squatted, large and with six multiple jointed arms, three heads, covered with a bumpy leathery skin of dark purple. He did so in a dome topped ring filled with yellow, semitransparent, mist. The celestial flash incident had clearly changed that chamber from the one that manoid scouts had, long ago, sketched and mapped very quickly. The five grate gates were gone and were replaced by a row of 13 colour coded vault doors being of standard type of Predoomsdays design. There were other metallic doors, not as heavily armoured as the vault door but still quite so. There were other creatures, like the mystative, who also were in the domed rings. There were alcove bodycapsules with skeledroids but not all were equipped as guards.

Tanjatorussi spoke. "Greeting, potential customers, I hope that your coin purses are full of high value coins and that your purse strings are lose. That is an extremely ancient Mystadis saying though far from our wisest. In your terms meet my bard, my personal assistant, my security assistant, my mercantile adviser, my accountant-lawyer, my mystic spiritualist and my personal companion. The big furry lumps, in their own comfy alcoves, are sleeping pets, with their furry tentacles all wrapped up with them; they are also quite dangerous guards if they needed in that role."

The alien figure spoke again. "We are all linked tightly as aspects of Mystadis but we Mystadari are more independent, as secondary avatars, to Mystadis Prime having less power, and authority, than the primary avatars of the Mystadisa. All together we avatars are called Mystafolk. So you now want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 'Some sense' tells me that you could well be transmortals as strong celestial avatars."

Benita spoke. "Yes, that is what we are, but we can not say any more on that subject because the relevant information is not with us. Now, about the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."

Tanjatorussi whirled some tentacles to express mild agitation but why so was unclear. "Frustrated with my low status, as a Mystative ClassC1... that is not going to work. I was sent here as an investigative licensed Mystative ClassA2, I was on the track of a rogue mystative trying to sell heavily regulated Mystadis goods and services to the Shaztecs in exchange for mysterious artefacts plus gold, silver, copper that my people always find useful. Or so my team, and I, worked out. My Investigator, and three Assistant Investigators, are in another chamber. Somehow the Shadowadis became alerted to our presence, or so it seems to be, and so we were attacked. Yet there was another reason; behind five gridwork gates were at least five vault chambers but my team, and I, failed to get past what looked to be, on the surface, like primitive gates and locks. They turned out to be anything but that. The shadowfolk attack, I now have good reason to conclude, did not get past those gates any more than we did; that is if they intended to do so."

At that moment alarms began to chime!

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Post #39

[8.4][35] The BQuins Arrive in the Gaiareclaimer Level and Get Busy

From a door skeledroids rushed into action but as heavier security with adapted power armour. With them came heavier, armoured, humanoids of skelebot type robots that were larger than the skeledroids with six arms and bigger, more powerful, guns. Then came four legged skelequads with turret boxes melded low into their backs, the turrets being able to pop up to fire and down so as to be less intrusive.Tanjatorussi could not help himself as he gave the BQuins a brief sales pitch on the three types of skeleunits, their capacities and general current, roughly calculated, prices in Doomsworld currencies.

He spoke some more. "Those 13 vaults are filled with hihitech, midhitech and lohitech equipment and supplies. Help my team, and I survive, and you will gain generous discounts on both goods, and services, that I can offer you from those vaults."

Bayley spoke. "Better still we take the goods, pay for your services, and you all become part of the Gaiareseekers which is our faction that is part of the Gaiaregainers. We get the sense that you can not go back to being with your people, at least for now. From a celestial source we gain a both useful, and frustrating, impressionistic form of information."

Tanjatorussi spoke again. "I accept and thus my team does so. I suspect that we will not be returning to our home dimensional realm but that is for later discussion."

The attackers were a mixture of entities that, thankfully, did not attack through the manoid area but through an area of naturalistic caverns lit by glowstone ceilings. Shadowfolk swarmed across a great big muddy cavern space with all but the physical shadowbeasts, and shadowmans, having trouble trouble getting past the deep, fluid, mud filled holes and the very slippery nature of all of it. Shadowbeasts would suddenly sink out of sight, down hidden holes, only to be hauled out by annoyed shadowmans. Shadowmans were still using tech tricks to detect the holes, so as to avoid them, and the shadowbeasts followed them except those that retreated being covered with thick, very clingy, mud. Shadowmans, in their exotic armour suits, would slip over and less so did the shadowfangers, shadowspiners, shadowspitters and shadowclawers because the later were more stable on more limbs than were the two legged shadowmans.

Perturbed, the metaphysical shadowforms slowed down in confusion as they seemingly picked up the growing frustration of the shadowmans.

The enemy retreated, defeated not by defenders but by the environment of that naturalistic cavern with its glowstone ceiling. Had it been designed as a defense barrier? Either way it had turned out to be an excellent one in practice against those attackers.

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Post #40

[8.5][36] The BQuins Arrive in the Gaiareclaimer Level and Get Busy

The mudoid type manoids came out into the open, slipping out of mud filled holes that were entrances to tunnels; it was to turn out these were filled with mud, that the mudoids could easily 'swim' through as they were adapted to do. Those short tunnels led to chambers full only with air. The mudoids had fled away as their unnamed protector benefactor had warned them through psychic means. Soon they were planting odd seeds in some of the mud holes that they pushed down with long sticks. Into the same they pushed down mudoid manure, organic fertiliser and an odd, green, jelly substance.

The BQuins were soon assisting as they handed out metal rods to help push seeds down along with the same type of items that they had given the other manoids they had met.

A mudoid elder spoke to the BQuins while proudly holding one of the new seeder rods. "Dark spiritual psychic attack scared us mudoids, who did not get away, that we staid too long in the muddic, ran out of air and died down there. Now, thanks to the celestial flash, we have an extra lung, each, and extra air storage capacity. We are also enhanced of body-mind-spirit so another terrible spiritual psychic attack will have far less attack on us. Yet we are not great fighters so we hid away this time but outside of any muddic."

Benita asked. "Will you take some weapons?"

Karasmuddy, the elder, responded. "Yes, to deal with lowly animal problems and for some of us to hold back dangerous attackers while most of us escape. What you have given us, so far, are items we can make our learn to make, maintain and repair. For that we are grateful."

Benita: "What about your protector benefactor?"

Karasmuddy shook her head. "We do not know anything of it at all except that it has given us warnings, some goods and even protective energies into our bodies. I communicates with us mindwise so we do not know where it is. We are sent to locations to find goods that wait for us and it is there that some of us are imbued, temporarily, with protective energies. In the Chamber of the Five Gates, we do not go there often for somehow it is disturbing, the protector benefactor is most easiest to mindwise listen to. It also asks for information and pays, ahead of time, with goods to be picked up next visit to an indicated location. Now you say that the local Mystadari are to be trusted, we will go and meet with them as well as those other manoids that you have mentioned."

Benita asked one more question. "Will your wondrous people help us get to the Chamber of Five Gates."

The elder nodded. "You have given us many fine goods including long lasting consumable supplies. Three scouts will take you to the entrance, of the Chamber of Five Gates, and then will run away."

Benita smiled. "A very practical, positive, action on their behalf!"

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