Ask shark friend to go get the rod.
Name: Luta
Description: A short pale hairless woman
Nature: Anagramist
Status: Quite unkempt
HP: 7
Inventory:
Robe
Needle (d1 aerolith spell)
Gloves
Grass Lad (has saber)
Chibi Grassassin
Grass sabers (3)
Squid
Roc (rude)
Flying shark
Fate Points: 1
Linked:
Genesis
Grey
[4]
The shark wriggles out of the hole blown open a moment ago and dives into the water. It returns a few minutes later, carrying the rod in its mouth.
“It’s dark in here! Ho! Ho! Ho! Let’s see… can we just walk up the stairs? No… it might be dangerous! What we need is some light! But all we have is darkness, which is the opposite of light! Wait… the opposite? I wonder…”, Hugh muses.
Hugh then proceeds to try and eat most of the darkness in the tower, leaving just enough to avoid being blinded by the light that’s leftover. If this works, he finds the stairs to the top and carefully walks up them. If not, he carefully gropes around in the darkness until he finds them and then carefully ascends on his hands and knees while being careful not to slip or fall off.
Notes: The big man in town is named Ericson. The door to the lighthouse isn’t ordinary. The lantern isn’t ordinary. (Both?) magical.
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: Anybody got a light?
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, and needle.
Fate Points: 0
[4]
You open your mouth and suck greedily at the darkness. You don't get as much of it out of the tower as you want -its surprisingly sticky- but you do get enough out to make the tower bright enough to navigate in . Though darkness is already seeping back in through the hole you chewed in the wall. Slowly, like syrup.
There's a set of stairs right in front of you inside the tower so you ascend it and find yourself in the lantern room. The lantern isn't so much a lantern as a silver statue of a crescent moon, slowly rotating. One side, the side with a stylized human face in the moon, is shining brightly. The statue is floating in mid air, as though held by an invisible string. You reach out and grab it. It stops rotating. You turn it to face out of the harbor, towards the sea. It turns without any resistance and stops where you leave it.
Youare uses his link with Dew to return to the ship, relinks, and fires the magic stored in his needle from stabbing the shark, along with the "Fresh" spell, down at the ocean, hopefully turning a great deal of it into fresh water in order to inhibit the growth of sea life as the needle falls. Don't want to fight Hammer 2.0 after all.
"I think we have it. Anyone need healing?"
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: naked, wet
HP: 7
Inventory: one pair of gloves, and one big ass needle carrying "Fresh" (linked to Grey and Dew), and also (presumably on the ship):
-Several live fish
-a bucket of chum and large maggots
-An old crank powered lantern
-A fillet knife, heavily used and somewhat dull.
-Rifle
-Axe
Fate Points: 2
You dump all the remaining magic in your needle and such into the sea where it can do no harm. Probably.
To my linked fellows:
"Any of you guys someplace stable? I have everything we need here. Also, how goes the battle?"
"See ya" the other homunculus says, with a wave.
"Huzza we killed it! Does this mean we can go home now?"
Yell over the side of the ship for my needle to return to me then get far from the side so it can't potentially harm me.
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: 9
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: 3
You yell for your needle.
"Come back stabby! Come back!"
But Stabby does not come back.
I get up and watch the spectacle of the Rod being ripped out of the Hammer for a moment, but upon seeing it go into the water, I need to act.
Darn it darn it darn it darn it darn it darn it!
I rapidly fly over to where the rod landed and dive down to collect it.
Darn it all, I'm loving these wings! I hate having to do this!
As I hit the water, I'm prepared for the loss of my air-wings and the return of my natural ones, and am rapidly converting myself into water to streamline my movement and adapt myself to my environment. I want to get down there and collect that rod before some other sea creature can start turning itself into another Hammer.
EDIT: If I notice others retrieving the rod while I'm still airborne, then I want to abort my actions and simply observe from above, since I would like to keep my wings.
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. mildly singed by stray lightning.
HP: 7
Inventory: Purple robe with red eye symbol on the back, white gloves with red eye symbol on their palm, 4-foot long iron needle that has been charged once from stabbing The Hammer.
Fate Points: 2
violet= Genesis
blue= Grey
Doing nothing to avoid wing loss!
Back in town the door to the Boss's house blows open as a dozen black tendrils erupt out. They coil up into the air for a moment before shooting arrow-like out towards the sea. The first tendril swarms up the lighthouse stairs and engulfs Hugh. The rest arc out across the sea and eventually drop like shooting stars onto ship or worm into the Hammer's corpse. They swallow up each Homunculi (or the creation of a Homunculi) and spirit them away. Genesis, far far away, suddenly drops through the floor into darkness.
And then everyone is back in the cave. Including Luta's shark, rod still in its mouth, flopping around on the cave floor. The teleport gate is closed, and the tablet displays only the phrase
"Place the Rod in the Chamber."
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