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"First thing, wouldn't it be faster for you to create a case rather than us finding one? It would seriously save quite some time. The closest castle on the mpa seems to be to the southeast, through a forest, over a mountain and across a lake. We should probably leave right after we raid some food, hunting could be problematic," BJ said.

"Don't worry. I'll get the food," said Yoshi and used another ability: Psychokinesis (movement through thought). It was no time when all the food they'd need for whatever journey they're to make came along, travelling through the air, along with enough bags to hold them. Yoshi turned to see both BJ and Gamma surprised. "There we-" A sudden pain strikes him in his gut, causing him to double over in agony. "AARRGGHH!!!...What...is this...pain?" The pain was strong enough to knock him out cold.

"Yoshi? YOSHI!" BJ yelled, before dropping down to Yoshi's side to perform first aid. First, he checked a pulse. "Good, he's still with us." BJ then pressed his hand over Yoshi's forehead. "Strange, it's normal temperature. Why would he faint?" He then looked at Yoshi's chest to check if he was breathing. He could see he was breathing quite fast. "come on, stay with us..."

That pain...what was it? Yoshi thought in spirit while his body was out. Since he was out, he went on thinking of the causes of this pain. What did I do? Hmm...well, last thing I did was bring the food out...with telekinesis...that must be it! He looked at his limp body and wondered, How is this? I've been in many quests but this...this is unusual...oh well. I just better watch out with these new powers. I think there's a price to it but, until I know of it, I'll need to use these abilities sparingly.

Gamma destroys a nearby lantern and revives Yoshi. Looking at him, he says, "I think I know what just happened. Since we killed Slagmaw, Yoshi's new powers have probably weakened. When he attempted to use them at their full potential, he didn't give right away thanks to the cookie piece. However, after the strain was over, the backlash of using a power that he did not have control over damaged his mind. You'd better be careful of using your new powers."
Gamma looks around for a case, then says, "Oh! I forgot about this!"
He withdraws a rectangular scrollcase from under his cloak there is a slit in the side. He grabs five or six maps, then one at a time, feeds them into the slit. Oddly enough, the maps together should have taken up more space than the case could hold. Gamma grins at the other two.
"Infinite scrollcase. Although it's not actually infinite, it can hold about sixty maps and scrolls."

"Neat", Yoshi said. He was still weak after the backlash of magic. "So, uhh...where next?"

"Well, we need food. I don't know about you two, but I'm entirely human, and I need sustenance."
Gamma sifts through the guard tower and pulls out several bags and cases of non-perishable food. He notices a large, ornate chest with three gold locks on it.
"Hey, guys. Did you not notice this before?" he asks.
Gamma leans down and examines the chest. It is made of solid gold, and decorated with jewels and precious minerals. It's far too heavy to be lifted by any ordinary means.
"Hm... very interesting... very interesting indeed..." he says, running his fingers over the ornately carved designs.

If only we could lift it and get it to ASDF castle...wait... "I got it," said Yoshi. He knew he shouldn't, especially after last time's experience, but with the piece of the cookie, he might be able to reduce it enough. He stood in front of the chest, making sure he held the cookie and decided to combine two of his abilities, psychokinesis and teleportation, to at least get it to ASDF castle or even another ASDFer. He concentrated and imagined the chest teleporting to the first person he could think of - BenBen. He opened his eyes and the treasure chest was no longer there. He looked at his companions, surprised yet again (but not so much), then felt the backlash. Lucky for him, the pain was nothing more than a lite hunger pain as opposed to a knockout pain. "Heh. This magic is becoming more and more interesting," Yoshi said.

"WHY THE HECK DID YOU JUST DO THAT?!" yells Gamma.
"YOU JUST SENT THAT TO BENBEN!!"

"Relax, Gamma," said Yoshi, "He can get it to the right place using his gravity abilities and we can trust him...right? Wait...where is he?"

"NO, WE CAN'T TRUST HIM! HE'S CHAOTIC NEUTRAL, REMEMBER?!" Gamma throws up his hands in frustration. "God, I'll just get it back myself. I wish I at least had time to tag it."
He absorbs the energy from a weapons rack and holds out his hands.
"Transata... voluman timinta. Ulcopa, shatsa bald absicth. Takaplatum, ekreto, vishinta."
A faint image of the chest shimmers in front of them. Gamma rapidly finishes his spell.
"Iklikta, vomunto, iunpati eryuwe."
The shimmering image becomes opaque and solid. Gamma falls down, weakened.
"Gah... that took more energy than I expected..."
He reaches out and destroys a table in a flash of purple light.
"Okay, next time, tell us before you do that again."

"Okay, but one thing. Since when did a Chaotic Neutral help others?" asked Yoshi as he stared at the chest, glaring at it's shine.

"He doesn't. I beleive that he was just using us to get him closer to the cookie. Once we were there, he would backstab us and get the cookie for himself."
Gamma sits down in front of the chest.
"There's obviously something important in here. We need a way to open it."
Gamma takes his quarterstaff and presses it against a lock. Closing his eyes, he says, "Aiklamano. Ierowa viklee untoldum." Nothing happens. Gamma sighs.
"Whoever made this obviously didn't want anybody to get it open. Wait! I've got an idea."
Gamma grabs the golden padlock and picks it up, pulling it as far away from the chest as the chains will allow.
He concentrates, and the padlock shimmers with purple light before vanishing. He grins.
"That was easy."
He proceeds to remove the other two padlocks, then stands back and pries open the lid with his quarterstaff. Three human-sized stone golems promptly spring out and attack.
"Well, that was not at all surprising."

"I get the answers later but he went off to ASDF castle as if to help." He couldn't help but use his abilities again. He simply thought of the stone golems crumbling, which was, in his mind, much simpler than fighting them by hand. They, of course, crumbled without trouble. The afterpain of the magic stung again, but it felt...numbened. "Wow. This cookie, plus my more powerful abilities, makes me unbeatable!" Yoshi said and then chuckled, then laughed so loud it actually rustled any leaves nearby.

Gamma walks back over to the chest. He looks inside and says, "Well, well, well. This is surprising."
He reaches in a pulls out another piece of the cookie.
"I wonder how this happened. I think that JKL; meant for this one to be here, and Slagmaw stole another piece to strengthen his abilites."
Gamma takes the two cookie pieces and holds them together. Unfortunately, nothing happens.
"I guess we need all three pieces to meld them. BJ, you can hold this piece. It ought to make you a lot stronger."
Gamma hands the cookie chunk to BJ. He also gives him some rope.
"Use that to tie it to your back or something. You can't exactly go around holding a giant cookie third."

"One sec..." said Yoshi as he stood still, eyes closed. I may've gotten a sword back at ASDF armoury but I should try to make something better. He was curious as to the extent of his powers so he tried to gather metal, heating it, shaping it into a sword, temper it repeatedly and make a hilt for the sword by simply thinking it happening. The others watched silently as a sword was made, in midair, before their very eyes. When Yoshi opened his eyes, he was actually surprised with the results. Hmm...it's missing something...I know! He added something that, firstly, added some red and, second, allowed it to burst into eternal flames that didn't damage the sword. "Much better," Yoshi thought aloud.

(Aaaand, that doesn't weaken you..?)

Gamma stands by, impressed by the creation of the sword.
"Nice work. Now let's go."
Gamma walks over to the ramparts and flings his rope down. He climbs down and waits for the other two.

Yoshi climbs down after Gamma. He looks at his handywork, then immediately wonders to Gamma, "I just realised. I made the sword using my abilities, yet there was no noticable after-pain. I wonder if using them actually makes me more resistant to the after-effects..."

"Interesting idea. It could be that as you use your powers, you get more used to the backlash, which steadily gets smaller. Or it could just be the cookie piece."
A squad of then JKL; soldiers round the corner.
"Halt! Stop right there, ASDFers! You're under arrest!"
Gamma turns around, then says, "You're right. There's ten of you and only three of us. There's NO way we could overpower you."
The lead guard raises an eyebrow, then walks over with a pair of handcuffs. Gamma immediatly knocks him out with his quaterstaff and toasts two more guards with a quick fireball. The remaining seven ready their weapons and charge. Gamma knocks out two more, then grabs another and pushes him in the way of his friend's pike. The guard stares at the man dangling on the end of his weapon, and Gamma sets his head on fire.

As he saw Gamma fighting, he had a new idea. Is it possible to fight using weapons controlled by psychokinesis? Let's find out... Yoshi looked at Gamma and said, "Out of the way. I wanna try something new on these guys." Gamma moved out of the way, the 3 remaining soldiers charging up. "You don't wanna do that, people," Yoshi said to the soldiers and pointed his fire sword towards them...using psychokinesis, freaking them out. "Run AWAY!!" screamed one of the soldiers, but, before they could turn around, Yoshi controlled the sword to slice straight through them, lighting them on fire on the way. ...AWESOME