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[Harry Baldman]

On the shrieking ship of Shriekpot...

Kevin quickly moves into Erin's field of vision and provides a demonstrative shrug. Erin stares at him.

"What was yer problem again?"

Just then, Scott walks out of the lower recesses of the ship and presents the captain with the jars o' sludge.

"Excuse me, captain, but would you mind telling me what in gods' names this awful stuff is?"

"NOT A CLUE! Never could FIGURE THAT OUT myself. WATER, I FIGURE. Plus OTHER THINGS."

Meanwhile, Kevin sees the tree-head approach from the distance. Not good.


At an unusually hateful tree in the woods...

Sigmund attempts to crawl away from the tree while urging Morton to go on without him!

"You get wood from it. I can't stand it any more!"

He tries to move, but can't! It's like somebody threw the weight of the world down on him suddenly, he can't get up at all! Morton, meanwhile, examines the tree. You know, he's thinking that this might not be the tree he's looking for after all. Too unpleasant, he thinks.

"N-Now listen here... uh... Sir Tree. I don't know what you did to good Sir Sigmund, but stop that... please?"

Morton takes a few steps toward the tree, which remains silent, and pokes it with the oar. Suddenly, the attention of the tree is diverted from Sigmund and turns to Morton! Morton instantly freezes up as it becomes all-too-clear to him what exactly happened to Sigmund as he falls backwards and curls up into a ball, clutching the oar in his hands. Oh dear. He didn't know trees could feel this way! He gets the feeling it's been slighted somehow. Violated, even.

Sigmund, meanwhile, feels a bit lighter. A little bit. Enough to get up and run, but that would mean leaving Morton in a bit of a bind. After all, he doesn't know what might happen to him. Also, that tree looks really pissed somehow. This is probably not a good thing.


In the kitchen of the Feisty Jelly...

Niklas comes to a decision and a course of action to act upon with the drunkard.

[Culinary Dark Arts roll: 1+1]

He keeps filling the drunkard with all the booze available around here, but that guy must have a steel liver or something. He doesn't pass out! He does sing a bit, though. He's not bad, actually, considering that he has most of this establishment's alcohol coursing in his veins.


In Joyous Hanford's Emporium of Biological Wonders...

Mark quickly excuses himself, writing that he needs some funds.

"Ah, very good. Come back soon!" he says, taking back the Informative Metatablet. Mark then heads back to the ship and goes up to the Artiste, trying to convey his need for moolah.

His interpretive dance, however, isn't really appreciated.

"Yes, I'm sure your dancing makes you and your entirely probable mother very proud, but could you not bother me with it, Mark?"


Outside a hill fort of some kind...

Darren quickly disappears into his dirt-bard golem and proceeds to move inside it as he approaches the fort. Problem is, though, he's completely blind while hiding within it. Not to mention it's a bit difficult for him to perfectly match his own movements to those of the dirtbard - it seems like ectoplasmic bits are constantly poking out of it. Or at least that's what he feels like it looks like.

[Tomcost]

Sigmund will pull Morton out of the tree's reach, without looking at it directly. And then head back with him to the house.

[miauw62]

Kevin was already feeling slightly panicky at the sight of tree-head, and quickly shows Erin what is left of his arms.

[Tomcost]

((We have to weaponize that tree. And I have an idea. It involves soul magic and a hat))

[Xanmyral]

[Well, it's apparent now that this tree isn't a vampire thing. Just a really, really, really pissed off tree.]

"O-oh d-dear that i-is one angry t-tree." Morton could only stutter as he felt the anger of the slighted tree against him. "H-how can a t-tree be so a-angry?" He'd happily accept Sigmund's help outta there.

[Tomcost]

((After the ¡¡Science!! with the mushroom we should go see Art or the Artiste and ask them about this tree. If we can weaponize it, we will have one of the greatest psychological weapons ever created in a RTD))

[Xanmyral]

[Indeed, the question would be how to make it portable. Wait, you think that maybe this is a real possessed object?]

[miauw62]

((You know, there is a Dutch saying that you shouldn't move old trees ))
((Altough it just means that you shouldn't put old people into a radically different enviroment))

[Xanmyral]

[We should definitely figure out what's up with this tree regardless, but it seems the paste probably did indeed come from the mushrooms. If not, we can still find a use for them.

So Tom, what's your idea with the tree? Try to transfer what's in the tree into a hat, let everyone fear your hat?]

[Tomcost]

((Exactly, but I was thinking about putting the soul in a stone, then attaching it to a hat, just in case. Then we could just show it to our enemies and let them stay still in fetal position while we kill them))

[Xanmyral]

[Hm, the question would be how. The only guy with advanced soul-o-mancy that we know is Artiste, and if we head back now he'd be keen for us to just up and leave unless we have a good reason to stay. Art might know how, maybe.

I'm wondering where those guards got off to, we still need to find them. We can do the rest of the plan without killing them, I think, but still having them around would probably wind up being a bother for us later I bet.]

[killerhellhound]

((If we can weaponize it, we will have one of the greatest psychological weapons ever created in a RTD))

((What. The greatest psychological weapon is still the porn mind screw))
Mark gets out one of the writing slugs and writes
"Can I have some more money for body enhancing goods
like the the Shaper's Limb for 5 gold that can change shape by the owner willing it
or  the Fleshvine that makes someone very strong, hard to hurt, and they get powerful regenration with more made over time at the cost of 10 gold, 9 with a corpse trade in or 8 gold for a live test subject"
Mark checks that he still has the two arms he was going to graft to Niklas while waiting
((If the transmuter fails to fix Kevin I'm going to step in as your new !!DOCTOR!! ))

[Tomcost]

((All shall fear the power of !!Medicine!!))


((On a side note, I have just realized that the exclamation marks for something !!On fire!! are the same from both sides. This makes me look as a noob))

[miauw62]

((You don't have a writing slug. He took the Informative Metatablet back.))

[Tomcost]

((You don't have a writing slug. He took the Informative Metatablet back.))

((But he bought two slugs, he even handed the coins))