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>Use /omniscience/ on Toymaker
>Ask Toymaker if Erika can have admin rights to the Toy/Friend network
No need for questions: Erika, even a Toy, will get all of her answers as usual. She feels her conscience expand as usual, a bit more weirdly here and there, and envelops the creator in it. She perceives the shape of her hands, the blood in her cheeks, and each strand of her brown hair all at once, she gains absolute data on her shape
but it sparkles nothing in her?
◙ The Toymaker: Erika Kruppman, we don’t have time.
All of this data is leading her nowhere? No! What’s going on?! In panic, Erika abides by her true intelligence unbound by magic, wasting time- but she lands on a good theory! All that there is to know is engraved in her brain- but this is no longer her brain-
-her brain is right there, inside that tall body that is resting on that bed of books. Enhancing the range of Omniscience, Erika includes her previous container as she scans the ToyMaker again, aiming to use her as a reference to dig through the contents of her gray mass as usual-
-but it doesn’t work anyway! And the steps keep getting closer!
◙ The Toymaker: If you do not ha-
Fast as she can, Erika draws (clumsily) in the air:
■-■ Erika: “MaY I haVE admIN rigGHts to tHe TOY STORY netWork so THat-”
◙ The Toymaker: There is no such thing.
The door is slammed open. And the Toymaker sighs, very, very slowly indeed.
◙ The Toymaker: I’m beginning to suspect that you crows know that ruins my mood.
◙ Crow Knight: Believe what you want. Is it ready?
The Toymaker nods.
◙ The Toymaker: For tests, anyway. I would like to monitor-
◙ Crow Knight: No tests, Toymaker. Every second is sacred-
◙ The Toymaker: -yes, yes, I am aware of everything that you are about to say. Deploy it, then.
The bizarre nature of this hierarchy puzzles Erika, even though she’s just a glorified puppet getting dragged around through the hallways. Why would you treat your leaders like shit? Not even that Hush got off scot-free. But most importantly-
-she doesn’t know all that there is to know anymore. No, no, /most importantly/-
-the battlefield is about to be filled with Toys with omniscience! Toys that can detect anything around them down to the atoms. The MGC-BA is an old story at this point, the Faction Leaders won’t let her live it up, and the thing is crammed full of top-tier monsters, and yet…
…what will happen when those Toys reach the Violet Tower?
◙ Crow Knight: Portal Keeper, deploy this one to Barracas.
The 'Portal Keeper' is just another Crow Knight with another sweet, gingerly voice. Wait, Barracas? That's near home, Erika thinks.
◙ Portal Keeper: And the squad?
◙ Crow Knight: Send the next two together along this one. Include both Crickets.
Erika frowns with her pretty sapphire eyes. These motherfuckers have portals. Where is this place anyway?
>?
