Board Thread:Stories/@comment-26186871-20190331203644/@comment-26186871-20190503012027

---Part 8:The Search for Adipiscing---

Deric:Hmm… Well, we need something that will cool us down for the trip. ...Frosty is an obvious choice, at first, but being covered in frozen treats isn't actually a good idea.. But water would be quite effective.

Celia:The Nightmarish Noodle can create water, but the time and effort it would take to get there probably isn't worth it, since as time goes on, more and more characters will get affected by Legumen's Sue-phantom!

Deric:In that case, we need to seek Adipiscing.

Celia:Adipiscing? Do you know how large the ocean is? Covers around two-thirds of the ocean, and she could be anywhere in there! I'm not even sure which is harder:Finding her, or finding the Nightmarish Noodle!

Deric:What, you thought we were going to have to look through the entire ocean? No, we'll just catch her visiting some otters. Some of them can be found in Canada. Maybe we can go there.

Celia:We can also find them in Florida.. Or, an even smaller place, some of the Aleutian Islands. They're actually a keystone species there. Now, what do we know about the sea otters there? Deric:The sea otter inhabits nearshore environments, where it dives to the sea floor to forage. However, they can be playful. The North American river otters are usually very playful... But those are found in Florida and Canada, not the Aleutian Islands.

Celia:So otters generally can be playful... Kind of fits Adipiscing, doesn't it? Deric:Yes, it does. Though I'm pretty sure her playing is easier to deal with than whatever effort it takes to reach the Nightmarish Noodle.

Deric:..Of course! We'll teleport to Alaska.. Then get ourselves close enough to the islands with a few more teleports to teleport on the islands without landing in the ocean.

And they did that exact plan. Then they approached the shore. Deric:We've got to find some here! Since sea otters are popular here, Adipiscing probably visits here a lot!

And so, the agents started searching.

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Celia:Seriously, how long are we going to have to search for these otters? Can't we just find some way to look for them WITHOUT going through the entire coastal shore? Deric:Well, there is a nice trick. If there's a lot of people gathered up, we'll just follow them, and we'll end up where we need to be. There's nobody nearby right now.. So we'll just teleport around a kilometer forward. And so, they do. And then they do this again.. Until they spot the crowd, whom they follow, to meet the otters...

Celia:Oh, Adipiscing! Deric:I know what happened with the gummy bears! Celia glared at Deric. Now they'd have to deal with explaining what happened.. WITHOUT looking like they were gods themselves! If he had just kept to simply saying the name.. Similarly, Deric was wondering why Celia didn't just say the phrase. That's the MOST effective way of making her appear! Was Celia seriously planning on doing things the hard way? She should have just said the phrase...

While we don't know who got Adipiscing's attention, we do know one thing.

She rose out of the water.

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(And there she comes! With her around, it'll actually be possible to grab the Immortalkiller.. Once they get it, their quest to kill the Sue-phantom will almost be over! But as you know, Adipiscing is quite playful.. :3)