Name: Drip
Description: Drip has memories of being water. Surely that's not a thing, but he insists it is. Water.
Nature: Anagramist
Status: Cozy now!
HP: 6
Inventory: Purple Eye Robe, White Eye Gloves, Needle Spear, Dangerous-looking Bone "Key"
Fate Points: 4
Suppose that's true.
Turn some of this LIQUID BRONZE into a DRONE. Order it to follow me as I get on the elevator with the rest.
[5]
Drip places a hand on the surface of the copper lake and manipulates some of its essence. The "DRONE" that emerges is about 7 feet tall and appears to be liquid bronze just sort of...staying in a roughly humanoid shape. It sort of sloshes and sides around.
Bob still did not understand the fascination with bronze, even floating on it. He supposed it was pretty cool, but it would be even cooler if it was belts. And not suspending him in the middle of the laziest river ever.
Back to the basics. While floating on his back, Bob stretches his arms out to the sides before bringing them back parallel to his torso. Bob tries to use this repeated motion to swim himself back to the edge of the liquid and climb out. Failing that, he holds onto his belted Needle and controls the belts on it to fly the Needle to a dry spot on solid bronze carefully. It wouldn't do to dislocated his wrist or shoulder, but he also needs to get to the platform with the others.
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: 5
Bob half slides, half backstrokes his way over to the edge of the lake and then drags himself up and out of it. Even doing this is surprisingly hard, but he manages with the help of a few other Homunculi.
“What are our ‘rules of engagement’ for threats we encounter? And what kind of danger can we expect?”
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
This seems to confuse the frog, whose head tilts quizzically to the side as she tries to think of a good answer. Finally she bobs back into the water for a moment before rising up again.
"I don't know. No one tells me what the problem is. But...you should do anything you can to help Elias. Even if it means breaking something or causing trouble. You can say I said it was ok. Even if he gets mad at me, its ok...as long as he's ok." She nods as she says the last part, as though affirming it to herself as well.
Reach out with my needle for Bob to grab hold of to pull him to shore. Brace my self so he doesn't pull me in as well. Once we're both ashore, head to the elevator. Ask the frog:
"Can you remember what it was that Elias said had been subverted? was it a person? a part of the castle? something external? Something of his magic?"
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
"I think it must be a thing he made alive, like me. Something upstairs, or that used to be upstairs. He wouldn't say, but he was looking at all sorts of things. And there aren't people around here, at least not like you. There are lots of living things upstairs though. Lots of things."She gets a bit quiet, speaking more to herself.
"He likes having lots of things around. Everything he makes is really pretty."Grey talks to the frogge some more, and pulls Bob out of the bronze if he reaches one of the edges.
”Yes, finding Elias sounds like the best idea. I assume that platform in the bronze lake is the elevator?"
Grey crosses the stepping stones over to the platform. If he reaches the end, he also examines the frog through the eye of the needle.
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
The frog shows up like white hot metal in the pool of cold liquid bronze, her body radiating massive amounts of magical force. It connects to the walls and floor and ceiling and all around in thin strands of light. [4] You get the direct impression that she's not just this frog, she's the entire colossal toad.
"I can help with the stuff."
Go to the elevator and ride it where it goes.
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
A hole opens near the apex of the ceiling, metal flowing away, and something like a giant bird cage made of woven metal vines lowers into the room on a thin chain. It jangles to a halt near the gazebo. Immediately small bronze toads begin crawling out of the water and onto the elevator, waddling heavily into its edges and hopping up between its woven bars.
I'll take you as high as I can, but my elevator only goes up to the cannon platform. From there you'll need to find your way up to the top tower. Be careful around the cannons and the rest, they're not bad but sometimes they don't think things through. As though to emphasize this, there's a rumble from above as the cannons begin firing again. The frog looks upstairs with a worried expression.
"Find out what's happening to Elias, ok?"The team boards the elevator one by one, metal toads crawling between their feet and hopping onto their shoulders and heads. As soon as they're aboard the cage shivers and begins to rise, sliding soundlessly into the ceiling while the frog watches from below, waving one webbed hand. For a long few seconds everything is dark, then the elevator emerges. Its not being pulled by a chain anymore, its being shoved up from the bottom by the metal that was enclosing it. It pushes up through a ring of metal and very odd wood. They've emerged in what looks like the belly of an ancient galleon, though made with bands of iron over impossibly large and long logs of Cactus "wood". The room is shaped like a barrel, with a single round door directly ahead. Candles, hovering in mid air, drift down to surround the party and provide them light in the otherwise gloomy room. They can hear voices from beyond the door, shouting commands and wailing, the thunder rumble of cannons drowning them out in intervals.
"Here somewhere!""Hunt them down!""Never falter! We will have what is owed us!""To arms! To arms!" 
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