The Speaker continues running straight towards the toad, up the tongue and through the tunnel, as fast as he can.
Name: The Speaker.
Description: a small man with black hair that is speckled with gray and a small gray goatee.
Nature: All-Tounge
Status: Aaaaaaaaahhhh!!
HP: 5
Inventory: A purple robe with a large red eye embroidered on the back, a pair of white gloves with a similar eye on the palm, and what appears to be a 4 foot long sewing needle made of black iron. The needle’s sides are blunt but its tip is deadly sharp, and the “eye” has knurling around it so that it can be used as a handle.
Fate Points: 8
”Needs improvement.”
Grey picks himself up and gets swallowed by the frog like everyone else.
Name:Grey
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: Sandy
HP: 10
Inventory: Purple robe, white gloves, giant needle
Fate Points: 1
Name: Drip
Description: Drip has memories of being water. Surely that's not a thing, but he insists it is. Water.
Nature: Anagramist
Status: The key is stuck in his chest in a way that it probably shouldn't be.
HP: 6
Inventory: Purple Eye Robe, White Eye Gloves, Needle Spear, Dangerous-looking Bone "Key"
Fate Points: 4
Mount up.
Oh joy, they were going into the toad. Bob idly wondered if perhaps magic toads had belts in them. Normal ones didn't, but, y'know, magic. Excited by the prospect of more belts, Bob heads up the tongue staircase.
Past the lips and over the gums. Into the toad Bob goes.
Name: Bob
Description: An average-sized human-looking male homunculus with a beard of belts.
Nature: Elemental (Belts)
Status: Bruised and sandy in uncomfortable places, but mostly ok
HP: 9
Inventory:
Robe
Gloves
Needle covered in wriggling belts
Wolf Titan belt
Fate Points: 4
Go up the tongue and into the frog.
Name: Debby
Description: Looks like a regular human woman but with the head of a deer.
Nature: All-Tounges
Status: No longer flopping around a freaking out.
HP: 9
Inventory:
purple robe
white gloves
big ass needle
Fate Points: 2
Go up the tongue and into the frog.
Name: Debby
Description: Looks like a regular human woman but with the head of a deer.
Nature: All-Tounges
Status: No longer flopping around a freaking out.
HP: 9
Inventory:
purple robe
white gloves
big ass needle
Fate Points: 2
Begrudgingly depart from my truck and head inside.
Name: Luta
Description: A short pale hairless woman
Nature: Anagramist
Status: Fit as a Fiddle
HP: 10
Inventory:
Robe
Needle
Gloves
Grass Lad (has saber)
Chibi Grassassin
Grass sabers (3)
Fate Points: 0
Youare enters.
"Thank you."
Name: Youare A. Homunculus
Description: a wiry man, elderly but still trim and strong, long grey hair tied back in a ponytail.
Nature: Functionary
Status: robed, clean
HP: 7
Inventory: one robe enchanted to PROTECT ("like a big chainmail dress in terms of weight and flexibility: heavy and awkward but not impossible to move in"), one pair of gloves, and one big ass needle
Fate Points: 0
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In we go. Examine any points of interest we encounter with the Eye of the Needle, and otherwise keep an eye out for threats.
How's my needle's magic storage right now? I had that oil slick rainbow earlier but used it once to make a bubble shield against the shockwave and debris from the frog landing.
Name: Genesis
Description: Classic 80s action hero looks, kinda quiet. think Kurt Russel from the movie Soldier (only probably less mute)
Nature: Pureblood
Status: Newly decanted
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, walking needle (glowing oil-slick rainbow style with charged magical energy.
Fate Points: 4
Speaker is the first up the stairs, screaming the entire way. Why? Who knows. Genesis follows the rest of the group, peering at everything through the hole in his needle like a comical detective. The group climbs the perilous stairs up several hundred feet, following a gentle arc into the frog's throat. The stairway connects directly with a smooth tunnel-like hall of polished bronze. Overhead, on tiny swings made of thin chain and iron rods, hang small balls of flame. They swing back and forth, gripping the swings with diminutive limbs of wispy flame, singing in tiny voices that are only just barely audible. After what seems like quite a long distance, the hall opens up into a wide dome, a sort of terrarium of metal and stone. Its form is that of a sort of decorative lake or swamp, dominated by a great body of liquid ringed by a shore and crisscrossed with stepping stone walkways. The "water" of the pond is liquid bronze, not molten but still liquid. The fronds and ferns and tall grass that ring the pond are bronze, while the floating lily pads are silver and gold. The dragon flies flitting about are platinum and appear to be made of delicate lace instead of prefect recreations of insects. Overhead, sitting on a metal platform that somewhat resembles a wagon wheel, is a larger ball of flame, which waves to the group as they enter. Though it has no face, it has a huge mustache made of curling fire. Out in the lake, across a stepping stone path of what looks like petrified wood carved into the shapes of lily pads, is a gazebo of sorts. It resembles a giant mangrove but curved in a "C" shape, so its boughs overhang its tangled roots and form a covered platform. A large swing, big enough to fit two comfortably and covered in cushions, hangs from the branches.
Despite the utter artificiality of it all, there is still a pleasant cool breeze and the smell of rain in the air somehow.
Out in the "water" something bobs up. Its a toad, made of gold with eyes of sapphire. Only its eyes and a bit of its head break the surface, but judging from this it would be about the size of a small child.
"Hello." The toad says, in the same voice as before, but much smaller and less deafening.
"You're here to help right? Elias told me that you help people. Sorry, I didn't recognize you at first without that...stick thing. There was a picture of it in the book, so I figured you have to be Homunculi...even if you don't look like the ones in the book."
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