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"Okay, crash potentially averted, so should be smooth flying from here to where the others are at." Alav stated as he did one more check on the screen, adjusting himself after the most recent spell of shrinkage.

"Aren't we out of range of that thing by now?" Mirven asked, only taking up a portion of a box's corner now, no longer able to go past the top of the edges. "I mean, we should stop shrinking now, right?"

"Not really that simple..." Alav replied with a sigh, sitting back in his spot. "I know of these kinds of things, and when they hit you, their effects tend to linger for quiiiiiite a while."

"YOU MEAN WE'LL KEEP SHRINKING EVEN FURTHER?!" Mirven yelled out in a mixture of surprise and dread, letting out a groan after. "I'm tiny enough as is...!"

"Unfortunately yeah, but Al and Syn will be able to help us, once we get to them."

"I hope they're not too far away." Laza chimed in now. "As interesting as this is, I really don't like the aspect of being stuck in this box, or worse, wandering among the grass down below." she added, glancing over the edge to the ground that the drone flew over.

"I dunno, this is kind of fun, actually!" Nezyu called out as she glanced back. "Never really thought I'd get to ride on top of a drone like this!"

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Round eight voting results:


Mirven: 26 votes.
Alav: 19 votes.
Taoma: 17 votes.
Nezyu: 10 votes.
Laza: 10 votes.
Total: 82 votes from 34 participants.

Donation thresholds passed: 0.

Shrinkage values:

Mirven: 26 x 0.25 = -6.5% current size reduction.
Alav: 19 x 0.25 = -4.75% current size reduction.
Taoma: 17 x 0.25 = -4.25% current size reduction.
Nezyu: 10 x 0.25 = -2.5% current size reduction.
Laza: 10 x 0.25 = -2.5% current size reduction.

New sizes:

Mirven: ~2.82 in/~7.16 cm. >> ~2.64 in/~6.71 cm.
Alav: ~5.59 in/~14.20 cm. >> ~5.32 in/~13.51 cm.
Taoma: ~6.78 in/~17.22 cm. >> ~6.49 in/~16.48 cm.
Laza: ~7.73 in/~19.63 cm. >> ~7.54 in/~19.15 cm.
Nezyu: ~7.57 in/~19.23 cm. >> ~7.38 in/~18.75 cm.
Numbers were rounded to the nearest hundredth.

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Last week of the month and thus the sequence, and now finally heading outside. Two more parts to go after this assuming that things hold together, and they are still roughly handheld size, with Mirven still continuing to outpace the rest in the shrinkage.

Should mention one thing; The poll's duplication check has been kind of 'unshackled' in the last thirty minutes of the last few parts, or roughly around there. Not to where there is no check at all, rather the one below it. Been doing it since folks aren't really up at that time but wanted to see if those who are night owls that swing by would end up going nuts in that window, which none have, as expected. So now that bit of knowledge is now known, I feel that things will ramp up when it comes to the last two parts when the timer's ticking down for them.

I also forgot that I don't have Graswald in 3.0 while making this. t~t;

Round nine poll: Round nine poll is closed. Thank you for voting!
Donation link: Donations closed for this round. Thank you for donating!

Alav and Nezyu belong to me.
Taoma belongs to  Hugna.
The others aren't anyone specific, just hastily named and colored for the sake of this sequence.
Natvali model was made by and belongs to 'Natch Deux', while credit for it goes to Wolyafa.