HEY YOU BASTARD YOU SKIPPED ME I WANT MY MONEY BACK
You wanna buy the voice of the people? Alright.
The scarred man takes your nails and hands you a fist sized, curly seashell.
"When you need it, write a message with the person's name and their desire and put it into this shell. Then smash the shell. It will take a few minutes to begin, and once it does it will only last a short time."
Nom up my fill, since it appears to be dinner time. Maybe gather some more to take with.
You eat yourself full and then gather up as much as you can hold in your mouth and walk back to the warbeast. You make a couple of trips like this.
Get on board the warbeast.
Xankarvo wakes up from his daydreams of eternal dominion over all of existence.
"Everyone, get back here, we're going to visit this Most-Beautiful thing."
Collect erstwhile bumbling meatshields! The trip must commence!
((Ossifrages don't suck out the marrow, they eat the entire bone. They can digest the whole thing, you see, it's just that breaking them into smaller pieces makes it much easier to swallow them.))
Lovely bones. Resume position as figurehead on the warbeast as I let it all digest.
"Hey, guys! Which part of this mess is actually heart?"
Get help for locating the heart. Probably get back on the warbeast too, after ensuring that all juicy meat parts are loaded in.
Everyone, including a bunch of hitchhiking boar guts, get back on the war beast.
"I'm bored" Let's go someplace full of people. A city!"
Sebastian eats, and rides the War Beast until we leave for places more interesting to him. He tries to encourage the team / the motive force directing the warbeast to lumber off toward a populated area.
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You leap up onto the war beast's controls and yell at the engine spirit.
"GO! MUSH! YAH! uh...OTHER WORDS THAT MEAN GO!"
"I don't think--"
"I DON'T PAY YOU TO THINK! I DON'T PAY YOU TO DRIVE THIS THING EITHER, BUT THAT'S WHAT YOU GOTTA DO! SECOND STAR ON THE LEFT AND STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING WENDY! BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY! MOVE IT!"
The engine spirit frowns. Or at least you think he does. Hard to tell with a mouth like that. But he starts moving the warbeast towards the east.
"I'm bored" Let's go someplace full of people. A city!"
Sebastian eats, and rides the War Beast until we leave for places more interesting to him. He tries to encourage the team / the motive force directing the warbeast to lumber off toward a populated area.
No. We are going to meet Most Beautiful.
You slap Sebastian out of the driver seat and tell the Engine spirit to head up the river. The warbeast changes course and begins to follow the canyon upriver, stomping along beside it.
It takes several hours, even on the war beast, but you eventually see the end of the river. The canyon grows increasingly shallow until the river is simply running on the surface. It finally dead ends in a huge oasis smack dab in the middle of an expanse of sand dunes. Its a strange thing, a mound of green rising out of the pale yellow sand; it has an unreal quality to it, the ferns and palm trees are so dense that all you can see from the outside is a wall of leaves, fronds and trunks. Judging by these, it seems like the oasis conceals a large hill, quite steep, that makes it look almost like the trees and plants are piled atop each other. Hundreds of birds circle the mound of greenery and the river seems to ooze out of a thousand tiny gaps in the foliage and flow together into a single stream only after escaping the treeline.