While calling for immediate reinforcements would be the safest option, trying to pin one of these creatures down is proving rather difficult, and beaming in more people would scare it off. Hmm...
Grey flips his needle and quietly speaks to everyone he is connected to. That is, Genesis, Debby, Aa-tou-tou, Youare, Tess, Hugh, and Aaron.
"I think I've tracked down one of the creatures. Only problem is, I believe it knows I am here."
"What I want you all to do is use your links to look through my needle, and if I get attacked or incapacitated, teleport in and back me up. Like what we planned with Aa, but with me as the bait instead. Alright?"
Grey stands his ground. At Hugh's request, Grey brings the eye of his needle up to his face and examines his surroundings for signs of magic.
After a full sweep he switches his grip on the needle, holding it diagonally so that the eye of the needle is near his hip and can view what's in front of him, while the point is next to his head. Wary of any attack, Grey is ready to absorb incoming magic with his needle and if he catches sight of a hostile creature, Maintains its position.
If Aaron can tell Grey where the creature is, and no attacks occur after a few minutes, he Maintains its position and investigates.
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: The hunter has become the hunted
HP: 10
Inventory:Purple robe, one of Genesis’s gloves, one of Grey'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
Hugh points the eye of his needle towards the link with Grey and speaks into it. “Ho! Ho! Ho! You’ve got a friend there, do you? Would you mind scanning the area around you with the eye of your needle?”, Hugh asks. Hugh then watches the scan through his own needle. If the scan reveals anything that looks like it might be the creature, Hugh attempts to eat the vegetation between it and Grey through the optical link. If Grey appears to be in danger, Hugh teleports in, relinking with Grey at the next opportunity.
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.
Several (possibly wrong) answers to the question of where the creatures are.
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! Let’s try an experiment!
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, and needle.
Fate Points: 1
Red - Aaron
Orange -
Yellow - Genesis
Green - Greed
Blue - Youare
Indigo - Grey
Violet - Aa Tou Tou Lesia
"Just like to let everyone know that the trees and animals seem to be afraid of whatever the big head guys are."
Stay with the group and be ready to teleport to Grey's position to help fight whatever might attack him.
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: 4
Aaron attempts to know what side of Grey the creature is on, and tells him the answer through the needle.
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: "Here comes the trouble!"
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, needle, and gloves. Assorted conduit food in sleeves.
FP: 0
Links: Red:Hugh, Yellow:Youare, Green:Grey, Orange:Greed, Blue: Aa
[1][?]
Hugh attempts to bite at a thing he cannot reach but only see...and ends up chipping several teeth as he bites his own needle. [-1 hp]
Aaron shouts through his needle that there are 6 attackers, all moving in at once in a circle, roughly evenly spaced around Grey. They intend to jump him all at once after distracting him.
[3]
Looking with his needle, Grey can make out several "lumps" of magic out in the darkened woods. He tries to focus on them, looking for a figure by trying to pick out the familiar forms of bones or tissue against the background of plant matter but fails. He mentally notes where each attacker is though.
[
6,5]"
The distraction Aaron warned Grey about turns out to be a severed tree branch being hurled at his head from out of the undergrowth. "Not a distraction so much as a first strike" Grey thinks to himself as he deflects the branch with his needle and squares up to face the ambush. The things which burst from the trees take him by surprise. Gourds. At first he thinks more foliage is being hurled at him but no, these gourds are moving under their own power. They're the things he saw from a distance, vaguely human shape, swollen guard heads on bodies made of twisted vines. Though his impression of a humanoid form was off: it is true those vines cluster together and form limbs but the configurations are not static nor bound to any human plan. What might run like a man one moment runs on all fours the next, then spiderlike, then bunched up in a slithering motion. They shift configurations with distressing speed and ease to whatever will allow them to move the most quickly. They cover the tree strewn distance themselves and him in a matter of moments. As they close in, the bright orange, yellow and red flesh of the gourds reveals that each has a face carved into it. Simplistic faces, but faces none the less.
[1]
Grey attempts to Maintain the position of the incoming Gourds but his magic backfires and pins his feet to the ground.
[5]
Grey, unable to move, has no choice but to stand his ground. He raises his needle and takes the charge of the nearest gourd head on, using its momentum with a thrust of his own to pierce straight through its hollow "head". The pumpkin shatters in half and the magic within, a horrible looking twisting black stuff, is sucked into the needle.
An instant later Debby appears out of thin air and takes up position at Grey's back. The remaining five gourds are circling the two like wolves, slipping between the trees and probing for weaknesses with sudden charges and retreats.
Observe Grey and the gourds through my glove links.
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
One set of gourds in the woods do nothing. The other set harass gray. You see both.
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