Plot summary of Magical Starsign

A plot summary of Magical Starsign. Rather than being a complete description or novelization, it is a simple overview of major events within the game.

Prologue
The game begins at Will-o'-Wisp Academy, a school on the frontier planet Kovomaka, which lies on the Baklava solar system’s outskirts. Miss Madeleine arrives at her class late, to the annoyance of her students. Later that day, a group consisting of the protagonist, Lassi, Mokka, Chai, Pico, and Sorbet gather around Principal Biscotti’s office. They eavesdrop on their teacher, who is being told that an old student named Kale has been causing trouble on Puffoon, the wind planet, and leading a group called the astro pirates. The six students are then summoned to the academy’s meditation room, wherein Madeleine gives them a crash course on how to fight. She tells the students that they will not be joining her on her journey to Puffoon, but still wants them to be prepared for real combat.

Three months later, Madeleine has made no contact with Kovomaka, which makes her students worried. They soon realize that Lassi is absent, presuming she went to find a rocket in order to join Madeleine on Puffoon. Reaching the academy’s secret rocket bay, Lassi recklessly blasts off, so the protagonist and their classmates board rockets as well. Before Principal Biscotti can make it to the rocket bay, the six students take off for outer space and are scattered throughout the Baklava system.

Erd
The protagonist and Lassi lose control of their rockets and crash land on the earth planet, Erd. Both students recover by drinking emergency kovo water, clearing away the sandstorm with Lassi's magic. Venturing north and taking down the vicious ant lion, they enter the Kahve Ruins where a fleet of robots try to subdue them. The duo quickly arrive at the ruins’ third floor to see a high-tech rocket, but before they can board it, Robot D12S knocks them unconscious.

Waking up in Gumbo Gaol, the protagonist rescues Lassi and defeats the patrolling securitron. They travel south and take an underground path to Peatmoss, the village of spiny moles. The village’s king, Gorgonzola, asks the students to vanquish the ant queen, who has been terrorizing the locals and depriving them of gummy worms. Upon defeating the ant queen and retrieving a pair of diggy claws, the duo returns to Gorgonzola, who suggests they take the rocket in Kahve Ruins. Casting her wind magic at Where the Stars Sleep, Lassi is able to generate power for the ruins. She and the protagonist infiltrate Kahve Ruins once more, this time escaping the robots and hijacking the rocket, known as Neumann, who proclaims to have been built by the Espresso civilization.

Cassia
Rather than landing on Puffoon as anticipated, Neumann lands on Cassia, the water planet. However, the land and sea are abnormally cold. In a remote location, a pirate otter warns a man called Chard about the rocket, who dismisses it as a mere tourist vessel.

Arriving on the mainland, the pair find a decapitated Mokka lying on the ground outside Port Pescato, the otters’ town. They find his head with Mick, who is using its battery to power a heat generator. Offering to help Mick fetch the key to his toolbox, a hermit lab walks in and sneakily steals something, revealing itself to be the culprit. Chasing it north, the students learn from Caldarroste that the hermit lab works for a monster in Lover’s Cove. The monster turns out to be a tree shrouded in fog, and after a battle, the hermit lab gives up Mick’s key. Returning to Pescato, Mick is able to get a battery from his toolbox, permitting the students to bring Mokka’s head back to his body. Mokka remarks that his classmates’ rocket lacks a proper navicontrol system, so they set out to find one. Outside Pescato, Caldarroste tells them that the astro pirates are behind Cassia’s icy climate, and advises they go to Dragon God Cave to stop them.

The students eventually arrive at the pirates’ base where an ice-making machine is kept. Chard appears and fights the students, but loses, and reveals that Caldarroste duped them into finding the base. He also alludes to having battled Madeleine earlier, fleeing the cave before the party can question him. The ice machine then activates, so Mokka steps in to try and shut it down. Failing to input the right code, he rams into the machine, causing a mystic mouse to fall from a vent. Suddenly, the machine explodes and Cassia is rid of ice, sending the group out to sea. They are found and brought to Pescato by Detective Beignet, who later explains that powerful magicians have been getting abducted by the pirates recently. He encourages the party to consult the Space Police on Puffoon, as they may know where Madeleine is. With the help of dwarven mechanics, Neumann is upgraded with the mystic mouse, allowing it to reach either Puffoon or Gren, the neighboring wood planet where the pirates’ base is supposedly located.

After leaving Cassia, Kale is seen atop a stage amidst a pool of lava, and before him lies an unconscious Madeleine. A pirate otter alerts Kale of Chard's defeat against the students, to which he responds with amusement.

Puffoon
Finally landing on Puffoon, the party docks Neumann in a Spaceport outside Bena Rikashi, and are surprised to see a Will-o'-Wisp rocket parked there too. They walk to Bena Rikashi's Space Police HQ in hopes of filing a Missing Persons report for Madeleine, but none of the available officers seem to care about their cause, nor does stand-in police chief Mugwort. Exiting the HQ, a felin named Parfait invites the party to "her house" on the east end of the city. The students help Parfait search for a special book titled the Book of the Darned, but upon finding it, she warns them not to read its grim contents. She alleges that only Madeleine and Kale have read the book and survived, to which Lassi inquires Parfait about her knowledge of Madeleine. Parfait, however, flees the house, and a passerby Space Police officer explains they were actually in Kale's personal laboratory. The officer then leaves to pursue a runaway Chai into Qinoa Plain. When the party follows, they are met by Brioche the rabbit, who invites them to join Chai in the hamlet of Honey Mint.

Sneaking past SP troops and arriving in Honey Mint shortly thereafter, Chai happily reunites with his classmates, showing them secret documents he stole from the Space Police HQ. Listed on it are several magicians, one of whom happens to be Miss Madeleine, arrested by officer Biek Fowler. Brioche suggests they speak to the village's clairvoyant, Twigadamus, but SP chief Brie Pourri suddenly flies in with her cohort Mugwort. Pourri abducts Chai while ordering Mugwort to fight the students. When Mugwort accuses the party of assaulting an officer, Brioche's father Cresson attempts to diffuse the situation, offering his son's piggy bank of two million bira as compensation. Mugwort accepts the bribe, though Brioche is left heartbroken. Luckily, Twigadamus returns to the village, assuring Brioche that his dream of opening a restaurant in the city is destined to happen. Twigadamus invites the students to view his magic crystal, revealing his familiarity of Madeleine, and also gives them a magic sky book.

Following the visions from Twigadamus's crystal, the group obtains a tempus forget, which they use in the Space Police HQ to make the officers braindead. Saving Chai from the top floor, he alleges the Space Police and astro pirates are covertly working together, and sending magicians from Gren to Razen, the fire planet. Believing Madeleine may have been taken amidst this scheme, the students fly Neumann over to Gren.

Gren
Before they can contact the wood planet's surface, a flurry of arrows are launched at Neumann, forcing it to make an emergency landing in Carbonara Jungle. Exiting their rocket, the party hears a cry for help in the distance. It is coming from Semolina, who begs her mute companion Farina to save her from the jaws of a mojo. The party takes down the mojo, to Semolina's relief, and she tells them that the pirates sent it after her and Farina. Prior to leaving the forest, Farina unleashes a burst of magic to make the mojo explode. Semolina scolds Farina for using her magic, as her father Durum fears that she could be the pirates' next prisoner.

Heading north to Tropica Village, the party is shocked to find Pico tied to a wooden post, as he was captured by the village felins. He tells them that after Lassi took off from Will-o'-Wisp, he and Sorbet both boarded rockets to Gren, but Sorbet's whereabouts remain unknown. The group enters Chief Durum's house, and learn from Semolina, his handmaid, that Pico will soon be offered to the astro pirates by virtue of being a magic-user. Farina gets excited from this news, leaving the house with Semolina. When the party talks to Durum, he welcomes them to spend the night in Nuts Lodge. At night, a trio of felins enter the inn, but leave after one felin alerts them of a problem outside.

Waking up the next morning, Pico appears to have escaped from captivity overnight. Lyre, a villager, admits to seeing who freed Pico, then reprimands Durum for giving any magicians he finds to the astro pirates. Not only that, but his daughter Farina was Pico's savior, and is a magic-user herself. When a revived mojo is sent by Chard to destroy Tropica, Farina blows it up like she had done before, consequently proving the villagers' accusations. As punishment for lying to the villagers, Durum, Farina, and Semolina are cast out of Tropica Village.

Taking the north entrance to Carbonara Jungle, the party finds Pico lying on the ground. He confirms that Semolina and Farina freed him the other night, then hastily leaves to find Sorbet and other abducted magicians. The students eventually end up at Salamander Cave, where the three felins have taken refuge. Semolina explains that Durum is making her and Farina switch identities. That way, Durum can convince both the pirates and Tropica's villagers that he finally handed over Farina, when in actuality, it would be Semolina in the pirates' captivity. The local salamanders also explain how their home used to be the Holy Tree Yggsalad, but it has since become a base for the pirates.

Proceeding through the jungle, the party has no luck entering the gated town of Port Assam, a pirate-built settlement bordering Yggsalad. They instead slip through its back entrance by diverting the attention of a large gorilla, finding Pico and Sorbet clashing with a fleet of otters. The duo are chased to a dock at the edge of town, where Lord Persimmon prepares to depart for the fire planet Razen with "Farina" in tow. Just then, he summons a peacock fish to deal with the students, prompting Pico to fight alongside his classmates. As Persimmon is about to leave, "Farina" declares that she has accepted her fate, so Sorbet hops onto the pirates' ship once it takes off.

Return to Cassia
The students, devastated by Sorbet and "Farina"'s sacrifice, return to Nuts Lodge in Tropica. At midnight, the party introduces Pico to Neumann after he proclaims his desire to follow Sorbet to Razen, as Miss Madeleine may be there as well. They plan their next course of action the following morning, and Lassi proposes they first find a way to prevent Neumann from melting in Razen's fiery atmosphere. Deciding to stop by Cassia for answers, the party is halted when Space Policemen forbid them from entering Port Pescato. Luckily, Detective Beignet arrives and lets them enter the village.

Visiting Beignet in Mick's house, he seems frustrated by the police's disinterest in the astro pirates, who are supposedly hiding around the rock door Nata de Coco. Beignet and the party work together to gain access to Nata de Coco's entrance, where they find pirate otters slashing at thick foliage. Suddenly, Master Chard returns to challenge the party, but is defeated by the time Beignet returns with officers, one of whom suspiciously calls him "Master". As Chard is taken away, Pico uses his magic to incinerate the foliage, allowing the party to retrieve a permanent liquid called aquarino. Meanwhile, Chard orders the policemen, revealed to be under his command, to detain and imprison Detective Beignet.

Exiting the village, the party invites Bechamel the dwarf and his crew to upgrade Neumann with the aquarino, now making it fully heat resistant. The students rejoice and are eager to return to Will-o'-Wisp together, but Lassi unexpectedly discloses Sorbet's plan to drop out of the academy, to Pico's confusion.

Razen
Touching down on Razen's Jalapeño Wastelands, a group of enigmas disband before the party exits Neumann. Further down, they spot Sorbet with a pair of enigmas, who leave the premises once she passes through a magic veil. Her classmates follow and arrive in the potfolk town of Paella, wherein they catch Sorbet frantically looking around. She then flees Paella with the barrier craftsman Celadon in her grasp. Elder Kettle returns to the village and is distressed by Celadon's abduction, as he possesses the glaze needed for the upcoming Starfall Festival.

The students follow Sorbet down the World Seam and fight off more enigmas, soon ending up in Shishkebab Cavern. They investigate a barrel next to a sealed door, finding Rogan Josh the yogart guru hidden inside. To assist the students, Rogan Josh slips his body through the narrow doorway and activates a lever on the other side. The group finds several prison cells further within the cavern, which contain many magicians, "Farina", and Beignet. Before proceeding through the cavern, Beignet confirms that the Space Police and astro pirates are in fact conspiring to abduct magicians across the Baklava system.

Reaching a chamber with a large door, the party finds Sorbet with Celadon. She orders her classmates to leave so she can save Miss Madeleine by herself, then uses Celadon's powers to warp her to the other side of the door. Before they can join her, inspector Gil Mudflap enters the chamber and challenges the students to a fight. After losing and retreating, Mudflap accidentally drops the keys to magicians' cells, which Rogan Josh quickly retrieves. As he sets out to free the prisoners, the protagonist uses their magic to open the large door, giving the party access to the Stone Stage.

Talking to the nearby pirates and enigmas, the group learns that Kale will use the Stone Stage to warp the prisoners to Nova, the secret planet of light. They then find Sorbet approaching the Stone Stage, where Master Kale and Master Chard wait next to an unconscious Miss Madeleine. Sorbet attempts to offer Celadon to the masters, but Kale does not see potfolk as adequate magicians for sacrifice. Chard encourages Sorbet to prove her worth by defeating her classmates, until Kale tells him to stop, as the Stone Stage is ready to be activated. After Chard kicks Sorbet and Celadon away, the stage is enveloped in a blinding light that warps Madeleine and the masters away. Luckily, Celadon sweeps in to form a protective barrier around the six students, while the raging light warps everyone else. Once the light fades, the students confront Sorbet about her attempted ploy to save Madeleine, which would have been at Celadon and the potfolk's expense. Just then, Rogan Josh arrives with Beignet, who are pleased to see that everyone survived. Returning to the inn at Paella, Rogan Josh is informed about Kale's mysterious departure for Nova. He is unfamiliar with Nova's location, and considering the Stone Stage has been drained of all its magic, an alternate route must be taken in order to find the light planet. He suggests they consult the dwarves in Pescato, who may know about Nova based on what is written in the Book of the Darned.

Fire gummy
The party rests at Paella's inn, prepared to visit Cassia to learn more about Nova, the mysterious sixth planet of light. Meanwhile at Bena Rikashi, Space Police commissioner Abalon Demar is told of Gil Mudflap's defeat in Shishkebab Cavern. Irritated, Demar orders the police to release Magnus Muzzleflash. Mudflap then enters the room and warns Demar of Muzzleflash's psychopathic tendencies, which is what landed him in jail to begin with. Demar is not concerned, saying he will go to Gren later while Muzzleflash is sent to Erd.

Back at Paella, Sorbet officially joins the party. The students talk to "Farina" and Detective Beignet, and "Farina" reveals that she is actually Semolina, who assumed Farina's appearance so Durum could keep her safe from the astro pirates.

Using Neumann to land on Cassia once more, the group obtains a fake beard from Worcester the dwarf, who says it will let them into the dwarfish town of Macaroon on Razen. He then tells them to visit the lead dwarf mechanic Grenadine, as he may know the secret to accessing Nova. Once the students get to Macaroon, the locals doubt they can meet Grenadine unless they retrieve a special item from Capsicum Caverns. They take the dwarves' advice and venture through the caverns, until a horde of dab hasnel and piskapook enigmas are found blocking a tunnel. Suddenly, a blazing boulder tumbles down and incinerates some of the enigmas, prompting the party to retreat. Evading the rocks, the students arrive at a chamber housing a dragon's skeleton, where a strange crystal can be seen in its jaws. The protagonist retrieves the crystal before another boulder crashes into the chamber. Just as the students are about to be burnt alive, Sorbet gathers water to cool off one of the boulders, allowing everyone to leave Capsicum Caverns.

The Starfall Festival begins once the group returns to Paella, wherein Elder Kettle recites a prayer and channels life into new potfolk. As the villagers celebrate, Lassi (if the protagonist is male) or Mokka (if female) attempts to confess their feelings to the protagonist, but are interrupted when Chai pulls them away. Later on, the party talks to Rogan Josh about the crystal found in Capsicum Caverns, which turns out to be the millennium gummy of fire. He explains that Grenadine may be of more help to them, as he has attained esoteric knowledge of the universe from the cursed Book of the Darned. Realizing that Miss Madeleine has also read from the book, the students and Rogan Josh fear she could be fated to die. Later that night, Sorbet admits to Pico that she is likely going to drop out of Will-o'-Wisp Academy, as her parents are not wealthy enough to pay for her tuition.

The students go back to Macaroon the next morning and meet Grenadine at the Condimen Tower factory. From Grenadine, they learn that there are five total millennium gummies, one of each element residing on different planets. Grenadine had been taught this through an ancient magician named Craaken, the author of the Book of the Darned. Craaken predicted that in the end times, the sun would die and a new universe would be born. Believing Nova to be the key to this apocalypse, he wrote that obtaining all five millennium gummies would allow for the transmutation of elements - a phenomenon called "etherealization". By triggering etherealization, one could slip through dimensions and go into the sun, the true home of Nova. Grenadine recalls that Craaken opened a magic school on Cassia a long time ago, so he recommends the students go there first.

Water gummy
Jumping back to the water planet, the party finds Caldarroste and Persimmon arguing at Port Pescato's docks. Apparently, the Space Police are occupying the eastern Granule Island in search of the pirates' treasure. Everyone boards a boat to Granule Island, and the students bump into Parfait near the shore. She directs them to the nearby village where Ambergris Preparatory School, founded by Craaken, is located. Arriving at the school, Headmaster Sturgeon welcomes the students and presumes they are pupils of Miss Madeleine, then urges them to retrieve the water millennium gummy from Holy Water Pyramid. Sorbet believes the Space Police are attempting to get the gummy first, which will stop the party from reaching Nova.

In the library, Parfait tells the students of Madeleine's 800-year-long attendance at Ambergris Prep, wherein she heavily studied and annotated the Book of the Darned. She then guides them north of the village, spotting a Space Police UFO hovering over Holy Water Pyramid while projecting a column of light. As the group ventures through the pyramid, encountering Space Policemen along the way, they soon enter a roofless chamber with a cauldron inside. Pico uses his magic to ignite the cauldron, causing a fiery pillar to damage the UFO. The party arrives outside the central chamber later on, where Parfait is knocked out amongst several dead water people and says it was Abalon Demar's doing. As Demar and Mudflap marvel at the water gummy, the students barge in to challenge them, but Demar chooses to fight solo. Demar loses, prompting the other officers to warp out of the pyramid.

When the party goes back to get the water gummy, Caldarroste reveals that he snagged it earlier. He attempts to run off with it, only to squabble over its ownership with Persimmon on the road to Ambergris Prep. Just as Persimmon is about to escape with it, Parfait quickly subdues him, allowing everyone to safely return to the village. After Sturgeon happily gives the party the gummy, he tells them how powerful Miss Madeleine truly is, being able to tame enigmas and warp anywhere in the Baklava system. She also annotated the last copy of the Book of the Darned, which is the one Parfait took back on Puffoon. Once everyone goes to sleep at nightfall, Sorbet sneaks into the library and begins flipping through the book.

Wood gummy
The next morning, Beignet alerts everyone that something bad happened on Gren after he brought Semolina back to Tropica Village. They take Neumann to the wood planet and enter Durum's hut, finding Apitos in front of Farina's broken potted plant. Outside the hut, some felins' conversation leads the party to look at Carbonara Jungle, where Demar observes the planet engulfed in flames. He tells them that Gren used to have its own millennium gummy, but it has since been absorbed the Holy Tree Yggsalad. He and the party split ways, then a felin who looks like Semolina appears further in the jungle. However, Pico and Lassi believe it to actually be Farina, who still looks like Semolina after Durum made them switch identities. Farina uses her powers to create a blazing wall, so the party takes an alternate route to Assam. Reaching a secluded area with an inactive fountain, the classmates use their combined abilities to make it flow once more, and scatter its water to quell the fire across Gren.

Infiltrating Assam yet again, the students enter the Holy Tree Yggsalad and fight off many pirate otters, who colloquially refer to Farina as "Bobtail". Arriving at the tree's deepest room, several felins and otters are found buried in the ground from their necks. Just then, the real Semolina appears and wonders if this was Farina's doing. They all go further in and see Durum buried as well, saying Farina shattered her pot and abandoned the village. Suddenly, a large tree called the holy sapling awakens, so the party deals with it.

Defeating the holy sapling, revealed to be Farina's plant grown to enormous heights, Farina herself shows up. Semolina reprimands Farina, who feigns ignorance of the situation before breaking down in tears. After the felin girls take a moment to cry, the tree's salamanders warn everyone of a budding plant that sprouted in the holy sapling's place. They say any person who steps into it will be digested and reborn as a millennium gummy. The party explains their cause for finding the gummies, then Semolina abruptly enters the bud, giving life to the newly formed wood millennium gummy. Durum gives the gummy to the protagonist, contritely saying that it is Semolina's soul.

Later on at the Nuts Lodge, Durum expresses remorse for how unfairly he treated Semolina in order to keep his daughter safe. As Pico professes his desire to save the remaining magicians in captivity, Durum gives the party Semolina's hairclip, wanting her to be there in spirit when the pirates' plans are foiled. Once he leaves, Sorbet admits to feeling a sort of jealously over Semolina's sacrifice. Both she and Semolina had few reasons to keep living, and had Semolina not died to become the wood gummy, Sorbet would have done so herself. Sorbet storms out of the lodge and the party follows, to which she apologizes for her outburst. Luckily, Pico assures her that the classmates will always have each other. Resuming their quest, the party helps a spiny mole who was captured by the pirates, using Neumann to return him to Erd.

Earth gummy
Taking a path east, the party ends up in Rio Villa, a town populated by ancient robots from Kahve Ruins. The locals redirect them to a house containing the Emerald Core, a supercomputer with data left behind by the ancient Espresso civilization. The group learns about the unique mechanics of Erd's robots, whereby their battery cores are powered by gummies they produce, and how they instinctively assemble more robots with spare materials. When Mokka's battery suddenly loses its power, a robot tells his classmates to recharge him at Kahve Ruins.

At the abandoned factory, they take an elevator to the lowest level, ending up in a room splattered with human-shaped gummies. Rogan Josh appears, confirming the gummies are indeed the remnants of Espresso people. Thousands of years ago, the Espressos visited Erd's yogart gurus to find a gate to Nova, but opted to twist dimensions themselves by constructing robots who could create magic gummies. However, the robots supposedly turned against the Espressos, crystallizing them into gummies for battery fuel. Rogan Josh explains the robots' eventual takeover of the Baklava system, to Mokka's disquiet.

After recharging Mokka's battery in the gummy room, the students take an elevator to the highest floor where a machine opens, revealing a gummified Espresso called the gummy girl. She is thankful once they finally put her to rest, leaving behind an access card with the name Applepie on it. Bringing the card to the Emerald Core, the party listens to a series of audio logs from Applepie, gummy girl's identity before her transformation. They learn that when the Espressos first colonized Erd, their leader Dr. Calzone made several attempts to bend space and enter the sun, and invited Applepie to test her latent psychic abilities. Their experiments ended when the resident brownies and other species of Erd rebelled, as did the robots, resulting in the Espressos' annihilation.

Progressing eastward, the party stands off against patrolling Space Policemen led by Magnus Muzzleflash. Refusing to show mercy against the students, the troopers' chase ends at Plateau of the Giant, but Muzzleflash leaves to reload his bomb cannons. Mokka abruptly declares a protocol once the troopers leave, preparing to attack a stone giant walking in the distance. Pico pushes Mokka over to make him autonomous again, and he miraculously opens the door to a hangar on the plateau. Inside the hangar is a drill-shaped contraption, so Lassi uses her magic to carry it over the desert.

The party crash lands on Uponisbak, the pyrite village upon the back of the stone giant Tektos. Before they can enter a tunnel to Tektos's innards, the Path of Five Organs, three Space Policemen fly in, but Muzzleflash's rain of bombs knocks them down. Reaching the inside of Tektos's skull, the group is met by Shallot the brownie, and Tektos reveals he is the last of nine giants who roamed Erd. Shallot is then told of the millennium gummy quest and plans to reach Nova. He warns them that in order to enter the sun where Nova resides, physical bodies must temporarily become ethereal as to not burn alive when entering Nova's dimension. Reluctant to divulge more of Craaken's teachings, Shallot forbids the group from casting magic inside the giant's skull, as Muzzleflash is searching outside. Tektos suggests otherwise, believing the group can stop the murderous gunman.

Muzzleflash is lured to the students and quickly defeated in battle. Some of Muzzleflash's companions alert him of gummy energy coming from Kahve Ruins, suggesting the earth millennium gummy may be inside. No longer finding Tektos to be of use, Muzzleflash prepares to ram through Tektos's body, but the stone giant charges up power in his soul. A searing laser is then launched from Tektos's mouth, instantly vaporizing Muzzleflash despite being equipped with impenetrable armor. Although this burst of energy was enough to kill the Space Police soldier, it cost Tektos his own life too, so he orders Shallot to give the party his soul, the earth gummy, as his body crumbles into the sand below.

Boarding Neumann after parting ways with Shallot, Sorbet inspects the rocket's computer to find an email sent by Brie Pourri, urging them to come to Puffoon.

Wind gummy
The students oblige to Brie's request and meet her outside Bena Rikashi, to which she redirects them to King Suspiro's palace. Talking with Suspiro, they learn he befriended Kale a decade ago, and that Kale was able to gain peoples' support with his vast political knowledge, earning him a place in Suspiro's castle. However, citizens became hostile towards Kale and nearly had him expelled from the city. After reading from the Book of the Darned, Kale planned to eliminate mankind by destroying the Baklava system, a feat possible by taking advantage of Craaken's prophesy. He then joined forces with Space Policeman Biek Fowler to usurp Suspiro's control. When the students inquire about Puffoon's millennium gummy, Suspiro says they may get answers in Honey Mint.

Arriving at Honey Mint, Twigadamus states the wind millennium gummy occupies a distant shrine. The group looks at his crystal to see a sprouting bud in the ground, later finding it at the edge of Quinoa Plain. Unleashing his wood magic, Chai turns the bud into a viney ladder, allowing the students to climb up to the island above. On this island is the Couscous Ruins, a network of pathways that disobey the natural flow of time. As the students venture deeper into the ruins, they spot what seems to be Madeleine, but they are mere illusions created by the ruins' temporal distortion. Resuming their quest and passing by a lone man named Knucklestorm, they encounter Brie outside the dungeon. She reveals Knucklestorm to be her father, then challenges the students to a fight, fearing their knowledge of the ruins will damage the Space Police's reputation.

Just as Brie is defeated, Knucklestorm flies in and reprimands her brainwashed actions. In response, Brie explains that she came to invite Knucklestorm back into the Space Police, as he was its chief before Kale took control. Knucklestorm, however, remains unconvinced and takes off. Further in the ruins, the party sees even more mirages of Madeleine, this time confronting Kale about the abducted magicians, whom he plans on sacrificing to a supposed worm in the sun. Another mirage depicts Madeleine in front of Biek Fowler and a unit of officers, but before the mirage fades, Madeleine is seen challenging Fowler by unleashing a surge of magic.

Knucklestorm approaches the party once they reach the ruins' depths, warning them of an evil presence nearby. Out of nowhere, Kale's odd beetle emerges and nearly attacks Knucklestorm, but Brie rushes in and takes the blow. Her glider is struck by the beetle's claw, while Knucklestorm stabs it in the head and orders his daughter to trigger the glider's emergency release. As it is triggered, Brie is cut down the back as her glider shatters, and the odd beetle assaults the party. After taking it down, Mokka fails to detect Brie's heartbeat. Knucklestorm laments his Brie's death, thinking back to when she first joined the Space Police, and his subsequent departure from Bena Rikashi. Suddenly, the odd beetle glows and vanishes to reveal the wind gummy, which emits energy that miraculously resurrects Brie. Knucklestorm embraces his daughter while the party claims the gummy, and the two vow to bring justice back to the force. With all five millennium gummies in their possession, the group boards Neumann, where they find an email that asks them to return to Condimen Tower.

Return to Razen
Docking in the tower's rocket bay, Grenadine congratulates the students for gathering the five gummies. They then hear explosions coming from outside, as Space Police and pirate otters have unexpectedly invaded Razen. As the students work their way down Condimen Tower, some dwarves warn them of the enemies' superweapon, fearing it may be able to destroy Neumann before it can leave for Nova. Returning to Paella after fleeing Macaroon, Beignet secretly alerts the party of the aforementioned weapon, the cybersaurus. Parfait is in Paella too and proves she can fend for herself. Upon taking down the invading officers and their cybersaurus, the group presumes Grenadine is done upgrading Neumann, but Biek Fowler swoops in before they can leave town. Beignet abandons his faith in the police and defends the students, so Fowler charges up his glider. Just as he is about to strike, Beignet sacrifices himself and takes the blow, then Brie Pourri shows up to fly the party away.

Safely dropping them off at Condimen Tower, Brie tells her friends to hurry before Biek Fowler catches up. Everyone enters the tower except Sorbet, still feeling as though her role in this journey is for naught, but Pico manages to bring her inside. The group meets Grenadine and Rogan Josh in the tower, then boards Neumann while Caldarroste and Persimmon secretly devise a plan. As the rocket lifts off, Caldarroste grabs ahold. Meanwhile, the students talk amongst themselves before the final stretch of their adventure. Pico tries consoling Sorbet, who pushes him away and retreats to the rocket's cabin. Sorbet is convinced everyone will forget about her upon dropping out of Will-o'-Wisp, to which he reassures her that the six of them will always be friends.

Nova
Neumann successfully slips through dimensions and enters the sun, bringing the party to Nova with Caldarroste secretly in tow. Passing through the Sugarleaf Plains, an explosion echoes in the distance, and the group arrives at the sun's navel, Phunnel Pit. According to Grenadine and his dwarves, who also reached Nova, Kale and the pirate otters blew up the cave's teleporter to a seventh planet of darkness, Shadra, leaving a crater in its place. Grenadine explains that the sun actually houses two planets, Nova of light and Shadra of darkness, which share the same space but in parallel dimensions, and swap places relative to the universe's balance of elements. With few options left, Grenadine aims to consult the Baklava system's creator, the queen of light.

Heading north and seeing several ships fly overhead, the party finds dwarves and King Gorgonzola gathered outside Sparklin Palace. The guarding luminites forbid any entry into the palace, as per the queen of light's orders, so Gorgonzola digs an underground tunnel for the students. Entering the queen's throne room, they only thing present is a luminite called Filamen. According to Filamen, the queen died many years ago and is undergoing another cycle of reincarnation. She prohibited anyone from using the Starway, a secondary gate connecting Nova and Shadra, but her blessing grants the party access to every room in the palace. As they leave the throne room, they are met by Durum, Farina, and Apitos, who wish to offer support before the final battle.

The palace's basement level contains seven cauldrons, each representative of the students' elemental affinities. By igniting the cauldrons with their magic, they receive visions of Kale in the past, wherein he talked to Madeleine, Biscotti, Sorbet, and Parfait about Craaken's teachings of the sun. Kale proclaimed the world had gone off its proper course, so by taking advantage of the prevised apocalypse, he could eliminate the incompetent people of Baklava and renew the universe. To swap their own element and ignite the last cauldron, the protagonist enters an arc and turns into a Traveling Putty. Before they can change back, Caldarroste hastily clips one of Mokka's wires and runs away. Sorbet uses Semolina's hairclip to bridge the wire's circuit, and Lassi thanks Semolina for her help even in death. With all seven cauldrons magically ignited, the Baklava system's planets perfectly align themselves with the sun, activating the Starway beneath Sparklin Palace.

Before the party can set foot in the Starway, they are stopped by Biek Fowler. He had entered Nova by stealing an etherealization machine from the dwarves, then a battle ensues. Fowler is defeated and flies off, allowing the party to meet Grenadine at the Starway's teleportation chamber. Stepping on the interdimensional gate, Grenadine finds a problem with it mid-activation, but the students cannot step off or else their bodies will be torn between dimensions. Suddenly, Fowler storms in and proclaims his devotion to Kale, while Durum and Farina arrive shortly after. Mokka begins to detect a bomb within Fowler's glider, meaning he will end his own life to annihilate everyone in the Starway. In anticipation of the bomb's detonation, Durum picks Fowler up and quickly exits the chamber. The party is powerless to do anything, hearing the bomb detonate as they are warped into Shadra's dimension.

Shadra
Finally arriving on the dark planet, Mokka steps aside and projects Semolina's soul from her hairclip in his wiring. She tells her friends to keep moving forward, and that everyone else will follow behind. Beyond the enigma-infested Cocoabutter Valley, the students enter Chocomilk Caves, where several of Kale's runaway captives have taken refuge. An escapee sorcerer named Carbon consults the party, saying he and the others were trapped in Chromagar Cave until Miss Madeleine gave them a chance to run away. He summarizes Kale's plan to hasten the universal apocalypse by feeding gummified magicians to Shadra, the mythical worm who shares a name with the planet, and have it undergo metamorphosis before devouring the sun. As the students are about to leave, several enigmas invade Chocomilk Caves, followed by a unit of Space Police troopers. Luckily, the troopers are commanded by Knucklestorm, who buys the party time while he fights the enigmas with Carbon.

Proceeding through Cocoabutter Valley and reuniting with Brie Pourri, they arrive at the entrance to Chromagar Cave, but not before running into Caldarroste and Chard, the latter of whom carries Mokka's stolen component. The students defeat Chard yet again, to which he proclaims that Kale's plans are coming into fruition. As Knucklestorm flies in, Chard blows himself up and knocks Caldarroste aside. Knucklestorm warns his allies of Chromagar Cave's ambient gummy fumes, as well as the arrival of several vicious robots from Erd. To the students' horror, Chromagar Cave is littered with the gummified remains of magicians and Kale's own pirates, all acting as sacrifices for Shadra the giant larva. The eponymous larva is seen feeding on gummies deep within the cave, and Mokka detects Miss Madeleine further in. After fighting past the giant larva, Sorbet is hesitant to keep going, noticing that she and her classmates are slowly getting crystallized by the gummy fumes. Meanwhile, as Brie and a unit of troopers manage to befriend the robots, some dwarves voice orders to send ships in need of charging back to a refurbished Kahve Ruins.

At the end of Chromagar Cave, the group sees Madeleine, only to be interrupted by Kale in the flesh. He summons a procession of gummies to form the gummy giant and fights alongside it. Once he and the giant are beaten, Kale redirects the students' attention to Shadra in its chrysalis form nearby. He praises its rapid absorption of gummy energy and impending emersion, passing away in front of his adversaries. The students then hurry over to Madeleine, whose body is entirely cased in gummies. While they try digging her out, Sorbet says their efforts are futile, for it is only a matter of time before they too become gummified and consumed by Shadra. With the robot takeover, the sun's rebirth, and universal reset arriving in tandem, she thinks Kale may not have been at fault. Suddenly, Mokka and the other robots collectively lose their autonomy. He unleashes two drills and nearly kills the protagonist, consciously begging for his life to end, but immediately deactivates.



Madeleine telepathically communicates with her pupils, commanding them to feed Shadra with magic and kill it to create a new light. One by one, the students and Madeleine cast their elements, bringing a matured Shadra out of its chrysalis. Fortunately, Mokka's heart is still in tact and can use his magic. They successfully vanquish Shadra in its two monstrous forms, causing it to glow and envelop the sun in a brilliant light. People from all over the Baklava system observe the event, understanding it as the benevolent light of the students. Back on Kovomaka, Principal Biscotti professes the event to be the sun's rebirth, then Madeleine's soul appears to bid her mentor farewell. Outside in Cocoabutter Valley, Grenadine tells Brie and Knucklestorm that the robots are now operating on reserve power, using the light of rebirth as an energy source. Dwarves then emerge from Chromagar Cave, announcing the ambient gummy fumes to be gone.

The students wake up in Chromagar Cave, now rid of gummies, and rush over to a de-gummified Miss Madeleine. She congratulates them and apologizes for not seeing their accomplishments, but assures they can take on any hardship by remembering the bonds they formed. As she ascends and fades into light, she vows to meet her pupils again on another planet, in another life. With their good-byes said, Brie and Knucklestorm fly in to take the students outside.

Finale
Beginning the journey home, the students are escorted by the Space Police back to Nova, finding Durum alive with Farina in the Starway. They meet up with Gorgonzola at Sparklin Palace, and fly Neumann alongside many spaceships to Bena Rikashi, where Suspiro and the Space Police send them off. Waiting for the students in Will-o'-Wisp's rocket bay is Principal Biscotti, marking the end of their adventure.

Epilogue
Pico, who fails to keep up with his academics after being held back eight years in a row, sets off into space yet again, running into unique civilizations and defeating powerful foes along the way.

Sorbet is awarded a full scholarship and graduates from the academy with top marks. She later moves to Puffoon and is recruited into the Space Police, working alongside Brie and Knucklestorm to restore the force’s honor.

Lassi begins teaching herself rocket science and publishes many dissertations, all of which are rejected due to their erroneous and misinformed contents. This does not stop her, as a decade later, Mokka willingly sacrifices his mechanical body to be reconstructed into a rocket. Chai, who has grown bored with his magical studies at Will-o’-Wisp, sneaks onto Rocket Mokka before its launch into space, and the three leave Baklava forever.

The protagonist helps the dwarves turn Kahve Ruins into a gigantic radio telescope. When a faint signal from beyond Baklava is detected, they board a prototype rocket designed to hold only the pilot, and fly off into the great beyond.

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