Session 1: The Spirit Hunt Part I
Location: The Academy
Session 2: The Spirit Hunt Part II
Location: Sasha's Pyramid
Sasha's Pyramid lands in the Spirit Realm where everyone begins to work on how to get it to travel to other phases of existence to reach the spirit's that Tenebrae feels when reaching out to Shade. Since the others are busy holding off Death, the team spit-balls some ideas before having Lana begin to retrofit the pyramid to be able to travel between planes of existence, but it will take a long time to be able to achieve that, meaning they will lose what time they gained by traveling here. Aska aids her in powering up the spirit-tech of the pyramid and they all hunker down to try to work as fast as possible.
Date: 10-643.12.19
The team loses a lot of time to the engineering process but eventually Lana has built something into the Croza designs that will allow them to jump between phases of reality/existence, but it has allowed Death to catch up to them. Kalam, who was busy studying the cores during this time, is interrupted before she can reveal what she learned as Neekito carries the spirit kids into the temple - all beat up. She even notes she was unable to copy it's power, a first for the mimic spirit. The female Shingami version of Death advances on the temple and begins to attack the shield that Alita puts up, but Neekito heads out to delay Death so they can escape.
Lana manages to reach the bridge and gets the controls working a few moments later and the temple jumps and warps, arriving at the Spirit Realm again, but it feels a little different - no sign of Death or Neekito and the air is heavier. Since they feel Shade nearby, Selena leads a team out to try to find her despite Avenir's warning that time feels dead. They soon discover when they arrive at the Academy that the people are moving much slower, almost like they are frozen, and that time must have moved forward a few years since Sasha's pyramid is back in it's place and the children a little older. Ellie seems depressed and upset in her frozen state due to something as they head from the Academy to the grotto, indicating something bad has happened to her at this point in the timeline. As they arrive in the grotto and feel Shade inside it, something fast moves about, indicating they are not alone, but discover black spirit energy floating about; Aska and Alita note it is Shade. Nicolette uses the empty core she has on her and the dark energy moves into it, allowing Shade to reform, but not before some super fast being attacks them in the grotto. They manage to repel it and escape before they spot the Shinigami Death Spirit being among the frozen ones in the Academy, indicating she has joined them at some point in the future; Tenebrae looks ready to kill it while it's frozen, but is talked down and they return to the pyramid. They note that Shade has a slightly different eye color than before, with hints of brownish mixed in.
Shade fills them in on what happened that Chronos used her time powers to move them around through time before they died; they aided her in helping with a few things through time to help follow something, but in the end something began to chase after Chronos for screwing with time so badly, so she hid the spirits. Nicolette surmises it must be the thing in the forest. Jaime and Terra help the group pinpoint Gnome to go after next while Death returns, weakened from her battle with Death as she drops the dead looking Neekito at her feet. The rip in time that Death has caused to chase after them, however, backfires as Ellie uses it to chase after Death and check on Neekito which allows Talia to surprise attack it, which keeps it from finishing off the Mimic Spirit. They retrieve Ellie and Neekito, healing the latter and putting Neekito in spirit-tech devices to heal her due to how badly she was hurt while Ellie stands over her, and they jump once again.
They arrive in the Spirit Realm once again, in the same hazy state, but there's one concerning thing - a scythe hole on the side of the pyramid indicaing something might have hitched a ride. They travel to the Ent village to find Gnome and discover Terra is much older now, probably putting this 6 years into the future. Leafy seems to be the leader of the Ents now and there seems to be trouble between the Ent tribes and signs of an epic spirit battle long ago due to the destruction. Kalam muses on wind causing it, but Jaime doubts Fae and Terra would fight and Ellie agreeing. Ellie and Fae note that they feel Sylph nearby as well as they locate Gnome and Jaime uses a core to reconstruct her, but the thing that attacked them in the forest seems to be lurking in the distance before it vanishes. Gnome having the same mixing issue as Shade with her eyes.
Selena warps Ellie and the others to the Naturalist Forest where Sylph once hung out, only to find it burnt to a crisp - the area unnaturally razed. Kalam tells Ellie about the last time jump where Ellie was depressed about something, believing it to be about a dead Neekito, so she believes things can change. Ellie uses a core on the green core and retrieves Sylph when the time creature attacks them. After being repelled Death shows up to double team them, forcing them to rush back to the pyramid and attempt to escape. While the time creature refuses to enter the spirit realm, Death continues her assault. While this is going on, it is clear Sylph and Gnome are a little different personality wise unlike Shade as they jump to get the next set of spirits and arrive on a planet of death and the pyramid begins to shut down, which includes Neekito's healing device.
Perhaps due to the far distance and jumping so far back in time, the team soon realizes they have jumped back into the Croza War era as Alita has to set up something to keep Neekito's healing chamber working as Cloud and Edna feel both Salamander and Brooke on the planet, but outside is a completely dead planet. The entire pyramid, no longer working spirit-tech wise, leaves the team stranded in the past on it. While Lana and Nicolette remain on the pryramid to try to fix it, Selena leads Alita and Ellie out with Cloud and Edna to try to find Salamander and Cloud when they come across a spirit that looks like the Shingami, but lacks the death aura. The spirit seems attuned to the death spirit, a proto-death spirit, and seems naively friendly, noting here is a Death Spirit lurking on the planet as well as the other two they are looking for right now. It agrees to lead them to the other two when the Croza arrive on the planet, no doubt looking for the spirit to turn it into Death. Selena heads back to the pyramid, leaving Alita and Ellie to go with the spirit to find the others, where she tells Lana and Nicolette about the situation - they come up with the plan to go to the Croza ship, steal the parts they need, and implant a code phrase into process of making Death to make it an ally, all the while avoiding Death and the time monster.
Timeline: 10-643.12.19 - 19,965 Croza Era
Session 3: The Spirit Hunt Part III
Location: A Dead World of the Past
Session 4: Something Is Not Quite the Same
Location: Geyze
After the Geyze version of Thena proposes to Lumi, she holds a meeting with the Peacekeepers and members of the Academy to discuss everything that has happened the past few months since the return of the Spirits. They go over how the Kingdoms are disappointed at how the Spirits are weaker and can no longer take over their original roles, forcing the younger generation to continue to resume the roles, as well as the fact they seem to be having memory issues and acting strange. Aska and Shade, the latter who appears to not be affected by any of the changes so far, note that perhaps the new cores could be the cause and that some of their essence has been lost as the spirits grow with their cores overtime, becoming part of them. Lumi also goes over how Death is still missing over the past 3 months and Kalam claims to not have seen her when asked, but does note it is suspicious that her organization has been quickly repairing itself and recovering relics they lost after the attack. The group wonders if Death is aiding her as penance, but since the have no proof they move onto the topic of Sylph no longer being into fruit but hard candy until they discuss the fact Aska and Shade will be moving to Kalam to be their Light and Dark Spirits. Aska though promises to remain connected to Geyze due to her connection with the Hapian Royal Family and not wanting Void to be the only Elder Spirit looking out for the younger spirit.
Asarar contacts the team needing their hope for something so everyone heads up to the bar where she informs them that they have two situations - one is where the Elder Spirits will need protection to their temples that are completed incase there is an incident and the other is the Aquarius that is overhead. It seems Jelly hacked during the C'en incident and left hidden code to shut things down. After some talking Asarar heads off to deal with it since she's the best person they got, though Jaime does agree to send Adeline to help out. After a bit though the lights go out in the bar and it seems Jelly has arrived to slap butts and raid their files, leading to them to try and take their files while Jaime takes the kids out of there. While Nicolette provides lights and Kira hunts him down, Thena and Talia eventually capture him, allowing Lumi and the rest to take the spirits to their temples.
This begins the group being aghast at how idol worshipping the Elder Spirits are on Kumen compared to Geyze, as at the temples people are lined up to see the idols. For the most part everything goes smoothly - Gale is at the Ymir HQ Tower and the other spirits are spread out across Kumen, but at their last stop with Gaia some of the population gets a little handsy with her forcing the team to interfere until her priestesses can step in. After they return to the bar, Aska and Shade set up at two of the floors for their temples until they are constructed while Jelly is beat by Bella and Cloé. It seems a rival group hired him to steal files on the group and Asarar plans to learn who. As the team returns to Luci's bar, the group hears a commotion as Sylph and Shiva fight, the latter who got a core later on after being taken back home which meant she lost even more memories than the others. Demanding to see Celsius, Jaime has Jennifer bring the two together while Sylph warns that Shiva is "dangerous". Shiva is taken away by Celsius for the time being while Lumi decides to look into what is causing the strangeness of the spirits.
While Jaime wonders if it is an Ice/Wind thing, due their elements, Lumi wants a bit more proof and takes them to the Amazons where they meet with Qui. After some greetings they go to see Brooke who now goes by Undine once more and is more like her original haughty personality. There they summon Salamander and the two spirits immediately go on the offensive before calling Salamander away and are kicked out of Undine's temple. Everyone agrees that something is wrong and that they need to see the Summoni - which means Kalam.
Session 5: Adventures in Summoni
Location: Geyze
War of Redefining is part of a TAW/Strikers/Geyze crossover; due to Geyze havining a minor role in it, if you wish to see the other parts, head over to: War of Redefining to read more.
Session 6: The War of Redefining Reality Part IV: Stirring the Pot
Location: Kumen
Asarar is at her bar reading about Selena being arrested and learning about the connection between the two bars being locked down, even though Max is watching Luci's bar for them. At that moment a Kumen offical comes in and informs them through paperwork that Ylva is planning to use her Presidental power to do rennovations to the lower city for the homeless - which means tearing down the bar for it. Asarar blames Ymir, believing she is behind it, but Luci wants to talk to her first while Kira decides to sabotage the Macross Building Project, which oversees not only this but the Spirit-Tech Defense Towers that Ymir is building around the city. They split up, with Bonnie remainig behind at the bar since Chelsea hasn't given her an order, and Luci along with Asarar arrive at Ymir's office to discuss the situation. Ymir eyes the paperwork and informs them they been had then admits Ylva is better lately, but due to her injuries she has been taking it easy lately and given over the job of President to her as well as the Corporation title until she is better, which means she holds both jobs. At that moment Kira's explosions go off and Ymir is infuriated as she sends people to investigate and dismisses them.
As they arrive at the bar they find Bonnie is missing and it has been ransacked as well as a message from Max about duplicates. It seems someone lured them out to see if they had any technology to rob and pin the blame on them for attacking Ymir as they learn the spirit-tech has been stolen during the chaos of the explosions and they'll likely be blamed. Luci opts to confess what they did, so Asarar and Kira sneak out while she makes the call.
Location: Geyze
Lumi grows annoyed while they interrogate the alternate Sasha who informs them that the others are in Hapian Castle and seems annoyed at the idea that she harmed anyone, merely repaying debts. Threna, who is in a death mode due to what happened to the main Thena, marks Sasha with a cat mark, teleports everyone into Jaime's gnome garden that she made where they are trapped in some sort of three layer trap. After they manage to break through the floor to get out of the trap and scare the soldiers and bully their way past the soldiers who the fake Liana orders to deal with; after she is gone and they bully a guard to take them to the dungeons where the others are being held, suddenly Brandr Windrunner comes smashing through the ceiling and sends Talia and Threna flying through the sky and begins to backbreak Gwen when they inform him Liana has been replaced. As they sic him on the other Liana, the others find everyone safe and found in the dungeon.
As they arrive in the throne room which has a hole in it, there's no sign of anyone except a note from Brandr stating the duplicates fled onto a fled onto the Mew Mew being flown by another Charlotte. Selena decides to remain behind with some female guards she trusts to do some house cleaning in the castle and re-establish order before she rejoins them, having Celes take charge with everyone. As they arrive at the Academy, the students accept the real Sasha is back while Rain gets Sasha caught back up; the others investigate Cypher and Chelsea's house and find Cypher has been tied up and shot in the shoulder as well as Aimée and Mélodie being missing. The Mew Mew also is no where to be seen. Cypher seems to think Lana is the culprit, but admits that another red head could have done it - like Charlotte. As the Aquarius arrives, the group takes the time to get their ducks in order before they go off looking for the missing ship.
Location: Kumen
An enforcer named Zoë arrives to take Luci to Ymir due to her part in the attack on the Macross Building Yards. She states that they will help her find Bonnie and even have her help stop these pirates, but that her group will be held accountable for the damage that they did to the machines as well as allowing the pirates to steal. Asarar and Kira observe them walk off with Luci and stake out the bar, moving off to meet up with Logan to try to find out more about these pirates and why they're trying to gather all this tech and aim it at who.
Location: Earth
Ren escorts Charlotte to the teleporter to go to the PAX where she'll be safe now that her information is out there, planning to meet her on it later. Cheryl notes that the pirates seem to be working all the angles on all the planets but the PAX so far and Noire and Taiga agree they need to go on the offensive soon, with her planning to go to Asteroid C to gather the tools. She has Noire go get the other Sasha and interrogate her to see what all they can learn about why her reality would aid the 25 and see if there's something more to them. While this is going on, the mystery people who were investigating the Repliforce area reveal themselves to be Warren, Darien, Ariel, and Zephyr as they discuss the reality duplicaes. Darien and Ariel note they plan to go to Cheryl's manor and Zephyr to Stacey's and Warren will follow up on the Repliforce lead, verifying each person and see if they can block Taiga's scan. They also note that someone is using this time to kill V.I personnel from the latest incident under Hodges and McCabe, meaning they might be next, but that it is low on their list of concerns at the time as they head out.
Location: PAX
Charlotte is approached by Venerator who offers to clear her name if she works with him and after a lot of thought, decides to work with his secret organization if only to keep tabs though she doesn't trust the old man.
Session 7: The War of Redefining Reality Part IX: Faith
Location: The Academy
Session 8: Redefining Everything
Location: The Academy
After the chaos of the events of The War of Redefining Reality, things have begun to return to normal on Geyze as Kalam has continued her investigations into the spirits with her larger Summoni base. While Gwen pushes for a summer party, everyone else seems content to rest and the younger spirits go over having to learn math problems due to school. While everyone teases Gwen wanting to see them in swimwear, the Aquarius makes loud noises as Tora makes repairs and upgrades on it. The hope being that she can bring out Mireille's powers to help power up the Aquarius even more. While they talk about powering up spirits, Death shows up enraged that she was enrolled for school due to looking like a teenager, with Shin believing that is an insult. She ends up getting talked into it by Nicolette and the others as the spirits drag her into the classes. Neekito then remembers Kalam wanted to meet with everyone so Sylph takes them to the monestary where they are greeted by multiple people.
While Sylph and Sparkling have a snowball battle, the others step inside and are led to Kalam's office; while Gwen mourns the loss of summer due to the winterish conditions where the Summoni are located, Kalam brings them up to speed on how the Summoni are doing. She goes over how the students are adjusting easily and they've located many missing tomes and relics still, believing that in a year or so they can help the spirits like they did in the past, noting she needs time to train the students in the art of being Summoni before she can put them to work. She then goes into the Death situation, noting that it looks like Magik was used to bind her in the cell and hide her away Kalam's eyes, as well as locate powerful relics and tomes that were lost. They go over who might have done it, as well as their reasoning for doing it - causing strife in making it look like Kalam was behind it or they wanted to get back at Death for all the destruction she caused without knowing the full backstory of Death being reprogrammed. They decide to let it go unless Lana discovers something.
They go to the cell area where they find it had been repurposed into a student room with two students studying spirit theory. Neekito, who has been acting odd the entire time, leaves to do something while Lana investigates the room and moves some furniture to reveal dried blood from a while back that looks almost completely gone. As they check it out with spells, it burns away in flames in a pattern, allowing Nicolette and Ceilidh to take pictures of it. As they head out they find Neekito in an argument with a hooded Summoni who they manage to later get to admit was Kito. She confirms that Kito was the one who likely did the blood spell to trap Death/Shin before learning she was free of any influencel; the spell tapping into their power for the benefit of the Summoni - locate items, restore things faster, and more. The group decides to shelf the topic for now since Kito seems to not be going after Shin anymore.
After this session, Geyze stories are picked up in TAW Proper for 600 - 605 proper due to a time jump before returning back to Geyze: Record of Spirit War.
Location: Geyze
TAW Session 608: The Magical Magic Wars Breaks Out
Location: PAX
Lenneth holds a meeting about Jaime's notes about what happened with the Magi and Maka a few days ago with the beacon sapping their mana energy and giving them nightmares, which has been spreading to all mana users. They discuss sending some people down there to keep an eye on the situation, including younger members of the crew members like Jikuu to see if they can get information if this becomes a problem with the Maka. She also sends a group to the Maka Homeworld for more information.
Location: Geyze
The maka are having to struggle to stay awake as the nightmares are affecting their sleep as the group wonders how to keep them awake while they deal with why the Blood Magi used a relic to activate the Magi Tower to give them nightmares. The team seems to have little to go on while going through the Peacekeeper reports while hunting for the Blood Mages and having more and more Maka showing up around Geyze until Neekito spots something she thinks is worth investigating among the reports.
Location: Near the Summoni Monestary
The group explores the snowy region to try to find out where Kito discovered the Magi Relic, but are not coming up with anything too odd outside the Maka up in the sky. Simon's scans pick up mana energy underground and the team finds a cave entrance with ice blocking it; the entrance appearing to be about foot or two wide at a slant. The group feels a mana build up from the entrance and barely get a shield up in time after Lana helps make the entrance bigger, with Makai exploding out and attacking the Maka in the air in a sneak attack. What follows is a Makai battle against the group, a wild ride of insane magical girls using all sorts of abilities to try to crush the group as the Maka try to stop them before it gets out of hand. Eventually the pulse of nightmares begins to hit the mana users and drops everyone, causing the Makai to flee while everyone is disoriented and those who can try to track it.
Erevis' people arrives to provide aid and as they track the signal from coming beneath the cave; Terra tries to use her earth powers but gets a convulsing jolt with images. Chelsea points out that the Makai seemed eager to escape that cave as the group as Neekito returns with Kito in the same red blood robes that Terra saw in a vision of the mages underground. She informs them that the Blood Mages are underground and she needs her to do a counter to the chimes. She agrees to work on a counter spell if it's the same relic that was set off at the Magi Tower, but the one drawn looks different even if they are similiar. The team works to gather information while getting in place.
Location: Maka Homeworld
Iko, Jikuu, Aonee, Victoire and Drasek arrive to see if they can learn information meeting with the Emperor Utagawa to try to learn more about the situation and are pointed to the archives of history which seem to be manga. The group prepare to stay for a time and work through the tomes and see what they can learn.
Location: Geyze
Kito works on her blood magic with Simon and Lana to work on the relic's location in the damaged tower to prepare a counter to the relic the others are using to stop the chimes. At the same time, underneath Geyze in the caverns Selena leads her group to try to find the Blood Magi where Nicolette notes they are doing a ritual with the relic. Everyone goes for them to stop the ritual and are surprised to see Zayne protecting the Magi, leading to a battle between the two groups. However, in the end, the Maka overpower Zayne and bring her down along with Erevis and Xanatos help. Zayne informs them that the relic was meant to try to drive away the darkness being summoned to Geyze that is a threat to all Maka and Mana users that was brought out and were attempting to use the relic to counter it, even if it meant working with the bad Blood Mages. However, not everyone trusts her words and the Maka just see a Makai as she is dragged off to be 'dealt' with, much to Nicolette and Sparkling's horror.
TAW Session 609: The Makai Wars
Location: Maka Homeworld
TAW Session 610: Darkness in Magical Hearts
Location: PAX
Lenneth observes the Makai depleting the shields which had already been lowered to worrying levels the past few days while the psionics work on Zayne since her mind remains blocked by something. While Noire looks hungry over the Makai and Myria works in engineering, the rest debate a way to stop the Makai outside without consuming them. Myria arrives with a plan to cleanse the engines for flight and use it to power their shields against the Makai. The group decides if they cannot get Zayne's pet - the Tsukaima (Matsukai for Makai)- to appear, they need to take Zayne back to the Academy where the Maka can help deal with her.
Location: The Academy
The Maka look exhausted as the group from the PAX arrives, spotting the recent Makai attack on the Academy. Selena informs them that she thinks whatever it is will descend upon them sometime that night and Id points out if the Makai send in another wave, the group might not have enough energy/mana to repel whatever it is that's coming then. Ao's group arrives with the manga from the Maka Homeworld and Lana goes over them, taking note how the first few volumes are missing. She goes over what the manga goes tell them: the one Makai twin fell into a depression, that the power of her depression drew in and infected multiple Maka around her. Lana theorizes the original Makai was sealed away has become free. Sabrina goes over how Maka normally turn into Maka - hatred, despair, heartbreak, etc is like poison to a Maka, turning them into a Makai - noting that a normal Makai doesn't just turn others around them though.
Jaime ponders if that is why Zayne went weird and Lumi studies the Blood Magi's testimony, noting they were trying to do a ceremony to drive away the Eater. They wonder why Zayne has been so tightlight if that is the case and if one of the Maka can come over and allow them to examine their Tsukaima. Sabrina decides to go since Sparkling has fallen asleep and Lana ponders if Sunny might could help make it show itself, so Gwen goes to find Sunny Jr who has been placed into protection.
Location: PAX
Everyone arrives back where the shields are currently repelling the Makai better thanks to Myria and they have Cuddles study Sabrina's ferret like pet. They seem surprised it can talk and refuses to help them track it when asked, but answers their other questions. Sunny arrives to ask questions to Zayne about her pet and the two begin to talk about it in front of the group, including her not wanting such a companion like her's. Jikuu reads her mind while she is distracted by Sunny and finds Zayne's mind is dull outside her love for Sunny and her emotions are turned almost off, as if something has eaten it; and that she keeps track of her other. After it sabotages some of the equipment keeping track of it, Sunny admits she'd lose her powers without it as well as other side affects. She informs them that the massive thing dark feeling that has begun to arrive at Geyze will go after the other magical girls and drive them mad like the other Makai. Cuddles and Id use their scans on Sabrina's companion to transmit it to the Idol Ship to help counteract what is going on currently.
Location: Geyze
A large cast of characters have gathered outside when a Dark One Magical Girl, Gemane, shows up in front of Sparkling when she awakes - to pass out food instead of fight. Brandr arrives to help out and challenge Dias a little as well. At that moment though a Dark Cloud of Makai arrie on the scene and the battle begins with the Idol Ship singers aiding them with song. Leading all the nonsense is a Depressed Makai who seems to be stronger than the rest and handling even the likes of Sparkling, Dias, and Zayne. The battle continues as Makai are thrown at the group and the OG Makai seems unstoppable, when Zayne is hurt and Sunny rushes over to her; eventually the group manages to overpower the OG Makai and destroys her when her Matsukai goes for Sunny. Sunny struggles with it as everyone tries to help destroy it, but Sunny makes a wish to help Zayne, which leads to Sunny becoming a Maka herself. The remaining Makai flee and Xanatos gives the OG Makai a grave.
Date: 10-647.3.17
Location: PAX
Lenneth questions if they should try to kill Zayne after going over the data they have on the Magical Girls; with the PAX still on Geyze for the time being until they have everything in place to help them into orbit, they've decided to remain there until they can pull themselves into orbit, even leaving the Idol Ship nearby in the event it's needed. Some seem in favor, others seem to think they should drop it, or ask her. But it is clear to them, if Zayne does not want it removed and they force the issue, they might have to come to blows with her.
Location: Geyze
Zayne begins Sunny's magical instruction with her new Maka powers, using Ellie's classroom. At the same time, however, a meeting is called to inform during the chaos the Blood Magi leader has escaped. And it looks like Kito might have been injured trying to stop him and is missing. The hunt is now on to find the Blood Mages once more and whatever new plot they might have in store, even if they did help stop the OG Makai.
Location: The Academy
The group has been trying to find the Blood Mages and after some work, they believe that they might have a hand in some of the Maka that are still on the planet as well as Makai that are MIA. Neekito uses Sylph's power to warp to where the blood samples directs them - to the Ent Great Forest - where they enter a cave. A blood missile shoots off and Sparkling is forced to chase it down before it hits the Academy, destroying it just in time. before being sent back to the cave by Shin. They find Maka and Makai in cages as well as eye symbols staring at them. As they go deeper they find the Blood Mages uses more of them in a blood ritual, including the Explosive Makai that Sabrina seemed to have a hate boner for, which causes her to go into rage mode and attack the group, beginning to exhibt Makai properties. She notes the group reminds her of the group that had a hand in the death of her her parents, seeing the maka and makai slaughtered for their power; even the blood seems to control their bodies like puppets after they're taken down but in the end they're stopped.
Date: 10-647.3.20
Location: The Academy
Lumi notes they seem to have gotten all the Blood Mages that were bad and the Maka/Makai that remain have left, leading to the worry about Sabrina after her nearly going Makai due to rage and hatred. The hope is due to her having a lot of friends, she'll have a good support group. Kito also took a bit of damage so they'll keep her at the academy to recover and Gwen plans a vacation for everyone to help them relax and have some fun.