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Who: EVERYBODY
Broadcast: Maybe
Action: Lone Breaker System
When: The fleet will be in this system from 3/10 to 4/14

Welcome to the Lone Breaker System. The planet consists of a single ghost town that replenishes its stock daily, and a desert that does not. There are quite a few points of interest, no consequences, and a mystery to be investigated!

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[Now he absolutely has to do this on his own because Mikleo is down there!!! Being!!! SMUG!!!!

He manages to get the icing off the rails, manages to clear up most of the frost but those darn ice spikes are something else. He can't just grab onto them and make fire because then his fingers go numb, but he can't wiggle any of them loose either.]

Rrgh, Mikleo... You just had to put your back into it, didn't you?

Considering how far we've come, a simple arte like that barely takes any effort at all.

[Comparing level 1 to 50, bitches.

He calmly turns the page of his book, not even looking up.]

That was not an invitation for you to brag, [Sorey grunts, wrapping his cloak around his hand and grasping at the icicle, trying to wiggle it loose.]

It's not bragging, it's a statement of fact. Or are you saying we're not stronger than we were?

[C'mon Sorey even you've gotta admit you buffed yourself up over time. A bit.]

[Uh like a good half of his buffing up has been a result of y'all buffing up, and then another half of that is because he apparently had to collect spirit friends like Pokemon. Cut out his pacts and he's just a human with good eyes again, buddy.]

You're definitely stronger, Mikleo. I remember when you used to struggle just to make a cup of water appear... [URG, finally, got the darn thing loose. Sorey wiggles the icicle free and tosses it down into the bushes to melt there.]

[He's so tempted to add more ice. So, so tempted.]

You sure didn't help with my concentration back then. All that prancing around and rolling in the grass, too lazy to walk up to the pond for a drink...

You wanted the practice anyhow! [Wiggles another one loose, completely unaware of Mikleo's dastardly schemes.] You would always stop me if I went for the emergency waterskin.

That's because it's for emergencies, not "it's been five minutes and Sorey is thirsty again because he got bored and startled-and-was-chased-by an ornery prickleboar" moments.

[There's a flash of crystalline light, and another shard forms within a cluster where Sorey isn't looking.]

[Okay but he can feel that little surge of power so Sorey sends a suspicious stink-eye down at Mikleo. What did u do, asshole]

Oh whatever. The only reason it was for emergencies anyway is because you wanted the practice. [Wiggles that last icicle away and starts to climb over to another cluster to melt it down.]

[who are you glaring at?? so paranoid... he's just reading his book down here, gosh.]

So are you going to ride this thing, since you're so insistent on saving it?

I dunno yet. [HE MIGHT! He probably will] I mean, it's clearly meant for riding, not for- rgh, for destroying.

[better add a few more icicles, then. make sure he really wants it.]

I don't believe for a second that those rails are properly secured.

Why are you so- ah! [WAVES HAND AT FORMING ICICLES] Mikleo, knock it off! I'm gonna be up here all day!

I don't know what you're talking about, [he says, obviously still using his artes. The icicles are like little stepstones "subtly" working their way towards the ground.]

Mikleo! [KICKS AT THE ICICLES TO KNOCK THEM OFF] Stoppit! You're being so annoying right now, I swear!

Well you're being annoying by taking them down!

[You could have waited until he went somewhere else, you jerk!]

What is your big dumb deal, [Sorey grumbles, but at least he seems like he's going to come down (with his grappling hook and not Mikleo's dumb icicles, thank you). There's no way he's going to fix anything with Mikleo prowling around down there like a leashed liger.]

I already told you, I don't like the look of this thing. Better to leave it alone and keep people out of danger.

[IT LOOKS RICKETY AND FREAKY AND STOP! CLIMBING IT! And don't even think about riding it, either! He doesn't like that Sorey's answer wasn't a "no".]

You can be such a meek little rabbit about this stuff, I swear, [he's climbing down okay stop glaring]

[WOW DID YOU SAY GLARE HARDER]

I'm not a- a rabbit! Just because I don't run headlong into machinery that looks designed to kill someone...!

It doesn't look designed to kill someone- that's totally subjective and you know it, because you're being a rabbit. A soft little gray wild rabbit, who runs away even from earth seraphim. [hup, there, he's down now]

[Hey, you jerk, the rabbit's put ice at the base of the track now, too.]

[He knows your pettiness. So Sorey's half-expecting some revenge, and when he slips on the ice at the base he grabs for the scaffolding to steady himself. HA! Didn't get one up on him this time, did you!

Sorey gives him an irritated look, brushing himself off as he carefully navigates across the ice back onto dry stone.] If it really bugs you that much, I won't try the rides around here. Even though there's no possible way I could get hurt on them even if they were designed for it.

[Ugh, spoilsport. Mikleo huffs and pretends not to notice.]

You can't be certain of anything. This place could be riddled with traps, and you're way too happy to just charge right in blind.

Not blind, [Sorey says mildly; he knows this protectiveness of Mikleo's doesn't come from anyplace other than love, even if it makes him hover sometimes. But maybe...maybe he really can't tell.]

There's no malevolence here, Mikleo. No hellions. No darkness, can't you feel it? [Maybe he really can't. He's in Sorey's domain, part of his domain, but Lailah had said that Sorey's Shepherd powers would only get stronger. Maybe Maotelus has something to do with it.] I dunno...maybe I'm imagining it, but a place like this feels like it was full of joy, when it had people inside of it.