Hm, odd. It’s likely too late to catch the thing, but it’s nearly morning anyways and I believe it was mentioned that homunculi (or Hugh at least) don’t need much sleep. Grey goes around waking the others up, mentioning that he saw a Thing heading for the woods.
Once everyone is getting upright, Grey points out where he saw the creature to Debby, and then reaches out an arm towards the window and Maintains the Thing’s current position. Not that he can see it, or even knows what it is or where it is by now, but maybe we can find it after the magic takes hold.
Regardless of if the magic takes or not, Grey heads down to the cornfield where he last saw the thing.
Grey refuses any efforts by Hugh to bring Grey on his space-warping adventure, the results will be spectacular if anything goes wrong.
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: Looks like a villager
HP: 10
Inventory:Purple robe, Genesis’s gloves, giant needle and a rifle fused to a magic saber
Fate Points: 0
Red Genesis
Orange Debby
Yellow Aa-tou-tou
Violet Youare
Blue Tess
Indigo Hugh
Green Aaron
[6]
You point out at the distant field and shout MAINTAIN! The gentle swaying of the cornstalks suddenly halts in a large section of the field. You look at the field for another moment before jogging around to each bed and rousing your teammates.
Being asleep, I guess I'm asleep until / unless Grey wakes us.
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 that has been charged once from stabbing The Hammer.
Fate Points: 2
violet= Genesis
blue= Grey
Gray shakes you awake before moving on to the next teammate.
“Ho! Ho! Ho!”, Hugh laughs as he transforms back and pulls out his needle. “Who’s with me?”, Hugh asks, seeking two other people to go with him and Aa. Hugh asks Aa to climb on his back and do what she did the first time she and Hugh teleported, when he teleports this time. Then, he picks up the volunteers (or two random humonculi, if no one volunteers) under his arms and asks Aaron where the creature is located, and then eats the distance between himself and that location.
Part of a rock wall.
Darkness.
Plates and silverware
The distance between the conduit and the village.
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: Ho! Ho! Ho! Time to go!
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, and needle.
Fate Points: 0
Red - Aaron
Orange -
Yellow - Genesis
Green - Greed
Blue - Youare
Indigo - Grey
Violet - Aa Tou Tou Lesia
”Or maybe a firefly, if any are around. I last saw the creature at that cornfield. I’ll join you there shortly, I’m just going to see if I can stop it in its tracks first.”
"Okay I'll see you over there."
Go to the area Grey saw the creature and start asking the corn, fireflies, buildings, scarecrows, and whatever else is around if it knows what the creature is and where it went.
Name: Debby
Description: Looks like a regular human woman but with the head of a deer.
Nature: All-Tounges
Status: Normal
HP: 10
Inventory:
purple robe
white gloves
big ass needle
Sword
Elizabeth Audrey Foxington, the living fox doll, now with parka
Rope
Rifleaxe
10' rope
Spork with sharp serrated edges on the spoon part
Humanoid doll made from a knotted sheet, it's alive now
Fate Points: 3
Aaron seeks to know where exactly this thing is right now, and what it was trying to do.
(Also, did my action get noticed from last turn and just fail, I wonder?)
[?]
Aaron considers the situation. The thing is still in the corn field and...it is attempting to get into the woods to hide from daylight.
Hugh lifts Aa onto his back and then forcibly grabs Aaron and Debby, one under each arm, before waddling over to the window. He has Gray point to the field once again and then opens his mouth.
[2]
He chomps down and...moves maybe an inch.
"HO! HO! HO! HOw embarrassing!"
Name: Aaron Blackstar
Description: A thin, tall man with pale skin, long ink-black hair, and a carefully trimmed goatee. His eyes look like finely faceted balls of smoky quartz.
Nature: Cognizant
Status: Mildly alarmed.
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, needle, and gloves.
FP: 0
Links: Red:Hugh, Yellow:Youare, Green:Grey, Orange:Greed, Blue: Aa
Name: Aa-tou-tou Lesia
Description: A pale, fat thing resembling a waterlogged corpse, bloated, with discolored nails and recessed eye sockets. Shoulders, upper back, and thighs covered in incongruently healthy-looking orange fur. Large, triangular, yet bald ears atop head, and a huge mouth lined with numerous needle-like teeth. Apparently female.
Nature: Glutton (Air Darkness Fireflies)
Status: Nominal
HP: 10
Inventory: Purple Robe, White Gloves (Hugh's left glove), Long Needle
Fate Points: 0
Hugh
Grey
Dream happy Glutton dreams. Try eating dreamstuff.
Or get woken up. That works too. *grumble*
Prepared to do a Dumb Glutton Trick with Hugh in order to catch the perp.
[2]
Hugh grabs Aa, Debby, and Aaron and waddles up to the window. As the other homunculi squirm under his arms he attempts to take a big old bite out of the distance between himself and the field. He does manage to sink his teeth into the distance but only manages to grind a few inches forward. After a long moment he sheepishly sets the other Homunculi down and shrugs. Together, the four of them head out to the field on foot.
REmove disguise, go knock on doors. See if any more villagers are missing or if anything else is out of place. Scan the buildings and villagers with my needle.
Description: Classic 80s action hero looks, kinda quiet. think Kurt Russel from the movie Soldier (only probably less mute)
Nature: Pureblood
Status: Currently has nothing high to fall from
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, needle, Ceramic bread loaf. Hammer pendant of missile resistance and freezing when wet.
Fate Points: 4
[5] You remove your disguise and start working your way around town, heading in the direction of the field while knocking on doors and searching for anything out of place. You can't check every home, but you check plenty and send the residents out to check others on their own. The initial reports as you reach the field are that nothing is out of place and there's no signs of any untoward magic floating around. The last person you grab is the owner of the field. He follows you out as you join the rest of the group.
Everyone eventually makes their way across town and over to the field, gathering at the gate as the farmer opens it. Most of the field sways in the gentle breeze, save for a chunk which is standing noticeably still. Attempts to gaze within the frozen section prove impossible: The magic Maintaining the state of that chunk of field is obscuring anything else within: its like trying to stare through sunlit clouds. Once the group gets into the field Genesis shoves his way over to the maintained section and finds the still stalks of corn are about as hard and unyielding as iron bars: getting through them as they are is effectively impossible. Gray busies himself talking to the various objects and creatures nearby [3] Their responses are unfortunately lack luster. About all he can glean is that its organic, alive, and "Acting abnormally". Gray does, however, note that the direction he saw it coming from isn't from a field of corn, but from a field of gourds. He wanders over and finds the field erratically torn up, with patches of pumpkins, squash, and bottle gourds missing.
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