Mari watched anxiously as the group gathered around her entrance and seemed to be conversing, probably deciding what to do next. Although the new addition to her workroom allowed her to watch the Warriors she could not hear them.
45 credits later, Mari created three Common Monster cores and was curious about what would happen if she tried to use the lesser core for a Serene Leviathan. The experiment created a weaker version called Serene Whales.
"What else," she trailed off and tensed as the group got closer to the entrance and seemed to be examining it. "Uh, right earlier there was something about choosing a spawning point for the Warriors."
Mari hesitated, she hadn't had a chance to look at the islands yet and didn't want to choose one randomly. She also had to create a Lore and quest, as well as more monsters, Mari checked the TV again.
"Oh, It looks like they're setting up a campsite. I guess that means they won't be entering tonight, that's a relief," Mari sighed and finally felt the panic recede. As if it had been waiting for that moment several new quest screens appeared.
Second floor: ready for business!
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* Create a Lore for the Second floor + 600c
* Create a quest for the Warriors + 100c
* Create 5 new monster blueprints + 200c
* Have 2x the monsters of the first floor. +100c
* Every Island is unique! +100c
* Create your first inhabitant. +300c
Already Mari could feel her imagination whir to life and she had to hold herself back from going straight to exploring the Inhabitant's tab she had passed over earlier.
"I wish I had a notebook, writing things done always helped me stay organized," Mari sighed and Nuit barked and led her over to the side table by her bed.
Curious Mari went over and opened the small drawer, "Huh, guess I should have expected that this room seems to be able to read my intentions. When I have a moment I should look around better," With a sigh Mari settled down on her bed and opened the notebook.
"Thanks, Nuit, you're an amazing assistant," one scratch behind the ear later Nuit curled up and went to sleep.
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"Let's see," Mari mumbled and tapped the pen on the paper. In the top left corner she put her current number of credits: 500, under that she wrote down her new quests.
"Witch of these to start with..." Looking over the quests Mari decided that first she would do the island quest so that she could get familiar with the floor, set up the lore idea she had, and choose the spawn point. A number 1 was written next to the quest and circled.
"Next..." Number two was assigned to the Lore and Warrior quest as they were closely connected, three went to making new monster blueprints, and number 4 was the '2x the monsters of the first floor' quest.
Mari pouted slightly as she put the Inhabitant quest at the end, it was unfortunately the least important when compared to the others. Although it might be nice to know what the process was before she made the Warriors quest, so she made a new bullet point numbered 1.5 and called it 'Inhabitant tab'.
"Okay, now I want to order my thoughts for the lore cause the islands will be important for that." Mari turned the page and wrote 'Lore' on the top.
I want to continue with the fractured Heart of the Forest and the Star Lady Lore from the first floor, Mari sighed and pushed the end of the pen against her lip in thought.
"Forest, forest, hmm, Winter forest? Oh!" Mari excitedly wrote down four bullet points.
Winter Island, where the fractured piece of forest that represented the forest in Winter resided, Summer Island, with the summer piece, Fall Island, and Finally Spring Island.
"I like that idea, the Warrior's quest could be to collect each fracture and bring it somewhere, but where..." Several moments of daydreaming about different scenarios later and Mari writes down her decision.
"An island where they present the pieces to the night sky. Something to do with freeing the Star Lady? If I do that though the Fractured Forest Heart arc would be done..." Mari considered it.
"I'm okay with that, I don't know what else I could do with the Forest Heart, but I want to keep the Star Lady in the lore for the future so she has to be freed from the Heart anyway."
"Hmm, that's 4 islands but I counted 10 so before I go and do that let's write them all out," Mari wrote 'Islands' in large letters, underlined it, and then made a bullet point for 'Winter Island'.
Under that, she wrote everything that came to mind when she imagined a winter island. Snow, ice, cold, white bunnies, snow on trees, Christmas, reindeer, hibernating bears, and log cabins.
She did that for each season.
Summer Island: Sun, heat, butterflies, green, deer, hungry bears with busy bees, and the beach.
Fall Island: Trees changing colors, falling leaves, chilly, red foxes, orange, yellow, red, grizzly bears, and black cats.
Finally Spring Island: Flowers, baby animals, sheep, trees in full bloom, Sakura trees, bunnies, dandelions to make wishes on, berry bushes, and tall grass.
"Alright, other islands... I need a place where they bring the collected pieces of the Heart... close to the sky." Mari sighed and flopped back, a second later she rolled over and glanced at the TV.
The Warriors had finished their campsites and seemed to have separated into two groups, the largest had an old man in fancy armor, a blonde woman, and two younger men.
The other campsite held only three people, an older man and what appeared to be a pair of siblings. Mari stared for a moment in a daze as she let her thoughts wander.
"Oh!" She jolted up and started writing. "The Peak. An island that reaches for the sky, I wonder if I can make it unapproachable unless you have all the pieces..." Mari made a note next to it and moved on, if it worked out she could picture it being pretty cool.
"That's five islands... what else..." Mari scratched her nose and wrote down Cursed Island: Dark, stormy, cold, rocky, lightning, wet, and uncomfortable.
"Let's stop there and get started," she decided, past experience said if she spent too long planning nothing would get done.