"Looks like one of the guys that got grabbed."
Grey reclaims his glove from Genesis.
He also places a spell on his needle, Maintain the health and well being of Grey and every Homunculous that is allied with Grey and is within 2 miles of him.
What kind of wound did Genesis find when examining Grey's eye?
Grey looks around the area for signs of someone getting dragged into the forest.
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: Eye hurts.
HP: 6
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: 3
Red Genesis
Orange Debby
Yellow Aa-tou-tou
Violet Youare
Blue Tess
Indigo Hugh
Green Aaron
Glove Reclaimed.
[1] You put a [1] version of that spell in your needle. Uh oh.
Genesis found no wounds, least none that he could see. The eye is blood red, leaking some blood from the tear ducts apparently, but has no holes or other damage. Your vision through that eye is still blurry and red though.
[4]
You check around the area, looking for signs of a struggle. There are snapped branches here, tumbled rocks there, a scuff on the pack, odd patterns in the dirt and about a half dozen other signs. From the clues you can make out that something seems to have come up this ridge from below and pounced on the traveler. However, if they dragged them off they did so the exact same way they came as you can see no particular signs of a person being dragged away.
"My knowledge tells me that the being behind this magic was, like us, created for a purpose. That purpose was to wage ancient and terrible wars. I wonder if something stirred it into building an army after all these years."
Aaron carefully looks through his needle at the rock, boulder, hill, and woods, making sure not to directly look at any signs of magic he might see, and attempts to know how the traveler was attacked. If he has an answer, he tells Hugh
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: The monster. Monsters? I'm not sure.
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
[6][?]
You scan the area. Woods around you? Nothing different. Hill? Nah. Rocks? No. Boulder, na...wait. The blood on the boulder is showing something. You look at it without the needle and then with it. With the needle it looks like there's a fine layer of black moss or mold growing on it.
You consider the traveler. They were definitely attacked by one of those pumpkin things. Multiple probably. Ambushed as they walked down this path, because of the shade created by the boulder. The traveler, the old woman the townspeople had talked about, was pushed down, scraping herself as she fell. However, the pumpkins did not drag her away or kill her. Instead one of them...put itself in her. Not the pumpkin itself, but whatever twisted animating magic controlled it.
"It's not like we haven't dealt with this kind of thing before. Hmph. As much as our missions involve breaking things, you'd think we were part of the destroy corps instead of the investigation corps. Well, I guess someone has to act on whatever we find out, and we're already here. Leave the destroy corps for the really dangerous stuff."
Since we waited for daybreak and all, can we assume I fetched my glove from the gourd? If so, I'd like to reswap with Grey so I have my original pair on me for now - for the sake of keeping track of them.
Either way, while Genesis waits for the team to investigate and decide where to go next, he'll sit and ponder lunch. He'll try various things like reaching into his sleeves to find food from the cavern (besides the ceramic loaf), and covering himself with his robe and hood to see if he can access the cavern's kitchen while on mission.
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 (black unsettling magic from the gourdling. One gourd's worth), 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
Sure
None of these things work it seems. Hmmmmm.
"Since these people are probably dead I doubt they'll give a shit if I dig through their bags."
Dig through the backpacks and see what kinds of crap these people had.
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
After Genesis' needle pointed command to not mess things up to much, you begin emptying the pack very carefully. You set things in little piles and make sure not to lose anything. You remember the last time Genesis didn't like the way someone was handling another person's possessions.
The pack contains the goods of an ordinary life. Plates, bowls, silverware, clothing, sewing needles, thread, twine, fabric, a few books, medicine in small glass bottles, what looks like a homemade first aid kit, bed roll, pillow, and more like this. No secret treasures, aside from a small amount of money.
"Thank you. That... went a lot better than I was afraid of."
When we come across the dropped pack and blood
I fly up and see what is around us from above.
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, mostly healed from a gunshot wound.
HP: 9
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, and once from killing a gourd.
Fate Points: 2
violet= Genesis
blue= Grey
[5]
What you can see right now is the tops of a bunch of trees. By the naked eye almost nothing of consequence can be seen other than the vague lay of the land via the heights of the trees. You notice that there are what look like repeated depressions or divots in the land. From what you can see beyond the forest this is true as well. The earth around here is pot marked with depressions.
“Ho! Ho! Ho! I guess it knows we’re here!”, Hugh says as he drops any disguise he was using. “Aa! Come here! I need my glove back and you need your’s back! Ho! Ho! Ho!”. Hugh then unswaps gloves with Aa.
Hugh then turns to Debby. “Ho! Ho! Ho! The owner of that backpack may not be dead! Until we know for sure, it’s best we just pack up their loose stuff into it, and stuff it up one of our sleeves. That way, we’ll have it for them when we see them!”
Finally he turns to Aaron. “Ho! Ho! Ho! What do your cognizant senses tell you about what happened here?”
Hugh waits for Aaron’s answer, needle at the ready in case of an attack.
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! Ho! Ho! The might be still alive!
HP: 9
Inventory: Robe, gloves, and needle.
Fate Points: 2
Red - Aaron
Orange -
Yellow - Genesis
Green - Greed
Blue - Youare
Indigo - Grey
Violet - Aa Tou Tou Lesia
Talking! Waiting! Being ready to murder!
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