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They start to see signs that Silent's been nearby, and they're curious as to what she's up to. They track her path slowly (her path is very strange, she seems to have been here awhile, she's left several faint trails leading upward but none doubling back). But eventually find her, and a robot of some sort facing a very fearsome giant crab. The sister isn't worried, even though Silent doesn't look great. Her sister hasn't lost a fight before, she'd just run if it was that bad.

Then, seemingly in the blink of an eye, their sister is killed. They don't have time to save her. The robot is quickly killed next. They don't even have time to grab their sister's body, it got tossed off somewhere and they can't find it. Equally, they know there's no chance in hell she survived that.

The crab dies to them, quickly, fury is a powerful motivator. It clears the area so they can search and search, but they can find nothing but one of their sister's knives left behind. Can you imagine the horror? Thousands of years together, and your last interaction with her was judging her (maybe, it's unclear if that's actually how they felt or Silent's projections). Then she was distant and left again after having been absent 300 years already (and maybe that was the actual reason they were upset, she left for 300 years without any indication and they thought she was gone for good).

Now she's dead. Died to a stupid crab. Why hadn't she just run? Didn't she know better? Was she that upset? How can there be nothing left to mourn? How could it have happened so quickly?

I think they'd stay in the area searching for quite awhile, combing the place, trying to figure out what to do next.

Uh, and then just as they've nearly decided to give up she shows back up completely 100% fine, the robot is also here (that they saw get straight up bisected) and there's a fucking lich with her too now. Nobody in the group seems remotely alarmed that all of them fucking died maybe like a day ago. They are alarmed and confused about the crab already being dead.

And like, as a reminder, her sisters are probably in a pretty emotional state right now. The thought she was 100% dead. As far as they know, she could be injured still! So they rush over to try to check on her!

Uh. But this is a boss room, and Defect is pretty jumpy when it comes to stuff coming at it suddenly. Like, poor thing is literally holding it's core together with duct tape, jump scares go over really poorly.

Silent sees what's about to happen, and while I think she wouldn't normally be the sort to jump in front of a bullet, I think she would for her sisters. Particularly given that she can just come back to life (a mildly annoying setback) while her sisters will Literally Die.

Everything occurs in the blink of an eye, a hyperbeam to a bad spot, and Silent isn't dead but she's pretty badly hurt now. Defect is panicking because it just hurt a teammate by accident. Her sisters are panicking because now their sister is dying again. The Silent is panicking because her sisters are HERE and it's Extremely Dangerous and also She Doesn't Know How To Explain This.

Necrobinder is probably the only one whose like, relatively calm. Like she's confused as hell, but it kinda takes one look to see that whoever the newcomers are, they're dressed a lot like Silent is, and they seem worried about her??? So probably not a boss. She'd probably take point and quickly be like "Okay, well, uh, the boss is dead. Let's maybe go to the next floor? There should help up there?"

She probably tries to go help Silent up, but I doubt her sisters would be alright with that given she's an Actual Lich They Do Not Know. But given that Silent seems to trust this Literal Lich, they do help Silent up and help her move to the exit. Poor Defect is probably hanging back feeling awful (even if it really wasn't it's fault).

And this is why the Ironclad would absolutely beef the start of any romantic relationship. Doesn't matter which ship. He's gonna make a bit of a fool of himself at first.

But without any of those things... what else is there? If there's no problems to be solved, then there's no need for jobs outside of a select few. Everyone is likely on equal ground in terms of class as well, since there's little need for money anymore. It's recreational at best, since its not like anyone needs to eat.

While this may sound like a utopia at the surface, is it really? Wouldn't a life with no challenges become monotonous after a while? Wouldn't each day blur together as you fall into the same understimulating routine?

Sure, many people would be satisfied with that, but not the Regent. Not a man who's response to defeat was not giving up, but to keep going, to try harder, to return again and again to the Architect despite dying every time. He seeks not just to survive here, but to become Preon's hero. His ambition (and arrogance) is boundless; too large for anything on Starris to satisfy.

And consider what he actually does in battle. One main category in his full collection of cards aside from magic is smithing. There's multiple cards that show him smithing and polishing his swords by hand. Swords that would have had no use in a planet with no conflict. And what use is a sword otherwise?

For all his pomp and snobbishness, the Regent is determined. He adores challenge and the subsequent victory, he adores showing off and becoming better and better each time. For a spoiled prince, he's very persistent, and willing to get his hands dirty if it means he'll emerge victorious.

That's why his presumably final words to the other Starrians is "You are BORING!" because if he stayed, it very much would be.

Perhaps there's also some part of him that just needs to be needed. After what was probably a good chunk of his life being prepared for when his people need him, only to just... not be needed anymore. The only thing he can think of to do is to find somewhere that does.

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