Clunkers hands his bowl to Terrance, still speaking to the shamans.
"Impressed statement: Observant of you, I did kill someone fairly recently.
Worried statement: You not being able to do a full scale retreat is unfortunate, but at least you can hide and move camps, which is someting. The fact that you can use your skills to make yourself harder to find is will help us a lot, I believe.
Statement: Though I had hoped it different, I think it will be best if you and your people focus and evading the mercenaries and staying alive, and we will take it upon us to make them dissapear, one way or another.
Query: Their numbers worry me a bit, for they outnumber us by quite a few. Still, I have some new magics that may very well aid us in eradicating those vermin. I will do calculations as to how best use my magic, but if you have suggestions due to your experience, I am all ears. So to speak."
Converse with shamans, accept their wisdow if they have any. Then do calculations as to hwo to best use the metronome to make explosions, and if it's possible to lob these explosions in an arc far away. Magic artillery, if you will.
((I don't think there's much else I can ask them. Unless anyone else has some ideas?))
"Our scouts will show you the routes up to this place, and from where the enemy comes. They can get you close, teach you to move under tree and through bush. But they cannot work miracles, large noisy one." a sly grin appears at this comment. "We shamans can bestow a shaman's blessing on you also."
Two of the shamans offer different stories for you. "A troll found a dead dragon on the mountainside. He wished to eat the dragon, as trolls often wish to do. But, alas, the dragon was too big to fit in his mouth. the troll sat there for many days trying to stuff the whole dragon in his mouth, eventually dying of starvation."
"A kobold was being chased by a tiger. In desperation, the kobold, knowing he was about to die, ran around a tree at the very last second. the tiger twisted rapidly about the tree, and the kobold ducked under the tiger's hindquaters. The tiger, it it's great anger, bit itself hard on the ass. Enraged at having been bitten so fiercely, the Tiger kicked out, tearing at it's own jaw. The tiger was still engaged in fierce battle as the kobold made it's escape."
You calculate that gathering energy when the metronome arm is swinging wide, then compacting the energy into the object to explode while the arm is coming in toward the center would give a pulsating, unsteady power to the spell. The explosion would simply need to be triggered at one of the points at which the arm crosses center, making that tick sound that metronomes do. Lobbing hte explosion would require arming an object and lobbing that. it would be more difficult to make it explode at a precise moment doing that, but it's possible.
Terrance wraps his arms around the bowl, inhaling the broth. He pauses briefly after hearing about the goblins' shield, and looks up.
I JUST SO HAPPEN TO HAVE PRIOR EXPERIENCE IN THE ART OF PERCEPTION MAGIC.I MAY BE ABLE TO HELP DIVERT HUNTERS, IF YOU LIKE.
Offer my services to the shamans. Regardless of their reply, finish off Clunkers' soup and quietly stash both bowls somewhere on my person.
the goblins seem quite interested in your aid, when this is translated to them. They invite you to join their morning casting ritual and study the casting as they study your perception magic. You have eight legs and a head, so you sit on one bowl and place the other on your head. the goblins frown, but say nothing at this point. A stray sense of strong disapproval catches you right in the empathy sense though.
"Very good. I will ask three more questions, and then I will leave you alone.
Firstly, are you a member of that mercenary band or were you simply delivering supplies to them?
Go on, speak up."
Talk.
"s-s-s-sup-p-p-pp-pll-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-lies."
go southeast so that it places me next to where we started and brings me through the center of things
((Moss doesn't work that way, wikipedia and my boyscouts instructor lied!))
You wander around the woods for half the night before giving up and sleeping where you are. At least the grass is soft. As is the moss, which, in certain conditions, would grow predominantly on the north of trees, but generally grows wherever it is shady and moist, and since you've been hiking through some rather hilly terrain you have seen lots of moss in shade facing other directions. ... Except for that orange moss. that stuff ... yo don't even know the logic behind where that stuff grows. Why, you swear you saw some growing on a cow's ear.
Hom:
Draw energy from the ineffable magic-stuff I drew out of the kobold. Use this energy to hurl magic, say, a bolt of deconstruction, or a dart of erasure, at the kobold. While it is thus distracted, get up and position myself so I'm not going to be surrounded by the mercs, then focus my own energies on bringing the passage of the kobold through time to a stop.
((feel free to interpret the destructive magic loosely -- I like seeing what you come up with))
your attempt to use the kobold's energy fails completely. you get the feeling that you aren't doing the ritual right or something. You instead focus on slowing the kobold while backing away, but it seems to shrug off your time distortion - or perhaps that effort fizzled too. the kobold reaches you and bangs fruitlessly on your shell. this is unfortunate for it, as it steps in front of the elf's arrow at just the right time, taking the arrow in the arm. this doesn't stop it from banging and clawing at you.
Solam Kobemtosed
Try a side slash now.
It's a clumsy strike, but you manage to catch him in the ribs. He wheezes a bit, and blood trickles down his side, but he seems ready to go again.
((Sleeping it is. Just let us know when can we jump back into it.))
Knife is also fine with sleep, but I'd like to ask if it can perceive the world at all beyond what it gets from hitchhiking on Mordred's mind. Is the knife blind while Mordred sleeps?
Oh, and subtly alter Mordred's dreams. Steer them towards people stealing from him.
the knife's senses are directly dependent on the host's so you could conceivably hear through his ears perhaps. You cause nightmares, causing him to tos and turn all night. this does not help the wound healing process, but the wound doesn't open again either.
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