"I don't recall property damage being part of the complaint. Is this new, or is this something else you guys have been dealing with, unrelated to the disappearances?"
Ask the farmer what he knows about property damages recently. Ask if the vandals/thieves have specifically targeted particular crops. Then take up a position on the forest side of the field and get ready to do the perspective trick of covering the creature with my glove and grabbing, to hold it in place.
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
The farmer says he's not sure how the damage occurs, but that it seems like they're specifically targeting his gourds. He says similar things have been happening to the other farmers near him.
(Grey is multi-talented I see)
Grey admires the shredded field of gourds.
”It really tore through here huh?”
He turns to the group.
“Alright, I believe I have captured the creature inside that field of corn, however I can’t let us through there without also releasing the creature, so we’ll want some kind of strategy. Does anyone have some magical tricks for catching it?”
Grey, seeing that everyone has surrounded the maintained corn and is prepared, pulls out his rifle and bayonet and takes up his own position around the perimeter.
As an afterthought he calls out: "We are Homunculi of the Investigation Corps! Agents of the Magi! Surrender peacefully or face the consequences!" and with that he drops his maintaining of the corn. Immediately afterwards he attempts to Maintain the creature's position once more, without affecting the corn. If the creature tries to escape by running past him, Grey cuts its legs/appendages with his bayonet.
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
[4]
“Ho! Ho! Ho! We'll hold it in place for you!”, Hugh proclaims as he takes a position on the perimeter of the Maintained area, and prepares to eat the creature’s ability to escape.
Hugh then waits for the Maintain spell to be lifted and then eats the creature’s ability to escape (note: the creature’s abstract ability to escape. Not it’s limbs!), if it tries to escape.
Part of a rock wall.
Darkness.
Plates and silverware
The distance between the conduit and the village.
An extremely tiny part of the distance between the inn and the creature.
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! Hold it where it is!
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
Edit: slightly changed action…
[1]
right, right, okay, you got me.
"I don't recall property damage being part of the complaint. Is this new, or is this something else you guys have been dealing with, unrelated to the disappearances?"
On reflection ..."Oh. I guess some of you did say something about crops."
Ask the farmer what he knows about property damages recently. Ask if the vandals/thieves have specifically targeted particular crops. Then Take up a position on the forest side of the field and get ready to do the perspective trick of covering the creature with my glove and grabbing, to hold it in place.
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]
"I don't think I have any tricks, so I'll take a guard post, and try to find out more while we figure out what we are doing.
Aaron looks through his needle at the frozen part of the field, chooses a spot on the perimeter within sight of another homunculus, and attempts to know where the creature came from while he waits.
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: Holding the line!
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, needle, and gloves.
FP: 0
Links: Red:Hugh, Yellow:Youare, Green:Grey, Orange:Greed, Blue: Aa
[?]
The creature will be coming....FROM BEHIND!
You spin away from the corn field and scan the forest and the area nearby, searching for the inevitable ambush.
"I could ask the corn to tangle up and grab or at least trip the guy."
Take a position on the perimeter to try and ask the corn to tangle itself around the guy in there, if that fails just try to stop the thing with violence if it gets out.
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
[1]
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
"Bite off its limbs so that it can't get away?"
Assume part of a perimeter around the Maintained zone, ready to wreak violence upon the thing within. Assuming we actually caught it.
Grey counts down releasing his magic as the rest of the Homunculi get into place. On zero he releases his initial Maintain and then a lot of things happen at once. Namely, several different magical effects are cast into that small section of cornfield within a few moments of each other, all of them targeting an as of yet unseen target. Grey attempts to maintain the creature, Hugh attempts to eat certain abstract concepts connected to it, Genesis tries to yoink it with telekinesis, and Debby tells the corn to tangle it up. Some spells succeed. Some fail and badly so. However, which does what is difficult to comprehend as a 5 meter wide circle of cornfield lifts into the air, twists into a knot, freezes in time, catches fire, and then vanishes in a burst of light and sound.
As everyone is standing around, uncertain of what to make of the magical clusterfuck that just happened in front of them, Aaron suddenly screams. He points towards the woods with his needle and jumps up and down.
"They're out there! I saw them! Along the tree line! Bulbous heads and rail thin bodies! They were watching us!"