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The princess pointed at six purple moons and removed every one of them from the sky.
No explosion.
No argument.
One little wand movement.
Six moons gone.
Fresh symbols dropped out of the clouds to replace them.
A winged crown landed where one moon had been.
Two crystal hearts appeared underneath.
A POP starburst remained near the middle as if celestial demolition was a perfectly normal royal responsibility.
The new symbols connected.
€3.20.
Another tumble.
One multiplier star dropped with x3 inside it.
The princess stayed beside the grid, pink hair floating over the clouds, looking entirely comfortable with having just reduced the local moon population to zero.
I was playing €0.80.
Starlight Princess POP had needed nine spins to establish that the sky belonged to her and everything in it was temporary.
The first few rounds had been quieter.
Clouds behind the grid.
Pastel towers floating somewhere far below.
Stars everywhere.
Purple crescent moons.
Pink crystal hearts.
Gold-edged crowns.
Blue gemstones.
Little star brooches that looked too expensive to be scattered through the atmosphere.
They landed in groups, paid anywhere when enough gathered, disappeared and let more fall through the space.
The first useful tumble brought €1.60.
A second group formed underneath.
Another €0.80.
Then the sky settled.
The princess did nothing.
Next spin.
No win.
Another.
Five blue gems connected, vanished and left a perfect hole for four moons to arrive.
Not enough.
They sat there.
The princess still did nothing.
I began to assume the wand was decorative.
Then POP landed.
A bright little starburst appeared beside a field full of purple moons.
The princess raised the wand.
Every moon disappeared.
That was the opening incident.
Not the winning moons.
All of them.
Even the useless ones.
Apparently the POP symbol did not care whether a moon had earned removal.
Fresh symbols poured into the empty spaces.
The new crown-and-heart group paid.
Then the x3 star landed.
The whole sequence reached €3.20 before the multiplier took it higher.
The sky rebuilt itself.
Next paid spin.
Purple moon.
Another moon.
Three more.
I watched the princess.
No POP.
The moons survived.
For two spins.
Then another starburst landed.
The wand moved.
Moons gone again.
At that point I stopped treating the crescent symbols as ordinary paying objects.
They were fugitives.
Crowns could sit wherever they liked.
Hearts could gather.
Blue gems could pile up.
Every purple moon was occupying borrowed air.
A few spins later the POP selected hearts instead.
That felt wrong.
Five pink crystals vanished.
Fresh symbols dropped.
A line of crowns formed.
Small win.
Fine.
But the moons remained visible on the opposite side.
The princess had clearly chosen not to deal with them.
I was now following royal grudges that the game had never actually promised existed.
Another group of gems paid €2.40.
The tumble produced one multiplier star at x2 and no second win.
The x2 sat in the clouds with nothing to multiply.
It disappeared when the sequence died.
One tiny numbered star had somehow looked lonelier than the entire palace.
The balance kept moving down gently.
Nothing violent.
€0.80 at a time.
A couple of small returns.
Then another dead stretch.
The princess occasionally erased a symbol family when POP arrived, but most replacements landed as scattered celestial debris.
A crown here.
Moon there.
Heart in the corner.
The sky could be completely full and still look empty of cooperation.
By paid spin twenty-five, €20.00 had gone in and €11.20 had returned.
€138.50 remained from the €147.30 start.
Then three crown Scatters landed.
One high.
One low.
One in the middle.
For once, the princess did not remove anything.
Ten Free Spins opened.
The clouds brightened.
The first spin brought a small moon group.
They paid.
No POP.
No multiplier.
€1.60.
The moons vanished normally.
That almost felt undignified after all the wand attention.
The next spin dropped a POP starburst.
Purple moons were already waiting.
The princess pointed.
Gone.
Fresh symbols fell.
Crystal hearts connected.
A x3 multiplier star landed.
The hearts disappeared.
More symbols came down.
No second win.
€4.80.
The x3 star flashed and left with the rest.
Third Free Spin.
Nothing.
The princess floated beside a sky full of crowns and gemstones and apparently found none of it worth administrative magic.
Fourth spin.
POP.
This time the selected symbol was the blue gemstone.
Every blue piece disappeared at once.
The sky opened in five different places.
Fresh crowns dropped into two of them.
Hearts filled another.
Enough connected.
They vanished.
A x2 star appeared.
Then another little tumble.
€6.40 by the time the clouds stopped rearranging themselves.
The princess lowered the wand.
The palace remained intact.
That was becoming remarkable.
She had removed moons, hearts and gems from the sky in batches and not one floating tower had fallen.
Free Spin five landed two multiplier stars.
x2.
x5.
No POP.
A crown group connected on its own.
Gone.
The replacement symbols produced another little win.
The two numbered stars remained through the whole tumble chain.
When the sky finally stopped moving, both flashed.
€8.00.
The princess had contributed nothing.
The stars handled it.
I immediately started wanting several of them at once.
That was dangerous.
Spin six gave me none.
Spin seven produced three Scatters.
The crowns landed among ordinary symbols and lit together.
Five more Free Spins.
The princess stood in the clouds while the counter increased.
The sky had extended itself.
The next spin gave me only €3.20 from a small heart tumble.
Then came the one that took over the feature.
POP landed first.
Seven purple moons were visible.
Seven.
The princess raised the wand.
Every moon disappeared.
There was suddenly so much empty sky that the palace looked as though somebody had opened windows through the grid.
Symbols fell.
Blue gems gathered.
€4.00.
They disappeared.
More symbols dropped.
Pink hearts formed.
€2.40.
Those vanished too.
Three multiplier stars had landed during the sequence.
x2.
x3.
x5.
They stayed while the moons were removed, while the blue gems paid, while the hearts followed and while the next symbols came down.
Nothing else connected.
The sky stopped.
x10.
€64.00.
Seven moons had been removed by royal order and replaced by enough gemstones, hearts and numbered stars to make the entire night worth sixty-four euros.
One purple moon landed alone on the next Free Spin.
I looked at it.
The princess looked like she was facing forward, but I had already decided that moon should be nervous.
No POP arrived.
It survived.
Another spin.
Still no POP.
Two moons now.
Both survived.
The royal purge had apparently ended for the evening.
A later spin brought another starburst, but it chose crowns instead.
The crowns disappeared.
Fresh symbols dropped.
€2.40.
The moons remained.
I had become completely unreasonable about this.
The feature owed the moons nothing.
The princess had no contractual dispute with them.
Still, every time one remained after a POP, it looked smug.
The last few Free Spins slowed down.
One gave nothing.
Another produced €4.00 through a heart group and a little tumble.
A x2 multiplier appeared too late to turn it into anything memorable.
The penultimate spin was dead.
Final spin.
Several moons.
One crown.
Blue gems.
A POP starburst landed near the bottom.
The princess raised the wand.
For a moment I expected the moons.
She chose the blue gems.
All of them disappeared.
Fresh symbols dropped.
No win.
The moons stayed exactly where they were.
The feature ended.
€94.40.
The sky returned to the base game.
I was €85.60 ahead at that point.
I kept the €0.80 stake for five more spins.
The first produced nothing.
The second gave a little €1.60 win from hearts.
The third landed a POP with only two moons visible.
The princess removed the hearts again.
The moons survived.
Fourth spin.
Nothing.
Fifth.
One purple moon landed in the centre.
A POP starburst appeared beside it.
I watched the wand.
The princess chose crowns.
The crowns vanished.
Fresh symbols fell.
No win.
The moon stayed.
Five spins had cost €4.00 and returned €1.60.
The balance showed €229.70.
I stopped there.
The final grid still had one purple crescent sitting in the middle of the clouds.
The princess had erased whole skies around that symbol for most of the session.
That one got to keep the night.
I’ve seen things inside KokeshiPop that broke statistics.