"Good work, everyone. Now, where are we?"
Genesis ignores Debby's floating head and Aa's question - both being issues he was sure would resolve themselves, one way or another. Instead, he considers what he views a a more pressing problem: what was the source of these creatures, and what other tricks does it have on hand?
Relink. Contemplate the difference between this animating magic and that of Elias. Aside from being different due to being two different sources, does this magic display any noteworthy difference? An air of hostility? Death? Mental illness? Also, investigate that cry: did it come from a direction? What kind of music did it evoke?
Edit: Follow along if Grey's needle magic leads him anywhere.
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
Debby, Tess, Luta, Grey, Hugh, Bob, Flameo. ~~(character)~~ indicates currently broken link
Relinked.
[3]
This magic...well...it seems more bad you guess. You don't like it.
[5]
The cry...its hard to say. It was lilting and shifting, like words being spoken too far away to make them out. You can make out the cadence but not the words themselves. It...makes your hair stand on end. Whatever it is, it isn't right.
Grey cuts the Maintaining lifting Debby into the air and catches her, either with his hands or with telekinesis if she's already high up.
"Sorry about that."
Grey turns to the group, gesturing to his needle.
"Now that we killed these creatures in brutal fashion, we have everything we need to find whatever spawned these things. As soon as we're ready we can have the captured magic in our needles lead us back to its maker."
Grey links with everyone who teleported to him. As soon as everyone is ready to set out, Grey wills the magic in his needle to lead Grey and whoever wants to come with him to whatever originally created it.
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: Nominal
HP: 10
Inventory:Purple robe, one of Genesis’s gloves, one of Grey's gloves, giant needle charged with...icky gourd magic? And a rifle fused to a magic saber
Fate Points: 2
Red Genesis
Orange Debby (used up)
Yellow Aa-tou-tou
Violet Youare
Blue Tess
Indigo Hugh
Green Aaron
[6]
Grey releases his spell and dives to catch Debby. He does so, in quite a valiant way, and gets absolutely smushed. [-1 HP] Debby is unharmed though, so chivalry is intact.
[3]
The magic explodes out of the needle like black lightning. It arcs out in a vague easterly direction for about 20 feet before hitting a tree and detonating it into splinters.
Aaron relinks, and then seeks to know if there are any more ambushes waiting for them or being formed right now. He tells everyone the result, and then accompanies Grey if he still tries finding the magic's originator.
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: "Next!"
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
[?]
There are probably loads of them out there.
"Watch your fire!"
THAT. HURT.
I inspect where I was shot, to make sure it doesn't cause complications later.
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, just got shot.
HP: 4
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
[4]
The bullet seems to have caught you in the left side, slightly off the spine. You don't seem to be bleeding to death from a punctured heart or suffocating from a punctured lung. Moving does hurt a fair deal, but you don't think it will kill you.
"OH SHIT IS THIS PUNISHMENT FOR SHOOTING TESS, I didn't mean to I'm still not really sure how to use the gun!"
Ask the magic to drop me and for a tree to catch me.
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: 5
You crawl off Grey and apologize to Tess for shooting her in the back.
“Ho- *hic* *hic* *COUGH*”. Hugh attempts to cough up the magic and catch it in his hands. Once the magic has been coughed up and caught, he presumes to eat the hardness from out of the ground below Debby. Once that is done, he relinks with Grey, and takes the magic over to Genesis.
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.
(Possibly) several pieces of Hugh’s chipped teeth.
Two gourd creatures (with magic from an unknown source.).
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- *hic* *hic* *hic* (-1 to next action).
HP: 9
Inventory: Robe, gloves, and needle.
Fate Points: 2
Red - Aaron
Orange -
Yellow - Genesis
Green - Greed
Blue - Youare
Indigo - Grey (temporarily unlinked)
Violet - Aa Tou Tou Lesia
[2]
You attempt to hack up the magic you swallowed and gag. It feels like you're trying to cough up barbed wire. Ow. Ow.