[X] She investigates with a stealthy approach.

You decide to continue with the stealthy approach. You are already here and you are here for a reason that has yet to be fulfilled. You might have lost one fight, but you are ready for another one and you doubt that your opponents will have recovered as well as you have. Switching to your plant body for a moment, you take a couple of minutes to recover, letting your current form regrow the damage inflicted upon you.

Once you feel as good as new, you switch back to your stone body and shrink down. It is easier to avoid detection in your smaller form while in the event you do get detected, you would rather not reveal the existence of your plant body or water body if you don't have. The longer your enemies don't know about those, the longer they will underestimate you.

You finally leave the bedroom you awoke in and the landing turns out to be surprisingly normal, just like the rest of the house. A little messy, but nobody comes pouncing out of any of the doorways. You cautiously make your way downstairs, carefully minding your own steps.

Yet halfway down the stairs, you pause at the sight of what you see. Because whatever you were expecting to find, it was not Rebecca sneaking into the house. The two of you make eye contact, but thankfully, she has just as much sense to not talk as you do. No need to risk alerting whoever else is in the house even if your sister is an idiot. As you reach the bottom of the stairs, Rebecca is waiting for you.

"What are you doing here?" you demand in a hissed whisper.

"I found to make sure you were okay," replies Rebecca.

"I'm fine," you reply, deciding not to mention how you lost your first fight and woke up in chains, "Are you going to leave now you know I am unharmed?"

"Hope," answers your sister and you glower at the grin she gives you.

"Fine," you concede after a moment, "Just stay out of any fights. I'm trying to sneak into the cellar."

"Got it," answers Rebecca and with that, the two of you set off.

You hear two men speaking in the kitchen, but you don't get close enough to properly pay attention. You can make out them talking about reporting you to their bosses, but nothing of relevance as you reach the downward stairs.

"There's a lock," mutters Rebecca into your ear as the two of you reach the basement door, "Got a plan to get around it?"

"The door is made of wood," you whisper back, "I don't need to worry about getting past the lock itself."

That isn't quite true, but you can manipulate the wood around the lock well enough to just bypass as the lock is no longer placed to keep the door from opening.

"After you," you tell Rebecca and she gives you a wink as she carefully makes her way down the stairs to the surprisingly well-lit basement.

You carefully relock the door as best you can before following your sister downstairs. Rebecca is already looking around the empty laboratory and, well, it is empty of people, but the room itself is full of equipment. You might not know what you are looking for, but you have enough knowledge to recognise much of the scientific equipment lying about the room.

There are wooden work benches with glass containers and mixing equipment. There are desks covered in papers, only some of them written on while the others have yet to be used. You spot some journals and books, even recognising the titles of some of the latter.

It takes you a few minutes to read some of the written material in the workshop, but as you do, a picture begins to form. This is a minor operation of a much larger organisation called the Eternal Empire, a workshop out in the backwoods to avoid attention to supply their primary operations with a steady supply of a power-granting drug.

Apex juice is what it is apparently called and from what you can put together, it is in those vials that the men downed before fighting you. No laughing matter than given how it allowed them to take you down. And no, you aren't just being biassed due to getting defeated by them.

"Hey, Kamea," calls Rebecca and you wince at the usage of your real name.

"Don't use my actual name," you rebuke your sister as you turn in her direction, "Call me Nimue when I am in my costume."

"Right, masks," she replies, "Or is it capes and cowls these days?"

"I don't know and I don't care," you say, "Now is this important? I'm kinda busy looking at stuff over here."

"It is," says Rebecca excitedly as she looks down at a vial of weirdly-coloured liquid, a mixture of red, white and gold all at once with specks of blue and black, "They have some sort of special potion over here, one that gives permanent powers. Something unique that they got some from guys over on the continent."

"Wait, what?" you say as you think that over because Rebecca being herself aside, that is kind of big.

"Yeah, I think they stole it, but anyway, the note here says that they need to be careful with it," says your sister as she stares at the vial, "Apparently they are saving it for someone important. I want to drink it."

"What?" you exclaim as you just stare at your sister, who has apparently gone crazy.

"It says here that it will grant powers to whoever drinks it," says Rebecca as she looks over at you, "If I drink it, then these guys won't make another supervillain and we can both have powers of our own."

What does Nimue do?
[] She decides stop Rebecca from drinking the weird liquid that might do bad things to her.
[] She decides to let Rebecca drink the weird liquid that supposedly grants powers.



Okay, so Rebecca has shown up though as a meta explanation, I had planned for her to go looking for the guys who give powers even if you hadn't. It just happened that you voted to also go looking for them.

Anyway, Kamea isn't happy about Rebecca being her, but since she doesn't want to risk a loud, angry argument with her, she is letting it slide for now to maintain stealth. Anyway, Kamea has been looking for clues on who these guys are while Rebecca has found the big jackpot for narrative drama.

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