Pity. Does this thing have a radio? If yes, fiddle with it to find a groovy tune. If not, just enjoy the ride.
It has a radio and there's also a box of cds sitting by the feet of the person in shotgun. You turn on the radio for the moment.
Music starts playing. Huh, not exactly what you'd expect out here.
Closely examine the penguin to see how it breathes fire. Don't let it do so on me.
>Corsair: show the Mage how I breath fire by breathing fire on him.
It appears to breath fire from it's mouth. The exact method is unknown.
Also, your robes are very luckily flame retardant.
You bop the Penguin on the head and tell him not to do that again.
Put the mouth worm thing back in its spot.
You reach up and carefully rehang the little worm thing. The Jeep suddenly roars and surges forward faster then before, and the strange engine stutters from before seem to be gone.
"You Mussed my wires" The worm says before clicking its teeth a few times.
If anyone sets anything on fire, give them a nice whack on the head with my deer shank and tell them to cut it out.
You wave the shank threateningly at the penguin.
That thing is probably starting to get a bit ripe.
Take the shorter route to the Failures, and, presumably, Hellway. If it lies through the ruins, so be it.
Ignore the ruins? Alright. You continue around the mountains. You reach the very edge of the mountain range and are in the middle of driving across the slow, rolling hills on its boundaries, when the Jeep sputters. The fuel gauge reads empty.
You've been driving for hours now and the sky is quite dark; whatever passes for a sun around here is somewhere off to the north, hidden behind the mountains, and the world is a dark grayish yellow of fading hills and low, dead trees. The Trickling rain has finally stopped and everything is quiet.
Everyone is starting to get tired, and most (those whose needs require them to be filled once a day at least) are starting to get hungry (or the closest analogous feeling).