In a warehouse by the port...Niklas starts to move crates like a frenzied dockworker to find his quarry!
Interestingly enough, he finds a skeleton in peasant rags with a snapped leg underneath some crates. Looks pretty dead to him. Hm. Or maybe...
He punches right behind him at the empty air! Hm. That's strange. He would have expected...
Hm, yes. He
would have expected. Indeed.
At a tower in Shriekpot...Mark smiles at the completely ruined
Kevin on the ground. Internally. Externally, he's still the good old foliage-covered, emotionless violator of all that is sacred. He helps Kevin to his feet.
[Kevin walking ability roll: 5]
Fortunately enough, the jester's upper body seems to have taken the brunt of the force, so his legs are merely fractured all over rather than completely broken. The same cannot be said of his arms or ribcage, though. Or his face. But hey! He can fix that!
Hey, where's Kevin going? He looks to be running from something. Hey, danger's over, mate! You're alright! Soon to be better!
Eh, they all run, Mark guesses. He can fix the weakness of the flesh, but he cannot fix weakness of the mind. Speaking of, better go to the local ritual store.
Walking down the street, he notices a building giving off a more than vaguely unholy vibe. Looks like his sort of place! He strolls right in.
Looks like his intuition was right! The inside of the store is a vaguely fleshy room with no windows. It appears to breathe visibly, and it is rather hot and humid in here. There is but a single counter that resembles a resting annelid, and a rather lumpy, pulsing man of indeterminate age and rather short height is standing behind it. As the man notices Mark, he leaps across the counter and is right next to him in half a second. He slurps for a moment, then speaks.
"Greetings, sir! You have the look of a discriminating customer about you! May I be the first to welcome you to Joyous Hanford's Emporium of Biological Wonders! I am Joyous Hanford. How may I help you?"He observes Mark for a moment.
"Ah. You don't look like you have a mouth. I understand - they're rather superfluous most of the time. Better to let your deeds speak for you, eh? Well, here you go. Trace your needs on this."He hands Mark a pulsing, writhing lump of flesh.
"Flatten it and write with your finger - to erase things, crush it and let it reform. Nifty, eh? I call it the Informative Metatablet! Each one made of the screaming, writhing flesh of an unsuspecting drunkard donating his body to science! You can find this and more in my humble store!"In less troubling places, Kevin quickly makes his way back to the ship, theatrically making a sigh of relief despite not being able to breathe.
In the kitchen of the ghost ship...As
Morton processes the information on the deathshroom, he keeps on working.
"Hm, Death Mushroom? And Mark... the tree-headed skeleton, yes? I knew I saw some similarities there. Are you sure it was a mushroom, though? I thought I handled bark... could it be bark infested with this mushroom's spores? I could try boiling the mushroom to see if I could make more if you wish, or we could try adding the mushroom to the current mixture to see if anything occurs."He gazes at the cooling and shrinking mixture.
"Hm... The dry ice doesn't seem to be thinning it, indeed, it just shrinks it. Perhaps if I diluted it with more water..."He fishes out bits of the dry ice with a rag, putting it on a nearby counter, then starts adding some nearby water to the mixture. It does seem to thin the whole thing rather nicely at first, but then Morton realizes that it's basically a giant clump he's stirring around in there.
At a potter's shop...Scott decides upon a plan of action. Rather than break the window, he shall break the door! They won't be expecting that, he thinks.
[Strength roll: 2+1+
1]
Applying his shoulder to the door with a reasonable amount of force, he finds that it breaks the lock rather decently. It does, however, make a bit of noise.
Nobody seems to have reacted much, though. Good.