Name: Greed
Description: looks mostly like a normal human with pale skin, but he has ruby red hair and eyes. his hair and eyes also give off a slight, shimmering glow.
Nature: elemental-light
Status: Water breathing?, mostly invisible.
HP: 10/10
Needle links:speaker
Inventory: magic needle weapon With sunburst, shredded cloak, cake, rifle, axe
Fate Points: 1
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For an instant the sword reappears above Greed's head and then slices down towards the jellyfish leviathan. However, whatever magical power is maintaining it seems to falter and the light blade bursts with a flash as it hits the creature instead of cutting through.
(PW said that the conduit is on the shore inside the town, so you might need to catch a boat.)
If the giant fish (the hammer?) in the storm broke the surface of the water with its fin, that means it's moving upwards, so Grey spends 1 fate and Maintains the upward velocity of the giant fish that's in the storm.
In the meantime he also shoots the tentacle monster harassing the ship and fends off any tendrils coming towards him with his magic sword-bayonet.
Description: A hairless pink colored man with lacking facial features, little more than a pair of eyes, two holes for a nose, and a line for a mouth.
Nature: Verbomancer (Maintain)
Status: Fine
HP: 10
Inventory: Purple robe, white gloves, giant needle imbued with Maintain the health and physical well being of the ship's crew(5) and a rifle fused to a magic saber
Fate Points: 2
Red Genesis
Orange Debby
Yellow Bob
Violet Youare
Blue Tess
Indigo Luta
Green Lambent Flame
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You point at the distant fin and shout "MAINTAIN!"
The upwards movement of the Hammer was quite small when you caught it, but it was still there. Slowly, the beast begins to rise out of the water. So far only its back is visible. That back is a mass of fins; rows of them beside and in line with each other; like dozens of sharks of different sizes were sewn together into a field of dorsal fins.
You swing the bayonet at the tendrils but whatever damage you manage to do seems minor. They're quite hard to actually hit, rapidly wriggling like they are. But those few you manage to catch seem to transform. The flesh near the cut becomes purplish stained glass and shatters apart.
"Did we really need to get this many creatures attention to attract that hammer thing?"
Keep Elizabeth close to my while I shoot the shit out of that tentacle thing, also if the tentacles get close to me use my rifleaxe to chop the damn things off.
Name: Debby
Description: Looks like a regular human woman but with the head of a deer.
Nature: All-Tounges
Status: Is tied to Elizabeth with some rope.
HP: 10
Inventory:
purple robe
white gloves
big ass needle
Sword
Elizabeth Audrey Foxington, the living fox doll, now with parka and tied to Debby with some rope
Rifleaxe
10' rope
Fate Points: 1
[3,3]
You fire and cut as best you can as the tendrils squirm up the side of the ship but it seems to have precious little effect. The beast continues pulling itself up from the bloody foam and towards the ship unabated. All you can do is fall back from the railing and retreat back on the deck. You hold Liz on your shoulder with one hand as you do.
I get a bit more altitude to get to clearer airspace and avoid the ground-level turbulance (and also get more altitude that I can afford to lose if I mess up). But otherwise remain in the air and continue to observe and watch for the Hammer itself, as well as see how the other sea monsters are faring and what they're doing. maybe I'll see some behavior patterns or interactions that I could use later? I need to keep gathering information so that when I do make my move (and I think I'm only going to be able to make one move so I want it to be a good one) it'll count.
Name: Terissa / Tess
Description: a passive but brave teenage girl with purple hair and brown eyes, she has a hint of protrusions on her shoulderblades like the beginnings of wings, and a thin lizardlike tail, but nothing useful at this time.
Nature: Chameleon
Status: miniwings replaced by moderate-size wings made of air.
HP: 10
Inventory: Purple robe with red eye symbol on the back, white gloves with red eye symbol on their palm, 4-foot long iron needle.
Fate Points: 1
violet= Genesis
blue= Grey
[4]
You get up to about 150 feet off the deck. The winds here are still powerful and only getting worse. Its almost impossible to really observe anything other than your own balance. You do think the...giant shark thing riding the approaching storm is probably the hammer though. It would be hard to think it was anything else.
The ship rocks and lists hard to one side as the Jellyfish Leviathan starts dragging itself up and onto the deck. As soon as its bulbous body rises above the railing though, the captain shouts "FIRE!" and all the cannons with a line to the critter unleash hell. Shells rip through its flesh, tearing it apart like bullets through a rubber ball. Its body jiggles and thick ooze pours out of it. The injuries don't kill the creature outright- its anatomy is too bizarre to fall from something as simple as being perforated- but the beast does half tumble back away from the railing and its tendrils lose a great deal of their hold on the ship.
"ALL HANDS!" The captain bellows, pointing his cane out at the storm, "Our prey is coming! Shake off these interlopers and lets give it a fisher's welcome! Dump a depth charge or two into that jelly beast's ruptured head. 20 second timers! Lets be off with this!"
Make my hands like binoculars and look through them, just in general to see if I can get vision that way. If not, place my hands over my eyes such that the eye symbols face outward, and try to see that way. Look around and down, but being careful not to fall out again. Are we still being pushed hard by the wind? If so, continue on to the city. We'll come back here later.
"What do you think, Luta? Should we leave one of our needles here, so we can jump back quickly? I saw something down there. Could be normal stuff though. don't know anything about the ocean. But it seemed strange. It glowed."
Name: Genesis
Description: Classic 80s action hero looks, kinda quiet. think Kurt Russel from the movie Soldier (only probably less mute)
Nature: Pureblood
Status: Slow learner
HP: 9
Inventory: Robe, gloves, needle (no magic), Ceramic bread loaf. Hammer pendant of missile resistance and freezing when wet.
Fate Points: 4
Red Grey
Orange Bob
Yellow
Green Flameo
Blue Debby
Indigo Luta
Violet Tess
Thomas Syniscy: gutter. survivor of the town that sunk 5 years ago. home on third layer.
Anders: ballooneer. Home on 3rd layer. offered a month's paid leave to help me.
Nearest branch office: 350 miles north: Ynisk. Destination of convoy that passed through 8 months ago.
convoy. Symbol on trucks: Red Lion. Boss was called Sanders.
Town boss is named Ericson
The first thing...no. The second thing though...that actually does something. Specifically, when you attempt to "See" out through the eyes on your gloves, you actually can. It doesn't show you anything special, its not like the vision through the eye of the needle, but it DOES let you see through those eyes with your normal eyes closed. In fact you can't actually see through those glove eyes when your normal eyes are open. It seems the gloves also correspond to one eye each: Left glove for left eye, right for right. Interesting.
The balloon is still moving in the wind, though it could be steered to go back using its rudder. If you want to head to the city, we can do that but it will take a few turns at least.
Fresh out of the cauldron, Hugh sees the plaque on the wall and runs over to it.
“Ho! Ho! Ho! A humonculus! Is that what I am?!”
He then go’s over to the box, retrieves his robe and gloves and puts them on, and then retrieves his needle.
After this, he notices the glowing coming from the portal room and goes to investigate.
“Ho! The mundanes need our help! I’d better get going then!”
And with that, he goes through the portal.
((Btw, which group has the conduit?))
Name: Hugh.
Description: A large, fat, bald human male who, despite being seemingly obese, is immensely strong. He towers over others, with the tallest of the other (current) humonculi only coming up to the center of his abdomen. He has a hearty laugh that makes his belly shake like a bowl full of jelly, and is very kind and jovial
Nature: Glutton.
Status: The mundanes need help! I’d better hurry!
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, and needle.
Fate Points: 0
You find yourself in an empty office. Confused, you walk to the nearest door and step out. You're on the roughly middle section of a town built vertically up a cliff face. Its somewhat hard to tell this, its getting pretty dark, but the lights of the homes running vertically up the dimly lit white cliffs are enough. Down below there's a harbor with lots of ships. The entire town appears to be in a panic, with people running about all over. Most seem to be heading up, to the unseen top of the cliffs, while others are moving down towards the sea below. You can see, lit by the pulsing light of an ancient lighthouse, the glittering spiderweb of a huge metal net stretched out across the opening of this bay. Down below the lights of the ships show black dots of crewmen rapidly skittering across decks as the ships form a sort of overlapping wall, their guns all pointed out towards the sea.
You're not certain what is going on, but it seems pretty clear that something not too nice is coming from the ocean and the town is making ready to fight back.
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