DermCoughing, you call out to the two,"Hello there!"
They whip around, weapons raised. You examine each other carefully for a moment before the woman with the dagger and satchel calls back, "Who are you, and what business do you have in this place?"
The man with the spear half-turns back towards where they had been facing, apparently trying to watch both the forest as well as you and Aero.
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SinterousWith one hand on your focus, you raise the other again, putting examination of the strange growth off until later, projecting another blast of freezing air at the mass of flesh and wood, [4] v. [1], freezing it solid! The glow from your head and skin reflects from the many-faceted surface of what was once a flower.
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MinaPart of you is in shock, trying to process what has just happened, to comprehend this unexpected
corruption of your humanity. Thankfully for your sake, another part of you is more confused and revolted than anything else, shrugging and continuing down the road.
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AeroLowering Derm to the ground, you casually wave and walk towards the two, greeting them, "Hey? S'up, guys?"
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TalendirWalking down the road with the rest of the company, you needle Mina, "What of your purity now, paladin?" You smile faintly. It was rather nice, seeing hypocritical scum brought low in such a humiliating manner.
Mina silently brushes her skin and hair with light fingers as she walks, ignoring you so completely that you wonder if she even heard you speak.
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Talendir, Mina, Sinterous, Hedric:You continue walking for several minutes, but pause as you see a clearing off to the right of the road ahead, with four figures standing in it. Two appear to be vaguely familiar.____
((Can you tell us what the bad results were? Curiosity I wonder if ... being body usurped was in there >.>))
((As above, zombie-fungus with head explosions; mental disabilities from turning into a plant a little
too much; ending up with a hornet nest in your chest cavity, with the caveat that they treated the human parts of you as hostile; a tree growing rapidly within your body and pulling an Alienesque chestburster scene in a dozen turns or so; etc. In other words, whatever horrible, nasty things I could think of.
There may also be events in the future that force you two to make additional checks for the infestation spreading, if you don't do anything to get it removed. Those rolls could result in anything from additional benefits, to losing the infestion, to losing it but being partially crippled by it, to having it do nasty things to you or kill you.))
((Re: the above post: I've messaged borno, and will inactive-list him if he hasn't responded in a few days; he'll just be assumed to be following the party but not participating until then, if he doesn't post any actions. I've also messaged Maximum McDreich and Tiruin, and will add either or both of them to the game if they're still interested.))